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Council Chamber. Virginia. Minn..
Jan. q. 1905.

Council Chamber. Virginia, Minn.
Jan. q. 1906
Regular meeting,
Council called to order by the President,
Roll call.
fresent-A1dermen Johnson. Laviolette.
boylan' Irezona. Mattson. Mr.. President-6
Absent-None,
kead1ng minutes of previous meeting.
Moved and supported that the minutes
be approved as read.
Carried.
Matt Nick made application for liquor
license. the same to commence February
lst' lSo' and to conduct saloon in the one
STORY o1ck building situate on Lot No. 3,
Block No. q. and submitted a $1,000 90 sure
ty bond.
NoVed ana supported that the license be
granted the bond approved and ordered
placed on file.
Carried.
Relative to the establishing and main.
| tanning an Armory for militia purposes in
| this city. the city attorney, to whom the
matter was referred, reported that he had
searched through the state laws consider
ably on this question and found that the
matter was strictly in the hands of the
|
established and maintained if the city was
granted militia company by the state.
Relative to using the old fire department
neadquarters for armory purposes it would
be advisable, he stated. to receive a sane
ton OF the state officials, as there was a
question as to size and other conditions
Inc city attorney reported to the council
as to his findings as to the duties of the
city scavenger. and stated that after read
ing over the Health Ordinance of the city
was convinced that the scavenger's duties
were quite we'll defined therein, and as a
matter OF fact the health officer was the
one the scavenger should look to for his
| instructions.
u 2Ihe Committee on Light & Water, to
whom was referred the petition of JOSEPH,
| Rooney and others for an arc lamp to be
placed at the corner of Balsam street and
Virginia avenue in the Great Northern Ad-
dltlon to the city, reported that they could
not report favOrably on the placing of a
lamp at the location named. but would
recommend light to be placed at the west
! OF the steel bridge and near the Great
| Northern tracks.
Moved and supported that the petition
OF Joseph Rooney and others for an arc
lamp be left over for one more week.
| Carried.
| Moved and supported that the city clerl,
be Instructed to write the Standard Oil
Company at Duluth relative to the Com
pany's intentions of moving the oil houses
and tanks at the east end of Oak street.
| Carried.
The city clerklinformed the council that
nowhere in his records could be found any.
thing touching upon the organization OF
the Village of Virginia. and as the records
OF the City for the years 19Oi-5 had been de
| stroyed by fire there was nothing in his of
fce of record relative to the voting of Vir
ginia as City, which. as IA remembrance
only, was in 1885.
He also brought to the attention of the
council the matter of some a ordinances
the originals of which have been DESTROYED
by fire and the legality of which have al
ways been questioned. and suggested tina
these matters be looked through and got
ten into legal shape: and that according It
the charter we are now working under tin,
council had authority to publish in bool
form the charter together with it's amend
ments, and all the ordinances, after tn,
same were lega]ized. so that they would b,
at the disposal of any citizen who wishe<
one.
Moved and supported that the suppes
tions of the city clerk be referred to the cit,
attorney.
Carried.
Council Chamber City of VIRGINIA. Mimi