Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-23
Special City Government Meeting.

The special meeting of the city gov
eminent was held. Thursday evening.
nearly a full attendance being pre-
sent. By the absence of President
Jones. Councilman Fuller was elected
president pro TEN.
The following order was presented in
the common council. Ordered, the board
of aldermen concurring. that special
committee of three be appointed con-
sisting of one alderman and two coun-
cilmen to employ an electrical engi-
neer to make plans and specifications
for an electric light plant, suitable for
the City of Gardiner. also to estimate
the cost of said plant and cost per
year to maintain and operate the same.
Also to advertise for bids to light the
city by private individuals or corpora
tons and report to the city government
on or before the regular meeting in
December 1896. The city government
to reserve the right to reject any or all
bids. The expenses of the engineer and
advertising to be paid from the con-
tingent fund. In the board of aldermen.
this was passed in concurrence. On the
committee for this matter. Councilmen
Foster and McCausland and Alderman
Wiley We're appointed. This will set
tie, for while, the city's street light
ing which has had attention in every
meeting for some months.
Roll of bills, No. 3, amounting to
S275.33 was accepted and ordered paid.
The following order was sent down from
the board of aldermen:
Ordered. the common council concur
ring. that the board of health be. and
hereby is instructed to notify all owners
of residences on the line of the sewers
| that have been built and that shall be
' built by the city. that have not made
connections with said sewers, to do SO
| at once and that when any nuisance
| except by reason of the sewers not be
| ing entered that the board of health
shall take the proper steps to abate
said nuisance. This was passed in con-
| currence by the common council.
An order instructing the assessors to
abate the taxes on the Coliseum, now
the property of the board of trade as
! long as it remains the property of the
same. This was passed by the coun-
| Gil and sent up to the aldermen who
passed it in concurrence.
The following order was sent down
i from the board of aldermen: Ordered,
| The common council concurring, that
the bridge committee have the author
ity to fix and repair the breakwater
above the Gardiner and Pittstpn bridge
, in such condition as to make it in a
safe condition. This was passed in
concurrence by the common council
Work will doubtless be begun on this
. at once.
Ordered, the common council concur
ring, that the sum of 5000 be transferred
from the insurance on the Lincoln
street schoolhouse, to build a sewer
from the junction of Washington and
Chestnut streets to a point near the
house of Edwin Dill 325 feet, as recon-
mended by the board of health, to be
built by the committee on public build
ings. The above sewer will be entered
by 10 or more residents. This was not
acted on by the council.
An order from the aldermen to have
the sewer on Lincoln street from the
Lincoln street schoolhouse to a point
opposite the residence of the late E. D..
Tobey was ordered referred to the Joint
standing committee
The meeting next adjourned after one
of it's most important meetings of the
year.