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Show OX TO SALT AIR. THE FRANCHISE FOR RICHT OF WAY ON SOUTH TEMPlE. Messrs. Bfteoa and WUkea Cited to shon CftttSS Why Their Rlajht - of - Wily Should Not be tiiiulled- Tim City I'rUoiiei- a Luxury. Council met in regular session, Mayor Scott in the chair and Councilmen SpatTord, Heath, Pendleton, Folland, Hyde, Hardy, ' Young. Tndderhiini, Anderson, I.ynu and Pardons present. A number of petitions were read and disposed dis-posed of. Sniiiind St. Carlisle, lute inspector of c ross walks filed a communication in which he invites investigation into the manner in which he was beheaded and concludes in the following peroralory manner: "I know that I am only a working man, but I hope, tint in a q fetation Of equity, jostle, fair piny and right." Referred to committee on streets. The names of T. M. Johnson, C. A. Carlson and Joe Davenport were added to Detective Franks' rosier of special police. Wendell Bemon asked a twenty-yea? franchise fran-chise for the Salt Lake Natural lias company, com-pany, grunting the company the right and Use of the streets in which to lay and maintain gas mains and service pipes wit h whii h to supply the inhabitants with gas. Referred to the committee on streets. A claim nf .IJ mail'- by the Pacific Pa ing company submitted by ihe board of public works was laid on the table. The bill is for repairs made to payment on State street, H hieh the city engineer is of the opinion the Implement company should meet. In the matter of the petition of Dubois Biid Williams asking to be released from certain work on the tank it was referred to the committee on water works. The street committee made a number of recoinmcndutious anil concluded as follows: Wo reCOmmend that the city recorder be directed to notify -limit s II. Bacon to show I cause within sixty days why the fraam bise granting him 11 right id way through certain streets of Salt Luke: City for a railroad should not be forfeited; and that Hie same nottce be given Kdnmnd W ilke-in the matter of the franchise of the Salt Lake, llailey A 1'ugct Sound railway frauehise." The report of police magistrate (ice for the month of December, showed that MM had been collected in tines and t'slll paid in labor through his portal-. The street committee returned the. report of the street supervisor for the (planer w ith the recommendation that it be received and placed on tile. In their report the committee again culled the attention of the council to tlie matter of prison labor and slate Unit it cost the city fs'.HI lo guard spj worth of labor, and that an Item bail come under their ... notice where the City paid 2". 4 for guard. 1 ing prisoners who did just j:t worth of labor. We submit," the report says, "this is not fair to tin' street department, and protest againsl Ihe showing that it makes. If the -ireet department work the prisoners and charge itself with the work it is as much as should he asked, and Ihe pay of the guards should be provided for from some other source :" The matter, after some debate in which Ihe mayor suggested that they be put on the rack pile, was referred lo tho committee on police and streets. The committee on irrigation, to which was referred the complaints concerning overflows of water from t ity creek, stated that it had been traced to some malicious' person who had cut Ihe embankment, but, In order to protect properly from seepage water, the committee recommended that the owners of the pond be allowed to construct 11 ditch from Ninth West to F.igbth West stree'.s, and that portion of the pond on Ninth West street be discontinued and made to conform with the oilier portion of the street. Adopted. The committee on streets recommended ns an equitable plan that all street-car cotnpnn ies be required to pay into the city treasury a given amount per car, and that the given amount be llxcd at $3.r per car. Laid over for one weok. A petition signed by Hi freeholders was received, protesting against the annexation of certain suburbs and in support of their position set up the followlug: First We nie content to reside outside of the 1 ornoi lite limits for lh-present, believing that it. will be a burden upon us to be annexed at the present time. Second- We represent, as landowners, 1 1 4 (if the property owners within said district, and as such protest against said annexation. Third That the requirements of the law art not compiled with In the petition presented by s. J. Paul and fiftv-seven others, an I itdoes not const! tute the required two fifth- of the property owners of tho said district, as will be shown by the slgna teres of this document. Fourth -That the proposed line of mid district Is an unnatural one. as ii dnlles property asunder, as-under, leaving part of a lot in the new and art in the old district, without any street between, and in some instances striking through homes. Fifth That tills db ision -is ma le without our knowledge or consent, with a view of bringing us into the city, as now proposed hv the advertisement, advertise-ment, on Penrnsrv -', 1S!2, all of which and other reasons, we are oppo-o I to, and would respectfully respect-fully ask for a reconsideration of the matter to nl' 'fit, that wo may not be brought into the city limits against ourwishos, interests and our protests. pro-tests. The ordinance granting n franchise to the Saltair Railway company along Third South from the corner of Sixth West to the city limits was taken np and afier an amendment patting th(' entrance of the, road on South Temple was adopted. The memorial to Ihe governor and legislature legis-lature asking that no further action be taken oil the election bill until the joiut committee make- it report on the city charter was adopted. , , The followiilg appropriations were made nnd the council adjourned: st. Mark s Hospital W. For sidewalk intersections s.j.lt K. r. sau I"1" a. w. Oalne & t o fi sW J. C. Dowlin e-00 I Total jSStf |