The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-07-06


highways. zl9l 81
| Total 1856 53
| Council concurred.
| The petition of Orrin J. Dickey, ct als
praying that the City park be named William
son Park in honor of the late Joseph William
son was read and ordered placed on the table,
| The reports of the City Marshal for the
months of May and June were read, accepted,
and ordered placed on file. Council concurred.
The petition of Ella E. Small praying that
the ditch near her premises on Cedar street be
fixed was read and referred to the Committee
on Highways. Council concurred.
| Orders Nos "a, 25 26 and 27 were read and
passed in concurrence with the Council, eX-
ceptng Order No 25, as follows
| Ordered; That permission be, and is hereby
given to James C. Durham, to build an addition
to his mill on Pleasant street in said Belfast,
said addition to be eighteen by twenty-five
feet and to be made of wood.
| Ordered that the Penobscot Bay Electric Co.
is hereby authorized and instructed to proceed
to install the lights called for in order No. Is,
as passed on May l, 1911, and that said lights
be placed at the same distances apart as called
for in the contract between the said Penob-
scot Bay Electric Co., and the City of Belfast,
said lights to be of the same candle power as
now in use on the streets.
Above order was tabled in Board of Alder
men.
Ordered that the compensation of the COL
lector of taxes for the current municipal year
be and hereby is fixed at one per cent on the
dollar on the amount actually collected, the
city to pay for bond of collector, postage and
usual printing, and said collector is to collect
all poll taxes and taxes on personal property
and pay into the City Treasurer all taxes on
real estate and to make full settlement with
the city within one year from the date of COM
mitment Council concurred.
Ordered that the Belfast Municipal Court be
authorized and instructed to occupy the room
in Memorial building formerly occupied by the
police court of the City of Belfast as court
ROOM Council concurred
On motion it was voted that Alderman Jelli-
son be chairman of the special committee to
confer with Messrs. Haynes & Moore regard
ing change in the city's water supply, the
council to join such as they might choose to
complete the committee
IN BOARD OF MUNICIPAL oFF1c
I Order No. l.
Ordered: That the City Solicitor, with the
aid of counsel to be agreed upon by the Mayor
and said Solicitor, be authorized and instruct
ed to bring such suit again. Margaret Dunton,
the owner of the cottage in Kinds Lane, So
called, as to test the legality of the citys right
IN and to the said land or street. or any other
lanes or streets set apart by the original pro-
prletors for the use of the inhabitants of the
town of Belfast, and accepted by said town of
Belfast, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and nineteen,
Order No 2.
Ordered: That the City Treasurer be and
hereby is authorized and instructed to deposit
the funds of the city coming into his possess
sion with the Waldo Trust Company, providing
that as advantageous rate of interest NAV be
obtained as now received from the City Ma
tional Bank.
Order. No. g.
Ordered: That Belfast Industrial Company
be and hereby is authorized and empowered to
extend the addition to the present shoe factory
across Pleasant street, supporting the same by
truss work.
Alderman Black presented the following mo-
tion:
1move that Mayor Hanson be the choice of
the Municipal Officers to represent the city at
the annual meeting of the stockholders of the
Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad Company
and cast the vote Of the city on its stock, and
that the Clerk execute a certificate of such ap-
pointment and present the same to the Mayor
as proof of his authorization.
| Carried by unanimous vote.
Both boards met in joint convention for the
purpose of electing Tax Collector. There
were three candidates, each of which pre-
sented bid. All three bids were identically
the same. IL ballots were cast, of which
were for Fred W. Brown, and he was declared
elected collector of taxes for the current
municipal year.
Adjourned.
NEWS OF THE ORANGES.