The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21
COUNCIL ProceedIngs.

COUNCIL CHAMBERS, May II.
Regular meeting of city council. Pres
ent, mayor Gilmore and all members but
Lowe and Taylor.
Minutes of Sd inst. read and approved.
Petition of II. c. Whitley and others
for extension of water mains on state
street, from Tenth to Eleventh, and
thence to Neosho, referred to committee
on water works. Also application of J.
+. Culver and Others, for two water
mains on Mechanics, from Twelfth to
Eleventh avenue.
On motion of Mr.. Fox the following
was adopted:
ResoIred, That the committee on wa
terworks be and they are hereby instruct
cd To prepare, in connection with the
city attorney, general water works or
dinancc, and report the same at an adj
journment of this meeting, Ia he held
Thursday evening next.
The following report was made:
Your committee to whom was refer
red the petition of James Bennett aud
others, asking that the city council do
nate to the EmpOria Atheneum the sum
of $500 year for its maintenance and
support, would respectfully submit the
following report, and recommend that
the petition be not granted, for the fol-
lowing reasons:
1st. We think that S 81, p. 176, of
Dasslers complied laws of Kansas, gov
erning cities of the second class, reads as
| follows: The council may establish
and maintain public libraries and read
ing rooms at the expense of the city,
While your committee would be pleased
to aid the Atheneum, we find no author
| ity or law giving the council power TO
donate money to corporations.
End. We find our present outstanding
Indebtedness against the general fund, as
shown by the clerks books TO be s., $780,
26-iess vouchers in treasurer's hands
| $4,000, $2,213.22; estimated amount Of
scrip 10 be issued prior to December 90,
1880, for marshal, police, night police,
teamster, city clerk and street commits
sioner as salary fer eight months, ST..
S26.64; incidentals, including engineers,
| fire department, sidewalks, &c, at 800
per month for same time, $500; fuel
| for water works engine, ut $3.50 per
ton for same time, 1,277.50; interest on
water works bonds, due July LIST, 1880,
| $l,750; scrip to be issued for hose and
hOse-carts, already contracted for, 81 1881 ;
making a total Indebtedness of $10,614 sc
| without including salary OF wafer WOrKS
| superintendent. There arc many things
now in progress and uncOmpleted which
will cali for funds, and your committee
are of the opinion that 1t would be we'll,
under the present financial condition of
the city, To complete the work already
begun, and not take any new contracts
on our hands at this time.
l. ID. Fox,
Chm. Com. Ways and Means"
The report was adopted.
An ordinance providing for sidewalks
on south side of Eighth avenue, from
Constitution to Commercial, and on east
side of Commercial, from Seventh tn
Ninth avenue, was introduced by com
mittee on ordinances, considered by sec
ton and not adopted, the vote stan ding
as follows: Ayes, McCulloch, Thies,
Watson; nays, Fox, Thatcher, Whit
tlesey.
An ordinance in relation to sidewalks
and shade trees was referred to commit
tee on streets and alleys.
Committee on water works recon-
mended the following water rates: