Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-09
ANNUAL REPORT OF CITY CLERK
Matters Pertaining to the Work of the
Cify CnnneiI.

City Council.
City Clerk Highly has completed his Of
fclal report for 1896 II will be presented
to the city council next Tuesday night. II
includes q considerable amount of detailed
information with regard to municipal trans
actions and indicates that the expenses of
the clerks Office have been materially re-
duced. In 1895 the amount paid for salaries
of permanent employees was 81 APO and the
amount of fees for which licenses were
issued aggregated $12, 767.S SO. During 1896 the
total expenses for salaries were $60G0.
Licenses were issued on which the fees
amounted to $13,5l7.61. The expense of COM
piling the city tax list was about the same
in 1896 as in the previous year and about
81 800 less than In 1894. The expenditures
for supplies remains about the same, but
there was a saving in election expenses, as
compared with the previous year.
The report shows that there were 45 regu-
lar and adjourned council meetings during
the year with an average attendance of Is
members. There wero 20 special meetings,
with an average attendance of IA members.
There were sessions OF the council as a
board of equalization, with an average at
tendance of IL members. During the year
the council received las communications
from the mayor, 4S from the city attorney,
1919 from tho comptroller, 32 from the clerk,
120 from the treasurer II from the en-
gineer, IA from the Board of Public Works
and enough miscellaneous communications to
bring the total up to 1874. Eight hundred
and eight resolutions were presented.
There were 2,4l5 committee reports sub
mitted during the year, of which 1876 were
from the committee on judiciary, 256 from
finance, 10 from claims q from grades and
grading, 81 from streets and alleys, Al from
police, SO from public property and build
ings, 80 from fire and water, 81 from gas
and electric lights, 40 from sidewalks and
bridges, 10 from printing, Is from sewerage
20 from paving, curbing and guttering 10
from viaducts and railways, l from tele-
graph and telephone lines, and 40 from
special committees. No reports were re-
ceived from rules or plats and additions.
Ordinances numbering 1S4 were introduced
and read the first and second time. OF
these, 145 were passed, were lost and 33
were buried in the hands OF various COM
mittees. The total number of documents
read before the council during the year
was 5,597. The record of these is preserved
on 2 679 pages of the journal or these 1,660
pages are devoted to the journal of proceed
ings, 40 to proceedings of the Board OF
Equalization, and 977 to the ordinance rec
ord. The following table shows the number
of licenses issued for all purposes with the
revenue that each produced:
Licenses issued during 1896 were as fol-
lows Auctioneers. 8. $3.50; baggage, 4, $40;
circus, 2, $3.50; coal dealers. 30 $11S0; cleo
tricians, Z. $35; employment agencies, z,
$3.50; exhibitions. 5, $22; express, 2l5, H,075;
sl5; fruit stand, 23, SgSi; gunpowder, ., $45;
lack, 80 $500; hack drivers, S2, S101.25;
house movers, g. 500; junk dealers, 8, $500;
lunch stand, ], $12; merry -go-round, l, IS;
milk. 70S 80 205.66; museum, l. $40; omnibus,
6, $50; pawnbrokers, a. s1,25O; peddlers,
251, $29SO; plumbers, 80, $50; runners. 4,
SIS; secondhand dealers, 20, 800; street
sales, 16, $50; theaters. s, $3.50; transient
dealers, 2, S70.55. Total licenses. 1.505.
Dog tags, 2,1OS. so, 1903; fees collected, sS47O.
Total fees of the office, $l351761.