Nome tri-weekly nugget., 1919-05-07
CITY COUNCIL INSTRuCTS CITY ATTORNEY TO DEFEND SUIT TO UNSEAT COUNCIL
 MAN MAYNARD.

third session at the City Hall Monday
 evening with all members present.
 Following the reading of the minutes
 and their approval, the clerk read d
 communication from the School Board requesting the sum of s70O for current
 school expenses. The request was
 granted, A communication from Clerk
 of the Court Thomas McGann notify
 ing the council to take action regard
 ing the special election for Alaska del
 egate to Congress June in accord
 ance with the special writ of election
 issued by Governor Riggs. Council
 man Tafnutzer, chairman of the Street Department, reported that practically i iall of the drains are opened and the
 few still closed will be attended to at
 once, ATr. Tarnutzer said that he had
 also inspected the various bridges and ieved should be done to improve their condition. The Dry Creek bridge he 1 stated, is in a dangerous condition and in need of immediate repairs. Council man Mlot volunteered the remark thati
 he had also been looking over the bridges, and gave it as his opinion that the Dry Creek bridge was perfectly safe for teams to cross. The diver gence of opinon created no comment
 from the council.
 A communication was also read em- bracing the joint reports of the Coun- cil and Chamber of Commerce com mittees on the question of devisng ways an means for the city to de- rive revenues from the traffic of SnakaI River harb ,r when that important i'm pavement is completed. The report will be reproduced in full in the next issue of the Nugget owing to lack of space in this issue.
 On behalf Of the Health and Relief committee, chairman SeidenvcrS, re- ported that extremely unsanitary con ditions existed on certain portions of Steadman Avenue, but added that the parties who were responsible thereof would make ;r cleanup themselves. The bonds of the City Clerk and City Treasurer were submitted to the coun cil and received approval. Under the head of new business the City Clerk was instructed to post and publish notices of the special Delegate election ion issued by the governor
 The council then proceeded to nom- mate and appoint the election judges and other officials. R. w. Bowen, C. l C. Crooks and NJ. w. Griffith were sell ected as judges of election from sever | al names submitted and C. w. Thorn | ton and Jas. McDou"all were designat- ed as clerks.
 Councilman Peterson brought up taxes and rendered q motion that the | council remit penalties and accrued | interest on delinquent taxes on or be- | fore May 25th. The motion also in cluded provision that the City Alt torney be instructed to enforce collect | ions of delinquent taxes after that | date under the provisions of Ordinance 231 The motion was adopted. The | City Clerk was also instructed to ask 1 for bids for the publication of the del- inquent Personal Tax roll. The coun- cil then defined its attitude toward the legal action recently filed in the Dis trict Court with view to unseatng Councilman Maynard on the ground l that he was not regularly nominated 1 and elected by appointing the City At torney to defend the suit. Council man Seidenverg brought the matter to focus by moving that the City At torney be instructed to appear and defend the action against Councilman Maynard and also contesting the act elected member of the council Coun- cilman Tarnutzer stated that he bel ieved that a motion of such character was hardly necessary, as he surmised it was in the nature of a natural duty
 for the City Attorney to defend a case
 contesting action of the council. May
 or Holt called for vote on the motion. Councilman Cavey, Maynard, Peter