The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-06-08
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The City Council met in regular
session for june at the councn cham
bers last night. When Mayor Veal
raped for order at S:25 all members
were present except Mr.. Pearce. OF
the Third Ward, who is out o; towa.
The reading and approval of the min
utes for all meetings in May occupied
considerable time, after which the
| order of business was called.
The first committee with a report
10 make was the one on poor and
pauper Mr.. Davis. He rece-nmeaded
that the bid of the Dilley Furniture
Company be accepted and this ifir;n
be given the contract fer burying the
| pauper dead. The council voted un.
! ani.nously in favor of giving the Dill
ley Furniture Company the contract,
and same was ordered. Tle poof and
pauper committee reserved its report
| on the bids for supplying city drugs
until city physician is appointed
and nfirmed
Permits were granted Claud nean
to build small iron clad building at
the rear of lot b., block 10, Roswell,
and r. r. Cruise to erect an iron clad
awning in front of his blacksmith
shop or south Main street.
rhe monthly rrport of the city pay
sician was full of interest, showing
the city's health to be exceptionally
good. In the month of May there
were Il deaths. from tuberculosis
and the rest from scattering causes.
There were ten births, four of them
bows. The town had an epidemic OF
.ae.ls.
There We're no other contagious dis
eases, no typhoid fever and on ty.
phoid cases reported The health of
the city is unusually good, the physi-
elan comments ard the city is free
of paupers there being but 10 pau-
per visits on his list in May The
sanitary conditions are good also.
The City Physician also urged the
speedy passage of tle new sanitary
ordinance, making short speech on
the subject.
The city marshal and police Judges
reports for May showed eleven an
res;s, S1IS.75 in fines imposed, $sS in
fines collected. SIS In back
fines collected and total of $l66
collected ir fines. The marshal sug-
gested that new night office for police
be secured. All the reports were
reld, approved and ordered filed
T'ae council voted unanimously to
refuse To pay the bill of Filipe Mon
toya for SOS for keeping a smallpox
patient last winter.
DIR. f. NJ. Fisher appeared and pre-
sented a petition from property
owners living on washington avenue
between Fifth and Albuquerque SITS.
asking that t.lis street be removed
from the sprinkling district. II was
represented that there We're but 81
honses in the l6 blocks represented.
Mr.. Reid opposed the granting of the
petition. No action was taken.
Ordinances Nos. pa, 215 and 216.
Oh CITY supervisor, sprinkling and tax
levy respectively. came up for pas
sage. Mr.. NgylIys stated that ne han
not seen a copy of the ordinances
AID it was decided that tae council
should go into recess until the gne-n-
her could have chance to read the
ordinance. Before going into recess
a number of minor matters came up.
II was decided that the matter OF
street crossings should be in the
hands of the sidewalks and bridges
co. O.-HnltieH, J1t1er l1an under the
streets and alleys committee.
Mr.. Bryant brought mp the matter
of making tests of dairy cattle by the
city veterinarian. The question was
fully discussed for the information of
all present.
Ordinance No. PA was then TAKEN
up and upon motion by Mr.. Reid, sec
onded by Mr.. Wyllys was passed un-
aniTously. This is the ordinance
creating eity supervisor. 1t appears
elsewhere in Official publication.
Ordinance No. 21e. calling for the
tax levy for 1910, was then brought
up for final passage. This levy is
the same as that of last year, except
an Increase of one mill on the inter
est fund of the old s25, 900 sewer
bonds. This interest has not in tae
past been paid oaft of the proper fund
the levy for that purpose being insuf-
ficient. In the past, the difference, has
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