The Portland daily press., 1893-12-15
CITY GOvERNME
Orders Passed Transferring Money
and Granting Land Deeds on
Roberts Street.


in order to complete business left I'M
finished at the regular monthly meeting.
This business was transacted:
In the Board of Aldermen, Aldermen
Prince and Josselyn were absent. The
reading of the records was dispensed
with.
An insane person was ordered sent to
the Insane Asylum.
Roberts Street Lots
Alderman MCGOWAN offered orders
making a conveyance subject to the
conditions named of lots on Roberts
street. Each order order provides: The
price is s cents per square foot; dwell
ing containing not more than two ten
ements and costing not less than $4,000
must be erected in two years and shall
not be placed within five feet of the
street line; the city shall not be held liza
bic to build any fence around the lot or
any part of it; sum of not less than
500 nor more than the purchase
price of the lot m ust be deposited with
the city treasurer before January Is, 1894
and shall be forfeited to the city if the
dOOFG MCCULLOUGH COuSlltlOuS dIS uOU GULL
piled with in twolyears to the satisfac-
ton of the committee on sale of unim-
proved real estate: when such conditions
have been complied with at any time
during the two years and the purchase
price with interest from January /, 1894,
has been paid, the city treasurer, npon
the certification of the committee, shall
give the purchaser deed of the lot; the
lot may be transferred at any time by
the purchaser to another person, but
subject to the foregoing conditions. The
orders were passed in both boards.
Messrs. John Lawlor. Joseph F. Chute,
Joseph A. MCGOWAN, Charles L. Brack-
EFT, w. f. Firth, f. l.. Sylvester, E. ].
Young, John Ell. Westwood, LISA
Chute, F. O. johnson and j. E. Blither
are the purchasers.
Petition for license as auctioneer was
received from Isaac Andursky, AS Fore
street; Gilbert L. Bailey, to keep and
sell gunpowder; L. q. Foster, to keep
billiard hall at 229 York street; Mrs. L.
c. Snow, to erect building at No. 76
Spring street for two-storied dwelling;
of Scanlon 6 Co., to keep and sell gun
powder at 459 Congress street. The
licenses were granted subject to the usu-
al conditions, and the Snow building re-
ferred to the committee with power.
Coasting.
Petition that Anderson street, from
Cumberland street to Back Bay. be
granted for coasting was ordered received
and placed on file. and an order granting
the petition passed.
Sand Lot Reserved.
Ordered, That all sand on that portion
OF the city farm bounded by the Port
land G. Rochester railroad extension on
the north, Portland street on the south,
and Grove street on the east, be reserved
for the uses of the city, and it is further
ordered that no sand be sold from said
property by any department Of the city.
Passed, and concurred in by the council.
Transferring Appropriations.
These orders, transferring appropria-
lions, that passed the aldermen at the
regular meeting, passed the council at
this meeting:
That $4,000 be transferred from the ap-
preparations for water and hydrants to
high school.
That $1,000 be transferred from liquor
agency to West school, and $4,000 to pub
lie buildings.
To pay all bills for support of evening
school in excess of appropriations. to
liquor agency fund not to exceed 5000.
The council concurred.
York Deeds
An order that the Mayor buy thirty
copies of York deeds passed in this
board, and was referred in the lower
board. Alderman Strout asked for a
conference. Aldermen Strout and Nc
Gowan were appointed. After much
discussion the council insisted on non
concurring.
Leavitt Street.
The order laying out and accepting
Leavitt street on Long Island was pre-
sented by Alderman Guptill and passed.
In the lower board the order passed in
concurrence.
Changing Fire Engines
Alderman MCGOWAN offered an order
GudG uTe o0SIleS SHALL uOG nave Glelr
location changed except by vote of the
majority of the board of engineers and
committee on fiji department.. Mr. Strout
asked what authority the board had to
pass the order. He might be wrong, but
he thought the fire department a CO.
ordinate branch of the city government.
1t was not subordinate. 1t was a
public servant like the overseers of the
poor.
Mr.. MCGOWAN thought the case not a
parallel one. There was no committee
on the poor, but there is committee on
fire department
Then Mr.. Strout said, taking Mr.. Nc
Gowan's opinion as correct it would
seem more proper for the board to wait
until it is ascertained that the commit
tee on fire department and board of engi-
neers disagree
:. Mr.. Guptill took the same ground as
Mr.. Strout.
Mr.. Tolman said that last year some
CHI anges of engines were made by consul
tation between the committee and chief
of the department.. This year some
changes had been made by the chief
without consultation. He had nosdoubt,
however, that the committee and chief
would arrange the matter satisfactorily.
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