Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-10
LOCAL NEWS.
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Proceedings Of the Council!
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Proceedings of the Corporation.

Pr0ceedlngS OF the Corporation.
The Board met in regular session
last evening, when there were present
the Mayor, and Aldermen Williams,
Parlett, Flood, Gardiner, Clayton and
Feldmeyer. The minutes of last
meeting were read and approved.
Reports from Clerk, Market Master
and Collector and Treasurer, and
Chief of Police for the month of May
were received and referred to Com
mittee on Finance. The following ac.
counts were read and referred to Com
mittee on Finance: Edgar Hutton,
$500; ID. G. Thompson $3.50; j.
I'll. Vansant, $1,000, j. H. Vansant,
$25. The accounts of e. Hutton, $42;
A. Carter, $4.25 !; w. III. F. Wilson
and Son, $l3.65, were referred to
Committee on Streets.
A committee representing the In
dependent Fire company No. 2, con-
sisting of Messrs. George w. Munroe,
w. ID. Basil, c. A. Dubois and f. III.
Stocket, Jr., waited en- the Board and
reported they had instituted system
of fire alarm throughout the city, and
had uniformed the company at cost
of $240, and thatthe ladies aid society
had realized from their supper and
festival the sum of 1861 90, and they
asked the Board to appropriate a
similar sum in order to make pay
ment of 1000 towards steam fire
engine. After some discussion on
the subject, the matter was referred to
the Committee on Fire Department,
to report before next levy.
The petition of F. L. Fink, asking
permission to give an exhibition of
fire works on the 4th of July
was granted.
A petition from Rev. f. M. Car
gill, pastor of Mt. Moriah A. M. E.
Church, asking for the use of the
Assembly Rooms on the 4th of July,
was referred to the Committee on
Public Buildings.
The Committee on Streets, to whom
had been referred the report of the
City Commissioner for the month of
April, together with statement of
the Collector and Treasurer on City
Commissioner orders, was read and
adopted.
The petition of F. Burns and John
Kealy, asking for a curb to be laid on
Governor street, was referred back to
the petitioners.
The following accounts were re-
ported favorably al d passed: j. b.
Flood, $l5.S3; Z. Hutton, $500.
aThe Street Committee reported the
cost of paving Acton Lane, $4,000,
which was referred to the next meet
ing of the Board.
Committee on Public Buildings
read an unfavorable report on the
petition of Charles Harris for the re-
moval and enlargement of his Coffee
House at the foot of Market House;
which was adopted.
An account of the Annapolis Gas
Light Company from Nov lst, 1883,
to March lst, 1884, for $717.OO, was
referred to Committee on Streets.
The Committee on Streets reported
favorably. on the account of the An
napolis Water Company, for the year
ending July lst, 1884, for $359.34,
which was passed.
VIM. Jones, lamplighter of the Ist
ward, was before the board upon the
charge of not properly cleaning the
lamps. He was granted further in
diligence.
The report of the City Commission.
er for May which had been referred
to the Committee on Streets was
withdrawn and referred to a Special
Committee.
The mayor offered the following
order which was adopted:
Ordered, that the sum of 800 be
appropriated for cleaning the streets,
and $50 for repairing the same dur