Council Proceedings

COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.  [OFFICIAL]   COUNCIL CHAMBER, Ann Arbor, Nov. 7th, 1898.   Regular session. Called to order by Pres. Luick. Roll called. Quorum present. Absent- Ald. Exinger, Weeks.

PETITIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS.

A petition signed by Eugene Oesterlin asking for the 5 per cent due on Sewer District No. 5 was read and referred to the Board of Public Works.

A petition signed by Charles R. and Salome T. Gardner asking for the improvement of the Boulevard was read and referred to the Street Committee.

To the Common Council: 

The Board of Public Works would recommend that the Council take action relative to removing scales located in the street in Pavement District No. 3. --Respectfully submitted, Glen V. Mills, City Clerk.

Ald. Koch moved that the subject be referred to the Street Committee. Adopted.

To the Common Council: 

The following is an estimate for storm sewer on Detroit st. from Division to Kingsley.   580 ft. 18 Inch pipe at 34c per ft... $197.20; 580 ft. trenching at 20c per ft... $116.00; 2 catch basins at $20 each... $40.00; Total... $353.20 --Geo. F. Key, City Engineer.

To the Common Council: 

The Board of Public Works present the report and estimate of the Engineer for the pavement in Pavement District No. 3 for the consideration of your honorable body. --Respectfully submitted, Glen V. Mills, City Clerk.

To the Board of Public Works:

Gentlemen: Herewith is appended a detailed statement showing the amount of foot frontage in Pavement District No. 3 for and against as determined by the signers on the petition.

The total foot frontage is 1,488 ft., of which 1,010 ft. 8 in. is for, and 477 ft. 4 in. is against the improvement. --Geo. F. Key, City Engineer.

ESTIMATED COST OF PAVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 3.

Brick.

2,800 lineal ft. curb at $1 per ft...$2,800.00; 2,600 cu. yds. excavation at 35c per yd... $910.00; l,000 cu. yds. concrete at $3 per yd.... $3,000.00; 6,000 sq. yds. brick at 95c per yd... $6,700.00; 6,000 sq. yds. sand at 4c per yd... $240.00; 6,000 sq. yds. filler at 20c per yd... $1,200.00;  Total... $13,850.00    Add 10 per cent for contingencies...$1,385.00;  Total estimated cost... $15,235.00

Asphalt.

2,800 lineal ft. curb at $l per ft... $2,800.00; 2,404 cu. yds. excav. at 30c per yd...$840.00;  1,000 cu. yds. concrete at $3 per yd... $3,000.00; 6,000 cu. yds. asphultum at $1.25 per yd... $7,500.00;  Total... $14,440.00.   Add 10 per cent for contingencies... $1,444.00;  Total estimated cost... $15,884.00. -- Geo. F. Key, City Engineer.

Received and placed on file.

Chairman Brown presented the bill of Wm. Gerstner, special policeman, at $6, without recommendation.

Ald. Cady moved that the bill be allowed.

Adopted as follows:

Yeas- Ald. Hamilton, Richards, Koch, Dieterle, Sweet, Vandawarker, Brown, Spathelf , Coon, Howell, Cady, Stevens, Pres. Luick - 13.

Nays- None.

Ald. Exinger entered.

ORDINANCE.

Chairman Cady presented an ordinance to amend an ordinance entitled " 'An Ordinance Relative to Street Paving' passed by the Common Council the 7th day of July, 1897, and approved the 12th day of July, 1897," for its third reading.

Ald. Brown moved that the reading be postponed until next session.

Adopted as follows:

Yeas- Ald. Hamilton, Richards, Koch, Dieterle, Sweet, Exinger, Vandawarker, Brown, Spathelf, Coon, Howell, Cady, Stevens, Pres. Luick- 14.

Nays- None.

STREET.

To the Common Council:

Your Committee on Streets would recommend that $200 be allowed Christian Mack as payment in full for that portion of Third st. on his property.

And further that $353 be appropriated to extend the storm sewer on Detroit st. between Division and Kingsley.

And that $50 be appropriated to plow out the gutter on the west side of Seventh st. from the north line of Madison st. south and place the dirt in the middle of the street so as to carry the storm water. --Respectfully submitted, John Koch, Emmett Coon, C. H. Cady, Geo. Spathelf, Jr., Frank Vandawarker, F. M. Hamilton, Committee on Streets

Adopted as follows:

Yeas- Ald. Hamilton, Richards, Koch, Dieterle, Sweet, Exinger, Vandawarker, Brown, Spathelf, Coon, Howell, Cady, Stevens, Pres. Luick- 14.

Nays - None.

SIDEWALKS.

To the Common Council:

Your Committee on Sidewalks would recommend that the crosswalk across State on the south side of N. University ave. be repaired.

Also that plank crosswalk be ordered:

Across Spring on the north side of Miller ave.

Across Tappan st. on the west side of E. University ave.

And that the following sidewalks be ordered built:

On the north side of Catherine along the property of Barney.

On the east side of Spring along the property of Meyers.

On the north side of S. University ave. along the Ford estate. --Respectfully submitted, F. M. Hamilton, Simon Dieterle, H. C. Exinger, Arthur Brown, C Howell, A. B. Stevens, Committee on Sidewalks

Adopted as follows:

Yeas- Ald. Hamilton, Richards, Koch, Dieterle, Sweet, Exinger, Vandawarker, Brown, Spathelf, Coon, Howell, Cady, Stevens, Pres. Luick- 14.

Nays- None.

BONDS.

To the Common Council :

Your Committee on Bonds would recommend the approval of the druggist bond of J. J. Quarry as principal, and J. D. Ryan and H. W . Douglas as sureties. --Respectfully submitted, Frank Vandawarker, John Koch, Henry C. Exinger, Committee on Bonds.

Adopted as follows:

Yeas - Ald. Hamilton, Richards, Loch, Dieterle, Sweet, Exinger, Vandawarker, Brown, Spathelf, Coon, Howell, Cady, Stevens, Pres. Luick-14

Nays- None.

REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES.

FINANCE.

To the Common Council:

Your Committee on Finance would respectfully report that they have had the following bills under consideration and would recommend their allowance and that warrants be drawn or the same. --Respectfully submitted, Arthur Brown, Emmett Coon, F. M. Hamilton, Committee on Finance

CONTINGENT FUND.

Glen V. Mills, salary...$83.34; Patrick O'Hearn... $83.34; Edward L. Seyler...$8.34; O. E. Butterfield, salary...$50.00; Dr. D. M. Cowle, salary...$25.00; Eli W. Moore, salary...$13.50; Henry B. Dodsley, salary...$25.00; Dr. E. A. Clark, salary...$37.50; Geo. F. Key, salary...$100.00; Mrs. C. A. Greene, rent...$29.17; Marvin Davenport, janitor...$6.25; M. E. Easterly...$15.00; Geno. Wahr, supplies...$30.05; Robinson & Co., livery...$3.00; Sid W. Millard, printing...$25.20; Washtenaw Evening Times, printing...$167.14; Ann Arbor Argus, printing...$77.42; Glen V. Mills, postage...$1.25; Ann Arbor Savings Bank, acct. assigned...$6.09; Chas. F. Meyers, printing...$7.00; Neue Washtenaw Post, printing...$26.40; New State Telephone Co., rental and toll...$40.05; M. C. R. R., assigned to G. V. Mills...$1.00; Ann Arbor Electric Co., lighting...$613.93; Lehman Bros. & Stivers, fees...$10.00; . A. Polhemus, sprinkling...$25.00; Staebler & Co., matches...$0.40; Engineering News, subscription...$5.00; Geo. A. Cook, recording deeds...$2.35; Chas. E. Hopkins, opinion...$1.00; Harry Benham, witness...$1.10; Glen V, Mills, witness...$1.10; Zenas Sweet, witness...$1.10; August Handt, witness...$1.10; W. Jacobus, witness...$1.10; Ann Arbor Water Co., water...$58.04; The Inland Press, printing...$20.40; Henry C, Wilmot, posting...$5.00; Mich. Tel. Co., rental...$30.38; F. W. Bowen, color...$2.00; State Savings Bank, accts. assigned...$18.60; Grace Bowen, stenographer for City Attorney...$4.25.   Total...$1,722.49

SEWER FUND- GENERAL.

Ann Arbor Water Co., repairs...$5.82.   Total...$5.82

DISTRICT NO. 7.

Hutzel & Co., balance due on sewer contract...$89.42

BRIDGE, CULVERT AND CROSSWALK FUND.

State Savings Bank, account assigned...$239.94; James Tolbert, lumber...$140.81; Luick Bros., lumber...$206.79.  Total...$587.54

STREET FUND.

State Savings Bank, accts. assigned...$1679.98; Bailey & Edmunds, repairs...$3.90; Jas. Donegan, shoeing...$3.90; Michael Staebler, coal...$20.33; Clarken & Clancy, brick...$56.00; Geo. Fischer, labor...$32.25; F. L. Sutherland, labor...$36.75; Geo. W. Sweet, cement...$6.30; Henry Richards, coal...$2.70; Daniel J. Ross,salary...$66.66.  Total...$1908.87

POLICE FUND.

Zenus Sweet, salary...$75.00; George Isbell, salary...$50.00; Reuben Armbruster, salary...$50.00; John O'Mara, salary...$50.00; David Collins, salary...$50.00; Geo. Peavey, special...$1.00; H. Ball, special...$1.00; Paul Schall, special...$1.00; Wm. Bowen, special...$1.00; C. J. Sweet, special...$1.00; Geo. Fischer, special...$1.00; Thomas Blackburn, special...$1.00; Jos. Blackburn, special...$1.00; Mich. Tel. Co., toil...$0.25.   Total...$284.25

FIRE DEPARTMENT FUND.

Fred Sipley, salary...$60.00; C. A. Edwards, salary...$55.00; W. H. McLaren, salary...$50.00; Albert West, salary...$50.00; Eugene Williams, salary...$50.00; Herman Kirn, salary...$50.00; Samuel McLaren, salary...$50 .00; Chas. Andrews, salary...$40.00; Charles Carroll, salary...$20.00; A. W. Sorg, salary...$8.00; Michael Ryan, salary...$8.00; Ed. Hill, salary...$8.00; Fred Nordman, salary...$8.00; Ralph Edwards, salary...$8.00; Henry Richards, coal...$25.17; Patrick Gibney, hay...$13.30; Kearns & Cornell, horse shoeing...$14.45; Chas. Rose, oats...$27.34; T. J. Hallock, oats...$26.08; Martin Haller, mattress...$2.50; Goodale & Co., supplies...$7.45; Walker &Co., wagon...$63.75; James Donegan, shoeing...$7.35; Mrs. Ream, washing...$6.00.  Total...$658.39

POOR FUND.

Fred Sipley, salary and express...$10.00; P. Bigalke, groceries...$5.00; Davis & Seabolt, groceries...$1.64; Doty & Feiner, shoes...$4.40; Eberbach Drug Co., medicine...$0.15; John Goetz, Jr., groceries...$10.85; John Goetz & Son, groceries...$2.79; Mrs. Hillman, board for Mrs. Evans...$5.00; G. Hoefer, groceries...$6.00; A. Kearney, groceries...$4.50; A. G. Koch, groceries...$5.03; W. F. Lodholz, groceries...$5.34; C. Lutz, meat...$2.00; H. Lodholz. groceries...$2.00; J. H. Maynard, groceries...$5.48; E. P. Mason, two to county house...$1.50; F. C. Miller, groceries...$2.50; O. Rinsey, groceries...$7.96; Kinsey& Seabolt, groceries...$8.56; H.Richards, coal...$2.69; Geo. Spathelf, Jr., meat...$3.00; W. F. Stimson. groceries...$6.32; C. W. Vogel, meat...$1.27; Wahr & Miller, shoes...$5.00.  Total...$108.98

CEMETERY FUND.

Nelson Garlinghouse, labor...$10.50; Henry Richards, nails...$0.45;  Wm. J. Wenger, repairs...$0.40.  Total...$11.35

DOG TAX FUND.

States Savings Bank, acct. assigned...$3.50.  Total...$3.50

RECAPITULATION.

October Bills, November Orders.

Contingent Fund...$1732.49; Sewer Fund, general...$5.82; Sewer No. 7...$89.42; Bridge, Culvert and Crosswalk Fund...$587.54; Street Fund...$1908.87;  Police Fund...$284.25; Firemen's Fund...$658.38; Poor Fund...$108.98; Cemetery Fund...$11.35; Dog Tax Fund...$3.50.   Total...$5390.61

 Adopted as follows:

Yeas- Ald. Hamilton, Richards, Koch, Dieterle, Sweet, Vandawarker, Brown, Spathelf, Coon, Howell, Cady, Stevens, Pres. Luick- 13.

Nays- None.

POOR 

To the Common Council.

Your Committee to whom was referred the Case of Michael Henderlong who asked for temporary relief, find him very destitute, old and unable to do anything for his own support. He is dependent on his wife who is old and feeble and a young boy 13 years old for support. We order a load of wood and a sack of flour. --Respectfully C. Howell, F. M. Hamilton, John Koch, Committee on Poor.

Adopted as follows:

Yeas- Ald. Hamilton, Richards, Koch, Dieterle, Sweet, Exinger. Vandawarker, Brown, Spathelf, Coon, Howell, Cady, Stevens, Pres. Luick - 14

Nays- None.

REPORTS OF CITY OFFICERS.

The reports of the City Clerk, Treasurer, Marshal, Physician, Board of Health and Superintendent of the Poor were read,and ordered filed.

CITY TREASURER'S REPORT.

Month ending Oct. 31, '98.

MONEY RECEIVED.

Police Fund

Sweet, Marshall, Trans. James Brown to Det. H. of C...$3.00; " Julius Funke to Ind. School...$3.00; " John Hessions to Ind. School...$3.00; Fees for Oct. '98...$4.20;

Street fund

Ross D. J. Gutter Paving, J. Miner...$14.50;

Contingent fund

State Savings Bank, Interest...$18.47. Total...$40.17.   Balance on hand last report...$3360.95.  Total...$3407.12

MONEY DISBURSED, WARRANTS PAID.

Bridge, culv't and crossw'lk fund...$78.01; Contingent fund...$1275.03; City cemetery...$13.50; Dog license...$1.50; Fire fund...$559.21; Poor Fund...$379.34; Police Fund...$293.50; Street Fund...$1478.47.   Total...$4078.56   Balance overdraft...$671.44.

Condition of City funds Nov. 1 '98.

On hand:

Dog license fund...$301.50; State dog tax fund...$584.25; Fire fund...$5362.81; Poor fund...$1873.41; Police fund...$1594.60; University aid bond fund...$300.00; Water fund...$3472.40;  Excess of city rolls...$204.83; Sidewalk tax uncollected...$29.61; Rejected tax uncollected...$3.56; Main sewer Appropriation...$3100.00.   Total $16826.91 

Over drawn:

Bridge, culv't crossw'k fund...$210.54; Contingent fund...$4452.64; City cemetery fund...$5.49; Delinquent tax fund...$1554.27; Street fund...$1001.13; Uncollected city tax...$10274.28.  Total...$17488.35    Balance overdraft $871.44

MONEY RECEIVED.

Tax acc't lat sewer no 3...$47.87; Tax acc't lat sewer no 5...$8.83; Tax acc't lat sewer no 6...$22.05;  Main Sewer From W. H. Glaney for tappin C of M. Sewer...$17.92.   Total $96.67.   Balance on hand last report...$11830.90.   Total... $11938.57

MONEY DISBURSED, WARRANTS PAID.

Amt:

Main Sewer Fund...$608.38; Total...$608.38.   Balance on hand...$11825.19

Condition of sewer funds Nov. 1 '98.

Main sewer fund...Cr..$3421.14; Labor acc't lat sewer no 1....Dr..$39.90; Tax acc't lat sewer no 1...Dr..$430.83; Labor acc't lat sewer no 2...Cr..$97.28; Tax acc't lat sewer no 2...Cr..$278.72; Labor acc't lat sewer no 3...Dr..$5805.83; Tax acc't lat sewer no 3...Cr..$3531.90; Labor acc't lat sewer no 4...Dr..$836.21; Tax acc't lat sewer no 4...Cr..$897.49; Labor acc't lat sewer no 5...Dr..$980.24; Tax acc't lat sewer no 5...Cr..$4798.04; Labor acc't lat sewer no 6...Cr..$2950.24; Tax acc't lat sewer no 6...Cr..$2958.45; Labor acc't lat sewer no 7...Cr..$147.15; Tax acc't lat sewer no 7...Cr..$422.29; Delinquent sewer tax...Dr..$451.60; Uncollected sewer tax...Cr..$437.09.   Total...Dr..$8544.00...Cr..$19869.79   Balance on hand...$11325.19

PAVING FUND - MONEY RECEIVED.

Tax Acct. pav Dis. No. 1...$1020.77; Tax Acct. pav Dis. No. 2...$335.99.  Total...$1356.76

DISBURSED, WARRANTS PAID.

Labor Acct. pav. Dis No. 1...$10472.06.   Total...$10472.06   Balance overdraft...$15362.66.  Total...$25834.73.   Overdraft...$24477.96

Condition of Pav. Fund Nov. 1 '98

Labor Acct Pav. Dis No. 1...Dr..$25834.72; Tax Acct. pav. Dis. No. 1...Cr..$1020.77; Tax Acct. pav. Dis. No. 2...Cr..$335.99.   Total...Dr..$25834.72.  Cr..$1356.76

As per reports overdrawn.

City Fund...$671.44; Paving Fund...$24477.96.  Total...$25149.40.

On hand, Sewer Fund...$113225.19

Overdrawn...$13824.21 --Respectfully submitted, E. L. Seyler, City Treasurer. Ann Arbor, Mich., Nov. 4, 1898.

This is to certify that at the close of business October 31st the account of the city treasurer was overdrawn $13824.21. --John C. Walz, Jr. Assistant Cashier.

[The following report's information is given in the following order, separated by commas:  No., Nationality, State, Occupation, Disease, Result, Visits, Exp.] 

CITY PHYSICIAN'S REPORT FOR QUARTER ENDING OCTOBER 31, 1898.

1, American, Single, Artist, Tuberculoses of lungs, Advised, 1, 0

2, American, Single, Child,  Tuberculoses of the kidneys, Improved, 12, $2.20

3, German, Marr'd, Wagon Bld'r, Tuberculoses of the lungs and larynx, Died, 10, $4.90

4, Irish, Marr'd, Housewife, chronic rheumatism, Unchanged, 7, $0.65

5, American, Single, Waiter, Injury to thumb, Dressed, 1, $0

6, Canadian, Single, Servant, Palpitation of the heart, Improved, 3, $0

7, American, Single, Child, Typhoid fever, Recovered,0,$0

8, American, Single, School girl, Typhoid fever, Recovered, 0, $0

9, American, Single, School boy, Typhoid fever, Recovered, 45, $5.05

10, American,Single, Babe, Colic, Recovered, 3, $0.45

11, American, Single, School boy, Dislocation left elbow joint, Recovered, 5, $0

12, American, Single, Housekeeper, Acute enteritis, Recovered, 4, $0.25

13, English, Single, Pedestrian, Member of the Sons of Rest, Advised, 1, $0

14,English, Marr'd, Housekeeper, Mitral regurgitation, Unchang'd, 2, $0

15, English, Marr'd, Retired, Arterio sclerosis, Died, 4, $0.50

16, English, Wido'd, Laborer, Muscular rheumatism, Improved, 1, $0.95

17, English, Single, Peddler, Eczema Squamosum, Improv'd, 1, $0

Total:  Visits: 100, Exp: $14.95. Drugs for dispensing: $5.31 Total :$20.20 --Respectfully submitted, D. M. Cowie, City Physician.

 

Ann Arbor, Mich., Nov. 7, 1898.

To the Hon. Mayor and Members of the Common Council.

Gentlemen: - Your Board of Health begs leave to make their report for the month of October. There have been thirty-five inspections made and those nuisances thus inspected abated. 

The health of the city continues good, there being only nine deaths to report for the month.

Your Board of Health would request that the Council instruct the Board of Public Works to have the property occupied by Mr. H. O. Walters on E. Ann street connected with the sewer as it is in a very unsanitary condition, and there has been a number of cases of sickness in families residing in this property.

Your Board would also suggest that it would be very wise if the Council would provide us with a pest-house, as there are a number of places in the state infected with small-pox, and many of our soldiers returning from the war are likely to bring diseases into our midst, if such were the case we are not in a position at present to cope with them should they break out. This we deem is very important as former Boards have had a great deal of trouble in times gone by when such diseases broke out and there was no place to take them.

We would also ask that the Board of Public Works notify all property holders on the line of the finished sewers, that the sewer is completed and ready for them to connect. --Eli W. Moore, President; H. B. Dobsley, Inspector; E. A. Clark, M.D., Health Officer.

Ald. Brown moved that the Walter's store on E. Ann street be ordered connected with the sewer.

Adopted as follows:

Yeas- Ald. Hamilton, Richards, Koch, Dieterle, Sweet, Exinger, Vandawarker, Brown, Spathelf, Coon, Howell, Cady, Stevens, Pres. Luick.- 14.

Nays - None

 

Ann Arbor, Mich., Nov. 7, 1898.

To the Honorable Common Council of Ann Arbor.

Gentlemen :- I desire to call your attention in reference to pavement tax levied in District No. 1, this city.

The rate per front flagging is $5.48 as against $4.79 1/2 in District No. 2, the additional cost in District No. 1 being for the paving in front of the Court House.

A number of people are desirous of paying their tax in full to save the 5 per cent interest rate, but absolutely refuse to do so, as long as the cost of the Court House flagging is assessed to them in proportion to the frontage.

Unless the matter is adjusted, it will cause a great amount of trouble in the future. --Very Respectfully, Edward L. Seyler, Treasurer.

Ald. Hamilton moved that treasurer be directed to remit 68 1/2 cents per front foot in pavement District No. 1.

Lost as follows:

Yeas- Ald. Hamilton, Richards, Sweet, Exinger, Vandawarker- 5.

Nays- Ald. Koch, Dieterle, Brown, Spathelf, Coon, Howell, Cady, Stevens Pres. Luick- 9.

Ald. Koch moved that the storm sewer on Second street be ordered according to the estimate of the engineer as recorded on page 87 in the printed proceedings.

Adopted as follows:

Yeas - Ald. Hamilton, Richards, Koch, Dieterle, Sweet, Exinger, Vandawarker, Brown, Spathelf, Coon, Howell, Cady, Stevens, Pres. Luick -14.

Nays - None.

Ald. Brown moved that $35 be appropriated to complete the gravelling on E. University avenue.

Adopted as follows:

Yeas- Aid. Hamilton, Richards, Koch, Dieterle, Sweet, Exinger, Vandawarker, Brown, Spathelf, Coon, Howell, Cady, Stevens, and President Luick - 14.

Nays- None.

 

State of Michigan, County of Washtenaw, ss.

 Zenus Sweet, city marshal of the City of Ann Arbor, being duly sworn, deposes and says that on the 26th day of October 1898, he gave notice of the pendency of the question of ordering the improvement proposed by the petition referred to in the resolution of the Common Council of the City of Ann Arbor of which the annexed is a copy, to the owners. occupants, or persons interested, by delivering a true copy thereof on the date aforesaid to each of the following named persons, personally: Mary Maynard, Leonhard Gruner, Lucy E. Whitlark, Ellen Morse, S. R. Gregory and wife and sister, and to St. Andrews Episcopal Society by delivering a true copy of said resolution to Harry W. Douglas its agent. --Zenus Sweet.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 28th day of October, 1898. --Glen V. Mills, Notary Public.

Sir:- Whereas the Common Council of the City of Ann Arbor has been applied to in writing by ten or more freeholders of said city to lay out, establish, and open a continuation of Catherine street, between North Division street and N. State street; and whereas at the adjourned regular session of the said Common Council held at the Council Chamber in the City of Ann Arbor, the 6th day of September, 1898, it was determined by said Council that it is advisable to lay out, open, and establish a street described as follows, to-wit: 

Commencing at a point in the east line of N. Division street at the southwest corner of the Episcopal church property; running thence easterly along the south line of said property and on said line extended to a point in the west line of N. State street, thence southerly along the west line of State street forty-five feet; thence westerly parallel to the first line to a point in the east line of N. Division street forty-five feet from the place of beginning; thence northerly on the east line of N. Division street forty five feet to the place of beginning.

You are hereby notified that the Common Council of the City of Ann Arbor will meet at the Council Chamber in said city on Monday, the 7th day of November, 1898, at 7:30 o'clock p.m., to consider the proposed improvement, and to hear the parties interested therein. --Glen V. Mills, City Clerk.

 

Received and ordered filed.

Ann Arbor, Mich., Nov. 7, 1898.

To the Common Council of the City of Ann Arbor, Acting as Commissioners of Highways for said City:

The undersigned residents and freeholders of said city, owning property abutting upon the street proposed to be opened between Division and State streets in said city, as a continuation of Catherine street, of a width of forty five feet, hereby object to the opening of said street for the reason, among others, that there exists a public street or highway extending from Division street, in an easterly direction, along the north line of lands formerly belonging to Mrs. Mary J. Maynard for a distance of thirty-six rods, more or less, of a width of thirty-nine feet, and on and over the lands now proposed to be taken for a public street.

Also that the grant and conveyance by Mrs. Mary J. Maynard to the City of Ann Arbor, of the strip of land thirty-nine feet wide, and extending east about thirty-six rods, bearing date the 7th day of March, 1898, and the acceptance thereof by the city constituted such strip of land a public street and highway, and that there exists no necessity of condemning such lands for a public street. --St Andrews church, by H. J. Brown, Senior Warden; Samuel R. Gregory; Jennie B. Gregory.

By Ald. Brown.

Whereas, more than ten freeholders residents of the City of Ann Arbor, having petitioned this Council praying for the establishment of a certain Street within the corporate limits of the City of Ann Arbor and hereinafter particularly described; due notice of the hearing of such petition having been giving and this day having been assigned for the hearing thereof, and all persons interested therein having been heard, and it appearing to this Common Council that such proposed street and the establishment thereof is a necessary public improvement, therefore be it

Resolved, and it is hereby ordered that a public street or highway be laid out, established and opened within the limits of the City of Ann Arbor and as a continuation of E. Catherine street in said city between N. Division street and N. State street, and more particularly described as follows: That is to say, commencing at a point in the east line of N. Division street in said City of Ann Arbor at the southwest corner of the lands of the Episcopal Church Society and running thence easterly along the south boundary line of the said church property and on such line projected easterly, to the west line of N. State street; thence south forty-five feet; thence westerly and parallel with the first line to N. Division street; thence north along N. Division street forty-five feet to the place of beginning.

Ald. Hamilton moved as a substitute that the subject of opening up Catherine street be laid over until next session.

Adopted as follows:

Yeas- Ald. Hamilton, Richards, Spathelf, Coon, Howell- 5.

Nays- Ald. Koch, Dieterle, Sweet, Exinger, Vandawarker, Brown, Cady, Stevens, Pres. Luick - 9.

Whereupon the original motion was adopted as follows:

Yeas- Ald. Hamilton, Richards, Koch, Dieterle, Sweet, Exinger, Vandawarker, Brown, Spathelf, Coon, Cady, Pres. Luick - 11.

Nays- Ald. Howell, Stevens- 2.

On motion the Council adjourned. --Glen V. Mills, City Clerk