Show BONDING PROVO CITY A resolution solution Ee providing for discussed hi MANY CLAIMS ARE PRESENTED over two thousand dollars worth of them allowed taft street railway wants another franchise city council mot landav night ular mayor booth in the chair file only absentee was councilor liddiard rrT iriONa AND communications A petition was received from joseph asking that a corrected u deed lie issued to him for fc rani piece af property owned by the petitioner referred to the cita attorney Ieti tiona were also received from william burbeck and robert birkin a akini for corrected mayors deeds to owned bv tho petitioners petition ers tabled A petition was received from E A wilson asking that the mayor be granted authority to issue corrected deeds to property owners whose deeda prove to be defective in tion tabled A petition was presented from mc bollings Bow lings and others asking that the or digance di hance regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors be ft mended so as to give dealers the privilege of keeping open their places of business 12 p m referred to the committee on streets and alleys inea A love and others aaker that a deed be granted to lues A love for a narrow strip of land on first street adjoining her premises and accept in lieu thereof the continuance of second street to its intersection of tho state road ite berred to the committee on streets and allays A communication was received from city inspector thieodore M samuelson calling the attention of the councilmen to the fact that the city ordinance in relation to the office and duties of the city inspector does not require that builders must submit their plans to the inspector before building and that the ordinance be amended to make it easier to enforce its regulations A communication was received from the provo city railroad company asking that an accompanying resolution amending the franchise be passed tabled A number of communications in relation to bonding alie city were referred to the committee on finance REPORTS OF CITY OFFICERS city attorney W H king reported on the petition of don it corny recommending that a mayors deed be issued to george baum for a certain piece of land held in adverse possession by him report adopted and mayor authorized to execute deed in conformity therewith city marshal john A brown reported on the claim of knud anderson recommending that the sum of 20 ba allowed for ilia services in removing an old house report accepted city attorney W H king reported that the tax cases now pending in the courts had been continued for the term by mutual consent awaiting a decision by the supreme court in cases city marshall john A brown pre dented his report for the month of april showing that 28 aneses had been made 19 head of stock impounded and atie sum of collected in fines by alie city justice the quarterly report of A A noon justice of the peace was presented and referred to the committee on police and city pison the treasurer andinor and supervisor were on motion of mr Maiben given until next meeting to present their reports OV committees air maiben reported lor the judiciary committee as follows to the city council of prevo cl y GENTLEMEN your committe on judiciary di ciary to whom was referred the report of the committee on finance instructing said committee to draft an ordinance authorizing the issuance of bonds respectfully report eliat we have considered the same and herewith submit the accompanying resolution H J MAIBEN chairman the report was adopted mr glazier for the committee on streets and alleys reported favorably on petition of provo L M B co apking permission to lay a side switch on first street the report was adopted mr in behalf of committee on public grounds and city property reported in relation to hauling coil on to the cita park fhe report recommended that alie contract bo awarded to G V jacques an ass adopted BUSINESS city attorney king le commended that the word owned bo substituted for claimed in a motion adopted at alie meeting the attorney suggesting there should be no doubt interred in alie order of the council as to alie proprietorship of the land in question and being illegally held by C on motion of mr dixon the suggestion althe attorney was complied with and tho word owned substituted fur claimed claim of the pro vo coop co op for was referred to the marshal alie following claims were allowed provo L M B co for lumber and other material S R thurman for legal services quarter ending March lat 50 provo L M B co for blanks and stationery bolm gie arr removing bodies from alie old cenie to y to new one S S jones for ivo rakes fur advertising and printing T E thurman and deputies sundry per cons for excavation on drain provo L M B co for lumber for drain win for removing nod burying dead animals ia george uin jr removing and burying dead horse 3 police bill for april 00 andrew stuwart for assisting bros for lamps 1610 prove L M B co for sun soren jensen ringing curfew ball 4 sidney vincent for teamwork and libor 5 henry stubbs teamwork and labor 10 the claim of alex wilkins for board i of prisoners amounting to was referred to alie committee on police any city prison mr dixon thought eliat some money should be raised to pay these claims at this hassion 0 has been appropriated pria ted and was not one hundred in the treasury and lie moved that the committee on negotiate a loan for mr maiben moved to amend by substituting sti mavor for committee on finance and instead of the amendment carried mr dunn regretted the council had not decided to borrow alie every cent of it would be needed right away alie fire edaine would ho here soon and improvements on the city park are in progress some further followed in which maiben dixon and participated alie original motion as amended was then carried unanimously mr dixon moved that a board of commission to take alie census of provo city be appointed for alie purpose of determining as to what class provo city UC 1 longed under the territorial law mr maiben reminded the council that there would be A government census boon taken and it would be neaily two years this before any necessity existed for proceeding on the part of the city mr dixon said it was in necessary view of certain provisions of the school law which would come in operation in july for the city to obtain an authorized census after discursion mr deion withdrew hia motion and then moved to refer the matter to an appropriate committee the mayor announced that the matter would be re referred to the committee on elections the following resolution was presented and on motion of mr maiben was adopted i there appears to be many deeds executed by the mayor of provo city under the townsite act that are defective in matters of form and WHEREAS in abstracting titles these errors and ommie detract from the real estate to which they refer therefore be it resolved that the mayor of provo city be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to make quit claim deeds to correct any and all errors or om mission in title heretofore given by the city where the same relates only to form but not where the city now claims any title either legal or equitable petitions for deeds from wm burbeck and robert birkin were referred to the mayor for execution mr maihen presented a bill for tha organization and regulation of a fire department part ment for provo city which was read the first time by its title and was placed on file for its second reading mr maiben called up a resolution having for iti object the bonding of provo city in the amount of for the purpose of inaugurating a system of water works in this city he moved that the resolution be placed on its passage the resolution was read the first time and passed its second reading after which mr maiben moved that the res juison be put on its third reading by sections which carried pending its third reading mr dunn moved that further consideration be postponed until the next meeting the resolution granting a franchise to provo city railway co was then taken up and passed its first reading further consideration was postponed until next C ou n c il adjourned until next thursday evening |