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Beloit City Government report

©1900 Beloit, Rock County, Wisconsin

Page 91


petition which was laid on the table:

To the Honorable Mayor and Common Council of the City of Beloit.
Gentlemen: -
The undersigned owners of property abutting on School street respectfully petition your honorable
body, not to grant any license or franchise authorizing the construction of a street railway on said School street. There being two of the largest churches on this street, it will seriously interfere with the services of the same.
        Catherine BRODER, Geo. F. ACKLEY,
        H. S. CLIFFORD, Mrs. A. W. HANAFORD,
        J. P. HALLS, Ellen M. VALE,
        Mrs. R. SELLECK, G. L. LANE,
        And 25 others.
         
A petition was received from F. O. SCHMAUSS for license to keep one pool table at his saloon and was referred
to the License committee.
Ald. POLLOCK for the Judiciary committee presented the following report which was adopted:

Your committee recommend that the City Engineer be instructed to recommend a grade and submit to
the Common Council a profile of Fourth street.
                D. H. POLLOCK,
                A. C. HELM,
                T. GESLEY,
                O. E. HEWITT,
                Isaac BUCKERIDGE.
Ald. HELM presented the following resolution which was adopted:
Resolved, That the Water Works committee be and it hereby is authorized and empowered to incur, on behalf of the
city any expense which it shall deem necessary and proper in the matter of the appraisal of the system of water works of the Beloit Water Works company in this city. Be it further
Resolved, That the City Attorney be and he is hereby directed to attend upon the meetings of said appraisers, so far
as is necessary, on behalf of the city.
Ald. HELM presented the following resolution which was adopted:
Resolved, That the Beloit Water Works company be, and it hereby is required to make a test, as to the capacity and
efficiency of its system of water works in this city some time during the present week, at a time to be designated by the Water Works committee, the said test to be conducted at such places as said committee shall designate. Be it further,
Resolved, That the said company be requested, in making said test, to first use the pumps in both stations working at
the same time. That it then shut off the pumps in the west side station and continue said test pumping only from the east side station and that it then shut off the pumps in the east side station and continue the test pumping only from the pumps in the west side station, so that the efficiency of said system may be determined in case the pumps in one of the said stations should be disabled.
The said committee is hereby directed to notify said company as to the time and place of making said test as soon as
determined by it. Be it further
Resolved, That the City Clerk be, and he hereby is directed to serve a copy of this resolution on said company and
that such service upon said company shall be deemed notice to make said test as hereinbefore stated.
Ald. HELM presented the following resolution which was referred to the Judiciary committee:
Resolved, That Fourth street be brought to a permanent grade from the north side of Bridge street to the north side
of E street, and the Board of Public Works be hereby instructed to proceed at once to make arrangements and cause the same to be paved with brick as soon as practicable.
Ald. LEDELL, for the License committee, reported recommending granting petition of F. O. SCHMAUSS for
license to keep one pool table.
On motion the report was adopted and license granted.
On motion a proposed ordinance, entitled as follows, was taken up for consideration:

            ORDINANCE NO. ----
An ordinance to vacate an alley running east and west through the center of Block Two of FLUEKIGER's
Second Addition to Beloit, Wis.
The Mayor and Common Council of the city of Beloit do ordain:
    On motion the proposed ordinance was read the first time in full and the second time by title.
    On motion all rules interfering with the immediate passage of the ordinance were suspended by unanimous consent.
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