Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-23
nEponr UPON ooNsoL1DArIoN.

REPORT UPON CONSOLIDATION.
mittee Recommends Consolidation
but Not Coercion of the Outlying
Wards Into the Municipal Govern
ment.
The joint special committee of the court
Of common council appointed to consider
the question of consolidation presented its
report to the alderman last night, and this
was tabled for printing. It read as fol
lows:
The joint committee appointed by his honor
the mayor and the board Of councilmen for the
purpose Of considering the resolution de consol-
leave to report that they have attended to the
business assigned to them and report as follows:
men s they v gave public Hearings to which ali in
snd for f tie space q SIX weeks
hear them, were heard for and against
the matters in question; s and in ne eon
the committee and the oral arguments made
several thousand pages of speeches written
committee. That after careful consideration
Of all the evidence, arguments and written
matter ta tho to eoe of the cy
present corporate limits of the city, of New
Of city government with such Slight modif1ca-
tions as may be necessary to adopt our present
q things TRat such Consolidation ought to be
favored by your honorable body but we are
| also of the opinion that it wonld be neither
eoerce OF attempt to coerce the
| town Of New Haven which are now without the
corporate limits Of the city Of New Haven 70 De
city taxes or to accept city improvements or to
be brought under the city government until the
vote Of the said several outlying wards decide to
| become part Of the city of New Haven and be
| thereof. We do not find that there IS any such
public necessity for increasing the territorial
limits of the city as requires the forcing OF any
new wards into the city; and we are OF the opin-
ion that at distant day the outlying wards will
i by popular vote decide to become a. part of the
| city Of New Haven, as soon as they have become
sufficiently populous to profitably become part
vii further state that in order to re. report
complete the preparation of a bill which we were
preparing to carry out the plan OF consondaeon,
which we deemed for the best interests OF all
| concerned. We therefore recommend the adop-
| ton of the following:
| lions Of the town and city governments OF New
Haven and of the school district within the pres
emit corporate limits Of the city of New Haven is
council and the city, of New Haven, but that the
coercion of the wards of the town outside of the
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| payment of city taxes, or to the Involuntary ac-
| ceptance of city improvements is not favored
until said wards shall severally, by popular vote
of the electors thereof, deserve the same.
| On motion of Alderman Hamilton. sec
onded by Alderman Thompson, the board
receded from Its former action in the pave
ment item of the estimates for next year,
| and concurred with the councilmen in pay
| ing College street from Elm to Grove in
stead of from Chapel to Elm streets.
Janitor William G. Dickinson of Yale
college was appointed special constable.
Burial of Father Quinn.
Rev Father Mulholland preached the
sermon of eulogy at the funeral of Rev.
John Francis Quinn in Tariffville yester-
day. The bearers were the Rev. Fathers
B. OR. Sheridan, of Middletown, Cooney
of Grosvenordale, Furlong of Rockville, j.
Russell of New Haven, M. McCone and
Mulholland of New Haven