Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-05
BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
Monthly Reports Location OF Eiectric
Lamps-A New Ordinance Proposed.

Monthly Reports Location OF Eiectric
Lamps-A New Ordinance Proposed.
The Board of City Trustees met at
10 A. NJ. yesterday, in regular session, all
the members present.
The Poundmaster reported that during
the month of December he had impounded
8 horses, 2 goats, 10 dogs-total, 81. Dogs
killed, 50. All the horses and goats were
redeemed Fees collected, S36 SO.
II. c. Wolf, Chief Engineer of the water
works, reported II 175, $50 gallons of water
pumped for the week ending January Sd.
A resolution of intention was passed to
construct a pine plank sidewalk on the
south side of d street, from the east line OF
Fourteenth to Fifteenth.
A. S. Woods, clerk OF the water works,
reports that for the quarter ending Jan
uary l, 1885, Collections, So, 937. % (; tap
sales, $l23 total, $4,000 %.
n. A. Kidder, Harbormaster, collected
for December $119.
George A. Putnam, City Collector, re-
ports for the quarter ending December 81,
1885: City licenses sold, Sc, sol; fees col
lected on the same, $40; dog licenses, s9f
total, $7,005.
A petition signed by large number of
taxpayers asked for two mounted police,
in accordance with the recommendation
and request of Chief of Police Jackson.
The request was complied with, the
mounted officers to receive S125 per month,
they to furnish and keep their own horses,
Trustee Jones introduced an ordinance
to regulate the interment of deceased per
sons where the bodies are intended to be
exhumed and removed from this State. 1t
is intended to compel the Chinese to bury
their dead in air-tight cast-iron caskets or
in a box of suitable dimensions made of
redwood boards not less than one inch in
thickness and lined with sheet lead not
less than five pounds to the square foot,
which slall be soldered by licensed
plumber. Each box or coffin shall have
the name, age date and cause of death
plainly printed or engraved. Persons vio-
lating the ordinance to be fined not more
than $500 or imprisoned not more than 10
days, or by both such fine and imprisonment
The ordinance was laid over under the
rule.
A petition was received from those who
live in the southwestern portion Of the city,
asking for an electric light at Fourth and
T streets. Mayor Brown thought mast at
Seventh and L would answer for that por-
ton Of the city. which is sparsely settled
Gas lamps are on Il.
Joseph n. Herndon, Superintendent Of
City Cemeteries, reported for December
Deaths, 25; stillborn / brought here for
interment, II total, 43. The interments
We're made as follows: City Cemetery, IS;
Helvetia, 6 st. Joseph, 5; new Masonic,
/; abroad, 3. Collected: Sale of lots,
Sl46 49, permits, $56 wood s35; total,
$257 IS.
Chief Jackson reported the business of
the Police Department for The month of
N haP A
meals furnished, 1456; dodgers. 1873
amount received from en- routes, Sf3 So
paid out, $11 10.
Mayor Brown said he rode all over the
city on Sunday, and was proud to be able
to say that, in consideration of the large
amount of water that had fallen during the
past two months, the streets of the city
were never in as good a condition at this
season of the year as at present. The river
is nearly as high as it ever gets, but the
sewers are doing good work, aided by the
pumps. He paid Street Commissioner
Nielsen a very high compliment, stating
that the streets were dry, and, taking the
time OF the year into consideration, in ex-
cellent condition. He said the streets were
credit TO the city, would compare favor
ably with cities which had natural drain
age. and the Street Commissioner should
feel proud Of his success under the many
difficulties he has had to contend with
The Mayors remarks in this connection
were evidently intended as a rebuke to the
many items of an opposite character, con-
demnatory Of the streets and Street Com
missioner. that have from time to time
appeared in an evening journal since the
letting of the contract for city advertising
Trustee Jones fully Endorsed the remarks
of the Mayor.
The Street Commissioner has decided to
distribute electric lights rs follows: Inter
section lamps Second, Fourth, Sixth,
Eighth, Tenth, on ]; First, Third, Fifth,
Seventh. Ninth, Eleventh. on X Seventh.
on |; Thirteenth, on II. Sixty-foot masts,
Fourteenth, Seventeenth, on G street Sec
ond Sixteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-third,
on H street; Fifteenth and | streets Thir-
tenth and streets; Eighteenth and X
streets; Fourteenth and L streets; Seven
teenth and II streets Second and streets
One hundred and fifty foot masts, two
lamps on each, Fifteenth and Twenty-first
on o street Twenty-first and streets.
After auditing a large number of bills,
the Board adjourned.