About Sewerage

The following members of the sewerage committee were present at the meetng Tuesday night: Messrs. Keech, Schuh, Cooley, Miner, Dean, Martin, Mclntyre, Beal and Wines. A verbal report of the committee sent to Lansing was made by E. B. Norris. He said that, after thorough examination, he found no way of securingany legisiation this year that would authorize the city to issue $20,000 in bonds. The time for introducing new bilis expired long ago and there is no bill to whicb any amend ment authorizingthiscould beattached. Considerable discussion ensued, as to whether it was advisable to raise the amount by tax. Some favored a división of the sum into two parts and the levying of $10,000 one year and the same amount the next year. The follow ing resolution was, however, finallv adopted by a unanimous vote: "The oint committee on sewers beg leave to recommend to the council that an election be calied at an early date to determine the question of raising the sum of $20,000 by taxation for the purpose of building a main sewer according to the plan of Prof. O. E. Green. "The entire taxation of last year for all purposes was $13.50 per 1,000. To raise an additional sum of $20,000 for sewers wouid make about $3.33 per $1,000, in all $16.83 per annum. The sum of $20,000 will undoubtedly pay the entire cost of a main sewer, and the committee after thorough discussion are unanimously of the opinión that it is the only feasible plan to pursue. Should an attempt be made to raise only a portion of the sum required, we sbould take the chance of raising and spending that portion, and the following year the proposition might be defeated, which would leave the sum already expended absolutely lost. "Tbe lateral sewers will cost about thirty-three cents per foot, that, for a sixty-six feet lot, would be about eleven dollars for each lot of that frontage, the tax being laidon lotson eachside of the street." -