- Regular meeting.
- Mayor SMITH presiding.
- Present - Ald. BUCKERIDGE, CLARKE, CUNNINGHAM,
DAY, GARDNER, GESLEY, HANSEN,
- HEWITT, LEDELL, MERRILL, MUELLER,
NEEDHAM, SHARP - 13.
- Absent - Ald. HELM, POLLOCK - 2.
- The minutes of the meeting of April 10th were read and approved.
- Ald. CUNNINGHAM presented the following petition.
-
- To the Honorable Mayor and Common Council of the city of
Beloit:
- Gentlemen: - We the undersigned tax-payers of the Third ward
of the city of Beloit would respectfully ask your
- honorable body to make some arrangements to take away the
water from the corner of Hackett and E streets which has no outlet
and causes the water to flood over and cause great damage to
our property and health.
- C. S. MARSH, T. GESLEY, H. EVERSON,
Fred MITCHELL, and 31 others.
- On the motion of Ald. CUNNINGHAM the petition was
referred to the Aldermen of the Third and Fourth wards
- with power to have the City Engineer make a survey to see
if the water can be carried off said streets.
- Ald. DAY, for the Aldermen of the Third ward, reported
on the petition for grade on Eighth street between E and D
- streets as follows:
-
- Your Third ward Aldermen to whom the within petition was
referred respectfully recommend that it be granted
- and that grade stakes be set and grade established.
- E. A. DAY, T. GESLEY, L. E. CUNNINGHAM.
- Ald. HANSEN moved, as an amendment, that the City
Engineer be directed to fix a grade and report same to
- Council at the next regular meeting.
- The amendment was adopted and then the report as amended
was adopted.
- Ald. HANSEN presented the following resolution which
was adopted by the unanimous vote of the Council, the ayes
- and noes being called:
- Resolved, That the sum of $3125.00 be and the same
is hereby appropriated to pay for services of inspectors,
- clerks, ballot clerks and special police of election held
Tuesday, April 3rd, 1900, and for the registration prior thereto,
as per list hereto attached, and the City Clerk is hereby directed
to issue orders on the City Treasurer for same.
- Ald. CLARKE presented the following resolution which
was adopted:
- Resolved, That the City Engineer be instructed to
give sidewalk grade and terrace line on east side of Prairie
avenue
- between Bushnell and Chapin streets, block 9.
- Ald. BUCKERIDGE presented the following resolution
which was laid over until the next regular meeting:
- Resolved, That an order for $360.44 be drawn on the
Treasurer payable to HARDING & NELSON, in full
- payment of the abutting property sewer taxes assessed against
city properties as follows:
| Ctf. No. 230, City Park, School street
and Park avenue |
$279.75 |
| Ctf. No. 266, Mechanics Green, Harrison
avenue |
69.44 |
| Ctf. No. 237, Central Fire Station,
Fourth street |
11.25 |
|
$360.44 |
|