The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-03-11
Aldermen Adopt Resolution
Calling for Strict Author
ization for Consultation
TOO FREQUENT CALI
MADE ON ATTr Z
Another Re sation Consid-
cred Appropriates $1,000
for Permanent Roads

\ A resolution that has for its immedi-
ate purpose the curtailment of legal fees
paid the city attorney was offered by
Alderman Cook and read by the clerk at
the regular meeting of the board of al
derinen last night and adopted without
dissenting vote Alderman Keefe made
the motion to adopt and it was seconded
by Alderman keast. Briefly, the resolu-
\ tlon aims to restrain all city officials,
including the councillors, and municipal
employees from consulting the city attor-
ney without authorization from the
council or the board of aldermen.
! 1t has been claimed that the city paid
nearly $1,000 in legal fees in 1918 and
that the annual expense of this account
IN some other years has approximated
this aggregate sum. In 1918 more than
S400 was paid for legal opinions, writ
ten and verbal, for single department,
| it is said. Close students of municipal
affairs have repeatedly made the asser-
! tion that the expense incurred along
these lines might be reduced materially.
According to certain aldermen among
| those who supported the measure, the
action taken last night will tend to
check the practice of requesting unnec-
essary legal opinions, if such practice
has existed. The resolution as adopted
liz framed as follows:
Resolved by the board of alder
men in regular session: That no
member of the city council or board
OF aldermen shall incur any expense
for legal services on behalf of the
city without having been authorized
by the city council or board of
aldermen to do so; and, further,
that no city Official shall incur ex-
pense for legal services on behalf of
the city without being authorized to
do SO by the aldermanic committee
under which he serves or by the city
council or the board of aldermen"
$4,000 for Permanent Roads.
Two other important resolutions read
have to do with an appropriation to OBJ
tain state aid for permanent highway
construction and the appropriation of
money for the maintenance of the va
rious city departments. The first reso-
luton, appropriating $1,000 for perina
nent road work, was read for the first
time and passed to second reading.
The second was read second time and
adopted, 1t appropriates money for tha
various departments for the purpose of
constituting a fund from which warrants
may be drawn during the present fiscal
year. The sum of SlS2,270.67 is divided
as follows:
Streets, $4,000; lighting streets, S.
500; street sprinkling, $1,000; sewers,
500; surface sewers, $1,000; sidewalks,
5000; bridges and culverts, $3.50; en-
gineering $1,000; water, $lg,500; sal
aries. 81 1000 miscellaneous, $1,000; care
and expense of public buildings, $500;
fire, 6,400; poor, $4,000; health, 5000;
births and deaths, $50; police, $4,000;
insurance, $3.50; state and county taxes,
$I21l2.6S; printing and stationery,
800; city records $3.50; schools and
new buildings, $37,236ls; temporary
loans, $4T 900; dog licenses and damages,
$500; elections, $500; society orders,
SSlSl; driving hearse, $3.50; band con-
eerts and amusements, $1,000; care pub
lie parks plus income derived $500;
cemetery trust funds, 81 800; cemetery
trust funds refunded, Sl,250; hydrants,
SO 500; Memorial day, $3.50; library pur-
poses, 5000.
Chief of Police Sinclair's January re-
port referred to a total of Is arrests,
10 of which We're for intoxication, one
for breach of the peace, one for open
and gross lewdness, two for larceny,
and one for rape. 1t was accepted.
The report of 0verseer w. f. Shepard
of the poor department for February
was accepted as follows Cash balance
Feb. l, 81 90; received from the city,
$500; paid out for support of the poor,
S79653; cash on hand, S5.43
Building Inspector George NJ. Rand re-
ported favorably on the following appli-
cations to build ID. NJ. Miles Coal CO.,
TO repair barn off Smith street; j. ID.
Ossola. to recover roof of barn at 459
North Main street; G.. A. Lane to erect
veranda on building at corner of North
Main and Seminary streets. Building
permits were granted in each case.
Charles Hawes applied for license
to operate a restaurant and his request
was referred to the license committee.
The applications of the n. d. Phelps
Co. for permission to install a gasoline
pump in front of its store on North
Main street was referred to the street
committee.
Warrants approved for the week were
IS follows Street department payroll,
sl03ll. streets, surface sewers, side
walks and public buildings accounts;
water department payroll, S67 "a; fire
department. payroll, S7979; police de-
1artment payroll, $s4ls; G. A. Bemis,
anitor Sl4; w. H. Ward, services as
mayor, $500.