The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-02-16
CONDENSED CITY WISDOM.
Council Proceedings---New Licence Ordi-
nance---We May Get Sewers.

Council Proceedings---New Licence Ordi-
nance---We May Get Sewers.
The City Council opened at 7:55 P. NJ.
Monday evening. All present except
Stevenson. Minutes of last meeting
read, corrected and approved.
REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES.
Committee on Claims recommend pay
Ing the claim of the Miller Company for
S53, being damage to one of their ma
cnlnes IN moving on the streets. Mr.
Warner said he would vote against pay
ing any such bills, as if the city is
liable for every accident that happens on
our streets, there would be no end of
Them. He moved that the bill be laid
on the table. Carried.
Same committee on bill of j. o. Pal
mer for $40 damages to his stable on
Fifth street, caused by a fallen tree,
report adversely to payment. The re-
port was adopted.
Committee on City officers report find
ing the report of the City Water Works
correct and recommend its acceptance.
Adopted.
The report of the Water Works Trus-
tees Tor January was received and refer
red to the Committee on City Officers.
FIRING OF ORDINANCES.
Anew ordinance regulating the much
YeXed question of city amusement
Licenses was read a first time. 1t is a
pOnderOus document and will be seen
elsewhere in this paper. On motion of
MI. SlentZ the rules were suspended and
this heavy piece of ordinance discharged
second time at the heads of the unOf-
tening Council. Mr.. Warner moved thatd
the rules be again suspended and third
salute hred. Six yeas and President
Shields nay. Carried. The ordinance
was then placed upon its final passage
and became law. Yeas-Archinal
COldren, POyseT, Slentz and Warner.
Nays-Sherrick and Shields.
An ordinance for redistricting the city
INTO seven wards was of heavier
eallber than its predecessor and took the
City Solicitor twelve minutes to read a
hrst time. Not satisfied with putting
the Repository man asleep, Mr.. Sherrick
moved to suspend the rules and read it
second time, and the Solicitor with a
sigh tackled it again, while City Clerk
Grlmes grlnned and winked with iOy at
his escape, it having been the intention
of MIR. Welty to be absent on other bust
ness and let the Clerk have the floor.
An ordinance to appoint five citizens
TO act as Board of Sewer Commission
ers without compensation was read q
first time.
An ordinance to accept TOnneT'5 ad- |
d1tlon to the city of Canton was read a
second time.
MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS.
MIR. Slentz said the members of No. 8 |
Hose House would repair their premises |
If the city would furnish the necessary
lumber. Ordered furnished.
MIR. Slentz said that citizens wanted |
two or three gasoline lamps from Dicks |
factory to the bridge OnWest Tuscarawas |
street, so that they could avoid falling |
either into the ditch lately dug there or |
the creek on dark nights. Referred to |
the Committee on Gas and other lights.
Mr.. Slentz moved that the Committee |
on City Property be instructed to inves.
tigate and report to the Council what |
part and how much of the buildings |
now on the city lot it is desirable to ad- |
veTtise for sale. Carried.
The City Clerk was instructed to notify |
the COnnOttOn Railway Company to open
an Obstructed sewer on Commerce street,
which their road had filledu