The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-11-28
HALF AN HOUR or COUNCIL.
Fonr Members Were Absent While Busy
SessiCn was In Progress.

When City Council took up its weekly
business last night there were but eight
members present. AS thcwork progressed
several struggling members dropped in,
and when the meeting adjourned Mcssrs.
Robertson, Stevenson, Fisher and Mcaney
had not answered.
The business began with report of the
Finance Committee recommending the
payment of the monthly bills for the col.
lection of garbage The same committee
recommended that Henry Hannah be re-.
turned S3l6 Thomas McCorkle, SIS !H
and George Lodge So 35 overpaid capitation
taxes, which report was adopted
There was no adverse report to Atho
NoWlands request for the refunding of
ss5.Oj paid as tax on the property of tie
Rodney Street Presbyterian Church at
Observation-Disclosures and Rodney st. Mr..
McNulty, chairman Of the Finance com :
mittee explained that the action was the
result OF u conference with City Solicitor
Hartman who had so construed the law
that only the ground on which the church
property is erected is exempt from tax.
Mr. McNulty also presented the commit
tees adverse report to the Equitable
Guarantee and Trust company's request
for the return Of S2l70, which they ccE.
sidcred ovorpaid taxes on the property q t
No. 94 King street, which they had repre-
eented as only held in trust by them.
1t was explained that after search of
the records it was found that the property
had been decided to the company in fec
simple and not as they had represented,
therefore the report.
City Treasurer Adams reported the bal
anCe in bank to be $53, 35l 50; in each of
the four depository banks, Sl521O total
Sll435l 30 The collections were: Edmund
Mitchell, Jr., soJJ, and Eugene NJ Savers,
$500, ION account of taxes for the years q
and '05.
The mtsceIlaneou, pay roll of S!Jj6 80 /;
council payroll Of S275 2b; police payroll
of slJ6s %; were ordered paid.
The ordinance regulating theatrical and
public entertainments i'll the city was
reported upon by chairman O'Ncill Of the
Inv committee to the effect that there had
DUcn nothing found in it that cOnIliCted
with previous ordinances. The chairman
thereupon moved its adoption, Mr. Smith
thought the move an unwse one in tho
absence of so many members but Mr..
ONeil said if the matter was to be put of
because of the absence of members it
would be months yet before the act be-
came Il law.
Mr.. Meancy neither wanted the matter
voted upon ut the time and 80 amended tho
motion to call this matter up for final
action one week hence and in the mean
time that all the members be informed
That their presence was necessary. The
motion as amended was carried.
An ordnance making an extraordinary
appropriation for the Board of Health was
read II first time, then by title and rcferr-
cd to the law committee. The money will
be used in paying for the work on the
closets Of No. 3 and schools
1t was ordered that $500 be drawn from
each of the four depository banks to the
credit of City Treasurer Adams, to re-
p.cnish the amount in the active bank.
a collection of SILT. So on account of in.
tcrest was also reported The session
lasted half an hour.