San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-07-13

| 600 bonds for public schools during the past
| II months:
| To cash from sale of $50
600 bonds ........ 80. $4,000 VI
by cash paid bankers
commission .............S loo 90
By cash paid architect
Murphy ................... 1000 OO-S 1000 Oh
land. .......'.......... s,IOD
For school house to Cot.
And extras. ................ 70 4O-s $3.50 20
Second ward purchase of
For school house to Nc
And extras ......,. ...... 5s io-si7,7s 90
Third ward purchase Of
For school house to Cot.
land ~. -. ' ......,.,.,,. $500 90
man. .,.....,..........,. 6s45 OO-s 9,si5 90
outhouses for /, =, 3 and
Furniture for same, desks
and 6S4 chairs. l.ig7 q
Total. %. ......,.a s5l,&7 :
Paid for santa Clara add
ton. .......,...' -. 80 90
Grand total .......... s6s,sl7 or
Expended amount in eX-
cess Of $4,000 ...... 49,. 2,2i7 o.
Same charged To regular
school fund -. ...'..... S2.2I7 or
Also, the following resolution, which was
adopted:
Resolved, That the annual report of the
finances of the city, rs made to the council in
March, 1886, for the fiscal year, be printed for
the general Information Of the public. as re-
QuiTCd by ordinance.
BcIknHp asked to be excused from further
Service on the finance committee for the pres
ent year, giving the same excuse as before:
Absence from the city. Schrcincr asked him
to wait until the mayor gets well, and action
was deferred
Public improvements -Hambleton recon.
mcnded that Judge W, II. NOOnan be TCim-
bursed so for removing obstruction from
Burlcson street, which work had been ordered
by the city, but had not been performed.
Granted. T. W. Puctz, petition for reduction
of rent of rock quarry. Not granted.
Police committee - Smye reported the
charges against pOundmaster by Locke. Not
sustained.
Gas and water-RepOrt that new fire hydrant
on Augusta street be accepted Adopted.
Communication of WaterwOrks company rs to
placing pipes In the Catholic cemetery was
received and filed.
Smyc recommended that the fence in front
of Frank WrOcbens property In GOliad street
be set back by the city, and $50 be granded TO
pay him damages To his property in cutting
down shade trees and cutting of part of his
front yard and gallery, by the contractor on
the street work In GOliad street Adopted.
Unfinished business-'rhe city attorney stat
ed, the city and county commissioners on the
widening OF SOuln flOfts street from NneNh
street to Military plaza, were ready tOrcpOrt as
soon rs report could be finished.
The mayor was ordered to carry out the in
structions of the council In regard to opening
the BencZ Engclman road.
The mayor was authorized 10 contract with
lowest bidder for hospital fence.
New business That old Fourth ward school
house have fence on north side. School
board. That engineer examine condition of
Leal and COmal streets and report upon OBJ
struCtiOns thereon, ana whether said streets
had ever been opened. Adopted. The street
commissioner instead of five carts was allowed
to hire seven extra men. The property own
ers ON streets to be improved ordered to
strightCn property lines before work would be
done. The steam roller will hereafter be
placed in charge OF the street commissioner.
A stone crossing will be put down across Dol
OrOsa street, at southwest corner of Military
plaza. Street commissioner ordered to cut
brush on Crockett street, MI a mud-hole near
the Castro residence in Fourth ward, cut out
brush on South Laredo street TO city limits, to
plough and sCrape Bucna Vista street from
san Saba to FRO street, aud To cut brush from
Cypress Laurel and Evergreen streets.
The matter of draining south Flores street
from the Arkansas Pass railway toward the San
Pedro creek, was referred TO the street and
bridge committee.
Lockwood presented the following resolu-
ton:
That the city attorney prepare an ordinance
requiring the Water-wOrks company and the
Gas company to deposit 500 each with the city
to be used to repair streets on which they put
down pipe and fail Ia leave them in good CON
ditiOn. Adopted.
The council then adjourned,