Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-12
Notes From the Councils.

In Common an ordinance providing for
the awarding of contracts for supplies, item
| by item, was passed finally.
A RESOLUTION, that the Controller issue a
| warrant to the Mayor for the payment OF
800 damages to c. Abbott, who was injured
by an electric wire, was adopted in Com
mon.
MAYOR GoURLEY's message, printed on an
other page, was read in Common Council
and then referred, with the estimates of the
department chiefs, to the Finance Com
mittee.
Mr.. LAMBIE in Select, called up the ordi-
nance relating to the driving of cattle on
the streets, but Mr.. Keating said it would
| take too long to consider that matter, and
moved to adjourn. His motion prevailed.
ORDINANCES granting the Williamsburg
Street Railway Company the right to enter
upon Fifth avenue; Jones 6 Laughlins the
right to lay a switch track across Wrights
alley; Chief j. o. Browns request 1or an
ambulance and wagon for the Bureau OF
Health, passed both branches.
ORDINANCES for repeating the plan OF
streets of George R. White, in the Twentieth
ward; relocating Mifflin street; locating Hol-
den street, Mccartney street, Roxianna
alley, Griffin street, and establishing the
curb line of Boggs avenue were taken up
and passed finally in Common.
lowing papers were presented and referred:
Resolution for repaving and grading Center
avenue from Fulton to Kirkpatrick street;
petition opening Dithridge street from
Fifth avenue to Forbes street; ordinance for
15inch sewer on Point alley.
Mr.. WARREN, in Select, presented q resolu-
tion authorizing the Finance Committee to
include in the appropriation ordinance an
appropriation for a bridge across the Penn.
sylvania Railroad at Benvenue station. This
will provide an easy access for the people
of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth wards to
Schenley Park.
Mr.. MAeEE from the Finance Committee,
presented in Common an ordinance for the
appointment by the Mayor of an ordinance
officer. whose duty would be to look after
the weighing of coal and strictly enforce the
same, and whose salary would be the same
as regular police officer. This ordinance
was passed finally.
In Common Council the following papers
were offered and referred: Petition to
vacate Miller street: ordinance establishing
the grade of McDevett and Hammett streets;
ordinance re re-establishing the grade of Ham,
ilton avenue; petition for water pipe on
Kearsarge street; ordinances locating Oliver
street and Kearns street, and relocating
part Of Greenfield avenue.
Mr. WRIGHT, from the Committee on Pub
lie Works, offered ordinances for the ac-
CtptduCe Vi SoWeI On Dull SCrceU, COn-
structing sewers on Coward street. South
Negley avenue, Thirty-ninth street, Nc
Candless avenue and Kent alley, also for the
grading, paving and curbing of Rose street,
and opening of Harcums alley and Cassel-
man street, all of which were passed finally
in Common.
SELECT COUNCIL passed ordinances increas-
ing the salary of the Superintendent Of the
Bureau of Electricity to $500 per month,
granting Armour & Co the right to construct
a switch in front of its beef packing estab-
lishment on South Twenty-flrst street, and
authorizing the sale of city property DE.
tween Fortieth and Forty-frst streets and
between the Allegheny Valley Railroad and
the Allegheny river.
M EssRs. HEATING. GILLESPIE AND KING, the
committee OF conference appointed to ad-
Just the differences between the Select and
Common Councils on the resolution for a
warrant in favor of the Philadelphia Com
pany in payment of bill for gas fuel used in
the several pumping stations of the city, re-
ported in Select that they had failed to agree
and asked to be discharged. The report was
received and request complied with.
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