Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-08
BOARD OF kLpEHsHN

Presentation of PetitIons-Reports Of
 Committees Acted Upon-The Free
 Library Plan Agreed uo-0ther Mat
 ters of Interest.
 men was held last evening, His Honor Mayor Holcomb presiding.
 Petitions were read and referred as follows Of Lamp committee fer permission to make a contract with New Haven Gas Light eompa- ny; of Mrs. H. w. Avery for abatement of assessment; of w. w. Farnam for the level ling of Munson street; of John Brough for a naptha lamp on Greenwich avenue, corner of Sixth street, of Edwin Barnett for gas lamp on Park street. bstween George and Crown streets.
 Report of the Board of Compensation iH favor of paying Elizabeth A. Farren $75 for damages by change of grade of Maltby street was passed.
 Report of Board of Compensation on peti- tion of Mary Fitzgerald asking for damages by change oe grade of State street and rec ommending that that petitioner bo given leave to withdraw was adopted. Similar rs- ports and recommendations from the same Board on the petitions of Max Mailhouse and Mrs. John Hampstead were also adopted.
 Report of the sealer of weights and meas ures for the month of November was read and ordered on file Report of the Board of Compensation as- ses.ing damages and benefits equal in the layout of South Water street was adopted. Report of the Committee on Claims abat ing the tax of Frank Cross on the list of 1884 was adopted.
 Report of the Committee on Claims recon tho nf ha Adeline D. Whiting for compensation for in iury to property to the Board of Compet1sa | ton was adopted.
 Report of the committee on petition of Henry c. Merwin post, G. A. R., for pur- chase of burial lots for destitute veterans I and favoring the same, was adopted. Adverse report of the Committee on Claims de petition of Cullom 6 Go. fol | damages to carriage on Meadow street | was adopted.
 Adverse report of the Committee on Sew. | CTS to petition for sewer on Winchester avenue was adopted. l Report of the Committee on Claims de abatement of assessment for pavement against the Home for the Friendless wal l read and the assessment was abated by | unanimous vote
 l Petition of Charles Dickerman for a con | crete sidewalk on the west eide of Spruce street between George and Oak streets was l referred.
 Report of the Committee on Claims ir favor of paying William Powers, an ole | soldier, $1O0 for damages from falling or l the ice, whereby he was crippled for life l was amended to make the amoun $250, and as amended passed. | The same committee also reported in favo of referring the claim of Andrew F. Butler for damages to old Ferry Path to the rail read commissioners; in favor of referring th'
 claim of Henry G. Lewis for contestipg hi seat to the mayoralty to the next Court O | Common Council; in favor of paying R. w person, all of which were adopted. Tn
 same committee reported adversely to tn
 petitions of Julia Maloney and Hiram Gold
 baum, both of which were adopted.
 Report of the Committee on Sewers il
 favor of a sewer in York Square entrane
 from Broadway to York Square was approv
 ed.
 Report of the Board of Public Works
 completion of sewers and pavements wa
 read and ordered on file.
 Report of the Board of Public Works ii
 favor of the layout of Burtonia Place wa
 adopted.
 Monthly report of the Board of Publi
 Works for November, 1885, was ordered O
 file.
 1 Petition of w. T. Beekman for 8 lamp ol
 Cedar street fronting Rosette street was re l ferred.
 The report of the Committee on Free Pub
 lie Library, which was referred back to ther
 for amendment, was reported back with som 1 changes which did away in part with the ot
 noxious portions of the agreement propose
 to be entered into between the city and tn
 Young Mems Institute.
 Alderman Kennedy moved to accept an , adopt the report of the committee.
 Alderman Trowbridge moved to amen by indefinitely postponing the whole ma
 ter.
 Alderman States made a detailed stat , ment of the efforts made by the commits l to arrive at an agreement with the Your Mems Institute and he thought the princip objections to the first report and recommen ation had been removed, and the report , now presented was in his opinion fair to bo
 sides. One change made was that one Ins
 ute director shall drop off every three yea
 until the number was reduced to thre
 thereby giving the city the majority in t : board of directors. s Alderman Spreyer moved to amend t
 amendment by laying the report on the tai
 for printing, so that all could understa 7 what they are voting upon.
 Alderman Daley said that the ebiectio