The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20
FOR THE LAST MEETING
The Proceedings Of the Last Session
Are Herewith Given in
Full Detail and
Complete.
(Continued.)
Resolutions.


BY AID. HICKEY:
Resolved, That warrants for the
following amounts be drawn in favor
of H. T. Moore, clerk to pay over
drafts in clerk of council accounts,
viz:
General expense account IS 80. OS
Park account ,............. 210. AZ
Sidewalk account ...... 277. 81
sewer account ............. l7S. ~
Wharf account ....... 80. 80
Board of health account ~. 2.75
FIRE account ............. 81 "a
Iotal ....... ........... S926.74
On motion of Alderman Hickey the
warrants were allowed.
BY AID. HICKEY:
Resolved. That for the purpose Of
paying any emergency bills and la
Dor pay rolls that of necessity should
be paid before the next council meet
ing the following sums are appropriate
ed as have been estimated by the
chairmen of the different committees:
street ............ 81 500. 90
Follce ........... ....... 500. 90
Sidewalk .... ... 500. 90
Park ). 49,. .. 500 90
And that warrants payable to H. T.
Moore, clerk of council, be drawn for
the above amounts and against the
appropriations for the above funds.
Adopted by the following vote:
Yeas - Butler, Hickey, Johnson.
Kiefer, Lindstrand, Roberts, Tigue-
Total Z.
-Annable, Christy. De Yong
Total g.
acknowledgements, Swanson
CHARLES OFF,
Attest: Mayor
H. T. MOORE, Clerk of the Council of
the City of Keokuk, Iowa.
BY AID. HICKEY:
That the Miller Bros. be granted a
lease for Is years for certain piece
of ground lying at the north end of
the Des Moines river bridge, same be-
ing 10 feet wide and $50 feet long, and
commencing at about 40 feet west of
the said bridge, thence north $50 feet,
and when said ground is laid off or
marked out, so that it can be dis
cribed in metes and bounds, the mayor
is authorized to enter In a lease
with said Miller Bros. leasing the said
ground to them at a rental of $25
per year.
Adopted by the following vote.
Yeas Annable, Butler, Christy,
De Yong, Hickey, Johnson, Kiefer,
Lindstrand, Roberts, Tigue.-Total 10.
Absent-McCormick Swanson.
CHARLES OFF,
Attest: Mayor
H. T. MOORE, Clerk of Council, City
of Keokuk, Iowa.
BY AID. HICKEY:
Resolved, That in pursuance of a
resolution of intention passed by the
city council of the city Of Keokuk,
Iowa, at its meeting held on the 18th
day of September, 1909, for the i'm.
provement of the alley of block 200,
from the westerly side of Thirteenth
street to the easterly side of Four
teenth street, by grading and macad-
amizing said alley with stone and
binder and no objections to the max
ing of said improvement having been
/ filed In the office of the clerk Of the
council in accordance with the notice
heretofore published. and the city
council having determined that no
change should be made in the plans
! of said improvements as shown by
| the plat filed heretofore In the office
of the clerk of the council of the city
Of Keokuk, Iowa, by the city engineer.
It is hereby ordered that the alley
of block 200, from the westerly side
of Thirteenth street to the easterly
side of Fourteenth street be i'm
proved by grading and matchmaking
said alley Same to be done in accord
ance with the preliminary resolution
| therefore, and with the plans and spec
4 ifications that have been prepared by
the city engineer of the city of Keo-
Ruk, Iowa, and which are now on file
| II the office of the clerk OF the coun-
ell of said city, the said Improvement
requiring approximately the following
quantities, to-wit:
325 cubic yards of excavation.
667 square yards macadam pave
ment.
The cost of making the said inn
proyement, except the cost of grad
ing and the cost of matchmaking on
intersections which shall be paid by
tae city of Keoknk, Iowa, shall be as
sessed against the lots and parcels of
land fronting or abutting on said i'm
provement, in proportion to the bene-
fits accruing from said improvement
to said abutting property, not in ex.
cess of % per cent Of the actual value
! of said abutting property and in &C