Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-11-19

without knowing that the chairman OF
the street and alley COMMITTEES was in
tending TO present
Whereas, the motives and acts OF the couu
/ Gil having recently been criticised and ~.
| 70 resented In ference 20 railroads and
| street Taiiw way affairs, we deem u but riRhtand
proper that the cOunc pla e itself on
record IN reference 10 the same. Theref re
be u
/ chic railway shall signify IT. r, adiness %
/ build its machine shops, round-hous+s and
otner rallro.d buildings as contemplated
| the RENE val OF all obstacles In the way OF
| building the same, but toass ~ In b Hiding OF
the bridge across the railrtad donation.
This preamble and resolution was
adopted.
The police report of City Marshal w.
NJ. Rea and report Of the proceedings
of the record, RS court by City Seere-
iary Stuart Harrison for the month
ending November o, 1884, were pre-
scented and referred
These reports snow that there were
257 complaints docketed, 24S arrested,
not arrested, 10 acquitted, ~ dis
missed by court and 10 mol pressed by
city attorney.
The accounts current of Stuart
Harrison, city secretary, and w NJ
Rea, city mar-hal, Of fines collected
aud paid into the city treasury for the
month ending November 8, 1884, show
that 1929 were collected. Papers re-
feTred TO the finance committee.
Tine report Of II n Maddox, city
assessor and collector, of amount OF
occupation tax collected from the lst OF
August 1884. 10 the 3lst day OF Octo-
Der 1884 MS $2O62 81. Referred to fl
nance committee
City Attorney James w. Swayne re-
ported, in reference TO a resolution in
~ ucting him To draw an ordinance to
appropriate sufficient money from the
school fund TO pay for school furni-
ure, that IL did not require an Ordi-
nance 10 appropriate anything 10 run
the public schools; that the school
trustees have the right TO buy the fur.
uiture and pay for the same out OF the
school fund, said property not TO be
the property Of Fort Worth but TO be-
long to the school fund of said city;
that the school fund could Bot be trans
ferred to any other fund nor diverted
from It's use The report was ordered
received and filed and copy sent to
the board Of school trustees.
The following resolution was then
adopted:
That the municipal b ard ofschool trustees
Of Dis city are HEREBY instructed md author.
lied 10 pay the bills and accounts against the
city for chOol furniture purchased order
OF this co neat, ana also the n iVOuuts la
Dor Ia setting the school furniture in the
school houses, whenever these "A counts are
pres ed 70 them prop rly approved by the
chairman OF tine committee OF this council
who made the purcha e.
Mr.. w b Kinr exhibited a map of
the city Of Fort Worth which he had
just completed stating he desired to dis
pose of or sell the original copy to the
city. The following WAS then adopted:
That committee or three, with the city
engineer, be appointed by the may or 10 eX.
anime the map Of / citS OF Fort Worth this
day exhibited by Mr.. W d. King and also TO
find out what raid map can be bought for.
Messrs. Flanagan, Aldridge and
Alexander were appointed the special
committee, and ON motion of alder
man Askew Mayor J p. Smith was
added TO the committee.
The following resolution 10y Alder
man Aldridge WAS presented
shat the city Assessor and co rector here.
n ter be required TO show ON his monthly re-
ports the amounts lie ted ON ach iund
aud the amUu TOT his commission deducted
from the same AK well rs the amount paid
Into the city treasury.
Adopted.
The amount of S75 was ordered paid
Il. w. Hill out of the cemetery-Sund,
part payment for the house recently
purchased 10y him from the city.
The committee on sewerage then re-
ported that they considered IL necessa-
ry that some one should be employed
to look after the sewers, that they
would recommend that Geo w. Hill
he made "a p-lictman to make arrests
where the sewer ordinances were vic.
lated, and that he receive Sl5 per
month in addition to his regular sala-
ny for such services. Adopted.
The report OF @. L. E-kew, city SEX
ton, for the month of October, 1884.
was presented and ordered filed. The
report shows nineteen whites and
eight colored people inferred In the
CITY cemetery; of these. tRenty-three
were Americans and the rest Of foreign
extraction.
The following report of the chief of
the fire department was received and
ordered flied:
10 the Mayor and City Council:
In denn'nglhe duties OF the chief engineer
OF the are department, Rs set forth in the
ordinances creating ahd establishing such
department., IL IL made incumbent on me TO
tuIhiNn W your nonOFhnie hOdV. at the eN-
plrntion Of each q tarter, "A statement OF the
wOl king Of said department.
The IRE department durl z the last ouafter
have responded 10 twelve alarms tour iase-
ano eight small fires, the loss estimated at
ei9c.
The apparatus and teams are in nrst-class
order. Respectfully, etc,
Il MATK1S,
Chief Fort Worth Fire Department.
A resolution WAS then adopted
authorizing the committee on public
buildings 10 construct partitions across
the large long rooms on the north side
OF the sohool-houses In First and
Second wards.
A communication from O. S.
Kennedy, Esq requesting the city 10
pay for lots 3, 4 band 9 la block No.
3, Afford & Veal's addition, was re.
ferred to the public building committee
with power TO act.
The committee ON sewers reported
that they had advertised In the daily
papers OF Fort Worth for bids for COM
pleting the system OF sewers uncom-
pleted under the last contract. The
city engineers estimate of this work
| Is 10 O2i feet siN-inch nine QgO faat