The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-08

tNAASA4 Ing nAll VI III any WdJ ol'S
right of said city Of Portland TO grant to
any other person, company or corporation
the right to locate another track over said
bridge.
And provided further that the right OF
said Portland and Yarmouth Electric
Railway company, its successors and as
signs to have and maintain it's or their
track, poles, wires, appliances and ap-
purtenances or any portion thereof on
said bridge shall be conditioned upon the
payment of the said sum OF twenty
Thousand dollars and interest in accord
ance with the terms and conditions here
in expressed; and upon the failure OF SAID
Hallway company, its successors or as
signs to make said payments or either
one OF them promptly when the same
shall become due, the right to occupy
said bridge by its or their track, poles.
wires, appliances and appurtenances shall
cease, and the said city of Portland shall
have the right to remove said track, poles,
wires, appliances and appurtenances and
to repave said bridge, and put the same
in condition safe and convenient for
public travel at the expense of said Rail-
way company, its successors or assigns,
if the same are not removed and said re-
pairs thereby rendered necessary to said
bridge are not made by said Hallway
company, its successors or assigns, with
IN thirty days after written notice re-
curing the same to be removed and said
bridge to be put in q condition safe and
convenient for public travel.
Provided also that this order shall be of
no effect unless within ten days from it's
passage it's terms and conditions are 40
cepted by the said Railway company by
legally authorized written acceptance
tiled with the city clerk. and written
agreement is entered into between said
Railway company and said city OF Port
land for the payment of said sum of
twenty thousand (s20, 000) dollars with
interest as aforesaid, and embracing all
the terms and conditions contained in
this order. And the City treasurer is here
by authorized and instructed to execute
such contract in tehalf of said city of
Portland with said Railway com PAM :;
and the said city clerk is hereby directed
to notify said Railway company of the
passage of this order by at once sending a
certified copy thereof to Hon. Seth l..
Larrabee, its attorney.
The order in relation to the granting of
right to cross Tukey's fridge by the Port
land Railroad was similar to the above
with the exception that the Portland
road is to cross the bridge on the west
elry side and the names contained in the
order are different.
~ lQeIIldl 1lsley IhleOtl UhS polab tldb
the roads already had the right of cross
ing this bridge without paying the city
anything if they wanted to do SO. FHe
wanted to have the orders passed at once
and together. Alderman Kehoe wanted
to delay action few days in order to
study the matter more carefully. Mayor
Randall showed how essential 1t is that
something should be done at once. AL
derman Rounds wanted TO vote on the
question at once. After some dispute over
the matter the orders passed the upper
board and also passed the lower board af-
ter some debate.
ROUNDS AND LEIGHTON.
At former meeting of the city govern
ment, Alderman Rounds introduced an
order which passed the board, asking the
city solicitor to give his opinion upon
the following question: whether or not
the secretary of the oyerseers of the poor
has the legal right to collect money from
persons who have friends at the insane
hospital in payment TO the city for the
keeping of the insane person, land whether
or not he has the right to disburse money
thus collected.
The city solicitor rendered his opinion
on the matter last night. He said he
thought the secretary of the board of
overseers of the poor had the right to col
leet money for this purpose if delegated
to make the collection by the board OF
overseers, but the city o,icitor thought
the secretary should turn the money
thus collected into the city treasury and
allow that official to disburse it for the
city and retain vouchers showing what
money had been received and what had
been paid out.
Alderman Rounds said that this opin-
ionfdid not answer his question, or the
questions he meant to ask He wanted
to know whether or not the secretary
of the board of the overseers had the
right to disburse any money or collect
any money for any purpose. He intro
duced an order asking the city solicitor S
opinion on these questions and ordering
that official to make report to the board
of aldermen at once.
Alderman Loighton-' This is very fool
ish. We are spending our time here 60
ing into matters which amount to very
little. We can't spend our time trying
to satisfy the personal malice of any
member of this board. I move the mat
ter be. indefinitely postponed"
AldermanssRoundsw was on his feet in an
instant, his eyes blazing and with anger
written on every line of his countenanoe.
"There are things in this matter which
want to find out. Things which are not
right according TO my ideas. I haven't
paid my taxes yet, and 1 don't propose
to until 1 know what is going to be
done with the money" He said that
Alderman Leighton was very anxious to
Investigate the board of overseers when
he (Rounds) was member of that body.
1--WE have got some new men there
since then" replied Alderman Leighton
A vote on a motion to Indefinitely post.
pone Alderman Rounds's order was tax
en-. Messrs. Leighton and Mcdonald
voted to postpo ne, the others voted not to.