Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-05-05
THE CITY FATHERS MEET.
A GoOd Dcai Of Routine Business Dis
posed OF at the Council, Meeting
s4ast Night-NaPshaI Sani0-
val Rcn0mInated and
Confirmed.

L ne CITY council met in regular session
at the city hall last evening with Mayor
Delgado IN the chair and Aldermen Baca,
Garcia, Harroun, Hemingway, Holmes,
Sena and Wagner present.
The minutes of the last meeting were
read and approved.
| Property owners in the 4th ward com.
planned that the course of the arroyo of
the Ortegas had been changed go as to
discharge its contents in times of heavy
rains on their property to the serious
damage Of the same and petitioned the
council to apply an adequate remedy.
The petition was referred to the commit
tee on streets and bridges.
| The petition of the city maEshal for the
employment of another policeman was
tabled by vote of to 8.
Telesfara Rivera represented that the
board of registration in the 1st ward had
used his house last spring and this spring
| and that he had not been paid rent for
same. He was accordingly allowed S.
out of the contingent fund.
City Treasurer Jones submitted his
monthly report as follows: Cash on
hand April /, S479.8S; licenses collected
and turned over by city clerk, $97; re-
ceived from Sol. Spiegelberg, county col
lector, $56S Al; warrants paid $676,2O;
cash on hand, distributed among the diff
ferent funds, $4,000; warrants outstand-
ing, $12,993.53.
The city clerk reported warrants is
sued during April, $1,2s2,27, and licenses
collected, $3.50.
The police magistrate reported three
trials and three convictions during the
month, two of the defendants being par
doned by the mayor and the other sery-
ing out his sentence in Jail.
The city marshal reported fines collect
ed, SIS, which was paid for jail expenses
and lock for city hall. He also reported
that the cost of feeding city prisoners
during April was SOL.
The several reports were referred to the
finance committee.
The matter of re-iusuring the city hall,
| together with the hose and other appli-
ances of the fire department. in the sum
of $1,000 for three years, was referred to
the committee on fire department with
power to act.
Mr.. Probst informed the council that,
in improving his property and straight
ening the street, he had built a barbed
wire fence not knowing that in 80 doing
he was violating a city ordinance. He
asked and was granted leave to protect
against damage by placing boards be-
tween the wires Of his fence.
Mr.. Garcia, of the finance committee,
offered the following:
Be it resolved by the city council Of the
city of Santa Fe, That the city treasurer
be required to keep separate all moneys
accruing from Licenses and fines, and that
hereafter one.half of the amount so con
tanned in such fund now on hand, and
not otherwise appropriated and hereafter
collected, be applied to the payment of
so much of the salaries of the city clerk,
treasurer, policemen and city marshal for
services rendered from May l, 1896, as
the one-half of such money so collected
may liquidate, and the other one-half out
of the salary fund.
The finance committee also recon- |
mended that Nestor Rodriguez, ex-police-
man, be paid as per foregoing resolution
for fourteen days service in April.
Both the resolution and the recommen-
dation were unanimously adopted.
In consideration of the reduced COM
pensaton police officers were excused
from buying uniforms.
The new bond of w. L. Jones. CITY |
treasurer, in the sum of $4,000, with r. |
j. Palen, Fl. B. Cartwright and S. SPITE |
as sureties, was received and referred.
The city clerk was directed to notify |
the police magistrate hereafter not to is
sue complaints without consultation with |
the city attorney or his authorized deputy.
Mr.. Poperepresented that the warrants
i'll favor of Victory d Pope and r. B. Cat
ron, for legal services, printing, etc, in
connection with the appeal of the Santa
Fe grant case, had been drawn on the or
binary contingent fund, whereas he un-
derstood that the warrants were to be
drawn on special fund provided for
the purpose and paid as soon as there was
money in such fund. lie said that the
appeal had involved a cash outlay for
printing and expenses in Washington and
that the warrants as drawn would not be
paid for year or more.
The matter was referred to a special
committee consisting of the mayor and
AANSo'o' AioihiuS way, IldrTouL, 0aFCla,
Sena and Wagner.
The matter of settling with A. B. Rene
han for his services in connection with
the securing of judgment against the
Mondragon bondsmen was, on motion of
Mr.. Hemingway, referred to the finance
committee.
In brief executive session, the mayor
nominated Pedro Sandoval for city mar
shal and said nomination was unani-
mously confirmed.
In the ensuing open session a resolu-
ton was adopted indorsing and APPROX
ing Mayor Delgado's action in wiring
Delegate Catron to urge passage of the
bill donating the abandoned Fort Marcy
reserve to the American Invalid Aid So
'iety for sanitarium purposes and to op-
pose the proposed establishment of an
Indian school thereon.
The city attorney was instructed to as
certain if the open sewer on Water street
was public or private enterprise and !
f the latter to bring suit to abate same.
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