Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-02-16
BOARD OF CITY TRUSTEES.
9 Street to be Opened Through Rich
mond Grove-The Funded Debt.

mond Grove-The Funded Debt.
The Board of City Trustees met at II
a. NJ. yesterday, all the members present.
James n. Porter, City Treasurer, reported
cash on hand January LIST, 1901 007 SO re.
ceived during the month, S19,75S l6; paid
out, so 900 81; balance on hand February
LIST, s29s, 696 OF.
Q street, from Eighteenth to Thirty-frst
streets, was ordered opened. This opens
Richmond Grove, and destroys it so far as
picnic grounds are concerned. J. w. Rich
mond and Judge HI. 0. Beatty opposed the
opening of the street, claiming that one
block between Twenty-fourth and Twenty
fifth streets was already graded, and the
signatures for these blocks do not count le-
gally. If that was true the remonstrance
would lay with the Board. Quite an acri-
monious debate ensued between Richmond
and Beatty on one side and the Hughes
brothers on the other.
Property holders in the southeastern por-
ton of the city petition for an electric light
mast ON Twenty-sixth and \ streets.
The following order was passed 1t APP
pearing that all the appeals have been
withdrawn in the cases against James n.
Porter, City Treasurer, in the cases of Dan
iel Meyer VS.. Porter, and other cases, and
that the decision of Judge Mcfarland
stands without question, the act of the City
Treasurer in paying coupons pursuant to
the judgment and decree of Judge MeFar-
land in the order of their maturity is
hereby approved by the Board of Trustees
OF the city of Sacramento, acting in accord
ance with the expressed orders of the same
Board. 1t is further ordered that in all
future suits or proceedings against the City
~
Board of Trustees or City Attorney the
nature of such suits or proceedings"
John Hughes was awarded the contract
for grading o street from Twenty-sixth to
Thirtieth
G. w. Holt presented a bill for damages
from drainage water to property below the
city to the amount of $500. Deferred for
one week.
L. NJ. Leitch claimed that the Capital
Box Factory was a nuisance in his neigh
borhood, as there was no bonnet on their
smokestack TO keep sparks from igniting
property adjoining. The matter was re-
ferred to the Chief Engineer OF the Fire
Department.
A petition was filed asking that the polls
in A. precinct be located at Fifteenth and
\ streets.
Judge II. o. Beatty appeared before the
Board and asked that tax of 10 cents be
levied for the use of the Funded Debt Com
mission. He said, "Do this for eleven
years and your city debt will be wiped out.
Don't do it, and in forty years from now
the city will be more in debt than it is
to-day" He said the Trustees had stood
in the way of the Funded Debt Commits
sion and if it had been let alone the city
debt would have almost been wiped out
by this time.
Mayor Brown took issue with Judge
Beatty, and they had quite a debate
Mayor Brown said few years ago the debt
could have been compromised, and he was
in favor of it then, and was in favor of
good compromise now. He said the city
lost half million by not compromising
at that time. He believed that to-day
nine-tenths of the citizens Endorsed his
action at that time
The weekly report of the Engineer of the
City Water Works was read and placed OF
file
Residents of the northern portion of the
city asked that certain low flooded lots be
drained.
After allowing large number of bills,
the Board adjourned until 10 A. NJ to-day,
when they will levy the tax.