1854 May Council ProceedingsApril 24, 1854
Farley, Quigley, King, Connel, Pelan, Heeb, Langworthy, Ham, Bush
Samuels, McNamara, Bush, Mobley, Burt, Langworthy, Heeb, McCraney, O'Hare, Wilde
City Attorneys
Settlement with F S Jessup and Co.
Communication from O'Hare resignation
F E Bissell fill vacancy
Calaboose
Petition of 200 citizens for B A Wilmot as City Collector
May 1, 1854
Revised Ordinance for collecting revenue
Draft an ordinance for the appointment of a street commissioner
Bids received from publishers, proposals for city printing
William H Merritt
May 1, 1854
Farley, Quigley, King, Connel, Pelan, Heeb, Langworthy, Ham, Bush
Proposals for city printing
Mahony and Dorr, Adams and Hackley
City Attorney
F S Jessup
Calaboose
Election to fill vacancy 4th Ward
interest due on city bonds
examine in the grade of the city
Collect from brokers and land warrant dealers
Sidel pay as watchman
Petition for Hill St. to be established as a public highway
intersection with 5th St. to the Madden Hollow road
P Nortion shade in public square
A V Gildea furnishing coffin, judge of election
May 1, 1854
Petition of 77 citizens asking for the appointment of B A Wilmot as city collector
Bills
William Johnson Lorimer Hollow Road
John Cosgrove fencing streets
Special Meeting
May 3, 1854
Farley, Quigley, King, Connel, Pelan, Heeb, Langworthy, Ham, Bush, McNamara
provision for a hospital, several cases of cholera and small pox
Hospital of the Sisters of Charity not willing to receive cholera patients
lumber
temporary houses on city ground near the cemetery sufficient to accomodate the sick during warm weather
May 8, 1854
Farley, Quigley, King, Connel, Pelan, Heeb, Langworthy, Ham, Bush, Bissell
14th St. Dodge St. Eagle Point Road, City Attorney, Jessup and Co., Calaboose
P Norton's bill setting out trees
Committee on grade report
Exists no ordinance in relation to grade
Engineers therefore employed have established for the time being, either with or without the presence of a committee of the council, a grade of his own
Book of profiles prepared by Brophy
employing competent engineer to fix the grade
M Marsh
H A Wiltse
Changing of Lorimer Hollow Road
Mr. Bradstreet
James Bust in reference to wharfage charges on behalf of the Steamer Berlin
May 8, 1854
Farley, Quigley, King, Connel, Pelan, Heeb, Langworthy, Ham, Bush, Bissell
government timber agents and request them to leave the city and make his headquarters at some other place
Memorial to the President of the United States requesting him to abolish the office
General J M Harrison orders on the treasurer
Resolution
Resolved revise city ordinances
G Blocklinger street commissioner
A E Skinner city collector
City engineer re-survey of 5th St. division line between the land of Langworthy and Bradstreet
Petition M B Cullen change in 17th St.
Petition improvements to North Main St.
May 8, 1854
Farley, Quigley, King, Connel, Pelan, Heeb, Langworthy, Ham, Bush, Bissell
Condition of the cemetery fence
Street commissioner
F S Jessup and Co.
A McCann cemetery work
P Keine Eagle Point Avenue
H Krohl removing bodies and filling graves
May 15, 1854
Dodge St. 14th St.
Lorimer Hollow Road
Hospital committee
Timber agent
M B Cullen
Supervise the building of bridges over North Main St. and Orange St.
Remonstrance from Thomas Nairn against location of 5th St.
May 15, 1854
Farley, Quigley, King, Connel, Pelan, Heeb, Langworthy, Ham, Bush, Bissell
G Blocklinger bond as commissioner
P Keine and J Gehrig as securities
Locust St. filled between 10th St. and 11th St.
A W Sanford certain streets be widened
number of trees set out by P Norton in public square in place of dead ones
dirt thrown out by Dredge Boat Levee in front of Guerins
extending market house
Jesse Jarrett surveying
J S Langworthy lumber for hospital
Hiram Willey
John Flinn excavating on levee
Silas Sebring watchman
Chausse
May 22, 1854
Farley, Quigley, King, Connel, Pelan, Heeb, Langworthy, Ham, Bush, Bissell
Bids for 14th St. sewer
Bid of E Walsh
Dodge St.
Lorimer Hollow Road depositing rock from the excavation on Main St.
Eagle Point Road Thomas McCraney
owners of property to fill up their ground and sidewalks adjoining the sewer walls
report on grade
5th St.
Market House
dirt placed on Bluff St. above Surveyor General's Office removed to Locust St. between 9th and 10th
settlement with Jessup and Co.
Dredge Boat Levee
Crossing the sewer on Dodge St. until the street could be permanently improved
Marshal instructed to employ someone permanently to convey sick to the city hospital
Bills of J W Dunn, Jesse Jarret engineering
May 22, 1854
Bills
P Norton trees public square
F Dutis for iron work cemetery
J S Dickinson hospital
McClay and Green cistern
H Chapman cemetery fence
J M Henderson hauling
J M Marsh
A Hawley harbor contract
May 30, 1854
Farley, Quigley, King, Connel, Pelan, Heeb, Langworthy, Ham, Bush, Bissell
Johnson macadamize Main St.
Market House extension cost
Bill Jesse Jarrett
Bill J Dunn
A E Skinner bond as collector with C H Booth, J J Dyer, B M Samuels, and Warner Lewis as securities
John Blake grade the alley between Bluff St. and Locust St.
May 30, 1854
Farley, Quigley, King, Connel, Pelan, Heeb, Langworthy, Ham, Bush, Bissell
Build a bridge on Mineral St.
Petition 6th St. and 7th St. to have culverts built from Main St. to White St.
prevent destruction of property by water from the 14th st. sewer
gutter on south side of 5th St. between Main St. and Iowa St.
Filling 1st St. from Bluff St. to Main St.
P A Lorimer bill for use of his garden
Bills
Michael Rose
Peter Mann
Peter Senegar
Peter Smith
G Blocklinger hauling
Jesse Jarret graveyard
Henry Sidle watchman
Farley, James, and Co. freight on hose
Lawrone hospital cistern
Nicholas Hoffman cleaning hospital