Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-06-11
oITT oorNcrL.
The Tax Rate for the Ensuing Year Fixed
at GI4O on 500.

VII lDB Recommendation OF LIle InAnCS
committee the city solicitor was re-
quested to prepare an ordinance author
izing Council to issue bonds for a loan
of 100000 for the Street and Sewer
Department. The same committee sub
nitted the following statement for the
purpose of making the appropriations
and fixing the taxratc for the next fis-
cal year
Aggregate of appropriations. S542, 50
Revenue from all sources. ...... 9i,3l5.00
Amount to be raised by taxa
ton ...,................... 4i8,O3350
Yield of total assessment for
city purposes, s33,Sl35i3, at
81 tax.rate. .,................ 33s, 1856 43
Yield of total assessment for
school purposes, $3i, l60,S63,
al 10 cents taX-rate. e........,.. 36,643 As
Errors and rebates allowed. 9,1S000
The committee recommended that the
rate be fixed at $1.40 on the assessment,
a rate Of 81 fer city purposes and 40
cents for school purposes. The report
was accepted and the recommendation
adopted.
On the recommendation of the law
committee the chairman of that commit
tee was allowed S279.95, the amount of
the expenses incurred by him during
attendance at the session of the Legisla-
ture, and the city solicitor was allowed
$3.50, the amount of services rendered
and expenses incurred by him during
attendance at the same session. A favor
able report by the same committee on
the ordinance giving $500 to Mary E.
Schultz, widow of Police Officer Charles
w. Schultz, was adopted. The ordi-
nance was put on its third reading,
a1 1FFNt tad o.,E .lf1, 4 -. ~
Fhe city treasurer reported $50, 0,517S6
in bank to the credit of current ex-
penses and $4,45462 to the credit of
special deposit He also reported the
receipt of the following amounts dur
ing the week: From City Auditor Nit
chell, SO, auctioneer's license; City Engi-
neer Boughman, $54.85, fees for May;
Clerk Hyland, $4,000 municipal court
receipts for May; the same official, $S,
unclaimed witness fees; Chief of Police
Swiggett, $40, dog tax; the same off
cial, 50, show license; Building Inspec-
tor Dillin, sos, fees for May; John H.
Dandy, $17.22 and $86.11, respectively
interest on special deposit and the
amount deposited to the credit of cur
rent expenses; John j. Mealey, 1926
and 1925, respectively city and school
Mitchell, $500, city and school taxes for
1890
The city auditor certified to the cor
rectness of the accounts of the city
treasurer and other officials,
The annual report of the president of
the Board of Health was received and
filed
Clerk Hyland reported that the mu-
nicipal court receipts were as follows:
Fines, .S241; fees, $S9.50; coets, $112.70.
Coal Oil Inspector Durney reported
that he inspected 1880 gallons of coal
oil last month.
Building Inspector Dillon reported
that 12 buildings, five back buildings,
one engine house and one church were
erected in this city during that period at
an estimated cost of $500.
The Board of Assessment, Revision
and Appeals reported that the city as
sessment for the year '91-03 is as fol-
lows:
NORTHERN DISTRICT.
lily assessment. SIS, 203, 6S9
School assessment. .............. 1881, 1870
SOUTHERN DISTRICT.
City assessment. ,6i0,0O4
School assessment. 1888, 673
The payroll of the president and
members of Council, amounting to
S245.26, was passed.
To the fire committee were referred
petions from Charles Jester and A. o.
DEMO, asking respectively that fire
alarm boxes be put at Sixth and Wollas-
ton and Eighth and Lombard streets.s
A communication from Henry @.
Conrad, Esq, asking that the ordinance
ON page 472, section 3, relating to the
washing of carriages on sidewalks, be
enforced, was referred to the police COM
mittee.
Mr., Baugh announced that he had in
his possession book of bonds signed
by the mayor ANY dishonest official
in the city treasurer's Office, he said,
could make use of them, and he asked
that the book be destroyed. City Treas
urer Griffith was permitted to make a
statement. He said he could not ex-.
plain why the mayor had signed them.
Those that had been used had been au-
thorized by Council. The book had |
been sent to the mayor for him to sign
some Of them and he had signed all. The
book contained 81 bonds of 81 900 each. |
Mr.. Griffith considered the precedent |
dangerous, especially in this day of dis |
honest city treasurers. He had said |
nothing about the matter before because
he thought some more of the bonds |
might be used, but now there is no
probability of their use during Mayor
Harrington's administration. The finance
committee,in conjunction with the pres
1dent of Council, was authorized to I
cancel the signed bonds.
70 the Gamewell Fire-alarm Tele-
graph Company, the only bidder, was
awarded the contract for putting a fire.
alarm bell and striker on the engine
house of the Liberty Fire Company,
provided it gives sufficient bond for the
faithful performance of the work The
amount of its bid was SG4O.