The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-08-08
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.

COUNCIL CHAMBERS. Aug. 5, 1852
Council met in regular session. Pres
mt, Mayor Griffith in the chair; Coun-
;ilmen Drake. Sexton, Whitehill, Hof-
Ter, Davis, Phillips and Mellinger.
Minutes of meeting held July 18th read
and approved.
Report of street commissioner for
July was presented and on motion re-
ferred to committee on streets and
alleys
Report of police judge for July was
and referred to committee
on police and license.
Report of city weighmaster for July |
was presented and on motion referred to |
committee on ways and means.
Report of superintendent of water !
works for July was read and on motion
referred to committee on waterworks.
Petition of w. Fl. Puffer for billiard
license was on motion granted.
Remonstrance against granting
petition for sidewalk on north
side Seventh avenue from Com
mercial street to Market street
was read and on motion action was
postponed indefinitely.
Petition to have the peanut and
lemonade stands removed from the
street ~cOrnerS was presented. Mr..
Mellinger moved that the petition be
granted. MIR. Phillips moved to amend
by excluding all able bodied persons,
and that such parties only as were not
able bodied to petition the city council
for permission to maintain their occu-
patton. The amendment was adopted
by the following vote: Yeas, Sexton.
Hoffer, Whitehill and Phillips; nays
Drake, Davis and MeIlinger. The city
marshal was instructed to remove all
unoccupied peanut stands from the
streets.
Committee on waterworks reported
as correct superintendent of water
works reports for May and June with
the exception of $500 excess in his re-
port for May, in favor of the city,
which will be deducted in his August
report. Report adopted.
Committee on ways and means re-
ported as correct city weighmaster' IS
reports for May and June. Report
adopted.
Committee on ways and means made
the following report which on motion
was adopted.
To the Hon. Mayor and City Council of En-
| pOria.
GENrLEMEN:-Your com mittee or
ways and means beg leave to report the
following estimate of expenses to be
paid out of the various funds of the
city of Emporia for the ensuing year:
General fund ...--.-..-.-.-.. .eI5,00 ~ " "
Interest fund: --......-..... I6,SN y
| WaterWOrk6 funQ...- I5,SOO v
| Street fund ;----..........---.---...-- 2,SS U
| Library fund. 6SU U
The assessed value of all the taxable
property in the city, real, personal anC
mixed, is g., 1924 $1,000. That in Ordel
to raise the said several sums for the
ensuing year it will be necessary t.
levy taxes for 1889 as follows:
| General fund, mills on the dol
lar.
Interest fund, Z mills on the dol
lar.
Waterworks fund, 5 2-1O mills on thu
dollar.
Street fund, l mill on the dollar.
Library fund, $40 mill on the dol
lar.
We therefore recommend that TIT
council make said several levies for thu
| year 1889 to be placed on the tax roll
; for said year, dated August 5Eh, 1889.
Also that the committee on ordinance
. be instructed to report an ordinance II
accordance with above report ard t.
embody in said ordinance all specia
assessments for sidewalks and stree
improvement to be levied for the yea
1889. w. V. PHILLIPS,
, d. NJ. DAVIS,
Committee.
Colonel Whitley being present mad
remarks in which he impressed upOl
the council the actual necessity of max
ing some preparations in regard t.
providing the city with system o
drainage in the near future.
, The following offered by Mr.. Hof
fer was adopted by the following
vote: Ayes, DRAKE, Whitehill, Davi
, and MelliDger; nays. Sexton and Phil
lips:
Whereas, 1t is reported that the drai
from the Fifth Avenue hotel to tn
open sewer west of it has become mad
equate for the purposes for which it wa
: put in and dangerous to the health O
the hotel occupants and the people il
it's immediate vicinity; therefore,
Resolved That the committee o.
: sewerage be instructed to examine SAT-
/ drain, with power to act.
The following resolution offered b.
Mr.. Davis was on motion, unanimousl
T adopted:
Whereas, The question of seweragt
v for the city has been agitated anon
1 our citizens for sometime past; ana
Whereas, 1t is the desire OF the coun
Gil to carry out the will of the peopl
| when fairly expressed on any questio
of public concern; and,
Whereas. In the opinion of the couL
s Gil the only way to get such eXpresslo
f is to submit the same to vote OF th
s people; therefore,
Resolved, That d special city electio
) is hereby called to be held on the da
: of the general election in Novembe
r. next, for the purpose of determinin
n the question of commencing the Wor
. of putting in a main stem of sewerag
10 costing not to exceed twenty thousan
er dollars to the city, at which election a
ID persons entitled 20 vote at any NUM-
Is ipal election, shall be entitled to vol
u on said question. All persons vOtlI
III at said election who are in favor
e, commencing a system of sewerage Il
st the city, shall vote written or prlntE
u ballot, For Sewerage, - and those pc
- sons who are opposed to Sewerag
% SHALL vote written or printed DallO
Id Against Sewerage" The mayor shS
embrace in his proclamation regardiI
said election the usual directions +
holding and conducting the same
Ii the time aforesaid.
in Committee on ordinance reported ;
ca ordinance relative to furnishing wat
ch to the Atchison, Topeka & Santa ]
US Railroad company for five years, viii
n was considered by section and adopt
nd by a unanimous vote.
re An ordinance satisfying the folio
~ ing claims was introduced, consider
ed by section under a suspension Of t
b. rules and was adopted by a unanimo
IN vote:
= ] Richard Strout salary as engineer. g IS