The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-02-02

Mr.. MCGOWAN was elected presluenI pro
tenn.
The reading of the records was dis
pensed with.
Sale of Land.
An order was offered by Mr.. McAleny
that the city treasurer give j. u. BracK-
EFT deed, with the usual covenants OF
warranty, for a lot Of land on the flats on
the easterly side of Hanover street, be-
tween the land of Bracket and land re-
Gently sold by the city to the Portland q
Rochester railroad; the lot having
frontage of about ITO feet on Hanover
street, extending back 115 feet, and con-
tanning Il, 800 square feet of land. The
price to be paid is fixed at 20 cents per
foot, one quarter of the purchase money
to be paid on the delivery of the deed,
and the remainder in annual payments,
and secured by mortgage at per cent.
The order was passed and sent up.
The Twenty-second of February.
The upper board receded from their
action by which they first refused to con-
cur with this board in recognizing Wash
ington's birthday by addresses in City
Hall, and concurred. Mr.. MCGOWAN Of
fered an order appropriating $75 for de-
fraying the expenses, which was passed
and concurred in by the upper board.
Messrs. Little, Rounds and Knowles
were the committee of conference from
this board.
Revising Ward Lines.
Messrs. Little. McAleney and Dam
were appointed a committee from this
board on revising the ward lines, the Or
der having passed in concurrence.
York Deeds.
When the order came down for the
purchase of 80 copies of York Deeds,
Mr.. Rounds said he didn't see the advis-
ability of taking the city money for the
purpose from the contingent fund, for if
all outstanding bills were paid there
would be deficiency in the fund. MI.
Josselyn wanted to know why 30 copies
were wanted. Mr.. Cousens thought it
strange time to bring up such matter
with SO many bills unpaid, and he moved
to non-concur This board non-con-
cured and Messrs. Josselyn, Randall
and Bracket were appointed the COM
mittee on conference. They reported
an agreement and said in order to let
Brown, Thurston & Co. out in publish
fishing the deeds the state took 200 cop
les and the city 30. Then the order
passed in concurrence.
The Market Lot.
The offers of J. f. Proctor and j. B.
Curtis for the Market lot were laid on
the table. Afterwards the one of Mr..
Proctor was taken from the table and
refused passage, and that of Mr.. Cur
tbs was referred back to the committee
on Market lot.
The Fire Commissioners.
Mr.. Cousens offered the report of the
joint special committee to consider the
ACCESSIBILITY of establishing fire COM
mission. The report stated that the
committee thought well of the project,
as it would retain in office two or three
commissioners all the time who were
conversant with the duties of the Office.
But it would require an act of the legis-
lature to make the change and the legis-
lature will not meet until 1898, SO the
report recommended referring the mat
ter to the next city government and it
was so voted.
Mr.. Crockett's Funeral.
On motion of Mr.. Randall it was voted
that the president appoint a committee
of five to attend ex-president Crockett's
funeral, and Messrs. Randall, Rines, JOS
se.yn, McAleney and Butler were APP
pointed
Miscellaneous.
Business from the upper board re-
ceived concurrent action.
OBITUARY.