Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-01-07
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.


Council met in regular session, Mayor
Baker in the chair.
Aldermen present: Gettslatf, Nilsson,
Nash, Abel, Gaynor and Schroeder.
Minutes of last meeting read and ap-
proved.
The committee to whom was referred
the adoption of new charter under the
general law reported favorably, and,
on motion, the report of the committee
was approved by full affirmative vote.
Report of night watch, John Codding,
was presented and ordered filed.
Moved and carried that c. H. Nilsson
be appointed as a committee of one TO
figure from report of night watch the
amount of service rendered city by
Central Electric company during De-
cember, according to existing contract,
and report at next meeting.
The mayor reported that he can Sc
cure curb stone at y cents per lineal
foot F. 0. B., at Lannon, Wis, from
Davis Bros, aud on motion, report was
ordered file
The street commissioner presented a
list of the tools owned by the city and
said list was ordered fled.
Petition Of B. VI. and S. E. Vaughan
was presented ana, on motion, was re-
ferred to the street committee.
At this, regular meeting of the COM
mon council Of the city of Grand Rap
ids, held at its council room in said city,
on the 4th day Of January, A. D. 1897,
the following ordinance was offered and
introduced for adoption:
ORDINANCE.
An ordinance to adopt the provisions OF
Chapter 326, of the laws of Wisconsin, of the
year 1885, entitled. can Act Dividing Cities into
Glasses and Providing for Their Incorporation
and Government as amended by Chapter 80 OF
the laws of the year 1898, for the government OF
the city of Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, in place OF
its existing charter.
The common council of the city OF Grand
Rapids do ordain as follows:
| SECTION /. The provisions of Chapter S26 o1
the state of Wisconsin, of the year 1882 entitled
"An Act Dividing Cities into Glasses and Pro
viding for Their Incorporation and Govern
ment' as amended by Chapter 80 of the laws
of the year 1897, are hereby adopted for the gov
/
lof its existing charter, Chapter PAT of the laws
fof the year 1869, entitled AN Act to Incorporate
the City Of Grand Rapids and the acts
amendatory thereof.
/ SECTION 2 Said city of Grand Rapids shall
| be classified, under the provisions of the ac
! hereby adopted, according to the last census
T taken under the laws of the state of Wisconsin
, in the year 1895, as city of the fourth class.
| SECTION 8. This ordina nee shall take effec
and be III force from and after its passage and
| publication.
Attest GEO. W. BAKER,
GEO B. BRAzEAU, Mayor.
City Clerk.
On motion the following order was
passed and adopted by said common
council:
ORDERED, That the foregoing ordi
nance be considered and acted upon by
the common council at the regular
meeting thereof, to be held at its coun-
Gil room, on the LIST day of March, A
| D. 1897, at 7:30 o'clock p. m.
IT Is FURTHER ORDERED, That said
ordinance, together with notice of the
time and place when the same will be
considered and acted upon, be pub
| lished once in the Wood County Re-
porter, the official city paper of said
CITY, before the day fixed for the con.
sideration of said ordinance and that
such notice be signed by the mayor and
clerk of said city.
| Under the suspension of the rules the
| following bills were allowed: