The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-08-10
CITY GOVERN M EMIT.
Special Meeting of the City Council
Last Evening.
A Hearing ordered on the Market
Square Site.

A special meeting of the City Council was
held last evening
In Board of Mayor and Aldermen.
The Board came to order at the call of the
Mayor, Aldermen Beale and Sawyer being
absent
ORDERS PASSED.
The following orders received a passage:
That the committee on public buildings be
authorized to finish one room in the third
story of the Smaller school house at an ex-
penSe not exceeding $1,000.
That the committee on public buildings be
authorized to contract for the laying of the
foundation and the finishing of the exterior
of the new school house on the corner of
Neal and Carroll streets, in accordance with
the plans approved by the school board and
the committee on public buildings, the ex-
penditureS to be charged to the appropria-
ton for new school house.
That the Mayor subscribe for $50 copies of
the History of the Centennial Celebration,
at a cost not exceeding two dollars volume,
the same to be charged to the contingent
fund
That the city treasurer pay all bills in
CURED in the Centennial celebration which
shall have been approved by the proper COM
mlttee, and which may be In excess OF the
appropriation therefor, and the same to bal
ance by the transfer from monies unexpend-
ed at the close of the fiscal year.
THE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MONUMENT
Upon motion of Alderman Briggs upon the
petition for the taking of Market Square for
public park as a preparatory measure to
allowing the Soldiers and Sailors Monu-
ment to be erected there, hearing was Or
dered for Monday, Sept. 81, at 3 p. NJ, at the
ward room in the Old City Hall.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The petition of Mitchell and Littlefeld,
hotel owners at Long Island, for permission
to take not more than twenty Holsters daily
between August 10 and the first Of October,
was received The city clerk read the stat
ute under which the petition was drawn.
Alderman Briggs opposed the granting of
the petition on the ground that once having
begun, there would be no ending to such pro-
cedure Alderman Marks agreed with Al
derman Briggs.
A vote granting the petition was passed,
Aldermen Wilson, Kicker and Mcmahon vot-
ing yes; Aldermen Marks and Briggs voting
no. The matter of fixing the charge for the
Holsters taken, in accordance with clause
in the petition, was then discussed, and after
twas explained that the city solicitor thought
the legality of granting the petition might
be doubte, d the State law establishing gen.
eral close time for Holsters, Notwithstanding
the clause under which this petition was
drawn, the votes were reconsidered and the
petitioners unanimously given leave to with
draw.
The city clerk, in the absence of the chair
man of the Board, announced that by COM
mon consent the Board of Aldermen would
meet Friday for preliminary examination
of the voting lists.
Henry I. Skillin was appointed an under
taker.
The petition of Tohmas Deering for remov-
al Of a tree on his premises was referred.
The report of the commissioners of the sink
ing fund of the st. Lawrence and Atlantic
Railroad Company was received and ordered
on file An abstract of the report has been
already published.
Papers from the lower Board received con-
current action and the Board adjourned.
In Board of Common Council.
Absent, Messrs. MCGOWAN, O'Neil, Rum
cry, Parker, Williamson, Abbott, Kent and
Spring.
Mr.. Roberts offered an order that the City
Treasurer give deed to Mrs. Mary E. Ken
nard of the lot No. 81 ST. John street, at six
cents per foot, she to erect dwelling there
on within one year from time of giving deed.
Passed and sent up.
Papers from the upper board received con-
current action.
Adjourned.