The record-union., 1894-04-24

Leonard ana PennlSh being present.
Communications from the Mayor were
received as follows, read and placed on
file:
DREW'S SALARY SUIT.
SACRAMENTO, April %, 1894.
To the Board of Trustees: 1 hereby no.
tify your honorable body that an action
has been commenced by Warren +.
Drew against the city of sacramento to
recover judgment for the sum OF 5000
and interest amounting to S24l SO, max
ing total of 1874 80 alleged to be due 20
him from the city for salary as Chlet OF
Police from the lst day OF April, 1897, un-
til the 9th day of March, 1894. The sum
mons and copy OF complaint were served
upon me this morning. The city, there
fore, has ten days from this date in which
to appear and plead to the complaint.
In this connection | desire to call the
attention of your board to the necessity
of employing special counsel to attend To
this case, as well as to such other busi-
ness as the city may from time TO time
have. IN the past the city has always
employed special counsel for these cases,
and for other special matters involving
the examination of constitutional Ques-
tions, ii being an undoubted fact that the
City Attorney has his hands full il at
tending to the criminal business of the
Police Court, and to other necessary
work.
Subdivision fortieth of Section % of the
charter provides that the Board of Trus-
tees shall have power to authorize the
Mayor to employ, in addition to the City
Attorney, an attorney-at-law at salary
not to exceed 81, 800 a year, and whose
duty it shall be to advise the city officials
and attend to all civil suits and other
matters in which the city may be legally
interested.
l therefore ask that your board pass
resolution authorizing me to employ an
attorney pursuant TO the provisions OF the
charter above set forth, and that it be
done at once, so that attention may be
given TO the case against the city above
mentioned. Respectfully submitted,
B. u. STEINMAN, Mayor.
PROTECTION OF SCHOOL PROPERTY.
SACRAMENTO, April %, 1894
To the Board Of Trustees: A request
has been made to me that w. NJ. Page,
janitor of the Capital Grammar School,
be appointed special policeman for that
locality, as complaint is made that boys
are in the habit of congregating in that
vicinity and doing more or less damage
TO property, as well as intimidating
school teachers.
AS the request is one that should be
granted, | recommend that your board
create the position, and when this is
done the janitor can be appointed to fill
the same, by and with your consent.
Respectfully submitted,
B. U. STEINMAN, Mayor.
ONE MORE POLICEMAN.
SACRAMENTO, April %, 1894.
To the Board Of Trustees: l hereby
nominate, and by and with your consent
hereby appoint the following named
persons to the following named offices
and positions:
l.. b. Ishain to be a member of the
permanent police force, pursuant to tue
ordinance increasing the same from six
teen to seventeen members, this day ap
proved.
George Warner to be special police
man tor the locality bounded as follows:
On the north side of * street to the
south side OF X street from Second street
To Eighth street, vice Robert Goods not
confirmed. Respectfully submitted,
b. L. STEINMAN, Mayor.
UNLAWFUL USE OF WATER.
SACRAMENTO, April % 1894
To the Board of Trustees: l desire to
call the attention of your board to the fact
that Ordinance No. 2l2. which provides
that no person shall use, or cause TO be
used any CITY water Tor the purpose of
irrigation except between the hours from
to 8 P. NJ. and from to 9 A. NJ, except
at the City Cemetery, State Capitol and
City Plaza, is openly violated by numer-
GUS persons who pose as good citizens.
There is also another ordinance which
is extensively violated by many people.
Section of the ordinance TO which l have
reference reads as follows: ''It shall be
unlawful for any person or persons to
open any hydrant, except for fire pur-
poses, after an alarm of hre IS made, or to
use any water from any hydrant, either
for street sprinkling or irrigation, during
the progress of fire; and all hydrants
that may be open for either of the above
purposes when an alarm is made must
be Immediately closed by the person who
opened them or have them in charge, and
not again opened until the fire (if there be
onel is extingulshed."
Both of these ordinances were enacted
for the public good, and the compliance
with them would undoubtedly give an
adequate water supply at tires. AS a
great many people seem to be III ignor-
anee of these ordinances, l respectfully
suggest and recommend that your board
take some means OF giving publicity to
them, either by having them published
in the papers or causing circulars contain
ing these ordinances to be mailed to each
water-taker in the city. Respectfully
submitted, B. U. STEINMAN, Mayor.
ORDINANCE APPROVED.
SACRAMENTO, April %, 1894.
To the Board Of Trustees: L herewith
transmit to your honorable body, with
my approval indorsed thereon, Ordi-
nance No. =, entitled, IAN ordinance
authorizing the appointment of perma-
nent police force. and determining tue
number of members thereof" Respect
fully submitted, B. U. STEINMAN.
Mayor.
OTHER MATTERS.
Communications were also received
from the Mayor on the following sub
jeets:
from {. p. Huntington, President OF the
Southern Pacific Company, relative 10
transportation tor the unemployed VINO
are desirous of going 10 the East.
Also, calling attention TO the necessity
for q new gate at the entrance to the New
Helvetia Cemetery.
Also, notifying the board OF the resigna-
ton of William Harris as Hoseman OF
Engine Company No. 3. and the no1lna-
tion of Charles Addison to the vacancy.
Devine. of the Street Committee, stated
that he foresaw that considerable repair
ing would be done on the streets, and he
had noticed that the Oak Knoll gravel
was the best that had been used on the
streets. He moved that the Street super
intendeut be authorized 10 haul gravel
from the pits there. 1t was SO ordered.
In accordance with the opinion OF the
City Attorney-that, in order to submit
the question of the construction of sew
erage system, the first step would be to
pass an ordinance stating that it would
be for the interest Of the city to construct
such system and giving an outline of the
plan-Pennish introduced such an ordi-
nance, which was passed and ordered
in both. the daily papers.
On motion Of Kent, the Levee Commit
tee was instructed to have the fence on
the south side of the Y-street levee. from
Eleventh to Twenty-eighth, raised and