The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-02-20
OFFICIAL COUNCIL
PROCEEDINGS
rebrnary /, 1917, 9 a. m.

Council met in regular session with
all members present, Mayor Lotion
presiding. Meetings Of January 70.
80 and 81. 1917, were read and ap-
proved. There being no further bust
ness, Council upon motion, adjourned.
ED. S. LOTION,
Attest: Mayor.
O. w. SANDBERG, City Clerk.
February 5, 1917. a. m.
Council met in regular session with
all members present, Mayor Lotion
presiding. Minutes Of meeting OF
February 1st, 1917, were read and
approved.
Resolution No. 273.
Be it resolved, By the City Council
OF the City of Keokuk:
That the following pay rolls and
bill be, and they are hereby approx
ed and ordered paid:
Warrant No. 1882, Sewer ..... $7S &c
Warrant No 1898. Street 49,. q. "a
Warrant No. 1894, River Front 6.75
Warrant No. 1895. County Road 6.45
Warrant No. 1895. Park $500. 15.O 90
Warrant No. 4s37, Fire ....... 1900
Warrant No. 1888, H. Alderman,
damage to wagon and har-
ness, Fourth and Ridge, Gen.
eral o.VV
Roll call:
Aye-Lofton, Hilpert, Hickey.
ED. S. LOTION.
Attest: Mayor.
o. w. SANDBERG, City Clerk.
Resolution No. 274.
Be 1t resolved. By the City Council
OF the City of keokuk:
That the City Clerk be, and he is
/ he f1 W. n
No. 1899, for the sum of $500, same
being in full settlement OF claim OF
Mrs. May Dobson against the City Of
Keokuk, for damage to household
goods while being hauled on Ridge
street at the corner of Fourth, on or
about the 2Sth day OF January, 1917,
caused by deep hole in said street
Roll call:
Aye-Lofton, Hilpert, Hickey.
ED. S. LOTION,
Attest: Mayor.
o. w. SANDBERG, City Clerk
Resolution No. 275.
Be 1t resolved by the City Council
OF the City of Keokuk, that it is
! deemed advisable and necessary to
make improvements by grading be-
tween sub-grade and established
grade, pave with concrete and curb
with cement. the grading to be done,
the foundation to be prepared and
paving and curbing to be constructed
in accordance with specifications to
be prepared by the City Engineer,
and approved by the City Council,
the following named streets and parts
OF streets, to-wit:
Palean street from the east line Of
Thirteenth to west line of Fourteenth
street: Fulton street from the west
line Of Fifteenth to the east line Of
Sixteenth street; Orleans avenue from
the east line Of Fifteenth to west line
OF Sixteenth street; Fourteenth
street from the south line Of Sey-
mour to the south line OF Grand
avenue.
Also by grading between sub-grade
and established grade, and pave with
concrete, Fourteenth street from
porth line of Orleans avenue to south
line of Seymour street.
The expense Of making said inn
provements to be assessed against
all privately owned lots and parcels
of land abutting thereon and ada
cent thereto, according to area, SO
as to include one-haH OF the pri-
vately owned property between the
streets improved and the next street.
whether such privately owned prop
erty abut upon said streets or not.
but in no case shall privately owned
property situated more than three
hundred (300) feet from the streets
so improved be so assessed, (and
against the street railway COM
pany whose tracks are located
thereon), to the extent that
the same is assessable by law, said
assessments to be made in accord.
ance with the law governing the
seine.
Be it further resolved, that the
City Council will meet at o'clock
a. M, on the ed day of February
1917, in the council chamber in the
City of Keokuk. for the purpose OF