The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-08-04
CITY CspU SCIL.


CITY COUSCIL.
The various officers md Committees
Report
The city council met in regular sessil n
last night.
Absent. Alderman Moore.
Alderman Ervay, acting mayor, presided.
TEE mayors report was read by the secre-
tsry. 1t showed thai the total amount OF
foes assessed from the 1t until the II OF
july amounted TO $96225. The report was
referred to the committee Of finance.
The city secretary's report
showed that the whole amounted
of money or band was $46S 40. The report
was referred to the appropriate committee.
The report of the health officer was read.
On The first of July eleven patients were in
the hospital. During the month seventeen
have been admitted, seventeen have been
discharged and three have died. Total ex-
peoses for the month, $l22 81 Adopted.
The city engineers report in regard to
the opening of Pearl street from R'ss avenue
To CITY limits, was read, and everything Is
read Y to make the survey. Adopted.
The CITY marshsls report showed that
the tot,l amount of fines assessed
was ST. 1879 81; 'ossl amount paid, 1854 70;
total amour, worked out, $97.
The mayor then said that the reports of
committees weie 10 order.
The comm ttee on public schools made q
renort in reference to the teachers for the
sevsrs, wards, and recommended the rejec-
ton of j I Tooley, principal of the hrst
ward school, on account of there being some
obiac,on to him. The selection of the rest
of the teschers was approved by the com
mittee. The mayor ruled that, in the hr
Mace. the report of the school trustees WAS
incom plete and it was referred back to them
for completion.
The committee to which WAS referred the
petjtion of John Thompson, saving that he
had redeemed two lots which were cold tor
taxes. and on examination he found that no
such lots existed, and he therefore prayed
that his money be refunded, recommended
that his prayer be granted. Adopted.
The report of the committee on puolic
buildings and markets recommended that
the occupation tax on MARKERS
be so changed that all mar,
kets on jackson, Commerce, Main ana
Elm streets west of Ervay, shall pay
license tax of $40 per month In sdvsnce'
and AL east of SAID street be taxed Sl5 per
month. that all other markets 10 the c'tv
outside the CITY market house, be taxed $40
per month in advance; that fruit stalls OF the
citv ma, kst hou be rented at $40 each, and
the back stalls ut SIS each per month in ad-
vance. and in addition to the regular
,av IF S10 DER month, Adopted.
F. Tanners bid to furnish the city with
hay for $40 per ton, the contract to eX'end
to next May, was accepted, and 'he cohiIuit-
ee ordered to close the contract with BIN.
The report of the c,mmittee on str cts and
bridges recommending the opening OF Pearl
street, was adopted.
A petition signed by the best men
in town was read. The petitioners
ssked that as N. Newmsn and
his wife, who were fined s.. and
So so respectively Sby the ms one
day last week, were utterly unah pay IT,
and that if they went to pris"' ,leir cbi'-
dren will be left helpless, T. therefore
prsyed that their fnes be RENTED. Their
prsyer was granted.
A proposition WAS received from parties
To open Oaru.h street forty feet VIDE tor
three hundred feet. provided the city will
grade II from Msgnoli4 TO Mssten, and build
: sl5o Walk on ono eide for two hundred and
flfty feet, the parties to build it on the
other side. The proposition was
made by Messrs Bcokbout Powell, and
Gage, ths property holders on the street.
An ordinance requiring streets TO be made
ffty feet vide, was read, and those VINO
made the proposition were unwilling 10
ooen the street tfiy wide unless II was made
that wide all along. Accepted.
A letter from John Henry Brown was
read. asking that the council help poor old
crjpple man. james Miller, saying he and
his family were sick and that he
could support himself, but not IA.
,amily. and be asked that the city seud
bis wife and ohild TO Missouri where their
relations will take care Of them Until they
recover. The matter was referred 70 the
mayor with power TO act
Simon Mayer STAT In proposition to tho
city that in excsvasing for ce lar on 4 m
street be hsd struck water in endless sup
ply, and that II the city would pay half the
expenses, be would make cistern
of one thousand barrels capacity
10 be used ss Ere cistern. Referred to The
com nittse on FIRE department.
Civ Nsr.h.l Arnold asked the city to
provide him an Office In Viii b to keep his
psper.. g.. II was move5, seconded and
carried tnst q 70 om In the city hsll be bred
NJ for him. Also that something be put on
the h)H Of the court room 10
deaden the sound OF footsteps OF
persons walking across The a ,or. Referred
10 COMMITTEES on WAYS and means.
The city marshal also stated thst the
incre.s Of business demanded that the po-
lice force he increased from eight 70
twelve. Referred 10 police board.
Council adj yurned till Thurs ~ evening.