Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-06-30
CITY COUNCIL.
Last Evenings Session Of the Fir
Branch.

Branch.
The First Branch OF the City Council met
last evening, and was called to order at 8
O'Clock, His Honor the Mayor, presiding.
At roll call the following members ans
wered to their names: Messrs. Bingell,
Boring, Comerford, Fritz, Hall, Halter,
Happy, Hoffman, Hull, List, Miller, Myles
and Loeckler.
The minutes of the previous meeting
were read and approved.
The following coffee house licenses
granted by the Second Branch were con-
Dominick Oberrelt, at No. 7O2 Market
street; sureties, Killian KreSs and Hermann
Renner.
Louisa Englehardt, No. 1920 Water
street; sureties, Peter Welty and Susanna
Mason.
MARY McGannon, at No. 1888 Jacob
street; sureties, Henry Hess and Meyer
Horkheimer.
Haley & DAILY, at No. OPAL Main street;
sureties, Henry Hanke and Wm. Fasnacht.
Hermann Schermer was granted a re-
bate for the %unexplred license year Oh his
coffee house license at No. 224l Main street.
A petition from Hobbs, Brockunier Il
Co., asking that the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company be restrained from lay
ing a double track on McCulloch street,
between ALLEY % and Thirty-seyenth
street, referred to the Board Of Public
Works with power to act by the Second
Branch, was ConCurred in.
The ordinance to amend the ordinance
entitled, IAN ordnance in relation TO lock.
ups and lookup keepers, passed by the
Second Branch, was cOncurred in.
The resolution of Mr.. Haberield, passed
by the Second Branch, directing the pur-
chase of three dozen fans for the use OF
Council, was laid on the table.
The ordinance passed by the Second
Branch, fixing the wharfage paid by the
Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling Railroad
Company's transfer boat at 800 a year,
payable monthly, WAS cOnCurred in.
The auctloneer ordinance, compelling all
persons who are not residents OF this city
TO pay through the city auCtioneer who
makes the sale for them twenty-five per
cent. of the gross receipts Of all sales, was
lost, I ayes 10 u nays, not two thirds in the
affirmative.
The ordinance in relation to Hharves,
coming up, that section defining the boun.
daries OF the various landings, amended by
the Second Branch so as to make Eoffs
landing include the city property, lying
between the north side of T~wenty.third
street and the south side of Twenty fourth
street, was restored TO its original condi.
ton after a heated discussion between
Messrs. Hoffman, Boring, and others. The
ordinance now goes back to the Second
Branch for adoption as amended.
The ordinance fixing the city levy for
the ensuing year was cad three times and
passed unanimously. The full text of the
ordinance is as follows:
An ordinance assessing taxes for the
ear 1888.
SECTION /. Be i ordained by the Council
Of the city Of Wheeling that for the year
1883 there shall be levied aud paid upon
the real estate and tithables within the
city, ana upon the personal property sub.
jeCt to city taxation, for the use and bene-
fit Of the city Of Wheeling, the following
taxes, to-wit:
/. Upon all the real estate in the city,
including all lands and lots, with all i'm
provements thereon, and not exempt by
law from taxation, fifty cents on each and
every hundred dollars valuation thereof.
.. Upon all the personal property, not
exempt by law from taxation, fifty cents
on each and every hundred dollars valua.
ton thereof.
city of Wheeling, ifty cents.
All the taxes mentioned in this section
are levied and are to be collected for the
use of the said city for general purposes.
SEC. 3. There shall be levied and paid
upon all the real estate and upon all the
personal property in said city, subject to
and not exempt by law from taxation, in
addition to the taxes levied thereon by the
preceding section, a tax for the year 1888
OF ten cents upon every hundred dollars
value OF such real estate and personal
property, which tax when collected shall
be by the collector OF the city. and by the
City Receiver, when paid to him, kept sep
arate from all other moneys of the city,
and shall be used only to pay for new paw
ing or macadamizing upon streets or alleys
that have not heretofore been paved or
macadamized, and for the construction of
new sewers in said city; and in no case
shall any part Of the money collected I'M
der the assessment made by the section be
paid upon orders from the Board OF Public
Works of the city, which do not certify
that this work so to be paid for is wholly
new paving, new macadamizing or new
sewers, as the case may be.
SEC. 3. This ordinance shall be in force
from and after its date Of its passage.
There being no further business the
prannh aI,orroal