The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-20
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
TIE COUNCILS HANDS FULL.
a Lively Session and Big Budget OF
Business.

a Lively Session and g Big Budget of
Business.
All Of the members Of the city council ex-
eept DR.. Harris. who has not fully recov-
cred from his recent illness, were present at
last nights meeting.
Alderman Cam reported that the special
committee on opening streets is having sur
veys made and titles examined, and when
they are completed the committee will be
able 70 report some plan Of settlement.
City Marshal Wade reported number Of
citizens who had refused to repave side
walks
The master Of a vessel claiming to have
been unnecessarily fumigated and delayed
az Quarantine asked that the fumigation
charges be returned TO him, and his petition
wos referred TO the health and cemetery
committee.
The Coast Line Railroad Company called
attention TO the deficient drainage at the
head OF Bilbo canal and asked that action
De taken to abate the nuisance.
A petition of Charles II. Dorsett, Jacob
Paulsen and Others to open Grant street and
unnamed streets on the east side of the
Savannah Florida and Western railway,
along Gwinnett street, was referred to the
special committee on opening streets with
power to act.
The ordinance prohibiting the dumping
OF any matter Ia the Savannah river within
the harbor lines was read a second time and
laid over.
An ordinance was passed establishing the
narbor lines of the city from the city water
works to Fort Oglethorpe, established by
the VI lted States government Hay l, 1889.
The ordinance was passed authorizing the
Savannah Female Orphan Asylum to sell
the present site and improvements of the
asylum, at Charlton and Bull streets.
An ordinance by Alderman Bailey, COM
peiling the hitching of animals attached to
vehicles, and fixing the penalty for viola
ton at not to exceed $50 or thirty days
Imprisonment, or both, was referred
On motion OF Alderman Carson the prop
erty at Drayton and Perry streets, occupied
by the Little Sisters Of the Poor, for pur-
poses of charity, was exempted from NUM-
clpai taxation so long as the property is so
occupied.
The fire committee was authorized to
negotiate for site for an engine house in
the southern part of the city.
Several appeals against the decisions of
the assessment committee upon the valua-
tlon or personal property were laid on the
table, TO be taken up at future meeting at
which the appellants may be present
The recommendation of Health Officer
Drummer, that two sanitary inspectors be
employed in addition to the two already in
the employ of the city, was reported to the
finance and health and cemetery commit
| tees.
The proposition of a New York company
to sell the city an indicator" which will
locate the place to put down artesian wells,
and unerringly indicate" the dimensions
and volume Of the subterraueous stream,
was referred to the water committee.
The new rules and regulations for the IRE
department, yoluminous document, which
was not read, was adopted, having been
previously printed for Information.
1t was after II o'clock when the council
adjourned, the Bourquin letter and house
drainage having taken up fully an hour
and half of the session.