Show w i THE MIGHTY TEN iZow tile ISemters of time City Council Coun-cil Amused Tlicnisclvcs Last Night Ten members of the City Council answered an-swered to the roll call of the clerk last b evening After the usual devotional exercises ex-ercises the minutes of the previous meeting meet-ing were read and approved Minnie L Howard presented a petition I setting forth that she is a widow with i three children that she is dependent for i support upon the rent of a portion of her Ii I house that for the past two seasons her cellers have been filled with water by seepage from the Jordon and Salt Lake I canal and she was thereby prevented i from renting the rooms above them She therefore asked the City Council to pay her damages in the sum of 250 Referred Refer-red to canal committee R R Anderson represented that the title to a certain lot of which he was the I thia owner was imperfect and he asked the city to perfect it Committee on public grounds T Keeler and B Y Hampton Jr were granted licenses as auctioneers I Woolf agent of the California Wine Company was granted a retail liquor license Mayor Sharp presented a communica lion directing attention to the fact that the principal the bonds issued by the city for the construction of the canal was made payable in fifteen years after date but they were subject to redemption within five years The Mayor wished to know if he should redeem a portion of them 50000 was suggestedon June 1st when the five years will have elapsed Committee on finance The sum of 28 was appropriated to Mrs McKay for ground rent o the Was atch engine house Joseph A West notified the Council that his map of Utah thirty conies of which had been ordered by the city was ready for distribution and 240 was appropriated ap-propriated to pay him Mr Stringfellow moved that the City Council meet hereafter at 730 but could get no second The sum of 50 was appropriated to F W Taylor for services as assessor and collector A member of the committee on public improvements stated that his committee felt a little weak and would like to be strengthened by the addition of two more members Councilors McFarland and Webber were added and it is to he hoped this committee is now strong enough to grapple with the situation The Council then adjourned I |