The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-12-29
C0UNCILMEN MUST MEET.
IMPORTANT BUSINESS TO BE ACTED
 UPON BY CiTY FATHERS.

Must Re Trnnsactrd During Life of Present
 ourt of Common Council-W hat Was
 Done at ast ight's Municipal Meetings
 -Charges Not Sustained
 The members of the board of coun- cilmen were again unable last night to muster quorum In order to complete the business of the year. But twelve members of the board of councilmen put in an appearance, six less than Il quorum, and although the twelve waited until s:35 o'clock no other mem bers of the board arrived and those present departed to their several homes.
 Mayor Sargent In speaking of the matter last night said that he should call another meeting of the body for this evening and then if a quorum was not secured would again call another for Monday evening and would compel the itterdance of a quorum, ever, if to do SC, he was compelled to resort to sending the city sheriff out after the absentees and compel them to al. tend the meeting.
 These is considerable business oe i'm. portance to come before the me,.!rr which must be disposed of duriag .he life of the present court of commo, council. Perhaps the most imy .r al or this Is the reports of the alditirg committee in reference to the amount due by the town to the city and also in reference to the work done in audit ing the books of the tax collector, which had not been audited for over twenty years.
 The question of the amount due by the town to the city has been in dis pute Tor about ten years and during the past year committee was appoint ed to investigate the accounts. This committee has held a number of meet ings and finally submitted a report to the erect that the town owed the city nearly S6,OOO. This report was accepted by the town fathers and the board of alderman and all that is needed to enrich the city treasury to that amount is the approval of the board of coun cilmen
 In addition to this there is the re- port of the special committee on audit ing the books of the tax collector to be approved, the reports of the com m1ffna fyr,c LN x., sion in reference to damages and the abatement of taxes. These must all be approved before next Tuesday or the work wifi all have to be done over, again next year and the expense in- cured, amounting to nearly $1, 1000, will again have to be paid by the taxpayers. In view of these facts it is necessary that meeting of the councilmen should be held to complete this work.
 The members of the board of finance also held another meeting last night to take some action upon the disputed telephone bill of Deputy Harbor Master Captain E. s. Dove. The bill amounts to $1S.76 and the dispute is whether the city or the state should pay it. In reference to the matter the mayor stated last night that in his opinion the bill should not be paid by either the city or state, as 1t was private bill and as such should be paid by Captain Dove. The members of the board were unable to agree upon the matter and it therefore went over until the monthly meeting of the board next Thursday.
 At the meeting of the directors of Free Public library, Mayor Sargent, A. Maxcy Hitler, J. Rice Winchell and Virgil F. McNeil were present. The only business transacted was that of number of applications for positions in the library.
 The members of the board of health in executive session yesterday took ac. tion on the charges made against Plumbing. Inspector John D. Eldridge by Anthony Carroll. After discussing the subject at considerable length the members decided that the charges had not been sustained. except that in the case alleged in the charges that the iron pipe outside building on FL liott street had not been inspected and this fact was admitted at the time by the inspector.
 It was also decided that a com mittee be appointed to prepare set of rules for the government of the plumbing inspector and the other ofh- cials of the board. The members also voted to compel hereafter strict ob- servance, of the city bylaws relating to the cleaning and abolition of vaults and cesSpOOls.