The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22
Council Proceedings.

| SOuHCll FIoSccu'l'So'
Council met in regular session at
$40 p. m, Mayor Friday presiding.
Present, Brakeman, Winter Coleman,
Kaufman, Fuesler, Koerber; absent.
Dolin, Fischer.
| The minutes of last meeting were
read and approved.
\ petition for sidewalk on North Six.
teenth street was read and on motion
was referred to the street and alley
committee.
petition against the removal of
the cutters was read
The bids for painting the Junction
hose house, Jail and West Side hose
house were opened. On motion of
| Coleman, seconded by Koerber that 5.
r. Adams bid for $43.5O was accepted.
Moved by Kaufman, seconded by
Koerber that the claim of j. ID. Lar
rabee be rejected. Carried.
The city engineer was instructed to
prepare estimates on water extension
in the order they We're granted.
The mayor appointed NJ. Green chief
of the fire department. f. CarriCk first
assistant chief, V. A. Nenow second
assistant chief, and on motion the APP
pointments were confirmed.
A petition asking the mayor and
council to submit to the electors of
said city the proposition to vote bonds
for paving the intersections of paving
district No. | of the city of Norfolk
was presented.
1t was moved by Fuesler, seconded
by Brakeman, that the petition be re-
ferred to Councilmen Kaufman and
Coleman to ascertain if the signatures
attached to said petition were resident
freeholders of the city of Norfolk, Ne
| braska. Carried
| Councilmen Kaufman and Coleman
reported that the petition had been ex-
amined by them and that they had ex-
amined and inquired into the sigma
lures attached to said petition and
found sixty-eight of said signers were
resident freeholders of the city of Nor
folk Neb
Moved by Winter, seconded by Koer
Der, that the report Of Councilmen
Kaufman and Coleman be approved
On vote the mayor declared the mo-
ton carried and so ordered Moved by
Brakeman, seconded by Winter, that
the petition be received and placed on
file. On vote being taken the mayor
declared the motion carried, and said
petition received and placed on file.
Councilman Kaufman offered the
following resolution and moved its
adoption, seconded by Councilman
Coleman:
| Whereas, upon petition of the reQui-
site number of abutting freeholders
and property owners, paving district
No. |, in the city of Norfolk, Neb, has
been established by ordinance No. 345
of said city, duly passed, approved and
published as required by law, and said
paving district has been by the mayor
and council ordered paved by ordi-
nance No. BAG, duly passed, approved
and published as required by law, and
| Whereas, there is no available
funds levied or on hand for the pay.
ment of paving the intersections or
streets and alleys and space opposite
thereof in said paving district, and
Whereas, petition signed by more
than fifty resident freeholders of the
city of Norfolk, Neb., has been pre-
scented to the mayor and council there
of asking that an election shall be
called and held in said city for the pur
pose of submitting to the electors
thereof the question of issuing paving
: bonds of the city of Norfolk, Neb., in
the sum of $4,000, to raise funds with
, which to pay for the costs of paving
q the intersections of streets and space
opposite alleys in said paving district
No. l, of the city of Norfolk, Neb
, therefore, be it
)l Resolved, by the mayor and coun
q Gil of the city of Norfolk Madison
I county, Neb.:
q Section THAT the petition o.
2 said resident freeholders and the pray
er thereof be and the same hereby il
4 granted and approved.
, Sec. 2.-That the mayor and coun
' Gil deem it eXpedient for the purpose
of paying the costs of paving the in
tersections of streets and space oppo
site alleys in said paving district No
/, to issue bonds of said city to ruI
= not more than twenty 600 years anC
to bear interest payable semiannuall!
j at the rate of not to exceed five 6
! per cent per annum, with coupons at
L tached, to be called Paving bonds o
I the city of Norfolk, Nebraska ant
: which shall not be sold for less thar
their par value; and proceeds of which
! shall be used for no other purpose thar
u paying for the costs of paving the in
tersections of streets and space oDpo
!, site alleys in said paving district.
4 Sec. 3.-That the city engineer il
i hereby requested to furnish to tn,
" mayor and council an estimate of tn,
approximate costs of paving the inter
sections in said paving district No.
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