Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1894-07-19
MORE MONEY given.
Common Council Makes
More Appropriations.
BUSINESS IN CONCURRENCE
Several Street improvements Ordered
and Other Matters.

The Common Council met ia regular
monthly session last evening with Mr..
President Pierce In the chair and every
member present.
Money batters
Councilman Delany, from the Commit
tee on Finance, reported an ordinance
making an additional appropriation OF
Il 900 for printing, which WAS adopted.
Also from tn, same committee presented
a report upon the commu nication from
the Board of Public Works, ~ follows:
We have carefully considered the su b.
ject matter OF said communication and
herew it'll submit a draft of an ordinance
making additional appropriations for
highway work, and recommend that the
same be passed.
30 far as the communication relates
TO a request to nave certain sums OF
money transierre from the ordinary
To the extraordinary account of the high
way work of the city, your committee is
of the opinion that such transfers are
merely forms Of stating the expenditures
of this department, and may as well be
tabulaied in the manner requested IN the
Office of the City Treasurer, as IL the City
Council should pass some directory vote
for doing the .ame. We, therefore, al
wise hat, after the passage Of the accom-
panyiDg ordinance ssAbove recommended,
the report be received and placed on file.
The accompanying ordinance provided
that the following sums OF money are
hereby severslly appropriated tor said
purposes In addition TO the sums hereto
fore appropriated therafor, VIZ:
For watering streets q, ,262; for cleaning
streets and cutters, $3.50; for sweeping
paved streets, $3.50; for purchase OF stone
for crushing, s2,000; for patching streets
and sidewalks, II 200; tor crushing stone,
$500; for labor and miscellaneous pUr.
poses connected~ with general highway
work, s2,72S.
The report WAS received and the ordi.
nance was adopted.
Street improvements
A resolution adiudging IL necessary 10
relay, widen, straightcn and otherwise
improve Brook street FROM North Bend
81 oct to the Newport road, % per cent. Of
the cost 10 he assessed upon the abutters,
was reported from the joint Committee on
Highways, ana after recess for The ex-
animation of the plat, the resolution was
passed.
An ordinance appropr;ating ,325 for
the construction ~ a rop sewer In New
ell and Warren avenues, was adopted on
recommendation of the Committee on
Sewers.
Also an ordinance 9pproprlating s2200
for the construction of sewer In San
ford and Myrtle streets.
Concurrent Eusinrss.
The following matters wero received
from the Board of Aldermen: Ordinance
making m appropriation OF IS 1900 tor a
sewer In Pidge avenue; concurred. Reso-
luton providing for the purchase OF a
triangular piece OF land on Perry steet
and the old Boston road concurred. Or
dinance providing for r sewer in Belmont
street concurred. Ordinance for q sewer
in Appleton avenue; concurred. Ordi-
nance Tor a sewer In Warren avenue; con-
Cured. Ordinance requiring the street
railroads to equip their cars with safety
tenders within 60 days; concurred. Reso-
luton relative to the disposal OF surplus
water from the Central avenue sewer; laid
upon the table. Ordinance making an
additional appropriation for Lumber
street; concurred. Resolution to pay the
Commissioners on Olive street concurred.
Resolution to pay the bill of John Daniels
for damage done to fowls by dogs; con-
Cured. Resolution for the preservation
OF Frank Is. Bourne's lot in Oak Grove
cemetery; coDcurred. Ordinance for "A
sewer In Montgomery street; concurred.
Ordinance for a sewer In Ssyles avenue; I;
concurred. Ordinance making an sddi-
tional appropriation for assessing taxes;
concurred.
New Business.
The following new matters were pre-
sented: Petition for a sewer In North h
Bend street from Brook to Walcott
streets; referred to the Committee on
Sewers. Resolution accepting 800 for
the care OF Robert Horizons burial lot In
Oak Grove cemetery; passed. Resolu.
tion allowing the Chief Engineer OF the
fire department to attend the national
convention OF fre engineers; passed.
Resolution to pay the account Of James
M. Crawford. f113.76, for putting up street
numbers; referred to the Committee on
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