The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-05-23
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.

! All members present. Request of II. L..
! Markham on behalf Of Terminal Company
Withdrawing petition for vacation Of streets
alleys and public ways lying within the
limits Of the 4th and 9th wards was granted.
Leave was granted TO file said petitions and
they were referred to committee on streets
and railways with instructions TO report
thereon At the next adjourned meeting. 4
resolution was passed that the city marshal
be directed and required under the direction
of the Board to post due and legal notices
that applications have been duly made for
vacation Of said streets and are now pending
/ before the Board oil Aldermen of this CITY
and that the same viii be acted upon by this
/ board at the council chamber in said city on
Tuesday the 18th day Of May \. d. 1895
at P. ". It was agreed that when The
board adjourn, II be until Tuesday May IS,
1895 at ) P. NJ.
Petition Of !. 5. Anderson and seven others
! requesting that 4 grade be established for
! 4th street between Park and State and that
| the said street may then be graded was re
/ ferTed to committee on streets. RemOn-
| STRANGE of w. Kazda and three others a
/ gainst construction Of sewers along 9th street
! between Buffalo aud Chic5go, was referred
| to committee on public Improvements. Re
! spective application of Carl Hansen and c.
| {. kriz for office ofcity treasurer were placed
/ on file Claims u to 70 were presented and
| referred.
! Aid. Buerstatte introduced 4 resolution
! which recited the difficulty which city treas
| urers have found in securing bondsmen,
partly on account Of long time intervening
| between the reports required 10 be made by
| the city charter, and that frequent reports
on the part of said officers would tend 10
| greater accuracy in keeping the accounts Of
| md int
| Resolved, that in addiction to the annual
report and the other statements required by
| charter the city treasurer shall hereafter at
| the first regular meeting of the board in
! June, September and December, file in the
| Office OF the city clerk 4 full and minute re
| port OF all moneys received and discussed
| by him since the date Of his last report, and
of all vouchers, moneys and assets in his
| possession and things necessary to show the
actual financial condition Of the city at the
| date Of said report. That such report shall
| be referred TO the finance committee who
| shall carefully examine the same and ascer-
tain the correctness thereof and report in
| writing all their doings thereon as soon
| thereafter as may be. Adopted.
| Resolution of Aid Stole instructing as
| SCISSOR of the northside to assess gov. lots Z
and 4 as recorded in Vol. Il. of deeds was
| referred TO committee on assessment and
finance, and that fer opening Coliseum Ave.
was referred to committee on streets.
Following report was presented by the
! committee Of the whole board and on motion
! Of Aid Bucrstatte duly carried and ordered
| spread on the minutes:
| Whereas a rumor has been circulated in
| the city to the effect that some injustice had
| been done our late treasurer, or some I'M
necessary urgency used in requiring him to
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| city, and that the finance committee or some
members of the same had been guilty Of
! improper conduct in the matter, now in
order that the public may be advised as 10
| the true situations IN regard to the matter we
| place upon record the following statement.
| The bond of Fred HaukOhl as city treasu-
| rer was reduced from $50, 900 to SIS, 900
| when he was first elected on condition that
| he deposit all the money in his hands as city
| treasurer with the Aanitowoc Savings Bank
| which he agreed 10 do. 1t is the duty of
| the finance committee before the acceptance
| of the treasurcr's bond for a new term TO
| examine his accounts and see thai he has on
! hand all OF the funds, belonging to the city
| as shown by his accounts with the city clerk.
The finance committee for the past two
weeks have had in their hands The new
| bond Of the city treasurer and it was
| their duty to know that the funds be-
| longing to the city were deposited in the
| Mantowoc Savings Bank or in the hands Of
| the treasurer before recommending the &C
| ceptanCe Of the new bond 1t IS reported
| that there appeared a difference of about
| $4,000 between the amount charged the
| treasurer in his books in the city office and
the amount which he deposited with the
| Alanitowoc Savings Bank as the city treasu-
| rer. II was therefore the imperative duty
of Mr.. SedgwIck, acting as chairman of the
| finance committee to investigate the dis
| crepanCy and to ascertain where the funds
| were and why they were not deposited in the
| MantowOc Savings Bank, and to report the
| condition OF the same TO the board, and not
| 10 recommend the acceptance of the new
bond until any discrepancy if one existed,
was made up by the treasurer.
in calling upon Mr.. Iaukohl for such
! statement and requiring that an explanation
| be made, he was clearly acting within the
| line of his duty and not to have done so
would have been a neglect of duty. His
| action in the matter has the unqualified APP
prevail of this board.
Confined next week.