The Portland daily press., 1882-02-14
o1TY GOVERNMENT.
Special Meeting of the City Council.

A special meeting of the City Government
was held last evening.
IN BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN.
The following business was transacted;
The petition of Mrs. Mary Davis for DAM
ages, for injuries sustained in falling on the ice
on Oak street. was referred to the proper COM
mittee.
The Mayor read the following order:
Ordered. That the conveyance from the city
to the Maine Central Railroad Company, au-
thorized by order approved Feb. Z, 1857, De
made to include all the right, title and interest
which the city has in and to the location OF the
Cumberland and Oxford canal and tho Port
land & Ogdensburg Railroad, which is includ-
ed in the premises described in said order.
He stated that in the previous order these
titles and interests were exempted, and that
the Maine Central management had requested
that they be included.
On motion of Alderman Little the order was
given passage.
The revised jury list, containing the names
of 5S1 persons qualified to serve as jurors, was
presented and adopted by the Board.
Officer John f. Langmaid, of the police
force, presented petition that the Board re-
imburse him to the amount of $5S, which sum
was paid by him to a substitute during his
sickness His petition was referred to the
Committee on Claims.
An insane person was committed to the Asy
lum at Augusta. =
A communication was received from the
Overseers of the Poor, stating that owing to a
late case, which is causing the city some trou-
bic, a certificate, adjudging person insane,
could not be obtained. 1t asked that some
means might be taken to protect the physicians
in such cases. No action was taken.
The following was read by the Mayor:
Gentlemen of the Council.
In accordance with vote of your honorable
body, under date of Feb.'6, 1882, the City Clerk
has placed in our hands for consideration the
petition of James S. Gould, for alleged person.
al damage by reason of the removal of tree
from lots Nos. 300, 80 and 81 Section +, OF
Evergreen Cemetery, claimed to be owned by
him.
The subject matter of reference is one which
the trustees have, and as they supposed, to the
satisfaction of the petitioner, long since con-
sidered.
Our reply to his first allegation, that of own
nership, is that the City of Portland mas never
transferred to any party the fee of ownership
In any lot in Evergreen Cemetery, out IN tne
burial purposes" The tree in question was,
therefore, the property of the city and not OF
the petitioner.
To the second allegation, that of personal re-
Enumeration, we answer that the tree being the
property of the city the receipts for the same
should have been paid into the city treasury
and not to the petitioner. The tree in question
having been removed from the cemetery
grounds by q previous board of trustees, we
can only assume that there must have been
f,afor Of aOfa NH
the removal.
Respectfully submitted,
ISAAC d. CUsHMAN,
W.T.. I. SMALL, Z Trustees.
VIM. M. MARKS,
The communication was accepted.
A communication from Mrs. Mary A. Flau-
merry, stating that she owned property in the
vicinity of the Nixon soap factory, which she
considered nuisance, and had applied to the
Board for its removal that she might secure
tenants. No notice had been taken of her Pc
tition, and she requested that something be
taxes on her property.
On motion of Alderman Deering the matter
of abatement of taxes was referred to the
Committee on Claims, and an order was passed
for the abatement of the nuisance within twen-
ty days
A recess was then taken to await the action
of the Council on the Maine Central order.
On re-assembling the Mayor stated that the
order had been returned by the Council with
the recommendation that it be amended so as
to relinquish the city's claim to the rights by
quit claim deed. The amendment was adopted.
IN COMMON COUNCIL.
Papers from the upper Board passed in coz
currence.
Some little discussion took place, in order
that members might fully understand what
they were voting for, when the order in refer
ence to the Maine Central road was brought
before them. City Solicitor Hale appeared and
explained the whole matter satisfactorily, and
the order passed in concurrence-18 yeas, 0
nays,