Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1892-02-20

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Law When Mayor BlantOn Did
His work.
The board of aldermen held long, te-
dious session Yesterday afternoon, begin
ming at 4 O'Clock and lasting until Z.
The mayors office was crowded with
peopl. having business for the board.
There was full board pretl..t, and
Mayer Blanton presided.
The Mayor as a YiOlatOr.
Mr.. Gudger, tor the finance committee,
to whom Mr.. Waddells ordinance had
been referred two weeks ago, recon-
mended that the ordinance should not
pass. He offered the following as sub
stitute:
That the chief of police superintendent
of the water works, sanitary Inspector,
supernten lent of streets, and the tax
collector, or a committee of the board
acting for such, be required each to keep
book upon which shall be entered by
items their receipts and disbursements.
THAT the city clerk shall on or before
the first meeting Of the board of alder
men in each month present to the board
a statement of expenditures and receipts
during the preceding month.
THAT he shall keep book in which
he shall enter all receipts reported to him
by various superintendents and the ex
penditures as ordered by the board and
that he shall strike balance in each
monthly statemcnc between receipts and
disbursements.
THAT he shall enter in said book the
debts and liabilities OF the city as fol-
lows: First, the amount of bonds is
sued, date of issue, when and where in
terest is payable, and the amount due at
each installment of interest. Second, the
amount of any judgments against the
city and to whom due. Third, the
amount of each and every note, bond
and obligation of the city endorsed and
signed to whom due, when due and the
amount OF The same. Fourth, the city
clerk shall write upon and under the
left margin OF every draft drawn by him
on the city treasurer BY order of the
board of aldermen
That the failure or neglect of any otfi-
Ger OF the city to make his monthly re-
port to the city clerk on or before the
| first regular meeting of the board in
each month, as now required by law,
shall be good cause for removal from
office"
Mr.. Gudger said good many people
| had been talking about the clause in the
original ordinance which provided that
no check should be paid until it had been
passed on by the board. But, he said,
that was already law, and the code
should not be filled up with laws with
regard to any enc matter.
Mr.. Waddell contended that the pro
vision OF his ordinance, that double
entry set of books shall be kept, should
stand. 1t was the only business way to
do the city's work. The substitute was
then placed on its first reading and pass
ed, Messrs. Waddell and Starnes voting
no.
| The Beard Of Health.
Taking up the matter of a city board
of health, Mr.. Starnes, for the commit
tee appointed last week, submitted an
ordinance creating board Of health, to
consist Of four practicing physicians and
the city engineer, the physicians to be
recommended bv the Buncombe medical
society. The board is to have control OF
all matters rsofsanitation, and in the words
OF the ordinance, 1.-THE sanitory inspec-
tor may be discontinued at the recon-
mendation of the board" Mr.. Starnes
moved to put on first reading. This
was done and. the ordinance was adopt
ed. A motion was then made to suspend
the rules and put on second reading.
During the discussion that followed,
Drs. G. W. Purefoy, l.. b. McBrayer and
H. b. Weaver spoke. Mr. Gudger made
a lengthy talk on the subject, urging a
fuller consideration of the matter. The
motion was put and lost. Mr.. Brevard
then moved the appointment of a COM
mittee to take the prosposed ordinance
and compare it with the laws already
in force. This carried, and Messrs.. ..Wad-
dell, Gudger and Starnes were appointed
q, Those Lixhta!
Mr.. Brevard. for the light committee
recommended that the bill of the People's
light, heat and power company, for
lights during December, be paid. This
was done. The bill was $426,67 after
deductions for bad lights. MIR. Starnes
moved that the company be given two
weeks in which to file the bond it prom
ised to give long ago, and it it tailed to
do so. the city should proceed to lool
esewhere for a light company. Mr.
Gudger moved as an amendment that
the matter of bond be referred to the
light committee, which should report
and make a recommendation at next
meeting. The motion as amended car
ried.
All street Talk.
A petition from property owners OF
Hill and Buttrick streets was read. They
r asked that those streets be made titt,
feet wide. The street committee was in
structed to go over the streets, and hav
the city engineer to survey the same t.
whatever width the committee nigh
deem best.
Mr.. Starnes, for the street committee
, read the report of work done in putting
down plank walks. The report wa
printed in THE CITIZEN yesterday. Th
committee recommended that the worl
stop until work on the streets begun
when lot of sidewalks would have t.
be torn up, which could be put down Oh
other streets.
MIR. Starnes reported on the matter o
a rock wall near Bethel church. He SAT-
he would like to see the work done, bu
the street had never been accepted by tn
city and therefore nothing could be done
Bond Accepted.