The record-union., 1894-06-26
TRUSTEES And MAYOR LOCK HORNS.
Heads of Departments Must Get Or
ders From the Board,
Otherwise They are Liable to Lose
Positions-Cemetery Saloon
License Refused.

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The City Board of Trustees held their
weekly meeting last night. Trustees
Lawton, ,Wachhorst, Kent, Devine, Bragg,
Davis, Tozer, Leonard and Pennish were
present.
The following messages from the Mayor
were read:
WATER RATES VETOED.
To the Board Of Trustees: l herewith
transmit to your honorable body with
my disapproval indOrsed thereon, Ordl-
nance No. =, entitled IAN ordinance hx-
ing water rates in the city OF sacramento,
and providing penalty for the VloIatoh
thereof"
Ny reasons for disappearing said ordI-
nance are as follows:
l. While apparently the ordinance under
consideration is drawn for the purpose OF
taking the place of ordinance No. 24O,
which now fixes the rates, comparison
between the two will show that there are
many rates established IN Ordinance No.
240 which would still be in force, even if
the present ordinance should become a
law. This confusion should be avoided.
The rates should be established in one
ordinance, and the former ordinance re-
pealed.
2. The ordinance under consideration
provides that bakers using more than two
barrels and less than four barrels of flour
per day should pay rate of 81 90 per
month, and those using four barrels and
over shall pay 90 cents per barrel per
month.
Under this section a baker using four
barrels per day will pay S2 per month,
while one using three barrels will pay
y 90 per month.
& The ordinance does not nr0vi1a rates
Tor laundries where more than six per-
sons are employed. Laundries employ
ing twenty-five persons will not pay
more than those employing only six.
4. Many rates are established from a
certain sum upwards, but before apprOv-
ing an ordinance L must know how far
upwards it is to go. 1t is an easy matter
to fix the outside limit.
.. The ordinance delegates to a Com
mittee on Water Works certain power
and authority which, under the charter,
shall be exercised by the Water Assessor.
(See Section los OF the Charter.) Respect
fully submitted,
b. U. STEINMAN, Mayor.
ANOTHER VETO.
To the Board Of Trustees: 1 herewith
transmit to your honorable body, with
my disapproval indOrsed thereon, Ordi-
nance No. =, entitled, Providing for the
collection of water rates. and providing a
penalty for the violation thereof"
My reasons for disapproving said ordi-
nance are as follows:
l. Section of the ordinance should, in
my opinion, provide that if the water
rates were not paid at the Office of the
City Collector within ten days after they
become due, it should then be the duty
OF the Collector to send out his clerks fol
the purpose of collecting the same, to-
gether with delinquency fine of 10 pei
cent, and if the same was not paid
within twenty days thereafter the water
should be shut off by the City Taper as
therein provided.
2. As stated in former message disap-
proving a similar ordinance, [ do not
think it is right to tear up the premises
of an innocent person for the purpose Ot
Furnishing a delinquent water taker, as
provided in Section 3. respectfully sub
mitted, b. u. STEINMAN, Mayor.
MUST HAVE GOOD SIDEWALKS.
To the Board Of Trustees: l herewith
transmit to your honorable body, with
my disapproVal indorsed thereon, Ordi-
nance No. =, entitled: San ordinance
amending Section of Ordinance BIZ,
relating to the condemnation, construc-
ton, alteration and repairs of sidewalks,
bulkheads and curbings." My reasons
for disappearing this ordinance are as
follows:
IIeNlOuS W LIlo passage Ol OIuluduc6
No. 3l2 it was permissible to lay cement
walks on top of wooden sidewalks; but
it being found that such sidewalks would
become unsafe by reason Of the wood un-
derneaIh rotting, Ordinance No. 3l2 was
passed for the purpose OF compelling all
sidewalks thereafter TO be built without
wood.
The city has right to compel owners
of property to build good and substantial
sidewalks. Sidewalks with a stone COW
ering resting on wooden supports may
look as well as any other, but whether
they are dangerous or unsafe can never
be told from the surface. Wood will rot
and no one will know it until an accident
happens.
l therefore think the enactment of the
ordinance under consideration will be
step backward. Respectfully submitted
b. u. STEINMAN, Mayor.
BUT THIS ONE GOES.
To the Board Of Trustees: 1 herewith
transmit to your honorable body, with
nv approval indorsed thereon, Ordi
nance No. -, entitled: Regulating the
use of sidewalks in the City or Sacra
mento." Respectfully submitted,
b. U. STEINMAN, Mayor.
COMMITTEE REPORTS.
Devine said that there were a grea
MANY complaints about the leper wh'