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R. C. P. July 8, 191So 205, recommendations were recommitted. The Board did not concur in the Common Council's amendment te report of the Finance Commit- tee, that the matter of re-arranging~lights in the Council Chamber at a cost of $90.00 and the re-arrangement of lights in office cf the C~e ' per~y Committee. ~.r~ of Court, be recommitted with the Public Pro- The Board reoommitted to Ordinance Committee recommended ordinance in regard to governing the location and operation of wood and coal yards which had been ordered to lie on the table by the Common Council. The Nayor returned his approval of the following matters adopted by.. the two branches of City Council June 10-19, 1915: ' To make available $i,000.00~ or as much of the same as has not been expended, allowed in the Budget for "Sidewalks." ' ' - ~600.00. for a storage_ room for-the a?to~patrol wagon. (special). To m~ avazlable $2,067~o0 allowed in th~= Budget for "F~re Alarm Telegraph, New Work." $240.00 allowed in the .Budget and a special appropriation of $?5.00, to the Board of Qua- rantine Commissioners to pay the City's proportion of expenses of'said Board for the year 191~. $?50.00 to the Board of Harbor Commissioners as third and fourth payments for expenses of said Board for year ending June ~Oz 191~, as provided in the Budget. $1,250.00 and $695.58 to pay a r~qu_e~t~on~ ~ ' ' of the Auditor of Public Accounts, as the City's proportion of salaries of Judges of Corporation and Circuit Courts~ respectivety~ for year 1914 To make available $475.00 allowed in the Budget for ' ~ '~ ' ~ ' "Repazrs to Hook &~ Laader~EnEin~ House." A special appropriation of '$200.00 to extend the paving of High street eastward across Chestnut. - - Award made to A. F. Flynn for granolithic pavement and driveway on the following streets: East Side of Chestnut street, from Glasgow to High; North Side of Jefferson street, from Fourth ~as~ Szde of Fifth street~ from Jefferson to Fayette; South Side of Glasgow street to Fifth; ~ ~ · from Effingham to Chestnut~ $.98 per sq. yd. for each kind of pavement. .A. ward made to The Gamewell Fire Alarm Telegraph 0~0~, of New ¥o~k, to supply the Cit with a pol?e telephone and t. elsgraph system, without flash lights, for SE 990 O0 Y re make avazlable $400~00 allowed for purchase of horses, said amount Having been trans- ferred from "~Uppliee ~o Fire Alarm." To authorize the Street Committee to do what it may deem necessary to put Pearl street in good sani~tary eondition~ and to ~charge the cost of same to the Sixth Ward, said Ward, in the opinion o£ the City Attorney, being responsible for said condition.. To instruct the City ~gineer to prevent the Suburban Water Company, or any other Water Company not .having a contrac~wzth the City, from laying water mains in the City o~ _ or~smou ~h. · To authorize th?~ Street Committee with the City Attorney, to take such steps as may be necessary for acquiring the proper right~ of way for ex~ending ~Dinwiddi~ street southward to Harrison. To authorize the Street Committee to n~egotiate with the proper parties for the purchase of a right of way for the extension of Hatton street,' from London to High. An Ordinance to Require Privies to be Screene~ and Yly-proof. And his disapproval of the following ordinance: An Ordinance to Repeal Sections ~58, 259, 260, and the Ordinance E~titled, "An Ordinance to Repeal Sections ~58, 259, and E60 of the Ordi- nances of the City and to ~nbetitute in-Lieu Thereof a New Ordinance in Reference to House Con- nections with the Mains of the Water Company Where Streets ~re to be Hereafter Paved," Approved December 20, o1912. $ith re~gard to the disapproval of the ordinance, he gave the following reasons therefor: '"The matters ~dopted by the two branches of the City Council June lO-19, 191S,and referred to me, are 'approved, except."An Ordinance Entitled an Ordinance to Repeal Sections 258-259-~80 of the Ordinance? of t~is Czty and to Substitute in Lieu thereo~ a. New Ordinance in Reference to House Connectzons wmth the Mains of the Water Company Where streets are to be hereafter paved? "This ordinance repeals an ordinance which compels the owners Of any premises or unimproved lots in putting new laterals or repairing old laterals connecting with the Water Works to use three-fourth~i~ch lead pipe. "I see no Just reason why this ordinance should be adopted. The reason assigned for its passage is to relieve the a~uttmno properties on High Street from the cost of lead p~pe connec- tions with the water mains, as there is a probability of the city's water plant bein~ in opera- tion within the coming two years. n~se r~asons are not suff~cm~nt, to my mind, to repeal an ordinance which has been en- force~ on the many and now desired to be reserved for the few. "Th~ insti~ting of lead pipe laterals on High Street entails a cost of four dollars ad- ditional on the short side and ten dollars additional on the long side of the street, and when we consider that the Portsmouth, Ber~ley & Suffolk Water Contract has about seven years longer to run, it'doels not appear to me that any one would b~ auffering a hardship from this slight ex- ceos of cost. Besides, it is poiEted out that~the life of the lead pipe ~s so much longer and the service immeasurably b,t-ter. "Have .you a ~arante? that when a municipal plant is established Rroperty owners on upper High Street will become water takers? "As to the eleetrolytical effect on the pipes my information is that there is no difference between lead and iron; and further, if the trolley rails ~re properly bonded we would not have electrolysis in, connections with water laterals. "On every streetiWhere there is a permanent pavement the pr~visions of the lead pipe ordi- nance have been enforced, and justly so, and I see no good reasons why they should not continue in force. "~. S. Hope, M~yor." At this point a comr~unication was read from the Sixth Ward Board in which desire was ex~ pressed that the Council sustain the veto of the ~ayor in regard to said ordinance~ The disapproval of the Ma~or'haVi~ been ~ead and the reasons therefor, the Chair put the vetoquestion, of ~the"8~allEavortheto action the contv~vv?"°f the body 'June 10th, 1915, stand as recorded, notwithstanding the