The record-union., 1894-11-27

ing present.
The following messages from the Mayor
were read:
WATER ORDINANCE VETOED.
To the Board Of Trustees: l herewith
return 10 your honorable body, with my
disapproval indorsed thereon, Ordinance
No. =, entitled IAN ordinance amending
Section L OF Ordinance No. 347, entitled
al ordinance liking water rates i'll the
city OF Sacramento, and providing PEN
atty Tor the violation thereof passed June
Is, 1894"
My reasons for disappearing this ordi-
nance are as follows:
The ordinance under consideration is
intended TO amend Section OF Ordinance
No. 34I, which was disapproved by Inc an
June %, 1884, and passed over my veto OH
June Is, 1894. In my message accom-
panyng my disapproval Of said ordinance
L gave many objections which will apply
TO the ordinance under consideration.
The new ordinance makes some changes
In the rates, but l think instead of in
creasng the revenue, as should be done.
it will have a tendency to decrease it ma
terially.
| am still of the opinion that it is more
equitable to lust the rates on the basis
OF the number Of members of the family
rather than on the basis of the mum ber OF
rooms.
| am, further, of the opinion that no
ordinance your board has passed on the
subject of water rates IS as good as the
one which was in effect prior to your
board taking Office.
1t is not conducive to good government
to be changing the water rates constantly,
and as the old ordinance, in effect prior
TO January l, 1894, gave more satisfaction
than any adopted by your board, l would
respectfully recommend that your board
rescind all the water ordinances and re-
enact the old one. Respectfully SUBJ
United. i. y. STEINMAN, Mayor.
HEALTH ORDINANCE APPROVED.
To the Board of Trustees: herewith
transmit to your honorable body, with
my approval indorsed thereon, Ordi-
nance No. =, entitled An ordinance
prohibiting the attendance at school,
church, place of amusement, or riding
i'll public vehicles, of any person affected
with certain infectious and contagious
diseases, and providing other restrictions
in respect to said diseases, and providing
penalty for violation of the ordi-
nance" Respectfully submitted.
B. u. STEINNIAN, Mayor.
A Mr.. Pierce said that two members of
the board had requested him to come up
and make a statement as to his use of
water from the sewer pipes. He lived
outside the city and did not think that he
was doing any damage TO anyone, as there
is no one living near him.
now and was answered that he did not
Pierce did not think anyone could smell
the sewage unless by going down there.
If there is any stencil down there it does
not arise from the sewage. Kent said he
had been down there at night and the
odor was not that OF new mown hay.
Pierce contended that the nuisance was
outside the city and therefore under the
jurisdiction of the Supervisors.
Leonard said that the pipes were the
property of the city and it had control of
them.
WANT TO SELL.
4 committee consisting of Messrs.
Nixon, hatcher and Rodgers of the Ex-
empt Firemen. appeared before the
board, and Mr.. Nixon, the spok esman,
said that they wanted to sell half their
lot to raise funds and asked the privilege
ofputting sign OF For sale'' III the
middle of the lot. The request was
granted.
SALVATION ARMY BUILDING.
Chief Engineer Guthrie presented a re-
quest from the Salvation Army for per-
mission 10 put up a building OH Fifth
street. between j and *. He said be was
opposed TO any corrugated iron buildings
fronting on the streets, as they are un-
slightly, but these people had gone
through the form of advertising their in
tentions according to law.
Lawton said that corrugated iron build
ings were considered very dangerous by
the insurance companies, as i'll case of
fire the contents would become heated
and burn easily.
Devine thought it would be unsafe to
allow il.
Kent pleaded for the army. They were
doing much good in the city and deserved
encouragement rather than to be discour-
aged.
The matter was put to a vote. but a num-
hers dppllnpI To
it. and the motion TO allow it done was
declared lost.
ELECTRIC POWER WIRES.
L. 7. Hatfield appeared before the board
in relation to the franchise granted to the
Sacramento Power and Light Company,
and said that the work of bringing down
electricity to the city was in such condi-
ton that the work OF putting up poles
aud wires would be commenced within
ninety days. The ordinance restricted
the setting of poles under the superyi-
sion of the Trustees. He presented a
specification concerning the location of
poles along Thirty first street to the al
leys between c and d and d and L to
Sixth, thence through the railroad yards,
and also through the alley between Front
and Second streets from L TO street.
Devine asked If this was to be done
without compensation TO the city, and
Mr.. Hatfield said that he thought that the
increase OF property values in the city
that would Ee the result of Introducing
electric power would be in the nature OF "a
large compensation. The franchise was
already granted so the question OF COM
pensation cut no figure.
The matter was laid over for one week
Observation-Disclosures SEWER.
Herman Garrett addressed the board
on the subject OF the Seventeentn-stree
sewer, action on which was delayed for a
week, but no further action had been
taken and be wished to know if auy
relief was to be given to the residents
He had lived where he does at present
for nearly forty years, and there had
never been any trouble till the location
of the pump there. The stencil is fearful
and people can hardly eat at nights
Some OF the members of the board own
land down there, and be supposed they
did not care about filling il in, but If
tney would deed TO him the lot, he would
fiji ii and stop the nuisance. His wife
died OF typhoid fever last year, and his
family had also suffered.
I,awton suggested that map and de-
scription of the lots be drawn UP and
presented TO the board, and if any lots
ouoht 10 be filled they could be ordered
filled.
Tozer said that nothing could be done
until the new pumping plant was liked,
and the matter WAS dropped.
COMMITTEE REPORTS.
Tozer of the Finance Committee re-
ported that tho assessment OF the United
Brothers' Church was reasonable, and
there was no reason why the tax on il
should not be paid.
Deyine moved that the Superintendent
of Streets be instructed to grade Front
rp or a