Rocky Ford enterprise., 1902-03-14
IMPORTANT CITY BUSINESS.
No City Election This Spring..
Water Ordinances Passed.

The houarabie council failed of quo
rum last Friday might. hut got together
OF Monday evening on good time asd
dispatched considerable business. All
tic bo.ly was psr~rnt save Mayor S~ink.
who Was osa of town. Alderman Lance
was acsisx nayur.
The pelitiaa Sor removal Of street light
one block fpsa Ninth and Sycamore was
denied. as.
The healah Saarer asked In regard -
tiic city's Psyiax for uht -vaccjnaiiou al
children Wisosc parents were unable 10
pay for v1crination. lie also asked what
action sl,oaA DC taken in regard 70 chit
drcn who ~ season Of constitutional coa-
siitiou cusA oot'bc vaccinatcd.
Aidcsusan Lance said he thought tle
latter ussa1AR was wholly Within the
iurislictioa ~f'the school board.
Alderunnn 1ali asked how many charity
patients fsrVnaeination there were.
Dr. Keeiig Answeresi perhaps ix. He
also stated tka,thefe wcfe no new eases
within the iasssiGhs daya One Of the Cos
ereau chiltlrsn mad hren taken down. bet
there wore os.new quarautines located
cases, and eheae were being taken care q
by the coanty health officer.
A large a11tber Of claims were passed
Aldefnaa Hall moved the third read-
ing Of the ordinance regulating the ras-
ming Of water in. city 1aterals. Ordnance
No. @.
The third reading Of the annual appeo-
priation hl1-srtlinancc No. 9i-was 6rst
proceeded eifA, and duly passed:
Ordinanee No, g WINS then taken up-
The questioa was raised whether the
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the lot rate. and some figuring was done.
II showed r.Ae of "a. so for the lots Of
an acre, while the acre rate fixed was 4.
The rate was allowed to stand, and the
ordinance was Gnally passed.
Ordinance Na- ,D3 was then taken mp.
II is an ordinaneeiregulating the control
Of water from tie 0:ity water works. The
ordinance Was read and finally passed
without debate
The question k duleaning the city later
ais was taken up. Alderman Smith said
they had chewed sane rag over that ques-
ton good many times. Last year the
missioner and paid for out of the street
and alley fund, while that fund got no
benefit from the revenues Of water. He
would move that the work be done by
the water commissioner and paid for out
OF the water fund.
Alderman Hail sale there was some
conflict of authority Between the street
commissioner and the water com.,iis-
sioner, but since it was found that the
work could be more ,cheaply, and very
properly, done by the water COM
missioner, he thought it might be well to
have the work done by HIN.
The motion of Alderman Smith carried.
Alderman Lance said lie svas in receipt
OF All opinion from the city attorney OH
the question of holding city election,
and asked whether the board would go
into executive session for the hearing
and acting upon said opinion. 1t was
voted to go into executive session. and
the chamber was cleared of everybody
but the board members.
The opinion of City Attorney Beall was
then taken up and read. 1t was as fol-
lows:
at is the policy of the court to sustain
a statute whenever they can, by any fair
and reasonable construction, do so.
''In a case in the 1o3rd U. S. Reports
it is held that in constituting statute it
is not necessarily by erasing words, but
by reading the statute as though the in
yalided part had never been there, and if
there is left complete act it will be sus-
tained.
"Our supreme court has also held that
the cardinal rule is to discover the intent
Of the legislature and then enforce it.
"On applying these rules think that
our coNrts would sustain the statute, and