The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-19
Published in The Topeka State Journa
April 49, 1881
OFFICIAL CITY COMMISSION PRO-

! OFFICIAL CITY COMMISSION PRO-
CEEDINGS.
commission Chamber, Topeka, Kansas.
sion met in regular adjourned session at
800 O'Clock a. m, with the following COM
missioners present: Commissioners Bone.
Newland, Porter and Tandy- Mayor
Cofran in the chair.
The minutes of the meeting of April II,
1913, were presented, read and no objec-
ton being raised, stood approved.
Claims and accounts against the City of
Topeka, Kansas, for the first half of the
month of April, 1913, were presented, read
and on motion of Commission er Newland
recommended to be allowed and paid from
funds, as follows:
General Revenue Fund, Miscellan-
eouS --...----.-....--......$ 500. 81
General Revenue Fund. Fire De-
partment 2, 2S2. "a
General Revenue Fund, Police De-
partment 1862. SO
General Improvement Fund. 2657.54
Water Works Fund. ................. 1,357. %
Park Fund. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 467. 80
40 Reserve Fund. Observation-Disclosures. 47.50
Total So, s31 81
Communication, signed by O. H. White
of the Topeka Transfer & Storage Co.,
and four others, requesting that section
1882 Of the 1865 Revised Ordinances of the
City of Topeka which prohi bits the leav-
ing of wagons standing in the roadway,
be repealed, was presented, read and re-
ferred to the commissioner of streets and
public improvements.
Petition to close the south 125 feet of
the ten foot alley running north and
south between Holiday and Adams street,
7th street and Sth avenue, signed by Lille
H. Kellam and four others, was pre-
scented, read and referred to the commits
sioner of streets and public improvements,
who reported the same back with the
following accommodation: your COM
missioner of streets and public improve
ments to whom was referred the within
petition, recommends that the petition be
granted and that the city attorney be in
structed to draw the necessary ordinance;
also, that the city attorney examine the
deed to said property which report was
adopted by the following vote: Ayes,
Commissioners Bone, Newland, Porter
and Tandy and Mayor Cofran-5.
Communication relative to tax on dogs
owned by Mr.. H. w. Jacobs, presented to
commission on April 15 1913, and referred
to the commissioner of parks and public
buildings, was reported back with RECON-
mendation that they comply with the
ordinance" which report was adopted by
the following vote; Ayes, Commlssloners
Bone Newland Porter and Tandy and
Mayor Cofran-5-
Report of the Inspector of Foods.
Weights and Measures for the month OF
March 1913, was presented, read and filed
commissioner Bone moved that the COM
rnissioners ratify the agreement made by
Commissioners Bone and Tandy with Mr.
the west one-haIf of lot NO. twenty-one
Chickashaw street, Elmgroye SUBDIVISION
to the City of Topeka, which motion pre-
vailed by the following vote: Ayes, Conn
missioners Bone, Newland: Porter and
Tandy and Mayor Cofran-5.
An Ordinance to appropriate money out
of the General Revenue Fund, General
Improvement Fund, Water Works Fund
Park Fund and the go Reserve Fund,
presented to commission on April H. 1913
by Commissioner Bone, was taken up for
second reading. Each section was read
and on separate motion, adopted On roll
call the ordinance was passed by the fol-
lowing vote: Ayes. Commissioners Bone,
NewIand, Porter and Tandy and Mayor
Cofran-5. The title was read and APP
proved
Bond of l. R. Lane in the sum of
81 10000 given by the National Fidelity
and Casualty Company, as superintendent