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Show THE GREAT TAX PETITION. The Cily Jtlomg's Opinion on tbs SobjecL MEDICAL OKDIMNCC 1'lNv.tO. Krgolxr Rontine Ho'IVm or the Cily Coanril. The I'Uh Minutacturing and IlatUlng Company anked i-erml nou ta purchase a portion cf Uie bed of an abandoned caual in ten aero plat A, which they are now ulng for making brick. Referred to Hie canal committee. IKsIdenls In tlie neighborhood a-kej the city to accept a flfty-'oot street through Hock 53, plat 15. He ferrrd to committee, on streets. G. W. Heed astc.1 to have the street committee report on the mi'-ter mi'-ter of removing obstructions from J Street, which hai been referred to that committee of the old coul-cil. coul-cil. l'lilllipll .Schuster wanted to be a policeman, and bis rcpiet waj referred to thv major. Mevrs. Collum and hkinner asked to have certain ttrects n-paired n-paired so as to provide a drive through P-jpp'etoa Tlice to Fort Oauglas. IlelerreJ to tht commit-tee commit-tee on streets. J. K. Buby ttcd to have a setver laid on liusby Avenue. It-ferretl to that committee. Clarence Bean Irovo ho hack into in-to a ditch nt which there were no warniug lights, and asked $53 dam ages. Referred to committer on claims. The Ilio Grande Western asked to hav the fcarthen sewer ls laid to drain their depot ground- instrau of waiting for Iron pij-w, jircmNng to make good all defects or !o-e-. GrauU-d 1 K. Darling etaLaskoi to have Ithe watermalns laid en 11 ijtrrcL, Referred te tho committee on w ater work". Ij D Kinney asked for a street railway franchise on Mayhtrettln -Nortli Salt Like. Referred to cow mittee on streets. The Sun air Ilght Company oQered to lurnih the city with 100 street lights and to care tor the same at f 23.5) each perannum Rererred to the commltte-e on improvements. James Jen-en et al. rej rtavuteti that miny persons ha 1 laid In feed enough to ketp nii.rv than three cohs through tlic winter, and they asked that the ordinance fs,ulddlng the keeping of more inan that num ber 1c tnadu to take e fleet May! 1S91 Liter, Pendleton Introduced a resolution to make that ordinance take effect elghtx days afu r Its pas sage, which was referred to the com mltteo on municipal law". I.am'aourne.V I crkln rrcio-tii to Iraw tlie Warm Mptlugs Refeire-J to committee on ibhc groune'i. At tills juncture Recorder Hjann XVok up a great bunJlu ot inauu-crijt, inauu-crijt, announcing that It was tin lix petition. 1 1 m as as f ollows. 7t (lie HoKoraWe Maw ant ftv Vtmxcit, Sail 7il Otty Gentlemen W o, Vour petitioners, taxpaers bf this city earnest pe lition vour honorable bod v to reduce the rate of taxation for this cit to tno an 1 one-half mills on tho dollar for lbs current yar This nttn would produce a rcvenuo about sixty the per cent greater than that ot last rear ana a an unusual amount of im prnveni-ut is Ruing on which the ti wns havo to pay for through the means otlocM taxation, in the wav ol sewer, sidewalk, water mains pnnklinc, etc., and es there is a larse increase in the Territorial. Territorial school red local school taxes the ,; KiTf,te of all these taxes, oven if tue cits rale is reduced to two ami one-half one-half mills, will be a burden sery heavy for manv to bair, aud auv creater amount collecteit from the citizens Mould operate Rfraint the welfare of tb is city. And, as In dntj bound, your irlltioncra wH net pray, etc. Tlie number cf signatures tp-lieudcd tp-lieudcd na: not state), but it ran up into llie thou-ands. Tne Mayor iou'11 have to refer that to the committee otiusjs aud means. Par-ons I move that It be r ferred. Pembroke I don't see w hat good it w ill do lo refer this .-tltlcm. We didn't go bllndl to work in deter mining the amount of money we would require fur coiiteniTIatee i 11 proxemeuU. We went lo work methodical!), found out how much we would want and fixed the rate accordingly I move to table tht petition City Attornei Merrill At tlie mayor's request I have furnished him with a written opinion ujkiii tills matter. I Uon'ttliluktlieCoini-cil Uon'ttliluktlieCoini-cil lias a right to change the rate of taxation, now that it liasU-en fixed The law says that at a gieutime the Council shall fix the rate of cit tax afterwhlch it shall sltasalioard of equalization 1 1 has done all this and in my oplulon cannot rescind its action If it can reduce the Lax at this stage, it can rale it, Asa board of equalization the Council m ght ral or lower the as-cssnicnt, but that belongs to another branch of the statute. Themior I think the petition should be referred to the committee on uays and mean, that the reason governing the action of the council may be clearly stated Pembroke I withdraw my motion mo-tion to table. Citl engineer Doremus Mr President, I request permission to with Ira w the names cf myself and wile from the petition. When we signed it we did not know that the council had determined what amount of money it would need before be-fore it fixed the rate The desired permission wasgranl-ed, wasgranl-ed, and the mammoth petition went to the committee on ways auj means. The city engineer prevnted ccr tain recommendations in lrgard to the setting of telegraph and telephone tele-phone dies, etc so that tin e would not Interfere lth water and sewer mains. Referred to committee on municipal laws with Instructions to draft an ordinance on the, subject. Tne committee ou police reported diversely on the petition of the members of the police force asking the city to purchase for each of them a suit of clothes. The committee on streets made the following recommendations upon matters submitted to them That the petition of RIcketLs and others to have First East Street, between be-tween bouth Temple and Fourth outh htreet paved with asphalt, he granted, that tho petition of the ITome Coal Company for permission to run a switch to their coal yard be granted, that the petition of LJ Williams and othnrs asking that electric lights bo established at the corners of -cventh South and first and Second Wes, and Eighth Sith and First and becoml West stmCs, bo granted, that the pe ilion of tho West Sido Rapid Transit Tran-sit Company for permission to operate their steam motor oser the track of tbo Rapid Transit Company on Seventh Sev-enth honth Mreet, between Seconl West and Main Street, for thirtvdays. becranled that the proposal of Jennie D Thompson to tell tho city a certain tract of land at tho head ofsjte street for $10 OU) bo accepted. Adopted Adopt-ed The committee on streets report-in; report-in; on the petition of the residents of First street, protesting agaluU a doublo street railway track upon It, sated that franchises had b-cn granted to two companies and the council could not very well comiJ both to use one tracit. The committee com-mittee recommended certain measures mea-sures to prevent unuecessarj obstruction ob-struction oftne street. Adopted. W. II. Ryan wanted another light wagon for his department. This request was referred to the committee on water orks. lie also , wanted 55,003 which was granted. The dog tax collector reported success suc-cess to tne amount of 225. John Lawrence and others represented repre-sented that a Urge Iron tank, boli-1 boli-1 lng 210 sallow, wai being used by the gas company to ball tar in. This wasactlUauco a id the petitioners akcJ that It bo abate J. Rcferre J to the board of healt'i Tho board of lical'li askc-l for $123 5J to jny its cxp,. asvj Granted. Grant-ed. Tho ordinance reguMIng thv tratli! of meeii ine, was reid at length, amen Je-1 a ,j pail onr; Hall ami Anuatrum., vollug In the xecslive. Thc-orJInance amending tlie ordl-hauce ordl-hauce creating paving dHriet So. I came upou iU tlilid nsadlng and jas!. The oniinanee fixes the boundaries of the district as follows: On the north by Srcuth Temple atreel, on th south by rourtli Sutli, un the we-t by Firl We, on the ea-t by .Second lliH. The billlinf iitspc-tororliuanre was taken u,s discussed and de-f-rred ine Miion lug anoropriatfous were madi-: Waterworks ... .......... ,mh rnMasw .. " "ulJt6iiai. i2 Jim. r Bnw ".;;; "14 S HnnlvfllMftk ."" 6S lUtal rSsli the council then aljourneel until next Tuesday evening at 7 W. |