The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-27

up and a motion offered by Bache to
adopt was tabled.
O'Meara moved that the recommen-
dalton be referred to a special commit
tee of FIVE
Young moved as an amendment that
1T be referred to the committee on pub
lie grounds with a request that they
ascertain the value of the land offered
and report to the council.
! The amendment was lost and the
original motion prevailed and the chair
named Newell, O'Meara, Bache, Claw
son and Morris as such committee.
WIDTH OF SIDEWALKS.
The proposed ordinance in relation to
the width of sidewalks, which had
been several times before the council,
was taken up and referred to the COM
mlttee on streets.
GRAVITY SEWER OUTLET.
Clawson offered the following:
Resolved, That the chairman of the
board of public works, the chairman of
the committee on sewerage. the CITY
engineer and chairman of the commit
tee on public grounds, be instructed to
open negotiations with the owners of
iand the city may require for the grav-
ity sewer outlet, with view of eX-
changing same for land owned by the
city, and report at the next regular
meeting of the council"
On motion of OMeara, the name of
Mr. Clawson was added to the above
committee and the resolution adopted.
A JAIL PROPOSITION.
Clawson also fatherd the following:
resolved, That q portion of the
building now occupied as a. council
chamber and engineers office, when
vacated Gin favor of the joint city and
county buildingl be arranged for a.
prison at a cost of not to exceed SO, 900.
That the committee on prisons, chief
of police and city engineer prepare and
submit to the council plan of the pro-
posed change
referred to the committee on prison
with the above named officers associ-
ated.
A JAIL MATRON.
Hardy offered a resolution providing
TOT the employment of matron for the
city Jail at a salary of not to exceed
$50 month.
Hardy said that it often happened
that women and young girls were ar
rested and it was absolutely required
by the rules of propriety that they be
handled by a matron.
Referred to the committee on prison.
Young offered the following:
MORE RETRENCHMENT.
Young offered a resolution that there
be an unofficial but full meeting of the
council on Thursday evening for the
purpose of discussing the question of
retrenchment in every department of
the city government and that all heads
of departments be invited to attend to
lend their aid to the end proposed
Adopted.
THE EIGHTH WARD SQUARE.
O'Meara offered the following:
Resolved, That the auditor is hereby
requested to furnish to the council at
it's next meeting an ftemized statement
of the amounts spent on the Eighth
ward square,
Adopted.
THE DALEY APPOINTMENT.
Clawson moved that the recorder be
requested to communicate with the
committee on waterworks and ask them
to make report in the matter of
the appointment of Major Daley
as superintendent of waterworks The
mover of the motion said the commit
tee had had about three weeks to re-
port and the public were anxious to
know about 1T.
Adopted.
THE SURPLUS FUNDS.
Clawson also moved that the re-
corder ask the treasurer to report in
THE matter of placing the surplus funds
at an interest.
Adopted.
A TREE ORDINANCE.
Bache submitted an ordinance regu-
latlng the height of overianging limbs
of trees from sidewalks which provided
that property owners be required to
remove limbs of trees which hang low
err than ten feet from the sidewalk
Referred to the committee on streets. !
A GARNISHEE ORDINANCE.
bill for an ordinance repeating an |
ordinance in reference to garnishee
process and waving the legal right
of Salt Lake city in such cases was in |
troduced by Newell, read the first time
and referred to the committee ON muni- |
cipal laws.
Adjourned until Friday evening.