The record-union., 1898-06-14

SACRAMENTO, TUES
arrests for the month, with 500 meals
and 42 lodgings furnished.
MAYORS MESSAGES.
The following messages were received
from the Mayor:
To the Board of Trustees: 1 here
with transmit to your honorable board
the resignation of c. NJ Myers as spe-
cial police officer Of the city Of Sac
ramento for the locality known as the
City Cemetery" Very respectfully,
WILLIAM LAND, Mayor
To the Board of Trustees: In addi-
ton to the reason assigned in my mes
sage of the 10th inst. for my disap-
proving the contract entered into be-
tween the city of Sacramento and c
I. Jones, Elwood Bruner and A. j.
Bruner, 1 will state that the selection
of counsel to assist the City Attorney
In suits in which the city is a party,
is given to the Mayor under Section 40
of the charter. which provides that
the Board of Trustees shall have con-
troll of all litigation of the city, and may
direct an attorney, selected by the
Mayor, to take charge thereof, or to
assist the City Attorney therein"
Should the board deem it necessary
and eXpedient that additional counsel
should be engaged to assist in the de-
fense of the suit of W. E. Henry
against the city, the selection of such
attorneys belong to the Mayor and they
should be selected by him. Very re-
spectfully, WILLIAM LAND,
Mayor.
COUNSEL EMPLOYED.
Trustee Tebbets introduced a resolu-
ton which he said was satisfactory to
the Mayor. 1t was read as follows:
Whereas, One w. E. Henry has COM
menced an action in the Superior Court
of the State of California, in and for
the county Of Sacramento, against the
city of Sacramento, to recover the sum
of S511, 1,O01, claimed as damages said
to have been sustained by said Henry
by reason Of the alleged non-fulfllment
OF contract on the part Of said city;
and whereas, we deem it necessary and
expedient that counsel be employed to
assist the Corporation Counsel of Sac
ramento in the defense Of said action
now, therefore. be it
Resolved, That the Mayor of the city
OF Sacramento be authorized to appoint
three attorneys -at-law to assist the
City Attorney and Corporation Counsel
IN the defense of said action; and be it
further
Resolved, That the President of the
Beard of Trustees Of the city Of Sacra-
mento be authorized, empowered and
directed to enter into contract. with
the attorneys so appointed by the
Mayor as aforesaid, to assist said Cor
poration Counsel and said City At
torney in the defense Of said action, and
that in said action he be authorized,
empowered and directed on behalf of
the city Of Sacramento to pay said
parties so assisting said Corporation
Counsel the sum Of 81, 600 as a retainer,
said sum TO become due and payable
from said city upon the signing of said
contract by said parties, and approval
Of said contract by the Mayor of said
city; and upon the final determination
of said action the additional sum of
SoUO shall be paid said attorneys, which
said sum shall be in full for all serv-
ices rendered in said case to a final
determination of said case in the court
of last resort.
Trustee Devine said that he had read
in the Record statement
from Judge McKune who conducted
and won the former suit, and whose
opinion is that Corporation Counsel De-
vine can win the case at this time
without assistance. He is willing to
give Mr.. Devine advice and assistance
gratuitously.
If he himself were about to employ
an attorney he would employ one who
was perfectly familiar with the case
in preference to one who knew nothing
of it.
Trustee Tebbets said Judge McKune
had offered when this last suit was
commenced to conduct the case for the
city for $1,000 and thought he could
win it, although it was harder than
the first one. He moved the passage of
the resolution, and it was adopted,
Kent and Devine voting no.
VETO SUSTAINED.
On motion of Devine, after some dis
cussion, the veto of the Mayor on the
ordinance regulating cemetery dues
was sustained.
STREET LIGHTS.
Trustee Devine moved that electric
lights be placed on all alternate streets
on K street from Front to Thirty first
Trustee Tebbets did not favor the
motion, as it might interfere with some
lights he wanted in his ward
j. H. Lawrence said he had the lights
under the contract located, but did not
know where the committee appointed
wished to locate the thirty extra lights
asked for.
The committee was granted another
week in which to report
MISCEIJANEOTTS
p. D. Ratcliffe was granted a saloon
license at Twentieth and M streets.
The matter of a bridge over the Y
street canal at Thirty-first and T
streets was referred to the Street Su-
perintendent, and the board adjourned
till tonight at Z o'clock to ratify the
contract with the attorneys