The daily gazette., 1881-06-08
CITY CopScsiLl.. !.
Appropriations Made and the Tax
Rate Laid al Last Nights Meet
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KATE AAf0 AZ Last Nights Meet
ing.
City Council held an adjourned
meeting, last evening, when the ordi-
nance making appropriations for the
fiscal year ending June 30th, 1882, was
read third time and passed. Ii will
be found In the advertising columns OF
to-day's GAZETTE.
The Finance Committee presented
the following report:
WILMINGTON, Del, June 6, 1881.
The Finance COMMITTEE respectfully
report that the city assessment for 1881
Is $23 676,OO.
The appropriations for the fscal
year 1881 amount to-. ....... 1899 ,564
Deduct estimated revenue.,.... 101 $50
Leaving amount to be raised by
taxation. n..:.................s s2s7 ia
A tax rate Of 81 ON the 500 for
oisy purp oses will produce. s236, ,76O
And tax rate Of 80 cents on the
800 for school purposes will
produce. .................... 75,76s
Total revenue on tax rate of
$1.32 on the $l00............ $312, ,523
This sum, after making q reasonable
allowances for rebates and errors will be
sufficient TO meet the tull amount of the
appropriations for the year 1881 2.
Your committee, therefore REPORT In
favor Of making the rate for city pur.
poses 81 on the 100, and for school pur-
poses 20 cents on the $1OO,
MERRIs TAYLOR,
JAMES CARMIcHAEL,
q. A. RODNEY,
Einp nok, fyo,,o n,,k%aa
The report was adopted, on a call of
the ayes and nays, without opposis
tion.
Mr.. Abele offered an ordinance es.
tabllshing the grades of Elm, Maple,
Linden, Broome and other streets In
the Tenth ward. Read twice.
The question of the location Of the
office for the Department of Registra-
tion of Births, Deaths and Marriages.
which the Committee on Public Build
ings was instructed to ct up, was
brought before Council by Mr.. r. Ii.
Taylor, chairman of the committee,
who said it had been proposed to use
the two vacant rooms In the Water
Department building, but objection
had been raised by the Water Com
mittee. The objection was that as the
new Department would be obliged to
attend to smallpox and other con-
tagious diseases, its occupancy of the
building, during the prevalence of any
contagion, might tend TO make people
backward about coming up to pay
their water taxes.
1t was proposed to move the Audi
tors office Ground to the Water De-
partment building and put the Health
Department into the Auditors Office,
but the whole subject was postponed
until a week from Thursday night.
Mr.. Merris Taylor introduced an Or
dinance laying tax of - dollars per
year upon telegraph poles Read
Bills of Geo. W. Vernon g. Sons,
$69.38 were allowed, and orders were
directed to be drawn for the salaries of
the members of Council to date.
Mr.. Rodney arose to a personal ex-
PLANTATION, and said he understood that
he had been accused of being interest,"
ed in some of the marsh property
through which the proposed road to
the river by way of Seventh street
would extend. He wished 10 brand
this statement as a lie from beginning
to end, as he was interested in but one
property in the city east of Market
street, and that was the Vulcanized
Fibre Company's establishment, at
Tenth and Walnut streets. He said
he intended to insist with all his power
upon the extension of Seventh and
Eighth streets, as they are the only
streets from Front to Eleventh that
are susceptible of being opened to the
river.
Mr.. Shaw said that on Monday he
had been asked If Mr.. Rodney owned
property along the Seventh street route;
he replied he thought not, but that Mr..
Talley, he believed, did.
Mr.. Rodney expressed himself salts
fled with this explanation.
Council then adjourned.