Show THE WORK OF THE COUNCIL great number of sessions session leu held and many more in ill sight ZD THE 11 AND ITS REDUCTION F members who AV it a object to being docked of their pay wison absent tax notices number avator wat or main payers tired avid and wanting their money hack back any ono one who trials tho the lot ot of a city Counell councilman inan mi all enviable one li Is away a ot till big reckoning so AO far air it lit tile ibo pro city counell council Is concerned at loust no council to la tho the history of aIt LuLo city bad ba bad so costly important como before U lt not norbu has ROY auy other over half tile tho work that thai alks body liso bu since tile council took char chimpo goof of municipal affairs in Velio lutry lul last lt it has field thirty no boo regular and twenty four walong this Is id a total of fitly fifty ovo add to this ono ot of tilo board wo we biro a total sit of six wee meetings tings ot of tho the city council arica february at va 73 per LUIS makes a total of gf that atio ot of abo be councilmen havo onit cast the city in the tha face or of this tho the city chiy council has bas now lb lotion in alio inco facts al twenty more sessions for the luo of 0 the ibo revision rOT lalun of tile city 1 the city babary ordinance provides that tile abo of A Cou millman shell be per annum and as 5 for or each special session eslon this city treasurer has baa been docking the al ibo end anil SAY ov orul oral ot of them tire bloking they claim that their pay goes coca on whether they uro are press or oot the mutter will B allt probably bo be ought brought b before the council at ka an early da ion a wiser and 4 more weary irjary council that saturday night wound up the work of equalizing the oily city tile the had been is herculean one twenty ono one might swore spout consi appe alsand and to lo protests pro lotts ibo com un on barskie spent two lights lir the hearing a and ad ot half dodoo committee on oa corborn items put lu in days of bard work checking up dp the tho the board listened to complaints durin during dueing ing its first ten sessions esslonia ess loni abo about of those wore appeals fur for als on it LO count of at property 2511 of tile belr being from widow evident OD 00 abate of taxes acro mado to abo or of about protests were veto mado made against the anti on those reductions wera mado made to the tha amount of this knocks off air the ibo tux tax the Abbes at the of tho the work filed and aad naked asked approval a list lint of corrections cor reel loo whlor iolob leads a I 1 further bet her reduction ft CC or a ME of s ibis la Is a total reduction lu in tile city ases assessment of OO liSL upon joon this silo tax would bo be bif W 1 sa 6 add to this the amount of abatements had it gives a total reduction to la the talons for lite current year ot of there were some raises to la isis eastment not because there was a kick but ir as there was rooms nona tile tha council thought bt it would look into tile tho rustier committees went to look after the iha railroads street creot railways railway the ibo telephone and aad gir gas companies and as a to ro sule suit these properties wore were raised sums footing tip dp SlIT IW in an increase in taxes of cf 10 40 leaves a not reduction in ID city taxes of 2522 theao figures do dot include the rodco items la in tho the bunk bank assessments orb which ch wit to several hundreds of thousands of the assessor has baa not as aa yot yet those abo in out tho the board of blosso everybody saturday it ft lady stopped ioto into tho the Asies assessor sor nod and collectors collector allies to pay bor taxes 1 I tried to got bet tile amount red reduced acted but she he sold said nolvat bat was the matter mahlor mat lor asked clork clark lytle 1 well thoro there as A mno man titre that bat sh 4 too up before I 1 c got a chance to benlo wua was the abo answer 1 city assessor leonard will ina in A fow few days day ond out in more oretan tax no a as t ahn he t fomond 0 cond dorticos warning t the he property pro porty cow downor 0 boroo of the approaching it delinquency of t heir taxes when these will havo have boco been riven into charge of posta lastor benton bo be will havo have used over two envelope there bua boo been oo do licking of postage statutes but nevertheless there much allacco to rest about mr leonards ollice office 1 1 A number of at people who havo have paid into tho he city treasury their for extensions will petition the city council to rot rain ura a title thin money looney to them until unit tl almo a as a ili abo s extensions extension ure tire to bo be made A considerable part of ebid money was w paid as far car back as aa bl my sy tho the superintend oot ant ot of waterworks Water works to la rendy ready to la go on with tho the extensions and nd bas bad boon for a couple of 0 months but too lio has haa no pipe to malto thom ibern alib ab the abo deadlock between the mayor nod and the on waterworks Water works still con the abo committee stouts determined to pur chato the pipe without tho the assistance ot at tho the mayor aud and have hato resorted to co one plan after another to 10 attain ibis end so far they azo not beon been successful and how long they will keep up the truffle struggle can only bo be conjectured la in the the people cant wall wait for water e the city attorney bad ha fillod ao an on the resolution offered by mr lite 1 kiloh fall that the city fulvo lu its flight too lu refuse to answer gur gar elsbee proceedings ilo homa holds that whilo ucb such a resolution la is legal cat it would bo be poor POPOY to adopt jt sod nod ad fiacos against oab action the city council ho he thinks had bollor act oo on cases than to adopt a rulo which might result lo in hardship to da serving men 0 loan are keen on tho the trail of a an dog but abey occasionally rem ran aerate a banlue that they flioy doul dont ono duy day last weak darkey george was out with the wilson and stopped in front of supervisor IIi Ill mosso bongo saw asbed berd thoro there bad took after bins but mr mea told him blin the cho taxes abc wore paid havo you may boy more delps doi asked george ye yes wo we livo coo other she abo said raid 1 I trot him anti out derst the catcher mrs mr allou called to the door the blit big mastiff that in seen following the Us ho li Is probably tho the biggas gost canine la in the city georges eyes byox fairly bulged out auto of his bla loud lead whom when begaw t uw the animal koca cap him right der dar lie he ald said 11 1 1 I 1 doa dean wan dat corot nod jumping on the wagon bo be drove off in basto mr 7 n bai bied with the city recorder a protest paying the tux tax ou on a dox dog bo be owns the tx tax ho he bays IS illegal bod and that there Is h no warrant lu ats law for its if coli aLtIon however paid tile tho in tax GJ galu lu bs bad gathered 1 la tho if dog doff mod lio be enough of aitto it to save RT it from rom the s ax to probably the kaul sanitary tary inspector mad A telephone lolo cama caino to the onice dillon tile tho odbur day calling big bl litigation to a dead kni cial out a on twelfth fast ua lie cult coot a wagon nut cot after the iho carona caroms aos and oo on arrival there found tho the body of a tiny little puppy oot not moro more than four inches in length from tip to tip ills II 11 Is wrath had cooled slightly when the reporter met him bleu and ho be wax was inclined to join la in t tb be laugh at big hl own expense U said that on I 1 forner arm nor 0 cc 10 it bo bad no kod t li arton colne tolne blocke its a actor flo arthe the or adf of it chin klou frequently on compla ingot of a dead ito sent a wagon to find noth I 1 ng but a dead cut car rills howls r 0 bo be i said was not 0 annoying us to lo 10 bv e cut C lor for tc so abate abaco a soui batica and to 10 nothing but family J |