The record-union., 1899-11-28
STREETS WILL Be CLEANED.
THOSE EAST OF TWENTIETH
INCLUDED.
Mayor Land Sends to City Trustees
the Name of M. M. Drew
for Chief of Police.

At the meeting of the City Boaro VI
Trustees last night the application u
lgnatiuS & Silva for license 10 coii-
duct a saloon at Fourth and s'reee'
was withdrawn. The Corpoiatioii
counsel had reported adversely upoi,
the application, for the reason Ina :
the premises were within one ploch VI
a public school.
"A message was received from the
Mayor appointing M. NJ. Drew Chie. Oh
Police. Consideration of the appoint
ment took the usual course, gong over
one week.
A second message recommending the
employment Of a competent person "
gather together and place IN scrap
books cancelled city bonds ana dupn-
Gates. now in the National Bank OF
u. O. Mills & Co., said person to be ap-
pointed by the City Treasurer and the
bank officials, was also read.
Trustee Devine said the bank had
already had too much to do with the
bonds in their possession, and he Ola
not believe in allowing them a chance
to appoint an expert.
Trustee Paine moved that the matter
be referred to the City Treasurer ana
the Chairman of the Finance Commit
tee, with power to act, and the motion
was carried by a unanimous vote.
Charles Gibson requested permission
to cut down four dead trees on the
river bank below the foot of P street,
the Levee Committee.
The usual bills for salaries, repairs,
etc, We're read and approved, but when
the claim for street lighting was reai
Clerk Desmond called halt until he
spread before the board the following
suggestions from City Auditor Young
Hon. Board of Observation-Disclosures
There was not sufficient money in the
general fund to pay the street lighting
bill of S2,631 go, allowed by your hon
orable board on the 18th inst, and II
and the other bills to be presented TO
you this evening, including such trans
fers as may be necessary, will aggre-
gate more than the general fund now
coEtains-S4 1913.
If you are satisfied that there will
not be any demand on the special
Water Works fund for the So,4IS 1t
contains, l think it will be proper to
transfer it, as provided in Section 81
of the Charter, to the general fund, as
a balance at the end of the year, which
will relieve the present necessities.
The suggestion of the Auditor bore
the approved of Corporation Counsel
Devine, and on motion of Paine, the
following resolution was adopted:
Resolved, That the City Auditor be
1,a foIl irs
sums from the general fund: To the
sprinkling fund, SO; to the sewer fund.
$50; from the special Water Works
fund to the general fund, $5,41S.9S.'
Thereupon the claim of the Sacra-
mento Electric, Gas and Railway Com
pany for street lighting was approved.
The matter of improving the City
Plaza at Ninth and ] streets was, on
motion of Tebbets, postponed one week.
Corporation Counsel Devine request
ed further time in which to prepare
an opinion respecting the validity Of
the claims for damages put in by five
Chinese gardeners whose land was
overHowed with water from the
Y-street sump. Granted.
The bond of the Sacramento Electric,
Gas and Railway Company on its con-
tract for street lighting, in the sum of
81 Geo with George w. Peltier and A
Heilbron as sureties, was received and
approved.
On motion of Tebbets, fifty feet of F
street, east of Sixth street, was de-
clared closed and discontinued, and the
application of the Sacramento Pack
ing Company to erect sheds thereon
was granted.
Trustee Dolan said that Superintend-
ent of Streets Touhey was employing q
force of forty men to clean up the
streets He moved that ne be in
structed to have those thoroughfares
east of Twentieth street cleaned.
Where will you get the money to
do it with?" queried Devine.
Well" replied Doian, hes got forty
men at work, and it won't cost any
more to have some work done above
Twentieth street than below it. The
people in that section of town are
kicking, and they have good grounds
for so doing"
That settled the argument, and Do
lans motion was carried by a unani-
nous vote.
The official bond of Mayorelect
George II. Clark, in the sum of $4,000,
with John hatcher. A. p Booth, B. u
Steinman, Isidor Cohn, Frank Lyman
and Gus Lavenson as sureties, was ap
proved.
The official bonds for Trustees-elect
Devine and Kent, in the sum of $3,U0U
each, We're also approved.
At sos o'clock, after being in session
forty minutes, the meeting adjourned.