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Show City Council. Meeting of tho city council Tin day evoning, Mayor Little pruaiding: I'dtit on of Alexander Me Rao and lilty-uiht others, residents of the 11th waul, atking that lho delinquent taxes of said ward bo appropriated to repair, upon the streets iu tho same, was received, and $100 was appropriated appropri-ated as prayed for. Petition of 1). Stuart and twenty others, asking that suitable ditches bo made to drain certain spring in the 16th ward, was referral to the committee com-mittee on streets and alk-ys. Petition of M. Collinson and nineteen nine-teen others, representing ih it a curtain cur-tain house ou Franklin avenue w.is resorted lo tor purpose of prostitution, prostitu-tion, and was a source of annoyance and otlenso to the paiitiui.cn), and asking that it be abalod as a nuia-aui-e. Keferrod to the marshal. Thomas Parsons woa granted tho privilege ot erecting a platform over the ditch in front at his store on First South street. The mayor presented hirt report of expenditures during August, September Sep-tember and October irotn tho contingent con-tingent fund appropriated to him. lho report wag approved, and $000 was appropriated to bo added to tho , contingent fund in the hands of the mayor. The comtuiitee on license recommended recom-mended thai tho license on express business bo reduced from $100 lo $00 per annum. The recommendation was adopted, and tho committee on municipal laws was instructed to pre-sent pre-sent a bill for au ordinance in accordance accord-ance therewith. The committee on municipal laws presented a bill for an ordinauce repealing an ordinance granting liquor license to hotels aud restaurant keepers. The bill was read and duly ! passed. 1 The city attorney's salary for No-vember, No-vember, $166$, was appropriated. Council adjourned till next Tuts lay evening at 7 o'clock. |