The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-07-28
THE CITY COUNCIL
sand and Taxes and the Newport
Ciaim-NO Bills.

.ane, B9yd and Purcell were all On
land AMI apparently full Of business
A hen .'the clock in the s,eeple struck I
light The president taHe,i upon the .
.able With his fat hand ami called for /
,rler. and pro tenn. Clerk Poet read In
-olemn TOMS the minutes Of the previous
meeting. The minutes Dse,lc,l no cor
notion AMI were approved.
CONCENTRATIONS.
4 communication was received from
Mrs V. W-leh, who asked all Of the
barl in getting transportation to Column
bus, TIA She was rei-'rte'i To is Ier-
son in n.e,i IL assistance, but council
deemed that it hal no authority As a
board Ia take oogn,zancs of such pati.
ton.
Alderman Lane had communication,
which hal tsen addressed 10 him, read
Ii Vas signed by ". n. Morton. of We
laka, who asked for place on the police
force 81 the city. The mayor has the
Of the police foIee, so the
council took no action.
Mrs. r. T.. Queen sent a communica-
ton asking council to pay bill Of geo,
the same being for hoard of Fred. Lewis.
while he was disabled from effects 81 a
wound received while doing duty as a
special police officer. And again more
had been asked than council felt itself
authorized to grant, and the communi.
cation went by default.
Anna Joseph put in mild question.
She had curiosity to know what be-
came Of the taxes she paid. Each mem.
br looked at each other member and
wondered what would follow. What the
trouble was was soon made apparent.
Water was allowed to stand around com.
plainant's premises, and she wanted the
matter reniedi.d. The street commit.
tees attention was called to the matter.
COMMITTEE WORK.
When the president called for reports
Of committees there was a grave yard si.
lence for few minutes, and then Alder
man Boyd said he had none to make.
No other sound was heard.
The president asked the street commit,
tee IL anything had been done in regard
to recent resolution relative 10 the
ditch in front OF Capt. Reid's, on First
street. Nothing had been done. The
street committee will attend TO the mat
ter at once.
Alderman Purcell called attention L
the very unsanitary AMI dangerous con
dition Of that part Of the city on Bron
son street, near Peck, and tha
matter was also placed in tn
hands Of the street committee
Other places equally IA filthy and dan
gerous TO the good health Of the city wa
pointed out AMI the proper steps ordere'
taken, and the condition Of things order
cd to he made known to the council a
it, next meeting.
| ABOUT SAND.
Information came To the council tina
one John Brown had been hauling san,
from lIapgool street and selling tn
same. This seemed not to set well o
the aldermanic stomach, and the MI
Pro Tenn Clerk and Alderman PURGE
Owed into the archives to find certain N
titions signed by the said Brown in =,
gard to the sand matter. The petition
wee finally fished out and a careful n
rusal showed Brown had, IN 1884, lee
granted tho privilege to do certain diicl
ing, and in consi leration thereof was
be allowed the use Of the surplus dir
The council could not constrie 1.-THE "a
of the surplus dirt" to mean that Brow
could sell the same, and ordered Il
street committee to right the matter.
THE NEWPORT ACCOUNT.
The Newport account seems to ha'
become part of the regular proceeding
of the body. We thought it had be,
: settled finally at the last meeting. b'
not ~. Alderman Lane said be did n
want it understood that he opposed Il
pay mcnt Of the bill. he did not, al
would not, when il came before d
, hoard in what he considered prop
! shape. Tho bill was not in his judgme
so at present. This idea was concur,
in by Aldermen Forward and PURGE
Alderman Lane moved that the matter
referred to the president Of the counc
Alderman Boyd and the city surveyc
whose duty it should he to examine Il
work done and make an estimate
what it was worth. and let the coun,
settle on the basis of this committee
port, but the idea was not well receive
Mr.. Boyd did not care to serve in tn
capacity; his mind was made up; Ne,
port had done the work, it was hone
work, he had sold the lumber for d
work and had taken city script at its ia
value, not at sixty cents ON the dolls
in payment for his lumber. he had {
sisted in laying out the bitches, and &
{ city. he declared most emphaticall
e owed Newport for his work. The pre-
!, dent knew nothing Of the work exec
: that on Water street. Capt. Fields, VI