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other place in the cemetery so that
the lot could be sold for its full val
ue. On motion, the matter was re-
ferred to the finance committee to re-
port at the next meeting.
The report of Mayor Mitchell for
the month of February showed s19
collected in fines and turned into the
city treasury, while that of Chief Of
Police Parker outlined the following
arrests:
Intoxication-13.
Petit larceny.
Assault.
Defrauding an inn-keeper-1.
Gambling-2.
Vagrancy-151.
Total--175.
Forty-one calls were answered dur
ing the month and reported back to
the office.
City Solicitor Koons reported to
council that County Auditor Walter
M. Riley had refused to pay finding
made last year by the state examiner
for interest due the city on taxes col
lected by the department of the coun-
ty auditor. The solicitor stated that
Auditor Riley's action was the only
safe course for himself as the finding
was based on the action of Riley's
predecessor In Office. He asked that
council allow him to bring suit
against the auditors department.
The solicitor also mentioned the
other finding of the examiner against
Sheriff John M. Woollson for over
charge in feeding prisoners. The So
licitor stated that the sheriff was not
to blame for this, as he merely fol-
lowed the scale of his predecessors in
office. On motion of Councilman Sal
isbury, the solicitor was directed to
prepare a resolution to reimburse the
city for the overcharges of the sher-
iff. The sheriff will not be the loser,
even IL he RENTS to the city, as the
county commissioners will doubtless
make good the money to him.
A petition for paving Mckenzie
street from Sugar to Hamtramck
streets was referred to the street
with the recommendation
that an effort be made to procure the
of other property owners so
that the paving may be done from
Chestnut to Hamtramck streets. DR.,
Joseph Wenger was present in be-
lalf of interested property owners,
md pointed out the crying need or
paving the street.
Much time was occupied by dis
1ussion of the East Burgess street
paving proposition. A petition was
for paving this street from
Braddock to Durbin streets and was
received and filed. In view of the
fact that a petition had previously
been presented for paving the remain.
der Of the street, council expressed
Itself in favor of combining these two
INTO single resolution of necessity,
and accordingly the same was refer
red to the city solicitor who was fur
ther instructed to make arrange
ments with certain people which will
satisfy them with certain depth for
"A sewer.
A dedication of right-of-way of Ellie
Bedell to maintain sewer on Ger
tain property belonging to her in the
west end was accepted by council,
the ordinance receiving its second
and third readings Monday night.
w. o, Korns was remitted s31b
paid in sewer assessments on Walnut
alley property and future assessments
against the property were cancelled
by the passage of an ordinance to
that effect. wherein was stated that
w. o. Korns had already paid sewer
assessments on the Norton street dis
trict and was, therefore, exempt.
The city solicitor was directed to
look into communication from Il. c.
Mitchell, in the behalf of the estate OF
Pearl Mitchell. protesting the pay
ment OF Mulberry street sewer assess
ments on the ground that private
sewer had been installed previous to
the construction Of the Mulberry line,
All councilmen asked for tickets to
the lecture to he delivered In the
public library ON Wednesday. March
10, by President w. f, Peirce of Ken.
yon college on the subject, III Wash,
ingtou We're President" President
Clutter had received "A letter from the
librarian offering tickets to the Of
fetal family
The ordinance providing for the
sprinkling and cleaning Of East Gam.
bier street was introduced, given its
second and third readings under sus,
pension of the rules and then passed.
The city solicitor and city engineer