The herald., 1896-03-01
The Finance and Supply Com.
mittees Made Reports
READY FOR ASSESSMENT
The Men for the Purpose Will Go Out
Tomorrow
The Odd Fellows Want Title to Their Gem.
etery Property-Some Building Sta.
tistics-Other Matters

the city of the proposition made by I.
w. Hellman to rent the present police
headquarters at $4OO month, which is
just double the amount of the present
rental for the property. The new price is
expected to be paid for only two months,
by which time the new Jail is to be ready
for occupancy.
The petition of A. l.. Waldon asking the
council to assist in developing water and
oil on certain lands in the city was ordered
filed.
The financial committee has determined
to recommend that the communication ad-
dressed to the council by John Drain, ask.
ing that he be relieved from superintend-
ing the street sweeping, be filed. As re-
suit Drain may resign his position az SUI
perintendent of street sprinkling.
Andrew I. Carey, the new su uperinten-
dent of parks, begins his official duties to-
morrow.
Tho supply committee yesterday filed
recommendation to the council in the mat
ter of the report of the board of fire COM
missioners, that the bid of Harper 4 Rey-
nolds company to supply 1900 feet Of two
and one-half inch Victor Jacket rubber
lined cotton hose, with couplings com.
plete, at 80 cents per foot, and the bid of
Cass & Smurr, to supply 1900 feet of two
and one-half inch Bay State hose from the
Boston Woven Hose and Rubber company,
at 80 cents per foot, be adopted, and the
city attorney instructed to prepare and
present the necessary contract and bond.
SOME COUNCIL BUSINESS
The city clerk gives notice that j. La
Chappelle, j. Mesmer, Jacob Star, Phillip
Gulli, G. G. Case, s. W. Little, L. Colts
chalk and j. F. Mooney have filed their
appeal from the action and determination
of the street superintendent in accepting
the sewers constructed in the Maple ave-
nue. sewer district in accordance with ordi-
nance No. 217S and 1886 (new series),
and issuing the assessment, warrant and
diagram therefor, for the following rea-
SONS:
First-That the city council never had or
obtained jurisdiction to order said work;
that there never was any diagram made OF
the proposed work as required by subdi-
vision ~ of section z of the Vrooman act;
that the ordinances and specifications did
not definitely define and sufficiently de.
scribe the work that was to be done, nor
sufficiently specify the size Of the different
parts of the sewer, nor the material with
which the same was to be constructed
Second-That the assessment made by
the street superintendent upon the differ
ent pieces of property in the district are
not made upon the proper theory or in &C.
cordance with the benefits derived.
Third-That the written contract for the
construction of said sewer has not been
complied with in the time of its perform
ance, and that such contract has been
| changed and altered in a material part
since it's execution, without authority.
| The appeal will be heard at the council
t, meeting tomorrow.
Notice is also given that Gray Bros. &
| Ward have appealed to the council from
| The acts and determinations of the street
| superintendent in issuing his assessment
warrant and diagram for the sidewalking
of Twenty-frst street from the west curb
line of Grand avenue to the east curb line
of FIgueroa street for the reasons that lot
s of Myrtle's subdivision of the Messick
tract is improperly assessed for the con-
struction of said sidewalk, and lot l cf
said tract was improperly omitted from
the assessment.
council at its session tomorrow morning.
ODD FELLOWS WANT A TITLE
At the session Of the counci! held Janu.
ary 10, 1888, the mayor was authorized to
deed to Los Angeles Lodge No. 35 of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows cer-
tain piece of land eighty feet square in the
southeast corner of the original city ceme-
terry. This deed is supposed to have been
made, but cannot now be found. The land
was at once occupied and used as ceme-
terry by the Odd Fellows, and has been SO
used for more than quarter of a CEN
tury. Subsequently, on the 18th day of
November, 1870, the city made deed, re-
corded in book 5, page 597, of deeds, of
adjacent land and bounded the said land
as follows: "Commencinga at the southwest
corner of the present cemetery lot of Los
Angeles lodge No. 35 of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows and running south
d01L daOrpos Uoaf tWO hundrpd and uinafv-
seven (297) feet; thence south SO degrees
east three hundred and eleven (3l1) feet
more or less to the southeastern corner of
the City cemetery lot; thence north 4OX
east (377) three hundred and seventy.
seven feet to point in the prolongation of
the north line of the present cemetery lot
of Los Angeles lodge No. 30 of the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows; thence
north so degrees east (23l) two hundred
and thirty-one feet more or less to the
northeastern corner of the present ceme-
terry lot of Los Angeles lodge No. 35 of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows; thence
south 4O% degrees west eighty feet to the
southern corner of the present cemetery
lot of Los Angeles lodge No. So of the In
dependent Order of Odd Fellows; thence
north so degrees west eighty feet (sO) to
the place of beginning"
The property, SOxSO feet square, to
| which the quit-claim deed from the city is
now applied for, has always since 1868
been treated as the property of the 1nde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and is
shown as such on the official map made
September, 1884, by George C. Knox. city
surveyor, recorded at the request of w. w.
Robinson, clerk of the then city council. in
book 8. page 81, Miscellaneous Records of
Los Angeles county.
That said SOxSO feet is particularly des-
cribed as follows: Commencing at the
southeasterly corner of the original survey
| of 5S.lOO acres as cemetery grounds out
of the entire tract of cemetery lands;
thence north 26H degrees north along line
of second grant to Odd Fellows eighty feet
| to a corner of the fence of City cemetery;
thence north 63s4 west eighty feet along
old fence to the northwest corner of Odd
Fellows cemetery; thence south 26M de-
grees west eighty feet along old fence to
southwesserly line of old City cemetery;
thence 63s4 degrees east eighty feet to the
place of beginning; being the eighty feet
square in the northwesterly corner of the
tract marked l. y. O. f. on map recorded
in book 6, page 81. Miscellaneous Records
of Los Angeles County, and being the
same land sold to Los Angeles Lodge No.
35. l. o. o. F.. January, 1868.
Gustav Heiman, as trustee for Los An.