Cañon City record., 1899-04-20

Streets. alleys and bridges-Penning-
ton, Kohlman and Willett.
Finance - Coulter, Kohlman and
Willett.
Water = Kohlman, Coulter and
Pennington.
Police Willett, Brown, and Lantz.
Fire. Coulter, Brown and Lantz.
| Building-Lantz, Brown, Coulter.
Light-Brown. WiIlett and Lantz.
Cemetery-Pennington, Brown and
Kohlman.
License Willett, Kohlman, Coulter
It was moved and seconded that
when the board adjourn it be to meet
on Monday, April "a. Carried.
A motion that the protest filed
against seating Alderman Lantz be
referred to the City Attorney to re-
port at the next meeting met with
approval.
] "A Aotiou W hlohc buc ooioAy VI
the superintendent of water works
ninety dollars per month was endor-
sed by all except Aldermen Brown
and Coulter.
The salary of the night marshal
was placed at $50 and that of Sexton
at $50 per month.
In the contest for superintendent
Allen Jameson received seven votes
declaration that his services have been
entirely satisfactory throughout the
term just closed.
For night marshal S. S. Mccoy re-
ceived four out of the seven votes
and was declared elected. His op-
ponents were Bluxome and Stratton.
For sexton Charley Apple got six
votes to Clucas' one. and was given
the job.
]. Z. Brown was named as mayor
pro tenn, and Arthur Willett as clerk
pro tem-
C. c. Conkle, on behalf of the Colo
RADIO Electric Power company, pre-
sented petition asking that the
river near Sand creek be rip-rapped
by the city. 1t was referred to the
committee of the whole to report at
the next regular. meeting. and the
council adjourned to meet as stated.
FINANCE COMMITTEE REPORT.
To the Honorable Mayor and City
Council of the City Of Canon City,
Colorado.
GENILENEN-Your Finance Com
mittse respectfully reports = 70 the
aiRsirs q or city for ard during tke
fiscal year ending March 81, A. D.
1899 that they hsve carefully gone
over all reports of the city's various
officials. and have checked up all of
their various records and accounts,
with their vouchers, and have COM
pared them with each other; and,
barring few minor errors in records,
all of which have been corrected, all
records have been legibly. faithfully
and accurately kept. In this connec-
tion the committee desires to express
their appreciation of the business
ability, carefulness and general palms.
takingness, as well as gentlemanliness
in affording ready access to books and
papers of the city, of the City Clerk.
City Treasurer and Water Superin-
tendent Messrs. Minor, Fredrickson
and Jameson. and to call attention to
the fact that the business and book
keeping required of these three Of
ficials has become very heavy-no
one not an expert in their work, or
an examiner, as your committee, of
their work, can rightly understand
the constant vigilance and accuracy
required of them to be able to show
the well-kept records which your
committee have just examined.
Your committee would further re-
port that the two promissory notes of
Fred H. Skeele, mentioned in the just
filed annual report of City Clerk Ed
Minor, are outlawed the statute Of
limitations having barred the collec-
tion thereof long since, and recon-
mend that said notes be taken as en-
tered up to the loss side of profit and
loss, but kept still on file with the
city's papers.
The committee also reports that,
as appears from the city records, it
became necessary TO borrow $1,000
from the city water funds to apply to
and in the city general fund. and that
to that end warrant (No. 243D was
ordered and issued on November 2,
1896, and thereby $1,000 were bor-
rowed and transferred to said general
fund from the water fund of the city;
and, that said warrant having served
its use WAS cancelled and destroyed on
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