The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-10-18
Common Council.
Common Council Chamber,
OWosso. Mich. Oct. ia. LOO,


Mashburn. Later Rundell. Wren, Brown, an
Rigley.
Aid. Conant presented the following claim
ana accounts and on motion same we're referre,
TO The committee on claims and accounts:
CLAIMS AND ACCOUNTS.
Council Room, City OF Owosso,
October u, 1907.
To the Honorable Mayor and Common Council
Your committee TO whom was referred tn.
several claims and accounts would respectful,
report favorably on the following and ask unan
tmous consent of this council that said claim,
be allowed and the city clerk instructed to draw
orders for the same:
FROM CONTINGENT FUND
T b Wllloughby & Son, $3.50; Owosso &
Corunna Electric Co., Q SO; Geo BEDFORD
$500; S T VanDusen. 8 rs: MICHIGAN State
Telephone Co, $3.50; Times Printing Go, sis so
ID Beswick, 5000; johnson $780,
FROM FIRE DEPT FUND
VIM Beresford, Jr.. $1,000: E6 Martin, $40 co.
owosso Fire Dept, $500; N Perica, 800.
FROM POLICE FUND
L G Heyer, 81 on; NJ Post & Son. So O5
Geo Denyes; sl40o; w Patterson, sl4 90; F A
bank, N.o0; Michigan State Telephone Co
10; same, y rs.
FROM WATER FUND
ST VanDusen, 800; Ann Arhor r Co
S59.@: Geo viers, % O6; Dell Butts sl.22;
S'aNo ~ DiOou, e%.OOs "A $3.50: same,
$40 Sc; A H Dumond (express). s .25 a "a
Frain. 81. Is E G Wells. $3.50; Michigan State
Telephone co, u 10; w II Lyon, $l4.5O; 6
Burbank, 8 30.
FROM SIDEWALK FUND
Hesse, sll.0o; Fl Brandahl. sr.OO; w
Ballou, sll.C0: e Hesse. SIC SO; A l. Fowler.
Sl2.0O; Bennett, $500: w Burton, sl2.OO; NJ
Ham, Sll00; j Russell sIS.C0; F. Oberly,
Sl20O; kreiger. 1920; ] CostOn, sl2 90; M L
So 30; Jas Odel, s94.6O
FROM GENERAL HIGHWAY FUND
Jas Helt, 5000; L Freass, sl0.5O; D. Speck.
sioeO; 5 Crane. $500; Austin Western Co.,
IS; Scott, $780,
FROM FIRST WARD HIGHWAY FUND
j butcher, $1,000; w Douglass, $40 so; II
Douglass. el0.50.
FROM SECOND WARD HIGHWAY FUND
Hayes, S2i.O0, Beckwith Est, $500
FROM THIRD WARD HIGHWAY FUND
M Campbell. SIG 60: r Rourke, 1880
FROM INTEREST, BOND AND SINKING FUND
Chase National Bank, $780,
FROM MICHIGAN, AVENUE IMPROVEMENT FUND
Smith Bros s3e0.C6.
FROM sPRINKLING FUND
M L Parker, $780,
Aid. Lamfrom presented the report of the
street commissioner for the week ending Oc-
to6er 18TH and on motion same was received
Aid. Conant presented the claims and &C.
counts as noted above and unanimous consent
being given same were allowed and the clerk
Instructed to draw an order for the same, ayes
AID. washburn presented the following reso-
luton which was on motion adopted, ayes
8, nays o:
Resolved, that o. & y. Z. Lighting Co. be
and Is hereby instructed to place so candle
power light on the corner Of Isham and Henry
a mr. nn0 nm I'm 10 Il
SITS, also one on South Cedar in front of Fred
Lauren's house and one on corner OF Main and
Cedar.
Aid. Conant presented the bill of the Munich.
pal Justice against the county for fees In
criminal cases and on motion same was ap
proved
;, Aid. Appleton moved that incandescent
Ights De placed at the following points: Cor
ner OF Pine and Oliver, Adams and King and
Williams and Adams, which prevailed, ayes 8,
nays0.
AID. Conant presented the engineers esti.
mate OF work on culvert at corner OF Elm and
Clinton streets, amounting to $40 and on mo-
tl0n same was approved and the clerk in
structed to draw an order for same in equal
amounts from the general highway and fourth
Aid. Lamfrom reported the ordinance pre-.
sented at the last meeting with alterations In
Aid. Brown moved that all Of section ex.
cept the first four lines to the word ',grantes"
be stricken out, which prevailed, ayes 10,
Aid. Rundell presented the following amend.
mment, which did not prevail, ayes Rundeil,
RiRley and Lynch, Days7:
Resolved, by the Common Council of the City
Of Owosso. that the Saginaw, Owosso g. Ian.
sing R'y Co. be required to deposit with the
city treasurer or proper city Official the sum Of
tlOOOOO per year or fraction thereof from the
time OF granting OF franchise till completion of
such railway for the purpose OF insuring good
faith on part OF grantee, said deposit TO be re.
turned to grantee on completion and beginning
Of operation of said s., 0. & L. R'y, otherwise
said deposit shall revert to the City Of Owosso.
Aid. Lamfrom moved that the ordinance do
now pass which prevailed, ayes 2, nays Run
dell Rigley and Lynch.
An ordnance granting unto the Saginaw,
Owosso & Lansing Railroad Company Tvs
successors and assigns, the right to construct,
maintain and operate street railway In the
City OF Owosso.
Section l. The City OF OwossO ordains: That
the Saginaw, Owosso a. Lansing Railroad Com.
pany OF Michigan, its successors or assigns, is
hereby granted the permission and right to
maintain and operate q street rail.
way to be operated by electricity or other mo.
i've power, excepting steam. with the neces-
sary switches, turnouts and Y's, poles, wires,
appliances ana equipments to operate the same
upon and along the following streets in the
From the easterly city limits west In and
along Main Street, to its intersection with
W ashington Street; In and along Washington
street from its intersection with Main Street
70 Its intersection with Cute Street: In and
along Cute Street from its Intersection with
washington Street, to its intersection with
Prindle Street, and in and along Prindle street
md Clyde Street to Chapman Street and in and
Along Stewart Street from its intersection
With Washington street west to its.intersection
With Chapman Street, and in and along Chip
nan street to the southerly city limits,
Ind In and along South Street westerly TO the
'ieht OF wav OF the Michigan Central Railroad
company, also In and along Howard Street
rom Its intersection with Washington Street
o its intersection with Shiawassee Street, and
q and along Shiawassee Street south from
howard Street to its intersection with Stewart
Street.
sec'2 Said proposed railway shall consist
u single standard gauge track, with such
witches, turnouts and US as said grantee,
Us successors and assigns shall deem neces-
ary. subject to the approval OF the tommon
>ouncil OF said city.
The construction and equipment of said rail.
DAD shall be first class. AID such as to least
interfere with the necessary and ordinary pub.
ic use OF said streets.
"T'' rails of not less thBn seventy pounds
weight per yard, shall be used, and on now. or
hereafter paved streets, a Shanghai rail of not |
ess than seven inches high shall be used
All poles snail be wooden or iron. straight |