The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-06-27

Accompanying Lllo icphV We" 81
further report showing that up to June
2G there had been paid over to Receiver
Dunaway by Collector Brice since his
incumbcncy OF the office S79,5S4 % on
account Of the so cent levy and $l5, ll3 II
on account Of the 10 cent levy fund. This
was also ordered filed.
The rules were on motion suspended
and license to keep saloon at No. 0
Eleventh street granted to Urban 4
MAYER, they giving Charles Schmidt and
S. D, Burdatts as their sureties.
The Board OF Police and Fire Commits
sioners asked that 1888 "A be appro:
priated out of the monies appropriated
10 the Fire Department to pay @. Leon
hart for paving the floor Of the Eighth
ward hose house. The bill was al
lowed.
The Board OF Public Works asked for
appropriations To pay for work done as
follows: Out OF general fund, 10 o, Leon.
hart, paving on Jacob street, between
Thirty-ninth and Forty-arst streets,
S3l7G.56; to William Stabbs, curbing on
jacob street between Forty.tirst and
F0rty.ffth streets, $3S7.73. Out OF ten
cent levy fund, TO ]. NJ. Todd, pay.
ing Eighteenth street. between Eof and
Woods streets, $7,S17.20; to William
Stabbs, curbing on Main street, between
Third street and the Ravine, Sl6B.47
pay roll, paving cutters on Island, etc.,
Si3S. These amounts aggregating S12,-
0O7 90 were appropriated as asked for.
Clerk Lancaster OF the Board of Pub
lie Works, reported THAI Up tG5 lne 20
there had been expended by the Board
from its several funds the following
amounts: General Fund, S23,2t5 27I
10 cent Levy Fund, S5,0l4 81; Contin-
gent Fund, Sl2,s7l Sc; total, $4l, l0l 80.
Col, Caldwell introduced two ordi-
nanees. One was an ordinance releas-
ing the Citizens Railway Company from
liability to pave or pay for any part Of
the paving OF Jacob street from Thirty
ninth to Forty.second streets. The other
was an ordinance granting to the Wheel.
ing Railway Company the right to con-
stfuct street railway on Jacob street
from Porty.second to Forty-third streets,
and releasing it from liability to pave or
pay for any part of the paving on acob
Street from Forty.second to Forty-eighth
streets. These ordinances were offered
| In the First Branch Mt its last meeting,
read once and referred 10 a committee,
Since then it has been decided that the
ordinances contemplate an expenditure
OF money on the part OF the city, and
for that reason should not.have been Of
fered in the First Branch first. For that
reason they were offered in the Second
Branch last night. Their purpose is 0
consolidation OF the two roads, and as
no horses are to be used, electricity be.
| ing the motive power, the companies de-
sire to save q big expense. The ordi.
nances were both. read once and then
referred to the Committee on Ordinances
for report.
The amendments proposed to the or
dinance containing the rules OF the
Board OF Public Works, presented atthe
third time and adopted. The amend
ments restrict the Board to greater de.
gree than it is now restricted in the
handling of It's contingent fund and in
the making OF contracts, the idea OF the
friends OF the measure being TO avoid in
the future any clashing between the
Board, Council and the Finance Com
mittee such as has been known in the
past.
Mr.. Cruise presented an invitation
from the M@nnerchor Singing society to
Council and city officers to take part in
its old-time Fourth OF July celebration
to be held on the State Fair grounds,
which was adopted. The invitation re.
cited at length the programme OF the
day which, Il carried out, will make the
occasion remarkable one.
Mr.. Young offered o resolution in
structing the Water Board TO have six
large watering troughs Of iron, wood or
stone, large enough to accommodate
double teams, placedin various portions
of he city named in the resolution,
which was adopted.
Several minor resolutions and petit
tons were appropriately referred.
The following, offered by Mr.. Heaty,
was referred to the Gas Trustees for re-
port:
Resolred, That the Gas Trustees be and
they are hereby requested, authorized
and empowered, TO organize the stockers
and all laborers who are engaged at the
city gas works, at the iet0rts and en-.
gines, and all who are employed on tho
double turn, into three turns, each turn
to work eight hours and no more per
day without extra compensation. The
pay OF each man to be the same as paid
at present, and such organization to con-
tinue during the hot weather, viz: dur
ing July, August and September and
be it further
RSOlred, That said Gas Trustees shall
employ a sufficient additional force OF
men to perfect the organization named
in this resolution.
The chair announced that tho only re.
naming business on the table was a
petition from Mrs. AIuldoon asking for
d license to keep saloon at her house,
for which n license has been so often
oflate, and the Branch adjourned.
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