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Februmry 18, 1916. A bill of B. F. Long to amount of $15.00, for services in checking licenses in the Sixth W~rd. Progress. To m~ke available the ~o-omt allowed in the Budget for "Jail Supplies.~ It is recommended that said.amount be made avai!able, to be paid one-twelfth monthly. To $~ke available $1,275.00, out of Bond, Issue, for resurfacing Co,~ty street in the Sixth It is recommended that smid m~ount be m~le mvailable, out of Sixth Ward Bond ACcount. We report further that we have ex~mined m contract and bond of ~=, A. F. Flynn to construct a obnorete culvert on the south end of Dinwiddie street, and recommend that said bond ~ud contract be accepted. (Signed) J. T. Hanvey, Chairm~u. (Signed) E.L. Bm=low, Vmoe-~hmzrF~mn. On motion, the report of the Committee wms adopted wad by the following vote: Ayes--Dmvis, Na~khma, Langhorne, Hudgins, Bm=low, Ca=r, Privett, Bro%rne, Pile, 9. Streets-- Hon. Common Council--Board of Aldermen. Gentlemen:-- Your Street Committee re- spectfully reports herein concerning thafollowingmatters referred to the Joint tee January l~leth, 1916: Referred by two brauohes Jauy. l~-leth. Street.Oommi~- Authorized to advertise for bids to supply curbing for the south side of Wythe street, between Third and Fourth; west side of Third, between Harrison and ~ythe; smd north side of Wythe, between Se00nd and Four.tH; to be paid out of allowance for same in the Budget of 1916. We repart that the City Engineer has been instructexl to advertise for bids to be presented to the COuncil at its ~aroh meetings, Authorized to advertise for bids to supply a Repair Outfit for Streets, out of allowance for same in the Budget of 1916. Progress as to same° (And City Engineer) Instructed to deposit dirt taken from streets on the playground and cemeteries when it is most conv,enient and less expensive to do so. Progress. Referred by Bo~,rd of Aldermen Jany. ISth. Reoommitted. An appropriation of $750~ for preliminary work on paving (with instructions to bring in some definite plan for drainage at corner of High ~3~d Washington streets, inClud- ing the size of pipe, he.ght of pipe mbove high water ma~k, &c.). We report that we have gone over ca~eefully with the City Engineer the question of drainage and piping at the corner of Washington and High streets and the outflow of sadd dr~in- mge, believe that the ma=me= for doing the work is satisfactory, s~ud= therefore, repeat our former reoommendmtion that $750. be appropriated to meet this m~tter and for severs~! other small items connected with preliminary street work. A petition of the Sixth Ward Boa~d for an appropriation of $1,050. to buy three lots to open up London street through to Ninth avenue. It is recommended that au approprimtion, of $?00. be allowed for purchase of two lots to open up said street,, out of Sixth I~a~d funds, the Chairman having stated that his Board~ after subsequent investigation, had oonclucled that two of the lots named would be sufficient for the purpose. A petition of the Sixth Wa~d Board for mu aooropriation of $100, to O. L. Williams for ~orf~_~-Fifth avenue, the contract having been a~ded him for $11~.00, when the figures should have been $21~.00. We repor~ ~hat we have looked into this matter amd recommend.that the petition be not granted. The Council m~y recall that, in accordance with a contract m~de with Railway & Power Co., ~d~,ted July 24, 1913, to dou=ble track upper Hi~ s~treet, the . w~s allowed a period o. five years from the d~t~ of the franchise in which to st=a= track smd place a double track at the junction of Effingham mud High streets, mhd exto. iration of t~n years it was to reconstruct the tracks, &c. But, in a later conference of the C~mmittee with the Officials of the said Com- paay concerning their trao~s on upper High street, the~ have agreed to double t.~o~ High street, betwee~ 0coke and Pearl (where there is now a single track), and to place a crossing where _ Hatton street, if extended westward, would meet High stree%,~ a~d i~ accords~uce with plans sub mitred for same. Therefore, it is recommended that the Company be permitted to do this work. We report further that Joseph Barrett, ~ fa&thful street ha~d fo= mauy yeaaes p~st, is completely disabled from work, being ~r~lyzed and bed-ridden, a~ud. the Committee recomm~mds that he be allowed hglf of his dmily p~y ~s street h~nd for the reminder of the short time he will probably live.