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Show City Council. Meeting of the City Council, Tuesday Tues-day evening, Mayor Wells presiding, i Petition of Wyoming Coal and Mining Company, representing that on the 1st ot March, 1K74, they applied ap-plied for license as coal merchants, basing their application on the average aver-age amount of monthly sales for the year ending March l6t; that they have on hand a large amount of coal which they had stored to guard against being left without coal in case of a blockade on the U. P. R. R.; that the Recorder refused to issue a license on said application, saying tho am -Hint of stock on hand at the time of making application was the basis upon which the license must be issued; and asking that the recorder be instructed to issue the license on the basis ot the average monthly sales of the last year, was referred to the Committee on License. Petition of J. C. Little, Thomas Fitch and others, asking that a plank-walk plank-walk belaid across Second East street, on the north side ol First South street, was granted. Petition of the committee on water for the Agricultural Park, asking the privilege of controling the water from the springs in Union Square and the block west of the same, and that they be granted the right of way totake the water in pipes to the park, was referred to the committee on improvements. improve-ments. ! A communication was received Irom William Wiliis, stating that tants was entitled to a free postal delivery, providing the houses were systematically numbered, and requesting re-questing the council to authorize him to number the houses in the city,per-mitting city,per-mitting him to charge a fee lor the same, was referred. The Superintendent of the Insane Asylum presented the bill of expenditures expendi-tures at the Asylum for the month of February, amounting to S-J54. Amount appropriated. The committees to whom was referred re-ferred the auditor's quarterly report, and claims against the city, reported that they found them correct. Report Re-port adopted. The bill for boarding city prisoners, during the month of February 2413 meals at locts. per meal, amounting to $3til.9o was allowed. Some bills were presented and referred; re-ferred; others were allowed. Fifteen hundred and sixty dollars was appropriated to tne Supervisor Super-visor of Streets for services during the year 1873. Petition of Charles Popper and sixteen six-teen others, askiug that a wooden walk be laid across Commercial street on First South street, was referred re-ferred to the Committee on streets and alleys. Adjourned till next Tuesday cven-ii cven-ii g at 7 o'clock. |