The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-02-01
CITY COUNCIL.

Mayor Little presiding.
A petition was submitted from
Henry Grow and forty-seven others
residents of Centre street and vicin-
lity, asking the Council to order the
early completion Of the survey OF
said street. and those interesting
it, and to have stakes put at the
corners of said streets, as heretofore
recommended and ordered by the
Council. Also that the City sur
veyOr be instructed to ascertain and
report to the Council the most prac-
ticable grade for Centre street, and
the width and grade of its side
walks, so that future improvements
may be made according to estab-
lished grade, and the necessity Of
changing or destroying improve
mentS be avoided in future. The
petitioners asked also that Centre
street be continued the same width
north of Apricot street as 1t is south
of said street, viz, four rods, so AS
to protect as much as possible the
improvements alrea lv made on said
street. Referred to the committee
on streets and alleys.
| A communication was read from
DR.. s. b Young, suggesting that DIR.
Clinton, quarantine physician, be
lsent to Ogden City to learn defin-
Iitely as to whether or not there be
leases of small pox in that place.
Referred to the Mayor to take such
|actioA as his judgment may deter
mine.
John R. Wilson, Nineteenth
Ward, petitioned for the privilege
of conveying water in pipes from a
certain spring at the intersection of
Seventh North and Second West
streets, to his residence on block
1876, plot a, Salt Lake City Survey,
for culinary purposes. and for an
indefinite period. Referred to the
committee on streets and alleys.
The Salt Lake Dramatic Associa-
ton, per its secretary, D. Mckenzie,
petiti0ned for a remittance Of 800
Of the license prescribed by ordi-
nance for running the Salt Lake
Theatre during the ensuing year.
The license fer running the theatre
being 5000 per annum, it was
claimed by the petitioner that as the
Salt Lake Theatre was open less
than half the nights in the year, 1t
should pay but half the fee for
license Granted.
S. Newman and tWenty-three
others, residents in the vicinity of
Second North and Seventh West
streets, petitioned for foot bridge
to be placed across the canal at the
intersection of said streets. Re
ferred to the committee on streetS
and alleys.
A petition was submitted from
II. NJ. Wells, in the employ of the
city as clerk, asking, IN considera-
ton of the amount o. the labor by
him performed, as previously inveS-
tigated and reported upon by the
committee on finance, and in pursu-
ance of a former expression of the
Council favorable thereto, that suf-
fcient appropriation be made 10 in
crease his salary for the past year
to 800 per month. Granted.
The committee on public grounds,
to whom was referred the petition
of J. T. Little and LeGrand Young,
setting forth that in 1873 or 1874
they purchased of Isaac Groo, then
agent for Salt Lake City, what they
supposed to be blocks 1S5, 1S6, 1S7
and 1SS of Plat d, Salt Lake City
SURVEY, and that it was subse-
Quently discovered that an error had
been made and they became the
possessOrs of other blocks. etc. and
asking that an exchange be made OF
that they be allowed to purchase at
fair consideration the blocks they
originally intended to buy, sub
mittfd report recommending that
the Mayor be authorized to sell SAID
blocks to the petitioners for the
sum of $50 per block. Adopted.
The committee on public grounds
to whom was referred the petition
of Erastus Snow, John r. Winder
and S. r. Thurman, in behalf of the
Deseret Agricultural and Manufac-
turing Society, asking the Corpora
! ton or Salt Lake City to appropri-
, ate Washington Square for the use
of said society on such conditions as
might be deemed just and equitable,
reported that they had given the
matter due consideration and re-
commended that the east half of
Washington Square be appropriated
for the purposes set forth III the
petition, viz: The erectgq of per-
manent exhibition buildings for
fair purposes. The conditions OF
the grant as recommended by the
committee were in the main TO be
the same as those under which
Union Square was granted for uni
versity purposes, with the further
proyiso that the present grant be
made only upon the express condi-
ton that the Legislature make a
suitable appropriation for the erec-
ton of permanent buildings. When
this condition shall shall have been
complied with on the part of the
Legislative Assembly TO the salts
faction of the City Council, then the
MAYER to be authorised to have the
necessary documents prepared and
presented to the Council for ratifica
ton Adopted.
subcommittee on fire department,