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,ve defeated.lie THURSDAY SESSION.Some new bills were approved by the ^ys committee on finance and printing and is ordered paid. The committee on ju lie diciary and ordinances reported unfa-on vurably on the petition asking for the ng remission of the line of H. I). Lind-ul- say, and the report was adopted, e a The committee on education and r a board of health reported that they had ex- looked up the park matter, and found rle, the seats m very bad shape, only four of iin them being worth repairing. The band :he stand was also in need of repairs and lit- painting. A motion was carried au-ast thorizing the committee to have the lie band stand painted and the park fixed ete up generally. Also a motion was em passed ordering that four signs be painted and put up at the four corners of ek thepark, prohibiting driving or hiteh-the mg inside the park, which since the ad fence was taken down has been roughly ag- used in this respect. A motion was iey carried that a special election be called s to in the first ward to elect an alderman md to.fill the vacancy caused by the death flu- of Aid. Clark. The mayor was in-the strueted to issue a proclamation calling but the election and the following wereap-s a pointed judges: Wm. Lee, Jr., Jos. get Veltman and Ed. Clark, ust The mayor announced that he had jnd appointed Ferd.Ileiss.A. D. Bailey and all A. II. Stevenson on the library board, and the appointments were confirmed.The appropriation ordinance was then taken up. It appears that the decision of the supreme court on a law passed in 1877 holds that the manner of using money heretofore followed by all the cities in thestate is contrary to thatlaw. Thers must bean appropriationordinance passed separate and distinct from the annual tax levy ordinance, and the sums mentioned therein shall not be exceeded in the expenditures for the purposes named during the year. Those amounts need not agree, however, with those fixed in the tax levy. The ordinance was fixed up|so that the attorney pronounced it water tight. It was then adopted, and the council passed on to the never failing nuisances, which discussion Aid. U11 yette finally, ended by a motion to adjourn.i to[ieyiliaustity.ck-lortut-iarsithneeHieianoutior-erevasurshat u pt.en-A
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Centralia Democrat
Centralia, Illinois, US
Sat, Jun 05, 1886
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