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Show MUNICIPAL BUSINESS. A Batch of Petitions and Reports . The Tea Lottery Scheme to . Receive Attention. The City Council , met at the regular hour last evening with Mayor Sharp presiding. pre-siding. . -' A petition from Alex. McRae and thirty-three others was presented, asking that the gas light on First South street east from Main be removed from the sidewalk side-walk and placed in the middle of the , street, together with the telephone poles. Referred to the Committee on Improvements. Improve-ments. Messrs. Miller, Bates and Pascoe of the Seventeenth ward asked permission to lay a one and one-half inch water pipe on First "West street north, to connect with the mains. Referred to the Committee on Water "Works. ' J. N. Milkin and William White asked to lease the sand hole in the Twenty-first ward. Referred. R. T. Paton asked the position of weigh master, vacated by the death of Mr. Shelmerdine. Referred to the Election Elec-tion committee. - - F. L. Trior asked to be released from an unpaid license as a- merchant which he had taken out: "on December 1st this year, as the business he contemplated is unprofitable. Referred. Olirer Pearson presented a petition for a free peddler's license, accompanied by a certificate from Dr. White that he was unable to do laborious work. Referred. Peter Tomney and A. J. Peacock were granted retail liquor licenses. The City Auditor submitted a report of the receipts and disbursements of the public moneys for the quarter ending November No-vember 30th, 1885. The city taxes yielded $32,198.33 ; $1,693.05 was received on account ac-count of fines, and the receipts from other sources brought the grand total up to $64,463.07. Twenty thousand dollars were disbursed ou account of the City Creek land ; the disbursements on street improvements, street lamps, police and prison accounts and salaries of city officers, etc., made a total of $48,199.65, and $22,242.62 remained as a balance. The report was referred to the Committe e on Finance. The report of business done in the police po-lice court for the month of November, showed seventy-three cases to have been tried, and the total business represented in cash and labor fines amounted to $797.30. It was referred to the Committee Commit-tee on Police. , D. Hastings was refused the remission of the unexpired portion of his license to run a job wagon. A. Nash was likewise denied the refunding re-funding of his back liquor license, and Nash and Murray were allowed to divide the two months' remaining license between be-tween them and do business at the old stand one month each. Adopted. 1 Mr. J. F. Wells asked if the lottery oh Main street was licensed, and the Recorder Re-corder replied that it was under the head of 'Merchants," and certainly not as a lottery. Mr. Wells moved that the Marshal Mar-shal and City Attorney pay attention to the scheme at once, as he knew a man who had spent $240 in one night. Messrs. James, Allen and Rumel were appropriated $15 as sidewalk commissioners. commission-ers. S. A. Kenner, for one month's legal services, was granted a check for $150. Adjourned. |