The record-union., 1899-06-08


about paying out money when there
was none. The board had paid some
bills that were two years old when he
first came on the board, and he voted
against it.
Supervisor Morrison said the money
to do it with was in the general fund
then.
Supervisor Curtis stated that he had
said in the matter Of the Suffer Island
road that he would not vote to pay the
b ; unless a. new proposition was pre-
st ted. The Sutter Island people had
changed it and offered the road to the
county, and then the county bought It,
The motion was lost. Gillis and Nc
Laughlin voting aye and Morrison, Jen-
kins and Curtis no.
j. II. hatcher said the committee had
found that it would be necessary to
raise $1,000 for the celebration. Esti-
mates for 81 600 had been cut down
to that amount. The city people thought
they had been bled enough in the past
; and that the celebration should be made
with public money. If the board felt
j that it could not be appropriated now
out of next years money, that could
be managed as it had last year. The
money could be- raised from private
parties if the members of the board
would guarantee that an appropriation
will be made afterward for it.
| supervisor Curtis thought the board
| had given it's answer. and he did not
think 1t would change it. Oak Park peo-
pie had been furnished by the board
with electric lights. to which they were
| entitled. Demands for $500 a month
are coming in and there is no money
to pay them with. He did not think
it right to let bills watt and appropriate
the money for something else. He
would not vote to appropriate the
money in that way.
| ELECTRIC FRANCHISE.
L. T. Hatfield stated that this was
| the time for opening the bids for an
electric franchise, to place poles and
wires in this county.
| Mr.. Martin of the North Yuba Com
pany was here to speak on the subject
and bid
The bids were declared closed, after
which the clerk opened the only one
that was offered. 1t was by the Yuba
Electric Power Company, and offered
500 for the franchise.
| On motion of Supervisor Morrison, the
bid was accepted, and an ordinance
passed to that effect, granting the fran
chise, and was ordered published in the
| Record Union
| Frank D. Ryan presented the ordi-
nance for adoption. granting a ferry
franchise to John Soto at Freeport.
Supervisor Mclaughlin thought the
rates allowed for ferriage were too high
and should be lowered. They had been
| in force for the last twenty years and
| should be lower now.
| Mr.. Ryan said that they had not been
| in force for the last twenty years, but
had been lowered one-half in that time.
If the board at amy time thought the
charges too high it could lower them.
Supervisor Gillis said he was opposed
to granting the franchise. The county
had bought all the toll roads and
| bridges and should also have granted a
ferry. The people who asked for it
are poor people, who buy all their sup
| plies in this city and should not be COM
| PEELED to pay half a dollar every time
| they came to town. If they were rich.
| it would not make so much difference
| Supervisor Jenkins said he was in ia
vor of free roads, bridges and ferries.
He had worked hard for good roads
| throughout the county and so had Su-
pervisor Curtis. The people yesterday
said they spent all their money in Sac
ramento, and that they went to Yolo
County because they could do better
| there than in this city. They came to
Sacramento because they can do better
here.
| Supervisor Gillis said we are doing all
we can to bring trade to this city. He
did not care where the people come
from. He wanted to bring them here
and not to build a wall around the city.
Sacramento citizens had contributed to
build the upper and lower Stockton
roads. f~~
The ordinance was adopted, Gillis and
Mclaughlin voting no, and the board
| took a recess till this morning.