The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-02-07

The first business 10 receive the at
tention Of Council at the regular
monthly meeting last night after the
calling of the roll was the report of
Mayor Trout. The following members
were present: Messrs. Boehm, Clingen.
peel, Davies, Dlckerson, Duggau, Oupuy,
Graves, Groves, Hougn, McClelland.
Moomaw, Pattie. Ramsey, Stevenson,
Strickland. Terry and President Buck
ner.
The mayor in bis monthly message
| urged economy and prudence, although
the city had met its obligations, and ad.
| vised that no school bonds be sold at
present. He congratulated the city on
the rolice force. The report was
adopted and the report of the board OF
public works read and adopted The
board capirulatt the work on Loudon,
Park, Henry and Gilmer streets, the
| grading done on North Jefferson street
and the work done by the board walk
| foIce. II also stated that the scales at
the market were being erected
The city sergeant's report was next
read, showed l41 prisoners to be in jail.
| After the adoption of this report the
chief OF the fire department made re-
| port, which showed the number Of fires
during the month the loss and the in
surance. The auditor made q special
report concerning the school funds,
which was referred to the com mittee on
schools
j. R. Terry, the chairman, read the
report Of the committee on accounts,
which, b sides the regular monthly &C
counts, recommended that City Ser
geant Il Traynham be allowed S2l0
for conveying prisoners to and from
Lynchburg al time when tho city had
no jail Tho committee refused to in
| dorse the bill of C. Fl. Hardis for So fer
furnishing room for the registrar in
the First ward. Without discussion the
report was adopted as read.
Mr.. McClelland, the chairman of the
finance committee, read his report,
which contained the monthly report of
the treasurer and the report Of the city
auditor.
Tho report submitted by the finance
com mittee included tho report of City
| Auditor w. A. Noble, which contained
the following statistics:
Auditors reports OF amounts charged
to city treasury in January 1894:
Police fines :.:....... .................. s1s6 90
harRct receipts Observation-Disclosures. iSi 80
r rounu nucs.. $500. 20
Licenses. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 10 81
Total Observation-Disclosures. ....... Sl,O96 ~
Warrants issued by auditor ...... Sl63512 50
warrants paid by treasurer. 49,. 1889 II
Balance outstanding unpaid...... s22,1ss II
CONDITION OF THE TREASURY FEBRUARY 1, 1894
Pay in warrants issued by Auditor in
JAnuary.... ................. ....S 1895 ~
Amount previously charged to Trea.
surcr ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 2i0, i59 81
Total. ........ Observation-Disclosures. s271,5i5 IL
Total disbursements 10 date........ 1882 so
Balance; ........:. :................ slOs,O33 ID
Bond balance US follows
sewers and drains. .................$ 30, 743 o.
General fund balance. ..... .......s "A, 800 10
Summary:
Total charged to Treasurer to date S1Os, O3s II
Balance standing to credit OF appro-
PriaCon '..'...'.......... .......... 6p,126 II
Balance unappropriaed. .............S 1907 90
Respectfully submitted,
W. A. NOZZLE, Auditor.
The committee regretted that the
financial condition OF the city was such
as they could not give the military
companies such aid as they ask AS
the Roanoke Machine Works Guards
had not been mustered in they could
not be of much service to the city, but
hoped the Guards could make arrange.
mcnts with the Light Infantry so that
both com panies could use the same
armory, by providing separate property
closets. In view OF these arrangements
the committee recommended that SEQ
per month for six months be appropri-
ated to pay the rent Of tho armory, pro
vided that no warrants be issued for
| this purpose unieeS the money was
actually in the treasury.
The committee recommended that the
| school bonds be withheld from the mar
ket for awhile, and o communication on
the subject from NJ. w. Harris II Co.,
brokers, Of New York, was read.
The report was adopted and an appro.
priation of Si2O was made to pay the
rent for the armory, provided that IL the
two companies could not agree to use
tho me arEory they are to receive $40
per month. Various appropriations were
supplemented, the total aggregating
| $4,000.
MIR Moomaw read the report OF tho
| Committee on streets, which contains
bill No rs, which provides that if tho
Roanoke Street Railway Company
would pay the city the claim OF S3-
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