Valdez daily prospector., 1916-04-26
CITY COUNCIL HOLDS SESSION
DATE OF ANNEXATION ELECTION
Polling Place for Town to Be at City Hall, and for Tidelands at Office of Clerks are Named.

i The City Council met last night, with Mayor Patterson, Councilmen Carlson. Crawford, Day McCallum and Erickson present.
 The regular order of business was taken up and carried through, and some discussion was had regarding the needs of the city. The question of cleanup week was brought up, and it was decided that early i'll May, after the snow had disappeared from the streets would be proper time for a general cleaning up of the town.
 The mayor announced the commit tees of the council for the ensuing year as follows:
 1 Mayor Patterson has appointed the following committees of the common council for the ensuing year:
 Public Health and Police Protec- ltion-Wood, Erickson, McCallum.
 Finance and Claims-Crawford, Day, Carlson.
 Law and Ordinances Day, Wood, Crawford.
 l Purchasing Committee Mccall lum, Erickson, Wood.
 Sewerage and Wharfage-Erick- son, Carlson, Day.
 Fire Protection and Water Supply ;-Carlson. Crawford, McCallum.
 Streets and Street Lights-Day, Erickson, Crawford.
 i Assessment and Taxes-Crawford, Wood. Day.
 < Election and Printing McCallum. Erickson. Carlson.
 I Permanent Improyements-Wo Wood, Carlson, McCallum.
 In a short address to the members iof the council Mayor Patterson stated that in making his selections for the various committees he had been guided, as far as possible, by the in terest he believed the persons chosen had in the work of the particular committees to which they had been appointed. He urged that the various committees work in harmony with each other and with the council as a whole.
 Fire Chief Ethical submitted to the council a draft of a proposed ordi- nance covering the construction of buildings within the fire limits of the h. Ex>;, at some length on the provisions of the measure and the necessity for some action to prevent the erection of fire-traps within the business sec- tion of the town.
 Bids for the city printing for the ensuing year were submitted by the Prospector and the FOrty-Ninth Star. Both bids were the same. and Coun- cilman Crawford made a motion that the printing of legal notices be award ed to the Prospector and job printing to the Star. Patterson, Crawford and Carlson voted for the motion; and Erickson, Day and McCallum against it. A motion was then made that , the committee on printing call on the proprietors of the papers and see if ? an arrangement could be made for di- viding the work. The motion car ried. The question of the annexation election was taken up and Tuesday,
 June 6. was the date fixed for the } election. The places designated as f polling places were the city hall for , residents of the town and the ofice of F Charles Crawford, on the dock for the f residents residing on the tract pro l posed to be annexed. The judges and clerks for the cleo , tion were also named, the judges at , the city hall polling place being J. Hockey, George Merrifleld and Geo.
 Robbins, and the clerks c. J. Todd and T. H. Hunt.
 At the dock G. w. Long and s. Bard were named as judges and M. J. Callaghan as clerk. A proposal to furnish landing place for the post Launch Donaldson at $15 per month was ordered sub mitted to the commanding officer of , the post, in response to a request for bids.
 The bylaws of the former council were adopted for the guidance of the present council. The meeting then , adjourned. !! 4,