1865 January Council ProceedingsJanuary 5, 1865
Thompson, Quigley, Emerson, Russ, Mulkern, Stout, Cummings, Mathews, Hetherington, Ruegamer, Schmid
Petitions and Communications
Newman and Cooper obtained a judgement against the city
evidences of indebtedness
Christian Chadwick
money paid for by her for taxes of 1857
Michael Moriarty
bond against the city, ordinary scrip
Cushing and Fischer
place slides on Clay St and 4th St, running to their ice house
George Zumhof sold wood, measure wood
January 5, 1865
Thompson, Quigley, Emerson, Russ, Mulkern, Stout, Cummings, Mathews, Hetherington, Ruegamer, Schmid
O P Shiras
Resolution concerning sidewalks
Reports of Officers
salaries of city officers
Street Commissioner
Market Master
John Walters
receipts on hay sales of West Dubuque
Henry Kroll, City Sexton
interments in Linwood Cemetery
January 5, 1865
Thompson, Quigley, Emerson, Russ, Mulkern, Stout, Cummings, Mathews, Hetherington, Ruegamer, Schmid
amounts of receipts for the month
C J Chaplin J P
Communication William Hintrager
L H Langworthy taxes due
C J Leist
J M Robinson for lumber
January 5, 1865
Thompson, Quigley, Emerson, Russ, Mulkern, Stout, Cummings, Mathews, Hetherington, Ruegamer, Schmid
Markets
Bill of Cushing and Fischer for ice
City Hall
Resolutions and Motions
special tax for repairing sidewalks
Main st
John Sullivan
laying down sidewalks extended until the spring
P M Guthrie salary
C Gilliam wharf master
January 5, 1865
Thompson, Quigley, Emerson, Russ, Mulkern, Stout, Cummings, Mathews, Hetherington, Ruegamer, Schmid
Dubuque Harbor Co
Resolution
Resolved balance due the Harbor Co to pay off
all scrip issued to judgement creditors
words "new scrip" recinded
Petition of Moriarty? Moartz?
January 5, 1865
Thompson, Quigley, Emerson, Russ, Mulkern, Stout, Cummings, Mathews, Hetherington, Ruegamer, Schmid
Bills
F J Cromer, money for calaboose
wood for the poor
locks
Westphal and Hinds
D Earnest, cisterns
E C Clark, lumber
F A Gniffke, printing
P Robb and Co, printing
Thompson, Jones stationary
Engine Company No. 2
fire departments
Henebery, money paid for repairing sidewalk
January 14, 1865
Thompson, Quigley, Emerson, Russ, Mulkern, Stout, Cummings, Mathews, Hetherington, Ruegamer, Schmid
Ordinance creating the office of Inspector of Beef, Pork
Office of City Inspector
J K Graves
light the principal streets of the city, where our pipes now run,
street lamps
lit at dark and extinguished at break of day
Key City Gas Light Co
January 14, 1865
Thompson, Quigley, Emerson, Russ, Mulkern, Stout, Cummings, Mathews, Hetherington, Ruegamer, Schmid
Petition from F Guerin, remove Cushing and Fischer ice slide near his house
annoyance
D A Mahoney bill for keeping prisoners
Hugo Miller selling meat illegally
R E Bishop, Recorder
January 16, 1865
Thompson, Quigley, Emerson, Russ, Mulkern, Stout, Cummings, Mathews, Hetherington, Ruegamer, Schmid
An Ordinance to create the office of inspector of beef, pork, lard, boar, butter, and other provisions to define the duties
newspapers publish ordinances
Petition of F Gurson, obstructions on Clay St between 3rd St and 4th St be removed
Cushing and Co
fines and penalties
January 20, 1865
Thompson, Quigley, Emerson, Russ, Mulkern, Stout, Cummings, Mathews, Hetherington, Ruegamer, Schmid
J P Adams, B Henderson, and others asking Henry Winninghoff be appointed City Inspector of Beef, Pork, and Flour
Hugo Miller, McAfee and Blumenauer
Office of Inspector
collect all the ordinances that have been passed by the Council since the publication of the pamphlet of ordinances
inquiry from Chicago, amount paid for inspecting beef, pork, flour and beans
Resolution
Resolved the inspector of beef, flour, butter, pork, lard, and other provisions
charge and receive for services
January 20, 1865
Thompson, Quigley, Emerson, Russ, Mulkern, Stout, Cummings, Mathews, Hetherington, Ruegamer, Schmid
Resolution
Resolved the inspector of beef, flour, butter, pork, lard, and other provisions
charge and receive for services
expense of unpacking, repacking
elect a City Inspector
Blumenauer, McAfee, Hugo Miller
taxation of church property
night police
discharged men for inefficiency, drunkenness, and cowardice
policemen
January 20, 1865
Thompson, Quigley, Emerson, Russ, Mulkern, Stout, Cummings, Mathews, Hetherington, Ruegamer, Schmid
compliments to the Mayor
change of the police
liquidating the debt of the city
Stout and Graves overpaid their subscription to take new bonds
R E Bishop