Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-14

I
 At the regular meeting of the board
 of aldermen held in the town hall on Monday evening it was voted to 1n- crease the salary of George H. Allen, superintendent of the pumping station,
 to $500 year. This is an increase of $100 over his salary in the past. Mayor Daniel P. Dunn called the meeting to order at S.20 o'clock, all of the aldermen being present. The min- l utes of the last meeting were read and accepted. Clerk A. c. Scripture read the reports and they were accepted by the board. The report of the water department showed that $1,640.52 had been expended by that department dur ing the past month. The report Of the police department stated that 55
 arrests had been made during the past month for various reasons. The de- pertinent during the past month re- ceived ITO complaints and recovered lost or stolen property to the value of $12095 The report of Health Officer pr. c. A. Jenkins stated that there had been five cases Of contagious. dis
 eases in the city during the past month.
 In reading the yearly reports of the treasurer and water department it was learned that the cityS debt had been lessened to the extent of nearly 4,o0O. This was done in spite of the fact that the salaries of the different officials AASSSA than before.
 On a second reading of the petitions for the construction of sidewalks the petitions were granted to the signerS Three petitions were then read for the erection of arc lights in three different parts of the city. one on Church street, midway between Main and Valley streets, one on Ann street and the other on the northeast corner of Oak street. These petitions were turned over to the light committee with power.
 The report of the standing commit tee on salaries of the city officials was next read. Alderman Graves stated that he thought that more money should be appropriated for the pur- pose of motorizing tie fire department. After some discussion it was decided to have the list increased $10,000 for this work This Ia st is to be put before the electors at the next town meeting, at which time it would be voted upon.
 Wood McCarty Petitioned the board for drain layers license and with his petition he sent in his bond. which, after being looked over by the cor poration counsel, was found to be wrongly made out. It was decided that when he should produce a bond satisfactory to the. counsel he could have his license.
 After the list of the salaries of the officials was read it was voted that it should stand as read. This list show dthat the salary of the superintend- ent of the pumping station was in creased $100.
 Upon the resolution of Alderman Case, which was adopted, it was de- cided that the city should borrow $500, CT part, which would go to pay the city's debt.
 The Southern New England Tele- phone company was granted a peti- tiOn whereby they will be allowed to ys IL purpose of laying pipes for their wires. The petition also called for the placing of nlanhole in Valley street. This is to be done at the expense of the teIe- phone company.
 The treasurer was authorized to pay to Mr. Bredschneider the sum of $50 for a decd of a piece of land on Jack son street.
 The report of the street committee on the survey of Chapman street was next given, and it was referred back to the street committee, as nothing definite had been obtained in the mat ter. City Engineer Robert E. Mitchell was present at the meeting and he told of his investigations in the mat ter. He found that when Willimantic was borough it was decided to have this street as a city street, but no grant Of land by any of the people liv- ing on that street could be found. In 1888 it was voted to make city street of it, but nothing further is found until in 1907 the records show that the street and land cost the city $15, 5000 Corporation Counsel T. J. Kelley stat ed that the records of the sales could no doubt be found in the records in the cffice of the town clerk This matter will be looked into further and a re- port will be made at the next meeting of the board.
 The bills were then read and ac- In1 Io T