The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-01-28
The CITY Fathers.
They Hold an Inter
osti0q 8ossioo.
The Road Supervisor Gets
a Hauling 0Versthe
Goals.
He Is Charged With Treating
the West End Of Town
with Indifference.
Councillor Dixon Gets After
the Fire-Trap Now Going
Up Corner 9TH and c.


trying to fix up the minutes of the
session held Jan. Y, to place Council
ors Henrichsen and Dixon in their
proper light in having opposed the
adoption Of the report of the commit
tee on fire department, wherein that
committee recommended the Rawlings
& Gray building to remain.
The following communication was
then read from the city assessor:
To the Mayor and City Council. Provo
Cty:
GENTLEMEN herewith submit for
your approval a form for the assess
ment roll of Provo city for the year
1891. The territorial statute provides
that the school tax must be computed
from the city assessment. so that a
considerable change must be made in
the listing OF property; because num-
Der Of taxpayers who must be assessed
with school tax cannot legally be
assessed with any city tax. [ have,
| therefore, had separate columns az
ranged on the roll in which to place
real estate in the school district not
subject to city tax.
The statute also provides that the
county recorder shall furnish the
county collector with a list of all re-
corded mortgages, and receive a COM
/ pensatiOn of % cents for each name
thus listed. The recorder has offered
| to furnish the city a list of all mort
cages On record, subject to city tax,
for 10 cents per name. There being
about 200 names recorded, | submit
that it would be to the advantage OF
the city to accept the proposition.
THEO. M. SAMUELSON,
Assessor and Collector.
The communication and assessment
roll were then referred to the commit
tee on finance.
The watermaSter petitioned that the
matter of changing ditch that runs
through the lots of Jas E. Daniels,
Jr., be referred to the committee or irs
rigation.
The matter was referred, as re-
quested.
The city recorder represented that
he had no desk for his office. On mo-
ton of Councillor Henrichsen, the city
marshal was instructed TO purchase
him one.
Ed. 7. Jackman petiti0ned the Coun-
ell for the position of assistant fire en-
gineer, representing that he was prac-
tical man in such matters.
The petition was referred to the com
mittee Oh fire department.
& communication from Pratt & Jack
son, civil hydraulic engineers, asking
to be employed as engineers in the con
structiOn of waterwOrks, was referred
to the proper committee.
The surveyor represented that the
locators of certain subdivisions tC
Provo city had not complied with the
orders of the Council in furnishing
plats of the same, for filing with the
recorder.
On motion OF Councillor Dixon it wa.
ordered that the required plats bt
filed
John B. Love petitioned the Council
to exchange with him about 101 rod
of the city sandbank, for some stree
land that he would deed the city.
The matter was referred to the com
mittee on streets and alleys.
The following communication from
the city marshal was read and referred
to the committee on police and cit
prisons:
To the City Council of PROVO City:
a GENTLEMEN:-I would respectful,
call the attention Of your honorabl,
body to the condition of the city jail
The cells are very small, and damp
without any means of ventilation, o
sewerage. The windows in the corrido
and north room are altogether to-
small for proper ventilation; there i
no proper way of cleaning it ont, ant
in its present condition the place i
, very unhealthy.
Therefore | recommend that the
, petition walls and upper floor be taker
out, and the ground floor raised abou
sixteen inches, the windows mad,
larger. the present door walled up, anC
one cut in the north end, ard that al
, iron cage be put in, of sufficient sizt
so as to leave a corridor next to The
door, and that proper sewerage Sys
tenn be put III.
Hoping that you will give this mat
ter your earliest attention.
JOHN A. Brown,
City Marshal.
The petition of Peters & Stubs
asking d renewal of their retail liquor
license for three months, was read anC
granted.
, A similar petition from Wilson
Brown was served the same way.
The report of the city marshal on con
, tingent fund, showing disbursements
Of S148.55 by him in official duty. was
read and accepted.
The claim Of the Commercial anC
Savings Bank for 50, 600 was presented
On motion of Councillor Maiben the
mayor was instructed to pay 81, 900 o.
it. and obtain an extension Of sixty
days on the remainder.
The claims Of the Provo L. n. & B
CO.. for S22.71, FOR stakes, for decorat
ing the corners of the streets on Centre
street, and the same company fol-
$1,000, for lumber furnished by order
of the road supervisor, were referred
te the committee on streets anC
| alleys.
The claim of the estate of NJ. F
Sturgess, deceased. for S31.9l, fol
services rendered by the late NJ. F
SturgesS, the civil engineer in the
construction of Eaterworks. was
read, and referred to the committee on
WaterW0rks, with instructions to re-
port at the next meeting.
The claim of the Provo Book &
Stationery Company, for legal blanks
and sundries furnished the city Off
GERS, amounts to S26.15, was allowed.
The claim of Famer Bros. & Co..
for sundries, was allowed.
The claim of the East Coop. for
S70.65, was withheld to give the city
marshal time to investigate.
The claims of John Ferre, for run
ming the sprinkler, for IS DAYS, at $3.50
per day; of Soren Jensen, for tolling
the curfew bell, $500; and Hyrum
Hatton, one months services as fire
engineer, $500; were all allowed.
] Chief of Fire Department. J. A.