Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-17
BOARD OF sELEormEr.
Various Petitions of Public Impor'
 lance and Other Matters.


 Various Petitions Of Public Impor.
 tance and Other Matters.
 John I. Goodrich presided at the regular men. The minutes of the last meeting as read by Mir. Mallory were approved.
 Alderman s. S. Thompson appeared be- fore the board and stated "that Mayor Peck in his message referred to the subject of re-dividing the city hall and it was sug- gested that the selectmen. appoint committee to confer with committee to be appointed by the common council re- garding the subject"
 The chairman appointed Messrs. Fleisch- ner, Strong and Town Agent Reynolds.
 James J. Carr appeared and asked that better arrangements be made for heating the room in the city hall occupied by him as registrar. The matter was referred to the committee just appointed.
 The case of Mrs. Loveland, which caused her brother, George H. Judd, to sue the town for $25, was brought up and ex- plained. It appeared that when her case was brought to the attention of the select mems committee on outside poor the board assumed the care of the woman at the hos pitaI, and the present bill is for the care of the woman before the case was reported to the committee. The matter was referred to the committee on outside poor, with power to employ counsel.
 The following petition was read:
 To the selectmen of the town of New Haven: qualified to vote in town meeting, respectfully request that a special town meeting be called at men of New Haven to take such action for the sanitary improvement of the Beaver pond dis trict as is provided by the special act of the the special acts of Connecticut, Vol 9, page 2sO. The petition was signed by H. P. Hoadley J. J Atwater, E. C. Dow and many others, The following petition was read: | To the Selectmen of the Town of New Haven:
 habitants Of the town of New Haven qualiaed te vote in town meetings, hereby respectfully re early day to obtain authority and instructions from the town to issue the balance of the $2OOOO( | park bonds authorized by law and not yet issued bearing interest at per cent. per annum, but il | all other respects of the same character and l terms and subject to the same conditions and issS. '|'''''' '' '''''' '''' '''' ''''''' ' ~ This petition was signed by several | among whom were H. F. Peck, s. S. | Thompson, Charles Kleiner and others. | The following petition was read: 1 To the honorable board of selectmen of the towr of New Haven:
 l The undersigned being twenty legal voters o1 | the town of New Haven respectfully petition tha the following votes be placed in the call for thu l next town meeting to be held in the town of New | Haven, to be acted upon by the voters of thu l town of New Haven at said meeting: Voted, That a sum not to exceed d-- dollar be and is hereby appropriated and placed in tn
 hands of the treasurer of the town of New Ha 1 ven, subject to the order of the New Haven com mission of public parks to be used by them t. pay for improvements to be made on the park l recently turned over to said commission by tn l city of New Haven and known as the Marti
 street parks and the park along the bluff of Wes
 river, as shown on maps now on file in the offic
 Voted, That the trustees of the old town farn ! and the selectmen of the town of New Haven b | and are hereby authorized, for nominal sur | of money to turn over to the New Haven commif
 sion of public parks, to be forever used for par
 purposes, the following piece of land bounde
 easterly by Mott street, northerly by the park
 on Martin street, westerly and southerly by tn
 parks along the bluffs of West river.
 The meeting adjourned until to-morro,
 evening to make preparation for the cal
 for the special town meeting.