The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-09-12
PROCEEDINGS OF THE
CITY COUNCIL.
Council Chamber, Caro-, ILLINOIS Sep
Sept. 6, 1910.
First Regular Meeting. J

First Regular MeetingJ
Present: Hon. George Parsons,
mayor, and Aldermen Burke, Cannon,
Ferguson, Greaney. Koehler, McDan-
lei, Wagner, Neff. Scullin, Williams.
Absent: Alderman Faudree. Kelly,
NeIlis, Walsh.
Minutes.
Alderman Greaney moved the min
utes OF last regular and intervening
special meetings be approved without
reading. The motion was adopted
Unanimously
The mayor called Alderman Netf
to the chair and read his veto to the
Ordinance entitled AN Ordinance
|electing that the City OF Cairo be In.
cluded In Road District Number Sew
en- of Alexander county, Illinois,
Which veto message Is as follows:
Cairo, Illinois. September 6. 1910.
To the Honorable Members of the
City Council Of the City of Cairo,
Illinois,
Gentlemen:--
return to you herewith, without
my approval, the Ordinance entitled
AN Ordinance electing that the City
of Cairo be included in Road District
Number Seven of alexander county,
Illinois, which Ordinance was adopt
ed BY your Honorable Body, at a
special meeting. held on the 22ad day
of August, 1910, cai:ed FOR tae pur-
pose Of considering said Ordinance
When Road District Number Seven
was originally orga.ized, it included
that territory outside Of the city linn
Its which is located east sf the Right
OF Way OF the Illinois Central Rail.
road Company. Fhis was done for
the purpose Of improving the outlet
from the city OF Cairo 10 Cache river
bridge, which bridge belongs to and
is kept In repair by the City Of Cairo
and connects the national cemetery
road at the north end of the bridge
and furnishes an inlet to the City Of
Cairo from a large amount of terri
tory in the counties north Of Alexan.
der county. The proposed new dis.
trict covers large area In Alexan-
der county, with many roads running
in different directions which roads,
the commissioners of the road dis
ttict could improve as they desired,
without consulting with the. city of
Cairo, or any one else, SO that the
taxes raised in the City of Cairo for
road building woui0 be beyond the
control of the city authorities and the
taxpayers, ii this new ordinance now
under consideration saould become ef
fective
The proportionate amount OF road
tax which would have to be paid by
the city, as compared with that raise,i
lin the territory outside of the city
limits, understand, is more than
Sc 90 in the city to s1.00 in the coun.
|ty, and the tax payers Of the city
would have to pay that unjust proper
ton for the purpose Of building roads
wherever the road commissioners felt
Inclined to construct them and IL
the city should become a part of this
road district, there Is no way In which
lit could be relieved from this taxa
ton so long as the county commiss-
toner's maintain the boundaries of the
district as now proposed.
Since the original establishment Of
| the road district, with Cairo included
In 1t, the city has Undertaken by
special taxation or special assess.
ment upon the tax payers, to i'm
prove Its streets by the construction
lof sewers, paving ana concrete side
walks at a very heavy expense, which
expense will continue over periol
Of ten years for each Improvement
from the time said Improvement was
authorized and approved by the coun
lty court During. say period OF ten
Iyears. II the City or Coiro were In.
cluded In Road District Number Sew.
len. the tax payers would pay $780,.