The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-02-25
Common Council.

At special meeting of the common
council of the village of L'Anse, held
February ID, 1893. there were present
j, G. Turner, president, J. B. Smith,
Geo. Trudeau, John Campbell, j. Q.
McKernan and s. Kinney, trustees,
and l.. j. Shepard, clerk. Absent, A.
Boivin, trustee.
The president stated the object of
the meeting to be to make such definite
arrangements Us were necessary re-
garding the appropriation or bonus 10
be given by the village for a saw mill
enterprise, MS per report OF the COM
mittee and adopted by the council.
The L'Anse Lumber Company, q
corporation organized under the laws
of the state of Michigan, through its
president j. i. Smith, signified its
willingness to accept the conditions
named in the report of said committee,
made November 30, 1892, thereupon
Mr.. J. Q. McKernan presented the
following resolution:
Resolved, that the president and clerk
be and are authorized to draw two
orders on the village treasurer, one for
20, 500 payable June lst 1893, and one
for $4,000 payable June lst 1894,
payable to said I'An,e Lumber Co.
upon its filing with said clerk its bond
in the sum of $4,000 for the faithful
performance of the conditions named
in said report OF Nov. 30, 1892.
Which resolution was adopted by
yeas and nays rs follows: Yeas,
Kinney, McKernan, Trudeau, Camp
bell, Smith and the president. Nays,
none.
The following is the report of the
committee referred to in said resolu.
ton.
To the Common Council of the Vii
lage of L'Anse.
GENTLEMEN Your committee
to whom was referred the matter of
giving bonus of $1,000 to encourage
the establishment in the village of
sawmill wonld respectfully report as
follows:
That we consider that the Qua Gil
are without AUTHORITY to grant such
bonus without special act of the legis-
Lot, h,t onno;lnr;n,, tha l.nnneE, b
be derived from the establishment of
such an industry, we would recommend
that the council make an appropri-
alton of $4,000, payable one half on the
LIST day of June, 1898. and one-half on
the 1st day of June, 1894, and that the
council pass suitable resolution ask
ing the Legislature to pass bill rati-
flying and confirming such action.
The committee further recommend
that such bonus shall be given on the
following conditions, namely:
LIST. That said mill company shall
present to the council satisfactory evil
dence that they have paid in capital
of at least $4,000.
End. That said mill shall be con-
structed and fully completed on or be
fore the LIST day of June, 1898.
3rd. That it shall DO constructed as
permanent fixture and that it shall
be operated during the saving season
for at least five years, from and after the
LIST day OF June, 1898.
4th That said mill shall be fully in
sured during said five years, and that
in case of its destruction by fire or
otherwise that it shall be rebuilt with
substantially the same capacity as here
matter mentioned or IL case it is not
rebuilt that said mill company shall re-
turn to the village an amount of money
equal to one thousand dollars for each
and every year Of the unexpired term
of said five years.
9th. That said sawmill shall have
capacity of 1000 feet every "a hours
and that said company shall employ on
an average during the year at least
fifty men continuously.
9th. That the employees shall be
paid monthly in cash. ind that no
person. firm or company shall be pre-
ferred in making collections through
the mill company's Office.
7th. That the persons composing
the said mill firm shall give their bond
to the village in the sum of $4,000,
with such sureties as shall be salts