Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-12-29
LAST MEETINo OF isea.-

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 $500. 900 to Be Issued-The Upper
 Board yetea to Increase the Mayors
 Salary.
 The court of common council of 1893 held it's final session last evening, Mayor Webster presided in the upper chamber. There were present Aldermen Kelley, Vail, Altman, Barlow, Gross and Barnes.
 A petition of E. N. Russell ct al that the American band be given tho use of City hall, rent free, for ten nights for concerts, was referred to the committee on public lands and buildins.
 A recommendation of the water supply committee that the proposition of M. Fl. Guernsey to sell right of way for pipe line through the David Merriman estate be ac- cepted, was adopted.
 The petition of Pasquale CorellO to maintain popcorn stand at the corner of South Main and Scovill streets, was tabled.
 The following vote was passed:
 "Yoted, That the city of Waterbury, pur- suant to authority given by the general assembly of this state, issue bonds under the corporate name and seal of said city, to be signed by it's mayor and counter signed by it's clerk, to the amount of $500 GOO, bearing interest at the rate of four per centum per annum, payable at the office of the city treasurer of said city semi-an- nually on the first days of January and July in each year. Said bonds shall bear date January 1, 1894. and be for the amount of $500. each bond. and shall be known and called Water Bonds of the City of Waterbury, third series. Said bonds shall be issued as follows, viz:
 $200, 900 on the first day of February. 1894. $10O, 900 on the first day of March, 1894. $100, 900 on the first day of April, 1894. $100, 900 on the first day of May, 1894
 (Which bonds shall be numbered from No upward. consecutively, and shall be payable at the office of the treasurer as follows: 5000. being the bonds num- bered from to 10, inclusive, five years from the date of said bonds, and S5 900 annually thereafter in consecutive mum bers, commencing with the lowest number outstanding, until the first day of January, 1919, when the balance of said bonds then outstanding, shall be due and payable at the office of said treasurer. hn
 'tAlso voted, that the city clerk at once advertise for rproposals or bids for the bur chase of said bonds at least thirty days be- fore February l, 1894. such proposals to be under seal and opened in public by said court of common council on the twenty y-ninth day of January, 1894, at s o'clock P. m., at the mayors office in said city, no bid to be accepted for less than par on the face value of said bonds and the accrued interest thereon" Two hundred dollars was voted towards the expense of raising the house. of Mary Egan of Bergen street. A bill of S. W. Rel logg for $66.50 was ordered paid. It was voted that the clerk be authorized to compile and have printed two hundred copies of the ordinances of the city, prop erly indexed.
 The report of the city engineer to the
 
 1893 was accepted The report was as fol- lows: Riverside street, 59 feet; North street 44S.73; Pine street, 1,002. .9S; Hillside avenue. 765.OS; Wood street, | 341.30; North Willow, 449.9S; Green, I 337 96; Cooke 722.54; River, 3I2.35; Round Hill and Ward, 492 2S, a total of 5,610.49 feet or 1.062 miles.
 Attorneys Kellogg < Kellogg presented petition from Holmes, Booth t Haydens praying an abatement of half the sewer assessment on a small piece of land on the southerly side of Washington avenue. The petition was referred to the city attorney. The committee on abatelnents recom- mended taxes abated in the case of twenty one properties on the list of 1891. vlThe abatements were ordered made. 57l~ The following vote was passed: | Voted, that on and after December 31 1893, the salary of the mayor of the city of Waterbury be S1, ,500.
 Alderman Kelley offered the following: ''Voted, that this board tender to Mayor | Webster a rising vote of thanks for the | uniformly courteous and impartial manner in which he has conducted the delibera. tions of the board.
 | The aldermen rose and the mayor thanked the meeting and expressed his ap- preciation of the courteous treatment he | had received from the members of the | board.
 President J. H. Hart presided in the | lower board. There were present Council men Brewer. Bolan, Filling, H. F. Sanford, Field, Keough, Daly. Fitzpatrick, Lavigne and T. l.. Sanford. All business trans acted by the upper board was concurred in, except the increase in the salary of the mayor and authorizing the clerk to have printed 200 copies of the ordinances of the city. The former was tabled on objection of T. L Sanford and the latter by John Fitzpatrick.
 Recommendations of the committee on lamps and gas for the placing of electric lights at the following points were adopted: Corner Hillside avenue and North Willow street, on Grove, between Sperry and North Willow streets, at corner of Sunny side avenue and Riverside street, at corner of Ward and Round Hill streets on Grove street between Holmes avenue and North Willow street. A petitlon of George A. Boughton for an. electric light at the corner l of Baldwin and Washington streets ~as also adopted and the work ordered done. Votes of thanks were passed to Presi- | dent Hart and Clark RolaD and fba hoard