Show ITT 1 COUNCIL Proceedings at the City Council Tuesday evening January 31st 1832 Mayor Little presiding A petition was submitted from Henry Grow and fortyseven others residents of Centre street and vicinity vicin-ity asking the Council to order the early completion of the survey of said street and those intersecting it and to have stakes put at the I corners of said streets as heretofore recommended and ordered by the I Council Also that the City surveyor sur-veyor be instructed to ascertain and report to the Council the most practicable prac-ticable grade for Centre street and the width and grade of its sidewalks side-walks so that future improvement may be made according to established estab-lished grade and the necessity of I changing or destroying improvements improve-ments be avoided in future The petitioners asked also that Centre street be continued the same width north of Apricot street as it is south of said street viz four rods so as to protect aa much as possible the improvements alrea ly Hiadeon said I street Referred to the committee on streets and alleys I A communication was read from Dr S B Young suggesting that Dr Clinton quarantine physician be I I sent to Ogden City to learn definitely defin-itely as to whether or not there be cases of small pox in that place Referred to the Mayor to take such actiou as his judgment may deter mine John B Wilson Nineteenth Ward petitioned for the privilege of conveying water in pipes from a certain spring at the intersection of Seventh North and Second West streets to his residence on block 156 plot A Salt Lake City Survey for culinary purposes and for an indefinite period Referred to the committee on streets and alleys The Salt Lake Dramatic Association Associa-tion per its secretary DMcKenzie petitioned for a lemittance of 3100 of the lieense prescribed by ordinance ordi-nance for running the Salt Lake I Theatre during the ensuing year The license for running the theatre being S200 per annum it was claimed by the petitioner that as the Salt Lake Theatre was open less than half the nights in the year it should pay but half the fee for license Granted S J Newman and twentythree others residents in the vicinity of Second North and Seventh West streets petitioned for a foot bridge to be placed across the canal at the intersection of mid streets Referred Re-ferred to the committee on ° treets and alleys A petition was submitted from H M Wells in the employ of the city as clerk asking In consideration considera-tion of the amount or the labor by him performed as prewovsly investigated inves-tigated and reported upon by the committee on finance and in pursuance pursu-ance of a former expression of the Council favorable thereto that sufficient suf-ficient appropriation be made to increase in-crease his salary for the past year to S100 per month Granted The committee on public grounds to whom was referred the petition of J T Little and LeGrand Young setting forth that in 1873 or 3874 they purchased of Isaac Groo then agent for Salt Lake City what they supposed to be blocks 185 ISO 187 and 188 of Plat D Salt Lake City surrey and that it was subsequently subse-quently discovered that an error hid been made and they became the possessors of other blocks etc and asking that an exchange be made or I that tney be allowed to purchase at a fair consideration the blocks they originally intended to buy sub I mitt tl l report recommending that the Slay or be authorized to sell said i blocks to the petitioners for the sum of 50 per block Adopted Tbr committee on public grounds to whom was referred the petition of Erastus Snow John R Winder and S R Thurman in behalf of the Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Manufac-turing Society asking the Corporation Corpora-tion or SaltLake City to appropriate appropri-ate Washington Square for the use of said society on such conditions as might be deemed just and equitable reported that they had given the I matter due consideration and recommended re-commended that the east half of Washington Square be appropriated for the purposes set forth in the petition viz The eiectjpn of permanent per-manent exhibition bra J1ings for fair purposes The conditions of the grant as recommended by the committee were in the main to be the same as those under which Union Square was granted for university uni-versity purposes with the further proviso that the present grant be I made only upon the wcpress condition condi-tion that the Legislature make a suitable appropriation for the erection erec-tion of permanent buildings When this condition shall shall have been complied with on the part of the Legislative Assembly to the satis fae ion of the City Council then the Mayer to be authorised to have the I neeES V documents prepared and presented to the Council for ratifica fiat Adopted I The committee on firedepartment to whom was referred the annual report of the chief engineer ef the Salt Lake fire department for 18S1 reported that they had examined the same and found the department in good condition as reported The committee recommends that the sum of 6500 The appropriated to the firemen for services during the yeac ISSlto be distributed und F direction of the chief enginer and that the sum of 61000 be appropriated for the purehase of nev hose and equipments equip-ments Adopted The following bills for the month of January i sS2 were presented and allowed Fire department expense ex-pense bills S1B225 Andrew Burt jailor for prisoners board2222 meals lUc per meal S8110S e f t i > medical attendance and medicine to city prisoners 3175 John Aird janitorof the city hall and assistant jailor 00 rent of telephone mm February 1st to April 30th three months 515 I The bills of three of the deputy registrars for services in registering voters in the First Third and Fourth Municipal Wards of the I city were submitted for action aid allowed at the rate of SS a day as follows James Harvey eleven days S83 Robert Smith twelve days S26 Jos W Burr nine days S27 I An appropriation of 25840 was made to pay a note given by the city to E F Sheets of date August 4th 1881 for 6250 with 59 months interest thereon at 7 per cent per annum The city attorney in pursuance of instructions by the Council presented pre-sented a bill for an ordinance licensing and regulating the manufacturing selling or ether disposition of spirituous vinous vin-ous and malt liquors the provisions of which were in conformity confor-mity with the amendments to the city charter made by the Legislative Legisla-tive Assembly The bill as reported re-ported provides that the license for places where liquor is sold but not drank on the premises shall be S250 per quarter For places where it is sold by the dram and drank on the premises the license is fixed at 3300 per quarter To manufacture liquor within the city the license iso is-o be 100 per quarter The hour IIr closing saloons at night is set at eleven oclock Applications for a liquor licenses are to be made to the City Council The bill provides that no liquors shall be sold or otherwise disposed of on Snnday election days or on any public holi dayexcept by druggistsand by them only on prescription of n licensed physician No business of any kind is to be permitted to be carried on about the premises where liquor is sold during the hours wherein the sale of liquor is by the ordinance prohibited Punishment for violations viola-tions of the ordinance in any particular partic-ular are to be by fine in any sum not exceeding S100 or imprisonment imprison-ment in the city jail for any period not exceeding fifty days or both such tine and imprisonment The bill passed one reading and was ordered printed Adjourned for one week |