Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-20
REDlSTRICTING.
The Council Strikes a Snag in
the Eighth Ward.
.2ARTER'S MINORITY REPORT.
The Committee on Public Grounds Reports
in Favor of a Park on the Clear
Fork-No Taxes are to Be
RENTED.
TER'S MINORITY REPORT.

The city council met in regular session
last night The opinion before the meet
ing was that the question of redistricting
the city into wards would cause heated
! discussion, but before the debate had pro-
ceeded far snag was struck in the nature
| OF remonstrance from people living
in the Eighth ward which showed that a
clear majority of eight legal votes in the
ward were against annexation. This was a
sort of bombshell in the camp and when
the remonstrance was filed Mayor Smith
said the council now had notice
that a majority of the people in
| the district proposed to be annexed were
opposed to the measure and there was no
use in inviting law suit. He did not De
lieve there was 4 district judge in
the state who would not grant
an injunction if the city should
attempt 70 annex The annexing
did not take place but the remonstrance
was sent to the city attorney for his
| opinion.
The park question came up on the recon-
, mendation from the committee on pub
lie grounds to purchase 200 acres on the
| Clear Fork but the matter was referred
! 10 the finance and public grounds commit
| tee to report on next week
THE PROCEEDINGS.
, Mayor Smith called the meeting to order
at 7:45 All the aldermen present.
| Secretary Burns read the minutes, which
! consumed twenty-five minutes. They were
! approved without change.
The finance committee reported in favor
| of paying assistant city attorney SO per
month.
a substitute was offered to pay him 800.
| The committee tied on the two propositions,
| and Mayor Smith, voting in favor of 500,
| settled the question.
The same committee reported in favor of
! paving 4 city court clerk $50 and assistant
| secretary $50, but the report was referred
| back.
| The finance committee reported in favor
| of printing POO copies of the amended
| charter but AGAINST printing book Of re-
| ViSed ordinances at this time. Adopted
The finance committee reported against
| the proposition to remit the taxes of the
Board of Trade saying it would set bad
| precedent. Adopted.
The finance committee reported that the
report of of City Marshal Maddox had been
examined and found correct, and they de-
sired to commend his course in collecting
| IN fines so closely. Only 81 remained I'M
paid.
The claims committee reported in favor
OF allowing claims 10 the amount of Sll00.
Adopted.
Hill bearing was appointed special police
man At Wade's variety theater.
NJ +. Wallace was appointed on the po
the position
The finance committee reported an ordi-
nance fixing the salary of the city engineer.
The blank was filed by inserting 5000 per
annun. On motion the rules were sus-
pended and the ordinance was adopted.
The committee on public grounds re-
ported Is follows:
The public grounds committee recon-
mend the acceptance of the within PROPOSE
ton if the financial condition of the city
Will permit. c. c. DRAKE
JAMES RYAN.
GEO. w. ARMSTRONG.
The proposition was rs follows:
To the Hon. Mayor and City Council.
We make the following proposition for
the sale of land for city park: We will
sell YOU 200 acres of land for $50 900. taking
in payment for the same four notes of the
city, retaining :; vendors lien, for 5000
each, payable in one. two, three and four
Years from date and bearing interest at the
rate of ) per cent per annum, payable semi
annually. We Will allow the public grounds
committee and the city engineer, together
with your mayor, TO locate the land, the
land to extend from the Arlington Heights
street railway to the Texas and Pacific
railway, and the land to be on either side of
the Clear Fork. Respectfully submitted,
ROBERT MCCART,
WILLIAM Caps,
-. ID.
Propositions were read from J. L. Tyler,
Sam Evans. r. L. Maddox, William F.
Blandin. All were referred to the public
grounds and finance committee to report
next week
Mr.. Clements reported that the sprinkling
wagons had been shipped and would soon
be here.
Mr.. Darter asked that the Cannon street
contract be extended. Granted.
The special committee appointed on re-
districting the city made two reports, ma
iOrity and minority, as follows:
MAJORITY REPORT.
To the Honorable Mayor and City Council:
GEHTLEMEN-We, your special committee
to whom was referred the petition of citi-
zenS living west of the Seventh ward and
south of the old city limits to annex certain
territory TO the city rs the Eighth ward,
and also the matter OF rediStrlctlng the
city. beg to recommend:
l. That the prayer of the petitioners be
granted and that the said territory be
taken into the city as ward, to be known
as the Eighth ward, with all the rights and
privileges of such.
> That the First ward be divided so as to
constitute two wards as follows, to-wit:
The dividing line shall be the center of
Weatherford street; beginning at the i'll
terSectiOn of the center line of Weatherford
street with the center line of Main street,
thence north sixty east to the city limits.
All that portion of said ward lying south of
said dividing line 10 be and remain the
First ward of said city, and all that por-
ticn of said First ward lying north of said
dividing line to be the Ninth ward Of said
city.
3. That between now and the first day of
January, y. d. 1892, 4 committee be APP
pointed 10 redistrict the entire city, and
that the council, by the adoption of this re-
port, agree 10 redistrict the same before
said date, TO take effect at the next general
election. JAMES RYAN,
w. JACKSON,
JOHN 7. MONTGOMERY,
GEORGE f. MES,
{. G. DRAKE,
GEORGE w. ARMSTRONG.
MINORITY REPORT.
FORT WORTH. TEX. May 10 1891.
To His Honor, the Mayor and Board of Alder |
men:
COMMUNICATING been appointed as
one of the committee TO redistrict the city |
of Fort Worth into wards according to the |