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Show I'll' 'OllllciI. Meeting of the City Council, Tuesday Tues-day evening, July b"i, Mayor Wells presiding. Petitions from salo-m keeper--, whu had taken out licenses under the old onlinauee, ?I")0 per ipiarter, nod ' whose licenses had not expired al ihe time of the passage of Ihe new oidi-naiice, oidi-naiice, $m2oQ per quarter, a.-king that tho amounts paid over the jiresi-nt license be refunded to them, Were referred re-ferred to the committee on license.--. A communication from Mr. G. '. Monroe, representing that he had ; been notititd to take out a license j a physician and surgeon, and al-o re- j presenting that he was practising neither profession, but was merely keeping bath rooms, and asking that he be not required to pay license as a a physician or surgeon, was referred to the committee on quarantine. Petition from the residents of Ihe Nineteenth Ward, asking that Ninth Xorth street he opened for travel faun First West to Seventh West streets, was referred to Ihe committee on street-s and alleys. Petition of Jane Tuibetl, representing repre-senting that she was a widow and had to support three children, and asking that the amount of license lor keeping a shop for the sale of goods in the Second Ward, be remitted for one year, was gran ten. Communication from E. X. Snider, asking the Council to adopt a lire alarm and police U'legraph system through the city, and nlso plans and specifications for tlie ('(instruction of the same, were referred to (he committee com-mittee on fire department, Petition of C. Forman, asking the privilege of laying water pipe from a ditch on the north bench to his residence resi-dence on Fourth East street, was re-feriLixl re-feriLixl to the watennasler. , The monthly report of Alderman Clinton, for the month ending June oOth, IcTi, read and accepted. The report showed the number of cases tried by the Alderman tobeK.1; cash lines 'collected, SI .010: labor fines collected, SllW.SO. I The Assessor's report for S7') was rend and accepted. It showed the taxable propertv in the city to be between -i.OUO.OUO and $7,000,000. The rate of taxation for (lie year was fixed at 3 of 1 percent. August Jlith, at 2 o'clock p.m. was appointed a day on which to hear appeals from the decision of the assessor. BSU-Petition BSU-Petition from N. lioukofcky it Co., and twenty-two others, liquor dealers, asking that the liquor ordinance be el uinged so as to hIImw saloons to be open from 4 a. in. to midnight, was referred to the committee on licenses. An ordinance wiw passed amending the license ordinance, so as to allow hole! and restaurant keepers to kcII spirituous and fermented liquors to their guest, at meals only, by paying a license fee of S00 per annum; and fixing the license on billiard tables at the following rates: One table, three months, $100; two tables. r?17o; three tables, S--o; each additional table, $2o. Also fixing the license for ten pin alleys at SoO per quarter, instead of $73, as by the old ordinance. -V conmui idea tion from Gen. Jl. A-Morrow A-Morrow and Dr. ft. Yollum, representing repre-senting thai the sl'uiyhter house immediately im-mediately wccf ' ' mp Douglas military reservation. . -t nuisance, and requesting that the same be removal, re-moval, was referred to the city attorney attor-ney with instructions to" take- steps for the immediate removal of the nuisance. nui-sance. Albert P. Dewey was appointed inspector in-spector uf stock, 1 Council adjourned to Tuesday evening, even-ing, July M, at 7 o'clock. |