Show THE CITY COUNCIL all AH of bountiful city councilmen were present at the meeting held wednesday evening feb mayor F isher fisher presided claim of miss florence barlow amounting to for typewriting was allowed claim of john F isher fisher for costs in in appeal from the district to the supreme co court urt in the case of bountiful city vs john fisher amounting to 1750 was read and referred to committee on claims the amendment to the merchants license ordinance passed by the council at the last session was read and parts of it recon re con si dered the mayor stated stat ea several reasons why in his opinion the rate of a merchants license where the alie capital invested is over oner I 1 2000 0 should C not have been raised from 1 to for each additional 1000 or fraction thereof the advisability of creating a few more specific licenses was also discussed for example when there is no special mention made iu in the ordinance and a person starts in business lie he is simply classed asa merchant and the license he is to pay is determined by the amount of capital ho he has invested heretofore a person who run a doll rack or an ice cream business was NN as called a merchant and taxed at the rate of za 5 per year the minimum charge for a ine merchant reliant now a special license lias has been provided for running doll rack it was thought it to single oil out t farm machinery which is is now classed as merchandise another matter of importance was considered namely where a merchant does business here with a stock which lie he constantly replenishes from another stock in salt lake rna many 11 y t times 11 ii CS la larger rc I 1 A whether bother v the license should bo be estimated on oil the local or tile the salt lake stock tile the mayor was authorized to get le legal leal al advice on this point the retail liquor license ardi nanca was reconsidered to try to reduce it from to per or year but the amendment was defeated the tha mayor stated that eliat willard call hall a agreed reed to furnish room and act as librarian for tile the proposed public library for 15 per month and that U per month had been donated by citizens toward defraying expense aud and lie he said that tile the library cow committee cittee had arhea jim to lay hie leatter before the council to get what assistance si it coald co ild r render the fathers voted ga 5 a month for the enquin ensuing three months commencing 11 3 with march 1st ast some informal talk was ind indulged ul n in in regards to fixing up tile the r roads oads sidewalks ind and bridges ad in ill different parts of the city which was followed with a 20 appropriation to fix 11 up p the sidewalk from the dummy in in my station to lamoni calls corner it wasa was agreed reed that men with their teams should receive 2 per day of ten hours bours for hauling bauling gravel ravel street committee was authorized to repair the pipe line that supplies the water trough at lucy Thur in goods corner mayor stated that the on engineer n who is running preliminary surveys for the projected elec electric t ric line from salt lako lake to ogden had asked him which side of main main street lie he thought 1 would bo be preferable to run the track on the mayor said he favored it passing through h the center of blocks on oil a line between the lots and not coming on main street at all the eai engineer incer told him that it was the design to run the cars as fast as fifty miles an hour to make the trip from salt lake to ogden and return in three hours A union electric light 7 power co companas comp inpan anys ys a gent agent also asked the mayor this week as to what kind of a patronage his company might in look for if they were to tap tile main line at woods cross and prepare to supply lio light and power here this ag agent ge tit stated that his company was going to f furnish ur tile the power for the new street car line adjourned to wed march marc li 14 at 1 p in mi |