Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-18
CITY COUNCIL
Holds, Monday Evening, Its
Regular Monthly Meeting.
Middle Street School Property
To Be Disposed OF.
Street Commissioners to Be Pro.
vided with Suitable Office.

The city council held Monday eve
ring, it's regular November meeting |
ard transacted business as follows:
/ Roll of account No. II, amounting |
, in the aggregate to $S9S5.01, was APP |
proved and ordered paid.
An order was passed authorizing |
and directing the joint sctanding |
committee on finance to consider the |
value and sale of the Middle street |
school property, and report with
recommendation to the next meeting
of the city council.
! The committee ca highways and
sewers, in the matter of contracting
! fer the destruction of the brown-tail
moths, reported that contract had
! been entered into with Maurice APP
! pleton. Harold Weeks and Frederic
| *. Gross on the basis of $11 per day
for each crew of four men, this be-
ing the same arrangement as was
! made, last year, and the report was
accepted
The city treasurer was authorized
To reimburse George a. Prescott. SUI
perintendent of burials, in the sum of
81. in return for payment of said sum
To Linda Berry, onaccount of second
/ deed issued to her in 1884, Il former
deed having been issued to BENJAMIN
Gardiner in 1872
The mayor and the chairman of the
committee on highways and sewers
were authorized and directed to Sc
: cure suitable and convenient office
room, with telephone, and the neces-
sary clerical assistance for use of
the highway department, said office
to be the headquarters for the street
commissioners and the repository of
l. all highway department plans. docu-
4 ments and other street data, and to
: be so conducted as to systematic the
work of the street department and
bring this department into closer
touch with the needs of the public.
An order was passed fixing the tax
: of the c. a. Eaton Co. at the sum of
$4,000, and directing the board Of
assessors to abate any tax that may
have been assessed on any valuation
in excess thereof.
An order was passed granting hrs
Flora Leavitt Morris u victualers Ii
c cense.
1t was ordered that an are light be
: placed on the North Belfast road. the
exact location to be determined by the
: committee on street lights.
: \ bill from Knowltcn & Hewins. for
: SO. for the burial of William H. Lyon,
: was approved and ordered paid.
An order was passed accepting Hig-
gins street us laid cut by the engi-
neer's plans. no land damages being
assessed or allowed.
1t was ordered that in oonsidera-
ton of the removal and disposal of ali
deaa animals, to wit: Horses, cattle
and hegs, wherever found within the
city limits, by Edwin j. Philhrick of
Augusta, within Il hours after the no.
tice Of the death and location of said
animals, provided the owners thereof
consent to said removal without charge
to said PhilbriclS for sai6 animals, for
the period of 10 years next after the
passage of the order, that the city
agree to exempt the phosphate fac
! tory of the said Philbrick from taxa
| tion III the sum of $50 per annum for a
| period eff 10 years, beginning with 1914,
/ and the assessors were authorized to-
exempt the said property in said sum
/ as aforesaid. The city treasurer was
I authorized to discount said sum annu-
T, ALL from the amount assessed on said
/ property for period of 10 years.
| \ pleasant feature of the evening
! was an informal call upon the mayor
| and aldermen, by ex-H,ayor Charles S.
| Hichbern, it being the first since his
occupancy of the executive chair. Mr..
/ Hichhorn's remarks were brief but full
| of feeling. fiis tuok occasion 10 COM
/ plemcnt Mayor Newbert upon the able
manner in which he was conducting
his administration and upon the good
work he had Gone. and the tenor of his
| speech throughout was that OF appre-
( citation. AT the conclusion of his re-
| marks Mayor Newbert thanked him
| for the compliment, and in q most
graceful end cordial manner