The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-06-22
LOCAL LEGISLATION
PROCEEDINGS OF TUESDAY EVEN
ING'S MEETING OF THE CITY
COUNCIL

The city council met last night with
the following members presen.: Presi
dent Henry D. Stokes and Councilmen
T. T Helvenston. z. r. Carroll, ". Z.
Edwards, II. c. Jones and CT. \. Carmi
chael
Minutes of last meeting read and ap-
proved.
Mr. Jones offered a resolution that
Mr. ". W. Clyatt be allowed TO redeem
certain old tax certificates at their face
| value without interest, which was
adopted.
All bills from the committees prop
erly approved We're ordered paid. The
| semi monthly pay roll of officers was
| approved and ordered paid
The building committee reported that
| they had examined the house owned pI
| the city on the lot recently bought Tor
/ the lime deposit and recommended that
| a new roof be put on part OF It. This
| was ordered done under the supervision
| of the committee
| Mr.. Helvenston offered the following
resolution which, after some discus
| sion was unanimously adopted
| The Carnegie Library
| Whereas, Mr.. Andrew Carnegie has
! so literally offered to give five thou
| sand dollars for the erection of pub
j lie library building in Ocala, Fla. pro-
vided that the city will guarantee five
! hundred dollars per year for maintain
ance of said library, and since Ocala
| now has population of over 1000, and
| is steadily growing; therefore be il
Resolved, That if Mr. Carnegie will
| increase his generous gift 70 ten thou
| sand dollars for the erection of pub
| lie library building, the city of Ocala
| pledges itself to assess a millage for
| ten years sufficient to raise a revenue
| of one thousand dollars per year to
maintain a public library; and. be it
! further
"Resolved. That the city clerk be re-
| queSted to send copy of this resolu-
ton to Mr. Carnegie with communica-
ton assuring him of the appreciation
Of the people of Ocala."
. Mr. Carroll discussed the matter of
| keeping large tanks of gasolene at pri-
| vate premises in exposed and unpro-
| tected places and had the ordinance
| covering explosives and intiamma bic
| materials read. As nothing was con-
tanned in the old ordinance regulating
| the storage of gasOlene, the city attOr-
| new with the fire committee was in
| structed to draft suitable ordinance
| covering the matter and to report as
| early as practicable.
Mr.. Helvenston introduced the fol-
lowing resolution, which was adopted
| unanimously:
For Improved Sewerage
| Whereas, every city with the expec-
| tation of gro wing in population and
| importance should impress strangers
with the enterprise and progress of its
citizens, and since nothing is more i'm
portant than the health of a place, and
most essential to perfect sanitation is
a good sewerage system; therefore be it
| Resolved That the council instruct
the sanitary committee to make inves-
tigations and to obtain all information
possible. as to the best system to be
adopted in Ocala. the feasibility and
difficulties of construction, location of
outlet. cost, etc Said committee to re-
port in writing to the council at their
earliest convenience"
The sanitary department, Mr.. Hell
venston stated, was unable to do the
work Of the city with it's present force
of men and carts, and as such work
should be done thoroughly during the
hot months, at least, on motion of Mr.
Carroll the purchase of a first class
mule and cart was ordered for this de-
partment it was not thought good
policy to hire animal.
Mr.. Carroll brought up the matter OF
more and better equipment for the fire
department and called the attention OF
the city council to the fact that the
same equipment and the same number
of men We're now caring for more thar
twice the property that they formerly
protected; that the equipment was in
adequate and some day a bad fire
might occur, when it would be too lat,
to provide such equipment. Like Mr.
| HelvenStOn'S sewerage resolution i
was only preliminary skirmish lead
ing up to something that has to b,
faced and improvements that are need
ed and will have to be made in tn,
near future.