Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-12-16
COUNCIL MEETING.
City Fathers Discuss Matters of Inter
est to Santa Fe's Future
Last Night.

A special meeting of the city council
was held last night, Mayor A. r. Gil
son, presiding. All members wer
present. After several hours spent il
transacting such business as was pre-
sented the city council adjourned t.
meet again Monday night:
An ordinance was passed providin,
for the construction of sidewalks alon.
the following streets towit:
On the west side of Lincoln Avenu,
from Palace Avenue to Federal Street
said sidewalk to be 10 feet wide; al
SO on the east side of Grant Avenu
from Palace Avenue to Marcy Street
said sidewalk to be feet wide; als'
on the west side Of Grant Avenue from
Marcy Street to Bowers Street; sale
sidewalk to be feet wide. Also or
the south side of Montezuma Avenue
between Galisteo and Hancock
Streets; said sidewalk to be feet
wide Also on the north side of Gar.
field Street, between Hancock and
Guadalupe Streets; said sidewalk to
be 6 feet wide. Also on the west side
OF Don Gaspar Avenue, between Man
derfield Street and Manhattan Ave
nue.: said sidewalk to be feet wide.
The sidewalks along such avenues
and streets in the first section men
TONED and described shall be built
with vtrified brick or concrete as may
be determined by the mayor and on a
line and grade to be furnished by the
city engineer or by Councilman John
II. Walker, and his services are to be
paid by the owner, agent or the per-
son in charge of the lot, or lands abut-
ting such proposed improvement; said
sidewalks to be laid and built within
thirty days after the passage and ap-
proval Of this ordinance.
The following resolution regarding
the assistance of the federal govern
ment in paying off the Indebtedness of
Santa Fe County was also passed
unanimously by the city council. Upon
being signed by the mayor and all of
the councilmen copies will be forward
ed to those specified in the resou-
tion. The ordinance was drafted and
presented bv r. l.. Baca
Resolution by the mayor and city
council of the city of Santa Fe, in the
County of Santa Fe, and Territory of
New Mexico:
Whereas, There is a large indebted.
ness now existing against the County
OF Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the form
of coupon bonds amounting to $1,000
900 and upwards, and whereas, about
two-thirds of this indebtedness accrued
on account of the bonds of the county
voted in 1880 to aid in the construction
of the New Mexico and Southern Pa
cific Railroad, and in 1887 to aid in
the construction of the Texas, Santa
Fe, and Northern Railroad from Santa
Fe to Espanola, which Is now a part
of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
system, and whereas the Supreme
Court of the United States in Lewis VS..
Pima County, 155 U. S. 81, held bonds |
voted in aid of railroad construction
in territories void, and whereas, Con.
eress, after said decision, enacted
law holding that such bonds should be
valid. and the Supreme Court OF the |
United States in Utter VS.. Franklin,
172, u. S. 410, held that bonds SO vail
dated by Congress as aforesaid. were
valid. and whereas, the people reply |
ing upon the decision of Lewis VS..
Pima County, which went npl
from Arizona, refused to pay any IN
terest OF bonds issued in Santa re
County as aforesaid, and whereas,
Congress passed another law in 1877
the bonds so issued in SAID
Santa Fe County, the indebtedness has
been increasing on account of the un'
paid interest, it is now Impossible 10
pay even the interest on the face
value of such bonds, and whereas,
Congress validated the bonds so held
void in the first instance by the SUI
preme Court as aforesaid.
Be it resolved by the Mayor, and
City Council, of the City of Santa re,
in the County of Santa Fe, in the Ter
ritory of New Mexico, That the Con-
gress of the United States, be, and
the same is hereby respectfully re-
quested to incorporate into the pend
ing bill for statehood for New Mexico
and Arizona, provision donating TO
the counties of Santa Fe and Grant, IN
New Mexico, and to the County Vi
Pima and such other counties as may
he similarly affected in Arizona, sum
cient public non.mineral bearing lands
TO be sold and disposed OF IN such
manner as Congress may provide, the
nroceeds of which shall be applied to
the payment and satisfaction OF an
bonded Indebtedness against said
counties, and especially to pay and
satisfy all bonds voted and issued TO
aid in construction Of railroads IN the
counties aforesaid in each of said ter
ritories. or, that separate bill, II
deemed advisable be introduced and
passed, making provisions for the pay
ment of said indebtedness by the DO
mating of lands as above stated; all OF
which is respectfully submitted
That this resolution be spread on
the minutes of this body, and that the
clerk is hereby directed, to send a
copy of same, to the President