Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-09-21
Committee Proceedings.
HALL OF COUNTY COURT HOUSE, PRESCOTT, Sept. 16, 1892.

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 The meeting of special Citizens Committee of Ways and Means, etc on the City Water question, ap pointed by Citizens meeting on tn, evening of September 15, 1892, wa called to order by J. G. Campbell chairman. Present. I. l.. Hail, F G. Brecht, A. O. Brodie and Samue Hill, and immediately proceeded to the business set before it.
 As only one member of the City Council avaiied himself of the opeE invitation extended by the Chair man that they must meet with tho Committee, Col. A. O. Brodie offer ed motion, which was carried that special invitation be sent tC the City Council to attend a meet ing of this Committee at s o'clocl P. M., in the Supervisors rooms, fol the purpose of discussing and act ing on the water question. In ac cordance with the motion, the fol lowing letter was delivered to the City Council, through Robert Con. nell:
 To the Honorable Mayor and City Council of the City of Prescott:
 Sirs: am instructed by the Citizens Committee, at a meeting held this afternoon, to invite you to meet with them this evening in the Supervisors rooms, fer the purpose of taking (advisedlv with you) i'm mediate action on the water ques. tion of the city.
 The importance of the question to be acted upon warrants the pre- sumption that the Honorable Board will cheerfully and willingly attend as full body. SAM'L HILL,
 Acting Secretary.
 Motion, by Col. Brodie, that the City Council be requested, through Mir. Robert Cornell, pres ent, to furnish this body with a statement of the city's present financial condition, and also show the disbursements of the funds re- ceived from the sale of the City Hall,
 The whole Committee decided after mature thought and discussion to present the following combined petition and resolution to the Hon. City Council of Prescott:
 WHEREAS, At a mass meeting of citizens assembled in the county court house. city of Prescott, on the evening of September 15, 1892, it was unanimously resolved, as the sense of the meeting, that the en- tire water supply of the city, other than tha: to be used for fire pur- poses, be immediately shut of, and that the Mayor and City Council be requested to so order,
 WHEREAS, That this Committee find that the said Mayor and City Council, in full knowledge of the action taken by the citizens, and that at each and every moment repetition of the disastrous fire of Wednesday afternoon threatens the entire town, have failed up to the present time to take any action whatever in complying with what is believed to be the wish of every citizen in this community,
 Be it Resolved, That it is the sense of this Committee that this inaction on the part of said Mayor and City Council cannot be counted less than criminal and a pointed disregard of the wishes of the com munity.
 That this Committee, as repre- senting the wishes of the commu- nifty, again, respectfully and firmly urge that without moments delay the Engineer be ordered to carry out the instructions as given by the sovereign people. and that on the event of it being found that there is a supply of water other than needed for fire purpose, it be dis