Daily Republican., 1881-05-20
COUNCILS BUSY SESSION.
A LOT OF LOCAL LEGISLATIVE
WORK LAST NIGHT.
Estimates OF Receipts and Expen.
diturcs for the Ensuing Year.
Routine Businr 81, tIc.

= The Street Committee reported favor
ably on the following petitions: VIM.
Lea a. Sons, for permission to furnish
and set curb in front Of their property
on Hutton street near Race; james
Murray, to have the sewer on the south
side of Third street, between Adams
and Jackson, covered; John &. Baker
and others, TO have the side walk re-
paired on East Fifth street from Wal.
nut to Poplar, &c.
The Opening Street Committee re-
ported tavoraby on the following peti
tions |. Cloud Elliott, to haveJ Jessup'S
road repaired Thomas j. Sullivan, tt
have certain streets in the Eleventh
Ward brought to grade; j. j. Gala
CHER, to have Carter street graded from
Nandevcr avenueto Twenty-third street
VIM Lea * Sons to have Hutton street
graded from Nandever avenue to Race
j. II. Ahrens, to have Conrad street
filled, to grade Adams, &c.
PROPOSALS AWARDED.
Proposals were awarded TO p. Car,
berry as follows: Scott street sewer,
Sl759 per foot Reed street sewer,
Sl2.32 per foot; grading West street
from Eighteenth to Nineteenth, 80 cents
per yard; grading Gilpin avenue, Is
cents per yard; grading Scott street
from Gilpin to Lowering avenues, 81
cents per yard.
Plans were shown torproposed grades,
&C., at Linden and Franklin streets.
On motion of Mr.. Adele, Council de
eide i to meet ut Linden and Franklin
streets next Saturday evening at 5.G
o'clock, to establish the grade.
REGULAR REPORTS.
The City Treasurer reported bal
ance in bank OF SO, S4S.lS.
The Chief Engineer reported A men
employed in the Water department,
pay roll, S32G.20
The Street Commissioner reported 3S
men, q double and . single teams en-
ployed under him, pay roll $3.50.
PETITIONS AND COMMUNICATIoNS.
Petitions and communications We're
received as follows; From Andrew
to lave Wawasett street
brought to grade; from the executor OF
the estate OF DIR. Il. Il. Porter, tor 1913 ;
overpaid money for the construction Of
sewer ON east Ninth street, at Taylor;
from NJ. j. Gallagher, protesting against
the frc-alarm telegraph poles being
erected on Market street; from John
Maher, for water pipe on Rodney street,
from Second to Third; from George W.
Bush, for water pipe on Eighth street,
between ButtonwOod and Locust; from
James W. Ware and others, remonstra-
ting against paving Delaware avenue
from Tatnall to Adams streets with
Belgian block; from James Crippen,
against the erection of
sheds near the Aims
house, (w2S referred to Board Of
Health; from Martha Rogers, for a
lamp on Fourth street, between Jackson
and NanBuren streets; from the Board
Of Health asking City Council to direct
the street commissioner to start plugs
ON Wednesday and Saturday
Of each week; from the Board of Health
asking for information in the matter of
cutters III front of the houses
Of the residents.
THE SEWER TRAPS.
Mr.. Rodney stated that Col. Ludlow
Of the Government Engineers, was now
ready to begin the work Of dredging
the Christiana, but he would not do 50
until the city had made good its pledge
to construct sewer traps to catch the
refuse matter, which during the winter
has caused the shoals to grow to an
alarming extent. He therefore offered
the following resolution, which was
adopted:
Resolved THAT the Street Committee
he instructed to have the proper traps
to catchthe solid matter from the streets
and sewers at once constructed at such
streets and sewers rs the City-SurveyorS
may select.
Mr.. McMenamin offered a resolution
the p. w. Il b. r. r. Co.,
to place gates at Fourth and Market
streets crossings. Adopted.
OTHER MATTERS.
The street commissioner was instruc-
to enforce the ordinance in rlation to
the construction of frame buildings with
in the city's limits.
Proposals for furnishing coal were re-
ceived from Charles Warner Il Co., and
George W. Bush 81 Son, the former at
S4 70 and the latter at SAB per ton.
A proposal from John G. Lavery
to grade Dupont street at Wawasett,
for Sl.15 per cubic yard, was read and
referred.
A bill from Henry Mcdowell was
read and laid on the the table, it being
explained that the bill had been drawn
by the boys father.
A bill of 20 cents for removing gar
bage was read and referred to Board OF
Health for settlement. =,
The commission on opening TatnaIl
street from Elliott avenue to twenty
second street, assessed $500 damage. The
also reported nominal dam
ages for the property on Chestnut, from
Broomo to- Union streets.
A resolution to provide suitable ac-
commodations for the registrar Of births,
deaths and burialS was passed.
The ordinance eXempting the Eleventh
ward from the law requiring fees OF
on dogs until January was
read.
FINANCIAL.
The estimates of"xpenses and revenue
for the fiscal year, 18Sl-S2, we've announ-
ccd as follows:
Interest on funded debt and mortgages,
$76,795; Commissioners Of sinking
fund semi-annual payment, Oct. l 1881.
81 900; payment of 3per cent. on Sl26,-
$50 sinking fund loan, redeemed April |,
1881, $3,7S7, ,5O commissioners Of sinking
fund, Semi-annual payment, April l,
1888, 81 600; payment Of per cent. on
Sl31, ,O50 sinking fund loan, redeemed
October /, 1881, ,S3,93l,5o; redemption 4 o Of
loan No. 4, payable July |, 1881, 81, $50
redemption of loan No. 20, Cool Spring
reservoir, payable July /, 1881, $4,000
payments Of certificates and indebted,
ness @ August /, 1881, due Union National
bank, $4,000: redemption OF loan
No. 26 Cool Spring reservoir, paya'
BILE September /, 1851, S3,ooo
payment on mortgage Of Elizabeth >.
Taylor, Board Of Education, April l.
1852, 81 900; Amount required by tdn the
Dao,,l ac INJ,,,ation for 1SS1-Sg MI .(U)U