The daily gazette., 1881-06-28
COUNCIL LAST NIGHT.
Petitions for Water Pipes, Lalnps,
Etc.-The Regissrafion Ordinance
Passed--Sewer Bids, Etc.

City Council met In adjourned session
last evening, Mr.. Mention occupying the
chair, In the absence Of President
Sharply.
Petitions aud communications were
read aud refelr red as follows:
From the Pusey & jones Company,
aud others, for the repaving OF tho bed
of Font stieet, from Walnut 10 Poplar.
Fiom Thomas j. Bowen, asking to
be exempt from the provisions oi Tho Or
havibg contracted iur Tie erection Of
some houses previous 10 the passage OF
the ordinauce.
From the President Of The Board Of
Health, recommending the covering,
paving and strengthening oi Shipley
Rpn sewer from Ninth street soutD.
Fiom jesse Bingham for the curbing
| psviDg and guttering OF the east side oi
Jefferson street from Tbiresbth 10
Fourteenth.
From street Commissioner Lynch,
announcing the payments oi the awards
ior opening Chestnut street, SIX cents
| each DR.. Mckay and J. X. Elliot re-
fusing to accepL their awards we're de-
| p-sited III bahk to their credit.
From Dennis Kane and Others for
| water pip,s Oh X. X. Avenue nom Lob
dell tn A streets Tor propJs Jsed new houses
| From ;he building Coinmi, lee OF the
Board Of Educatlou, asking Council to
establish y ade ut Oak aad Hairlsou
street Is, Eleventh ward, where they are
about erecting . new school house.
From X och Moore, Jr., barbor master,
stating that lie had received numerous
complain Is OF the speed of Steamboat
passing the city, one OF which came from
Jackson u Sharp Company whose wharf
had been damaged day or Iwo aye t.
the extent ol $50 in this way. III his
letter CeiousI Moore states that under
the old ordinance allowing boats 10
make l4a revolutions per minute, the
Clyde, Felton, ald Warner pass the city
At the rate oi fourteen miles per hour
de suggests the ordinance be 80 chang.
ged as 10 make the rate six miles pei
hour. kcieried to the Committee OIL
NavIgaiton.
Fism Mayor Almond calliag a,ten
lion to Complaints IN relatOn 10 the ust
of the sidewalks tor bicycles, and Zee
ommended the passage Of an ordinance
prohibiting this growing evil.
From John Hare Tor water pipes OIL
Adams street DetweenjNlnl and Tenth
From G. b. Guyer, ana others, fol
the renova OF the lamp on the south
side OF Eighth street, " the north side
OF said street, they claiming thai
1t was understood, when the lamp wa.
petitiOned for that IL should 90 on the
north side.
From Il. q. Sutton and others for ,
lamp Oh Ninth street, between Lomb bsr,
and Poplar, north side.
| MIR. Blake gave notice of an ordi
nance 10 repeal the ordinance reor.
ganizing the Fire Department an.
substitute other provisions in lie,
thereof.
Mr.. Merris Taylor gave notice o
an ordinance to amend the ordlnanc.
III relation to garbage so as to Civ,
the Board OF Health the power o
contracting for garbage removal.
The ordinance providing for th,
appointment Of Registrar Of Births
Deaths and Marriages was read
, third time and passed. The salary o
the Registrar was fixed at $500 pe
annum.
II Orders were directed to be draw
asufollows: Davis & Bro, $1,000; {
Carberry, 1881; y. F. Morri son, O.
! account of fire alarm telegram
$4 600; sundry bondholders, July in
terest, $ll ,827.50; redemption Of cit
loan, due in July, 81 .25O.
The following bids for building
sewer between Fifth and Sixth
Adams and Monroe streets, $50 fe.
in length were read and referred 1
? the street committee:
Patrick Carberry, 1896 per foo
= A. s. Reed, 5.23 ="
|. Geo. G. Brackin, TOO " !"
Il After discussing the sewer at Fror
and Adams streets, Mr.. Rodne
favoring the raising Of the bed OF th
street, and the arching of the sews
Councll adiOurnpd