The herald., 1896-04-21

Angeles streets, / find the expense will
amount to S240, which amount the South
Side Irrigation company will advance
and take sewer water in return; also
the cost of connecting the old sewer so
as to furnish the South Side Irrigation
company with sewage now running into
the outfall sewer, will be about $125.
Referred to the sewer committee.
An ordinance of intention to improve
a portion of Union avenue from Sixth
street to Orange street. Adopted.
An ordinance of intention to improve
Bartlett street from Montreal street to
Grand avenue. Adopted.
An ordinance of intention to improve
Cleveland street from Alpine street to
College street. Adopted.
An ordinance of intention to improve
Oak street from Washington street to
Twenty first street. Adopted.
An ordinance of intention to improve
CASTELAR, street from Bellevue avenue
to Ord street. Adopted.
An ordinance of intention to construct
q cement sidewalk five feet in width
along Bernard street from Buena Vista
TO Yale street. Adopted.
Assessment map of Olive street sewer
from point sixteen feet south of the
north line of First street, to point forty
feet south of the south line of court
house street. Referred to the sewer com
Hlittee.
Assessment map of Boyle Heights
sewer district No. .. Referred to the
sewer committee.
An ordinanc of intention to construct
& sewer on Chicago street and Michigan
avenue Adopted.
MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS
The following was filed. the same be-
ing approved by the council as a whole
Your committee finds that various
transfers have been made from the
funds of this city without instructions
from the council. We would therefore
recommend that the city auditor be in
Structed to make no transfers of any
name. number or kind without instruc-
tons from the council, and that the
city treasurer be instructed to recog-
nize no transfers unless he is advised
that the same has been made by order
of the city council
The supply committee reports recom-
mending that acquisitions be denied
from the street superintendent for five
tons of AlcantraZ aSphaltum, S125. and
five tons of crude asphalt and three tons
of &c" asphalt, $122. The report was
approved.
The land committee reported in the
matter of the petition from Hugh j.
Smith. asking for quit claim deed for
lots sS and %. Alanis Vineyard tract,
that they referred the petition to the
w. dtt'ittN l't CNdhtiIfIilOu. anu iIldl
he has advised that quit claim deed
should issue as prayed for. The report
was adopted.
A petition largely signed by leading
taxpayers was read. requesting that
there be an extension of thirty or forty
days in the payment of city taxes which
become delinquent in one week, for the
reason that the county and state taxes
are also delinquent at the same time,
which fact will tie up large amount
of money and might cause stringency
in the local money market. The mat
ter was referred to the finance COM
mittee.
The lease for the site for the proposed
new market at the corner of Los Ange-
les and Ninth streets was approved,
President Teed alone voting in the neg
ative.
On motion of President Teed the
street superintendent was instructed to
cut any wires strung in the city without
authority conferred by the franchiae,
and that for this purpose the profess
sionai knowledge of the city electrician
be invoked. The object of this motion
is to head off L. \. Peck. who is operat-
ing contra band electric plant in the
Fifth ward.
The secretary Of the commission for
the opening of Broadway between
Ninth and Tenth streets reported that
damages awarded to him in making the
Improvement named. The city attor-
ney was instructed to proceed legally
against Moss.
The report of the fire commission
calling attention to the absence of FIRE
escapes or stand pipes on the city hall
was referred to the building commit
tee. and the request OF the street su-
perintendent for four assistants to
properly care for flush tanks was re-
ferred to the finance committee.
The city clerk was instructed to notify
W. S. Wright, the assignee OF the Scott
electric lighting franchise, to light the
city hall according to the terms ot his
privilege
The recommendation of the finance
COMMITTEES that $7500 be transferred
from the internal sewer fund to the cash
fund was adopted, as were also the fol-
lowing:
That the petition from John Cross ct
al, asking for an appropriation or $ooo
for the associated charities, be filed. In
making this recommendation your COM
lnittee beg leave to say that while they
would be glad to appropriate money for
SO worthy an object as the associated
charities, they feel thatwith the present
condition of the city finances such an
appropriation would be inadvisabie;,
That the petition from w. Wolf ask
on account of taxes alleged to be erron-
eously paid for the year 1869. be re-
ferred to the city attorney for eXamlna-
ton and report.
That the following demands on the
general sewer fund for returns OF
amounts paid for connecting with city
sewers be denied: Mrs. p. N. Boynton,
$50: Mrs. Hannah f. Phillips, SS6; A. j.
Lenox. sr, SIS; r. Butterfield $50; John
+. Howard, $50; William Whitaker, ,$5o;
Mrs. S. C. Burns. SIS; Harry Hall, Sl5.
Besides the recommendations pre-
yiously published the board of public
works reported requesting tnat tne plu
of Stansbury &Moore to improve Ninth
street from San Pedro to Central ave-
nue.. at $1.47 per lineal foot for grading
and graveling; 35 cents per lineal root
for curb: 1S cents per lineal foot for gut
ters. 13 cents per square foot Tor Slue-
walk: s1.OO per lineal foot for sewer
complete. and $1.15 per lineal loot Tor
crosswalks complete, be accepted ana
the resolution of award adopted. Inc
above was adopted.
Petition protesting against the pro-
posed district of assessment for the con-
tructior of the Broadway tunnel was
read. objecting to any assessment Tor
the Improvement of the property south
of Ninth street on Broadway, for the
reason that the recent opening ana
widening of the street between Ninth
and Tenth streets was not assessed to
any property north of First street. The
matter was referred to the special tun-
mel committee.
The protest against the report of the
Pico was again continued for one week,
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