The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-26
The City Council.

The city council met in regular session at
precisely o'clock with Mayor Turner in
the chair.
All members were present excepting
Councilmen McManis and Dee.
The minutes of the previous meeting
were read and approved.
The following petitions were presented
and acted upon:
=. j. Sullivan reminded the council that
the ordinance prohibiting the running at
large of live stock was not enforced.
The majority of the property owners
from Washington to Quincy avenues on
Twenty fifth street. asked to have the
sewer system extended in that direction.
The property owners on Lincoln avenue,
from Twenty eighth to Thirtieth streets,
complained of the fearful condition of the
street. and asked to have the same graded
and put in passable condition.
Louis Lederer, assignee, asked for q
rebate on an auction license taken out for
a term of one year. Mr.. Lederer stated in
his petition that he had endeavored to auc-
ton two days, and only disposing of Sl3.40
worth of goods he decided to discontinue,
therefore the license doing him no mate
rial good
The property holders in the block
bounded by Lincoln and Grant avenues and
Twenty sixth and Twenty seventh streets,
asked to have the drain running through
the block, which is choked up, repaired.
The committee on public buildings and
grounds reported recommending the grant
ing of the use of Lester park on several fu-
ture occasions. Adopted.
The sanitary committee reported recon-
mending the abatement as nuisance,
within thirty days. of a certain cow corral
on Twenty-first street. Adopted.
Ben Rich was granted an audience, and
asked that new plat Of Riverside addition
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old errors. The plat was accepted subject
TO the approval of the city engineer
The Volunteer fire department asked for
n number of articles of supply, and the
petition was referred to the fire commits
sion.
The city engineer reported upon the
matter of grading jefferson avenue between
Twenty and Twenty-eighth streets,
estimating the cost of excavating to be
about 1925, this amount not including the
cost of a retaining wall OF about two
hundred feet in length. Reported re-
ferreisto the committee on streets to make
full report next week.
The payroll of the superintendent of
puhlic buildings and grounds for two weeks
past, amounting to Sl37; of the sanitary
} inspector, So: of the city marshal, $3.50 !;
prisoners board account, Sl77; the hospital
account. S55, and other smaller bills, were
ordered paid. The miscellaneous bills were
referred to the committee on claims.
The ordinance prescribing the duties of
CITY jaffor were read the third time and
then referred back once more to the COM
mittee on laws.
The ordinance fixing the salary of JUS
fices of the peace, for trial of city cases at
$500 a year, was read the second time and
laid over for one week for investigation by
the committee on laws.
The ordinance prescribing the width and
manner OF building sidewalks was read the
second time and referred to the committee
on streets The. matter Of the placing OF
The street railway tracks on the streets of
OGDEN was brought up and referred to the
street committee for consideration and re-
port.