Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-11
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To cash received during the
month from trustees......... 1851 II
Total..................... ...... sls,is4 O9
By amount paid during the
month on trustees Orders..t 5,023 %
By cash on hand................... b,SoS 81
.....'.'' ...".-sLo,tot 10
Which report was adopted as read.
on wHARFs.
The report OF this committee reconmen-
ded that the city solicitor be instructed to
draft an ordinance placing the wharf I'M.
der the control and supervision OF the
Board of Public Works, as that body is en-
titled to the revenues from the wharf.
They further report that the wharf IS IN
a very bad condition.
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
The report OF this Board embraces the
expenditures for the three months ending
March 81. The amount paid out of the
contingent fund was as follows; Pay roll OF
men and carts employed, Sl24Lis;
repairs to sewers $50 26; toll to sus.
spension bridge S42 80; curbs and
crossings Ssh AZ; ashes and cinders
SG3: miscellaneous labor and repairs,
$40 -; other items including office rent
and stationary, $2o7 Is; lumber, 1891 50;
ianitor, 500; salary of clerk, Sl75; adver;is-
ing and printing, Sl4 so; salary OF b. I: w.
S249 90; salary of bosses, S5S 40; cobble
stones, 500 IS. Total amoust paid out Of
contingent fund, s., sos 81.
Appropriation fund-Sewers on Island
Contract, lSS0) $3.50 10; curbs and crossings,
contract, 1882 1858 50; paving, contract,
1882 SiOS 81; sewer pipe, contract, 1852
1862 Is; street cleaning, 1919 IS; macada
MIXING Jacob street from Thirty-tfth to
Forly.first streets, 1888 SIS; macadamizing
Jacob street from Forty-tifst to city limits,
south, 1912 10; macadamizing Main street
from Eighth street to city limits, north and
McCOlloch street to Zane street bridge,
S3029.43; abutment to Twenty'foGrth
street sewer, ola contract S266 81; survey
ing 1871; total paid out OF appropriation
und $S,32l "a.
On motion of Stanley. il was referred 70
the Committee on Accounts, which motion
was adopted.
TABLED FOR THE PRESENT.
The ordinance proposed by the Humane
Society, providing for the prevention of
cruelty to animals, was taken up and read
once. MIR. Gleason objected to its second
reading and il was laid on the table.
CITY WATER WORKS.
The followingis the statement for the
year ending March 81, 1888:
REVENUES.
ReceivedIof ]. B. fancy, City Collec-
tor, on account OF water rent........S j, 295 %
Received on account of collection of
September 80, 1852 ... 1895 OF
March 81, iSSS ......... ....... 81 27s IS
Received from sales of old iron ......... "a Of
Received for tapping main pipes for
services
Total. $50, 4O5 70
expenditures ft,ooo %
Cash on hand at date. ............. 5 s.3i7 81
On notion it was referred to Com mittee
on Accounts.
KIMBERLY's SEAT.
The communication from Mr.. Kimberly
stating that he had temporarily moved out
of the city, and that he was in doubt as to
whether he could legally hold his seat as
q member of the Second Branch, and as
this body was the sole judge OF the cleo
ton and qualification OF the members, he
referred his case to them for consider.
alton and action. He further stated that
his business remained as it had been, prin-
cipally in the city, and further that he
would reside in the city during the winter
months, and that at the present time por-
ton of his household goods remained in
the city. After heated debate 1t was re-
ferred to the Committee on Elections and
City Solicitor for report.
STREET CAR CHANGES.
The following petition from the Citizens
Railway Company was read and referred to
Committee on Ordinances, with instruc'
tions to draft an ordinance in accord with
the prayer of petitioners:
Your petitioners being about to relay all
| its tracks, prays your honorable body to
grant the following privileges:
/. To lay q track from the present ter
| minus of its road at the corner OF 4+th and
Water streets, north, along Water street to
AID street.
.. To take up its present track from
| Chspline street along oath street to Main,
and along Main to 21st street, and along
! 2lst street to Market street, and lay track
| from the corner of Chapline and oath streets
! north along Chapline street TO I'D street,
west, along % street to market and north
/ along market street to 2lst street
Third, To lay track from the west
| end Of the suspension bridge, west along
| Virginia TO Penn street. and take up the
track from the west end OF the suspeL sion
bridge west along Zane to Penn street.
Fourth, To lay track from the corner
of Virginia and Penn streets, south along
Penn street TO the new Fair Grounds.
NEW DUTIES.
The ordinance amending the Receivers
ordinance by adding provision OF max
ing it q part of his duties to collect reats
on city property was read and adopted.
The compensation was fixed at 10 per
cent after "wordy war; among the mem.
bers of this body, several wishing to fix
this percentage at Is per cent.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The communication from Chief Dunning
in relation to the recent changes in the
Fire Department, which have heretofore