The Socorro chieftain., 1908-02-29
CITY COUNCIL MEETS
Tuesday Morning, February %,
First Time in Months, and
Transaots Much Business.
CALLS FOR CITY ELECTION
To Elect Mayor, Clerk, Treasurer,
Councilman, Member of School
Board from Each Ward.

The city council met Tuesday
morning in the Office of c. T.
Brown. There we're present
Mayor II. o. Bursum and Cpur-
cilmen Henry Dreyfus, a Z
Torres, Jose E. Torres. Anran
Abeyta, and Elias f. Bacd Tie
absent were councilmeu e. I
Brown, Florentino Gtllegus, and
Andres Lucero.
CITY ELEcTIoN.
The mayor and clerk we're au-
thorized and instructed To pro-
claim a city election in accord
ance with the provisions of law.
The election proclamation will
be found in another column of
this issue of the Chieftain.
APPROPRIATIONS.
Appropriations for salaries for
the ensuing fiscal wear were as
follows: For city clerk, $50; for
city marshal, SIS month out of
current expense fund and $50
year out of the water rent fund;
for water master, $50 a month
and 10 per cent on collections
made by him and turned into the
city treasury; for city election,
$50, and 81 each for payment of
judges and clerks of such cleo
tion, this last appropriation to be
paid out of the current expense
fund.
A bill amounting to $35. for
assessors commission was allow
ed and ordered paid to Assessor
A. b. Baca.
Oresto Peragallo presented a
bill for SIS for surveying Mt.
Carmel avenue. For the pay
ment of this bill Mavor Bursum
contributed $40, Councilman j.
E. Torres $40, and Assessor A.
B. Baca S5.
The mayor and clerk were
authorized and instructed to is
sue warrants in payment of the
salaries of city officials to date.
The appointment of w. ID.
Newcomb as city clerk was con-
firmed.
J. X. Vigil presented an or
dinance for the consideration and
action of the council. The or
dinance was designed to protect
Mr.. Vigil as licensed bill poster
and was suggested by the bill
posters union of the United
States. 1t was enacted on Mr..
Vigil's agreeing to pay the cost
of advertising.
wATER RENT FROM SANTA FE CO.
Mayor Bursum informed the
council that it had been decided
some time before that the Santa
Fe railroad company did not pay
the city sufficient water rent tC
compensate for the amount o.
water the company used. HI
had afterwards made an agree
ment with the railroad company
by which the company was t
pay nine cents a thousand gal
Ions measured by water meter
The results show that since tha
agreement was put into opera
tiOn the city has been receiving
about $48 dollars a month il
place of the $33 month receiy
ed before. The mayor and cler
were authorized to enter into
written contract with the rail
road company to furnish to tn
company water substantially i
accordance with the terms OF tn
agreement now in operation, tn
contract to contain a provision
however, whereby it may be car
celed by either party on thirt
days notice.
FOR DEED TO CITY LAND.
In the matter of the applies
tion of Mrs. Harris for a deed I
city land in the Highland add
tion, the applicant claimed %
acres by reason of transfers an
deeds made by one p. A. SIM
son and others. Mayor Bursul
said that he did not think tn;
the council would be willing
recognize applicants claim to +:
large an amount of land, sue
claim being based on transfe
from Simpson, but that he d
believe that Mrs. Harris was el
titled to some rights in land |
virtue of her occupation of it f
about IS years. Mr.. Bursu
further said that Simpson al
aannciafaa from time 10 time sn