St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-21

eIASA SOdoioCloUiOil taC 1CSOiutiOii VI
order of the Common Council approved
May 10, 1888, relative to the grading and
surfacing with loan nine inches deep
the alley in block one ~ of Woodland
Park addition to st. Paul, and having
investigated the proposed improvement,
respectfully report that it is necessary
and proper to grade the alley in block
one o., Woodland Park addition to ST.
Paul, from Mackubin street to Kent
street; that the estimated expense
thereof is s110. one-haIf of which
need not be paid into the City
treasury before the contract is
let; that real estate to be assessed there
for can be found benefited to the extent
of the costs and expenses necessary to be
incurred thereby; that said improve
ment is not asked for by petition of a
majority OF the owners of property to be
assessed therefor, but we herewith send
a plan or profile of said improvement,
and an order for your adoption, if you
desire us to make the Improvement.
Yeas 8, nays O.
The Engineer having submitted plan
and estimate of cost, the following re-
port was ordered sent to the Council, to-
wit:
To the Common Council of the City of
st. Paul:
The Board of Public Works have had
under consideration the resolution or
order of the Common Council. approved
May II, 1888, relative to the grading of
the alley in block 6, Woodland Park adj
dition to st. Paul, from Kent street to
Dale street, and having investigated the
proposed Improvement, respectfully re-
port that said improvement is necessary
and proper; that the estimated expense
thereof is 500, One-half of which need
not be paid into the City Treasury before
the contract is let; that real estate to be
assessed therefor can be found benefited
TO the extent OF the costs and expenses
necessary to be incurred thereby; that
said Improvement is not asked for by
petition of majority of the owners of
property to be assessed therefor, but we
herewith send plan or profile of said
Improvement, and an order for your
adoption, if you desire us to make the
Improvement. Yeas 3, nays 0.
The Engineer having submitted plan
and estimate of cost for grading the
alley in block 6, Edmund Rice's Second
addition to st. Paul, from Genesee street
to Granite street, it was ordered that
SAID matter be returned to the Council
for more definite order as to the alley
to be graded.
The Engineer having submitted plan
and estimate of cost, the following re-
port was ordered sent to the Council, to-
wit:
To the Common Council of the City of
st. Paul:
The Board of Public Works have had
under consideration the resolution or
order of the Common Council, approved
May 10, 1888, relative to the construc-
ton of a sewer on Martin street, from
Rice street to Marshall avenue, and
having investigated the proposed i'm
prOvement, respectfully report that it is
necessary and proper to construct a
sewer on Martin street, from Rice
street to Virginia avenue, together with
the necessary catchbasins and manholes;
that the estimated expense thereof is
the contract is let; that real
estate to be assessed therefor
can be found benefited to the ex-
tent Of the costs and expenses neceS-
sary to be incurred thereby; that said i'm
provement is not asked for by petit
ton of majority of the owners of
property to be assessed therefor, but
we herewith send a plan or profile of
said improvement and an order for your
adoption, if you desire US to make the
Improvement. Yeas 5, nays O.
The Corporation Attorney and City
Treasurer having notified the Board of
judgments against the city in the mat
ter of the assessment for the following
improvement, to-wit:
Opening, widening and extension of
street 200 feet wide, from Chestnut
street to point where the creek which
is the outlet of Fountain cave emptieS
into the Mississippi river:
John w. Martin, $3.50; Michael J.
O'Connor and Martin Delany, 81, $50, the
10 %l,o
Committee.
The Clerk was directed to give notice
OF correction in the matter of the assess
ment for the grading of Short street,
from Main street to Hoffman avenue, as
to ownership, description of and
amount assessed against lot 1, block "a,
Dodge's subdivision of block "a, Lyman
Dayt0n's addition to st. Paul.
Pursuant to due notice and the adj
| tournaments Hereunder. the matter of
| the confirmation of the assessment for
the grading of Third street, from Com
mercial street to Maple street; Canal
street, to partial grade, from Fourth
street to southeast line of Ames street,
and Fourth street, to partial grade, from
the right of way of the st. Paul d Duluth
Railway Company to Commercial street,
and the construction of the necessary
| retaining walls on said Third street,
from Commercial street to Maple street,
came up, and the same was adjourned
to June 4, 1888, at 2 p. m.
The following pay roll was examined
and allowed, to wit:
Pay roll of Engineer Department,
sixty-two employees, for month of May,
1883, s, $685..
Adjourned.
E. G. STARKEY, President pro TEN.
WI. ERWIN, Clerk Board Public Works.