The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-05

I structure. The resolution will go to the board of councilmen for concurrence.
 Corporation Counsel Ely sent com munication to the board giving an opin- 1 ion concerning the assessment of prop erty for the sprinkling of unpaved streets, The corporation counsel holds that no assessment can be collected.
 The report of the board of compensa- tion favoring the equalization of as sessments of damages and benefits of property holders along Whittemore ave- nue was adopted.
 The paving of the following streets | Edgewood avenue, Norton street, Win throp and sherman avenues-the lay out of new street between Oak street and Judson avenue, a change of grade in Fillmore street, sidewalk and curb in Ivy street and Bond street, as rec commended by the committee on streets, were adopted.
 The petition for curbing and sidewalk on West Ivy street was recommitted. The layout of the board of public works for a new street on the Eli Whit ney estate was adopted.
 The committee on street lighting re- ported that contract had been made with the New Haven Electric Light company to furnish 404 lights, the con- tract to run three years at twenty-sev l. en cents per light. The old contract was at thirty-one cents The new ar rangement will save to the city S6,95S.3o during the three years.
 Mayor Hendriclk called the attention of the board to the fact that the term l of cfJi Nf ba s-4o boilers, Andrew J. Clerkin, expired on the first Tuesday in June.
 On motion of Alderman Macdonald. MT. Clerkin was unanimously reelected for the term of three years
 A communication was received from the mayor advising the court of com mon council to take decisive steps to prevent the recurrence of a fiendish att tempt to destroy life and property sim liar to the throwing of bomb in the yard of Major Albee at Westville a short time ago.
 A resolution was passed, on motion of Alderman Macdonald, instructing his honor to avail himself of the power given him in section 263 of the city or !, dinances, which gives the mayor the right to offer $500 reward in such cases. l The following is the text of the con- munication:
 In a community governed certainly as well as the average New England city our citizens have good reasons, by recent fiendish attempts upon life and | property, to become somewhat alarm I ed, and we are confronted with the fact | and led to believe that there is within | tha Q EnoitC nf town and city a person, or persons, who should be apprehended and confined where such outrageous acts cannot be perpet- rated; and, when apprehended, punish ed in such a manner that all such who may in the future contemplate similar designs upon life or property of our citizens, for either actual or fancied wrongs, may be deterred therefrom.
 I therefore deem it my duty to call the attention of your honorable body to consider the feasibility of offering a reward for the apprehension and con- viction of any person, or persons, who may be implicated in any attempt to l destroy life or property of our citizens l within the corporate limits of our city during the year 1896 by the placing of any material of an explosive nature upon the premises of any person for the purpose of injury to either life or prop | erty
 The joint tax commission appointed | to hear the delinquent taxpayers and to act upon the abatement of their tax | es made the following report last even- ing of those who are entitled to consid- eraton. The recommendation of the commission was approved:
 Mrs Sarah Brooks, 7S Chapel street, 1 $54.92; Mrs Ellen c. Dennis, 57T Co., lumbus avenue S21.72; Mrs. Mary J. Johnson, 33 Foote street, $S0.07; Eliza Morrisey, 47 Button street, S46.43; Mrs. Permitia. Hotchkiss 21 Park street, $100 Mrs. Mary Shanley, 120 Adeline street, $44.S0; Thomas J. Blakeslee, 542 East street, $139.20; trustee of estate of Allen Drew, s14.7o; Mrs. Catherine E. Brady, 37 Starr street, S203s Mrs. Mary A. Higgins, l r Downs street, $45.47; Morgan Kavanaugh, 272 West Carlisle street, $2.64 Mrs. Bridget Stephany, 71 Arch street, $S; Mrs. Margaret Moore, 12 Bristol street, $2323; Mrs. Mary Bur dick. Al Collis street, $9.04; Mrs. Clara filling, 472 Howard avenue, $472; Mrs. Abbie J. Gates, 25S Iloyd street, S1l.SS James T. Stanford, 57 Haven street, s54.51: Mrs Maria Taylor, IA Adeline street. S1450;. Frank Cross and wife, AS Washington street, S2S.62; John A. Bush, 1T Water street, $S4.44; Mrs. Francis Hopkins 43 Silver street S9.33; Samuel Hecht now out of town, $102.32; John McNamara, "A Canal street, S7.20; Patrick German, 34 Haven street, S76.95: Mary A. Ryan, Il Perkins street. $S792; Mrs. Sarah A. Durrie, 424 Temple street, $25.70.
 In relation to these cases the com mittee said that after a careful in vestigation of them they believed that the amounts named together with in- terest thereon, and the charge for filing liens, should be abated and the liens released.
 The commission reports on the fol- lowing compromises for the payment of taxes:
 John Reyes, s2SS2 Thomas Kendall, S75; Mrs Julia Grosvenor, one-half of taxes; John B. Cummings, S6S.10, Ed gar L. Forbes, assessment on 5000, re- leased; John Reynolds. release on in- terest on taxes of lists 'S7, 'SS, 'S9, go. '91, '92 and '93, provided balance due for taxes amounting to S1,47449 be paid; Arthur W. Trowbridge, on property now standing in the name of Henry F..