Show The City Fathers The city solons met at the City Hall yesterday afternoon at the usual hour there being present the Mayor Hon D Ecclea Aldermen Thomas D Dee John Watson and Councilors Clark Boyln Jackion timuin and Brown Theminutes of the previous Council meeting were read and adopted N B Briggs asked the Council to extend the time for him to pay the balance due on his city lot one year The Recorder explained that the interest had boon regularly paid after whictrthe Reco der was empowered to grant the extension Martha Jeweler through the Recorder Re-corder asked tile Council to remit 5 oat of 1750 the amount of her taxes After some little discussion on the subject sub-ject the matter was referred to the committee on claims A letter was read from the City Attorney At-torney to E T Hulantske the agent of the Oman Pacific Railway Company nsking the company to pay the sum of 10 as compensation for the detention deten-tion of city teams which were delayed one fourth i of a day by trains crossng the streets and I obstructing the street traffic A letter was hlso read from the companys attorney at-torney stating that the citys claim was a proper one and that it would be advisable for them to pay the 10 The matter was referred to the committee on municipal laws 11 Alderman Dee for the committee on laws asked forfurther time tu which to prepare a report on the subject ot petitioning peti-tioning the Legislature to increase the borrowing poweof the city Granted Councilor Boyle reported for the water committee that the necessary precautions to keep tie Hydrants in good condition during the cold weathe ready to meet an emergency of fire have been made The protracted d4s wnte with Si ney Stevens has not Yet beenwettledl Report accepted Alderman Dee reported for the street committee that 10750 had been expended ex-pended on the streets t and 105 of that amount had been collected for work done by the street supervisor some time ago Report accepted Councilor Ja ksin on pubjic bmld ings reported that a ebedhad I ben erected for the eatray pound at a cost of X15 They wanted urHlW time to consider the question of sewerage and water carts which wee granted The Street t > uj ervisorprsenttd a port on poll tx which uliawed 29535 0 had been collected la > catr and work had bees don hi lien of cash to nthe Value of 977 50 The work dolt > hat been on Third Fifth Eighth Fr rfkliri Pearl Smith and Main Strteib and lance in Moun i Fort and eiiataod west also in the gravel pit A list of din qrr < itt Poll t1 narrrs wat read and referred re-ferred back to tIle Hupervisur The Su perri + or in his report embodied a detailed de-tailed < < description of ih > varlods classes ofw1rk done during the season with thejcjst of each which ahows a total expenditure on street improvements of 628 75 which incudrs3 920 paid by private citizens for work on ptrsona real property Report accepted and filed The Recorder read A report of the receipts re-ceipts aqd disbursements of the city for the threfrihonthsiending December 31 1BS7I Thl ewdna3 respectivelyi 18 42811 andl17 222181 leaW abalnoce l in treasury of 1203 9G on January 188S Referred to finnce committee Conncillor Clark in behalf of the Fire Company extended an invitation to the City Council Jo attend their sociable 0 be heldJn thelYoodmanspe RaIl on the 27th inst The Inyifatioh was accepted ac-cepted The Mayor asked for further time to IQO again into thl jmrftter oLtheaa sesment of the Utah iNafional Bank He explain ed than ori r a < basis of 40 her cent onthe stock the assessment assess-ment of each of the city banks would le the Couimtrcial Na tiocali aW rfhe OFaff KiitJonal 5H8J8C01 add the First Natiofa ir > liOO inatead of 75600 72000 ati 50000re spectivily assessed The extension of time va allowed t j Con n bh the ark cal IeH aFten uQATtn fie I pipe 6n the Brorfui Hotel buY if th street which emptied its wat ron the > use walk canning through the cold bather r tdcfrfem 4hiji to water vbich is dangerous topedesfrians Phi Uar liaJ was requested to see Mr lirooin again in th matter cr sfht uauali l i blue were t bread r dnijS irter d to bt pAM arfdthe CO DCII adjourned journed for two weeks |