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Council Proceedings

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Day
4
Month
March
Year
1885
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Public Domain
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Councll met at their rooms Monday evening. Usual fonnaliUes gone through wil li. Prcsentation of I'ETITIONS. A petition, signed by Caspar Rinsey, B F. Watts, Tí. II Drakc, W. B. Smith, E. D. Kiiine and 12 others, asking the council to ref'use pormission for the erectiou of any wooden buildings on the corner of Huron and Fifth streets. From II. and II. Granger, for pcrmission to erect a wooden building on S. State street, next to Oeo. Moore's bookUOre. Oianted. REPORTS OK OTFICSBS. Report of the city trewurer showed reCeipt during the month of $19,928.80, and $7,ÖS7.28disbursed, with balance on hand of $14,610.83. The reporta ol the city recorder showed the íollowitiif balances on hand : Contiiigeut finid on hand.... $ 9,945 07 Ueneral " " 48 2, "' street fund overdraft 173 29 lst ward tuiid 1,277 31 2d ¦ " _ _ tiu 79 3d M ' „ „.„ 175 89 4lh " " 550 42 Mh " 370 ö (ln " " uyerdralt H9 49 ('tty poiuotry tand, overdralt 27 14 Dag taz, ovenlraA S17 68 Kelluquent tax luud, overdrafl 978 80 The city marshal repoited no arrests during the past moulh, and the following distribution of the poor fund : lst ward % 42 31 'd " M 28 15 i " 9 07 4lh " 153 06 6th " 70 11 6ih " „ .". 400 Total _ JShs Bfl The following resolulions were then passed : KKSOLUTIONS. Rtsolvtd, It Is Ihe sensu of thls conncil, that no building uuless coustructed of brlck, be erecttd un the burnt block 011 Kast Huron street, opposlte the Klreman's Hall. By Aldernian Lawrence: Resolved, That the Marshal be lnstructed to Qse sneu means as he hall deern best to de stroy the Eugllsh sparrow found wlthln the olly. 'J'lie council then went into executive sesion, and reporters had to step out. Ifour boys raust rcaa Dluod and thunder literature, It is bettcr tliat they take the pure article fiom tlielr home papers, so here goes : "The wild storm still raged furiously. Ever and anon the vivid lightiung, n fautastic shapes, illuminated the dark and angry licuvens. At last our young hero, making a sudden, strategie movement, surrounded by a band of fifteen howlinn; red demons, and with no other weapon t tin n a seven shooter, a Ciivalry sword, a dirne novel, a Remlngton rifle, deck of oardt, a bowie-knife a pair ofbrass knuokles, aud the last Issue of the Ypsilanti Sentinel, he inowed down his pnrsuere like gram beforo the scytlie of the reaper; theu seizing the beautiful Etliclintla around the walst with one arm and plunging a bayonet into the breast of a lusty Indian tbat exliibited signs of returnino; coiisciousness, he vaulted into the saddle of the swiftesthorse in the territory, and cried in a deleriuin of triumphiint joy - " 'l'o be coutinued in our next."

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Ann Arbor Courier
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