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Show IMPORTANT CITT LEGISLATION. The cityeouneil did some good work last night. Three important ordinances were carefully considered and finally paned. One was the street paving ordinance or-dinance which seems to meet all the requirements. re-quirements. The same m y lie said of an ordinance creating a board of public works. Now that these two biils have passed, it is safe to say that public pub-lic improvements will soon be systematically system-atically begun and carried on. The next step is the appointment of a board of public works which will be done as soon as Mayor Scott returns from the Pacific coast. When this is done the most important preliminary work in connection with the inauguration of a system of public work will be aeeom-lished. aeeom-lished. The arranging of these preliminaries prelim-inaries is necessarily slow, as it is highly important that in such matters it is advisable ad-visable to proceed carefully and safely so that no mistakes will be made in the future. All this requires time. Nevertheless Never-theless we think the conncil has made good progress during the time it has been in power. The third bill passed last evening was the health ordinance. It has beea carefully drawu with a view of covering all emergencies, and will probably prove generally satisfactory. If it is found tojbe defective wheii put into Sect, it can e asily be amended. |