Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-06
aTNEYs 0USIED FROM CENTER OF CITY
 COUNCIL PROBES SALE 0F CITY TIMBER

one dollar for each railroad tie ter cents, and for each cord of cordwoot piled up, fifty cents, payments to D. made within thirty days after .sai, Murphy removes said poles, ties or wool from the lands for shipment. Said Murphy shall have reasenabl rights of way on which to pass and -fe pass by himself and his representatives servants and agents, and for horses wagon and other vehicles on and ove said lands in order to cut trim sant carry away said poles, ties and cofi wood. In felling trees and In hauling h, any live trees, and lie shall take aal | necessary precautions against pollution of the waters in, or which flow into saie reservoirs or either of them
 The said board shall have the right tS have at the place or places where th. above described work is being carried aor or where said poles, ties or wood maj be gathered, such number of representa- tives for inspecting and listing sait poles, ties and wood as said board ma, designate
 On the completion of. the work to 5, performed under this agreement said Murphy will restore all roads used b, him to a condition as good as tia which the same were in when said worl was commenced.
 Dated at Norwich, Conn.,, Februar, r, 1919.
 Ignatius j. Murphy, L. S.; Walter W Lang. John H. Carney, Patrick F. Bray A. s. Comstock, H. Blackledge, Boart of Water Commissioners of the City O Norwich.
 After the reading of the report from MT. Comstock the following resolution was presented and adopted:
 Whereas from the report made to the present meeting of the court of common council it appears that a certain contract purports to have been made by the board of water commissioners on the seventeenth day of February 1913 with one Ignatius J. Murphy, which purport. ed contract has been ordered printed ir the council journal of this date and whereas
 Said contract does not appear to favs received the approval of the court oi common council nor to have been enter ed into under their direction as the charter provides, and whereas
 Walter W. Lang as president of thS board of water commissioners in his an. nual report dated April 1, 1919, or .ap- proximatefy six weeks after such pur. ported contract was signed says: "Or account of the chestnut blight all tim Der of this species should be removed from our water sheds and reforestatior with pine trees be considered" and fur. ther in said report Meadow Brook is not used for storage purposes therefore on account of the swanfpy nature oi this section I would advise cutting all timber and any cord wood" and whereas the conservation of the city's water supply and the proper fnaintafnance o1 the water sheds owned by the city is de. pendent to an extent upon their being forested, and whereas representations have been made that timber other than blighted chestnut trees to wit: sound yellow birch, oak and others to a large amount and of great value have been cut from the water sheds owned by the 'city, therefore
 Resolved, That Aldermen Pendfetot and PeaFe and Councilman Hagberg be and they hereby are constituted a spe- cial committee of the court of common council with full power to investigate the entire subject of the cutting of trees on the watersheds owned by the city, the entering into any contract for such cut ting and sale tl1e& amount approxirnatt value, quality, condition Of any such trees if so cut the disposition made oi su<n trets the methods if any used fl such disposition or sale, the present gen. eral condition Of the watersheds owned by the city, and all facts circufnst ances and conditions relating in any way to any cutting of timber and disposition ot the same on any and all of the water. sheds owned by the city during the past two years.
 Said committee is directed to report it's conclusions to the council, with such rec concentrations as 1t deems necessary and proper and it is authorized to employ such assistance as it may require
 Be 1t further resolved: that the board of water commissioners it's agents and employees be and they hereby are re. quested to extend all the facilities at their disposal to enable said special com. mittee is hereby empowered to inspect the books of the board of water com rnissioners for and on behalf of the council as the charter provides and that the clerk of the court of common coun- cil is hereby directed to forthwith trans nit to the clerk of the board of water commissioners a certified copy of this preamble and the resolutions following with a certified copy Of the action of the council on this same subject at it's meet ing held on August ?, 1920.
 To Protect City's Intersts.
 Immediately upon the adoption of tht foregoing resolution corporation counse was given power to take legal proceed ings through the following vote of tht council:
 Voted: That the corporation counse be and he hereby is, instructed and di rected to take such legal action in thu name of the city as may be required tt protect the interests of the city in the cutting and sale of any of the timber sawed OF other wood on the water shed. owned by the city.
 Two Charge Slips Presented.
 Besides the contract that was present ed to the council by Mir. Comstook thu only other records of any transaction re garding the sale and cutting of tinlbe on the property of the city on the wa, tersheds of the city were two charg slips, one dated November 3, 1919, an, one dated February 24. 1920. The sill of Novemhap is made out to N. ]. Murphy of Norwich, Conn, "to cuttint' Q wood on reservoir property-S500." mi slip was paid on that date.
 out to R. J. Murphy of Keene, N. H., ant reads as follows,
 e10 poles at $1 ............. S6160 s115 ties at &1o ............ 611.5 fs9.0S4 it. of lumber ........ 6364 s1,s5s. Paid on account ...........,. 5000