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Show COMMISSIONERS ' HOUJJEETIIG The city board of comlsslpncrs w'ero in session last evening about thirty minutes, during which tlmo they transacted all tho business that the city recordor had for them. There wore no roporta from superintendents of departments and but few petitions wcro on file. The engineering department de-partment had no rccommoudatlons to niako nor woro there any bills to be Paid. In order to pay the Wheelwright Construction company a claim amounting to $507.51 for sidewalk paving It was unanimously voted that that amount should bo transferred I from the general fuild to tho particular partic-ular special funds owing the money. City Attornoy Valentine Gideon recommended rec-ommended that the commissioner pay tho amount claimed by Weber county coun-ty for the cbllectlon of taxes for last year, amounting to .?2,007 77 and It was so ordered. On the recommendation of the chief of tho fire department, A. B. Canfield, E. B. Phlhps was appointed to fill tho vacancy occasioned by tho resignation resig-nation of Robert Purdlo as teamster In tho fire department The petition of W S Rend for tho privilege of using a part of Grant and Harden avenues for pasturago purposes pur-poses at a ronlal of ?B per month wns referred to the superintendent of tho streets. Tho petition related that this rental bad been the practlco of tho city council for a number of years past The oxtenslon of water mains on Lafayette avenue, as petitioned for by property owners there, was ro-fcrred ro-fcrred to the superintendent of the waterworks The application of Charles Ivcrson for a transfer of retail liquor license from No. 350 to 150 Twenty-fifth street, was granted and the city recorder re-corder was Instructed to certify tho action of the commissioners to tho judges of the district court for their action. The Plngrce National bank and the Commercial National bank wete made the depositories for tho city funds "by a unanimous vote of the board. The banks -will bo required to furnish acceptable security In sums equal to 90 per cent of tho deposits. Prior to the meeting of tho board of commissioners last evening Mayor Fell stated that he had beon verbally verbal-ly advised by the engineer of the city that the pumps had removed the water on the Cobble Creek dam slto and that bedrock was exposed across tho entire South Fork dam. An official of-ficial report to this effect will be made by the engineering department within with-in the next day or two 00 |