1863 May Council ProceedingsMay 7, 1863
Thedinga, Quigley, Treanor, Russ, Mulkern, Stout, Cummings, Mathews, Christman, Kiene, Schmid
Petitions
J L Harvey, W L Bradley, W J Burr, erected dwellings on Locust St between 12th st and 13th St
Andrew and Treadway, cotton wood trees planted along streets, insufferable nuisance
damaging gardens, roofs of houses
May 7, 1863
Thedinga, Quigley, Treanor, Russ, Mulkern, Stout, Cummings, Mathews, Christman, Kiene, Schmid
J P Farley in relation to Cotton Wood trees between 5th St, 6th St, Bluff St
bad influence produced
property mortgaged
S D Dixon, Auditor office at his own expense on Main St, center of the business part of the city
C L Dickinson trees in front of the Tremont house
T Levins lot on Julien Avenue, damaged by grading of the street
Peter Klein and others, stream called Bee Branch
creek turned at a trifling expense
May 7, 1863
Thedinga, Quigley, Treanor, Russ, Mulkern, Stout, Cummings, Mathews, Christman, Kiene, Schmid
C Gilliam designate the American Eagle as the Badge to be worn by the Police Officers
Badge show office
Wharf master, blank receipts
V Herancourt, lots in Mobley's Addition, advertised for sale for taxes
Charles Street, open the old county road near Bee Branch
Jacob Kury, certain taxes for non payment
May 7, 1863
Thedinga, Quigley, Treanor, Russ, Mulkern, Stout, Cummings, Mathews, Christman, Kiene, Schmid
Constable Cadman signed on certain cut stones and rock
Reports of Officers
macadamizing Clay St, Messrs Jordan
General Fund
P M Guthrie
John Fortune, harbor master
wharfage inner levee
Jones St
Charles Gilliam, wharfage collected
May 7, 1863
Thedinga, Quigley, Treanor, Russ, Mulkern, Stout, Cummings, Mathews, Christman, Kiene, Schmid
Reports of Officers
Henry Kroll, Sexton, interments in city cemetery
Marshal
dead carcasses, planking and hauling
erection of a pound, as dogs are becoming a nuisance
impossible to procure men to assist to build it
repairing and cleaning of streets, Main St
Market master, hay scales
Central Market
May 7, 1863
Thedinga, Quigley, Treanor, Russ, Mulkern, Stout, Cummings, Mathews, Christman, Kiene, Schmid
Reports of Officers
Amounts due City Officers as salary for May
Fire Companies
Sam D Dixon
May 7, 1863
Thedinga, Quigley, Treanor, Russ, Mulkern, Stout, Cummings, Mathews, Christman, Kiene, Schmid
Standing Committees
Finance
Franklin Hinds, contract between the City and the Galena, Dubuque, Dunleith, and Minnesota Packet Company
wharfage rates
An Ordinance providing for the appointment of a grain inspector
Grain inspector charge and receive per load for inspecting
car loads of grain
May 7, 1863
Thedinga, Quigley, Treanor, Russ, Mulkern, Stout, Cummings, Mathews, Christman, Kiene, Schmid
Petition of H H Smyth and others, grading alley
Financial condition of the City
Bill of N Pals
J Kern cleaning market house
Bill of George Koch for railing
map of new cemetery grounds
Mayor's acceptance of contract
May 7, 1863
Thedinga, Quigley, Treanor, Russ, Mulkern, Stout, Cummings, Mathews, Christman, Kiene, Schmid
Deed to Cemetery Lands
Jean Baptiste N Bourgeois, Alexander Levi and Minette Levi
Dubuque County and State of Iowa
bargained and sold
Described real estate
deeded to M Cahana in trust to be used as a Jewish Cemetery
Section 13 Township, principal meridian
themselves and their heirs, covenant to warrant and defend said premises against the lawfull claims of all persons
J B N Bourgeois
A Levi
Minette Levi
Notary public in and for said county
right of dower
May 7, 1863
Thedinga, Quigley, Treanor, Russ, Mulkern, Stout, Cummings, Mathews, Christman, Kiene, Schmid
Deed to Cemetery Lands
Relinquished her right of dower in the real estate therein conveyed
without compulsion or under influence of her husband
C H Eighmey
Notary Public
Jean Baptiste N Bourgeois and Minette Levi
General Warranty Deed conveyed to the City
land to be used as a cemetery
Principal meridian
20 acres
Deeded to M Cahana to be used as a Jewish Cemetery
price of each lot
May 7, 1863
Thedinga, Quigley, Treanor, Russ, Mulkern, Stout, Cummings, Mathews, Christman, Kiene, Schmid
Deed to Cemetery Lands
No lots shall be sold at private sale until offered at public sale
good bankable funds
discharge this agreement
Jean Baptiste N Bourgeois and Minette Levi
General Warranty Deed conveyed to the City
land to be used as a cemetery
J H Thedinga, Mayor
May 5, 1863
May 7, 1863
Thedinga, Quigley, Treanor, Russ, Mulkern, Stout, Cummings, Mathews, Christman, Kiene, Schmid
Notary Public
C H Eighmey
Resolutions
Cotton Wood trees be declared a nuisance
Correspondence with the creditors of the city
amount of indebtedness
May 7, 1863
Thedinga, Quigley, Treanor, Russ, Mulkern, Stout, Cummings, Mathews, Christman, Kiene, Schmid
Resolutions
Resolved
contractor on Jones St
Bills
L D Randall and Co, repairing hose
N Pals, market master
John T Everett police
M Oswald
J G Armstrong notary fees
George Koch
J Kermis, whitewashing market house
Marshal dead carcasses
E O'Hare claims
Frith and Reddle
Bobleiter and Meyer
George Schunk
Street Commissioner
Henry Jordan, Jones St
E Klein
John Hurley, Recorder