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ORDINANCES
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SELECT Al COIiOI CODICILS
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AS PASSED BY THEM,
AND APPROVED BY THE MAYOR,
From January First to December Thirty-First, 1858.
PHILADELPHIA:
BICKING & GUILBEKT, PKINTERS, NO. G02 ARCH STREET.
1858.
INDEX.
APPROPRIATIONS.
PIGS
Alarm "Box, for the erection of Telegraph and Signal, - - - 54
Board of Health, to make an appropriation to the, - - 161, 346, 406
« « " " " for deficiencies in 1857, 116
» « « « «' " salaries of Officers, - 110
u u tt CI « « u Vaccine
Physicians, 431
Bridge, " " for repairs to the Permanent, - 409
City Commissioners, " " to the Department of, - 9, 498, 500
« Controller, " " " " . - 385
" Loans, " " to pay interest on, - - 221
" Property, " " " the Department of, 32, 137, 248, 329
« Treasurer, " " " " « . . 133
Claims, to pay certain, against the City, 51, 92, 190, ^07, 379, 386, 433, 480
496, 498, 500
*' " Coroners Delavau and Fenner, and other claims, - - 89
♦* " a, of Eli K. Price, and other claims, - - - 157
" F.W, Binder, - - - - - 147
" to pay certain, of Mandamus executions and judgments, - - 493
Claims, to provide for the payment of a, for advertising by Franklin Institute, 56
to Abel, Charles R.,
166,
472
" Alexander,
-
472
" Allen, Samuel,
_
494
" Anderson, Jacob \V., -
482,
483
" Andrews & Brother, -
.
484
" Anspach, Reed &. Co., -
.
»
" Apple, Aid. John,
-
208
" Armstrong, .Tames,
-
168
" Arrison &, Smith,
481,
,482
)6TS13
INDEX.
PACK
to Ash, Dr. H. St. Clair, -
-
90
" Atmore, R. & F.
168,
483
" Baker, J. C, & Co., -
164,
481
" Baldwin, Linderman & Co.,
166,
495
" Barnes, John Watts,
-
157
" Baxter, Thomas E., 1G5,
, 482,
,485
" Beck, Thomas B.,
158
« Beohur Philip,
494
" Bicking & Guilbert,
167
" Biilington, James H., -
172
" Binder, F. W.,
147,
433
" Bitting, Lewis,
164
" Bitting, Tliomas R.,
166
" Boesch, Hannah,
494
" Boon, George, - 166,
,481
,482
" Braddock, J. B.,
166
" Erennan & Co.,
495
" Brcnan, Richard V ,
499
" Brewer, E.,
167
,169
" Broadbcnt, J., -
164
" Burton «fc Laning,
484
" Cadmus, J.,
483
" Calvert, Rachel,
tt
" Campbell, John,
170
" Canon & Brother,
164
" Carc}', James, -
168
" Cariick, Thos., & Co., -
483
" Chad wick, Thomas,
166
" Chauvenet, Prof. William,
249
" Christy, W. M.,
167
" Clement, S. L.,
172
" Clifton, James,
500
" Cloud, Aid. John,
190
" Collecting Ballot Boxes,
»
" Constable's Fees,
172
" Court of Quarter Sessions,
M
" Craven, Thomas,
-
380
" Crawford, A. L.,
168,
, 483
" Creighton, E. N.,
.
208
" Crissy & Markley, - 117, 379,433
V r.
INDEX. HI
PAOB
to CuniminfTs, Alexander, •
-
56
" Dalcx, Alexander,
-
168
" Dalton, M.,
-
"
" Davis, Marcus Aurclius,
-
380
" Delavau, Joseph,
-
89
" Dempscy, G. S.,
-
163
" Department of Law,
117,
,380
" " of Wharves and
Landings, -
-
172
" Dickson, William,
-
89
" Donnell, J. M.,
-
480
" Donohue, D., -
-
165
" Dow, Phineas,
-
499
" Doyle, James B.,
-
158
" Draper, John, -
-
252
" Dugan, Joseph, dee'd. Trustees ofj 84
" Duncan, Thomas, - - 499
« Dyer, Reeves S., - - 484
" Einvvechter, William, & Sons, - 138
« Ellis, J. M. & Son, - 483, 484, 485
" Evans & Watson, - - 170
" Evening Argus, - - 107
" " Journal, ■ - «
» Fagan S., - - - "
" Fahnestock, B. A., Si, Co., - 164
» Fair, Thomas - 193, 166, 167
" Farson, E. J,, & Co., - - 494
" Fenner, John R,, - - 89
" Field & Hard ie, - - 407
" Field, Paul J., - - 499
" Findlay, John K., - - 226
" Fitzvvuter & Wood, - - 164
" Flanigan, G. W., - 164, 495
" Flanigen, J. R., - - 56
" Fleming, Joseph, - - 165
" Fletcher, J. S.,- - - 56
" Forney, John W., - - 509
" Fougeray, H. J., - - 158
« Foulk, S. C, . - - 482
" Frazer, C, - - - 169
IT INDEX.
PAGE
Claims, to provide for the payment of a, to Frazer, F. G. & V. J., - - 1G9
" " " " Freeman, Aid. J. B, - - 190
" " " " " Dr. W. H., . - 158
" " " " " French, Richards &, Co., 164, 165, 166
" " " » " Frick, George, - - - 482
" Gaffney, Philip, - -163
" " " » " Galbraith, James, 93, 167, 482, 483
" " " "■ " Gamble Hugh, - - - 166
" " u u <i Garrigucs & Magee, - - 484
" " " " » Gibbons, James, - - 117
" " Gemrig, J. H., - - - 165
" " » " " Gheen, J. R. & Co., -
" " " " " Goldsmith, Dr. Thomas O., - 171
" Gorgas, E. W., . - 168
" " " " Graham, F., - - - 500
" Graham, N. H. & Co., - 163, 166, 480
•• " " " Grauel, A. M.,- - - 484
" " " " "■ Green, William, - - 482
" " " " " Growell, G. M., - - 163
« Hacker, W. P. & G. W., - 484
" " " " " Hamilton, George J., - - 494
" " " " « Harbert & Davis, - - 481
" " " " " Harding, Jesper, & Son, - 56
" " " " " Harkins, Daniel, . - 158
" " Harris, W. E., - - 495
" " " " " Hasson, John, - - - 202
" " " " " Havens, John, - - 165, 166
" " " " " Hawkesworth, Thomas, - 494
" " " " " Hazard, A. F., & Co., - - 164
" " " " " Heirs of Benjamin Jones, dec'd, 371
« " " " " Heister & Stewart, - - 89
" " " " " Helffiicht, Dr. J. S., - . «
" " " " " Henderson, John, - - 484
" " " " " " Robert, - - 483
" " " " « Henderson, John N., - - 171
" " " u u « R. H., - . 482
" Hillary, William, - - 164
" Hinckle, John, - - 163
** " " " " Hoffman, Jacob C, - - 493
" Hollick, George, - - 493
INDEX.
to Hood & Co., -
.
PAGE
481
" Hoijpes, P, & J.,
-
168
" Howell, G. M., -
-
89
" Hufty, Joseph, -
" Huiisworth, Eagen
&Co,
7
495
" Independence Hose
" Jackson, B. Frankli
Company
n, 117,
167,
3
,499
" Jameson, R., -
168,
,483
" Jenks & Ogden,
.
484
« Jilon, Michael, -
-
167
" Jones, John, -
-
163
" Jordan & Bro., -
163.
, 166
" Judge, Thomas,
-
168
" Jurors of Court of Common Pleas,
170
" " District court,
.
tc
" " Meals, -
-
.
190
" " of Quarter Sessions,
-
170
" " Road, -
-
.
tt
" Kain, John, -
.
-
494
" Kellogg, M. A.,
-
-
493
" Kelly, Peter, -
-
-
495
" Kelly, W.,
-
-
168
" Kelsh,J.,
-
.
165
" Kensington Hose Company,
" Kiehl, John, & Son,
•
3
117
" King &, Baird,
.
.
171
" Knouse, J., & J. St
ainruck,
-
»
" Kugler, Lewis,
-
.
167
" Lafayette Hose Company,
" Lancaster, John,
-
3
165
" Landy & Uhler,
-
483,
,484
" Lane, James, -
-
-
499
" Lawson, W. C,
-
.
202
" Lewis & Butler,
-
.
495
" Le Sage, Thomas,
" Lloyd & Hill, -
" Lockard, Lewis,
-
95,
380
168
482
" Locke, Z., &. Co.,
.
-
164
" Lovvber, George,
" Lowery, James,
-
483,
464
484
VI INDEX. _
FAGB
Claims, to provide for the payment of a, to Mactier & Steel, - - 430
M «« " « " Magrady, Charles, - - 482
u •• " " " Managers of Poor of Germantown, 93
« «• « » " Mallock, Alexander, - - 499
H u « " " Marshall, J., - - - 494
« « " " " Martin, Thomas J., - 164, 481
MM » « u Maule Wilham, - - 433
M « " " » McClosky, R., - - - 117
u « «' » " McConneJl, Thomas, - - 495
u ti «« " " McDonald, B., - • - 168
(I •• « " " McFadden, Dr. James, - - 158
M « " " " McFaull, John, - - 500
u M « " « McGarry &. Kennedy, - 481
u « « " » McGlUen, John, - - 170
.« tt " " « McGIenshy, P., - - 169
li u « « " " W., - - "
u " » " " McGovern, E., - - 165,481
« « " " « McGrath, William V., - 184, 380
li I' " " " McGuigan, Francis, - - 482
u « « " " Mclivaine, Hugh, - - 494
t( » « " " McKenna, P., - - - 165
ti « « " « McKinley, W, R., - - 168
ii «' « « " McMuIlen, W,, - - 165
u « « " " McNally, James, - - 171
ii .. « » " McNeil, C. J., - - - 481
ii « » " " Megary, D. P., - - 166
„ ii " " » " M., - - - 168
.. .. " » » Melloy, Peter, - - 163, 166, 167
K li « " " Meyers, Abraham, - - 494
ti ii « " " Mider, James, - - 493
ti ii « " « Miller, P. H., - - - 165
u « " " « Mitcliell & Ore, - - 169
ti it « " " Montague, James, - - 168
it •• " " " Montgomery, J., - - 169
It ti «• « «' » G. W., - - 481
it •' " « " Moore, George, - - 494
«t it " « " Morris, Jones & Co., • - 484
it .' " " " Morris, J. P., & Co., - - 495
ti t« " " " Morris, Tasker & Co., - > 89
It « « « " Morrison, Dr. James, - • 433
INDEX.
VU
Claims, to provide
FAoa
for the pay
ment of a
to Morrison, W., -
-
169
t>
t(
" Mountain, Joseph, Jr., •
-
171
41
It
" Moyamensing Hose Company, -
3
«
II
" jVlullin, James,
472
ti
It
" Murphy, John K.,
172
"
It
" Nalt, Thomas J.,
481
((
"
" Nauman, C, V., & Co.,
495
'•
11
» Neff, W. A., -
172
«'
It
" Nelson, John, •
493
«
it
" Neman & Warnick,
172
U
It
« Noe, A. S.,
380
«t
It
" Nugent, Arthur,
495
"
"
" Nultall, William,
494
»
It
" O'Conner, P., -
168
"
"
» Paist, Dr. H. C,
90
"
"
" Palmer, Thomas Hope, -
93
"
"
" Patterson & Coane,
164
"
»
" Patten, VV. H.,
169
"
"
" Peir, Joseph, -
493
'•
"
" Pennsylvania Institution for
Blind, - . 166,
482
,484
"
11
" Pennsylvanian,
167
(1
"
" Philadelphia Democrat,
II
"
"
» Phillips, J. A., -
" PiUey, John H.,
433
509
It
<i
" Price, E. K., -
157
"
It
" Price, Thomas W.,
433
tl
II
" Powers & Weightman, -
164
"
"
" Quinn, John, -
It
"
It
" Redman, J.,
168
<(
f<
" Reed, William, »
494
U
It
" Remmy, H., -
482
11
t<
" Rice, William, -
56,495
"
"
" Rodgers, P., -
165
((
u
" Prof. R. E., -
379
"
tl
" Rohrman, Henry,
208
"
u
" Rourke, Thomas,
167
"
II
" Rowan, John &, Co., -
495
u
It
" Russell, George,
481
(t
"
" Sachenmier, M.,
169
Tlii INDEX.
to Schlater, C. U.,
-
-
169
" Schweppenheiser, W. J.,
-
493
" Severn's, Andrew J.,
%
500
" Sliantz, Joseph,
-
109
" Shellady, S., -
-
483
" Shessler, Jr., George,
-
494
" Sliippen, Dr. Joseph,
-
171
" Shivers, Charles,
-m,
484,
,493
" Shoemaker, A. H.,
-
93
" Sloan, James, -
164.
,165
» Smith, J. B., & Co.,
.
190
" " W. H.,
.
482
" Snowden, George,
-
165
" " Thomas,
-
t(
" Snyder, T. H.,
-
464
" Spear, James, -
-
494
*' Sprague, J. H., i^ Co.,
-
165
" Spring Garden Hose Co.,
-
3
" Slille, Dr. A. Owen,
,-
-
90
" Stillman, Richard, & Co^
-
495
" Styer, H.,
-
483
" Swain &, Abell,
-
167
" Taggart, James,
-
494
♦' Tate, William,.
167,
,481
" Thomas, VV. B., & Co
-
164
" Thompson, S, C,
-
182
" Torrey, Joim G.,
-
93
" Town, C. Burt,
-
190
" Trustees Philadelphia
Gas
Works, -
93,
,208
" Tully & Brown,
-
166
" Tyler, Robert, -
171
,226
" Urian, Charles,
-
165
" Vandyke, Benjamin F
226
,494
" " F. A.,
-
226
" Wagner, Peter,
-
184
" Wales, Leonard B.,
-
379
" Wampole, C. C,
-
168
" Ward, John D-,
'
90
" Webb, Edward G.,
-
493
INDEX. IX
FAGB
Claims, to provide for tlie payment of a, to Webster, C, - - 483
" " " " Wcise, George, - - 171
" " » «' Whetham, Joseph, • - 1()6
« " " " Wiietham J., - - - 16G
« " " " Whctherill & Brother, - 164
" " » " Whitehead, Abraham, - - 495
" " » « Wightman, Joseph P., - - 472
« " " " Wilhelm, Charles, - - 166
«« " " " Wilis & Babbit, - - 484
" " " » Williams, Joseph R., - - 500
« " " " Wood, E. G., - - - 190
" Wright, Hunter & Co., • 93
" " Joshua, .168,481,483
" " " " Zaiss, Frederick, - .509
" " " " Zeigenfuss, John, - - 484
Commissioner of Market Houses, to make an appropriation to the, - 21
" " " " " for care and
management of the Wharves and Landings, - - - 22
Commissioners of Sinking Fund, to make an appropriation to the, - - 50
Controller of Public Schools, « " " Board of,
68, 159, 390, 478
Contested Elections, " " to pay expenses of, 429
Coroners Delavau and Fenner, " " " and other
claims, - 89
Costs, to make an appropriation to pay interest on endorsed warrants, and
interests and, on judgments, - 116
County Prison, " " to the Inspectors of the, • - - 27
Damages, to pay John Draper, in opening Sixth street, . - - 252
Road,. .... - 84,370
Decree, to pay a, against the City, ..... 226
Deficiencies, to piy, - - . - - - .90
Delavau, Coroner, to pay, and Coroner Fenner and other claims, - - 89
Draper, John, to pay, for damages in opening Sixth street, • - 252
Eastern Front of the City, for the improvement of the, ■ - • 136
Elections, to pay expenses of Contested, ... - - 429
Endorsed Warrants, to pay interest on, and interest and costs on judgments, 116
Extra Assessments, for paying bills of, • - - - .55
Fenner, Coroner, to pay Coroner Delavau, and other claims, - - 89
Fire Department, to the, ..... 2, 437
Funded Debt, to pay interest on the, .... 220, 5 1 6
1
X INDEX.
PAGE
Funded Debt, to authorize the sale of City Loans to pay, - - - .')23
Gas, for furnishing, and lighting, and public lamps, • - -1
Girard College, for the use of the, ... - 16,423
Guardians of the Poor, to the, . - . - 19,41,163,399
Highways, to the Department of, - - 30, 320, 370, 372, 496
" " " " for deficiencies, - - - 90
" » « " to pay Road Damages, - 84, 370
Inauguration, to pay expenses of the, of the Mayor, . - - 202
Improvement, for the, of the Eastern front of the City and other purposes, • 136
Inspectors of the County Prison, to the, . - - • .27
Interest, to pay the, on City Loans, - - - - - 221
" " " Endorsed Warrants, and costs and judgments, - 116
" " " Funded Debt, - - . - 220, 516
" " " Temporary Loan, - - - 229, 493
Intersections, to pay claims for paving, - - - - - 496
Jurors " and for otiier purposes, - - - - - 170
Lighting, for furnishing Gas and, public lamps, - • • - 1
Loans, to pay due, -.-...- 221
" " interest on, . - - - - - 220
Loons, to authorize the sale of, to pay Funded Debt of City, - - 523
Lowber, George, to, and widow of Thomas H. Snyder, - - . 464
Manayunk Poor House, to pay expenses en obtaining satisfaction on
mortgages vs. the, ....-- 354
Mandamus executions and judgments, to pay certain claims of, - 493, 496
Market Houses, to the Department of, - - - - - 21
Mayor, to pay the expenses of the Inauguration of the, . • • 202
" " " " for care of Wharves and Landings, • 22
Mortgages, to p;iy expenses of obtaining satisfaction on, vs. the Estate
known as the Manayunk Poor House, . - - - 354
Opening, to pay damages in, Sixtli street, .... 252
Printing Extra Assessments, to pay bills for, - - . .55
Public liamps, for furnishing, ... - - . 2
Purpose named, to pay, - . - - • -137
Repairs to Station Houses, for, --.... 389
Road Damages, ...... 84, 370
Satisfaction on Mortgages, to pay expenses of obtaining, vs. the Mana-
yunk Poor House Estate, ..... 354
Signal Alarm Box, for the erection of Telegraph and, . - ..54
Sinking Fund, to tlie Commissioners of, - - - - 50
" " authorizing the sale of City Loans in, to pay Funded Debt, - 523
INDEX. Xl
pAoa
Snyder, Tlios. 11., to George Lowber and the Widow, - ■ - 464
Station Houses, for Repairs to, - - - - - - 389
Steam Fire Engines Philadelphia and Hope, providing for care and
tnanagemeiit of the, --...- 332
Street, to pay for damages in opening Sixth, .... 252
Superintendent of Trusts, out of certain Trust Funds and, - 6, 249, 337
Surveys, to tlie Department of, - - - - - - 24
Supplying the City with Water, to tlic Department for the, 26, 146, 325, 457
Telegraph, for the erection of| and Signal Alarm Box, - • - 54
Temporary, to pay the interest on, Loan, ... 229, 493
Thompson, S, C, for Clerk hire, • - - - - 182
Trust Funds, out of certain, to Superintendent of Trusts, - * 6, 249, 337
Water Department, to make an appropriation to the, ... 508
West Philadelphia Passenger Railway Company to pay for water-pipe, - 509
Wharves and Landings, to the Department of Market Houses, for care ofj - 22
ORDINANCES.
Abel, Charles R. , to pay,
Alexander, "
Allen, Samuel, "
Anderson, Jacob W., to pay,
Andrews & Bro., ♦'
Anspach, Reed & Co., "
Apple, Aid. John, "
Arrison &- Smith, "
Armstrong, James, "
Ash, Dr. H. St. Clair, «
Atmore, R. &-F., "
Attmore, R. & J., "
Alleys, to regulate the paving of streets, lanes and,
" to change the names of certain streets, lanes, courts and.
Almshouse, to pay for tools for quarrying stone at,
Ashton street, to pay damages for opening.
Axe Factory Road, to repair bridge on.
166, 472
- 472
- 494
482, 483
- 484
- 484
- 208
481, 482
- 168
- 90
- 168
- 482
- 255
- 257
- 485
- 48
. 497
Xll INDEX^
B.
PAQB
Ballot Boxes, to pay for collecting, - - - . .i90
Baker, John C, & Co., to pay, . . - . . 164, 481, 482
Baldwin, Lindernian &, Co., to pay, . - - . 166, 495
Barnes, John Watts, " . - - - - 157
Baxter, Thomas E., " - . - - 165, 482, 485
Beck, Thomas B., "-..-- 158
Bicking & Guilbert, " - - . . 167,169
Billington, James H., ...... 172
Billmyer, W. M., " - .... 53
Binder, F. W., " . . . . 147, 433
Bird, E. H., «» .... 51, 52
Bitting, Lewis, " - - - - - 164
Bitting, Thomas R., " ... - - 166
Boehur, Philip, « . - - - -494
Boesch, Hannah, " ----- 494
Boon, George, " ... -166,481,482
Braddock, J. B., '*^ - - - 51, 52, 166
Brady, John H., « ..... 53
Brenan, Richard, " - - ... 52
Brenan, Richard V., ------ 499
Brennan & Co., » . - - . . 495
Brewer, Edmund, " .... I67, 169
Broadbent, J., " - - . - - 164
Buckley, E., " ----- 53
Burton & Lanning, " - - . - , 434
Bank street, to authorize the construction of a Culvert or Drain on, - 85
Bonds, to authorize the sale of, Mortgages, Plank Road and R. R. Stocks, - 201
Board of Health, to make appropriation to, . 110, 161, 346, 406, 421
Boundary lines, to change the, of 7tii division 22nd Ward, - - 126
Bridge, to make appropriation for repairs to permanent, - - - 409
" for construction of a, across Schuylkill at Chestnut st., - 445, 447
Bridge, to repair a, .on the Axe Factory Road, - - - - 497
C.
Cadmus, J., to pay, .-...-. 483
Calvert, Rachel, to pay, - . - - - .483
Campbell, John, " - - - - - . .170
Carrick, Thoams &. Co., to pay, . - • . - 433
_
FA OB
164
.
168
-
166
52
167
-
500
-
380
168
4S3
.
208
117, 379,
433
-
172
.
190
-
172
.
56
INDEX. xm
Canon & Brothers, to pay, ...
Carey, James, "...
Chadwick, Tliomas, "...
Christy, VV. M., «...
Clifton, James, " -
Craven, Tliomas, " - -
Crawford, A. L., "...
Creighton, Ed. N., «...
Crissy &, Mark ley, "...
Clement, Samuel L., to pay, . . -
Clouds, Aid. John, "...
Certain Claims, "...
Cummings, Alexander, to pay, for printing extra assessments,
Clark, John E., offering a reward for the apprehension and conviction of
the murderers of, ----- . 341
Carlton street, to authorize the construction of a culvert or drain on the
line of, ....... 236
Chief Engineer of Fire Department, to authorize the, to suspend fire
companies, --.-... 216
Chestnut street Bridge, for the construction of the, . . 445, 447
Citizens' Passenger Railway Company, relative to the, - . . 145
City Commissioners, to make appropriation to, - - - - 9
« " to fix the security of, - - - . 200
City Controller, to authorize to make transfers in appropriation to Law
Department, .---.. 380
" " to make appropriation to Department of, . . 385
City Hospital, providing for the removal of, - . . 350, 4 14
City Loans, to authorize the sale of, - - . . . 221
City Officers, relating to certain, and Departments, ... 191
City Property, to authorize the Commissioner of, to purchase certain
property, - - - - - - 227
" " to m.iktt appropriation to Department ofj - - 32, 248, 329
City Railroad, to authorize the extension of, on Market and Second streets, • 243
City Solicitor, to release James K. Kdley, - - . . 457
City Treasurer, to make an appropriation to the Department ofj - . 183
Clerks, appointing additional, in Office of Receiver of Taxes, - • 351
Cohocksink Creek Culvert, to authorize the construclion of the, - 106 452
Commissioner of City Property, to authorize the, to purchase certain
property, - - . . 227
Commissioner of Market Houses, to authoiize to lease Dock st. Wharf to the
Pemisylvania R. R. Co., - - 344
XIV
INDEX.
PAOB
Commissioner of Market Houses, to authorize to pay certain claims, - 472
Confirm, to, certain Real Estate, - . - . . 477
Contested Elections, to pay expenses of, - - . . 429
Controllers of Public Schools, to make an appropriation to the Board of,
68, 159, 390, 478
Constables' fees, to pay, - - - - - -172
Court of Quarter Sessions, to pay expenses of additional session of, - 172
Courts, to change the names of certain streets, lanes, and alleys, - - 257
Culvert or Drain, to authorize the construction of a, on Bank street, - 85
» " " " " Cohocksink, Vine st.,
Moore & 25th sts., 106, 452
« " " " « on 2nd, Wood, Emerald,
Norris and Oxford sts., ] 39
" •' " " " on Merchant & Robert-
son sts,, 141
« " " « « " 20th St., above Arch,
209, 466
« " « « " " 12th St., bel. Parrish, 212
«' » « •' « " Norris street, - 217
" " " «' " « Carlton " - 236
" " " « " " Seventh street, - 355
K u u II 11 u Wood «• - 362
♦' " " «' " " Randolph " - 364
" " « " " " Branch, - - 440
" " « «' « " Thirteenth street, - 519
D.
Dale, Edward C, and others. Trustees of Joseph Dugan, dec'd, to pay
Road Damages, - - • - - - 84
Dales, Alexander, to pay, - - - - • -168
Dalton, M., " - - - - - - 168
Davis, M. A., " ...... 380
Delavau, Joseph, " -•--.. 89
Deinpsey, G. S., " - - • - - - 163
Dickson, William, " ---... 89
Donnell, J. M., " - - - - - - 480
Donohue, D., " ...... 165
Dow, Phineas, « - - - - - -499
Doyle, James B., " - ■ - - - .158
INDEX.
XV
Draper, John, to pay, damages for opening Sixth street, -
Duncan, Thomas, to pay, . - - . -
Dyer, Reeves S., to pay, .....
Davis street, to authorize the opening of, - . • .
Delaware avenue, to authorize Superintendent of Girard Estate to widen.
Departments, relating to certam City Officers, and.
Department of Water, Supplement to an Ordinance organizing the.
Department of Wharves and Landings, to pay to.
Dock street wharf, to authorize the Commissioner of Market Houses to lease,
to the Pennsylvania R. R. Company, .... 344
E.
PAGE
252
499
484
149
393
191
387
172
Eastern front of City, to authorize improvement of the, - - - 136
Einwechtcr, William tfc Sons', to pay, - - - - - 138
Ellis, J. M. *& Son, "... 483, 484, 485
Evans & Watson, "-.... 17O
Evening Argus, "..-.. 167
" Journal, " - - - . - 167
Election Division, to change the boundary lines of the 7th, of 22nd Ward, 126
" " to create a new, in 22nd Ward, ... 126
Elections, to pay expenses of contested, .... 429
Emerald street, to authorize the construction of a culvert on, - - 139
Fagan, S., to pay, - . - - .
Fahnestock, B. A, & Co., to pay, ...
Fair, Thomas, " ...
Farson, E. J., & Co., " . . -
Fenner, John R., " ...
Field &, Hardie, » ...
Field, Paul J., « ...
Findiay, John K., " ...
Fitzpatrick & Wood, " ...
Flanigan, George W., to pay, ....
Flanigen, Joseph R., to pay for printing extra assessments,
Fleming, Joseph, to pay, ....
Fletcher, Joshua S., to pay for printing extra assessments,
Forney, John W., to pay, ....
Fougeray, Henry J., to pay, ....
- 167
- 164
163,166, 167
- 494
- 89
- 407
- 499
- 359
- 164
164,495
- 56
- 165
- 56
- 509
- 158
XVI INDEX.
Foulk, S. C, to pay, - - - - - - 482
Frazer, F, G. & V. J., to pay, - - - - - - 169
Frazer, C, " - - - - - - 169
Freeman, Aid. Jame? B., to pay, ... - - 190
Freeman, Dr. Wm. H., » ..... 158
French, Richards &, Co., " ... -164,165,166
Frick, George, to pay, ...... 482
Fairmount Passenger Railroad Co., relative to the, ... 143
" and Arch street City Passenger Railway Company, relating to the, 177
" " " " " consenting to the
construction of, - - - - - 488, 490
Fairview street, to change the name of, .... 059
Fire Companies, to authorize Chief Engineer of Department to suspend, - 216
Fire Department, to make an appropriation to the, - - 2, 437
" " to authorize the Chief Engineer of, to suspend Fire Com-
panies, - - - - - - -216
Footways, to widen, on Moyamensing avenue, - - - . 393
Franklin avenue, to change the name of, - - - - 253
" Institute, to pay for advertising by the, - - - 7
" place, to change the name of, - - - - - 259
Francisviile School House, to place iron railing around, - - - 391
Fruits and Vegetables, to regulate the sale of, - - - - 359
Funded Debt, to pay the interest on the, .... 220
G.
Gas Department, to make an appropriation to the, for lighting public lamps, &c., 1
" Works, to pay Trustees of, for gas consumed at County Prison, - 93
" " for the further extension of the, - - - - 194
Gafltney, Philip, to pay, - - - - - - - 163
Galbraith, James, to pay, - - - - 93, 166, 482, 483
Gamble, Hugh, " .-.--- 166
Garrigues &. Magee, to pay, --.--- 484
Gemrig.J. H., ------ - 1^5
Gheen, J. R. &. Co., to pay, - - - - - - 165
Gibbons, James, " - - - - " -117
Goldsmith, Dr. Tiiomas H., to pay, - - - - - 171
Gorbutt & Clarkson, " ----- 53
Gorgas E. W., " - - - - - 168
Graham, N. H. & Co., " .... 163, 166, 480
INDEX. X\a A
Fxsa
Graliam, F., to pay, -._-.- 500
Grant, Ann, " .--.-- 52
GraucI, A. M., to pay, ..-.-- 484
Green, Wilhiim, to pay, ...--- 482
Grovvell, G. M , " - - - - - - 163
GJrard College, to make an appropriiition for the use of the, - 16, 421
" " Passenger Railway Co., relating to the, - - - 175
" Estates, to authorize cerlaiii improvements on the, - - H^
" " to authorize superintendent of, to widen Delaware Avenue, - 393
Gcnnaiitown Passenger Railway Co., relating to the, . - - 176
Glenvvood Sehool House, to make appropriation for repairs to iron railing and
paving at, - - - - - " - - .' 90
Grade Reguhilions, to fix certain revised lines and, . _ . 397
Green and Coates st , Philadelphia Pa.<;senger Railway Co., relating to the, 175
Ground rents, to make an appropriation to pay interest on arrears of, - 116
Guardians of the Poor, to make an a))propiiation to the Board of, out of the
income of certain trusts, - - - 19
" " " to make an appropriation to, - - 41, 163, 399
H.
Hacker, W. P. & G. VV., to pay, - - - - - 484
Hamilton, George J., " ..... 494
Harbert & Davis, « . - . - - 481
Harding, Jesper &, Son, to pay for printing extra assessments, - - 56
Harkins, Daniel, to pay, ..__-- 158
Harris, W. K., " ....-- 495
Has.san, John, " -..--- 202
Havens, John, " - - - - - 165, 166
Hawkesworth, Thomas, to pay, - - _ - . 494
Hazard, A. F. >.%, Co., to pay, ...... 164
Heister vt Steward, " - - - . - - 89
Helfrich, Dr. J. S., " - - - - . - 89
Henderson, John, "--.-.. 434
" R. H., «-.... . 482
" Robert " - - - - - -483
Plill, George M., " salary, - - - . - 14
Hillary, Wm., " - - - . . - 1C4
Hinckle, John, «.-.... ^(^3
Hoffman, J. B., " - - - - - - 52
9
Hood & Co.,
Hoops, P. J.,
Howell, John C,
Howell, George M.,
XVI B INDEX.
FAOB
Hoffman, Jacob C, to pay, ------ 493
Holliek, George, " - - - - - - 493
. 481
- 168
----- 52
89
Hnfty Josepli, to make an appropriation to pay out of certain trust funds, - 7
Hospital, providing for the removal of the city, - - - 350, 414
House of Refuge, to pay the managers of the - - - - 15
Highways, Bridges, &.c,, to make an appropriation to the Department ofj -
30,90,324,370,372
I.
Improvement of Eastern Front of the City, to authorize the, - - 136
Independence Hose Company, to pay, for services, - - - 3
Inspectors of County Prison, to make an appropriation to, - - 27
Interest, to pay the, on Funded Debt, ----- 220
»« " " Temporary Loan, . - - - 229
Jackson, B. Franklin, to pay, ----- 117,167
Jamison, R. A., « . - . . - -483
Jameson, R., " - - - - - - 168
Jenks&Ogden, " - - - - - - 484
Jilon, Michael, »' - . . - - - 167
Jones, John, « - - - - - - 163
James, Benjamin, dec'd, to pay heiis of, for damages in opening Lancaster
strict, - - - - - - -371
Jordan & Brother, to pay, - - - - - 163, 166
Judge, Thomas, " - - - - - -168
Judgments, to make an appropriation, to pay, - - - - 116
Jurors, to pay, of Nisi Prius, District, Common Pleas, Quarter Session and
Road, - - - - - - - 170
" to pay for meals of, ------ 190
" in District Court, to pay, ----- 500
Jury vi^heel, new^, to pay for, ------ 499
INDEX.
XVI C
FAOB
Kain, John, to pay, ----.-. 494
Kellogg, M. A., to pay, - - - - - -493
Kelly, Peter, to pay, ------- 495
Kelly, James K., to autliorize a release to be given to, - - - 457
Kelly, VV., to pay, ------- 168
Kelsli, J., to pay, - - - - - - -165
Kielil, John, & Son, to pay, ■< - - - - -119
King&Baird, " - - - - - - 171
Knouse, J., and J. Stainruck, to pay, - - - - -171
Kugler, Lewis, to pay, ------ 167
Kensington Hose Co., to make an appropriation lo pay, for services, - 3
Lancaster, John, to pay, - - - - - -165
Lane, James, " -..--_ 499
Landy & Uhler, « - - . . - 433, 484
Le Sage, Thomas, " - - . - . 93^ 380
Lawson, William C, to pay, ------ 202
Leddy, James M., " salary, - - - - - 14
Lewis & Butler, to pay, - - - - - -495
Lloyd & Hill, « - - - - - - 168
Lockard, Lewis, «•---... 432
Locke, Z., & Co., " - - • - - - 1C4
Logan, James, « - - . - - - 14
Lowber, George, to pay to, and the widow of Thomas H. Snyder, - 464
Lowery, James, to pay, ----- 493, 484
Lafayette Hose Co., to make an appropriation to the, for services, - - 3
Lanes, to regulate the paving of streets, and alley's, - - . 255
" to change the names of certain streets, courts and alleys, - - 257
Law Department, to pay expenses of suit of Kain &. Shaffer, - - 117
Law Department, to transler items of appropriation to, - - - 380
Leasing, to change the mode of, the Public V\ harves and Landings, . 505
Loan, to authorize a temporary, ----- 224
" " to pay claims against the city, - - - 355
" " to construct certain culverts, - - - - 361
" to pay interest on temporary, - - - - - 22 )
" to authorize the Mayor to advertise for proposals for a certain, - 358
XVI jy INDEX.
M.
PAGB
Magrady, Chas., to pay, - - - - - - 482
Mallock, Alexander, to pay, - - - - - -499
Marshall. J., to pay - - - - - - - 494
Martier &, Steel, « ...... 480
Martin, Thos. J., " ..... 164,481
Maulc, VVm., " ...... 433
Mcgary, D. P., " . - - - - - 166
Megary, M., « - - - - - - 108
Melloy, Peter, " .... 163,166,167
Mider, James, " -.-.-. 493
Mifflin, B. F., " ...... 53
Miller, P. H., " - - . - - .165
Mitchell &, Ore, " . . - - - - U9
Moore, George, " - . - - - -404
Moore, Sarah, " ...... 52
Montague, James, " - . - - - -168
Montgomery. G. W., to pay, - - - - - -48 1
Montgomery, J., " - - - - - - 1 69
Morris, Tasker & Morris, to pay, - - - - - 89
Morrison, Wm., " - - - - - 169
Morris, Jones & Co., " ..... 484
Merrison, Dr. James, " ..... 433
Mountain, Jos,, Jr., " ..... 171
Mullen, James, " ..... 472
Murphy, John K., " ..... 172
Murray, James, " ..... 52
Myers, Abraham, " ..... 494
Manayunk Poor House, to satisfy mortgages against, ... 354
Market Houses, to make an appropriation to the Department of, - - 21
" " to make an appropriation to, for Wharves and Landings, - 22
" " for the removal of the, on Market street, - . - 459
" to establish and regulate, a, in the borough of Frankford, - - 154
Mayor, to authorize to offer a reward for the apprehension and conviction
of the murderers of John E. Clark, - - - - 341
" to authorize the, to advertise for proposals for loan, - - 358
Mortgages, to authorize the sale of bonus, Plank Road and Rail Road Stocks,
201
" to satisfy against Manayunk Poor House, - - - 354
INDEX. XVI E
PAQE
Merchant street culvert, to authorize the construction of the, - - 141
Moore street culvert, to authorize the construction of the, - 106, 452
Moyamensing Avenue, to widen the footways on, - - . 393
Moyamensing Hose Co., to malie an appropriation to, for services, - 3
Mc.
McCloslscy, R., to pay, - - - - - - 117
McCoriiieli, Thomas, to pay, -.---- 495
McDonald, B., to pay, .--.-- 168
Md'adden, Dr. Jumcs, to pay, ------ 158
McFaull, John, « - - . - - - 500
McGarry & Kennedy, "- - - - - -481
McGillin, Jolin, " - - - - - - 170
McGlcnshy, W., " - - - - - - 169
"P., «..---- 169
McGovern,E., «..--- 165,481
McGrath, Wm. V., " - - - - - - 184
McGuigan, Francis, «■..--.- 482
Mcllvaiiie, Hugh, " - - - - - - 494
McKenna.P., " - - - - - - 165
McKinley, W. R., " - - - - - - 168
]VIcMullin,\Vm., " - - - - - - 165
McNaily, James, ------- 171
McNeil, C. J., « - - - - - - 481
N.
Natt T. J., to pay, - - - - - - - 481
Nauman, C. V. & Co., to pay, - - - - - - 495
Ncff, VVm. A„ to pay, - - - - - - 172
Nelson, John, to pay, - - - . - - - 493
Neman &- VVarnick, to pay, - - - - - -172
Noe, A. S., «..--.- 380
Nugi;nt, Arthur, «-----. 495
Nultail, William, " - - - - - - 494
Ninth street, to authorize the opening of, - . . _ I74
Norris street, culvert, to authorize the construction on the line of, - 139, 217
North Branch Passenger Railway Co., relative to the, . - - 143
North Philadelphia Plank Road Co., relative to the, . • - - 143
XVI P INDEX.
PAGB
Northern Home for Friendless Children, to pay the, - - - 15
Nuisances, for the suppression of, - - - - -416
O'Conner, P., to pay, - - - - - - -168
Osborn, James, "- - - - - - -53
Officers, relating to certain, and Departments, - - - - 191
Ontario street, to authorize the opening of, - - - - 149
Opening of streets, -..--- 149,174
Oxford street culvert, to authorize the construction of the, - - 139
Paist, Dr., H. C, to pay, ..---- 90
Palmer, Chas. R., to pay, - - - - - - 52
" Thomas Hope, to pay, - - - - - 93
Patteh, Wm., H., " . . - - - - 169
Patterson & Coane, "- - - - • -164
Pastorius, J., «._..-. 53
Pennsylvania Institute for the blind, to pay, - - - - 166
Pennsylvanian, to pay, - - - - - -167
Philadelphia Democrat, to pay, . ■ . - - 167
Philadelphia Gas Works, to pay to the Trustees of, - - - 208
Pier, John, to pay, - • - - - - -493
Pilley, John H., to pay, - - - - - - 509
Powers &- Wightman, to pay, - - - - - -164
Price, Eli K., to pay, ------- 157
" F, W., « - - - - - - - 433
Passenger Railways, relating to certain, - 143, 145, 175, 177, 485
Paving, to regulate the, of streets, lanes and alleys, - . - 255
Penitentiary, to pay to the Board of the Inspectors of Eastern, for expenses
of prisoners, - - - - - - -15
Pennsylvania R. R. Co., to authorize the Commissioner of Market Houses
to lease Dock fitreet, wharf to, ----- 344
Pennsylvania State Hospital, to pay the, for board of patients, - 15, 53
Philadelphia & Gray's Ferry Passenger Railway Co., relative to the, - 143
Plank Road, to authorize the sale of bonds, mortgages and Railroad stocks, 20 1
Pftlice J-'tation House, to pay claims for the erection of the Eleventh District, 386
Poor of German town, to pay the Managers of the, - - - 93
INDEX. XVI G
PAOB
Post Office Department, to authorize the, to attach metallic letter boxes to
lamp posts, ------- 338
Prothonotary of the Supreme Court, to pay, . - - - 226
Public Lamps, to make an appropriation for lightinor the, - - - 1
" " " " erection of new, - - 1
" " " " repairing and cleaning the, - 1
Public Schools, to make an appropriation to the Board of Cpntrollors of, 68, 159
390,478
Public Wharves and Landings, to change the mode of leasing, - • 505
Q.
Quinn, John, to pay, ------- 164
R.
Railroad, to authorize the extension of tlie city on Market and Second sts., 243
" Stock, to autiiorize the sale of bonds, mirtgages. Flank road and, 201
Randolph street, to authorize Ihc construction of a culvert or drain on, - 364
Real Estate, to confirm the title of certain, - . - . 47?
Receiver of Taxes, relating to the, - - - - - 179
" " prescribing the powers and duties of the, - - 351
Reed, William, to pay, - , - - - - - - 494
Redmond, J., to pay, - - - . - - -168
Remmy, Henry, to pay ...... 482
Rice, Wm., to pay for printing extra assessments, - - - 56
Rice, Wm., " - - - - - - - 495
Rodgers, P. to pay, - - - - - - -165
Rodgers, Prof. R., E., to pay, - - - - - - 379
Rohrman, Henry, ».----. 208
Rourke, Thomas, " - - - - - - 167
Rowan, John, &. Co., to pay, -.--.. 495
Russell, George, " . - . - . - 481
Removal, providing for the, of City Hospital Buildings, - - 350, 414
" of Market Houses fro(n Market street, - - - 459
Repairs to a bridge on the Axe Factory road, - - - - 497
Revised lines, to fix certain, and grade regulations, ... 39.7
Robertson street culvert, to authorize the construction of the, - - 141
Roxbofough School, to finish and furnish the, _ - - - - 390
XVI H INDEX.
S.
PAGE
Sachenmair, M., to pay, .-.-.- 169
Schlater, C. U., to pay, .---.-"
Schober, Samuel, " - ... - 165, 166
Schweppenliciscr, W. J., to pay, - ----- 493
Severns, Andrew, J., to pay, .-.--- 500
Shantz, Joseph, " - - - - - -169
Shelladay, S., « ....-- 483
Sliessler, George, Jr., to pay, -.-.-- 494
Shipper), Dr. Joseph, to pay, - - - - - - 17]
Shivers, Charles, « . . . . -164,484,493
Shoemaker, Adam H., " . - _ - - . 93
Sloan, James, " - - - - - -165
Smith, J. B., &. Co., " - - . - - 53, 190
" William H., «----- - 482
Snowden, George, " - - - - - -165
« Thomas, " - - - - - - "
Snyder, Thomas H., to pay the widow of, - - - - 464
Spragfue, J. H., & Co., to pay, - - - - - -165
Spear, James, to pay, - - - - - - - 494
Stille, Dr. A. Owen, " - - - - - - 90
Styer, Henry, »...--- 483
Swain & Abell, to pay, ----- 52, 167
Second street culvert, to authorize fhe construction of the, - - 139
Second and Third street Passenger Railway Company, relative to the, 143, 485
Security, to fix the, of City Commissioners, - . - . 200
Seventh street, to authorize the construction of a culvert or drain on, - 355
Shad, extending the time for selling, ----- 160
Sinking Fund, to make an appropriation to the Commissioners of the, - 50
Spring Garden Hose Co., to make an appropriation to the, for services, - 3
Station Houses, to make an appropriation for repairs to, - - - 389
Steam Fire Engines, providing for the management of the Philadelphia and
flope, - - - - - - - 332
Stiles street, to autliorize the opening of, - - - - 194
Streets, to authorize the opening of Ontario, Davis and Stiles, - - 149
" to authorize the opening of Ninth, ^ - - - 174
" to change the names of certain, lanes, courts and alleys, . - 257
" to regulate the paving of, lanes and alleys, - - - 255
Street, to pay John Draper for damages in opening Sixth, - - 252
INDEX. XVll
PAGB
Streets, to change the name of Adams street, - - - 259, 260
« " " Allen's alley, - - - - "
" « " " court, - - - - "
« «' « Amber street, - . - - 259
« u « Andrew " - - - - 258
" « " Ann " - - - - «'
« «« " Arch court, .... 260
" «' " Ash alley, - - - - "
«* »' « Ashland street, - . . «
u u « Aspen " - - - . "
•» » " Atkinson court, - - - "
» " " Bache's " - - - - "
« «« « Bacon street, - - - - 259
« " " Baker's alley, - - - 260, 261
« •< " " court, - - .- " "
« » « " street, ... - «'
« " " Ball alley, - - - - «
« '• «« Bali's " - • - - "
" «* « " court, - - - - 262
« « " Bank street, - - - - 261
« « " Barclay's alley, - - - 262
» " " Barley court, - - - - "
" « " Baxter's " - - - - "
«* " " Beaver " - - - - "
" " " Beck's " - • - - "
•» •' " Beck street, - - - - 261
«« » " Bedford " - - - - "
« « " Benners' court, - - - 262
It « «* Benton " - - - - "
" " " Benton's avenue, - - . «
« « " " lane, - - - - "
« " " " street,- - - - 263
«' « " Berk's court, - - . - 262
«» " " Biddle's alley, - - - . "
« " " Biiew street, - - - - 261
" » " Binder's court, ... - 262
" " " Bird's avenue, - - - - 263
" " " Black Horse alley, - - - «
« « " Bladen's court, - - . "
u .. u Bond's " - - . . ««
« " " Bonsall street, ...-'*
XVIU
INDEX.
Streets, to change the name of Bowman's court,
Boyd's alley,
" court,
Boyle's court,
Bradford alley,
Branch "
Brazier's avenue,
" court,
BrJnton alley,
Britton's ''
Brook's court,
Brown "
Brown's "
Brown street,
Bryan's court,
Buchanan place,
Budd street,
Burd's alley,
" court,
Burns street,
Burr's court,
Butler's "
" place,
Buttonwood alley,
Cadwallader avenue,
Campbell's court.
Canal street.
Carbon place,
" street,
Carlisle court,
Carpenter's alley,
" court,
Carroll avenue,
" court,
Carroll's "
Carroll street,
Carson "
Carter's alley.
Carter street,
Carver "
Cauffman's court.
Centre alley,
INDEX.
XII
pxan
Centre street,
268, 269
Charles place,
- 266
Charles street,
- 269
Charlotte «
u
Chatham «
«l
Chester court,
. 266
Christians' *'
u
Church alley,
. 266
" avenue.
- 267
« street.
- 269
Clare alley.
- 267
Clare's court,
u
Clark's avenue,
u
" court.
u
Clark street.
. 269
Clay avenue.
- 267
" court.
tt
" street.
- 269
Clinton avenue.
- 267
" street.
- 270
Clymer street.
u
Coates alley,
- 267
" court.
"
Cobb's "
a
College avenue.
"
Collins alley.
• M
'' court.
. 268
Coombs "
u
Cooper's "
C(
Coxe's alley,
u
" court.
t(
Craig's "
. «
Cresson's court.
u
Crown street.
. 270
Cypress avenue.
u
" street,
u
Darrach's court.
u
Davies' place.
"
Davis' court,
270,271
Davis' or Davidson's alley.
- 270
" Whitebread's court,
u
XX INDEX.
PAGE
Streets, to change the name of Dean's alley, - - - - 27 1
" " " " court, - - - - "
« « » Dean street, - - - * "
« " " Decatur " - - - - "
» « " Derringer's court, - - - "
« •* " Diamond street, - - . «
«« « " Dickerson court, - - - "
" " " Dickson's " - - - "
«* " " Dillwyn place, - - - «
"■ « " Division street, - - . «
» «• " Donnelly's place, - - - 272
«• " " Douglass avenue, - - . «»
" « " Drinker's court, - . - «i
tt u II Duffy's " - - - - "
" « » Duke street, - - - - "
w " " Duncan court, - - - - "
ti « « Eagle " - - - - "
«* « " « place^ - - - - "
» » " Earl's court, - - - - «
« « " Elbow alley, - - - - "
«* «' " Elizabeth's avenue, - - - "
« «* « " court, - - - «
« « " Ellen's place, - - - - «
•« " " Ellen street, - - - - "
«• « " Elliott's place, - . . - •»
M » « Ellis' court, - - - - 273
" «* " Elmes' court, - - - - "
«« « " Elm street, - - - - "
u « 1. Emerald " - - - - «
w " " Emery's court, • - - "
« « " Emlen's alley, - - - - "
u «» « " court, - - - - "
»i " " Evan's " - - . - ««
u « «i " place, - - - - "
u « " « street, - - - - «•
" " " Faries' court, - - - - "
«» « " Fayette avenue, - - - ««
« " " Federal alley, - - - . «
" « " Filbert avenue, ... 274
«« «' " Fisher's court, - - - "
•' « " Fisher street, - - - "
INDEX. XXI
PAGE
Streets, to change the name of Flower court, - - • 274
M u « Flower's " ..."
u « *' " street, - - - "
♦♦ « " Forrest place, - - - "
«« " » Fowler court, - - - "
t> u It Fox's « ..."
" « » Fralcy's " ... 275
« " " Frances' " ..."
" " " Fraiikford avenue, - - - "
u u II « place, - - - "
" " « Franklin " ..."
" " " " street, - - - "
» " " Fraser's court, • - . "
u u » Frazier's " ..."
" " " Fromberger's court, - - - "
" " " Fulton's avenue, - - - "
" " " Fulton street, - - - "
" « " Gabell's " ..."
" " " Galbraith's street, - - - "
" « " Garden " - - - "
« « " Garrett's court, - - - 276
« » " Gaskill place, . - - "
«» « " Gay's court, - - . «
« " « George's alley, - - - "
« « " George street, - - - "
'• " " Germantown road, . - - 321
" " " Gilbert's avenue, - - - 276
» " " " court, - . - «
" » " Gold street, - - - "
" " " Goldsmith's court, - - - "
" " " Goodwill " - - - «
« " " Graff alley," - - - "
« " " Graham's court, - - - **
" " " Granite street, - - - 277
" " " Grape alley, - - . "
" " " Grape court, - - - "
« " " Gray's alley, - - . «t
u " " '« court, - - . u
u u u Gray street, - - - "
«' " " Greble's court, - - - 278
« « " Green Hill place, . - - 277
« " « Green's court, - - - 277, 278
XXll
INDEX.
Streets, to change the name of Green street, -
" » " Grier's avenue,
" «' " " court, -
» K « Grim's "
» " » Grubb street, -
" " » Guliehna " -
« " " Haas court,
«• " " Hallowell's court,
" «' " Hamilton "
«« « " Hamilton's "
" « " Hamilton place,
» » " " street,
" " " Hancock's court,
" " " Hank's court, -
«• " " Harmony "
" " " " place, -
" " " Harper's court,
•' " " " place, -
" •' " Harrison avenue,
« " " " court,
u u a u place, -
" « " " street, -
" " " Hay's court,
" « " Hazel street, -
'« " " Henry's court, -
" «« " Hermitage place,
«» " " High's court, •
«* « " Hight's "
«• « " Hill's "
tt « " Hincle's"
" " " Hinkel's court,-
u u «' Hogg's " -
" " " HoUoway place,
« « « Hood's « -
" " " Horstman's court,
u » " Hovi?ard place, -
«» " " Howard's court,
u tt ic « place,
« «• " Howard street, .
« *« " Howell's court,
« « " Hudson's lane, -
PAOS
277
278
279
278
279
!79, 280
281
282
INDEX.
XXlll
Streets, to change the name of Hughes' court,
" *' " Hulseinan's place,
" " " Hunter court, -
" " " Hutchinson court,
" " " Jackson "
" " " Jackson's avenue,
" " " " court,
" " " Jackson place, -
" " " " street,.
" " " James' court, ■
" " " " street, -
" « » James "
" " " Jane's place,
" " " Jefferson avenue,
" " " " place,
*' « " " street,
" " " John court,
" " " John's "
" " " Johnson's court,
" " tt « lane, -
" Jones' alley, -
" " court, -
" Joseph's alley, -
" Juniper " -
" " lane, -
" Kayser's avenue,
" " court,
" KcUey's avenue,
" " court,
" Kelly's "
" Kensington court,
" Kessler's "
" Keyser's "
" King "
" " street,
" Kline court,
" Krider's "
" Jja Fayette court,
" " place,
" Lagrange court,
" " place,
FAGB
282
- 283
- 282
282, 283
283, 284
284
283, "
283
- 285
Ik
- 284
284, 285
286
XXIV
INDEX.
Streets, to change the name of Lancaster court,
" " " Larcli street,
" " " Laurel court,
" " " " street,
" " " Lawrence court,
" " " " pbce,
" " " " street,
" " " Lee's court,
" " " Leiper alley,
•* " " " court,
" " " Lemon place,
" " " " street,
" " " Lemon's court,
" " " Lewis' alley,
" " " Lewis court,
" " " " street,
" " " Leyden court,
" " " Liberty alky,
" " " " avenue,
" " " » court,
" « " Lily alley,
" " " Linden avenue,
" " " " court,
" " .^ " » place,
" " " " street,
" " " Lindsey avenue,
" " " Little Crown street,
« " " " Gable court,
" " " " German street,
M u ii » Green
i( M li « Oak
u u « « Perry
" " « " Pine
" » »' « Poplar
" " " " Washington street,
u « «< " Water "
« « " " Willow "
" " " Lodge court,
" " " " place,
" " " Logan court.
PAGE
286
287
288
289
290
18 5 8 — 59.
Finance.
> ll.icker, Chairman; Potter. Kiley, Handy, Simons and KpUoii.
- lii'idemau, if'uster, Schotield, Neal, Thompson and Williams. ^
Water Works.
!». C. Messrs. Cornm.in, Chairman : Cnyler. Neal. Norman, Kline and Parker.
C. C. Messrs. Rnbicam, H. JJ iller, Manuel, Bolib, Gay and French.
Gas Works.
C. C. Messrs. W. Oonrad. Chairman : Wister, l\rider, Kerr, Harbert and Cooley.
S. C Messr.s. Beidnian, Benton, Bradfonl, Kline, Luugldin and iieaU.
Girard Estates.
S. C. Messrs. Williams, Chm. ; Beideinan, Brinsliurst, Dayis. Kline and Natlians.
C. C. Messrs. Welherill, Gamble, Hacker, Mauderfield, French and Riley.
Highways.
C. C. Messrs. Bullock, Chairman ; Potter, liliis. Day, Hodcrdon and Ilarmer.
S. C. Messrs. Beuton, Bradford, iiuos. Ford, !>cliofieid and Williams.
City Property
h. C. ^lessrs. Cuyler Chairman; Beuton, Ford, l-oster, Lonshlin and Neal.
C, C. Messrs. U," Miller, Wagner, Case, Bay, Haas and.Bullock.
Police.
Ci <C. Messrs. Junes. Chairman ; Shcrmer, Tlienipson, Kersey, C.irson and Roats.
Si C. Messrs. Beideman, Biadtbrd, Cornmiu, Kline, Leidy aiid Norman.
• - Trusts and Fire Department.
C. C. Jtessrs. Moyer, Chm ; Minnie, Wal.^li. UiUiU'^liiim, Smedley and Brenan.
S. C. Messrs. Cornmau, Foster, Bradford, Alclutyre, Norman and Scbofield.
Health.
S. C. Messrs. Pchoticld, Chairman ; Davis. Lciutrhlin. Nathans, Read and Thompson.
CO. Messrs. Steeling, Server, Andress, Qniuu, Hunter and Megary.
Poor.
C. C. ^les.srs. Gordon, Chairman ; Gheen, Kothermel, Schoch. Savage and McCahen.
S. U.J>lessrs. Beuton, Davis, Euos, Leiily, Natlians and Norman.
Prisons.
S. C. Messrs. Benton, Chairman : Coniman, McTntyre, Lonshlin and Read.
C. C. Messrs. Wildey, Ketcham, Thompson, Heins, Doerr and Holmes.
Schools.
S. C. Messrs. Natlians, Ch'm: Beideman, lii inulunst, Ciiyler, Enos and Mclntyre.
0. C. Messrs. Cooper, Russell, Jones, (ionlon, Dickiiisoa and McDonougli.
Surveys and Kegulations.
C. C. Messrs. Hntcliinson, Chm ; Kubicaiii. Balrd, Dickinson. Lulher and Cattell.
,S. U. Messrs. Davis, Foster, Nathans, Parker, Schofield and Williams.
Kailroads.
S. C. Messrs. Beideman. Chairman ; BrJngliurst, Cuyler. Benton, Kline and Leidy.
C. C. Messrs. Kelton, Morris, W etlierill, Masclier, Pngli and Fisher.
Claims.
C. C. Messrs. Dennis, Chm ; Nippes, Bowker, Enyard. Manuel and McCIean.
a. 0. Mesbrs. Cornman, Euus, Norman, .Mclntyre, Neal and Schofield.
Compare Bills.
C.C. Messrs. Gamble. Chairman ; Htlerand Mcllvaine.
S. C. Messrs. Bra.llord, Bringhurst and Leidy.
Port Wardens, Public Wharves and landings.
C. C.Messrs. Brown. Chm ; tooley, Baird. House, (i. B Miller, and McBride.
8. C. Messrs. Davis, Ford, Mel ntj re, Nathans, 'Ihompson and Williams.
Law.
8. C. >!e»<r-i Kline. Chm ; Benton. Pradtord, Cornmnn. Cuyler and Nathans.
C. C. MeB^rs. Wister, Dennis, Fitlt-r, Mascher, iiulcbiiison aiid Kelly.
Market Houses.
C. C. Messrs. 'Fish. Chairman ; 0. Conrad. Sim Wright, Uber and Com] y.
8. C. Mesbrs. Bringlmrst. Foster. Leidy, .Mclntyre, Read and Schofield.
To Verily Cash Accounts of City Treasurer.
8. C. Messrs. TliompMiii, Chuirnu,n ; Parker and Williams.
0. C. Messrs. W ugner, Cattell and Epler.
DAYS OF MEETING.
^,
' 'Monday, 7 o'clock, P.M.
Water Works.
Fii-.^t aii.l Tl;inl Tm-
Gas W^ oriisil
First an.! Tliir.l Tuc^a^^
Girard Estates.]
I'irst Fiiduy altri- ;-,c..n.l WiMlncsdii
Highways. /^
.Mull, lay, n'^.i',-].
Cil.v Pi'opcrt.y'
,-r,-,,||,l and iM.llllll Tllr
Police. '
^rcuial an.l I'.anili Tu.s.lay; T, (.'.loi-k, 1'. M.
Trusts and Fire Department.
Sccun'l and Imumi!. Mujl
HcaUffl!
.\t tlic call III il ieLtS.liiiiffflTi
Poor!!
Priso'SlS
Fii si I'riday, 3"!
Selio6111
First AVrdnc-i
Surveys and Regulations. ' • ■
First and Thiid Wednesday, S o'clock, |'. M.
Claims.
Secnd and Fourth Wcilnesday, .3 uMick, I'. M.
Railroads.
First Friday. ;! o'clock, I'. M.
Compare Bills.
Alonday, 11 u'(l.ick, A. :\[."
Port 'Wardens, Public Wharves and landings.
Fourth Friday, 3 o'clock, 1". .M.
Law.
Second and Fourth 'Wednesday, 2 o'clock, P. M.
Market Houses.
Second and Fourth Wednesday, 3 o'clock, P. M.
INDEX.
Streets, to change the name of Logan place,
u u «' " street.
-•:eb?
FAOK
290
Logan's court, - * "
. ••
Lombard " - "
i(
Louisa avenue, - " "
u
Lowry's court, - • *
Loxley's " - ' "
Lybrand " - * '
Lydia avenue, - - '
Lyndall court, - • " .
- 291
Madison avenue,
u
" court, - " ■
« street, - ' - 290
291
Maiden lane.
Maple street,
ti
Marble court.
Marble place, - - - -
ti
" street, -
M
Margaret street,
Margaretta place, - . •
u
" street, - - "
(I
Marion court,
" street,
Marshall court, - - - 292
" street, - " "
Mary's alley, - - "
" court,
Mary street, - - "
<t
McAtee's place, - - '
McCoy's court, - - " '
McGinley " - - ' "
McGinnet's court, - - - '
McMuUin's " - - " "
Mechanic avenue, - - " '
" court,
«' street, - - - 293
u
Melon place, - - -
■"
" street, - - -
XXVI
INDEX.
Streets, to change tlie name of Mercer street,
*• " " Merchant court,
" " " Meredith alley,
" " " " court,
" " " " street,
" " ♦• Mervine street,
" " " Middle alley, -
•• " " " court, -
" " " Mifflin's " -
" " " Mifflin street, -
" •* " Miles alley, -
*' •• " " court, -
" " " Millar's alley,.
" •' " " court, -
" " " Millar street, -
" •' Miller's court, .
" " " Minor street, -
" • " Mintzer court, -
•• " " Moffit " -
" " " Monmouth court,
" " " Monroe "
" " " " place,.
" •' " " street,
** " " Montgomery street,
M U ti u tl
" " " Moore's alley, .
" " " " avenue,
" " " " court, .
" " " Morgan's " .
" " » Morris alley, .
" •• " " court, .
" " " " street, .
" " " Moyamensing court,
" " " Mullen's
" " " Mullin's
" " " Murray's "
" " " Murray street,
" " " Myer's place,
FAOB
293
294
295
295, 296
297
INDEX-
XXVll
Streets, to change the name of Myer's court,
« " " Naglee's "
u « " Nicliol's avenue,
u •» « Ninth street, -
(t M " Norris' alley, -
u « u « court, -
« « «* North court, -
•» « " North-east avenue,
M « « Oak street,
" « " Ogden court, -
" « " Olive street, -
«• « " Oliver's place, -
« " " Orange street, -
tt « " Orchard "
«» «• " Orleans "
u M " Owen "
MM" Palm "
u « " Park avenue, -
« «» u M street,
t» " " Parke's place, -
u u u Parker street, -
«» " " Paschall's alley,
u " " Paschall street,
tt « " Peach " -
« « " Pearl " -
u « « Pearson's court,
« « » Pemberton court,
a « " Pemberton's alley,
«♦ M *« Penn avenue, -
u H « II street,
11 « " Perry court, -
u « « u street, -
u •« " Petai-'s alley, -
« " " Pfciffer's alley,
u " « Phillips' court,
u M « 41 place,
« « " Pierce court, -
tt « " Pleasant avenue,
" « « " court.
PAoa
297
298
299
299, 300
301
xxviii INDEX.
PAGE
Streets, to change the name of Pleasant retreat, - - - 3U1
street,
300
Pleis court, - - - - 301
Poplar alley, - - - - "
" court, ■" - - - "
" place, - - - - "
" street, - - - - "
Porter's court, - - - ''
Powell street, - - - - "
Pratt " - - - - "
Preston " - - - " "
Price " - - - " "
Price's court, . - - - 302
Pritchett " - - - - "
Prospect alley, - - - " "
" place, - - - - "
« street, - - - - "
Prosperous alley, - - - "
Queen's avenue, - - - *
Quigg's court, - - - - "
" row, - - - -
Railroad court, - - - "
Ralston " - - - - "
Randolph's court, - - - "
Randolph street, - - - "
Raspberry lane, - - - "
Reckless court, - - - - "
Reed avenue, _ - - 303
Reed's court, - - - - "
Reid's " - - - - "
Relief alley, . - - - "
" place, - - - - "
Renchler place, - - - «
Rentshler's" - - - - "
Rex's court, - - - - "
Richard street, - - - 304
Richmond lane, . - - 303
Rihl's court, - - - . »
Rinder place, - - - - "
INDEX. XXIX
PAGB
Streets, to change tlie name of Ringgold place, . - - 303
" " " " street, ... 304
" " " Rittenhouse street, - - - "
" " « Ritner " - - - "
" « « Roberts' court, . - - "
" " " Robinson " - - - - "
" " " Robinson court, - - - "
«' " " Robinson's " - - - - "
«' » « Robinson street, - - - "
"■ » " Rose alley, - - - - "
« «' " « street, - - - - 305
" « " Ross court, . - - . 304
«' « » Rule's " - - - ■ - "
" " " Sansom's alley, ... 305
. " " " Say's alley, . - - - «
" " " " court, - - - - »
" " " Scattergood court, - - . "
" " " School avenue, - . - "
« " " " street, - - - 310,311
" " " Schuylkill avenue, - . . "
" " " Scott alley, - - . . "
" " « " court, - - - - 306
•» " " Seiser's " - - - - "
" •» " Sergeant street, - - - 311
" " " Shackamaxon avenue, ... 306
'• " " Shafer's avenue, . - . "
« " " " court,- - - . «
« " " Sharplcss " - . - - »
« «' » Shield's alley, - . . . «
« •♦ " Shippen lane, - - . - «
" « " " place, - . - «'
" « " " court,- - . . 307
" " " Shoemaker's court, - - . «
" « " Simmon's " - - - "
" " " Simpson's " - - . "
«« " " Smith's alley, - - . . «
" " " " avenue, . - . "
" " a u court, - . 307, 308
" " a « place, . . . - 308
" " " South avenue, - - - . «»
XXX
INDEX.
Streets, to change the name of South court, -
" row,
" " " Spragg's avenue,
" " " Spring Garden retreat
" " " State street, -
" " " Steele's court, -
" •* " Steel's " .
" " " Steinmetz court,
" " " Sterling's alley,
" " " « street,
•* " " Stewart place, -
•* •* " Stewart's alley,
** ■ *• " " court,
** " « Stiles court, -
•* « » Stilz's "
" " " St. James' court,
" " « « street,
" " " St. John's place,
St. Mary's alley,
" " " Stump lane, -
" " " Summer's court,
" ** " Summer street,
" « " Summit " -
" " " Sutherland avenue,
" *' " Swanson court,
« " " Swede's «'
" " " Sycamore street,
" " " Taylor alley, -
" " « u court, -
" " " " place,.
" " " Taylor street, -
" " " Temple street, -
" " " Temperance court,
" " « place,
" " " Thomas alley,
" " " Thompson's court,
" " " Thome's
" " « Thorn's
" " " Tower's
PAOB
309
309, 311
310
311
310
309
311
309
u
310
u
311
u
310
U
311
u
11,312
u
311
u
312
INDEX.
XXX
Streets, to change the name of Townscnd's avenue,
" « " Trinity place, -
" " •' Turner's court,
♦• " " " street,
" •♦ " Tyler street, -
» » " Union alley, -
•^* " " " court, -
" " " " place, -
" " " " street, -
" » " Vail's place -
*' " " Van Buren place,
" " " Venango street,
" " " Vernon place, -
" " « u street, -
•♦ " « Vine alley,
•• " " " court,
» " " Wager street, -
" " " Wagner's alley,
" " " " court,
u M u Walker's
" " " Wallace «
" " " Wall's elbow,
" " " Walnut alley, .
" " " " place, -
" " " Warden's place,
" " " Ward's retreat,
" " " Warner's court,
it « a Warren's "
" " " Warren street,
" " " Washington avenue,
" " " » court,
» " " " place,
" " " " road,
" " " " row,
" " " " street,
** " " Water street, -
" " " Watkin's alley,
" " " Watson's "
" " " Watson street,
PAOB
312
311
313
312,
318
314
314, 315
t>
318
319
318
318, 319
315
319
XXXll INDEX.
PAGE
Streets, to change the name of Watt's court, - - - - 315
" " " Waverly place, - - - "
« " " Wayne street, - - - 319
" « " Weaver's court, - - - 315
" « " Webb's alley, - - - - 316
" " " Webster place, - _ - "
" " " Webster's court, - - - "
" " " Weccacoe avenue, - - - "
" " " Wesley's court, - - . «'
« " " Wesley street, - - - 319
" " " West avenue, - - - - 316
" " " " court, . . . - «
" " " » street, - - - - 320
" " " Westmoreland street, - - - "
" " « Wheeler's court, - . . «
" « " White's court, - - - 3 1 6
" " " Whiteman's court, - - - "
« « " Wiley's «... 317
" " " William's " - - - "
" " " William street, - . - 320
" « " Williamson street, - - - 317
" " " " place, - - - "
» " " Willing's street, - - - «
" " " Willow alley, - - - - »
" " " " court, ... . "
" " " Wilson's court, - . - "
" « " Wilson street, ... 320
" " " Winter " - - . . '<
» « " Wistar's avenue, - - - 318
« " " « court, - - . «'
" " ■ " Wistar street, ... 309
" " » Wood court, - - - - 318
•' « " " street, .... 320
«• " " Wyoming street, - - 320,321
" " " Yeager's court, - - - 321
" " " York place, - - . . «
« " " " street, - - - . «
" " " Young's avenue, - - - "
" " " " court, - - . «
» " " " place, - - . "■
INDEX. XIXUl
PAOB
Superintendent of Girard Estates, to authorize tlie, to widen Delaware Avenue,
393
Superintendent of Trusts, to make an appropriation to the, - 6, 249, 337
Surveys, to make an appropriation to the Department of, - - 24
T.
Taggart, James, to pay, - - - - - -494
Tate, Wm., to pay, - - - - - - 167, 481
Thomas, W. B. &, Co., to pay, - - - - - - 164
Thompson, George C., " - - - - - - 52
« S, C., " - - - - - 182
Torry, Dr. John G., " - - - - - 93
Town, C.Burt., " - - - - - - 190
Trustees Philadelphia Gas Works, to pay, - - - 93, 208
TuUy & Brown, to pay, - - - - - -166
Tyler, R., " ...... 171
Taxes, to levy and fix the rate of, for 1858, - - - -SI
Temporary Loan, to authorize a, ..... 224
" " to authorize the payment of interest on, - - - 229
Thirteenth street, to authorize the construction of a culvert on, - - 519
Title, to confirm the, to certain Real Estate, - - - - 477
Transfer of item of appropriation to Law Department authorized, - - 380
Trusts, to make an appropriation to superintendent of, out of certain funds, 6
Trust Funds, to transfer certain, now in the City Treasury, - - 527
Twelilli street, to authorize the construction of a culvert or drain on
the line of, 212
Twentieth sfrect, « " " " " 209, 466
Twenty-fifth street culvert, to authorize the construction of, - 106, 452
U.
Union School and Children's Home, to pay the, .... 15
Urian Charles, to pay, - - - - - - -165
Vaccine Physicians, to make an appropriation to pay, - - - 421
Vandyke, Benjamin F., to pay, .... 226, 494
" F. A., " - - - - - - 296
Vegetables, to regulate the sale of fruits and, - . - - 359
Vine street culvert, to authorize the construction of the, - - 106,452
5
XXXIV INDEX.
W.
PAGS
Wagner, Peter, to pay, - - - - Z - 52
Wagner, P., " -.-.-- 184
Wales, Leonard B., to pay, - - - - - -379
Wampole, C. C, " ...... 168
Ward, John D., " ...... 90
Webb, Edward G., " - - . . . - 493
Webster, C, " ...... 483
Weiss, George, " . . - . . .171
Wetherill & Brc, " . - . - - .164
Whetham, Joseph, " ...... 166
Whetham, J., " ...... 166
Whitehead, Abraham, to pay, .--.-. 495
Wightman, Joseph, P., to pay, ...... 472
Wilhehn, Charles, " - . - - - - 166
Wills fi. Babbit, " - - - - - - 484
Williams, Joseph R., to pay, ...... 500
Wolbert & Bro., ".....- 52
Wood, Edward G., " - - . - - - 190
Wright, Hunter & Co., to pay, - - - - - .93
Wright, Joseph, to pay, .... . . 168
« Joshua, " - - - - - 481, 483
Water, to make an appropriation to the Department for supplying the city
with, - - - - - - 32, 325, 457
Water Department, supplement to an Ordinance organizing the, . . 387
Water Tax, to authorize the levying of a, . - - - 388
West Philadelphia Passenger Railway Company, to pay, - - . 509
Wharves and Landings, to make an appropriation to the Department of
Market Houses for the care of, - - - - - 22
Widen to, the footways on Moyamensing Avenue, ... 393
" to authorize the superintendent of Girard Estates to, Delaware Avenue, 393
Witness Fees, to pay in Court of Quarter Sessions, . - - J 70
Wood street culvert, to authorize the construction of the, . . .139
Wood street, to authorize a culvert or drain on, - - - - 362
Zaiss, Frederick, to pay, . ..... 509
Ziegenfuss, John, to pay, ...... 484
INDEX. XXXf
RESOLUTIONS.
FAGB
Abel, John, sureties of, approved, .... 426
Ahem, Eugene, to satisfy the bonds ofj • - . 459
Allen, J. B. A. &. S., to pay, - - - - 156
Armbruster, Peter, to authorize the auditing of the books of, as Receiver of
Taxes, - - - - . - 130
Advertise, to, for proposals for paving, - - • -59
Advertise, to authorize the Mayor to, fur proposal for a certain loan, - 358
" " Heads of Departments to, for sealed proposals, - 428
" " the Chief Commissioner of Highways to, for proposals
for cleansing the streets, .... 498
Advertisement, to authorize, for proposals for constructing certain culverts, 413
" " for plans for the improvement of Fairraount Park, 419
Almshouse, to pay for introducing gas into, - - 206, 420
Appropriation, authorizing, to Highway Department to finish grading Bridge
street, . . - - . 443
Appropriations, to transfer items of, (See Transfers.)
Atlantic Telegraph Cable, relative to original suggestion of the, - 365
Auditing Clerks, authorizing the appointment of four, by the City Controller, 151
B.
Baroux, N. T., sureties of, approved, - . . . 378
Beareau, H., proposals of, for Breckenridge coal oil, accepted, . 118
Bender, Robert P., to satisfy bond of, - - - 518
Berg, Gotleib, to satisfy bond of, - - - - 518
Berry & Simpson, to pay, - - . - . 156
Bickley, Henry, to release certain property of, from a judgment, 118, 119
" » " satisfy the bonds of, - . - 392
Bills, to pay certain, . - . - 406, 507
Billingtnn & Emery, to pay, - - . . 407
Birkenbine, H. P. M., sureties of, approved, ... 233
Boilcau, Willium, " " 87 ; bond satisfied, - 518
Bonsall, William, to satisfy the bond of, as Register of Water, - 242
Bonsai! & Smedley, accepting old map of Pliiladelphia presented by, - 431
Borie, F. J., to pay, - - - - - 219
Boyce, Willam H., sureties of, approved, 87 ; bond satisfied, - 518
XXIVl INDEX.
PAGE
Brazier, A. J,, to satisfy a lien against, ■ - . 346
Burns, P., sureties of, approved, - 87; Lond satisfied, - - 518
Butler, Thomas, to pay, - - . - . 156
Blockley, directing the preparation of plans of certain grade regulations
for the late township of, - - - - 64
" to proceed with tiie survey, &c., of, - - - 413
Board of Health, to construe certain transfers of appropriation to, - 449
" " to transfer appropriations to, - - 396,449,508
Bond of Joshua M. Ray bold, to satisfy. - - - 92
" Frederick Emhardt, " - - - - 92
" Win. V. McKean, to cancel, - - - - 123
" Hugh Gamble, to satisfy, - - - - 129
" David McVeigh, " - - - - 138
" Matthias Kremer, to satisfy, - - - - 175
» Wm. L. Hirst, « . - - - 210
« C. V. Nauman, " - - - - 215
» Wm. Bonsall, « - - . - 242
« Gerard R. Tisdale, « - - - - 242
" Wm. McGlensey, " . - . - 242
" John McCarthy, » - - - - 242
» R. L. West, ... . . -334
'• Geo. F. Goodman, « - - - - 368
" J. H. Filler, ... . - - 3G8
" Thomas E. Gaskill, « - . - - 368
" Henry Bickley, « . - - - 392
« Samuel P. Fearon, " - - - - 392
" Charles Justice, " . - - 418, 518
« Patrick McEntee, « . - - 418, 518
" Wm. Engard, .. - . . -458
" Eugene Ahem, « - . - - 459
« Emanuel Street, « - - - - 462
"■ Edward Ellis, « - - - - 462
" John Layer, « . - - - 518
« John Hassan, « - - - - "
" Thomas Farley, " - - - - "
" P. McDonough, " - - - - "
« John Kelsh, ... . . - "
" George Snyder, " - - - - «
" James Elliott, >. - - - . «
« William Boileau, " - - - - «
"- William H. Boyce, " - - - - "
" Thomas Laney, « - - - . "
INDEX.
xxxvu
Bond of George L. Derr, to satisfy, - . -
" Josepli M. Ritterson, to satisfy,
" P. O'Rouriie, to satisfy, . . -
" P. Burns, «...
" Michael Kijrliter, " - . -
" Joliii Ftllon, « - . -
« P. B. Hinkle, " - . -
" Jacob Rigler, « . . -
" William Yonkcr, " . - -
" James M. Urian, " . - -
" Silas Suplee, « - . -
" Wilson J. Hansell, to satisfy, - . -
" Thomas McCullough, to satisfy,
" ^^'illianl Thompson, " - -
" Charles O'Neil, « - -
« John Matz, " - -
" James Callan, " - -
" Michael Carlan, " - -
'• Golleib Berg, " - -
" Henry Mather, " - -
" Dennis Hcenan, " - -
» Robert P, Bender, " - -
Bridge, authorizing repair of, over Gunner's Run at York street.
Bridge, authorizing the erection of a, over Gunner's Run,
« « " " " Cresham Creek, -
Bridge street, to pay for grading, east of Thirty-fifth street, -
Brown street, notifying owners of ground to open,
PAOB
518
153
194
462
121, 443
412
Cahill, Thomas E., to pay, - - - - - 219
Cannon, James, to pay, - . - - . 526
Callan, James, to satisfy bond of, - - - - 518
Carlan, Michael, " « . . . - 518
Chadwick, John K., to release certain property of, from a judgment, - 65
Christopher, Jesse M., sureties of, approved, - - - 232
Coleman, John M., to authorize the auditing the books of, as Receiver of
Taxes, - - - - - - 130
Collins, John, proposals of, for gasketing accepted, . -114
Collins, John, to pay, ..... 376
Collins &. Robb, to pay, - - - - - 219
Convery, Alexander, proposals of, for coal accepted, . - 122
" " to pay, ... - 156
XXXVm INDEX.
PAGB
Cope, Charles F., to pay, - ... - 526
Cartways, relative to the width of, in certain streets, - - 60
Charter of the City, accepting a photographic copy of the original, - 375
Chestnut street bridge, directing the preparation of plans for, - 181
Chief Engineer and Surveyor, to pay, for estimates and certificates, - 186
Chief Engineer of Water Department, sureties of H- B. M. Birkenbine, as,
approved, ..... 233
City Commissioner, sureties of Edward R, Williams, as, approved, - 204
« Controller, " George W. Hufty, « - - 222
" Hospital, to pay for the removal of, - - - 450
" Passenger Railways, relative to passage of charters for, by the Legis-
lature, . - - - - - 134
" Property, to transfer appropriations to Department of, - 241, 377, 468, 503
" Solicitor, to pay, expense of procuring certified copies of Railroad bills, 173
" Treasurer, relative to the examination of warrants drawn upon, - 340
Claim, to compromise a, against John Hemphill, ... 206, 225
Claims against the City, to pay certain, ... 211
" to pay certain, .... 323, 375, 405
Cleansing, relative to, of the streets of the City, - - - 498
Clerks, temporary, to continue in the office of Receiver of Taxes, - 4, 127
" authorizing the appointment of four to audit the books of Receiver of
Taxes, - - - - - - 151
Coates street wharf, to pay bills for repairing, ... 456
Columbia Hose Co., admitting to Fire Department, - .5
Congress Fire Co., " « . - . . 335
Coal, proposals for supplying Water Department with, accepted, - 122
Commissioner of City Property, sureties of Jesse M. Christopher, as, approved,
232
Commissioner of Highways, Chief and other, sureties of approved, . 87, 88
Contracts, relating to the, for supplying sperm oil for 1858, - - 149
" approving of the, with the Reading Railroad Co., relative to the
construction of a bridge over their road, . - -185
Contract, requiring copies of to be filed with City Controller, . 67
" authorizing the Chief Commissioner of Highways to cancel certain, 338
Controllers of Public Schools, authorizing to draw upon appropriations of 1858
in payment of certain bills, - . 122
" " " to transfer appropriations to, . 470,510,515
Coral street, notifying owners of ground to open, - - 412
Creesham Creek, authorizing the Highway Department to contract for the
erection of a culvert bridge at, ... 462
Culvert, authorizing the construction of a on the line of Jasper street, - 231
Culverts, to authorize advertisement for proposals for constructing, - 413
INDEX. XXXIX
FAGB
Curb and pave footways, requiring property owners on Bridge street to, 189
u u It u u Brown " - 187
«» « «' " " Ciibot " - 187
•• » « " " Cadwaladcr " . 187
II u ii II " ciiew " . 183
« " " « « Dunlap " - 187
II u II u » Dyre " . 189
II « K II « Fourth " - 187
" » " « " Frankford " - 189
" u It II « Franklin " - 411
" •« « »« " Green lane - 188
" » « « " Green street - 189
u a II II « Havcrford " - 491
•' " " « » Hedge " - 189
« «' « «' « Howard " 153, 187
" " " •' " Huntingdon " - 153
" « « •« « Josephine " - 189
« " " « " Lancaster, " - 188
" " " « " Leiper " - 189
« « " » " Manheim " - 189
" « » « « Meadow " - 189
" « " " " Meeting-House Lane
to, - - 189
" •» " «♦ " Onhodox street to, 189
" » « « » Parker street to 187
« " « « " Sixth « - 187
" " « « « Spring Garden st. to, 247
" " « " " Taconey street to 189
«' « «' «« " Thomas •' - 189
" « « " Twentieth " - 188
D.
Dale, William H., to satisfy a judgment against, - - - 113
Dalryinple, Evan, sureties of, approved, - - • 253
Daly, Thomas, to pay, ----- 205
Davenport, James, sureties of, approved, - - - 253
Derr, George, " " 87; bond satisfied, - 518
Doyle, William T., " " - - - 253
Death of Major General Persifer F. Smith, relative to, - - 203
Department of City Commissioners, to transfer appropriations to, - 342
" " City Property, " " " 241, 377, 468, 503
" County Prison, « " " - 473
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INDEX.
PAGB
Department of Health, to transfer appropriations to, - 396,449,508
« « Highways, « " 333, 372, 434, 492
«« " Law, " " - . 522
" " Markets, « " - - 528
« » Police, « " 373, 435, 4G5, 502
« « Poor, « " 420, 521, 524, 525
" " Schools, « " - 470, 510, 515
" " Surveys, " " - - 491
" « Receiver of Taxes, " " - 471, 520
« « Water, « " - -
204,378,404,424,454,504
" " Wharves and Landings, to transfer appropriations to, - 516
Dirt, authorizing the Commissioner of City Property, to invite the deposit
of^ in Norris square, - - 131,178
" " Highway Department to contract for, to fill up Girard
avenue, . . - ■
Dock, Spruce street, to authorize the cleansing of.
Drain, authorizing the construction of a, on Chew street,
E.
Elliot, James, sureties of approved, - 87 ; bond satified,
" William, «i «
Ellis, Joshua, «' « .
Ellis, Edward, to satisfy the bond of, -
Emhardt, Frederick, to satisfy the bond of,
Engard, William, sureties of approved,
" " to satisfy the bond of,
Etting, E. J. & Bro., proposals of, for pig lead accepted,
«t u «i " " iron pipes "
« " " to pay.
Election, to change place of holding in 4th division 21st Ward,
" 3rd
u
6lh
» 2nd
u
2nd
» 8th
"
21st
" 3rd
"
4 th
" 4th
"
5th
" 3rd
«
21st
214
333
188
518
228
253
462
92
87
358
114
114
219
124
124
125
150
223
405
405
F.
Fairmount Park, to fix tlie salary of Superintendent of, - - 418
M " authorizing advertisement for plans for the improvement of, 419
Fame Hose Company, accepting services of, - - - 63
INDEX. Xli
FAOB
Farley, Thomas, sureties of, approved, 87 ; bond satisfied, - 518
Fearon, Samuel P., to satisfy the bonds of, - - - 392
Felton, John, sureties of, approved, 87; bond satisfied, - - 518
Field &, Hardie, to pay, - - - 323, 376, 407, 507
Fisler, J. H., to satisfy the bond of, - - - - 368
Fiomcrfelt, A. I., sureties of, approved, - - .211
Franklin John, sureties of, approved, . - . - 253
" " to pay, . - . - - 407
Freas, Joseph, sureties of, approved, - - - - 253
Frederick, William A-, sureties of, approved, - - - 253
Fire Companies, authorizing the Committee on Trusts and Fire Department
to direct the suspension of, - - - - 417
Fire Department, admitting Columbia Hose Company into, - - 5
" " Fame " " « . - 63
" " Congress Fire " " - - 335
" re-instating Niagara Hose Company in, - - 415
Fire Plugs, relative to J. &, S. Parham's improved, - - 60
Fire Plugs, authorizing the placing of, in the grounds of the Pennsylvania
Hospital for the Insane, - - - - 408
Forty-ninth street, authorizing the extension of, - - - 352
Fourth street, notifying owners of ground to open, - - 410
Frankford and Southwark Passenger Railway Company, requiring the City
Solicitor to compel, to file the cost of their road, 381
" " Passenger Railway Company, relative to certain
connections ofj - - - 503
Franklin Engine Company, suspending, - • - 435
" Hose u u ... 437
Franklin street, notifying owners of ground to open, - 188
G.
Gas, to pa}T for introduction of into Almshouse, ... 906
Gamble, Hugh, to satisfy the official bond of, ... ]29
Gaskell, Thomas E., " " " . , . 368
George, Daniel D., sureties of, approved, . - . 253
Gibbs,John, « " . . . . 253
Goodman, George F., to satisfy the official bond of, . - 368
Greene, General Nathaniel, accepting portrait of, ... 14]
Girard Avenue Bridge, explaining an Ordinance relative to the repair of, 370
" " authorizing the grading around the wing walls at, 461
Girard Estates, sureties of agent of, approved, ... 228
" " " of Superintendent of, approved, . - 233
" " to transfer appropriations to, - • - • 455
6
xlii
INDEX.
PAGB
Girard Trust,
to transfer appropriations to.
-
384
Grade, to ciiange tl
e, on Leiper street,
.
431
Grade Regulations,
relative
to, of a part of the late township of Blockley,
64
>(
relative
to, of a portion of the
late township of Northern
Liberties,
.
.
66
Grading, to authorize the, of Alleghany avenue.
.
193
it
It
II
Ann street.
.
132
u
It
II
Biddle " .
-
132
u
It
It
Blair " -
.
120
a
II
II
Bridge " -
.
121
u
11
tt
Bridge street, (23rd Ward,)
367
u
It
It
Caroline "
-
152
It
It
It
Cadwalader avenue.
-
152
((
It
It
Chew street.
-
188
"
II
It
Clinton street.
-
410
Cl
"
<i
Columbia avenue.
.
132
u
II
II
Coral street,
.
120
u
It
II
Cumberland street,
.
120
u
II
u
Eagle
.
491
u
It
"
East Washington lane.
245
t(
"
«
Eighteenth street.
.
120
«
It
II
Emerald "
.
120
<i
"
tt
Fifth
-
121
tl
It
It
Fifteenth "
.
132
It
li
It
Forty-ninth "
.
352
It
It
II
Front
.
120
It
11
It
Green lane.
-
188
u
II
"
Hamilton street.
.
120
u
It
II
Haverford "
.
411
«
u
u
Hope
.
152
It
II
II
Howard "
.
410
It
It
"
Indian Queen lane,
121
, 188
It
It
u
Jarvis street,
.
132
(1
It
«
Jefferson avenue.
.
153
l(
It
«
Lexington avenue,
.
491
It
It
II
Linn street,
.
132
It
It
"
Meredith street.
-
132
II
11
II
Ninth street.
.
230
It
li
tt
Oxford «
.
120
II
II
It
Bratt «
« • "
230
It
II
II
Ringgold street,
.
132
u
It
It
Ritchie "
- fi *
132
INDEX.
xliii
Grading, to authorize the, of Robeson street,
" " " Salmon «
" " " Sergeant "
" " " Seventeenth street, -
" " " Sliippen "
" " " Spring Garden street,
«' " « Twenty-third " -
" " " Tulip " -
« " " Twentieth " -
" " " Tyler " -
" " " Union " -
" » » Vienna " -
" " » Wood " -
" York " -
FAOH
133
153
132
120
132
247
120
152
152
120
132
152
120
152
Guardians of the Poor, to interpret an Ordinance making an appropriation to, 451
'« ♦' " to transfer appropriations to, - 420, 521, 524
H.
518
507
518
253
253
518
206, 224
154
Hansell, Wilson J., sureties of, approved, 88; bond satisfied,
Hansworth, Eakcn & Co., to pay,
Hassan, John, sureties of, approved, 87; bond satisfied, -
Harper, Daniel R., «' «' .
Hart, George, « u .
Heenan, Dennis, to satisfy bond of, »
Hempliill John, to compromise a claim against, -
Henderson, John, to satisfy two judgments against,
Hinkle, P. B., sureties of, approved, - 87; bond satisfied.
Hirst, William L., to satisfy the official bond of, -
HofF &L, Fontaine, to pay, . - . - -
Hoopes & Townsend, to pay, ....
Huhbell, Horatio, relative to claim of, as projector of a Telegraph across the
Atlantic, . . . . -
Hufty, George W., sureties of, approved,
Harri.-burg and Lancaster Railroad, relative to the tonnage tax on,
Highway Department, to transfer appropriations to, - 333, 372, 434, 492
" « to satisfy bonds of officers, - - 518
Hope Engine Company, suspending, . - . - 435
Hose, authorizing the loan of, to the Philadelphia Hose Company, - 60
Hunting Park, autiiorizing the Commissioner of City Property to improve, 178
I.
Insurance, policies of, deeds, &.C., directing the City Solicitor to collect and
arrange, ------ 487
Insuring, relative to, the buildings at the Lazaretto, - - 450
518
210
219
407
366
222
105
xliv
INDEX.
Insuring, relative to, the property of the City,
Iron pavement, authorizing B. C. Smith to lay one square of, -
J.
Jasper street, authorizing the construction of a culvert on,
Jayne, Dr. David, to authorize, to make an attachment to the Chestnut
street main, ...
Judgment, to release property of John K. Cliadwick, from the lien of a, -
" " " Henry Bickley,
«« " " John Roberts,
«« " « Robert Loughlin,
" « " George W. Simons,
" to satisfy a, against William H. Dale,
" " " Samuel P. Fearon,
Judgments, to satisfy two, against John Henderson,
Justus, Charles, sureties of, approved, -
" " to satisfy bond of,
Juvenal, A. W., sureties of, approved, -
K.
Keech, Jacob M., sureties of, approved.
Keen, J. Sidney «fe Bro., to pay,
Kelly, James, sureties of, approved,
Kelsh, John, " " 87 ; bond satisfied,
Keysers & Shively, to pay, - - •
King, William, to pay, ...
Kleiss, Henry, " -
Kremer, Matthias, to satisfy the official bond of, -
Kingsessing, to proceed with the survey, &,c, of tlic late township of.
FAGB
487
246
231
-
183
e lien of a.
65
«
-
118, 119
, 134, 135
K
148
"
197
U
501
.
113
.
392
-
154
.
87
.
418,518
-
233
.
253
.
407
.
253
.
518
-
219
-
110,219
-
219
.
175
iship of.
413
Labor and materials, to authorize the Chief Engineer of the Water Works
to pay for, - - - - 94, 330, 383
87 ; bond satisfied.
518
Layer, John, sureties of approved,
Leaney, Thomas, " " - 87 ; " " - - "
Loughlin, Robert, to release certain property of from a judgment, - 197
Lownsbury, J. &. C, to pay, .... 456
Law Department, to transfer appropriations to, - - - 522
Lazaretto, relative to insuring the buildings at the, . - 450
Leasing of the Tobacco Warehouse, relative to, . - 469, 486
Legislature, apphcation to, for the removal of the tonnage tax on the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, • - .105
INDEX.
PAOB
Legislature, application to, for the removal of the Powder Magazine, - 129
" requesting the Mayor to protest against the passage of railway
bills by, until routes and terms shall be approved by Couneils, 134
Lehigh Avenue, notifying owners of ground to open, . . 412
Leiper street, to change tiie grade on, .... /31
Lemon Hill, to autiioiizo tlic removal cf the tenants from, - . 215
Lien, for water-pipe to satisfy, - . - -346
Liens of judgment, to release, 65, 113, 118, 134, 148, 154, 197, 392, 501
Loan, to authorize the Mayor to advertise for a certain, - - 358
" to authorize a temporary, .... 428
M.
Magarge, Samuel, to pay, .
Mann, Isaac, sureties of, approved,
Matthias & Moore, to pay, .
Matz, John, to satisfy bond of,
Mather, Henry, " "
MauU, Samuel, to pay,
Mercer, Thomas, to pay
Middleton, John W., sureties of, approved,
Miller, John C, proposals of, for coal, accepted,
Mitchell &L Croasdale, to pay,
Moore, Alexander, to release certain property of^ from a lien,
Morgan &. Orr, to pay,
Morris, Charles, " .
Morris, J. P., & Co., to pay.
Map of Philadelphia, accepting.
Master street, relative to the vacation of, between 25th and 27tli streets,
Mayor, authorizing, to sell certain articles,
M«.
McCarthy, John, sureties of, approved, -
" " to satisfy the official bond of,
McClecs, J. E., thanks to, for a photographic copy of the original charter
of the City, ....
McCullough, Thomas, sureties of, approved, 88 ; bond satisfied,
McDonough, P., sureties of, approved, . 87 ; bond satisfied,
McEntee, P., «...
" •' to satisfy bond of, • -
McGlensey, William, sureties of, approved,
" "to satisfy bond of,
McKean, William V., to cancel bond of,
McVeigh, David, to satisfy bond of, -
219
253
323
518
518
376
219
253
122
110
345
156
376
407, 507
431
62
403
242
375
518
518
87
418,518
88
242
123
138
Xlvi INDEX.
N.
PAGE
Naumann, C. V,, to pay, .... - 153
" " to satisfy the bond of, - - -215
Neal, Robert, sureties of approved, . . . « 432
Niagara Hose Company, removing suspension of, • - . 415
Norris Square, to autiiorize Commissioner of City Property to commence
improving, .... 131, 178
Northern Liberties, late township ofj relative to grade regulations of, - 66
O.
Oat, Charles, sureties of, approved, .... 425
O'Neil, Charles, to satisfy bond of, - - - -SIS
Otis, B., of thanks to, for a portrait of General Nathaniel Greene, . 141
O'Rourke, P., sureties of approved, . 87; bond satisfied, - 518
Oil, proposals for supplying Water Department with, accepted, - 118
" relative to contract for sperm, .... 149
Opening streets, authorizing notice ofj - 121, 188, 410, 412, 474
P,
Packer, James W., to pay, - - - • - 219
Painter, Edward, sureties of approved, - - - • 253
Parham, J. &. S., authorizing to remove certain fire plugs, and substitute their
manifold plugs, - . - - - 60
Potts, Wm. F., to pay, .... 323, 376, 407
Prickett, William P., to pay, - - - .526
Passenger Railways, requiring guage of, and form of rail to confirm to those
in use, ..... 235
" Railway, to authorize the Second and Third street to construct a
connecting line on Race street, - - 239
" " to require the Frankford and Southwark to file the cost of
their road, .... 381
♦* " dissenting from the application of the West Philadelphia
to lay rails on certain streets, - . - 427
Passyunk, to prosecute surveys in the late township of^ . - 185
Paving, to authorize the, of Pine street wharf, - - .40
" " » Adams street, - . .476
« " " Ann «... 132
" " " Apple " - . 193, 476
« " " BiddJe "... 132
" " " Blair street, - . - 120
" " " Brown " ... 187
" " " Byrne " ... 193
" « » Cabot " - - .187
INDEX.
xlvii
, of Cadwalader
avenue,
.
PA OB
152, 187
" Caroline street.
.
152
" Centre "
.
250
" Cliurch "
..
250
" Columbia avenue
-
132
" Cor«l street,
.
120
" Cumberland street,
.
120
" Davis
u
.
132
" Dickinson
1(
.
187
" Dunlap
i(
.
187
" Eighteenth
tl
.
120
" Emerald
<l
.
120, 152, 193
" Fifth
IC
.
193, 343
" Fifteenth
il
-
132
" Fourth
"
.
187,214
" Franklin
u
.
193, 369
" Front
u
-
120
" Girard avenue,
.
188, 193
" Hamilton street,
-
120
" Hare
u
.
461
" Hope
u
-
152
" Howard
u
.
187
" Huntingdon
tl
-
250
" Jarvis
"
.
132
" Jefferson
l(
-
193
" Linn
{(
.
132
" Merchant
u
-
214
" Mifflin
t(
.
214
" Mulvaney
(>
-
193
" Norris
(i
-
476
" Ontario
11
.
133
" Oxford
" Parker
u
u
-
120, 476
187
" Ritchie
u
-
132
" Ringgold
»
-
132
" Salmon
u
-
152, 187
" Sergeant
tl
-
132
" Sepviva street,
" Seventeenth street,
"
476
120
" Shippen
" Simes
tt
It
^
132, 366
369
" Sixth
il
-
187
xlviii
INDEX.
Paving, to authorize the, of Stiles street,
" " " Tenth "
Thirty-third street, -
Thoinpson "
Tulip «♦
Twentieth "
Twenty-second street,
Twenty-third "
Tyler "
PAGE
133, 476
476
120
214
152
152
343
193
120
132
152
369
193
120
152
352
*• " " Union "
" " " Vienna "
" " « West »
" " " Wharton "
" « " \Vood "
« " " York
Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, relative to grading around,
" " " to authorize tiie placing of fire pings
in the grounds of, - - - - - 408
Pennsylvania Railroad, relative to the tonnage tax on, - - 105
Petitioners for water-pipes, prescrihing conditions for, - - 451
Philadelphia Hose Company, to loan Hose to, for use of Steam Fire Engine, 60
Pine street wharf, to authorize the paving ofj - - - 40
Portrait of General Nathaniel Greene, acceptance of, - - 141
Powder Magazine, relative to the removal of, - - - 128
Proposals, accepting, for supplies to Water Department, 113, 114, 118, 122
Public Schools, authorizing Controllers of, to draw upon appropriation for
1858 in payment of certain bills, - - - 122
" to transfer appropriations to Controllers of, - 470,510,515
R.
Raybold, Joshua M., to satisfy the bond of, as Register of water,
Reeves, Buck & Co., to pay, - - - .
Retterson, James, sureties of approved, 87 ; bond satisfied,
Rich, J. T., to pay, - - - - -
Riding, William, sureties of approved, ...
Righter, M., sureties of approved, - 87 ; bond satisfied,
Rigler, J., « " . 87 ; " "
Roberts, John, to release certain property of, frnm the lien of a judgment.
Race street, to authorize the Second and Third street Passenger Railway
Company lo construct a connecting line on,
Railroad Bills, to pay City Solicitor expense of procuring certified copies of
Receiver of Taxes, authorizing to continue temporary clerks,
92
110
518
407
253
518
518
148
239
173
4,127
INDEX. Xlix
FAGB
Receiver of Taxes, to autliorizo the auditing of tiie books of, - 130
" " sureties of A. I. Floinertelt as, approved, - - 211
" " to transfer appropriations to, - - 471,520
Reading Railroad Company, approving contract with, relative to a bridge over
their road.
-
-
-
-
-
185
Reed s
treet wharf,
to autliorize tlie repair of.
-
-
.
475
Register of Water.
.sureties or W. J. P. White as, approved.
-
.
229
Repairs, authorizin
g to the bridge over the Gunner's
RunC
anal, at York
street, -
.
.
.
-
153
u
to Girard
avenue Bridsre, explaining an
Ord
inance
relative to.
370
Repairs to Coates i
street whar
f, to pay for,
-
456
ti
to Reed street wharf authorized,
-
475
Repaving, to autherize the, of Bail alley.
-
57
ti
It
"
Brinton street,
-
59
u
(1
«
Chestnut "
-
58
(1
u
u
Coates "
-
59
u
u
u
Columbia "
-
59
u
<t
II
Eighth "
-
58
u
u
II
Eleventh "
-
59
.
u
II
Fifteenth «
-
58
u
u
w
Franklin "
-
58
u
1.
11
Franklin avenue.
-
59
u
u
II
Gaskill street.
-
-
57
u
u
II
Germantown Road,
-
59
IC
u
"
Hehnuth street,
-
-
58
u
u
II
Landing street,
-
-
59
l«
u
11
Lentz "
-
-
476
u
u
II
Locust' "
.
.
342
«
u
II
Market "
-
.
58
u
u
II
Monroe "
.
-
- 57,
,214
(t
»
II
Orange "
.
-
58
(t
"
«
Pine alley, "
-
-
57
u
u
11
Poplar street,
-
-
59
l>
"
<l
Queen street.
-
-
59
<>
u
■1
Rawle "
-
-
58
u
u
11
Reed
-
-
57
«
«
"
Seventh "
-
-
59
(1
H
"
Shackamaxon street.
-
59
u
U
"
Shippcn street.
-
-
57
u
II
II
Sixteenth "
-
-
58
il
a
"
Spafford "
-
-
57
•'
u
.1
Spruce "
-
-
57
]fl INDEX.
Sureties, to release
the,
fFisler, J. H,
.
FAGB
368
"
"
"
Gamble, Hugh,
.
129
<(
It
"
Gaskill, Thomas E., -
.
368
((
tl
"
Goodman, George F., -
.
3G8
u
<t
"
Hansell, Wilson J.,
.
518
u
"
' tl
Hassan, John,
.
518
H
It
II
Heenan, Dennis,
.
518
U
11
It
Hinlde, P. B.,
.
518
t(
"
tl
Hirst, William L.,
.
210
t(
It
II
Justice, Charles,
.
418
"
«
11
Kelsh, Jo! n.
.
518
u
It
«
Kremer, Matthias,
.
175
u
It
"
Laney, Thomas,
-
518
u
11
It
Layer, John,
-
518
11
11
It
Mather, Henry,
-
518
u
tl
11
Matz, John,
-
518
li
11
11
McCarthy, John,
.
242
u
u
tl
McCullough, Thomas, -
.
518
u
It
tl
McDonouoh, P.,
.
518
<(
"
It
McEntec, Patrick,
-
418
tl
11
II
McGlensey, William, -
-
242
u
It
u
McKean, William V., -
-
123
u
"
tl
McVeigh, David,
-
138
u
It
"
Naumann, C. V.,
-
213
u
It
It
O'Neil, Charles,
.
518
u
tl
It
O'Rourke, P.,
-
518
u
II
11
Raybold, Joshua M., -
-
92
"
tl
11
Rightcr, Michael,
-
518
It
"
u
Rigler, Jacob,
-
518
u
tl
11
Ritterson, Joseph M., -
-
518
u
It
It
Snyder, George,
-
518
u
tl
11
Street, Emanuel,
-
4G2
u
11
"
Suplee, Silas,
-
518
u
11
It
Thompson, William,
-
518
"
»
11
Tisdale, Gerard R.,
-
242
u
"
"
Urian, James M.,
-
518
K
«
"
West, R. L.,
-
334
«(
It
11
Yonkcr, William,
-
518
Surveys, to
prosecute, in
the First and Twenty-fourth Wards,
55
"
«
in
the late Township of Passyunk,
-
185
" to
procee
d witli
, in the late Townships of Kinsessing and
Blockley,
413
Suspension
, removing the, of the Niagara Hose Company,
-
-
415
INDEX.
liii
FAOB
Suspension of Fire Companies, authorizing the Committee on Trusts and
Fire Department to direct the, ■ - « 417
" of tiie Hope Engine Company, ... 435
» " Fraiildin " " - ... 435
tt u u jjQge « . - . 437
•
T.
Tallow, propo-^als for supplying Water Department with, accepted, - 118
Temporary Clerks, to authorize Receiver of Taxes, to continue, - 4, 127
" Loan, to autliorize a, - - - - 428
Tenants, to authorize the removal of, from Lemon Hill, - - 215
Tenth street, (or 39th,) notifymg owners of ground to open, - - 121
Thackara, Daniel, to pay, - - ■ - 407
Thomas, William D., sureties of, approved, 253; bond satisfied, - 518
Tisdale, Gerard R., to satisfy the bond of^ - - - 242
Trinick, Richard, to pay, ----- 219
Tyler & Smith, " - - - - - 407
Tobacco Warehouse, relative to the leasing of the, - 469, 486
Tonnage tax, relative to the removal of the, from the Pennsylvania and
Harrisbnrg and Lancaster Railroads, - - - 105
Transfers of appropriations to the Water Department,
204, 378, 404, 42-^,454,504
" « " Department of City Property,
241,377,468,503
« « « Highway Department, 333, 372, 434, 492
« « " City Commissioners, - - 342
" " " Police Department, 373, 435, 465, 502
" " " Board of Health, - 396,449,508
" « " Guaidians of the Poor, - 420,521,524
•« " " Controllers of Public Schools, 470,510,515
«< «' » Receiver of Taxes, - 471,520
" " " Survey Department, - - 491
" M 41 Inspectors of the County Prison, - 473
« « " Girard Trust, - - . 384
" " » Superintendent of Trusts, - . 444
« " « Girard Estates, - . 455
" " " Department of Wharves and Landings, 516
" " " " " Markets, - . 528
" " " Law Department, . - 522
Trusts and Fire Department, to authorize the committee on, to direct the
suspension of Fire Companies, - - - - 417
Twenty-first street, notifying owners of ground to open, - - 474
Kv
INDEX.
Urian, James M., bond satisfied,
U.
PASS
518
Vacation, relative to, of Master street,
62
W.
Wagner, Peter, to pay, - - - * - - 110
Ware, Samuel, sureties of, approved, • - - . 253
Weaver, Judah, to pay, - - - « -109
West, R. L., to release the sureties of, - - - 334
Wetherill &, Brother, to pay, - - - - 110
Whetham, James D., {)roposals of, for sperm oil, accepted, - - 118
" " relative to contract with, ... 149
White, W. J. P., sureties of, approved , • - - 229
Williams, Edward R., sureties of, approved, ... 204
William, Joseph S., sureties of, approved, ... 253
Wilson, Wm. M., a « ... 253
Woelpper, George, to pay, - ... 323,376,407
Wood & Brother, to pay, ..... 220
Warrants, relative to the examination of, in the Department of the City
Controller, ..... 340
" instructing the City Controller not to sign, certain, - 467
Water Department, to transfer appropriations to, - 204, 378, 404, 424, 454, 504
Water-pipes, to pay for making plans of, laid in the City,
" prescribing conditions for petitioners for.
Water-pipe, to lay on Adams street, .
" " " Amber " -
ic .t ii Ann " .
« " « Apple " -
(. u » Ash " .
•• " " Barker " .
" « " Barton " .
« " " Bedford " -
« " " Biddle » .
" " " Blair " .
« " " Brown " .
« « " Burns « -
» « M Byrne " -
«« " " Cabot " -
" " " Cadwalader avenue,
w " " » street,
130
451
476
382
132, 374
193, 476
331
374
238
422
132, 254
120
187, 382
238
193
187, 254, 382
152
187, 238, 255
INDEX.
It
Water-Pipe, to lay on Cambridge street,
" " " Canal "
" " " Catharine »
•• " " Centre «
*• " " Columbia avenue,
•• " " Coral street,
" " " Cumberland street,
" " " Dunlap »
" " " Fennimore "
" •• " Fifth "
" " " Fifteenth "
« « « Fourth "
" " » Franklin "
" " " Front "
" " » George "
" " " Girard avenue,
" " " Green street,
" " « Hamilton «
«i » u jjare "
" " " Hope "
" " " Howard "
" " " Jarvis "
" " " Jefferson avenue,
« " " " street,
" " " Johnson street, -
" " " Lentz "
" " " Letterly "
" " » Linn "
" " " Logan "
" " " Master «
" " " Merchant"
" " " Meredith "
« " « Mifflin "
" " " Montgomery street,
" " " Moore "
" " " Mulvaney "
" " " Norris "
« Oxford "
" " " Parker «
" " " Pierce "
" " " Ringgold "
" « » Ritchie "
PAGE
- 61, 382
422
422
374
132, 255
125, 238, 324
125, 238
187
382
193, 343
132
187, 214, 331, 382
193, 238, 369
125,423
238
193,238,422,469
128
125, 238
461
152
187, 422
132
331
193, 238, 254, 255
227
476
382
132
374
255
214, 238
132
214
187
422
193, 255
476
125,476
187, 233, 254
238
132, 254
132
Ivi
INDEX.
Water-pipe, to lay on Siilmon street,
" " " Sargeant " - -
«» « " Scott « . .
" « " Sepviva «' - _
" " " Seventh " . .
« " " Seventeenth " - -
" " " Shippen " - -
« " " Simes « . _
" " » Sixth « . .
•' «' " Sixteenth «' . -
" " " Spring Garden street,
" " " Stiles " . .
u « « Stocker " - -
" " " Tenth " - -
« " " Tliirty-tliird " - -
M « « Thompson, " - -
« " « Till "
« " » Tulip " - -
» " " Twentieth « . .
»« « " Twenty-first " -
u u u Twenty-second « - -
" «' " Twenty-third " - -
It «i « Tyler " - -
" » « Union " - -
(I u « Vienna " . -
It u u Walter " . -
« " " West " . .
M « «' Wharton " . -
u « « Wheat "
« " " Williamson " - .
« « '■ Willow
« « " Wood "
II » » York » . -
West Philadelphia Passenger Railway Company, dissenting from
of, to lay rails on certain streets,
Wire Bridge, to authorize the painting of,
Y.
Young America Steam Fire Engine, return of, to donors,
Yonker, Wm., sureties of approved, - 87; bond satisfied,
Z.
Zaiss, Frederick, to pay, , - . -
_
PAGE
152
132,
,238
- 61,
, 382
422,
476
-
423
125,
,238
132, 239,
331
-
369
-
331
-
331
-
254
- 61,
,476
-
469
469,
,476
.
125
.
214
-
128
-
152
152,
,241
-
382
343,
408
-
193
-
125
.
132
.
152
239,
324
254, 369,
374
-
193
-
254
-
422
-
469
-
125
152,
239
appplicatior
I
-
427
-
468
65
.
518
425
ORDIISCES AID RESOLDTlOiS.
CHAPTER 1.
AN ORDINANCE
To male an Appropriation for furnishing Gas, and lighting,
extinguishing, cleansing and repairing the Public Lamps,
and for the erection of new lamps, for the year eighteen
hundred and fifty-eight.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of two hundred
and thirty-two thousand three hundred and fifty-six dollars
and eighty cents be, and the same is hereby appropriated for
the purpose of lighting, extinguishing, cleansing and repair-
ing the public lamps, for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-
eight, as per contract made between the Mayor of the City
and the Trustees of the City Gas Works, under an Ordinance
of Councils approved February 16th, 185G, and for the erection
of new lamps, as follows :
1. For furnishing gas, lighting, extinguishing, cleansing
and repairing the public lamps in use January 1st, 1858, being
five thousand six hundred and seventy-seven lamps at thij-ty-
eight dollars and forty cents each, two hundred and seventeen
thousand nine hundred and ninety-six dollars and eighty cents,
($217,990 80.)
1
2. For fumishmg gas and lighting lamps that may be erected
during the year, four thousand eight hundred dollars, ($4,800.)
3. For new lamps which may be erected during the year,
six thousand three hundred dollars, ($ 6,300.)
4. For altering fluid lamps to gas, twelve hundred and sixty
dollars, ($1,260.)
5. For repairs during the year, two thousand dollars.
Section 2. That warrants for the payment of any part of
the said appropriation shall ho drawn in the manner and form
and with the requisites contained in an Ordinance entitled
" an Ordinance providing for lighting, extinguishing, cleansing
and repairing the public lamps," approved February 16th,
1856.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved January 2, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila,
CHAPTER 2.
E
To make an appropriation to the Fire Department for the year
1858, and to pay claims incurred during the years 1854 and
1855.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of thirty-six thous-
and tliree hundred and seventy-five dollars be, and the same
is hereby appropriated to the Fire Department, for the year
eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, for the following purposes :
1. For salary of the Chief Engineer, five Assistant En-
gineers and one Secretary, four thousand dollars.
2. For office expenses, gas, printing, advertising, books,
stationery and cleansing office, one hundred and fifty dollars.
3. For rent of office, two hundred dollars.
4. For expenses of tlie Board of Directors, printing, sta-
tionery, advertising, rent and postage, two hundred dollars.
5. For carriage hire of the visiting Committee on Trusts
and Fire Department, one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
6. For gratuities to the Fire Engine, Hose and Hook and
Ladder Companies, comprising the Fire Department, thirty
thousand dollars.
7. For one alarm bell, and hanging the same, in the seventh
fire District, four hundred and twenty-five dollars.
8. To pay the Spring Garden and Lafayette Hose Com-
panies, each the sum of three hundred and seventy -five^ dol-
lars, being the amount of appropriation due them for services,
up to April 1st, 1855, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
9. To pay the Independence Hose Company the amount
due for services, up to April 1, 1855, two hundred and
twenty-five dollars.
10. To pay the Moyamensing Hose Company the amount
due for services up to April 1, 1855, seventy-five dollars.
11. To pay the Kensington Hose Company the amount due
for services up to April 1, 1855, two hundred and twenty-
five dollars.
Section 2. That no gratuity shall be awarded to any com-
pany, out of Item 6, of the first section of this ordinance,
until the same shall be directed by resolution of Councils.
Section 3. That warrants for the said appropriation shall
he drawn in conformity with existing ordinances.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council,
Approved January 2, A. D, 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 3.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, Bj the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the eight temporary Clerks now em-
ployed in the Office of the Receiver of Taxes, be, and the
same are hereby continued until the 1st day of April, 1858.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved January 7, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 4.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the services of the Columbia Hose Com-
pany be accepted, and that they be admitted into the Fire
Department.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Cojnmon Council,
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTOX,
President of Select Council'
We hereby certify that the Resolution accepting the Colum-
bia Hose Company into the Fire Department, was presented
to the Mayor on the 21st day of December, A. D. 1857, and
was not returned within fifteen days after it had been pre-
sented to him : wherefore, it has, agreeably to the provisions
of the Act of the General Assembly, approved February 2d,
A. D. 1854, entitled a further supplement to an Act entitled
" An Act to incorporate the City of Philadelphia," become a
law in like manner as if he had signed it.
JOHN D. MILES,
Clerk of Common Council.
H. G. LEISENRING,
Clerk of Select Council,
Clerk's Office, January 9th, 1858.
CHAPTER 5.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation, out of certain Trust Funds, to the
Superintendent of Trusts, for the purposes therein men-
tioned.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the Citj
of Philadelphia do ordain, Tliat the sums hereinafter men-
tioned, be, and the same are hereby appropriated to the
Superintendent of Trusts, for the purposes following, that is
to say —
1. The sum of four hundred and thirteen dollars and
thirty-eight cents, out of tlie income of the fund bequeathed
by Elizabeth Kirkpatrick and John Bleakely, and the trust
created by the First Lodge of Free Masons, to apply the
same to pay the cost of purchasing and distributing fuel
among the Poor, according to the direction of the devisors
and donors aforesaid.
2. The sum of one hundred and ninety-eight dollars and
ninety-one cents out of the income of the trusts created by
Acts of Assembly of March 8th, 1847, and March 16th, 1848,
for supplying the Poor residing within the limits of the late
District of Spring Garden, as provided in said Acts, with
fuel, agreeably to the terms of said Trusts.
3. The sum of six hundred and forty-four dollars and
seventy-three cents, out of the income of the fund bequeathed
by the late Stephen Girard to "The Corporation of the
Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of Philadelphia," for the pur-
pose of purchasing and distributing fuel to the Poor, for pay-
ing the expenses of distributing such fuel in the month of
January, 18158.
4. Tlic Slim of six hundred and sixty-seven dollars and
twenty-five cents, out of tlie income of John Scott's legacy of
four thousand dollars, as follows :
To pay Joseph Hufty for engraving medals in the years
1851, 1854 and 1855, seven dollars and twenty-five cents.
To pay for advertising by the Franklin Institute, sixty dol-
lars.
To invest in City Loan, being unemployed income, six hun-
dred dollars.
5. The sum of five hundred dollars out of the income and
investment of principal paid ofl' of John Scott's legacy of
three thousand dollars, to invest the same in City Loan.
6. The sum of two thousand dollars out of the income
and investment of principal paid oflF of Dr. Benjamin Frank-
lin's legacy, to invest the same in City Loan.
7. The sum of five hundred dollars out of the income of
the devise of Paul Leek to " Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens
of Philadelphia," for supplying the Poor with soup, to pay
the same in two equal parts to the Western Soup Society and
the Society for supplying the Poor with soup.
8. The sum of twelve dollars, the income of the de\'ise
of Samuel Scottin, to " The Corporation of the Mayor, Alder-
men and Citizens of Philadelphia," in trust to distribute
bread to the value of said income to the Poor of the said City
and the District of Southwark, " to distribute bread to the
value of the same to the Poor," agreeably to the directions of
said devisor.
9. The sum of six hundred and twenty-seven dollars out
of the income of the bequest of the late Stephen Girard to
" The Corporation of the Public Schools for the City and
County of Philadelphia," in trust for the use of the Schools in
the First Section of the First School District of Pennsylvania,
to pay the same in equal portions for the use of the Public
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Schools in the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth
Wards — the said Wards constituting what was at the time of
the said bequest the First Section of the First School District
aforesaid.
10. The sum of three hundred and seventy-five dollars, out
of tlie income of the Franklin and Scott legacies, and the de-
vise of Thomas D. Grover, for the purpose of paying the fol-
lowing expenses for 1858, of the Superintendent in his care
and management of the trusts in his charge, the sum which
each of the said legacies and devisors is to contribute towards
the said appropriation, to be fixed by the said Superintendent:
that is to say —
1. Salary of Superintendent from September 1st, 1857, to
August 31, 1858, one hundred and fifty dollars.
2. For printing annual report in pamphlet form, one hun-
dred and fifty dollars.
3. For books and stationery, fifty dollars.
4. For incidentals, twenty-five dollars.
Section 2. That warrants for the payment of the same
shall be drawn by the Superintendent of Trusts.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Conwion Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved January 13, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 6.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an apjivopriation to the Department of City Commis-
sioners, to meet the expenses of that Department for the
year eighteen hundred and fifty-eight.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of one hundred and
sixtj-nine thousand and ninety-one dollars and seventy-two
cents, be, and the same is liereby appropriated to the Depart-
ment of the City Commissioners, to defray the expenses of the
public service as hereinafter mentioned, that is to say:
For the expenses of the District Court.
1. To pay six OiEcerS; four thousand three hundred and
ninety dollars.
2. To pay Jurors of No. 1 and No. 2, six thousand five
hundred dollars.
3. For books and stationery, for the use of the Court, one
hundred and fifty dollars.
4. For books and re-binding, for the Prothonotary of the
District Court, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For the expenses of the Court of Common Pleas.
5. To pay four Ofiicers, twenty-eight hundred and seventy
dollars and forty cents.
6. To pay Jurors, four thousand dollars.
7. For books and stationery, for the use of the Court one
hundred and fifty dollars.
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8. For books and re-binding, for the Prothonotary of
the Court of Common Pleas, one hundred and twenty-five
dollars.
For expenses of Supreme Court.
9. To pay five Officers, twenty-nine hundred dollars.
10. To pay Jurors, two thousand dollars.
11. To pay for books and stationery, for the use of the
Court, one hundred and fifty dollars.
12. To pay for preparing a new judgment index, by order
of the Judges of the Supreme Court, and for stationery and
books, for the Prothonotary of the Court, three hundred and
fifty dollars.
For the expenses of the Court of Quarter Sessions.
13. To pay twelve Officers, nine thousand one hundred and
fifty dollars.
14. To pay Petit Jurors, ten thousand dollars.
15. To pay Grand Jurors, five thousand four hundred dol-
lars.
16. To pay Interpreter to the Court and Juries, four hun-
dred dollars.
17. To pay for books and stationery, for the use of the
Court, one hundred dollars.
18. To pay for meals for Jurors, five hundred dollars.
19. To pay witness fees, four hundred dollars.
20. To pay District Attorney's fees, seven thousand dol-
lars.
21. To pay fees to the Clerk of the Quarter Sessions, six
thousand five hundred dollars.
22. To pay Sheriff's fees, six thousand dollars.
23. To pay Coroner's fees, five thousand dollars.
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24. To pay for carriage hire for Grand Jury, four hundred
dollars.
25. To pay Road Jurors, eight hundred dollars^-
Provided, that no books or stationery shall be furnished
upon items 3, 7, 11 and 17, unless upon a written requisition
drawn by the Clerk, and approved by one of the Judges of
the Court for which such supplies are required, and no bill
for said supjilies shall receive the approval of the City Con-
troller, unless accompanied by said requisition.
And provided further, that no bill shall be paid out of items
20, 21 and 22, until the City Solicitor shall certify such bill
to be coi*rect, and that the charges therein are not greater
than is allowed by law, and no warrant for any such bill shall
be countersigned by the City Controller until the officer pre-
senting it has fully accounted to the said Controller at the
period required by law for all fines, forfeitures, penalties, and
jury fees that may have come into his hands.
26. For making out, indexing, and comparing the tax
duplicates for eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, including the
calculations and all other matters necessary to complete the
same, as follows:
First Ward, two hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Second Ward, one hundred and sixty-five dollars.
Third Ward, one hundred and five dollars.
Pourth Ward, one hundred and ten dollars.
Fifth Ward, one hundred and forty dollars.
Sixth Ward, one hundred and forty-five dollars.
•Seventh Ward, one hundred and sixty-five dollars.
Eighth Ward, one hundred and forty dollars.
Ninth Ward, one hundred and fifteen dollars.
Tenth Ward, one hundred and tliirty dollars.
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Eleventh Ward, one hundred dollars.
Twelfth Ward, one hundred and ten dollars.
Thirteenth Ward, two hundred dollar?.
Fourteenth Ward, one hundred and sixty dollars.
Fifteenth Ward, one hundred and fifty dollars.
Sixteenth Ward, one hundred and fifteen dollars.
Seventeenth Ward, one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Eighteenth Ward, one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Nineteenth Ward, two hundred and five dollars.
Twentieth Ward, one hundred and eighty dollars.
Twenty-first Ward, one hundred and forty dollars.
Twenty-second Ward, one hundred and eighty-five dollars.
Twenty-third Ward, two hundred and sixty dollars.
Twenty-fourth Ward, one hundred and seventy-five dollars.
27. For the books and stationery, incident to the making
out and completing twenty-four tax duplicates, three hundred
and thirty dollars.
28. For the payment of the salaries of fifty-four Assessors,
for making the assessments for 1859 and the necessary division
books required by law, twenty-two thousand five hundred
dollars.
29. To pay Assessors for preparing street lists, for printing,
at not exceeding three-quarters of one cent per name, one
thousand dollars.
30. For the books for the use of the Assessors in making
the annual and additional assessments, and for re-binding the
same, three hundred dollars.
31. For the expenses of the JBoard of Revision and Ap-
peals, Clerk hire and all other matters connected therewith,
four hundred dollars.
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32. For indexing Assessors' books, at not exceeding live
cents per page, twelve hundred and fifty dollars.
33. For the compensation to the Judges, Inspectors, and
Clerks of the elections for May and October, 1858, twelve
thousand five hundred dollars.
34. For the compensation to return Judges and Clerks, and
Messenger of the elections in May and October, 1858, one
hundred and fifty dollars.
35. For administering oaths to the Officers of elections by
Aldermen, three hundred dollars.
36. For fees of Constables for making returns of unlicensed
houses, two hundred dollars.
37. For rent of rooms, for holding elections, two hundred
and fifty dollars.
38. For making transcripts for election officers, at not ex-
ceeding one-half of one cent per name, seven hundred dol-
lars.
39. For cleaning and renewing election transcripts, one
hundred dollars.
40. For collecting and distributing ballot boxes at the
May election, one hundred and fifty dollars.
41. For collecting and distributing the ballot boxes at
the October election, one hundred and fifty dollars.
42. For advertising Sheriff's proclamation for the May
election, five hundred dollars.
43. For advertising Sheriff's proclamation for the October
election, five hundred dollars.
44. For printing and posting lists of assessments, three
thousand dollars.
45. For printing and posting extra assessments, fifLeeu liun-
dred dollars.
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46. For printing and posting Sheriff's proclamation in May,
three hundred dollars.
47. For printing and posting Sheriff's proclamation in Oc-
tober, three hundred dollars.
48. For stationery, blanks and printing, necessary for the
officers of the election in May and October, 1858, twelve
hundred dollars, (six hundred in May and six hundred in
October.)
49. For expenses attending tlie arrest of Fugitives from
Justi'ce, one hundred and fifty dollars.
50. For the pay of the Auditors appointed by the Court of
Common Fleas to audit the accounts of County officers, two
hundred dollai'S.
51. For postage, advertising, and printing, three hundred
dollars.
52. To pay for books for the office of the Clerk of Quarter
Sessions, one hundred dollars.
53. To pay for books for the office of the Clerk of the
Orphans' Court, seventy-five dollars.
54. To pay for arranging, labelling and preparing papers,
and for recording reports and Sheriff's Inquests to make par-
tition of real estate in the office of the Clerk of the Orphans'
Court, by order of the Court, by virtue of an Act of Assembly,
twelve hundred dollars.
55. To pay salary of one Commissioner, (George M. Hill,)
six hundred and fifty-six dollars and thirty-two cents.
56. To pay salary of one Commissioner, (James M. Leddy,)
twelve hundred and fifty dollars.
57. To pay salarj'- of one Commissioner, (James Logan,)
one thousand dollai-s.
58. To pay salary of one Commissioner, to be elected, to
January 1st, 1859, six hundred and twenty-five dollars.
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59. To pay salary of Clerk and Messenger, thirteen hundred
dollars.
60. To pay Pennsylvania State Hospital, for board of pa-
tients placed there by the direction of the Court, fifteen hun-
dred dollars.
61. To pay Board of Inspectors of the Eastern Penitentiary,
for the expenses of the prisoners convicted in the Courts of
Philadelphia County, ten thousand dollars.
62. To pay to the Managers of the House of Refuge, to bo
paid in equal amounts on the first days of March, June, Sep-
tember and December, twenty thousand dollars.
63. To pay to the Northern Home for Friendless Children,
to be paid in equal amounts, on the first day of June and
December, one thousand dollars.
64. To pay to the Union School and Children's Home
in like manner, and subject to the same conditions as the
Northern Home for Friendless Children, one thousand dol-
lars.
65. For books and stationery, for City Commissioners'
ofi&ce, five hundred dollars.
66. For cleaning, scrubbing, and office expenses, one hun-
dred and fifty dollars.
67. For books of Record, for the Recorder of Deeds, eight
hundred and fifty dollars.
68. For blank books, for office of Register of Wills, one
hundred and fifty dollars —
Provided, That all supplies for printing, blank books and
stationery, provided for in this Ordinance, shall be purchased
by contract; the contract to be given to the lowest bidder,
after advertising in three daily newspapers by the City Com-
missioners.
69. For preparing Jury tickets and recording Jurors,
three hundred dollars.
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70. For books for return of State Taxes to the State
Treasurer, fifty dollars.
Section 2. That warrants shall be drawn in conformity
with existing Ordinances.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Comrnon Council.
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved January 13, A. D. 1857.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 7.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an ^Appropriation for the use of the Girard College,
for the year one thousand eight hundred and ffty-eight.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of eighty-seven thou-
sand two hundred and eighty dollars be, and the same is
hereby appropriated out of the income of the residuary por-
tion of the Girard Estates for the year one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-eight, for the use of the Girard College for
Orphan for the same year, the said appropriation to be
applied as follows :
1. For subsistence, twenty-three thousand dollars.
2. For clothing, bed clothing and outfits of pupils, seven-
teen thousand dollars.
3. For salary of Matron, seven hundred dollars.
4. For salary of Assistant Matron, five hundred dollars.
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5. For salary of Steward, one thousand dollars.
6. For salaries of four Governesses, one thousand dollars.
7. For salaries of four Prefects, as follows : One at seven
hundred dollars. One at five hundred and fifty dollars. One
at five hundred dollais. One at four hundred and fifty dollars.
8. For salaries of two Physicians, six hundred dollars.
9. For salary of Dentist, three hundred dollars.
10. For wages, eight thousand five hundred dollars.
11. For furniture and repairs, fifteen hundred dollars.
12. For fuel, twenty-eight hundred dollars.
13. For gas, fifteen hundred dollars.
14. For repairs to buildings, twenty-five hundred dollars.
15. For improvements of grounds, twenty-five hundred dol-
lars.
16. For incidentals, fifteen hundred dollars.
For expenses of Instruction, viz: —
17. For salary of the President, three thousand dollars.
18. For salary of Instructor of English mathematics and
natural philosophy, eighteen hundred dollars.
19. For salary of Instructor of drawing, writing and book-
keeping, seventeen hundred dollars.
20. For salary of Instructor of French and Spanish, twelve
hundred dollars.
21. For salary of Assistant Teacher, principal department,
fourteen hundred dollars.
22. For salary of Teacher of English studies, ten hundred
dollars.
23. For salary of Teacher of vocal music, and Prefect,
seven hundred dollars.
24. For salaries of two Principals of primary department,
eleven hundred dollars.
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25. For salaries of two First Assistants of primary depart-
ment, eight hundred dollars.
26. For salaries of two Second Assistants of primary de-
partment, six hundred dollars,
27. For salaries of two Third Assistants of primary de-
partment, five hundred dollars.
28. For school and philosophical apparatus, five hundred
dollars.
29. For books and stationery, one thousand dollars.
30. For school and chapel furniture, five hundred dollars.
31. For chemical laboratory, two hundred and fifty dollars.
32. For additional instruction — to supply Teachers in case
of sickness, three hundred dollars.
33. For books and furniture of library, one thousand dollars.
34. For stationery and printing, two hundred and fifty dol-
lars.
35. For salaries of Secretary, Superintendent of binding-
out and Messenger, sixteen hundred and fifty dollars.
36. For printing, stationery, advertising and newspapers,
four hundred and eighty dollars.
37. For advertising and expenses of binding out pupils,
two hundred dollars.
38. For rewards of merit, two hundred and fifty dollars.
Section 2. That warrants for the payment of said appro-
priation shall be drawn in conformity with existing ordinances.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved January 16, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 8.
AN ORDSNAISICE
To make an Jppropriaiwi to the Guardians of the Poor, of
the income of certain trusts, to he applied according to the
requirements of the respective trusts.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the Citj
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of one thousand
five hundred and thirty-six dollars and twenty-nine cents, com-
posed of the respective incomes of certain trust funds, as
hereinafter mentioned, be, and the same is hereby appropriated
for the year 1858, to the Guardians of the Poor, to be by them
expended as follows, to wit:
As to seven hundred and fifty-eight dollars and two cents,
being the income of th^ trust fund under the will of George
Emlen, proved January .23, 1776, to expend the same under
said will in the purchase of wood, and to distril)ute said wood
to poor widows, such as are not assisted by any public charity,
to be distributed during the months of January, February
and December, in quantities not less than half a cord nor
more than a cord, to any one poor person or family, that is to
objects included in the City, (or tlien) two suburbs of Philadel-
phia, and if a sufficient number of such objects cannot be
found, then to be expended in the further manner stated and
prescribed in said will.
As to six hundred and thirty-six dollars and twenty-nine
cents, being the income of the trust fund under the will of
Esther Waters, proved July 5, 1833, to expend the same
under said will, in the purchase of fire wood, or other fuel,
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for the use of the poor of the City of Philadelphia, and in
each winter season freely give, distribute, and deliver such
fire wood or fuel to and among such of the poor of the City
of Philadelphia as shall be found, on careful inquiry, to be
the most deserving of such aid, and in such parcels to each
of such poor persons, and to each of such poor families, as
they from time to time may think most proper and beneficial.
As to seventeen dollars and seventy-two cents, being the
income of the trust fund under the will of James Dutton,
proved January 13, 1813, to expend the same, under the said
will, for the aid, comfort, and support of the poor of the (then)
township of the Northern Liberties only, in the purchase of
food, clothing, fire-wood and fuel, and freely give and distribute
the same to and among the poor of the (then) township of
the Northern Liberties only, at some fit and convenient place
in the said township, on the first day of January, of which
time and place previous notice shall be given in one or more
public newspapers.
As to eighty-one dollars and fifty-one cents, being the in-
come of the trust fund under the will of William Carter,
proved the sixteenth of March, 1838, to expend the same,
under the said will, for the use and service of the Almshouse
belonging to the City of Philadelphia, for the relief of the
poor people in the same, and for other uses, intents, and pur-
poses provided and set forth in said will in connection with
said income.
As to forty-two dollars and seventy-five cents, being the
income of the trust fund under the will of Bernard McMalian,
proved the 27th September, 1816, to expend the same, under
said will, for the use of the pool" of the (then) Penn town-
ship, as in said will is provided and set forth.
Section 2. Warrants for tlic said appropriation shall be
drawn in the manner now provided by tlio ordinances of the
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City of Philadelphia, on appropriations to the Guardians of
the Poor.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenrixg,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHAETON,
President of Select Council.
Approved January 16, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 9.
AN ORDINA.MCE
To make an appropriation to the Dcpmtmentof Marhet Houses,
for the expenses there f, for the year eighteen hundred and
fify-^'ght.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of ten thousand eio-ht
hundred and eighty-three dollars and seventy cents be, and
the same is hereby appropriated to the Department of Market
Houses, for the expenses thereof, for the year eighteen hun-
dred and fifty-eight.
1. For the salary of the Commissioner, nine hundred dol-
lars.
2. For salaries of Clerks of the Markets, four thousand
three hundred and fifty dollars.
3. For printing, books, advertising, stationery, and office
expenses, three hundred dollars.
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4. For state tax and ground rents, eighteen hundred and
thirty-three dollars and seventy cents.
5. For repairs to market houses, white-washing, &c., three
thousand dollars ; provided, tliat not more than one hundred
dollars of item 5 of the said appropriation shall be expended
in any one month, unkss by special authority of Councils.
6. For Clerk hire for office, five hundred dollars ; and the
Clerk in said office shall be nominated by the Commissioner
of Markets, and approved and confirmed by Select Council.
Section 2. Tliat warrants for the said appropriation shall
be drawn in conformity with existing .ordinances.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk cf Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved January 18, A. D, 1^57-
RICHARD VAUX, Mayw of Pkila.
CHAPTER 10.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an Ap'propriation to the Department of Market Houses,
for the care and management of the Wharves and Land-
ings belonging to the Citi/, for the year eighteen hundred
and ffty-eight.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain. That tlie sum of four thousand
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eight hundred and twenty-nine dollars and seventeen cents
be, and the same is hereby appropriated to the Department
of Market Houses, for the care and management of the
Wharves and Landings belonging ta the Corporation of the
City of Philadelphia, for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-
eight, as follows:
1. For cleansing docks, two thousand dollars.
2. For repairing wharves and landings, two thousand dol-
lars.
3. For repairing wharves, five hundred dollars.
4. For ground rents, two hundred and seventy-nine dol-
lars and seventeen cents.
5. Far advertising and incidentals, one hundred find fifty
dollars; provided, that not more than one hundred dollars out
of items 1 or 2 shall be expended in any month unless by
special authority of Councils.
SECTioisr. 2. That warrants for the said appropriation shall
be drawn by the Commissioner of Market Houses, in con-
formity with existing ordinances.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved January 18, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 11.
AN ORDINANCE
To tnaJie an appropriation to the Department of Surveys for
the year eighteen hundred and fifty-eight.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordaiu, That the sum of twenty-nine thous-
and three hundred and fifty-four dollars and thirty cents
be, and the same is hereby appropriated to the Department
of Surveys for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-eight,
namely :
1. For the salaries of the Chief Engineer and Surveyor, re-
cording Clerk, Draughtsman and Messenger, five thousand
three hundred dollars.
2. For stationery, two hundred and fifty dollars.
3. For record books and blanks, one hundred and fifty dol-
lars.
4. For advertising, carriage hire, office expenses and inci-
dentals, six hundred dollars.
5. For the salaries of twelve district Surveyors and Regu-
lators, six thousand dollars.
6. For the survey and grade regulations of the south-
western portion of the late district of Moyamensing, as author-
ized by Act of Assembly, approved March 29th, 1850, eight
hundred dollars.
7. For continuation of the survey of the late Township of
Passyunk, as directed by Act of Assembly, and Supplement
March 29, 1850, and April 18th, 1853, five hundred dollars.
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8. For continuation of the survey of the late Township of
Passyunk, as directed by Act of Assembly, March 29, 1850,
and Supplement, April 18, 1853, one thousand dollars.
9. For grade regulations, south of Erie avenue, as directed
by Ordinance, approved August 15, 1855, five hundred dollars,
10. For adjustment of lines of second division of Twenty-
first Ward, to correspond with the plotting of the late Borough
of German town, approved April 17 th, 1856, three hundred
dollars.
11. For revision of grades in Manayunk, in accordance
with Resolution approved November 6, 1856, eight hundred
dollars.
12. For re-survey and adjustment of grades in the Twenty-
second Ward, late Borough of Germantown, as directed by
Resolution of Councils, approved April 17, 1856, eight hun-
dred dollars.
13. For survey and grade regulations of a portion of the
Twenty-second Ward, (Chestnut Hill.) as directed by a Reso-
lution of Councils, approved April 28, 1857, four hundred
dollars.
14. For arranging street lines and curb heights in Frank-
ford, Bridesburg and White Hall, as directed by Ordinance,
approved August 15, 1856, five hundred dollars.
15. For grade regulations north of Lehigh avenue, south of
Erie avenue, and between Frankford and Germantown turn-
pike roads, seven hundred dollars.
16. For :the arrangement of grades upon City avenue, as
directed by Resolution of Councils, approved May 4, 1857,
three hundred dollars.
17. For plans and grade regulations of a portion of the late
Township of Blockley, as directed by Acts of Assembly, April
■3, 1851, and May 13, 1857, under contract made by the late
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Commissioners of Blockloy, with Samuel L. Smedley, Novem-
ber 12, 1856, and as directed by Resolution of Councils, ap-
proved June 3, 1857, nine hundred dollars.
18. For plans of a portion of the late township of Blockley,
authorized by Acts of Assembly, approved April 3, 1851, and
May 13, 1857, under contract made by the late Commissioners
of Blockley, with Messrs. Lightfoot & Walton, November 12,
1856, seven hundred dollars.
19. For plan and grade regulations, of the unsurveyed por-
tion of the late district of West Philadelphia, and the town-
ship of Blockley adjoining, as directed by Resolution of
Councils, approved May 4, 1857, three hundred dollars.
20. For plans and grade regulations of the late township
of Kingsessing, as directed by Resolution of Councils, approved
May 4, 1857, nine hundred dollars.
21. For landmarks, (corner stones,) two hundred dollars.
22. For work that may be ordered by Councils during the
year 1858, twenty-five hundred dollars.
23. For information relating to drainage, and the location,
size and state of culverts, five hundred dollars.
24. For work done by the Commissioners of the late town-
ship of Passyunk, as authorized by Act of Assembly, March
29, 1850, and Supplement of April 13, 1853, during 1854 and
1857, fifteen hundred and sixty-four dollars and thirty cents.
25. For work done in the late township of Blockley, in
accordance with Acts of Assembly, April 3, 1851, and May
13, 1856, and prior to and during the year 1857, by Samuel
L. Smedley, seventeen hundred dollars ; by Lightfoot and
Walton, eleven hundred and ninety dollars.
Provided, that no part of items Nos. 24 and 25, shall be
drawn upon, until specially authorized by Councils; — and pro-
vided further, that no part of said appropriation for surveys
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shall be expended except for work proseciked in accordance
with a resolution of Councils ; and provided further, that all
bills to be rendered for Surveys, shall state distinctly the names
of the men engaged in such survey, the number of days em-
ployed, and the charge per day of each.
Section 2. That warrants for the said appropriation shall
be drawn in conformity with existing Ordinances.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved January 18, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD YAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 12.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an Jlppropriation to the Inspectors of the County
Prison, for the year eighteen hundred and ffty-eight.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of sixty-one thous-
and and fifty dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated
to the Inspectors of the County Prison, for the expenses of
said Prison, for the year 1858, as follows:
1. For wheat and rye flour, and corn meal, and wheat, rye
and corn, eight thousand dollars.
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2. For beef, mutton and pork, eight thousand dollars.
3. For sugar, rice, molasses, coflee, tea, vinegar, oat meal,
barley and other groceries and provisions, five thousand dol-
lars.
4. For oil and soap, nine hundred dollars.
5. For potatoes and vegetables, twelve hundred dollars.
6. For drugs and medicines, six hundred dollars.
7. For hay, feed and straw, four hundred and fifty dollars.
8. For omnibus tickets, one hundred and fifty dollars.
9. For stationery and printing, including the annual report,
five hundred dollars.
10. For brushes, brooms, combs and hardware, five hundred
dollars.
11. For tobacco for prisoners, two hundred dollars.
12. For milk and ice, three hundred and fifty dollars.
13. For hops, malt, lime and buckets, two hundred dollars.
14. For discharge of prisoners, as per act of Assembly,
two hundred and fifty dollars.
15. For hospital, four hundred dollars.
16. For overwork of prisoners, fifteen hundred dollars.
17. For roasting cofiee, shoeing horses, mending carriages,
furniture, seeds, and miscellaneous expenses, one thousand
dollars.
18. For fuel, coal, wood and charcoal, four thousand two
hundred and fifty dollars.
19. For clothing and bedding, three thousand dollars.
20. For lumber, brass cocks, lead pipe, tin, paints, glass,
iron, copper and repairs generally, fifteen hundred dollars.
21. For gas, nine hundred dollars.
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22. For salaries of Superintendent and Deputy Superin-
tendent, twenty-five hundred dollars.
23. For salary of Clerk, one thousand dollars.
24. For salaries of Physician and Apothecary fifteen hun-
dred dollars.
25. For salary of Superintendent and Keeper of Shoe De-
partment, fifteen hundred dollars.
26. For salaries of two gate keepers, fourteen hundred
dollars.
27. For salaries of eight Keepers, at seven hundred dol-
lars each, five thousand six hundred dollars.
28. For salary of Superintendent of cotton factory, eight
hundred dollars.
29. For salaries of Baker and Cook, five hundred dollars
each, one thousand dollars.
30. For salaries of five Watchmen, at five hundred dollars
each, twenty-five hundred dollars.
31. For salary of Messenger and Fireman, seven hundred
dollars.
32. For salaries of Matron and Assistant Matron, at four
hundred and fifty dollars each, nine hundred dollars.
33. For salary of the Prison Agent, nine hundred dollars.
34. For salary of the Keeper of the Debtors' Apartment,
seven hundred dollars.
35. For fuel for the Debtors' Apartment, two hundred dol-
lars.
36. For gas for the Debtors' Apartment, one hundred dol-
lars.
37. For supplies and subsistence for the Debtors' Apart-
ment, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
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38. For repairs to Debtors' Apartment, fifty dollars.
Section 2. That warrants for the said appropriation shall
be drawn in conformitj with existing Ordinances.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council,
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved January 18, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 13.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an Appropriation to the Department of Highways,
Bridges, Servers, and Cleansing the City, for the year eigh-
teen hundred and fifty-eight.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of three hundred and
ninety-three thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same
is hereby appropriated to the Department of Highways,
Bridges, Sewers and cleansing the City, for the year eighteen
hundred and fifty-eight, for the following purposes, namely :
1. For the paving of intersections of streets, twenty-five
thousand dollars.
2. For repairing and repaving streets, one hundred and
forty thousand dollars.
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3. For grading streets and roads, twenty-five thousand dol-
lars.
4. For repairing roads and unpaved streets, thirty-five
tliousand dollars.
5. For paving footways, six thousand dollars.
6. For repairs to culverts and inlets, fifteen thousand dollars.
7. For repairing bridges, twelve thousand dollars.
8. For cleaning streets and market houses, sixty thousand
dollars.
9. For cleansing and repairing unpaved streets, ten thous-
and dollars.
10. For repairs and labor on city railroad, six thousand
dollars.
11. For wells and pumps, and repairs thereto, fifteen hun-
dred dollars.
12. For salaries of Chief Commissioner, two assistant Com-
missioners, license Clerk, miscellaneous Clerk, Superinten-
dent of City railroad, Messenger, Watchmen at permanent
and Girard avenue bridges, ten tliousand dollars.
13. For salaries of Supervisors of Highways, fifteen thous-
and seven hundred dollars.
14. For grading and bridging Girard avenue, in the Twen-
ty-fourth Ward, five thousand dollars.
15. For building wing walls to Girard avenue bridge,
Twenty-fourth Ward, four thousand dollars.
16. For constructing bridge, on Girard avenue over Penn-
sylvania avenue, fifteen thousand dollars.
IT. For printing, advertising and stationery, twelve hun-
dred dollars.
18. For insurance on bridge, eleven hundred dollars.
19. For office and yard expenses, one thousand dollars.
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20. For incidental expenses, one thousand dollars.
21. For sign boards for placing names of streets on the
corners thereof when directed by Councils, three thousand
dollars.
22. To pay for advertising and plans and estimates for
the construction of a bridge over the river Schuylkill at
Chestnut street, one thousand dollars.
Section. 2. That no part of items 3, 14, 15, 16, as con-
tained in the first section of this Ordinance, shall be expended
unless by Ordinance or Resolution of Councils, heretofore
passed, or hereafter to be passed.
Section 3. That warrants for th« said appropriation shall
be drawn in conformity with existing Ordinances.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved January 18, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 14.
AN ORDSNANCE
To make an ap-propriation to the Department of City Property,
for the expenses thereof , for the year eighteen hundred and
ffty-eight.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain. That the sum of sixty-seven thous-
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and, and fifty-two dollars be, and the same is hereby appro-
priated to the Department of City Property, for the year
eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, as follows:
1. For the salaries of the Commissioner of City Property
and Messenger, two thousand dollars.
2. For stationery and office expenses, two hundred dollars.
3. For salary of the Collector of revenue and "Watchman
at the tobacco warehouse, eleven hundred and sixty dollars.
4. For labor at the tobacco warehouse, fifty dollars.
5. For salaries of the Superintendent of Independence
Hall, and the Superintendents of Germantown, West Phila-
delphia Halls, City Law Buildings, and Janitor of Grand and
Petit Jury Eooms, twenty-four hundred and sixty dollars, and
that the offices of Superintendents of Spring Garden, Ken-
sington and Moyamensing Halls, be abolished from and after
the passage of this Ordinance.
6. For salaries of house cleaners, and all other expenses to
be incurred in keeping public halls clean, four hundred dol-
lars.
7. For salaries of Watchman and Superintendent of State
House and public offices, two thousand five hundred dollars.
8. For salaries of two Watchmen at Wire Bridge, one
thousand dollars.
9. For salaries of three Watchmen at the State House
steeple, fifteen hundred dollars.
10. For salaries of Superintendents of Franklin, Inde-
pendence, Washington, Rittenhouse, Penn, Logan and Jefler-
son squares, and City burial ground, four thousand seven hun-
dred dollars.
11. For the improvement of Fairmount park, two thousand
five hundred dollars.
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12. For the improYement of Norris square, one thousand
dollars.
13. For the improvement of Hunting Park, and the salary
©f the Superintendent, two thousand dollars.
14. For the salaries of the keepers and regulators of the
public clocks, five hundred dollars.
15. For rent of office and City law buildings, six thousand
five hundred dollars.
16. For cleansing and repairing public clocks, one hundred
dollars.
17. For state taxes, five hundred dollars.
18. For repairs and improvements to City property, two
thousand dollars.
19. For ground rents and interest on mortgages, thirteen
thousand three hundred and sixty-seven dollars.
20. For curbing and paving, four hundred dollars.
21. For insurance, fifteen dollars.
22. For repairs, cleansing and supplies other than books
and stationery, to the court houses and law buildings, two
thousand dollars; provided, that no expenditure shall be
made for repairs or supplies to the law buildings without a
requisition from the City Solicitor, or to the court houses or
offices, without a requisition from the proper Clerk or Pro-
thonotary, approved by the President Judge; and which
requisition shall accompany the bill when presented to the
City Controller for his approval.
23. For fuel for law buildings, court rooms and offices,
twelve hundred dollars.
24. For labor and other expenses at public squares, twenty-
five hundred dollars.
25. For repairiug and painting wire bridge, five hundred
dollars.
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26. For expenses of gas in lighting halls, squares, offices,
<fec., occupied for City purposes, including station houses, four
thousand dollars.
27. To pay for gas furnished by the City gas works, the
Southwark and Moyamensing gas company, the Kensington
gas company, and the Germantown gas company, to the
various offices in the City, during the year 1857, two thousand
dollars.
28. To pay an installment on the principal sum of the
mortgage on Sedgley park, ten thousand dollars.
Provided, however, that no contract shall be entered into
or expenditure made, under the head of items 18 and 24, for
any amount exceeding fifty dollars in any one month, or under
the heads of items 11, 12, 13 and 25, for any amount whatever,
unless the same shall hereafter be specifically authorized by
Councils.
Section 2. That warrants for the payment of the said ap-
propriation shall be drawn in conformity with existing Ordi-
nances.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved January 18, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 15.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation to the Department for supplying the
the City with Water for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-
eight.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of one hundred and
forty-five thousand eight hundred and ten dollars be, and the
same is hereby appropriated to the" Department for sup-
plying the City with water for the year eighteen hundred and
fifty-eight, for the following purposes, namely :
1. For the salary of the Chief Engineer twenty-five hun-
dred dollars.
2. For the salary of the Register, eighteen hundred dollars.
3. For the salaries of one Chief Clerk and three Permit
Clerks, three thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
4. For the salaries of Inspectors, twenty-four hundred dol-
lars.
5. For the salaries of four Surveyors and one Messenger,
thirty-one hundred dollars.
6. For extra Clerk hire, five hundred dollars.
7. For salary of Chief Engineer, including house rent, at
Fairmount works, eight hundred dollars.
8. For salaries of two Assistant Engineers at same works,
fourteen hundred dollars.
9. For salary of one Watchman at same works, five hun-
dred dollars.
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10. For the salaries of two Engineers at Delaware Works,
including house rent, sixteen hundred dollars.
11. For salaries of five Firemen at same works, two thous-
and three hundred and ten dollars.
12. For salaries of two Watchmen at same Works, one
thousand dollars.
13. For salaries of two Engineers at Schuylkill Works,
fourteen hundred dollars.
14. For salaries of two Assistant Engineers at same works,
nine hundred dollars.
15. For salaries of ten Firemen at same works four thous-
and five hundred dollars.
16. For salary of Watchman at same works, five hundred
dollars.
17. For salaries of two Engineers, including house rent at
Twenty-fourth Ward Works, sixteen hundred dollars, and for
salary of two Firemen at same works, nine hundred dollars.
18. For the purchase of coal at the Fairmount Works, three
hundi-ed and fifty dollars.
19 For the purchase of coal at Delaware Works, seven
thousand five hundred dollars.
20. For the purchase of coal at the Schuylkill Works,
twelve thousand five hundred dollars
21. For the purchase of coal at the Twenty-fourth Ward
Works, fifteen hundred dollars.
22. For the purchase of wood for the several works, for
kindling purposes, four hundred dollars.
23. For the purchase of tallow and oil for the Schuylkill
Works, fifteen hundred dollars.
24. For the purchase of tallow and oil for Delaware
Works, eight hundred dollars.
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25. For the purchase of tallow and oil for Fairmonnt
Works, one thousand dollars.
26. For the purchase of tallow and oil for Twenty-fourth
Ward Works, four hundred dollars, (Items 23, 24, 25 and 26,
includes oil for lighting the works.)
27. For repairs to Fairmonnt Works, including labor, lum-
ber, and other materials, one thousand dollars.
28. For painting at Fairmonnt Works, one thousand dol-
lars ; provided, that sealed proposals shall be received there-
for and opened in presence of the Committee on Water
Works.
29. For repairs to Delaware Works, one thousand dollars.
30. For repairs to Schuylkill Works, two thousand dollars.
31. For repairs to Twenty -fourth Ward Works, four hun-
dred dollars ; provided, that no expenditure shall be made
from items 27, 29, 30, or 31, exceeding in amount the sum of
two hundred dollars, unless by special authority of Councils.
32. For the purchase of small stores, tools, soap, white and
red lead, packing hemp and gum, &c., for all the Works, one
thousand dollars.
33. For the purchase of iron pipes, fire plugs, stop cocks,
lead, brass castings, fire plug castings, and other fixtures and
materials connected with the laying of pipes and setting of
plugs, forty-five thousand dollars.
34. To pay for labor connected with laying of pipe and
setting of plugs, and for labor in fitting up stop cocks and
fire plugs, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars ; provided,
that all digging or excavation for the laying of pipe shall be
done by contract to be given to the best and lowest bidder,
under the supervision of the Committee on Water.
35. To pay for keeping the pipes, plugs, stops and fixtures
in good order, and for making new attachments, twelve thous-
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and five hundred dollars; provided, that no contracts shall
be entered into for work, supplies, or materials contemplated
by items 33 and 34, unless by special authority of Councils,
or from item 35, exceeding the sum of four hundred dollars
in any one month, unless by said authority.
36. To pay state taxes on all the works, five hundred dol-
lars.
37. To pay for keeping the buildings, grounds and reser-
voirs in good order, twenty-five hundred dollars.
38. To pay for books, stationery, advertising, printing, bind-
ing, and posting bills, one thousand dollars.
39. For carriage hire, one hundred and fifty dollars.
40. For fuel for offices, cleaning offices, ground rent of
shop and incidentals, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
41. To pay the Germantown Water Company, for supplying
eighty fire plugs belonging to the City with water, four hun-
dred dollars ; provided, that before any money is paid as pro-
vided for in this item, the Committee on Water Works shall
inquire into the number of plugs, and whether the City is lia-
ble for the payment thereof, as contemplated in this Ordi-
nance, and report the same to Councils.
42. For introducing gas into the Fairmount Works, five
hundred dollars.
43. For preparing the grounds and planting trees on the
lot north of Fairmount Basin, under the supervision of the Com-
mittee on Water Works, three hundred dollars.
Section 2. That before any contract shall be entered into
for supplies of tallow, oil or coal, as contemplated by items
18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25 and 26, or any purchases made there-
for, it shall be the duty of the Chief Engineer to receive
scaled proposals, after public advertisement in two daily news-
papers, not less than one week daily in each, which said pro-
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posals shall be opened in presence of the Committee on
Water, and be reported (with all the bids) to Councils for
their approval.
Section 3. That warrants for the said appropriation shall
be drawn in conformity with existing Ordinances.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest— Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved January 27, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 16.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Commissioner of Market Houses be,
and he is hereby authorized to have Pine street wharf on the
river Delaware paved, at a cost not exceeding four hundred
and sixty dollars, to be done under the supervision of the
Committee on Port Wardens, &c.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council,
Approved January 27, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 17.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an Appro-priation to the Board of Guardians of the
Poor, for the expenses of that Department, for the year
eighteen hundred and ffiy-eighl.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of one hundred and
ninety-seven thousand six hundred and thirty seven dollars
be, and the same is hereby appropriated to the Board of
Guardians of the Poor, for the expenses of the Department
under their care, for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-
eight, as follows:
I. For flour and corn meal, eighteen thousand eight hun-
dred dollars.
'2. For beef and mutton, bacon and pork, twenty-one thous-
and dollars.
3. For codfish, five hundred and fifty dollars.
4. For tea and coffee, four thousand eight hundred dollars.
5. For brown sugar, three thousand five hundred dollars.
6. For rice, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
7. For butter and lard, two thousand and forty dollars.
8. For crackers, two hundred and seventy-five dollars.
9. For pepper, hops and malt, one hundred and thirty-six
dollars.
10. For molasses, two thousand four hundred dollars.
II. For vinegar and pickles, one hundred and thirty dol-
lars.
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12. For potatoes and beans, two thousand one hundred and
seventy-five dollars.
13. For salt, one hundred and forty dollars.
14. For eggs, two hundred and seventy dollars.
15. For marketing for the Old Women's Asylum, three
hundred and fifty dollars.
16. For marketing for Almshouse, seven hundred dollars.
17. For shirting, sheeting and flannels, one thousand six
hundred and thirty-five dollars.
18. For calicoes, ticking, diaper and crash, seven hundred
and forty dollars.
19. For blankets, six hundred dollars.
20. For boots and shoes, seven hundred dollars; provided,
that the said boots and shoes shall be purchased of the
Board of Managers of the House of Refuge.
21. For hose, two hundred and fifty dollars.
22. For yarn, thread and cotton, six hundred and fifty dol-
lars.
23. For hats, one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
24. For combs, needles and trimmings, three hundred dollars.
Tor medicines and supplies for the Medical Department of the
Almshouse, namely :
25. For marketing and provisions for sick and nurses in
Hospital and Lunatic Asylum, twenty-five hundred dollars.
26. For drugs and medicines, four thousand dollars.
27. For white and brown sugar, two hundred dollars.
28. For butter and lard, one hundred and fifty dollars.
29. For oat and cake meal, three hundred and seventy dol-
lars.
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30. For brandy, for the use of the sick, one hundred dol-
lars.
31. For "wine, for the use of the sick, four hundred and
fifty dollars.
32. For whiskey, for the use of the sick, four hundred dol-
lars.
33. For porter, for the use of the sick, six hundred and
sixty dollars.
34. For surgical instruments, four hundred dollars.
35. For leeches, two hundred dollars.
36. For incidental expenses of Hospital and Lunatic Asy-
lum, two hundred dollars.
For the expenses of the Children's Asylum, as follows :
37. For supplies for Matron's table, three hundred dollars.
38. For butter, sugar, and groceries generally, seventy dol-
lars.
39. For yarn and hose, two hundred and ten dollars.
40. For muslin, ticking, satinets, flannels, drillings and
dress goods for boys and girls', wear, six hundred and sixty-
five dollars.
41. For shoes, (provided that the same shall be purchased
of the Board of Managers of the House of Refuge,) one hun-
dred dollars.
42. For trimmings for children's clothing and combs, fifty
dollars.
43. For school books, fifty dollars.
44. For incidental expenses, one hundred dollars.
For the expenses of the Manvfacturing DepartmerU, as follows :
45. For leather, sixteen hundred dollars.
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46. For tallow and caustic alkali, eight hundred dollars.
47. For coal, iron and steel, one hundred and thirty dol-
lars.
48. For tin, glass, paints, varnish, oil, glue and brushes,
five hundred dollarsk
4:d\ For tools and weaving utensils, eighty dollars.
50. For shoe findings, one hundred and fifty dollars.
51. For diain and filling, twenty-five hundred dollars.
52. For incidentals, two hundred dollars-
For the expenses of the Farm, Blockley Estate, and House gener-
ally, as follows:
53. For repairs to stoves, ranges, and other cooking ap-
.paratus, twelve hundred dollars.
54. For the construction of an apparatus for roasting cof-
fee, two hundred dollars.
65. For repairs, fifteen hundred dollars.
56. For plumbing, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
67. For furniture, three hundred dollars.
68. For hardware and crockery ware, six hundred dollars.
59. For lumber, twelve hundred dollars.
60. For straw, twelve hundred dollars.
61. For tobacco, one thousand dollars.
62. For yarn, four hundred dollars.
63. For soap, candles, lime and starch, four hundred dol*
lars.
64. For oil, one thousand dollars, and for introduction of
gas into the Almshouse, from Plank Road, pipe, stop cocks,
fixtures and labor, seven thousand two hundred dollars. For
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gas for 1858, four hundred dollars ; provided, that no part
of this item for the introduction of gas shall be expended
without the further order of Councils.
65. For brushes and brooms, (provided they are purchased
of the Board of Managers of the House of Refuge,) six hun-
dred dollars.
66. For feed for horses, for use of Almshouse, three hun-
dred dollars.
67. For oats, middlings and corn meal, for horses and cows
on farm, twelve hundred dollars.
68. For cleansing sinks and chimneys, four hundred dollars.
69. For the construction of a new bake oven, twelve hun-
dred dollars.
70. For blacksmith work, two hundred dollars.
71. For clothes line, thread, cotton and other trimmings,
two hundred and twenty-five dollars.
72. For toll, sixty dollars.
73. For swill, one hundred and seventy-five dollars.
74. For seed, farming utensils and repairs, three hundred
dollars.
75. For manure and repairs to meadow banks, three hun-
dred dollars.
76. For board of Assistant Farmers, one hundred and thirty
dollars.
77. For cost of taking up hogs, one hundred dollars.
78. For State Taxes, five hundred dollars, and that the
City Taxes be, and are hereby released.
79. For travelling expenses of House Agent, one hundred
dollars.
80. For the purchase of two farm horses, two hundred and
fifty-dollars.
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81. For quarrying stone, one hundred and fifty dollars, and
incidentals, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For Salaries, as follou-'S :
82. For the payment of the salaries of the Steward, Clerk,
House Agent, Store-keeper, Matron, Baker, Door-keeper,
and Agent's Clerk, five thousand four hundred and twenty
dollars.
83. For salaries of the Chief Resident Physician, Apothe-
cary, Assistant Apothecary, Leecher and Cupper, and Engi-
neer, four thousand four hundred dollars.
84. For the salary of the Matron and Teacher in tho
Children's Asylum, five hundred and fifty dollars.
85. For the salary of the Superintendent of the manufac-
tory. Farmer and Gardener, seventeen hundred and thirty-
two dollars.
86. For the salary of the Secretary of the Board, Out-
door Agent, Wagon driver and Messenger, twenty-three hun-
dred and eighty dollars.
87. For the salaries of out-door Visitors, five thousand four
hundred and fifty dollars.
88. For the salaries of two additional Visitors, for the
months of January and February, one hundred and sixty-seven
dollars.
89. For the salaries of the out-door Apothecaries, ten hun-
dred and forty dollars.
90. For the salaries of the out-door Physicians, fourteen
hundred and sixty dollars.
91. For wages on pay-roll, chargeable to expenses, sixteen
hundred dollars.
92. For wages on pay-roll, chargeable to medical depart-
ment, four thousand dollars.
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93. For wages on pay-roll chargeable to Children's Asj-
lum, five hundred and twenty-five dollars.
94. For wages on pay-roll, chargeable to manufactory, two
hundred and eighty dollars.
95. For wages chargeable to farm, three hundred and
twelve dollars.
96. For coal for Almshouse, and hauling, ten thousand
dollars.
97. For wood for Almshouse, seven hundred and fifty
dollars.
98. For ground rent of City Office, one hundred and eighty
dollars.
99. For the erection of water closets in Men's Lunatic
Asylum, fifteen hundred dollars.
100. For stationery, printing and advertising, one thousand
dollars.
101. For omnibus tickets for members in going to and
from the Almshouse, three hundred dollars.
For the support and maintainance of the Out-Door Poor, as follows :
102. For expenses on account of support and bastardy
cases, ten thousand dollars.
103. For rent of Visitor's offices, eight hundred dollars.
104. For cupping and leeching, three hundred dollars.
105. For the burial of small-pox and other cases, one hun-
dred and fifty dollars.
106. For gas and water rent and repairs to City office, two
hundred dollars.
107. For costs in suits of desertion and other cases, three
hundred dollars.
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108. For the removal of non-resident Paupers, four hun-
dred dollars.
For the Relief of the Out-Door Poor of the City, as follows :
109. For the first poor district, for fuel, three thousand
dollars.
110. For the first poor district for other purposes, one
thousand dollars.
111. For the second poor district, for fuel, three thousand
dollars.
112. For the second poor district, for other purposes, one
thousand dollars.
113. For the third poor district, for fuel, eight thousand
dollars.
114. For the third poor district, for other purposes, thirty-
five hundred dollars.
115. For the fourth poor district, for fuel, twenty-two hun-
dred dollars.
116. For the fourth poor district, for other purposes, eight
hundred dollars.
117. For the fifth poor district, for fuel, twenty-five hun-
dred dollars.
118. For the fifth poor district, for other purposes, twelve
hundred dollars.
119. For the sixth poor district, for fuel, four thousand
dollars.
120. For the sixth poor district, for other purposes, twelve
hundred dollars.
121. For the seventh poor district, for fuel, one thousand
dollars.
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122. For the serenth poor district, for other purposes, seven
hundred dollars.
123. For the eighth poor district, for fuel, one thousand
dollars.
124. For the eighth poor district, for other purposes, seven
hundred dollars.
125. For the ninth poor district, for fuel, five hundred
dollars.
126. For the ninth poor district, for other purposes, eight
hundred dollars.
127. For the tenth poor district, for fuel, four hundred and
fifty dollars.
128. For the tenth poor district, for other purposes, eight
hundred dollars.
Section 2. That not more than three-fourths of the amount
appropriated in the first section of this Ordinance, for the re-
lief of the out-door poor, shall be expended before the first
day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight ; and
provided, that for purposes of out-door relief, as contemplated
by the said first section, the several districts, as already estab-
lished hj the Board of Guardians, shall be recognised as fully
as if they had been established by Ordinance.
Section 3. That warrants for the said appropriation shall
be drawn in conformity with existing Ordinances.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved January 27, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD YAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 18.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation to the Department of the Commis-
sioners of the Sinking Fund^for the year eighteen hundred
and ffty-eight, and to supply a deficiency of eighteen hun-
dred and fifty-six.
Section I. Tlie Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of one hundred and
fifty-nine thousand and seventy-nine dollars be, and the same
is hereby appropriated to the Department of the Commissioners
©f the Sinking Fund, for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-
eight, to be applied as follows :
1. For sinking fund of City debt of ten million dollars, one
hundred thousand dollars.
2. For sinking fund of loan of one million dollars, twelve
thousand dollars.
3. For two quarterly appropriations due for January 1,
and April 1, 1856, to sinking fund of said one million loan,
six thousand dollars.
4. For sinking fund of loan of eight hundred thousand dol-
lars, nine thousand six hundred dollars.
5. For sinking fund of Philadelphia Gas Works, nine thous-
and dollars.
6. For sinking fund of North-Western Railroad, seven
thousand eight hundred dollars.
7. For sinking fund of Sunbury and Erie Railroad, twelve
thousand six hundred dollars.
8. For sinking fund of certain obligations, nine hundred
and sixty-nine dollars.
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9. For sinking fund of road damages, &c., certificates issued
and to be issued amounting to one hundred thousand dollars,
one thousand dollars.
10. For salary of Secretary to the Commissioners of the
sinking fund, one hundred dollars.
11. For stationery for the Commissioners of the sinking
fund, ten dollars.
Section 2. That warrants for the payment of the said ap-
propriation shall be drawn in conformity with existing Ordi-
nances.
JOHX MILLER,
President of Common Council-.
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved January 27, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD YAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 19.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropi'iation to pay certain claims against the
City, incurred during and prior to the year, 1857.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of two thousand nine
hundred and thirty-five dollars and fifty-nine cents be, and the
same is hereby appropriated to pay the following claims
against the City, to wit :
1. To pay two judgments obtained against the City by E.
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H. Bird and J. B. Braddock, eleven hundred and ten dollars
and forty-four cents.
2. To pay Jacob Kritzer, balance due him as one of the
oflBcers of the Court of Common Pleas, nine dollars and twenty
cents.
3. To pay J. B. Hoffman, bill for plumbing in 1856, eigh-
teen dollars and fifty cents.
4. To pay W. M. Christy, for stationery, fourteen dollars
and fifty cents.
5. To pay Richard V. Brennan, for re-binding Assessors'
books, fifty-four dollars.
6. To pay Swain & Abell, for advertising in 1855 and 1856,
twenty dollars and forty-one cents.
7. To pay Charles R. Palmer, for upholstering, seven dol-
lars.
8. To pay Juo. C. Howell, for sundry repairs to locks,
twenty-one dollars and twelve cents.
9. To pay Peter Wagner and Wolbert & Brother, for ice
for Courts and Offices, eighty-two dollars and ninety cents.
10. To pay Ann Grant and Sarah jNloore, for cleaning City
Commissioners' office, forty-two dollars and fifty cents.
11. To pay George C. Thompson, for making street lists,
eleven dollars and sixty-five cents.
12. To pay Jno. H. Brady, for making street lists, seven-
teen dollars and two cents.
13. To pay James Murray, for making transcripts for year
1856, forty-four dollars and eighty-five cents.
14. To pay Constables' fees for returning unlicensed taverns
for 1857, one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
15. To pay road Jurors for year 1857, fifty dollars.
16. To pay election OflBcers for year 1857, one hundred
dollars.
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17. To pay warrants of E. Buckley, election Officer, 1855,
five dollars.
18. To pay warrants of J. Pastoriiis and Jas. Osborne
Jurors District Court in 1855, twenty-seven dollars.
19. To pay W. M. Billmyer, for recording Jurors, forty
dollars.
20. To pay B. F. Mifflin, for stationery for District Court
thirty-two dollars.
21. To pay Gorbutt & Clarkson, for printing and binding
warrant book, fifteen dollars.
22. To pay J. B. Smith & Co., for books of record for
Court of Quarter Sessions, Common Pleas, District Court,
Orphans' Court, and for election officers, one hundred and
thirty-four dollars.
23. To pay J. B. Smith & Co., for books for Recorder of
Deeds, six hundred and one dollars and seventy-five cents.
24. To pay Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital, for Board
of Patients, three hundred and fifty-one dollars and seventy-
five cents.
Section 2. That warrants for the said appropriation shall
be drawn as follows :
Item 1, by the City Solicitor; item 3, by the Chief Engineer
of the Fire Department, and for the remaining items, by the
City Commissioners, in conformity with existing Ordinances.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved January 27, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD YAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 20.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an Jlppj^opriation for the erection of a certain Tele-
graph Signal Alarm Box.
Section 1. Tlie Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of one hundred and
fifty dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to the
Superintendent of the Police and Fire Alarm Telegraph, for
the payment of the expense to be incurred in the erection of
a Telegraph Fire Alarm Box in the house of the Philadelphia
Hose Company, and that said Superintendent be authorized
to use such relay magnets and other suitable apparatus be-
longing to the City not now employed in his Department for
that purpose.
Section 2. Warrants for the payment of said appropria-
tion shall be drawn by the Mayor.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved January 27, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 21.
RESOLUTION
Authorizing the 'prosecution of Surveys in the First and
Twenty-fourth Wards.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Department of Surveys be, and is
hereby authorized and directed to continue the surveys in the
First and Twenty-fourth Wards, as directed by the Acts of
Assembly of March 29th, 1850, April 3rd, 1851, and April
18th, 1853 ; provided, that the amount to be expended for
said work shall not exceed the sums appropriated for the
prosecution of said surveys for the present year.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved January 27, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 22.
AN ORDINANCE
To provide for the payment of certain hills for the printing of
extra assessments.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain. That the sum of four thousand
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two hundred and fifty-two dollars and forty-five cents be, and
the same is hereby appropriated for the payment of the fol-
lowing amounts for the printing of the extra assessments for
the years 1855 and 1856, viz :
To Jesper Harding & Son, nine hundred and eight dollars.
To William Rice, five hundred and eleven dollars and
twenty-five cents.
To Alexander Cummings, fourteen hundred and nineteen
dollars and twenty cents.
To Joshua S. Fletcher, five hundred and six dollars.
To J. R. Flanigen, nine hundred and eight dollars —
Being twenty per cent, less than the amounts of the several
bills rendered by them, and this appropriation is made for
the adjustment and compromise of the same, with the express
reservation of all the rights of the City in the premises, if
the sums herein specified should not be accepted by the par-
ties.
Section 2. "Warrants for the payment of the said several
sums shall be drawn by the City Commissioners in the forms
prescribed by existing ordinances.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved January 29, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 23.
RESOLUTIONS
To authorize the repaving of certain streets in the several
Wards therein named.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Highway Department is hereby
authorized to enter into contracts with competent pavers for
repaving the following named streets, within the spaces re-
spectively specified, viz : —
First Ward.
Reed street, from Second street to Fourth street.
Third Ward.
Swanson street, from Catharine to Queen street.
Fourth Ward.
Shippen street, from Second to Third street.
Monroe street, from Third to Fifth street. .
Spafford street, from Bedford street to Fitzwater street.
Tenth street, from South street to Shippen street.
Pine Alley, from Fourth street to Ball alley.
Ball alley.
Fifth Ward.
Union street, from Second street to Third street.
Gaskill street, from Fourth street to Fifth street.
Seventh Ward.
Spruce street, from Seventeenth street to Eighteenth street.
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Tryan street, from Twenty-first street to Twenty-second
street.
Fifteenth street, from Lombard street to Pine street.
Eighth Ward.
Lewis street, from Fifteenth street to Seventeenth street.
Helmuth street, from Sixteenth to Seventeenth street.
Orange street,, from Seventh street to Eighth street.
Twentieth street, from Chestnut street to George street.
Sixteenth street, from Spruce street to Pine street.
Ninth Ward.
Chestnut street, from Fifteenth street to Sixteenth street.
Thirteenth street, from Market street to Chestnut street.
Eighth street, from Arch street to Filbert street.
Market street, from Twelfth street to Thirteenth street.
Tenth Ward.
Eighth street, from Cherry street to Race street.
Vine sti'cet, from Broad street to Sixteenth street.
Vine street, from Eighteenth street to Twentieth street.
Vine stree-t, from Twenty-first street to Twenty-third
street.
Twelfth Ward.
Eawle street, from Fourth street to Fifth street.
Thirteenth Ward.
Franklin street, from Wood street to Vine street.
Fourteenth Ward.
Wood street, from Thirteenth street to Broad street.
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Twelfth street, from Vine to Callowhill street.
Brinton street, from Ridge ayenue to Eleventh street.
Fifteenth Ward.
Landing street, from Coates to Kern's Bridge.
Coates street, in the centre, where the railroad track has
been taken up, between the Reading Railroad and the Schuyl-
kill.
Seventeenth Ward.
Germantown road, from Master to Jefferson street.
(Columbia, from Second to Third street.
Eighteenth Ward.
Queen street, southward from Morris, 500 feet.
Franklin avenue, from Wood to Ash street.
Shackamaxon street, from Queen to Allen street.
Nineteenth Ward.
Germantown road, from Oxford to Columbia.
Ttventieth Ward.
Tenth street, from Poplar to Master street.
Seventh street, from Master to Jefferson street.
Eleventh street, from Girard avenue to Master street.
Poplar street, from Ninth to Tenth street.
Thirteenth street, from Girard avenue to Poplar street —
For which contracts sealed proposals shall be invited by
advertisement in two daily newspapers, and the same shall
in each case be allotted to the lowest bidder, who is a compe-
tent paver, that will give the requisite security for the faith-
ful performance of his duties.
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Resolved, That such of the streets named in the foregoing
resolution as have a cart-way of a width only sufficient to
permit the passage of one vehicle, the said Department is
hereby authorized to repave with tram-way stone, and in all
cases where the cart-way is wider than is necessary, the same
may be narrowed by adding an equal portion thereof to each
foot-way.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Sele t Council.
Approved February 2, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 24.
RESOLUTIONS.
Resolved, Qj the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Engineer of the Fire Depart-
ment be, and he is hereby directed to loan to the Philadelphia
Hose Company for the use of the Steam Fire Engine " Phila-
delphia," all the hose now in the possession of the City, for-
merly used by the Steam Fire Engine '• Young America."
Resolved, That Messrs J. and S. Parham have permission to
remove the fire plugs located — one in front of the United
States Custom House, Chestnut above Fourth street, and the
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other on the north of Market street in Seventh, and to substi-
tute therefor their newly improved manifold fire plugs ; pro-
vided, that the City shall incur no expense until the Councils
or a Committee thereof, after a careful observation of their
practical operation, shall be satisfied of their superiority over
those now in common use, and provided, also, that should said
fire plugs fail to give satisfaction to Councils of their practical
utility, that then and in that case, it shall be the duty of the
aforesaid J. and S. Parham, at their own expense, to remove
their plugs and replace those now in use, to be done under
the supervision of the Chief Engineer of the Water Depart-
ment.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council,
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHAETON,
President of Select Council.
Approved February 2, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 25.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Engineer of the Water De-
partment be authorized and directed to cause water pipes to
be laid in the following streets, namely : — Cambridge street,
between Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets ; Scott street, be-
tween Nineteenth and Twentieth streets; Stiles street, be-
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tween Sixteenth and Seventeenth and Eighteenth and Nine-
teenth streets, Twentieth Ward.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council,
Attest — H. G. Leiseneing,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved February 4, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Philcu
CHAPTER 26.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelpliia, That the City Solicitor be requested to pre-
pare a bill for the vacation of Master street, between Twenty-
fifth and Twenty-seventh street, and that the Legislature be,
and they are hereby requested to have said bill enacted into
a law.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leiseneing,
Clerk of Select Council,
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved February 4, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila,
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CHAPTER 27.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the services of the Fame Hose Company
be accepted and that the same be admitted into the Fire De-
partment; provided, that no appropriation shall be claimed
for past services.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council,
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council,
We hereby certify that the Resolution accepting the "Fame
Hose Company into the Fire Department," was presented to
the Mayor on the eighteenth day of January, eighteen hundred
and fifty-eight, and was not returned within fifteen days after it
had been presented to him : wherefore, it has, agreeably to the
provisions of the Act of the General Assembly of the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania, approved February 2nd, A. D. 1854,
entitled " A further supplement to an Act entitled * An Act
to incorporate the City of Philadelphia,' " become a law in
like manner as if he had signed it.
JOHN D. MILES,
Clei'k of Common Council.
H. G. LEISENRING,
Clerk of Select Council,
Clerk's Office, February 8th, 1858.
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CHAPTER 28.
RESOLUTION
To fix the grades on the Fourth Section of the Plan of Survey
of the late Township of Blockley, 24:th Ward.
Resolved, Bj the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Department of Surveys be author-
ized, and is hereby directed to prepare duplicate plans of the
grade regulations of so much of the late Township of Block-
ley as is comprised by the plan of the line regulations of the
fourth section of the survey of the late Township of Block-
ley, on file.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest— JNO. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved February 8, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 29.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the steam fire Engine " Young Ameri-
ca" be returned to the trustees and donors.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved February 8, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 30.
RESOLUTION
To release certain property of John K. Chadwickfrom the lien
of a judgment therein mentioned.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Mayor be, and he is hereby author-
ized, on behalf of the Corporation of the City of Philadelphia,
to release from the lien of a judgment, entered in the judgment
docket, October 31st, 1857, D. S. B., in the Supreme Court
of Pennsylvania, for the Eastern District, January Term, 1858,
number 112 — wherein the City of Philadelphia is the Plain-
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tiff, and William Bonsall, John K. Cliadwick, John M. Melloy
and Dennis Collins, are Defendants, the following described
property, owned by John K. Chadwick, one of the said defend-
ants, viz : — a certain lot of ground on the west side of Sixth
street, commencing five feet ten inches north of Diamond
street, continued near where it intersects with the German-
town Turnpike road, in Penn Township, (Twentieth Ward,)
containing in front or breadth on said Sixth street thirty feet,
and extending in length or depth on the north side thereof
two hundred and fifty-eight feet and five inches, and on the
south side thereof two hundred and eighty-six feet and six
inches ; provided, that the other defendants in the said judg-
ment consent thereto.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved February 8, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 31.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Department of Surveys be author-
ized, and is hereby directed to prepare the grade regulations
for so much of the plan of the Fourth Section of the late
Township of Northern Liberties, as is comprised within the fol-
lowing limits : — on the north by the line of the late Township
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of Bristol, on the south by Erie avenue, on the east by the
Old York Road, and on the west by the Germantown Road.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved February 8, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 32.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the
City of Philadelphia, That a copy of all contracts which
shall be made by any Department, Board or Officer of the
City, shall be filed (properly attested) in the office of the City
Controller, to enable that officer to decide as to the validity
of claims under such contracts.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved February 10, A. D. 1857.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 33.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation to the Board of Controllers of Public
Schools of the First School District of Pennsylvania, for the
purpose of defraying the cost of maintaining and managing
the Schools in the said District, for the year eighteen hundred
and fifty-eighl.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of four hundred and
seventy-one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four dollars
ninety-five cents be, and the same is hereby appropriated
to the Board of Controllers of Public Schools of the First
School District of Pennsylvania, for the purpose of defraying
the cost of maintaining and managing the Public Schools in
said District, for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-eight,
for the following purposes, that is to say : —
For the Expenses of the High School.
For salaries of teachers, sixteen thousand eight hundred
and eighty dollars.
For salaries of bouse cleaners, five hundred and fifty dol-
lars.
For repairs, four hundred dollars.
For furnaces and stoves, fifty dollars.
For furniture, one hundred dollars.
For printing and petty expenses, one hundred dollars.
For rent of room, for commencement, eighty dollars.
For gas, fifty dollars.
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For repairs to the Astronomical Instruments in the High
School, two hundred dollars.
For the Expenses of the Normal School.
For salaries, five thousand seven hundred dollars.
For house cleaners' salaries, three hundred and seventy-
five dollars.
For repairs, one hundred dollars.
For furnaces and stoves, fifty dollars.
For furniture, fifty dollars.
For printing and petty expenses, one hundred dollars.
For the Expenses of the Schools of the First Section, as follows :
For salaries, fifteen thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
For house cleaners' salaries, one thousand five hundred
and forty.five dollars and sixty-seven cents.
For rents, four hundred and seventy dollars.
For repairs and additions, five hundred dollars.
For furnaces and stoves, three hundred dollars.
For furniture, five hundred doUare.
For night schools, five hundred dollars.
For incidentals and printing, one hundred dollars.
For clerk hire, fifty dollars.
For the Expenses of the Schools of the Second Section, as follows :
For salaries, seven thousand three hundred and twenty
dollars.
For house cleaners' salaries, one thousand and four dollars
and eighty-six cents.
For rents, five hundred and forty-seven dollars.
For repairs and additions, twelve hundred dollars.
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For furnaces and stoves, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For furniture, four hundred dollars.
For night schools, four hundred dollars.
For incidentals and printing, one hundred dollars.
For clerk hire, fifty dollars.
For the Expenses of the Schools of the Third Section, as follows:
For salaries, fourteen thousand five hundred and thirty
dollars.
For house cleaners' salaries, one thousand five hundred
and sixty-one dollars and forty-four cents.
For rents, eighteen hundred dollars.
For repairs and additions, six hundred dollars.
For furnaces and stoves, three hundred dollars.
For furniture, two hundred dollars.
For night schools, six hundred dollars.
For incidentals and printing, one hundred dollars.
For clerk hire, fifty dollars.
For the Expenses of the Schools of the Fourth Section, as follows :
For salaries, nine thousand one hundred and ninety dollars.
For house cleaners' salaries, nine hundred and fifty-four
dollars and ninety-eight cents.
For rents, thirteen hundred and ten dollars.
For repairs, eight hundred dollars.
For furnaces and stoves, two hundred dollars.
For furniture, two hundred dollars.
For night schools, six hundred dollars.
For incidentals and printing, one hundred dollars.
For clerk hire, fifty dollars.
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For re-building Ringgold school house, fifteen hundred and
fifty dollars; furniture, eight hundred and fifty dollars; inci-
dentals, one hundred dollars.
For the Expenses of the Schools of the Fifth Section, as follows :
JPor salaries, eleven thousand five hundred and ninety dollars.
For house cleaners' salaries, one thousand and seventy-five
dollars.
For rents, nine hundred dollars.
For repairs and additions, seven hundred dollars.
For furnaces and stoves, two hundred dollars.
For furniture, two hundred dollars.
For incidental expenses and printing, one hundred dollars.
For clerk hire, fifty dollars.
For the Expenses of the Schools of the Sixth Section, as follows :
For salaries, eight thousand two hundred and ninety dollars.
For house cleaners' salaries, eight hundred and eighteen
dollars.
For rents, six hundred and fifty dollars.
For repairs and additions, four hundred dollars.
For furnaces and stoves, two hundred dollars.
For furniture, three hundred dollars.
For night schools, five hundred dollars.
For incidentals and printing, one hundred dollars.
For clerk hire, fifty dollars.
For the Expenses of the Schools of the Seventh Section, asfolloivs :
For salaries, ten thousand nine hundred and forty dollars.
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For house cleaners' salaries, eleven hundred and seventy
dollars.
For rents, two hundred dollars.
For repairs and additions, one hundred dollars.
For furnaces and stoves, two hundred dollars.
For furniture, two hundred dollars.
For night schools, six hundred dollars.
For incidentals and printing, one hundred dollars.
For clerk hire, fifty dollars.
For the Expenses of the Schools of the Eighth Section, as follows:
For salaries, six thousand five hundred and fifteen dollars.
For house cleaners' salaries, seven hundred and ninety-
one dollars.
For rents, fifteen hundred and sixty dollars.
For repairs and additions, fifty dollars.
For furnaces and stoves, two hundred dollars.
For furniture, two hundred dollars.
For night schools, six hundred dollars.
For incidentals and printing, one hundred dollars.
For clerk hire, fifty dollars.
For the Expenses of the Schools of the Ninth Section, as follows :
For salaries, nine thousand eight hundred and twenty dol-
lars.
For house cleaners' salaries, eleven hundred and forty-four
dollars.
For rents, eleven hundred dollars.
For repairs and additions, including a new roof on the Zane
street school house, nine hundred and sixty dollars.
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For furnaces and stoves, three hundred dollars.
For furniture, two hundred ^nd fifty dollars.
For night schools, three hundred dollars.
For incidentals and printing, one hundred dollars.
For clerk hire, fifty dollars.
For the Expenses tof the Schools of the Tenth Section^ as follows :
For salaries, twelve thousand eight hundred and ten dollars.
For house cleaners' salaries, fourteen hundred and eleven
dollars.
For rents, ten hundred dollars.
For repairs and additions, five hundred dollai-s.
For furnaces and stoves, four hundred and fifty dollars.
For furniture, five hundred dollars.
For night schools, six hundred dollars.
For incidentals and printing, one hundred dollars.
For clerk hire, fifty dollars.
For the Expenses of the Schools of the Eleventh Section, as follows :
For salaries, eleven thousand five hundred and sixty dollars.
For house cleaners' salaries, twelve hundred and two dol-
lars, and for cleaning privy wells, one hundred dollars.
For rents, seven hundred dollars.
For repairs and additions, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For furnaces and stoves, two hundred dollars.
For furniture, one hundred dollars.
For night schools, five hundred dollars.
For incidentals and printing, one hundred dollars.
For clerk hire, fifty dollars.
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For the Expenses of the Schools of the Twelfth Section, as follows :
For salaries, eight thousand two hundred dollars.
For house cleaners' salaries, eight hundred and eighty-one
dollars.
For rents, seventeen hundred and seventy-two dollars.
For repairs and additions, six hundred and fifty dollars.
For furnaces and stoves, two hundred dollars.
For furniture, one hundred dollars.
For night schools, five hundred dollars.
For incidentals and printing, one hundred dollars.
For clerk hire, fifty dollars,
For the Expenses of the Schools of the Thirteenth Section, as
folloivs :
For salaries, nine thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.
For house cleaners' salaries, eight hundred and thirty-two
dollars.
For rents, five hundred dollars.
For repairs and additions, five hundred and fifty dollars.
For furnaces and stoves, two hundred dollars.
For furniture, three hundred dollars.
For night schools, four hundred dollars.
For incidentals and printing, one hundred dollars.
For clerk hire, fifty dollars.
For the Expenses of the Schools of the Fourteenth Section, as
follows :
For salaries, sixteen thousand six hundred and ninety dol-
lars.
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For house cleaners' salaries, thirteen hundred and ninety-
eight dollars.
For rents, eight hundred dollars.
For repairs and additions, five hundred dollars.
For furnaces and stoves, two hundred dollars.
For furniture, one hundred and fifty dollars.
For night schools, six hundred dollars.
For incidentals and printing, one hundred dollars.
For clerk hire, fifty dollars.
For the Expenses of the Schools of the Fifteenth Section, as
follows :
For salaries, thirteen thousand nine hundred and twenty
dollars.
For house cleaners' salaries, eleven hundred and eighty
dollars.
For rents, seventeen hundred and fifty dollars.
For repairs and additions, six hundred dollars.
For furnaces and stoves, four hundred dollars.
For furniture, three hundred dollars.
For night schools, six liundred dollars.
For incidentals and printing, one hundred dollars.
For clerk hire, fifty dollars.
For the Expenses of the Schools of the Sixteenth Section, as
follows :
For salaries, eleven thousand four hundred and sixty dol-
lars.
For house cleaners' salaries, one thousand and twenty-three
dollars.
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For rents, nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For repairs and additions, four hundred dollars.
For furnaces and stoves, three hundred and twenty-five
dollars.
For furniture, four hundred dollars.
For night schools, five hundred dollars.
For incidentals and printing, one hundred dollars.
For clerk hire, fifty dollars.
Ibr the Expenses of the Schools of the Seventeenth Section, as
follows :
For salaries, eleven thousand two hundred and twenty
dollars.
For house cleaners' salaries, one thousand and forty dollars.
For rents, eleven hundred and sixty dollars.
For repairs and additions, three hundred dollars.
For furnaces and stoves, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For furniture, one hundred dollars.
For night schools, one thousand dollars.
For incidentals and printing, on©' hundred dollars.
For clerk hire, fifty dollars.
For the Expenses of the Schools of the Eighteenth Section, as
follows :
For salaries, fifteen thousand three hundred and sixty dol-
lars.
For house cleaners' salaries, one thousand five hundred
and thirty-four dollars.
For rents, eleven hundred and twenty dollars.
For repairs and additions, six hundred dollars.
For furnaces and stoves, three hundred dollars.
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For furniture, two hundred dollars.
For night schools, four hundred and fifty dollars.
For incidentals and printing, one hundred dollars.
For clerk hire, fifty dollars.
For the Expenses of the Sehools of the Nineteenth Section, as
follows :
For salaries, nine thousand nine hundred and seventy dol-
lars.
For house cleaners' salaries, thirteen hundred and thirty-
three dollars.
For rents, sixteen hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For repairs and additions, five hundred dollars.
For furnaces and stoves, two hundred dollars.
For furniture, two hundred dollars.
For night schools, six hundred dollars.
For incidentals and printing, one hundred dollars.
For clerk hire, fifty dollars.
For the Expenses of the Schools of the Twentieth Section, as
follows :
For salaries, ten thousand two hundred and twenty dollars.
For house cleaners' salaries, nine hundred and six dollars.
For rents, eight hundred dollars.
For repairs and additions, five hundred dollars.
For furnaces and stoves, three hundred dollars.
For furniture, two hundred dollars.
For night schools, seven hundred dollars.
For incidentals and printing, one hundred dollars.
For clerk hire, fifty dollars.
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For the Expenses of the Schools of the Twentyfrst Section^ as
follows :
For salaries, ten thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.
For house cleaners' salaries, eleven hundred and sixty-one
dollars.
For rents, four hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For repairs and additions, eight hundred dollars.
For furnaces and stoves, three hundred dollars.
For furniture, four hundred dollars.
For night schools, twelve hundred dollars.
For incidentals and printing, one hundred dollars.
For clerk hire, fifty dollars.
For the Expenses of the Schools of the Twenty-second Section^ as
follows :
For salaries, eight thousand eight hundred and ninety-five
dollars.
For house cleaners' salaries, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For rents, five hundred and thirty-eight dollars.
For repairs and additions, five hundred dollars.
For furnaces, two hundred dollars.
For furniture, one hundred dollars.
For night schools, six hundred dollars.
For incidentals and printing, one hundred dollars.
For clerk hire, fifty dollars.
For the Expenses of the Schools of the Twenty-third Section, as
follows :
For salaries, eighteen thousand nine hundred and twenty
dollars.
For house cleaners' salaries, fifteen hundred and fifty-eight
dollars.
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For rents, seven hundred and forty-seven dollars.
For repairs and additions, seven hundred and fifty dollars,
and for new stairway to the Marshall school house, one thous-
and dollars.
For furuaces, two hundred dollars.
For furniture, two hundred dollars.
For night schools, eight hundred dollars.
For incidentals and printing, one hundred dollars.
For clerk hire, fifty dollars.
For the Expenses of the Schools of the Twentyfourth Section^ as
follows :
For salaries, twelve thousand five hundred and twenty dol-
lars.
For house cleaners' salaries, twelve hundred and seventy,
two dollars.
For rents, seven hundred and fifteen dollars ; and that the
rents to be paid by the Controllers of the Public Schools, for
buildings occupied by them in the Sixth, Eleventh and Twen-
ty-fourth Sections and belonging to the City be, and the same
are hereby remitted for the year 1858.
For repairs and additions, seven hundred dollars.
For furnaces and stoves, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For furniture, three hundred dollars.
For night schools, five hundred dollars.
For incidentals and printing, one hundred dollars.
For clerk hire, fifty dollars.
General Expenses.
For ground rents, nine thousand dollars.
For fuel, eighteen thousand dollars.
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For books and stationery, thirty-five thousand dollars.
For the employment of additional teachers, if found neces-
sary during the year, three thousand dollars.
For rent of additional buildings and for furniture for the
same for school purposes, two thousand dollars.
For salary of Secretary, fifteen hundred dollars.
For salary of A ssistant Secretary, seven hundred and fifty
dollars.
For salary of Messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars.
For rent of office, nine hundred dollars.
For printing annual report, ix)ll books, registers, blanks
&c., &c., one thousand five hundred dollai-s.
For advertising, three Imndred dollars.
For porterage on books, carriage hire, gas bills and inci-
dentals, twelve hundred dollars.
For expenses of committee on property, and grammar,
secondary and primary schools, two hundred dollars.
For expenses of committee on qualification of teachers,
two hundred dollars.
Section 2. That the further sum of nine hundred and
sixty-five dollars and sixty-two cents be, and the same is
hereby appropriated to pay bills due, which were contracted
in 1857, and unpaid on the first of January, 1858, viz:
For general expenses, (printing,) ten dollars. ($ 10.)
For repairs in First Section, four dollars and twelve cents.
($4 12.)
For stoves in Fifth Section, thirty-six dollars. ($ 36.)
For cleansing in Ninth Section, one hundred and thirty-one
dollars twenty-five cents. ($ 131 25.)
For rent in Tenth Section, fifty-one dollars twenty-five
cents. ($51 25.)
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For rent in Fifteenth Section, three hundred and eighty-
seven dollars and fifty cents. ($387 50.)
For furniture in Fifteenth Section, six dollars. ($ 6 00.)
For night schools in Seventeenth Section, one hundred and
four dollars. ($ 104 00.)
For night schools in Eighteenth Section, two dollars. ($2 00.)
For ground rent in Twentyrfirst Section, seventy-five dol-
lars. ($75 00.)
For rents in Twenty-first Section, one hundred and fifteen
dollars. ($115 00.)
For furniture in Twenty-fir^t Section, two dollars and
twenty-five cents. ($ 2 25.)
For cleaning in Twenty-first Section, forty-one dollars and
twenty-five cents. ($ 41 25.)
Section 3. That warrants for the said appropriation shall
be drawn in conformity with existing Ordinances.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest— Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved Fel}ruary 10, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Philcu
CHAPTER 34.
AN ORDINANCE
To levy and fix the rate of Taxes for the year 1858,
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain, That the City Commissioners \m,
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and they are liereby authorized and required forthwith to
levy on the real estate, furniture, hoi*ses, cows, and carriages,
returned by the Assessors at the assessment made in the year
1857, situate or assessed within the City of Philadelphia
(except property used for rural purposes as hereinafter provi-
ded) a tax of one hundred and eighty-five cents in the hun-
dred dollars on the assessed value thereof; and upon every
taxable inhabitant of said City returned by the Assessors afore-
said, the sum of twenty -five cents.
Section 2. The said tax is to be levied for the year 1858,
as one City and County tax, and is hereby voted for the fol-
lowing objects respectively, for the same year, namely:
For the relief and employment of the poor, the sum of six-
teen cents in the hundred dollai-s on said assessed value of
the said property. '"^'
For the public schools, the sum of twenty-eight cents in
the hundred dollare on the said assessed value of the said
property.
For lighting of the City, the sum of eleven cents in the
hundred dollars on the said assessed value of the said pro-
perty.
For the loan tax to pay interest on the funded debt and for
the sinking fund, the sum of seventy-five cents in the hundred
dollars on the said assessed value of the said property.
For tlie expenses of the police, the sum of twentj'-six cents
in the hundred dollars of the said assessed value of the said
property.
For tlic care of tlie public highways, the sum of twenty-
four cents in tlie hundred dollars on the said assessed value
of the said jjroperty.
For the expenses of City Departments other than those here-
tofore mentioned, and for City Ice Boat, the sum of five cents
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in the hundred dollars on the said assessed value of the said
property.
And the said amounts are hereby declared to be appro-
priated for the said olyects, but subject to the further di-
rections of Councils.
Section 3. On all such portions of said assessed property
as the said Assessors have marked " rural/' but two-thirds of
the said rate of taxation in the hundred dollars shall be
levied as aforesaid ; and no part of the tax hereinbefore set
apart for tlie relief and employment of the poor, shall be
levied on all such portions of the said assessed property as
are situated in the districts within the Twenty-first, Twenty-
second and Twenty-third Wards, where houses for the ac-
commodation of the poor are provided, and where, by the
eighteenth section of the Act of 2d February, 1854, it is
enacted that no change shall be made without the consent of
the qualified voters of the said district.
Section 4. It shall be the duty of the Receiver of Taxes,
to cause to be printed on the tax bills the rate of taxes voted
for the objects hereinbefore mentioned.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved February 12, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD YAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 35.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an Appropriation to the Department of Highways, to
pay road damages for openi?ig Ashton street, in the First
Ward.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of two thousand
seven hundred and forty-five dollars and thirty cents is hereby
appropriated to the Department of Highways, for the purpose
of paying to Edward C. Dale, A. J. Pleasanton and Chapman
Biddle, Trustees of Joseph Dugan, deceased, the damages
assessed for the property taken by the opening of Ashton
street, from South street to Gray's Ferry road, in the First
Ward.
Section 2. Warrants for the said appropriation shall be
drawn by the Chief Commissioner of Highways. Forty-five
dollars and thirty cents of the said appropriation shall be
paid in money and the balaiice in certificates of City debt;
provided, that no warrant shall issue until the City Solicitor,
upon the faith of proper certificates of search to be presented
to him, shall certify that there are no liens or incumbrances
against the property taken by the said street, nor until he
shall further certify that the triangular piece of ground lying
between the said Ashton street and the Gray's Ferry road
has been conveyed to the City clear of incumbrance.
Section 3. When there is presented to the City Treasurer
the warrant for the certificates of City debt, countersigned
by the Controller, the said Treasurer shall deliver to the pro-
per parties one or more certificates of City debt, amounting
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in the aggregate to the sum of two thousand seven hundred
dollars, which certificates shall be such as are provided for in
the Ordinance approved August 23d, A. D, 1855, entitled
" An Ordinance to provide for the issue of certificates of City
debt in payment of road damages,. &c., &c.," and shall be a
part of those authorized to be issued by that Ordinance.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved February 23, A. D. 1858.
CHAPTER 36.
AN ORDINANCE
To authorize the construction of a certain Culvert or Drain, on
the line of Bank street, southward from Market street, in the
Sixth Ward.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain. That the owners of property
situate on Bank street, between Market and Chestnut streets,
are hereby authorized to construct a culvert or drain, to com-
mence at and intersect the culvert at Market street opposite
Bank street, to extend southwardly along Bank street to the
south side of Elbow Lane, to be of such form and dimensions
as the Department of Surveys may prescribe, and to be con-
structed under the supervision of the Department of Highways;
provided, before the said culvert is commenced, the parties
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who are hereby authorized to construct the same, shall enter
into covenant with the City of Philadelphia to build it
at their own expense, and upon its completion to restore the
pavement to its present condition.
Section 2. The said culvert when completed shall become
the property of the city without condition, saving and except-
ing, that should a permit to make a drain to said culvert be
hereafter granted by the city to a person or persons who have
not contributed to the expense of constructing said culvert,
then, and in such case, the parties constructing the same under
this ordinance, are hereby authorized to demand of the person
or persons to whom such permit shall be granted, such part
of the original cost thereof as shall be proportionate to the
frontage of his, her, or their property thereon; and in case of
neglect or refusal to pay said sum, they may sue for and col-
lect the same ; provided, a certificate of approval and accept-
ance thereof from the Chief Engineer and Surveyor, and a
statement of the actual cost of such culvert shall have been
jBled in the office of the Department of Surveys; and pro-
vided also, that the annual charge or rentage shall be paid as
specified in " Ordinance providing for the granting of permits
to make openings into common sewers," approved May 3,
1855.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council,
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved February 23, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 37.
RESOLUTION
Approving of the Sureties of certain Supervisors, and of tite
Chief and other Commissioners of Highways, and of the
License Clerk in the Department of Highicays.
Resolved, By the Sctect and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That William N. King and Edward Eonsall,
sureties of John Layer; Thomas Corgee and William M.
Reilly, sureties of John Hassan ; Thomas Daly and William
Lowery, sureties of Thomas Farley ; James McFillin and
Charles McDonough, sureties of P. McJDoaough ; JohnC, Kirk-
patrick and Daniel A. Kelley, sureties of John Kelsh ; J. A.
Phillips and Robert Carr, sureties of George Snyder ; John
Hendei'son and William Denny, sureties of James Elliott ;
John Ascough and John Myers, sureties of William Boileau ;
John Gravel and John Keller, sureties of William H. Eoyce ;
Dennis Sweeny and William Sweeny, sureties of Thomas
Leaney ; Christian Schnitzell and Lewis Becktle, sureties of
George Derr; Adam Richard and Edward H. Thomas, sure-
ties of James Rctterson; J. Gordan and Peter Smith, sureties
of P. O'Rourke ; Andrew Stieff and James Mountain, sui^ties
of Charles Justus ; Lawrence Cummings and M. Barry, sure-
ties of P. McEntee ; John Mooney and Andrew McDonald,
sureties of P. Burns ; Henry Rool, Sr., and Charles B.
Righter, sureties of M. Righter; John Roberts and James H.
Parke, sureties of John Felten ; Jesse Hinkle and William
Hergisheimer, sureties of P. B. Hinkle ; Thomas D. Groves
and Isaiah Ottingcr, sm-cties of William Engard ; R. L. Wright
and William McCormick, sureties of J. Riglcr: William H.
Boileau and Adolphus Yerkes, sureties of William Yonker ;
Isaac Leech, Jr., and Henry S. Urian, sureties of James M.
Urian ; William Davis and William G. Rulil, sureties of Silas
Suplee ; and Peter Hansell and William Hansell, sureties of
Wilson J. Hansell, recently appointed Supervisors, be ap-
proved, and that Thomas Daly and William Loughlin, sure-
ties of John McCarthy, Chief Commissioner of Highways, and
Richard Simpson and Jesse T. Yodges, sureties of Thomas
McCullough ; and Jacob Bockiuss and Edward Williks, sure-
ties of Emanuel Street, Commissioner of Highways ; and John
McGlensey and Charles O'Neill, sureties of William McGlen-
sey. License Clerk in the Department of Highways, be also
approved ; and the City Solicitor be directed to prepare the
necessary bonds and have the same entered of record ; pro-
vided, that there have been no further judgments against the
parties offered as sureties by the Chief and other Commis-
sioners of Highways, and by the License Clerk in the same
Department, than existed when they last became sureties for
the same Officei^.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Covncil,
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved February 23, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila,
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CHAPTER 38.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an Appropriation to pay Joseph Delavau, late Coro-
ner, for the year ending October 31, 1857, John R. Fenner^
Coroner, for the months of November and December, 1857,
and certain other claims against the City of Philadelphia,
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of four thousand
and fifty-eight dollars and twenty-nine cents be, and the same
is hereby appropriated to pay the following claims, viz : —
1. Joseph Delavau, for inquests and expenses as Coroner,
for the last five months of his term of office, two thousand
nine hundred and twenty-five dollars and eighteen cents.
2. John R. Fenner, for inquests and expenses as Coroner,
for the two months ending December 31, 1857, eight hundred
and sixty-nine dollars and fifty-six cents.
3. George M. Howell, late Clerk of the Quarter Sessions,
for miscellaneous services during the year 1856, fifty-five dol-
lars and seventy-seven cents.
4. William Dickson, for overpaid water rent for the years
1855, 1856 and 1857, fifteen dollars.
5. Heister & Steward, for ice furnished to office of City Con-
troller, from February 4, 1856, to December 31, 1856,
twenty-nine dollars and fifty-three cents.
6. Morris, Tasker & Company, for iron work at Philadel-
phia Almshouse, for the year 1856, fifty-five dollars and forty-
five cents.
7. Dr. J. S. Helfrich,as Vaccine Physician of the 7th Ward,
from July 1, 1856, to January 1, 1857, twenty-five dollars.
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8. Dr. A. Owen Stille, as Vaccine Physician of the 9th
Ward, for the quarter ending December 31, 1856, twelve dol-
lars and fifty cents.
9. Dr. H. St. Clair Ash, as Vaccine Physician of the 10th
Ward, for the last five months of 1856, twenty dollars and
eighty cents.
10. Dr. H. C. Paist, as Vaccine Physician of the 11th
Ward, from March 22nd to December 22nd, 1856, thirty-seven
dollars and fifty cents.
11. John D. Ward, for two cords of wood furnished to Board
of Health for City Hospital, July 31, 1856, twelve dollars.
Section 2. That warrants for the appropriation shall be
drawn as follows, viz: — items 1, 2 and 3, by the City Com-
missioners ; 4, by the Chief Engineer of the Department for
supplying the City with water; 5, by the City Controller; 6,
by the President of the Guardians of the Poor; 7, 8, 9, 10
and 11, by the President of the Board of Health.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved February 23, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila,
CHAPTER 39.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appi'oprialioii to the Department of Highways,
Bridges, Sewers and cleansing the City, to pay deficiencies
occurring in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-seven.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
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of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of thirteen thousand
five hundred and eighty-six dollars and seventy-seven cents
be, and the same is hereby appropriated to pay deficiencies
for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, as follows : —
For paving intersections, eleven thousand four hundred
seventy-seven dollars and eighty-seven cents.
For repairing streets, four hundred seventy-seven dollars
and twelve cents.
For grading streets, two hundred seventy-six dollars and
fifty cents.
For repairing roads, three hundred eigbty-four dollars and
thirty-nine cents.
For paving footways, seventy-six dollars and ninety-five
cents.
For repairs to culverts and inlets, seven hundred forty-two
dollars, and sixty-three cents.
For repairing bridges, one hundred fifty-one dollars and
thirty-one cents.
Section 2. Warrants for the foregoing appropriation shall
be drawn in conformity with existiug Ordinances.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved February 23, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 40.
RESOLUTION
To release certain sureties.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the City Solicitor be instructed to enter
satisfaction on the bond of the securities of Joshua M. Ray-
bold, late Register of Water, and on the bond of Frederick
Emhardt, late a Commissioner of Highways.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council,
Approved February 26, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 41.
AN ORDINANCE
To pay certain claims against the City of Philadelphia.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain. That the sum of eight hundred and
ninety-six dollars and forty-one cents be, and the same is here-
by appropriated to pay the following claims against the city,
to wit :
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1. To pay James Galbreath, for work done for the late
District of the Northern Liberties, one hundred and seventy-
three dollars and seventy-five cents.
2. To pay Wright, Hunter & Co., for plumbing, twenty-six
dollars and eighty-five cents.
3. To pay the Managers of the Poor of Germantown, for
rent, forty-eight dollars.
4. To pay John G. Torrey, M. D., for medical services at
Police Station of Fifth District, twenty-five dollars.
5. To pay Thomas Hope Palmer, for services as Police
Magistrate, four hundred eighteen dollars and sixty cents.
6. To pay Adam H. Shoemaker, for police services, Six-
teenth Ward, one hundred and ten dollars and eighty-one
cents.
7. To pay Thomas Lasage, for ringing the bells at St.
Stephen's Church, on the fourth of July, 1857, twenty dollars.
8. To pay the Trustees of the Philadelphia Gas Works,
two hundred and seventeen dollars and eighty cents, for gas
consumed at the County Prison, from September 1st to De-
cember 1st, 1856.
Section 2. That warrants for item No. 1 shall be drawn
by the Chief Commissioner of Highways; for items Nos. 2, 3,
4, 5, 6 and 7, by the Mayor ; No. 8, by the Inspectors of the
County Prison, as provided by law.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council,
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved February 26, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila,
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CHAPTER 42.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Engineer of Water Works be,
and is hereby authorized to draw on item No. 35, of an ap-
propriation made to that Department, approved January 28,
1858, to an amount not exceeding four thousand dollars, to
pay for labor and materials contracted for the month of Janu-
ary, and which may be contracted for in February and March.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Cuuncil.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved February 27, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 43.
MEMORIAL.
To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania :
The memorial of the undersigned, the constituted authorities
of the City of Philadelphia, respectfully represents : —
That trade and commerce among the States of the Union,
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in order to be prosperous, must be free ; and that its freedom
may be as effectualh- impaired by a duty on the tonnage pass-
ing from one State to another, as by any other means. This
is especially true at a time when cheapness of transit, under
the fierce rivalry of competing routes, is controlling the selec-
tion of avenues to our Western markets, and increasing the
tonnage upon those lines over which it is carried at the least
cost.
In view of this fact, it is obvious that to preserve and en-
large the business of Pennsylvania improvements, the price
of transportation must be reduced to the minimum of charge
on all competing routes beyond our borders. To effect this
end, the cost of transporting to the parties who do the carry-
ing, must first be diminished, before it can be cheapened to
the shippers of freight. Hence, all taxes levied by a State
upon its highways, for revenue or otherwise, decrease their
tonnage by increasing the expense of conveyance, and there-
fore, wise public policy requires that all such burdens should
be removed.
Your memorialists further represent that, many years ago,
in order to prevent her trade from being diverted to adjoining
and other States, Pennsylvania constructed a great main line
of improvements, reaching from the Delaware to the Ohio
river. But the States of New York and Maryland each built
similar works, to attract the same trade for which our State
was striving. Owing to their better working capacity, and
cheapness of carriage, trade was being rapidly turned from
the Pennsylvania works upon these rival improvements.
At length, with the design of checking this tendency of
things, it was determined to construct a railway to connect
the cities of Pittsburg and Philadelphia. This was deemed
the more necessary, inasmuch as railways were every-
where else expediting and cheapening the movement of
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freights. The people, therefore, unaided by the funds of the
State, constructed the Pennsylvania Railroad.
But on the plea of compensating the State for the supposed
competition of this railway with the Main Line of the State
Works, the Legislature had levied a toll or duty, on the ton-
nage of the former of " five mills per mile upon each ton
of two thousand pounds carried during the season of canal
navigation." This was afterwards changed to " three mills
for all freight carried throughout the entire year."
It is not necessary now to recall the history of that mea-
sure, except to say that, under the ostensible purpose of pro-
tecting the revenues of the Commonwealth, there was a
design to effect a connection for Baltimore with the Ohio
River, by the consummation of a grant of right of way for the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad through the south-west portion
of Pennsylvania. To accomplish this it was necessary to
prevent the opening of the proposed central route through
Pennsylvania. While, therefore, the apparent reason for
coupling the grant of incorporation to the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company with an onerous burthen, was solicitude
for the coffers of the State, the real design was to defeat tHe
contemplated enterprise altogether. But this scheme of a
foreign company failed. The stockholders of the Pennsylva-
nia Railroad Company accepted the charter with the obnoxious
provision in it. They did so because they were obliged to
take what they could get at the moment, yet with an abiding
trust that more reasonable counsels would in the future remove
the restriction.
The tax was most impolitic, because it was founded upon
a misapprehension of fact ; because it failed of its professed
object, and because it laid an oppressive charge upon the com-
merce of Pennsylvania.
It is quite notorious that the road and the canal were never
actually in competition, but have always had to struggle
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together against great rival highways outside of the State,
which were contending with them for the trade of the "West.
It is manifest that in such a condition of affairs, a duty on the
tonnage of the railroad was not in effect protective (against
the railroad,) of the business of the Main Line, but merely a
means of increased advantage in competition, given by the
State to the roads and canals of Maryland and New York,
against its own public works and those of its citizens. In the
struggle between our highways and those of our neighbors,
cheapness of transportation is tlie grand ruling condition on
which the issue must turn.
Even with all arbitrary disabilities and embarassments
taken off, the avenues of Pennsylvania would find it no easy
task to hold their own, in the face of the combined opposition
of their strong and eager rivals. To stand it at all, they
must be in a position to be able to carry freight at as low
rates at least as their competitors, and this they obviously
cannot do with their tonnage taxed by the State. The tax,
indeed, is laid only upon the trade of the Pennsylvania Hail-
road, but it is on that road that the whole brunt of the fierce
competition of the New York and Maryland lines falls, and
it is on it that we must rest all our hopes of acquiring and re-
taining a fair share of the valuable commerce of the West.
The idea is utterly erroneous, that, if the Pennsylvania
Railroad had not been constructed, the Main Line of the pub-
lic works could have retained the trade supposed to have been
lost in consequence of that fact. Ample experience has de-
monstrated that the business of the Pennsylvania Canal must
inevitably have left it by force of the attraction of speedier
and cheaper routes, beyond the limits of the State. New
York had opened avenues with which our " Main Line" could
never successfully have competed. Under that competition,
unopposed by any other highway of our own, the public works
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were bound to go down utterly, and thus prove a total and
disastrous loss to the State Treasury.
Seeing that the crisis had come in which the commercial
fortunes of Pennsylvania must be retrieved and rescued by
domestic enterprise from threatened ruin by foreign rivalry,
the citizens of the State generously advanced their money,
and the County of Alleghany and City of Philadelphia, in
their corporate capacities, their credit, and the Pennsylvania
Railroad was built. They saw that without an effort of the
kind on their part, the trade was destined to leave the public
works, and of course, in default of any alternative, to leave
the State. They determined to retain it, if possible. They
were of the opinion that it would be a great boon and bene-
faction to the State as well as to the private interests of her
whole people, if that commerce, which it was clearly seen
could not be retained or commanded by our Main Line in its
unequal contest with the canals and railways of New York
and Maryland, could be attracted to a Pennsylvania improve-
ment, constructed and owned by the citizens of Pennsylvania.
They thought then, and they think still, that it is strange
their patriotic enterprise should encounter State opposition,
and be oppressed with State levies, on the assumption that
they were depriving the State works of a tonnage that was
already virtually lost, and which they only interposed to re-
cover. No candid and disinterested citizen can, we think,
deny that the Pennsylvania Railroad has saved to the State
a commerce which must otherwise liave been mostly, if not
entirely, drawn away from us.
Your memorialists further represent that, as far as the busi-
ness of the Main Line was ever reduced, the reduction was
caused by the rivalry of highways beyond our borders. It is
not reasonable to suppose that with its two detached canals,
two separate railways, and with its three transhipments be-
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tween Pittsburg and Philadelphia, the result could be. other-
wise, and we have high authority for saying that but for the
intervention of the Pennsylvania Railway, the business of the
Main Line would have continued to diminish. Governor Big-
ler, in a message to the Legislature, said.:
"The nett profits of the Columbia Railroad in 1852 have
been nearly double the amount of the nett revenue from all
the other brandies of the public works."
The idea that the Pennsylvania Railroad has "been a rival
to the Canal is contradicted by the following statistics, fur-
nished in the report of the Canal Commissioners. In 1856,
on page 30, of their report, they exhibit in a tabular statement
the striking fact that, during the preceding fourteen years,
commencing with 1843, (six years before the Pennsylvania
Railroad was finished in any part of it for business) the tolls
received from the State improvements steadily increased from
$1,017,841 12 to $2,009,4G6 44, and that the increase in
tliese receipts for the year 1856 alone was $991,625 32 over
those of 1843. And this was exclusive of revenue from the
tonnage tax. It further appears by the figures, (we shall
presently quote from the same document,) that this great in-
crease in the business of the Main Line, instead of being
produced in defiance of a hostile rivalry on the part of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, was actually attributable to the bene-
ficial influence of that road.
We are told that, of the $1,222,973 45 of revenues from
that line in 1856, the Portage Railroad yielded $20,047 23,
the canal $249,891 93, and the Columbia Railroad $954,031
29, and they further assure us that, of $ 96,344 84, the whole
total increase of revenues in 1856, as compared with 1855,
" from all the lines of public improvements," including, with
the above named, the Susquehanna, North and West Branches,
the Upper North Branch and Delaware Divisions of canals,
the Columbia Railroad afforded $95, 974 45, being within a
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very small fraction of the entire increase. Every body knows
whence the trade of the Columbia Railroad was derived.
This road itself became part of the great central highway
of the State after the completion of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road, and has since that period, derived the bulk of its busi-
ness from the latter.
In the presence of these figures and facts we would respect-
fully ask, what sort of rivalry was that which admitted of so
marked a progress in the business and income of improve-
ments, with which the Pennsylvania Railroad was said by
some to be in destructive opposition ?
What sort of rivalry was that which benefitted, but did
not damage; which built up instead of breaking down; which
swelled, instead of diminished, the revenues of a highway;
which is shown to have thrown hundreds of thousands of dol-
lars worth of freight per year on a State road, but did not,
and cannot be proved ever to have drawn one ton away
from it ?
Your memorialists further represent that, as the Main Line
has been sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the
State should release a tonnage duty which was, avowedly
levied only to commute its revenue from the line. Besides
the fact that the reason for the tax has ceased, the Common-
wealth should not continue upon a property — for which she
has received a fair price — an incumbrance which impairs its
value to the purchaser.
We ask that the charge may be removed, because it is
aftbrding a premium to rival thoroughfares beyond our borders
and thereby enabling them to carry trade between the West
and the Atlantic cities, at charges so low as to divert business
from the avenues and emporiums of the Commonwealth ; and,
as a necessary consequence, in the general mischief done to
all interests, driving travel and tonnage from the only paying
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portion of the improvement purchased from the State, to wit :
the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad.
The cogency of this appeal is greatly enforced by the fact
that the people of New York, seeing the contest in which
their improvements were engaged with those of this State,
and discerning also the imperative necessity of strengthening
themselves in that competition by every possible means, ob-
tained from their Legislature an act, passed July 10, 1851,
which provides that " it shall not be necessary for any Rail-
road Company in this State to pay any sums of money into
the treasury of this State on account of the transportation of
property on any railroad, on and after the first day of Decem-
ber, 1851."
The taxes removed by this repealing legislation, were
originally imposed in New York upon her Central Railroad
line as a protective tariff in favor of the business of the Erie
Canal, with which that line of road was supposed to be in in-
jurious antagonism. But it was perceived that a law discrimi-
nating by a tax on tonnage against one local improvement in
favor of another, was merely a discrimination against New
York in favor of other States ; and when that fact was once
comprehended, the tax was removed. The reports made upon
the subject by experienced transporters and others, pending
the action of the New York Legislature, demonstrated the
impolicy of building costly improvements to cheapen transpor-
tation, and at the same time rendering transportation dear by
levying a duty upon tonnage.
If the arguments and testimony adduced in the efibrt to
abolish the tonnage tax on the railroads of New York, be of
any value, they certainly should avail to effect a similar result
in the case of our Pennsylvania Railroad. The New York
Central Railway, in competition with the Erie Canal was a
much stronger case than that of the Pennsylvania Railway, in
supposed competition with the Pennsylvania Main Line. In
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the former instance there was a continuous canal from tide-
water to Lake Erie, capable of passing boats carrying at least
one hundred tons each, and consequently competent to carry
all the freight offered to both the canal and railroad ; where-
as, in the case of our Main Line the capacity of the canal was
limited to boats carrying about iifty tons each, besides being
interrupted in its course by two railroads, and requiring three
several transhipments «f freight between Pittsburg and Phila-
delphia. Again : the Erie Canal was able to carry freight at
as low rates as the New York Central Railroad ; but no one
will venture to affirm that our disjointed Main Line could
have withstood the competition in that respect with the New
York improvements and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroads
In order to transport through goods at the prices now,paid
on lines outside of this State, the Pennsylvania Canal would
have been required to surrender nearly all tolls for the State
Treasury, as almost the whole price received by the trans-
porter, would have been needed to pay the cost of transporta-
tion and transhipment. It has indeed been abundantly proved
by experience, that the portion of the Main Line between
Pittsburg and Columbia, for through freight, was operated
without any profit, if not at a loss to the State Treasury ; and?
that the Railroad from Columbia to Philadelphia has, by
reason of the passengers and tonnage thrown upon it by the
Pennsylvania Railroad, been the only profitable part of this
branch of the State works.
Your memorialists further represent, that the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company has paid into the State Treasury up to
December 1st, 1857, an aggregate tax or duty on its tonnage
of nearly eight hundred thousand dollars ; that they have paid
an additional tax on their capital stock, on their bonded debt,
and on all the real estate of the Company which is not a part
of their road or indispensable to its use.
They also represent that the City of Philadelphia, which owns
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five out of thirteen millions of the capital stock of the road,
and is largely interested commercially and industrially in its
business, pays one-third of the total taxes of the State, while
the real estate in every county on the line is paying a yearly
increasing revenue into the public treasury, by reason of the
improvement and appreciated value of the property consequent
on its proximity to the Pennsylvania Railroad.
It is further represented that the citizens who own stock in
the Pennsylvania Railroad, or many of them, advanced their
money to make the improvement, mainly for the important
benefits they expected to derive indirectly from the developed
resources, the augmented trade, and the stimulated industry
of the State. And this is the object they still cherish, and
for which they are solicitous to have the duty taken off the
tonnage of the road, which is the chief means by which we
can reasonably hope to withstand a fierce competition with
rival communities for the carrying trade between the Atlantic
cities and the west.
To secure a fair share of that commerce would vastly in-
crease the prosperity of all our people, whose productive powers
would be aroused, and whose commercial activity would be
stimulated as well by the copious influx of trade from sources
beyond our borders as by the cheaper and freer intercourse
secured for traffic between themselves and the people of other
States. And in the event of the repeal of a tax on the busi-
ness of the great Pennsylvania highway, would the treasury
of the State suffer ? Would not its revenues from the greatly
enhanced taxable value of lands and other property, conse-
quent upon stimulated production and commerce, far exceed
the sum it receives or can ever receive from an oppressive
burthen upon so important a thoroughfare ? Why, then, tax
the tonnage of a highway which augments the general busi-
ness of the community, enhances the wealth of our people, and
greatly multiplies in the only legitimate and salutary form of
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taxation the revenues of the Commonwealth ? Though im-
posed directly on the transporter, the tax is not in fact paid
or borne by him. It falls ultimately on the consumer of the
article transported, who finds it added to the final price of
the thing consumed. Thus, while a road or canal may be re-
quired to pay a tribute assessed upon its business, the sum
comes directly out of the revenues of the highway, but indi-
rectly out of the pockets of the people.
Your memorialists further represent, that there are great
highways on the north and south which are contending for
the immense commerce of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys,
and that that contest is waged with so much zeal and with such
freedom from legislative drawbacks, in the shape of duties on
tonnage and the like, that the improvements of Pennsylvania
must bend all their energies under the most favorable State
policy to protect themselves and the commerce of the Com-
monwealth from that powerful foreign competition.
We have shown that this tax is attended with evils far out-
weighing in importance the revenue derived from it by the State
Treasury, and that if removed, the government would not only
receive an equivalent indirectly from the enhanced value of the
property of its citizens, but that the general interests would
be speedily and greatly advanced. It is very certain that this
duty as a revenue measure injures every interest, not even ex-
cepting the public coffers, which gain an annual tribute from
that which bears oppressively upon the trade, labor and
enterprise of the people, and retards the increase of other
sources whence the State Treasury should legitimately draw
its supplies.
While, moreover, the Commonwealth is reaping no real
benefit from the tonnage duty, rival communities are exulting
over the advantages they enjoy in consequence of a burden
which, in breaking down our prosperity, is continually and
powerfully building up theirs.
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Xew York and Marylaud, having no such destructive tariif
on trade passing over their highways, understand very well
that the charge levied on the tonnage of our Pennsylva-
nia Railroad, is operating as a premium in favor of their
routes.
A measure so obviously suicidal, ought surely to be aban-
doned, as it must be apparent that the general welfare of the
entire State would be promoted by abolishing an exaction
which operates so proscriptively against our industrial and
commercial progress, and in favor of that of our neighbors on
the north and south.
Finally, your memorialists submit that the Pennsylvania
Railroad and the Harrisburg and Lancaster Railroad are the
only improvements in the State whose tonnage is taxed (except
a slight tax on the Northern Central Railroad,) and that,
while all should be exempt from such burdens for obvious
reasons of State policy, our main highway should not be op-
pressed with an exaction to which the others are not sub-
jected.
For the foregoing reasons, your memorialists pray that the
law imposing a duty on the tonnage passing on and over the
Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Harrisburg and Lancaster
Railroad, may be repealed.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the foregoing memorial to the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Penn-
sylvania, praying a repeal of the tax or duty on the freight
passing over the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Harrisburg and
Lancaster Railroad, be adopted as the expression of the citizens
of Philadelphia, through their representatives in Councils, and
that the Mayor of the City be directed to forward said me-
morial to the Senate and House of Representatives, with an
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earnest request that the law imposing a duty on the tonnage
may be repealed.
• JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHAETON,
President of Select Council.
Approved February 27, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Maym- of Phila.
CHAPTER 44.
AN ORDINANCE
To authorize the construction of the Cohocksink Creek, Vine
street, Moore street, and Twentyffth street Culverts.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the Chief Engineer and
Surveyor, and the Chief Commissioner of Highways, are
hereby authorized to enter into contracts with one or more
competent mechanics, for the construction of four culverts, as
follows : —
A culvert extending from the west side of Sixth, along
Thompson street to the Germantown road, thence on the
Germantown road to the Cohocksink Creek, thence on the
said Creek to Front street, with a branch westward from the
intersection of Germantown road and Cohocksink Creek, and
along said Creek to Culvert street, and thence on Culvert
street to Fourth street.
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A culvert on the line of Vine street, from Nineteenth
street to the River Schuylkill.
A culvert on the line of Moore street, from Ninth street to
Swanson street, and on the line of Ninth street, from Moore
street to Morris street.
And a culvert commencing at the Schuylkill River, at or
near the proposed crossing of Powelton avenue, thence on
line of said avenue to Twenty-fourth street, thence on Twenty-
fourth street to Pennsylvania avenue, thence on Pennsylvania
avenue to Thirty-seventh street, with a branch culvert diverg-
ing at the intersection of Pennsylvania avenue and Twenty-
eighth street, tlience on Twenty-eighth street to Parrish
street, thence on Parrish street to Twenty-fifth street, thence
•on Twenty-fifth street to Poplar.
Provided, that no contracts for the construction of said cul-
Terts shall be binding on the City of Philadelphia until the
same shall have been approved by these Councils, and that
the cost and expense of the construction of said culverts shall
not exceed one hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars, over
and above the amount of the sums assessed under the Fifth
Section of this Ordinance.
Section 2. That it shall be the duty of the Chief Engi-
neer and Surveyor to prepare plans and specifications for the
said culverts, and that the contract or contracts entered into
for the construction thereof, shall be in accordance with such
plans and specifications.
Section 3. That before entering into the said contract or
contracts, the Chief Engineer and Surveyor, and the Chief
Commissioner of Highways shall cause advertisement to be
made for sealed proposals for the construction of the culverts,
and that the contract or contracts therefor, shall be awai-dcd
by them to the lowest and best bidder.
Section 4. That no proposal for the construction of the
said culverts, or either of them, sliall be considered by the
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said Chief Engineer and Surveyor, and Cliiel' Commissioner
of Highways, unless the same be accompanied by an engage-
ment, in writing, from two or more sufficient citizens, guar-
anteeing the faithful execution of the contract in case such
proposal be accepted.
Section 5. That when the said culverts, or either of them
shall be completed, there shall be assessed and charged upon
the properties in front of which the same shall pass, the sum
of seventj'-five cents for each lineal foot of the front of the
said properties.
Section 6. That it shall be a condition of such contract,
that the contractor shall accept the sums so assessed and
charged under the foregoing section of this ordinance, in part
payment of his contract price, and that he shall collect the
same at his own cost, and the better to enable him so to do,
he may use the name of the City of Philadelphia, and employ
all legal remedies or proceedings, whether of lien or other-
wise, to which the said City may be competent.
Section 7. That payments on account may be made, while
the work of constructing the said culverts is in progress, upon
the estimate and cei-tificate of the (Jhief Engineer and Sur-
veyor; provided, however, that no such payment shall exceed
four-fiftlis of the moneys meritoriously earned under the said'
contract, after deduction made of a rateable proportion of the
charges and assessments referred to in the Fifth Section of
this Ordinance.
Section 8. That the expense of constructing the said cul-
verts, over and above the amount of the sums assessed under
the Fifth Section of this Ordinance, shall be defrayed out of
a loan to 1)0 hereafter created by the City of Philadelphia,
and that no work shall be done, or expenditure made under
this Ordinance until such loan shall be created: but when,
and so soon as such loan shall have been duly authorized by
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law and taken, then, and in such case, this Ordinance shall
instantly take effect.
Section 9. Satisfactory evidence shall be furnished by the
contractor to the Chief Conmiissioncr of Highways tliat full
payment has been made for all labor done and materials fur-
nished for the preceding month, before he shall draw or sign
a Avarrant for, or on account of the current month; and pre-
viously to drawing a warrant for the final estimate of any
work done by virtue of this Ordinance, the Cliief Commis-
sioner of Highways shall require full and entire payment by
the contractors, of all labor and materials, on account of such
work, and the said Commissioner shall give one month's
notice, in two daily papers, of the time at which final payment
will be made on each and every warrant.
JOHN MILLER,
Presidcvt of Cominon Council.
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerl; of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select CounciL
Approved February 27, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila,
CHAPTER 45.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Engineer of the Water De-
partment be directed to draw warrants in favor of Judah
Weaver for nineteen dollars and fifty cents, for wharfage on
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water-pipes ; Wetherill & Brother, for forty-one dollars and
sixty-one cents, for white lead, &c. ; Reeves, Buck & Co., for
forty-nine dollars, for nails; William King, for eighty-nine
dollars and thirty cents, for ice and fluid ; Mitchell & Croas-
dale, for fifty-six dollars and forty-seven cents ; Peter Wagner,
for fifty-seven dollars and thirty-five cents, to be taken from
item No. 33, of the Ordinance entitled "An Ordinance to
make an appropriation to the Department for supplying the
City with water, for the year 1858."
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved March 10, A, D. 1858,
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila,
CHAPTER 46.
To make an appropriation to patj six months^ salary of the
Officers of the Board of Health.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of seven thousand
four hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty cents be, and the
same is hereby appropriated to pay the following six months'
salaries to officers in the Board of Health, for the first half
of the year 1858, viz:
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Salary of Health Officer, six months, at the rate of $ 1200
per annum, six hundred dollars.
SaLarv of Clerk, at the rate of $ 1200 per annum, six hun-
dred dollars.
Salary of Assistant Clerk, at the rate of $ 600 per annum,
three hundred dollars.
Salary of Messenger, at the rate of $ 540 per annum, two
hundred and seventy dollars.
Salary of four Assistant Messengers, at the rate of $ 540
each, $2160, ten hundred and eighty dollars.
■ Salary of Port Physician, at the rate of $ 800 per annum,
four hundred dollars.
Salary of Kunner, at the rate of $360 per annum, one hun-
dred and eighty dollars.
Salary of six Bargemen, at the rate of $ 1260, six hundred
and thirty dollars.
Salary of Lazaretto Physician, at the rate of $ 1500, seven
hundred and fifty dollars.
Salary of Quarantine Master, at the rate of $ 1000, five
hundred dollars.
Salary of Steward at Lazaretto, at the rate of $ 975, four
hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
Salary of two Nurses, at the rate of $300, one hundred
and fifty dollars.
Salary of seven Bargemen, at the rate of $ 1050, five hun-
dred and twenty-five dollars.
Salary of two Inspectors of vessels, at the rate of $160
each, $ 320, one hundred and sixty dollars.
Salary of Matron, at the rate of $400 per annum, two hun-
dred dollars.
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Salary of three Nurses, at the rate of $166 66 cents each
per annum, $ 500, two hundred and fifty dollars.
Salary of Watchman, at the rate of 1 240 per annum, one
hundred and twenty dollars.
Salary of Physician, at the rate of $500 per annum, two
hundred and fifty dollars ; provided, that the City Controller
shall not countersign any warrant in favor of any of the said
officers whose duty it is to collect and receive public monies,
until such officer has fully accounted to the Controller for all
monies that have come into his hands by virtue of his office,
and has paid all such monies to the City Treasurer; and
provided further, that no part of the said appropriation shall
be used for any other purpose than for the payment of sala-
ries as is provided for in this Ordinance.
Section 2. That warrants for the said appropriation shall
be drawn in conformity with existing Ordinances.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council,
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Comm^on Couneil.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved March 15, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 47.
RESOLUTION
Providing for the entry of satisfaction upon a certain judg-
ment against William II. Dale.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the City Solicitor be, and he is hereby
authorized and directed to enter satisfaction of record upon a
certain judgment entered in the District Court for the City
and County of Philadelphia, to June Term, 1853, (D. S. B.,)
Xo. 339, in the name of the Commissioners and Inhabitants
of the District of Southwark, against William H. Dale, for
two thousand six hundred and seventy dollars, upon the pay-
ment by said A^'illiam il. Dale of any costs whicli may Ije due
and pay aide uj)on such entry of satisfaction.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — n. G. Leiseneing,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Cotmcil.
Approved March 15, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 48.
RESOLUTBON.
Resolved, By the Sele(;t and Connnon Councils of the
City of Philadelitliia, TluU the proposal of E. J. Etting &
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Brother, for furnishing the best quality refined soft pig lead,
at seven and a-half cents per pound; John Collins, for the
first quality gasketing at nine and a-half cents per pound;
Messrs. Stileman, Ellis & Co., for iron castings, made of the
best materials, at two and three-eighths cents per pound:
E. J. Etting & Brother, for iron pipes and branches — three
inch at twenty-four cents; four inch at thirty-five cents; six
inch at fifty-six cents; eight inch at seventy-five cents; ten
inch at ninety-five cents ; twelve inch at one dollar and twelve
cents; sixteen inch at one dollar and ninety-two cents;
eighteen inch at two dollars and eighteen cents per foot, and
branches at forty-four dollars per ton of 2240 pounds; David
S. Siner, for brass castings of the first quality brass at
twenty-three and a-half cents per pound ; Messrs. Richard
Stileman & Son, for stop cocks and fire plugs, to be fitted in
the best manner and most approved plan — three inch at
seventeen dollars; four inch at twenty dollars; six inch at
thirty dollars; eight inch at thirty-nine dollars; ten inch at
fifty-one dollars ; twelve inch at sixty dollars ; sixteen inch at
one hundred and ten dollars, each ; and fire plugs at twelve
dollars each; for the use of the Department for Supplying
the City with Water, be accepted.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved March 15, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 49.
AN ORDINANCE
To authorize certain improvements on the Girard Estates, to
be paid for out of the income.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain, That the Superintendent of the
Girard Estates, under the supervision of the Committee on
the Girard Estates, be, and he is hereby authorized to im-
prove the property on the north side of Brown street, between
Fifth and Sixth streets, in the late District of the Northern
Liberties, and to expend therefor the sum appropriated for
permanent improvement, by ordina,nce entitled "An Ordi-
nance to make an appropriation out of the income of the
Girard Estates, for the purposes therein mentioned," approved
February 3, 1857.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved March 15, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 50.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an Appropriation to pay the interest on endorsed
Warrants, and interest and costs on judgments obtained
on City Warrants, and interest on arrears of Ground Rents.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of ten thousand
dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to pay the
interest which has accrued on warrants heretofore endorsed
by the City Treasurer, and the interests and costs on judg-
ments obtained on City Warrants, and interest on arrears of
ground, rents- due by the City of Philadelphia.
Section 2. Warrants for the payment of this appropria-
tion shall be drawn by the City Treasurer.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest— Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved March 15, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 51.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an Appropriation to pay deficiencies contracted in
the year 1857, and for other purposes.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of twelve hundred
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forty -nine dollars and sixty -seven cents be, and tlic same
is hereby appropriated to i)ay the following claims contracted
in the year 1857.
1. To pay B. Franklin Jackson, for printing, five hundred
and fifty dollars.
2. To pay Crissy & Markley, for printing, three hundred
forty-five dollars and seventy-five cents.
3. To pay James Gibbons, for printing, one hundred
eighty-five dollars and ninety-two cents.
4. To pay John Kiehl & Son, for crape and gloves for
members of Councils to attend the funeral of Abraham B.
Kaufl'man, late member of Common Council, thirty-five dol-
dollars.
5. To pay R. McCloi5key, eight dollars, for carriages fur-
nished for Police and Special Committee.
6. To the Department of Law, one hundred and twenty-
five dollars, to pay contingent expenses on suit of Kane &
Shaffer against the City.
Section 2. Warrants for items 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, of the ap-
propriation shall be drawn by the Clerks of Councils, and
for item 6 by the City Solicitor.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk Qf Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved March 15, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 52.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, Bj the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the proposal of H. Beareau for sup-
plying Breckeuridge coal oil, at one dollar and twenty-five
cents; Jar ^s D. Whetham for supplying the best sperm oil,
at one dollar and twenty-eight cents, and John S. Schofield
for supplj'ing the best No. 1 city rendered tallow, at twelve
cents per pound, to the various Water Works, be accepted, and
that the Chief Engineer of the Water Department is hereby
authorized to enter into contracts with them for the furnish-
ing of the same.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved March 22, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD YAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 53.
RESOLUTION
To release certain jjroperty of Henry Bickley, from the lien
of a judgment hereinafter mentioned.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Mayor be, and he hereby is author-
ized and required on behalf of the Corporation of the City
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of Philadelpliia, to release tVoiii the lien of a judgment
entered on the nineteenth day of October, 1857, in the Su-
preme Court of Pennsylvania, for the Eastern District, to
January Term, 1858, No. 105, wherein the City of Phila-
delphia is plaintifl", and Henry Bickley and others are de-
fendants, the hereinafter described property owned by Henry
Bickley, one of the said defendants, provided the other de-
fendants in said judgment consent therto.
A certain yearly rent or sum of fifty-one dollars and
twenty cents issuing and payable half-yearly onthe first
of January and July in each year, out of and for the certain
lot or piece of ground, situate on the north side of Barker
street, (which runs westwardly from Sixteenth street, lately
known as Schuylkill Seventh street, and between Market and
Chestnut streets,) in the City of Philadelphia, beginning at
the distance of one hundred and fifty feet eastward from the
east &ide of Seventeenth, (late Schuylkill Sixth street,) and
containing sixteen feet in front or breadth on said Barker
street, and extending of that width northwardly forty feet in
length or depth, to a sixteen feet wide alley on the rear lead-
ing westward into said Seventeenth street. Being the same
ground rent reserved by the said Henry Bickley and wife, in
a certain indenture dated the 4th day of June, 1856, record-
ed in deed book E. D. W., No. 103, page 121, &c., provided,
that all expenses of publication, &c., attending the pas-
sage of this resolution, shall be paid by the parties asking such
release before the same shall be executed.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Atto?t — Txo. D. Milks,
Clerk of Common Conncil.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved .Mnirh 22, A. D. 1S58.
RICHARl) YAVX. Mayor of Phi/,,.
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CHAPTER 54.
RESOLUTION
Authorizing the 'paving of certain streets, and for other
•purposes.
Resolved, Bj the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the owners of property, or a majority
thereof, fronting- on the following named streets, viz: Seven-
teenth street, from Carpenter to Prime streets, in the First
Ward ; Hamilton street, from Fifteenth street westward, to
its intersection with Callowhill street; Eighteenth street,
from North street to Francis street, in the Fifteenth Ward ;
Coral street, from Front street to Frankford road : Cumber-
land street, from Frankford road to Jasper street; Wood
street, from Frankford road to Gaul street; Front street,
from York street to Cambria street ; Blair street, from Wood
street to Dauphin street ; Emerald street, from Front street to
York street, in the Nineteenth Ward ; Tyler street, from the
point to which it is at present paved, north of Poplar street,
northward to Girard avenue ; Oxford street, from Sixth
street to Seventh street, in the Twentieth Ward ; and Thirty-
third street, from Market northward to Bridge street, in the
Twenty-fourth Ward; are hereby authorized to pave the
same, the contractor in each case doing the said work to be a
competent paver, to be approved by the Highway Depart-
ment, who shall enter into an obligation to the City to keep
the streets paved and in good repair for two years after the
paving is finished ; said paving to be carefully supervised by
the proper officer of the Department, while the same is pro-
gressing, and the water pipe to be laid in the said streets
before the paving is begun.
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Resolved, That the sum of four hundred and fifty dollars is
hereby appropriated to the Highway Department, to be paid
to the parties doing the grading on Bridge street, from
Thirty-fifth street eastward to the Wire .Bridge, in the
Twenty-fourtli Ward, preparatory to the paving thereof; pro-
vided, that the amount of the said grading shall not be less
than seven thousand cubic yards.
Resolved, That the Highway Department is hereby author-
ized to grade Fiftli street, from Dauphin to York street, in
the Nineteenth Ward, and to expend therein a sum not to
exceed three hundred dollars ; and also to grade that portion
of Indian Queen lane lying between Ridge avenue and Thirty-
ninth street, in the Twenty-first Ward, and to expend therein,
not exceeding the sura of three hundred and fifty dollars,
for the grading of at least twenty-eight hundred cubic yards.
Resolved, That the said Department is hereby directed to
give notice to the owners of the ground through and over
which Tenth street, lately called Thirty-ninth street, from
Bridge street to Havcrford street, in the Twenty-fourth Ward,
will pass, that at the expiration of three months from the date
of the said notice, the said Tenth or Thirty-ninth street, with-
in the space specified, will be opened for public use, as author-
ized by the 7th section of the Act of Assembly, approved
April 21st, 1855.
Resolved, That the Highway Department is hereby au-
thorized to do the grading necessary on the streets named in
the first resolution, within the spaces specified preparatory to
the paving thereof.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Thos. W. Duffield,
Assistant Clerk of Common Cojincil.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved March 22, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 65.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Board of Controllers of Public
Schools of the First School District of Pennsylvania be, and
they are hereby authorized to draw upon the appropriations
made to the Board for the support of the Public Schools, for
the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, to the
amount of four thousand two hundred and thirteen dollars
and eighty-five cents, to pay bills of the Sectional Boards
contracted in 1857^
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved March 22, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 56.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the proposals of Alexander Convery,
for supplying the Fairmount, Delaware, and Twenty-fourth
Ward Water Works; and John C Miller, for the Schuylkill
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Water Works, with coal for the year 1858, be accepted, and
that the Chief Engineer of the Water Department be author-
ized and required to contract in conformity with the propo-
sals of said parties, as specified in the report of the Committee.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Councils
Approved March 22, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 57.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the City Solicitor be, and he is hereby
authorized to cancel the bond of Wm. V. McKeau and
sureties, late Register of Water.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved March 22, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 58.
RESOLUTION
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the place of holding the Election in
the Fourth Division of the 21st Ward be removed from
the Lock-up House to Snyder's, Congress Hall, at the corner
of Main and Cotton streets.
ADFRED DAY,
President pro tern, of Common Council.
Attest — Thos. W. Duffield,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved March 26, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila,
CHAPTER 59.
RESOLUTION
Whereas, The proprietor of the present Division House
of the Third Division of the Sixth Ward, has positively re-
fused to permit the further use of his house for Election pur-
poses without compensation, which the City Commissioners
will not allow ; therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Division House or place of holding
Elections in the Third Division of the Sixth Ward, shall be
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changed to the house of William A. Thorp, Race street, above
Second street.
ALFRED DAY,
President "pro tern, of Common Council.
Attest — Thos. W. Duffield,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved March 27, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 60.
RESOLUTION.
Whereas, By reason of the decease of the o"^ner and pro-
prietor, the place of holding Elections in the Second Division
of the Second Ward has been closed as a public liouse, and
the legal representatives not being willing that sucli Elections
shall be held at that place hereafter; therefore,
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of PHladelphia, That Elections in the Second Division of the
Second Ward of the City, shall liereafter be held at the house
of James McClaskey, at the north-west corner of Second and
Washington streets, and that the Clerks of Councils be re-
quired to notify the Sheriff immediately of the change.
ALFRED DAY,
President pro tem. of Common Council.
Attest — Thos. W. Duffield,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved March 27, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Maijor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 61.
AN ORDINANCE
To chavge the boundary lines of the Seventh Division of the
Ticenty-second Ward, arid to create an additional Division
in the said Ward, and to establish a place of voting in said
additional Division.
Whereas, The Seventh Division of the Twenty-second
Ward of the City of Philadelphia, contains more voters than
any Election Division was contemplated to have by the Act
of Assembly, February 2d, 1854:
Section 1. Be it ordained, by the Select and Common
Councils of the City of Philadelphia, That the Seventh Divi-
sion of the Twenty-second Ward shall be bounded as follows:
beginning at a stone in the line dividing the late Townships
of German town and Bristol, and in the centre of Gorgas street,
thence south-west along the said G orgas street to G^rmantown
avenue, thence south along the said avenue to Carpenter
street, thence along the said Carpenter street south-westward
to the line of the late Township of Roxborough, thence along
said line north-westward to Cresheim Creek, thence up said
creek to the line of Montgomery county, thence south-east-
ward partly along said line and partly along the line divid-
ing the late Townships of Bristol and Gerniantown, to the
place of beginning, and that the voters of said Seventh Divi-
sion shall vote at the house of Francis Rinker, known as the
White Swan Hotel.
Section 2. That a new Election Division, to be called the
Eighth Division, be, and the same is hereby created in the
said Twenty-second Ward, to include all that part of the
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said Twenty-second Ward lying nortliwardly of Cresheini
Creek, and between the line of the late Township of Rox-
borough on the south-west, and Montgomery county on the
north-east ; and that the voters of said Eighth Division shall
vote at the house of John Bush, known as the Eagle Hotel.
ALFRED DAY,
President -pro lem. of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved March 27, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 62.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That four of the eight Temporary Clerks
now employed in the office of the Receiver of Taxes (to be
selected by him) be, and the same are hereby continued until
the first day of May, 1858.
ALFRED DAY,
President pro tern, of Common Council.
Attest — Thos. W. Duffield.
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved March 27, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 63.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Engineer of the Water De-
partment be authorized and directed to cause water pipes to
be laid as follows, namely: — in Green street, from Twenty-
fourth street to Pennsylvania avenue, in the Fifteenth Ward,
and in Till street, from its present terminus at the Darby
Road, to the Village of Maylandville, about four squares, in
the Twenty-fourth Ward.
ALFRED DAY,
President "pro tern, of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leiseneing,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved March 27, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 64.
RESOLUTION.
Whereas, The improvement of the lower section of the
City is much retarded by the existence of the State Powder
Magazine, in the First Ward, and the lives and property
of our citizens in jeopardy therefrom, therefore,
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Resolved, That our Representatives in the Legislature be
requested to urge the passage of an Act for the early removal
of the said Powder Magazine to some more remote, safe and
convenient locality, and that a copy of this Resolution be
forwarded by the Clerks of Councils to the Speakers of both
branches of the Legislature.
ALFRED DAY,
President -pro tern, of Cominon Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Sehct Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved Mai'cli 27, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of PJiila,
CHAPTER 65.
RESOLUTION,
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the City Solicitor be, and he hereby is
required to enter satisfaction upon the judgment on the official
bonds of Hugh Gamble, Collector of Corporation Taxes for
Third Ward, Moyamensing, for 1853; provided, that the City
Controller shall first certify that his accounts have been
satisfactorily settled.
ALFRED DAY,
President pi'o tern, of Common Council.
Attest — Thos. W. Dufpield.
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved March 27, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 66.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the sum of six hundred dollars be, and
the same is hereby appropriated to pay for the making of
plans of the water pipes laid in said city, to be taken from
item No. 34 of an appropriation approved January 28, 1858,
entitled " An Ordinance to make an appropriation to the De-
partment for supplying the City with water, for the year
eighteen hundred and fifty-eight," provided, the said sum
shall be in full for all demands for preparing said plans.
ALFRED DAY,
President pj^o tern, of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leiseneing,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved March 27. A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 67.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the City Controller be authoiized and
required to compare and audit the accounts and books of the
late Receiver of Taxes, John M. Coleman, with a view to a
final settlement of the same; also, so far as practicable, the
books and accounts of the present Receiver of Taxes, Peter
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Armbrustcr, and said Controller is requested to communicate
to Councils anj additional requirements on his part to carry
the above into effect.
ALFRED DAY,
President pro iem. of Common CounciU
Attest — TlIOS. W. DUFFIELD,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved March 27, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila,
CHAPTER 68.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Commissioner of City Property be,
and he is hereby authorized to commence improving N orris
Square, and to expend the appropriation made for that
purpose ; provided, that advertisement be made by the Com
missioner of City Property inviting the deposit of dirt in the
cavity in said square, by all persons willing to deposit it there
at a price not exceeding ten cents for a full cart load of not
less than sixteen cubic feet.
ALFRED DAY,
President fro ion. of Common Council.
Attest — Thos. W. Dufpield,
Assistant Clerk of Com.mon Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved March 27, A. D. 1857.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAFTEE 69.
RESOLUTIONS
To authorize the paving of Jar vis street, and other streets, and
for other purposes.
Resolved, By tlie Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the owners of property, or a majority
thereof, fronting on Jarvis street, from Front to Second
streets, Shippen street from Gray's Ferry road to Sutherland
avenue, in the First Ward ; Eitchie street from Catharine to
Eose s-treets, in the Third and Fourth Wards ; Meredith street,
from Beach to Carbon streets, in the Seventh Ward ; Fifteenth
street from Hamilton to Centre streets. Fifteenth street from
Coates street to Eidge avenue, Ann Street from Nineteenth,
street to Eidge avenue, Linn street from Twenty-second to
Twenty-fourth streets, Biddle street from Twenty4hird to
Twenty-fifth streets, and Einggold street from Pratt to Brown
streets, in the Fifteenth Ward ; Union street from Bedford to
West streets, in the Eighteenth Ward ; Sergeant street from
Frankford Eoad to Emerald street, in the Nineteenth Ward ;
and Columbia avenue from Eleventh to Broad streets, in the
Twentieth Ward, are hereby authorized to pave the same,
which said paving shall in each case be done by a competent
paver, to be approved by the Highway Department, and the work
shall be carefully superintended by the proper officer of the
Department while the same is in progress, and the water-pipe
shall be laid in the said streets before the paving is begun.
Eesolved, That the Highway Department is hereby author-
ized to enter into a contract with one or more competent
paver or pavers, for the paving of Davis street, from the
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point to which it is noTV paved westward to Ontario street,
and of Stiles street from the point to which it is now paved
westward to Ontario street, and of Ontario street from Girard
avenue northward to Thompson street, and of Girard avenue
from Sixth to Eighth streets, all which streets are in the
Twentieth Ward. One of the conditions for contracts for
paving said streets, shall be that the contractor doing the
work will collect and receive the cost and expenses of the
said paving from the owners of property fronting on the said
streets respectively, and that the city shall not be lialjle for
any charge consequent upon such paving, except for the inter-
sections of streets, and the Highway Department is hereby
authorized to do the grading in the streets named in this and
the foregoing Resolution necessary to be done therein pre-
paratory to the paving thereof.
Resolved, That the Highway Department is hereby au-
thorized to pay the sum of one hundred dollars to finish and
complete the grading of Robeson street, from the turnpike to
the canal, in Manayunk, in the Twenty-first Ward, and to
charge the same to item No. 3 of the appropriation made to
the said Department by the Ordinance approved January,
18th A. p. 1858.
ALFRED DAY,
President pro tern, of Common Council.
Attest — Thos. W. Duffield,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved March 27, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD YAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 70.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Mayor of the City be, and he is
hereby requested, in the name and on behalf of the City of
Philadelphia, earnestly to protest against the passage by the
Legislature, of bills authorizing the construction of City Pas-
senger Railways without requiring the previous approval of
the route and of the terms and conditions upon which such
roads may be built, by the Councils of the City, and^that the
Mayor also respectfully ask from the Legislature the passage
of the act which confers the requisite power to legislate upon
the whole subject upon the Councils of the City.
ALFRED DAY,
President pro tern, of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leiseneing,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M.' WHARTON,
President of_Select Cpuncil.
Approved April 2, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 71.
RESOLUTION
To release certain property of Henry BicJdey,from the lien
of a judgment hereinafter mentioned.
^ Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Mayor be, and he hereby is author-
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ized on behalf of the Corporation of the City of Philadel-
phia, to release from tlie lien of a judgment entered in the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, for the Eastern District, to
January Term, 1857, No. 54, wherein the City of Philadel-
phia is plaintiff, and Samuel P. Fearon, Henry Bickley and
William F. Potts are defendants, the following described
property, owned by Henry Bickley, one of the said defend-
ants, viz: All that certain yearly sum or ground rent of
fifty-one dollars and twenty cents, half yearly issuing and
payable on the first days of January and July, in each year,
for and out of all that certain lot or piece of ground, situate
on the north side of Barker street, (which runs westwardly
from Sixteenth street, lately known as Schuylkill Seventh
street.) and between Market and Chestnut streets, in the City
of Philadelphia; beginning at the distance of 150 feet east-
ward from the east side of Seventeenth street, late Schuylkill
Sixth street, and containing 16 feet in front or breadth on
said Barker street, and extending of that width northwardly
40 feet in length or depth to a 16 feet wide alley in the rear
leading into said Seventeenth street; provided the other de-
fendants in said judgment consent thereto.
ALFRED DAY,
President pro tern, of Common Council.
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council,
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved April 5, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD YAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 72.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation out of the fund under the 22nd
item of the ivill of Stephen Girard, for the improvement of
the eastern front of the City, and for other purposes.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of twenty-two hundred
and ninety-one dollars and sixty-nine cents be, and the same
is hereby appropriated, und^r the 22nd item of the will of
Stephen Girard, for the improvement of the eastern front of
the City, for the purpose of paying the balances due on con-
tracts made for constructing a culvert at the intersection of
Delaware avenue and Chestnut street, and for the paving of
Delaware avenue at and near Vine street.
Section 2. That the further sum of twenty-five thousand
dollars, out of the balance of the residuary fund, be, and the
same is hereby appropriated for completing the permanent
improvements on the north side of Brown street, between
Fifth and Sixth streets.
Section 3. Warrants for the payment of said appropriations
shall 1)0 drawn by the Superintendent of the Girard Estates,
in conformity with existing Ordinances.
SAML. C. PERKINS,
President pro tern, of Common Council,
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved April 9, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Maijor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 73.
AN ORDINANCE
Supphmeniary loan Ordinance entitled '^ An Ordinance to
make an appropriation to the Department of City Property,
for the expenses thereof for the year 1858."
Section 1. The Select and Common .Coimcils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That items 18 and 24 of the said
Ordinance, to which this is supplementary, be, and the same
is hereby excepted out of the proviso attached to the first sec-
tion of said Ordinance, whereby the Commissioner of City
Property is restricted in his expenditure in any one month Of
more than fifty dollars, under any of the items mentioned in
said ,proviso.
SAML. C. PEEKINS,
President pro tern, of Common Council.
.Attest — H. Q. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select CounciL
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved April 9, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 74.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation for the purpose therein mentioned.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of one hundred and
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eighty-three dollars and seventy-one cents be, and the same
is hereby appropriated to pay William Einwechter & Sons, for
laying footway pavements in September, 1855.
Section 2. Warrants for the said appropriation shall
be drawn by the Chief Commissioner of Highways, in con-
formity with existing Ordinances.
SAML. C. PERKINS,
President pro te7n. of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved April 10, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
- CHAPTER 75.
RESOLUTION
To release the sureties of D. McVeigh.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the
City of Philadelphia, That the City Solicitor be instructed
to enter satisfaction on the bond of David McVeigh, (late
Supervisor of the Eleventh and Twelfth Wards,) and his
sureties, when the Chief Commissioner on Highways shall
certify that his accounts have been properly settled.
SAMUEL C. PERKINS,
President pro tern, of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council,
Approved April 12, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 76.
AN ORDINANCE
To authorize the construction of certain culverts or drains, on
the lines of Second, Wood, Emerald, JVorris and Oxford
streets, in the A'lncteenth Ward.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain, That the owners of property situate
on the lines of Second, Wood, Emerald, Norris and Oxford
streets, in the 19th Ward, are hereby authorized to construct
the following culverts or drains, viz :
First. From York and Emerald streets, southwestwardly
on Emerald street to Front street, thence westwardly on
Wood street to the west side of Washington street, four feet
circular diameter, Avith a branch from the intersection of
Second and Wood street, northwardly on Second street, one
thousand feet, three feet diameter.
Second. From Norris and Howard streets, westwardly on
the line of Norris street to the west side of Washington
street, four feet diameter, with branches from Second and
Norris streets, northwardly on Second street, five hundred
and seventy-five feet, two-and-a-half feet diameter, and four
hundred and twenty-five feet, twenty inches diameter; also,
a branch from Second and Norris streets, southwardly on
Second street five hundred and fifty feet, three feet diameter,
and two hundred feet, twenty inches diameter.
Third. From Clinton and Oxford streets westwardly on
Oxford street to the west side of Second street, three feet
diameter, with a branch on Second street, northwardly from
Oxford street, five hundred and fifty feet, three feet diameter,
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and five hundred feet, two feet diameter, to be of such form
and dimensions as the Department of Surveys may prescribe,
and to be constructed under the supervision of the Department
of Highways ; provided^ before the said culvert is commenced,
the parties who are hereby authorized to construct the same,
shall enter into a covenant with the City of Philadelphia,
to build it at their own expense, and upon its completion, to
restore the pavement to its present condition.
Section 2. The said culvert when completed shall become
the property of the City without condition, saving and except-
ing, that should a permit to make a drain to said culvert be
hereafter granted by the city, to a person or persons who have
not contributed to the expense of constructing said culvert,
then and in sivih case the parties constructing the same, under
this Ordinance, are hereby authorized to demand of the per-
son or persons to whom such permit shall be granted, such
part of the original cost thereof as shall be proportionate to
the frontage of his, her, or their property thereon; and in
case of neglect or refusal to pay the said sum, they may sue for
and collect the same ; provided, a certificate of approval and
acceptance thereof from the Chief Engineer and Surveyor, and
a statement of the actual cost of such culvert shall have been
filed in the office of the Department of Surveys ; and provided
also, that the annual charge or rentage shall be paid as speci-
fied in " Ordinance providing for the granting of permits to
make openings into common sewers," approved May 3, 1855.
SAML. C. PERKINS,
President pro. tern of Comjjion Council,
Attest — Thos. W. Duffield,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved April 12, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 77.
RESOLUTION.
Eesolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the City of Philadelphia accepts the
gift of Mr. B. Otis, of a portrait of the late Gen. Nathaniel
Greene, painted in oil from an original likeness by Sir Joshua
Reynolds, and returns to him the thanks of the city for the
donation.
Resolved, That the Commissioner of City Property be
directed to cause the same to be suitably framed, and placed
in the Hall of Independence.
SAML. C. PERKINS,
President pro tern, of Common Council,
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved April 12, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mai^r of Phila.
CHAPTER 78.
AN ORDINANCE
To authorize the construction of a certain culvert or drain, on
the line of Merchant and Robertson streets, northward from
Thompson street, in the Twentieth Ward.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain, That the owners of property situate
on Merchant and Robertson streets, (the latter being an ex-
tension of the former street,) in the Twentieth Ward, are
hereby authorized to construct a culvert or drain, to commence
at and intersect the culvert at Thompson street, to extend
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northward along Merchant and Robertson streets to the north
side of JeflFerson street ; to be of such form and dimensions as
the Department of Surveys may prescribe, and to be con-
structed under the supervision of the Department of High-
ways; provided, before the said culvert is commenced, the
parties who are hereby authorized to construct the same, shall
enter into a covenant with the City of Philadelphia, to build
it at their OAvn expense, and upon its completion to restore
the pavement to its present condition.
Section 2. The said culvert when completed shall become
the property of the city, without condition, saving and except-
ing, that should a permit to make a drain to said culvert be
hereafter granted by the city to a person or persons who have
not contributed to the expense of constructing said culvert,
then, and in such case, the parties constructing the same
under this Ordinance, are hereby authorized to demand of the
person or persons to whom such permit shall be granted, such
part of the original cost thereof as shall be proportionate to
the frontage of his, her, or their property thereon, and in
case of neglect or refusal to pay said sum, they may sue for
and collect the same ; provided, a certificate of approval and
acceptance thereof from the Chief Engineer and Surveyor,
and a statement of the actual cost of such culvert shall have
been tiled in the office of the Department of Surveys ; and
provided also, that the annual charge or rentage shall be paid
as specified in " Ordinance providing for the granting of per-
mits to make openings into common sewers," approved May
3rd, 1855.
SAML. C. PERKINS,
President pro iem. of Common Council.
Attest — Thos. W. Dupfield,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved April 12, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 79.
AN ORDINANCE
Relating to certain Passenger Railway Companies.
Whereas, By the provisions of the Act of Assembly, ap-
proved April 9, 1858, entitled " An Act to incorporate the
Philadelphia and Gray's Ferry Passenger Railway Company,"
and of a certain other Act of Assembly, approved April 10,
1858, entitled " An Act to incorporate the Second and Third
street Passenger Railway Company of Philadelphia," and of
a certain other Act of Assembly, approved April 10, 1858,
entitled " An Act to incorporate the North Branch Passenger
Railway Company of the city of Philadelphia," and of a cer-
tain other Act of Assembly, approved April 13, 1858, entitled
" An Act to incorporate the Fairmount Passenger Railroad
Company," and of a certain other Act of Assembly, approved
April 9, 1858, entitled " A further supplement to an Act to
incorporate the North Philadelphia Plank Road Company
and for other purposes," the right is reserved to the City
Councils to disapprove of the said Acts of Assembly, re-
spectively, and of the right therein, respectively granted to
the said companies to occupy the streets and highways of the
said city therein, respectively, within thirty days from the
passage of the said Acts of Assembly ; therefore,
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That in pursuance of the power
and authority in them vested by the said Acts of Assembly,
Councils do hereby declare their disapproval of each and
every of the said Acts of Assembly in the above preamble
mentioned, and of the rights therein respectively granted to
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" The Philadelphia and Gray's Ferry Passenger Railway
Company," " The Second and Third Street Passenger Rail-
way Company of Philadelphia," " The North Branch Passen-
ger Railway Company of tTie City of Philadelphia," " The
Fairmount Passenger Railroad Company," and " The North
Philadelphia Plank Road Company," to occupy the streets
and highways of the City of Philadelphia.
Section 2. That if any Company in the said preamble
named shall, witliin ninety days from the passage of thisordi-
nance, and before such Company shall occupy any of the said
streets or highways, file in the ofl&ce of the City Solicitor a
written obligation, sufficient in law, to bind such Company to
observe and be subject to all ordinances of the City in rela-
tion to Passenger Railways then in force, and thereafter to be
passed, then the provisions of the first section of this ordi-
nance as to each and every such Company as shall file such
written obligation, as aforesaid, shall ^ease to have effect.
JOHN MILLER,
Pr£sident of Common Council,
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clei'k of Select CounciL
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select CounciL
Approved April 16, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mat^or of Pliila.
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CHAPTER 80.
AN ORDINANCE
Respecting " The Citizens^ Passenger Railway Company,^^
Whereas, By the Act of Assembly entitled " An Act to
incorporate the Citizens' Passenger Railway Company," ap-
proved 25th day of March, A. D. one thousand eight hundred
and fifty-eight, it is provided that " before the said Company
shall use and occupy the said streets, the consent of the Coun-
cils of the City of Philadelphia shall be first obtained, and
said consent shall be taken and deemed to have been given if
said Councils shall not, within thirty days after passage of the
Act, by Ordinances duly passed, signify their disapproval
thereof;" and whereas, the said period of thirty days will
probably elapse before the said Company will be so organized
as to act in a corporate capacity ; therefore,
Section 1, The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain, That the Councils of the City of Phila-
delphia do hereby, in pursuance of the authority in them
vested by the said Act of Assembly, declare their disapproval
of the said Act, and of the right thei'ein granted to the Citi-
zens' Passenger Railway Company to use and occupy the
streets of the City therein named.
■ Section 2. That if .the said Company shall, within ninety
days, from the passage of this Ordinance, and before they
shall use or occupy any of the said streets, file in the office of
the City Solicitor a written obligation, sufficient in his opinion,
in law, to bind the said Company to obsen-e and be subject to
all Ordinances of the City of Philadelphia in relation to
Passenger Railways, then in force, or at any time thereafter
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to be passed, then the provisions of the first section of this
Ordinance shall be of no eflect.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved April 16, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Philcu
CHAPTER 81.
AN ORDINANCE
Supplementary to an Ordinance to make an appropriation to
the Department for Supplying the City with Water, for the
year 1858.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain. That so much of item 34 of the
first section of the Ordinance to which this is a supplement,
as requires that all digging or excavation for the laying of
pipe be done by contract, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Thos. W. Duffield,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved April 20, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 82.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation to pay the claim of F, W. Binder,
Police Magistrate of the Fifteenth Ward.
Section 1. Be it ordained and enacted by the Select and
Common Councils of the city of Philadelphia ; That the sum
of three hundred and ninety-eight dollars and fifty-two cents
be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the payment of
the following claim against the Corporation, viz : —
F. W. Binder, for services rendered as Police Magistrate
of the Fifteenth Ward, (Ninth District,) from August 15,
1856, to August 15, 1857, three hundred and ninety-eight
dollars and fifty-two cents.
Section 2. Warrants for the payment of said appropria-
tion shall be drawn by the Mayor, in conformity with exist-
ing Ordinances. '
SAML. C. PERKINS,
President pro tern, of Common Council.
Attest — Thos. W. Dupfield,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved April 23, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Ma^jor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 83.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Mayor be, and he is hereby author-
ized on behalf of the Corporation of the City of Philadel-
phia, to release from the lien ©f a judgment entered on the
thirtieth, day of March, A. D. 1858, in the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania^, for the Eastern District, to January Term,
1858, number 212, wherein the City of Philadelphia is Plain-
tiff, and John Felton, John Roberts and James H. Parke are
Defendantsj the following described property owned by John
Roberts;^ — All that cei^tamilot or piece of ground, with the
buildings thereon erected, situate on the north-east corner of
Sixteenth street and Say street, in the Tenth Ward of the
City of Philadelphia ; containing in front on said Sixteenth
street thirty feet, and extending in depth eastward along the
north side of Say street one hundred and twenty feet, to Moore
alley.
JOHN MILLER,
President &f Common Council,
Attest— H. G. Leiseneing,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council,
Approved April 23, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 84.
RESOLUTION
Relating to the Contract for the supply of Sperm Oil for 1858.
Resolved, Bj the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Resolution authorizing the Chief
Engineer of the Water Works to make contracts with James
D. Whetham for sperm oil for said Department, shall be made
to read " one hundred and thirty-eight cents" instead of " one
hundred and twenty-eight cent?," which was inserted by
mistake, and that the said Chief be, and he is hereby author-
ized to make contracts accordingly.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved April 23, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 85.
AN ORDINANCE
To authorize the opening of Ontario, Davis and Stiles streets,
in the Twentieth Ward.
Whereas, By a Resolution of Councils apiwoved Decem-
ber 7th, 1857, notice was duly given on the twelfth day of
December last, to the owners of the ground through and over
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wliich the streets hereinafter named are laid out, that at the
expiration of three months from said notice, Councils would
order the said streets to be opened for public use, as author-
ized by the seventh section of an Act of Assembly, approved
April twenty-first, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five,
and the said time of three months having elapsed ; therefore,
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, that Davis street and Stiles street,
from the point to which they are now each respectively
opened westward to Ontario street, and Ontario street, from
Girard avenue to Thompson street, in the Twentieth Ward,
be, and the same are hereby directed to be opened for pub-
lic use as streets or highways, and the Highway Department
is hereby authorized and required to cause all obstructions
within the limits of the said streets to be removed, and the
same to be thrown open for public travel.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common CounciL
Attest — Thos. W. Duffield,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved April 23, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 86.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Election for the Eighth Precinct of
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the Twenty-first Ward, shall hereafter be held at the Lever-
ington Hotel, on the Ridge Avenue, in said Ward.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved April 23, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 87.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That for the purpose of auditing the books
and accounts of John M. Coleman, late Receiver of Taxes,
and Peter Armbruster, present Receiver, for the years 1854,
1855, 1856, 1857 and 1858, the City Controller is hereby
authorized to appoint, by and with the consent of Select Coun-
cil, four clerks, whose term of office shall not expire until
their labors shall be completed ; the City Controller shall see
that they faithfully execute their duties, and shall report to
Councils any neglect of duty, and also, when their said labors
shall be completed. The salary of the said Clerks shall be
at the rate of eight hundred dollars each per annum, payable
monthly; provided, that Councils may at any time repeal
this Resolution.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Thos. W. Duffield,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved April 24, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD A^AUX, Mayor of Pltila.
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CHAPTER 88.
RESOLUTION
To authorize the paving of Vienna street, and other streets^
and for other purposes.
Resolved, By tlie Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the owners of property, or a mnjority
thereof, fronting on Vienna street, from Queen street to Frank-
ford avenue, in the 18th Ward: York street, from the Bridge
over Gunner's Run Canal north-westward to the Frankford
Road ; Salmon street, from Cumberland to York street ; Tulip
street, from Cherry to Wood street ; Hope street, from Dau-
phin to York street ; Emerald street and Braddock street,
from Huntingdon street to Lehigh avenue, in the 19th Ward ;
Twentieth street, from Poplar street to Girard avenue ; Cad-
wallader avenue, from Jefferson to Oxford street, in the 20th
Ward, are hereby authorized to pave the same ; the contrac-
tor for doing the said work in each case to be a competent
paver, to be approved by the Highway Department, and the
work to be supervised by the proper officer of the Department,
wliile the same is progressing ; provided, that the water pipe
shall be laid in the said streets before the paving is begun.
Resolved, That the Highway Department is hereby au-
thorized to enter into a contract for the paving of Caroline
street and Turner street, extending from Wharton to Mar-
shall street, between Fourth and Fifth streets, in the Second
Ward ; one of the conditions of which contract shall be that
the contractor doing the work will collect and receive the
cost and expenses of the said paving from the owners of pro-
perty fronting on the said streets, and will not hold the city
liable therefor, and the Highway Department is hereby au-
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tliorizcd to do the grading in the streets named in this, and
the Ibregoing resolution, and also iu Jefferson avenue, from
Franklin to Mifflin street, in the First Ward, necessary to be
done therein, preparatory to the paving thereof.
Resolved, That the Highway Department is hereby au-
thorized to notify the owners of property on both sides of
Howard street, from Cumberland to Huntingdon street, and
of Huntingdon street, from Front to Second streets, in the
Nineteenth Ward, to grade and pave the footways in front of
their respective properties.
Resolved, That the Chief Commissioner of Highways is
hereby authorized to draw a warrant in favor of C. V. Nau-
mann, for the sum of seven hundred and thirty-seven dollars
and sixty-eight cents, in full payment of the balance of his
claim for grading Norris street, at the intersection of Frank-
lin avenue, near the Gunner's Run Canal, the same to be
paid out of Item 3 of the appropriations made to the High-
way Department by the Ordinance approved January 18th,
A. D. 1858.
Resolved, That the Highway Department is hereby au-
thorized to have the necessary repairs made to the abutments
of the Bridge over the Gunner's Run Canal, at York street,
in the Nineteenth Ward, and to pay the cost and expenses
of said repairs out of item seven of the appropriations men-
tioned in the preceding resolution.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Thos. W. Duffield,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved April 24, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 89.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of tHe City
®f Philadelphia, That the City Solicitor be and is hereby
authorized to enter satisfaction of record upon two certain
judgments against John Henderson, in the Supreme Court, to
wit: City of Philadelphia, January, 1857, No. 5, D. S. B.,
August 11th, 1856, five hundred dollars; same, January,
1858, No. 224, D. S. B., March 30th, 1858, five hundred dol-
lars, upon the substitution of other security satisfactory to the-
Committee of Finance.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common CounciK
Attest — Thos. "W. Duffield,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council-
Approved April 25, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 90.
AN ORDINANCE
To establish and regulate a Market in the late Borough of
Frankford, 23rd Ward.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain, That from and after the passage of
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this Ordinance, the Public Market in the late Borough of
Frankford shall be, and the same is hcrel^y appropriated a
Market Stand, for the sale of butchers' meats, fish and country
produce.
And that markets may be held in the said Market House
every day throughout the year, except Sunday, and begin one
hour before daylight, and end at one o'clock, on all days of
the week, except Wednesdays and Saturdays, under a penalty
of two dollars for each offence.
Section 2. It shall not be lawful for any butcher, victual-
ler, or shinner, to hawk or sell butchers' meats, out of any
wagon. or cart, or to occupy any foot- way for the sale thereof,
within the limits of the late Borough of Frankford, under a
penalty of five dollars for each offence.
Provided ; that the provisions of this Ordinance shall not
extend to any farmer vending the produce of his own farm,
•or the meat of animals fed and slaughtcr-cd by him or them.
Section 3. That no person shall use steelyards or spring
'balances within the mai'ket limits, nor shall sale be made by
other weights and measures than such as shall have been
legally regidated and stamped, and by just scales, under a
penalty of five dollars and forfeiture of such steelyards,
spring balances, or imperfect weights, measures and scales.
Section 4. That if any pei-son sliall sell or expose for sale
any blown, stale or unwholesome meats, fisli or provisions, the
same shall be forfeited, and the offender &'hall incur a penalty
of five dollars for each offence.
Section 5. That it shall be the duty of the Supervisor of
Highways of the District, to cleanse and remove the dirt or
offal created by the markets, at least twice in each woek, and
deposit the same in such place as the Commissioner of High-
ways may direct.
Section 6. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of
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Market Houses to rent the stalls in said Market, at a rent not
to exceed twenty dollars for each stall.
Section 7. That all fines and penalties incurred under this
Ordinance, shall be recoverable before any Alderman; one-
half to be paid to the person prosecuting for the same, and
the other half to the uses of the poor of the District.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Thos. W. Duffield,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved April 28, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 91.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Engineer of the Water
Department be authorized and directed to draw warrants in
favor of Alexander Convery for six thousand three hundred
and ninety-four dollars and sixty cents, for coal at the Schuyl-
kill Works, from item No. 20; Morgan & Orr, for four hun-
dred and seventy-six dollars and fifty-five cents, for repairs,
&c., at pumps at Fairmount Works, from item No. 27 ;
Thomas Butler, for fourteen dollars and six cents, for slush,
lamps, oil cans, &c., &g., from item No. 33; J. B. A. & S.
Allen, for one hundred and thirty-live dollars and thirty cents,
for three barrels of lard oil, from items Nos. 23, 24 and 25 ;
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Berry and Simpson, for one hundred and twenty-nine dollars,
for fire briclis and prepared clay, at Schuylkill Works, from
item No. 30.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved April 28, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 92.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an Appropriation to pay the claim of Eli K. Price,
and certain other claims against the City of Philadelphia,
incurred during the years 1855, 1856 'antZ 1857.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of four hundred and
eleven dollars and forty-four cents be, and the same is
hereby appropriated to pay the following claims against the
City, viz: —
1. To Eli K. Price, for professional services in relation to
surveys in Bleckley, and expenses of advertising, plans, &c.,
eighty-four dollars and eighteen cents,
2. John Watts BarncS; for making out list of taxables in
the 9th, lOth, 11th and 12th Divisions of the 23rd Ward,
for the year 1855, twenty-four dollars and eighty-five cents.
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3. Daniel Harkins, for rent of room for election in Novem-
ber,'jl856, in 7tli Precinct, 19th Ward, five dollars.
4. Dr. William H. Freeman, balance due for services as
Vaccine Physician in 6tli and 14tli Wards, from January
29, 1856, to January 29, 1858, forty-one dollars and sixty-six
cents.
5. Dr. James McFadden, for services as Vaccine Physician,
12th Ward, from January 19, 1857, to April 19, 1857, twelve
dollars and fifty cents.
6. Henry J. Fougeray, for extra services rendered to the
Finance Committee, in their investigation of the affairs of
the Board of Health, erne hundred dollars.
7. Thomas B. Beck, for straw and oats furnished the Phila-
delphia Almshouse^ one hundred and forty-two dollars and
twenty-five cents.
8. James B. Doyle, Attorney foT Mrs. James Sherry,
money paid twice on a municipal claim, fifty dollars.
Section 2. Warrants for these ajopropriations shall be
drawn as follows: — item 1^ by the City Surveyor ; 2 mid '3,
by the City Commissioners; 4 and 5, by the President of the
Board of Health ; 6, by the Clerks of Councils ; 7, by the
Guardians of the Poor, and 8, by the City Solicitor.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Trios. W. Dufpield,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved April 28, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 93.
AN ORDINANCE
7b make an appropriation to the Board of Controllers of Pub-
lic Schools of the First School District of Pennsylvania, for
the purposes therein mentioned.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of thirty-one hun-
dred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to the
Board of Controllers of Public Schools of the First School
District of Pennsylvania, for the purpose of insuring School
Houses ; provided, that the said insurances shall be effected
in the " Fire Association."
Section 2. That warrants shall be drawn in conformity
with existing Ordinances.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council,
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council,
Approved April 29, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 94.
AN ORDINANCE
Extending the time for selling Shad in the City of Philadel'
phia.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That from and after the passage
of this Ordinance, the time within which it shall be lawful to
sell Shad in the City of Philadelphia, shall be extending fromi
the seventh to the twelfth day of June, in each year.
Section 2. That all Ordinances inconsistent herewith be,
and the same are hereby repealed.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council,
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council,
Approved April 29, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Pkila,
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CHAPTER 95.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation to the Board of Health, for expenses
of the Health Office and the Lazaretto for the year eighteen
hundred and fifty-eight.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of five thousand three
hundred and twenty-five dollars be, and the same is hereby
appropriated to the Board of Health, for the payment of the
expenses of the Lazaretto and Health office, for the year
eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, as follows : —
1. For repairs to wharf, two hundred dollars.
2. For repairs to Quarantine Master's house, two hundred
dollars.
3. For new roof to Physician's house, three hundred dollars.
4. For cordage, paints, &c., two hundred and fifty dollars.
5. Burning Fluid twenty-five dollars.
6. Small boat, thirty-five dollars.
7. Medicines and instruments, one hundred and seventy-five
dollars.
8. Straw for bedding, twenty-five dollars. ,..
9. Gas for City office, twenty-five dollars.
10. Filling ice house, seventy-five dollars.
11. Repairs to boat house, thirty-five dollars.
12. Repairs to Hospital, two hundred dollars.
13. Cleansing and repairing well, thirty dollars.
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14. Two flags, fifty dollars.
15. Cap for flag staff, tMrty dollars.
16. Carpet for spare- room, fifty dollars.
17. Taxes for Lazaretto, one hundred dollars.
FOB THE EXPENSES OP THE HEALTH OFFICE.
18. For printing and publisMng, one hundred and fifty dol-
lars.
19. For stationery and blanks, two hundred dollars.
20. For taxes, fuel, gas, water renfc and repairs^ two hun-
dred dollars.
21. For Office furniture, repairs to Office, postage,, cleaning
and incidentals, two hundred and fifty dollars.
22. For removal of nuisances, two thousand dollars.
23. For water coolers and ice, forty dollars.
24. For convGying infected vessels back to the Quarantine
Station, if required during the year, five hundred dollars.
25. Carrying the mail to and from the Lazaretto, one
hundred and seventy-five dollars.
Section 2. Warrants for the payment of the foregoing
appropriation! shall be drawn in accordance with existing
laws.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Covmcih
Attest — Thos. W. Dupfield,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council,
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved April 29, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, May&r of Phila.
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CHAPTER 96.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation to the Guardians of the Poor, for
the payment of certain expenses of that Department in-
curred in 1851.
Section 1. The Select and ConmiGn Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain, That the snm of sixteen thousand
•six hundred and ;thirty-five dollare and sixty cents be, and the
same hereby is appropriated to the Board of Guardians of
the Poor, for the payment of the following bills incurred by
that Department in 1857, viz : —
Item 2. John Hinckle, two thousand five hundred and
eighteen dollars and twenty-six cents.
Item 2. Philip Gafifney, thirteen hundred and two dollars
and forty-eight cents.
Item 2. John Jones, thirteen hundred and two dollars and
fortj'^eight cents.
Item 3. Thomas Faar, sixty -three dollars and eighty-four
cents.
Item 3. Peter Melloy, sixty-two dollars and fifty-five cents.
Item S. G. S. Dempsey, two hundred and twcnty-tliree
dollars and eig'hty-aine cents.
Item 3. Jordan & Brother, one Irandred and seventy-seven
dollars and thirty-nine cents.
Item 3. G. M. Growell, twenty-three dollars and thirty-live
cents.
Item 3. N. II. Gra-ham & Co., sixty dollars.
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Item 6. Wm. Hillary, two hundred and ninety-four dollars
and sixty-eiglit cents.
Item 6. B. A. Fahnestock & Co., three hundred and twelve
dollai-s and fifty cents.
Item 6. J. C. Baker & Co., seven hundred and forty-five
dollars and eighty-four cents.
Item 6. Z. Locke & Co., one hundred and twenty-eight
dollars and thirteen cents.
Item 6. Canon & Brother, seven dollars and thirty-one cents.
Item 6. Powers & Weightman, four hundred and forty-six
dollars and seven cents.
Item 6. Wetherill & Brother, forty- three dollars and
thirteen cents.
Item 6. A. F. Hazard & Co., seven hundred and thirty-five
dollars and thirty cents.
Item 6. Charles Shivers, sixty dollars.
Item 6. J. Broadbent, fifty-six dollars and eighty-seven cents.
Item 6. French, Eichards & Co., sixty-seven dollars and
wenty-five cents.
Item 7. W. B. Thomas & Co., twenty-two dollars and fifty
ents.
Item 7. Thomas J. Martin, seventy-five dollars and ninety-
one cents.
Item 9. John Quinn, seventy-eight dollars.
Item 10. Fitzpatrick & Wood, one hundred and fifty-one
dollars and eighty-seven cents.
Item 10. Lewis Bitting, thirty dollars.
Item 10. Patterson & Coane, ninety dollars and sixty-five
cents.
Item 11. Geo. W. Flanigan, one hundred and ninety-one
dollars and twenty-five cents.
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Item 11. James Sloan, two hundred and sixty-eight dollars
and seventy-five cents.
Item 12. George Snowden, twenty-eight dollars.
Item 12. J. n. Gcmrig, four dollars.
Item 12. Thos. Snowden, twenty-eight dollars and sixty-
one cents.
Item 13. P. H. Miller, twenty-seven dollars and nineteen
cents.
Item 21. John Havens, two hundred and fifty-three dollars
and eighty-two cents.
Item 24. J. H. Sprague & Co., one hundred and five dollars
and fourteen cents.
Item 24. French & Richards, fifteen dollars and two cents.
Item 27. Joseph Fleming, two hundred and fifty-two dol-
lars and sixteen cents.
Item 30. W. McMullen, twenty-six dollars and fifty-five cents.
Item 30. J. Kelsh, forty-five dollars and seventy-five cents.
Item 30. Chas. Urian, forty -six dollars and forty-seven cents.
Item 32. John Lancaster, forty-six dollars.
Item 33. Samuel Schober, seventy-one dollars and three
cents.
Item 33. P. McKenna, two hundred and sixty-four dollars
and seventy-six cents.
Item 33. E. McGovern, seventy-three dollars and twenty-
six cents.
Item 33. Thos. E. Baxter, twenty-two dollars and thirty-
one cents.
Item 33. D. Donohue, fifty-four dollars and twenty-five cents.
Item 33. P. Rodgers, forty -six dollars.
Item 34. J. R. Gheen & Co., nine dollars and eleven cents.
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Item 35. J. B. Braddock, one hundred and eighty-seven
dollars and twenty-five cents.
Item 36. Thos. Chadwick, three hundred and fifty-two dol-
lars and thirty cents.
Item 37. D. P. Megary, forty-four dollars-
Item 37. Thomas R, Bitting, sixteen dollars and fifty-two
cents.
Item 37. Tully & Brown, one hundred and sixty-five dol-
lars and eighteen cents-
Item 37. French & Richards, twenty-two dollars and
seventy-six cents-
Item 40. Penna. Institute for Blind, two hundred and five
dollars and twenty-two cents.
Item 43. N. H. Graham, two dollars.
Item 43. Peter Melloy, three dollars-
Item 43. Thomas Fair, one dollar-
Item 43. S. Schober, one dollar.
Item 43. J. Havens, one dollar-
Item 43. Jordan & Brother, four dollars.
Item 45. George Boon, fifty-seven dollars and thirty-six
cents.
Item 46. Baldwin, Linderman & Co., forty dollars and
eighty cents.
Item 56. Charles Wilhelm, nineteen dollars and eight cents.
Item 56. J. Whetham, eighteen dollars and twenty-two cents.
Item 56. Baldwin, Linderman & Co., twenty dollars.
Item 56. Charles R. Abel, one hundred and fifteen dollars.
Item 56. Joseph Whetham, six dollars and fifty-eight cents.
Item 56. Hugh Gamble, twenty-four dollars and fifty-four
cents.
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Item 72. James Galbraith, four hundred and fifteen dollars
and twenty-five cents.
Item 73. Edm'd Brewer, seventy-one dollars and fifty
cents.
Item 75. Wm. Tate, thirty-three dollars.
Item 82. Philadelphia Democrat, five dollars and twenty-
five cents.
Item 82. Evening Argus, thirty dollars and forty cents.
Item 82. W. M. Christy, sixty-one dollars and eighteen
tents.
Item 82. B. F. Jackson, six hundred and four dollars and
thirty-three cents.
Item 82. Bicking & Guilbert, two hundred and thirty dol-
lars and thirty cents.
Item 82. Evening Journal, fifteen dollars and fifty cents.
Item 82. Swain & Abel, eleven dollars and twenty-six
cents.
Item 82. Pennsylvanian, six dollars.
Item 83. Edm'd Brewer, forty-four dollars and fifty cents.
. Item 85. Thomas Rourke, one hundred and thirty-one dol-
lars and fifty cents.
Item 87. Peter Melloy, forty-eight dollars and seventy-five
cents.
Item 87. Michael Jilon, sixteen dollars and twenty-five
cents.
Item 87. Lewis Kugler, eighty-one dollars and eighty-
seven cents.
Item 87. Thomas Fair, twenty-one dollars.
Item 89. S. Fagan, forty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
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■ Item 89. M. Dalton, eighteen dollars and fifty cents.
Item 89. B. McDonald, twelve dollars. •
Item 89. J. Eedmond, sixty-nine dollars and twenty-five
cents.
Item 89. James Carey, sixteen dollars and seventy-five cents.
Item 91. A. L. Crawford, forty-four dollars and seventy-
five cents.
Item 92. C. C. Wampole, one hundred and twenty-five dol-
lars and seventy-one cents.
Item 93. Josh. Wright, seventy-one dollars and fifty cents.
Item 93. R. Jameson, one hundred and thirty-seven dollars.
Item 93. R. & F. Atmore, one hundred and thirty dollars
and twenty-five cents.
Item 93. P. O'Connor, one hundred and twenty-three dol-
lars.
Item 95. Alex. Dales, four hundred and ninety-one dollars.
Item 95. "W. R. McKinley, one hundred and forty-four
dollars and fifty cents.
Item 96. E. W. Gorgas, thirty-seven dollars and thirty-
five cents.
" Item 97. Thomas Judge, eighty-one dollars and fifty cents.
Item 98. James Montague, twenty-four dollars and sixty
cents.
Item 99. M. Megary, one hundred and thirty-eight dollars
and fifty cents.
Item 99. W. Kelly, eighty-six dollars. . -»
Item 99. James Armstrong, twenty-three dollars and twen-
ty-five cents.
Item 101. Lloyd & Hill, one hundred and four dollars.
Item 101. P. J. Hoopes, forty-four dollars and ninety-two
cents.
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Item 103. W. McGlenshy, fifteen dollars.
Item 103. P. xMcGlensliy, eight dollars.
Item 103. W. Morrison, fifteen dollars and seventy-five
cents.
Item 103. Joseph Shantz, fourteen dollars.
F. G. & V. J. Frazer, one hundred and seventy-seven dol-
lars and seventy-seven cents.
W. H. Fatten, seventy-three dollars and forty-nine cents.
J. Montgomery, twelve dollars.
C. Frazer, forty-eight dollars.
Mitchell & Ore, ten dollars and fifty cents, for repairs to
Seventh street building.
E. Brewer, thirty-nine dollars, for cleaning office.
C. U. Schlater, fifteen dollars and ninety-three cents, for
gas for office.
M. Sachenmaier, two hundred and forty dollars, for iron
bedsteads.
The numbers designating the items in this section, refer to
the corresponding items in the Appropriation to this Depart-
ment, for the year 1857.
Section 2. Warrants for the payment of the said appropri-
ation shall be drawn in accordance with existing Ordinances.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Thos. W. Dupfield,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council'
G. M. WHARTON,
President of' Select Council.
Approved April 30, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of PhUa. ■
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CHAPTER 97.
AN ORDINANCE
To-make an appropriation to pay Jurors of 1856 and 1857,
and for other purposes.
Section. 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of three thousand one
hundred and twenty dollars and ninety-seven cents he, and the
same is hereby appropriated for the following purposes, viz :
1. To pay Jurors of Court of Nisi Prius for the year 1857^
one hundred and fifty dollars.
2. To pay Jurors of the District Court for the year 1856>
and 1857, one hundred and seventy dollars.
3. To pay Jurors of the Court of Common Pleas for the
year 1857, fifty dollars.
4. To pay Jurors of Court of Quarter Sessions for the
year 1857, one hundred and fifty dollars.
5. To pay Road Jurors of 1856 and 1857, one hundred
dollars.
6. To John Campbell for meals furnished to jurors and
prisoner in case of Commonwealth vs. Diamond, eighty-six
dollars.
7. Witness fees in Court of Quarter Sessions for the year
1857, fifty dollars.
8. To John McGillin for a chaise for a sick juror in case
of Commonwealth vs. Kline, three dollars.
9. To Evans & Watson for a double door salamander fire
proof safe for the Court of Quarter Sessions, two hundred
dollars.
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10. To George "Weiss for making windo-w books for the
Seventh and Eighth Divisions of the Twentj-second Ward,
eight dollars.
11. To James McNally for window books for four Divi-
sions of Sixteenth "Ward, sixteen dollars.
12. To Joseph Mountain, Jr., for making out transcript
' books for five precincts of the Twentieth Ward for the year
1857, at one cent per name, twenty-five dollars and eighty
cents. ;
13. To J. Knouse and J. Stainruck, for making street lists,
in Twenty-first Ward, at one cent per name, twenty-eight
dollars and thirty cents.
14. To Robert Tyler, Prothonotary .Supreme Court East-
ern District, for fees in criminal cases at Nisi Prius, com-
mencing in January, 1858, thirty-eight dollars and twentyrfive
cents.
15. To John N. Henderson, late Health Officer, balance
due him on settlement of his account with the City ControL
ler, sixty-six dollars and fifty cents.
16. To Dr. Joseph Shippen, forservices as Vaccine Physician
of Eighth Ward, for the years 1855, 1856 and 1857, one
hundred dollars; provided, warrant No. 234, in his favor for
four dollars and fourteen cents, issued by the Board of Health
and countersigned for January, 1851, is delivered up or
accounted for, until which the Controller will retain the
amount of said warrant.
17. To Thomas Oliver Goldsmith, M.D., balance due him
as Vaccine Physician for 1857, twelve dollars and fifty cents,
and to Dr. W. F. Patterson, as Vaccine Physician of Fourth
Ward, twelve dollars and fifty cents.
18. To King & Baird, for advertising notice of hearing
appeals from valuations, three dollars and seventy-five cents.
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19. To William A. Neff, as a witneee in case of contested
election of District Attorney, thirteen dollars.
20. To Neman & Warnick, for Btove pipe and zinc for
room of City Commissioners, twenty dollars.
21. To James H. Billington, brushes, hatchet, punch, &c.,
for use of City Commissioners, sixteen dollars and seventy-
five cents.
22. To the Court of Quarter Sessions, for the expenses of
an additional session, for the trial of pending causes, five hun-
dred dollars.
23. For Constables fees at the municipal election, one hun-
dred and twenty-five dollars.
24. For Constables fees, for returning unlicensed taverns in
1856, seventy-five dollars.
25. To Samuel L. Clement, late Police Magistrate of
Twelfth Ward, for two months' salary — viz : for January and
February, 1856, when his term of office expired, eighty-three
dollars and thirty-two cents.
26. To the Department of Wharves and Landings to
equalize the enacting clause with the amount contained in
the items of appropriation, one hundred dollars.
27. To the appropriation for " certain claims," to equalize
the enacting clause with the amount contained in the items of
appropriation, one hundred and forty-four dollars and forty
cents.
28. To pay the claims of John K. Murphy, for keep of
horse and repairs to wagon and harness during his term of
ofiBce as Marshal of Police, subsequent to consolidation, the
sum of seven hundred and seventy-two dollars and ninety
cents.
Section 2. Warrants for the said appropriations shall be
drawn as follows : for items from 1 to 14, inclusive, and for items
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18 to 24, inclusive, by the City Commissioners; for items 15,
16 and 17, by the President of the Board of Health; for
items 25 and 28, by the Mayor; for item 26, by the Commis-
sioner of Wharves and Landings; and for item 27, by the
Superintendent of Trusts.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
-Attest — Thos. W. Duffield,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved April 30, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phik,
CHAPTER 98.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the amount paid by the City Solicitor
for certified copies of certain Railroad bills obtained by him
from Harrisburg for Councils, be returned to him by the
Clerks of Councils.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council,
Attest — Thos. W. Duffield,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved May 1, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila,
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CHAPTER 99.
AN ORDINANCE
To authorize the opening of JVinlh street, from Morris to
McKean street, in the First Ward,
Wheeeas, By authority of the last of certain Resolutions
of Councils, approved October 2, A. D. 1857, notice was duly
given on the the 29th day of February last, to the owners of
ground through and over which Ninth street, from Morris to
McKean streets, in the First Ward, will pass, that at the ex-
piration of three months from said notice Councils would
order the said street to be opened for public use, as author-
ized by the Act of Assembly in such case made and provided,
and the said time of three months having elapsed ; therefore
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain, That Ninth street, from Morris street
southward to McKean street, in the First Ward, is hereby di-
rected to be opened for public use as a highway, and the
Highway Department is hereby authorized to cause all ob-
structions within the limits of the said street to be removed
and the same to be thrown open as a public highway.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved May 1, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTEE 100.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Conncfls of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Solicitor be instructed to enter
satisfaction upon the official bond of Matthias Kremer, de-
ceased, late a Collector of Corporation and Poor Taxes, for
the year 1853, and of his sureties, George J. Hamilton and
Thomas T. Vaughan, upon receiving satisfaction by the Con-
troller that said accounts have been regularly settled, and any
balance due thereon paid over by said Collector, or his repre-
sentatives.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council,
Attest — Thos. W. Duffield,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select CounciL
Approved May 5, A. D. 1858,
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 101.
AN ORDINANCE
Relating to certain Passenger Railway Companies.
Whekeas, By the provisions of an act of Assembly, approved
April 15, 1858, entitled " an Act to incorporate the Girard
College Passenger Railway Company," and of a certain other
Act of Assembly, entitled " An Act to incorporate the Green
and Coates street Philadelphia Passenger Railway Company,"
approved April 21, 1858, and of a certain other Act of Assem-
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bly, entitled " An Act to incorporate the Germantown Pas-
senger Railway Company," approved April 21, 1858, the
right is reserved to the City Councils to disapprove of the
said Acts of Assembly, respectively, and of the right therein
respectively granted to the said Companies to occupy the
streets and highways of the said city, therein respectively,
within thirty days from the passage of the said Acts of
Assembly, Therefore,
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain, That in pursuance of the power and
authority in them vested by the said Acts of Assembly, Coun-
cils do hereby declare their disapproval of each and every of
the said Acts of Assembly in the above preamble mentioned,
and of the rights therein respectively granted to " The Girard
College Passenger Railway Company," " The Green and
Coates street Philadelphia Passenger Railway Company,"
and ''The Germantown Passenger Railway Company," to
occupy the streets and highways of the City of Philadelphia*
Section 2. That if any Company in the said preamble
named, shall, within ninety days from the passage of this
Ordinance, and before such Company shall occupy any of the
said streets or highways, file in the office of the City Solicitor
a written obligation, sufficient in law to bind such Company
to observe and be subject to all Ordinances of the City in re-
lation to Passenger Railways, then in force, or thereafter to
be passed, then the provisions of the first section of this Ordi-
nance as to each and every such Company as shall file such
written obligation as aforesaid, shall cease to have efiect.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved May 5, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 102.
AN ORDINANCE
Relating to " an Act to Incorporate the Fairmount and Arch
street City Passenger Raihoay Company,^^ approved April
16, 1858.
Whereas, By the provisions of an Act of Assembly, ap-
proved April 16, 1858, entitled " An Act to Incorporate the
Fairmount and Arch street City Passenger Railway Company,"
the right is reserved to the City Councils to disapprove of the
said Act of Assembly, and of the right of the said Company
to occupy the streets and highways of the said city within
thirty days from the passage of the said Act of Assembly;
therefore,
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain, That in pursuance of the power and
authority in them vested by the said Act of Assembly, Coun-
cils do hereby declare their disapproval of the said Act of
Assembly in the above preamble mentioned, and of the rights
therein respectively granted to " The Fairmount and Arch
street City Passenger Railway Company," to occupy the
streets and highways of the city of Philadelphia.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council,
Attest — H. G. Leisenrincx,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved May 5, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila,
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CHAPTER 103.
RESOLUTIONS.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Commissioner of City Property be,
and he is hereby authorized to proceed with the improvement
of the Hiinting Park, in the Twenty-third Ward, under the
supervision of the Committee on City Property.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Commissioner of City Property be,
and he is hereby authorized to commence improving the Norris
Square, and to expend the appropriation made for that pur-
pose ; provided that advertisement be made by the Commis-
sioner of City Property, inviting the deposit of dirt in the
cavity in said square, by all persons willing to deposit it there,
at a price not exceeding ten cents for a full cart load.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council,
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved May 5, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 104.
AN ORDINANCE
Relating to the Receiver of Taxes.
Whereas, By the provisions of an Act of Assembly, ap-
proved April 21st, 1858, it is enacted that the warrants and
bills of taxes uncollected placed in the hands of Constables
by the Receiver of Taxes, shall be returned by them to the
Receiver of Taxes, " in the month of January every two
years succeeding the year for which said taxes were levied,
or sooner if the said Receiver shall require tlie same;" and
whereas, by the sixth section of the Consolidation Act of
February 2, 1854, it is provided that the City of Philadel-
phia is "vested with all the power, rights, privileges and
immunities incident to a municipal corporation and necessary
for the proper government of tlie same;" and whereas, by
the forty-sixth section of the said Act of Assembly it is pro-
vided that the City Councils shall prescribe the duties of all
officers of the said City and as the welfare of the City may
require ; and whereas, by the fiftieth section of the said Act
of Assembly it is provided that it is the duty of the City
Councils to provide by ordinance for the regulation of all th^
departments indicated by the said Act. and to maintain a
supervision of each of said departments; and whereas, tlye
period of two years, allowed by the said Act of April 21,
1858, to Constables to return warrants for the collection of
taxes is unreasonable, and it would Ijc greatly injurious to the
interests of the City to postpone the collection thereof and to
permit the said warrants to lemain in the hands of the said
Constables for such a length of time; and whereas, by the
terms of the said Act of Assembly the Receiver of Taxes is
allowed to require the return of said warrants sooner than
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the said period of two years; and whereas, it is necessary and
proper that City Councils should control the discretion of the
said Receiver of Taxes, in respect thereof, and to prescribe
his duties and regulate said department in relation thereto;
therefore
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That all warrants for the collection
of unpaid taxes hereafter issued by the Receiver of Taxes
shall be made finally returnable on a certain day, not later
than three months from the date thereof, and that the officer
to whom the same shall be directed shall make returns and
payments weekly thereon of each item of tax, per centage
and interest received, with the date of each receipt thereof,
and on default of such weekly returns and payments by any
such officer, such warrants shall be forthwith revoked. And
the Receiver shall furnish to the City Controller copies of
such weekly and final returns as soon as made to him.
Section 2. It shall be the duty of the Receiver of Taxes
to cause all warrants now outstanding for the collection of
taxes to be returned weekly as above provided, and finally
within four months from the passage of this ordinance, with a
statement of each item of tax, per centage and interest re-
ceived, and the date of each such receipt, and copies of such
returns shall be furnished to the City Controller as directed
in the first section of this ordinance.
Section 3. On the expiration of the term of office of the
present or any future Receiver of Taxes, the said weekly
and final returns and payments shall be made to his successor
in office, and it shall not be lawful for any Receiver of Taxes
to receive any public moneys after his term of office shall
expire.
Section 4. The official bonds of the Receiver of Taxes
shall in addition to the conditions now required by law or
ordinance contain the clause that he shall faithfully observe
the provisions of this ordinance. And the Receiver of Taxes
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sliall be subject to removal from office under the provisions of
the forty-fifth section of the said Consolidation Act of Feb-
ruary 2, 1854, in case he shall fail to comply with any of the
provisions of this ordinance.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenrlng,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved May 5, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 105.
RESOLUTION
1^0 'prepare a working -plan for Chestnut Street Bridge.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Engineer and Survej^or be,
and is hereby directed to prepare a detail plan and specifica-
tion, for the masonry and superstructure of a cast iron arch
bridge and iron truss ]:)ridge, of two spans, for crossing the
Schuylkill at Chestnut street, with such approaches between
the west line of Twenty-third street and the east line of
Bridgewatcr street, as may be necessary, and report tlie ap-
proximate cost thereof to Councils.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — TlIOS. W. DUFFIELD,
Assistant Clerk of Cummon Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved May 5, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Plata.
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CHAPTER 106.
AN ORDINANCE
lo make an appropriation to pay Samuel C. Thompson, late
Commissioner of Market Houses, for clerk hire and extra
services during the period of his office.
Section 1. The Select and Commo-n Ccnmcils of tiie City
of Philadelpliia do ordain, That the sum of five hundred dol-
lars be, and the same hereby is appropriated to pay Samuel C.
Thompson, late Commissioner of Market Houses, for clerk
hire and extra services, during the period of his said office.
Section 2. The Commissioner of Market Houses shall
draw warrant for payment of the above appropriation, in
accordance with existing ordinances of the City of Philadel-
phia.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Thos. W. Duffield,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved May 5, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila,
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CHAPTER 107.
RESOLUTION.
Eesolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That permission be granted to Dr. David
Jayne, under the supervision of the Chief Engineer of the
Water Department, to make, at his own expense, an attach-
ment to the Chestnut street main, to supply a stationary steam
engine for extinguishing tires ; provided, that he consents to
detach the ferrule at any time Councils may desire it, and also
give a penal bond in the sum of two thousand dollars, binding
himself not to use any water except for extinguishing fires,
and provided there is a public stop on the pavement, with a
settled plate.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council,
Attest — H. G. Leisenking,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved May 7, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 108.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation to the Department of City Treasury,
and for other purposes.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordian, That the sum of eleven thousand
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four hundred and eighty-five dollars and twenty-three cents
be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the payment of
the following claims and demands on the corporation, namely :
1. Wm. V. McGrath, City Treasurer, for payments made
by him on mandamus executions and judgments obtained
against the City on claims other than warrants, from July 6,
1857, to April 21, 1858, seven thousand four hundred and six
dollars and forty-one cents.
2. Wm. V. McGrath, City Treasurer, for payments made
by him for interest and costs where judgments have been ob-
tained against the City on warrants, from July 6, 1857, to
April 21, 1858, three thousand nine hundred and eighty-seven
dollars and fifty-four cents.
3. Peter Wagner, for ice furnished to Grand and Petit
Jury Rooms, from June 1st to December Slst, 1857, ninety-
one dollars and twenty-eight cents.
Section 2. Warrants for payment of the said appropria-
tion for items 1 and 2 shall be drawn by the City Treasurer,
and for item 3 by the City Commissioners.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — HoR. M. Martin,
Assistant Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved May 8, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 109.
RESOLUTION
For the prosecution of the Passyunk surveys.
Eesolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the
City of Philadelphia, That the Department of Surveys be,
and is hereby authorized and directed to prosecute the
survey of so much of the late township of Passyunk as lies
east of Broad street and north of the first street south of
Oregon avenue, as directed by Act of Assembly, March 29th,
1850, and Supplement, April 18th, 1853, and charge the same
to items Nos. 7 and 8 of appropriation made to the Depart-
ment of Surveys for the year 1858.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council
Approved May 8, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Matjor of Phila.
CHAPTER 110.
RESOLUTION
Apfroving contract entered into vith the Reading Railroad
Company, as ordered by Ordinance approved May 25,
1857.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the contract herewith submitted, and
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signed by the Reading Railroad Company, for the construc-
tion of a bridge over the Reading Railroad at Girard avenue,
in conformity with Ordinance approved May 25th, 1857, be,
and is hereby approved.
RESOLUTION
To pay item 16 of appropriation to Department of Highivays,
for the year 1858.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Commissioner of Highways
be, and is hereby authorized and directed to draw warrants
chargeable to item No. 16, of appropriation made to the De-
partment of Highways, for the year 1858, in payment of esti-
mate made and certificates furnished by the Chief Engineer and
Surveyor, as directed in Ordinance entitled " an Ordinance
for the construction of a bridge over the Reading Railroad,
approved May 25th, 1857."
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved May 8, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 111.
RESOLUTIONS
To authorize the paving of Houiard street j in the JVineteenth
Ward, and other streets, and for other purposes.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the owners of property, or a majority
thereof, fronting on the following named streets within the
spaces specified, viz : Howard street from Norris to Cumber-
land ; Salmon street from Cumberland to Huntingdon ; Par-
ker street from Wood to Dauphin ; Cadwalader street from
Oxford to Columbia avenue; Fourth street from Columbia
avenue to Dauphin street, in the Nineteenth Ward; Dunlap
street from Chestnut to George, west of Twenty-second street,
in the Eighth Ward; Brown street from Hanover to Palmer,
in the Eighteenth Ward ; Cabot street from Eighteenth to
Nineteenth, in the Twentieth Ward, and Sixth street from
Lehigh avenue to Somerset street, in the Twenty-third Ward,
are hereby authorized to pave the same. The contractors
doing the said work shall be competent pavers, to be approved
by the Highway Department, and tlie work to be carefully
supervised by the proper officer of the Department while the
same is in progress; provided, that the water pipes be laid
in the said streets before the paving is begun. And the
Highway Department is hereby authorized to do the grading
necessary in said streets preparatory to the paving thereof.
Resolved, That the Highway Department is hereby au-
thorized to enter into a contract with one or more competent
pavers for the paving of Dickinson street, from Front to
Second street, in the First Ward ; Montgomery street, from
Frankford road to Front street, in the Nineteenth Ward, and
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Girard avenue, from Nineteenth street, westward to its inter-
section with College avcnne, in the Twentieth Ward ; one of
the conditions of which contracts shall be that the contractor
will collect and receive from the owners of property fronting
on the said streets, the cost and expenses of the paving, and
will not hold the City liable therefor except for the inter-
sections.
Eesolved, That the Highway Department is hereby au-
tliorized to proceed with tlie grading of a portion of Green
Lane, in the Twenty-first Ward, so as to lessen the steepness
of a hill thereon, and to expend in the said work not exceed-
ing the sum of six hundred dollars.
Resolvedj That the Highway Department is authorized to
construct a drain, and to do such grading as may be necessary
on Chew street, in the Twenty -second Ward, so as to place
the same in a passable condition, and to expend in the whole
of the said work not exceeding the sum of three hundred and
fifty dollars.
Resolved, That the resolution of Councils, approved March
22d, 1858, authorizing the grading of Indian Queen lane, in
the Twenty-first Ward, is hereby so altered and amended as
to fix the number of cubic yards required to be graded, at
eighteen hundred, instead of twenty-eight hundred, as therein
set forth.
Resolved, That the owners of property on Twentieth
street, between Columbia avenue, in the Twentieth Ward,
and Lancaster street, in the Twenty-first Ward, are hereby
required to set the curb-stone and to grade and pave the foot-
ways in front of their respective properties.
Resolved, That the Highway Department is hereby au-
thorized and directed to give notice to the owner or owners of
property that obstruct Franklin street lietween Thompson and
Master streets, that said Franklin street will be opened to its
Ml width, for public use, according to the provisions of the
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seventh section of the Act of Assembly, approved the twenty-
first day of April, A. D. 1855.
Resolved, That the Highway Department is hereby au-
thorized to notify the owners of property who have not
curbed and paved their footways on the following named
streets, to wit: Bridge street, from the Frankford creek to
the Tacony plank road ; Frankford street, from Paul street
to the Little Tacony creek ; Leiper street, from Orthodox to
Church street; Orthodox, from Leiper street to the Tacony
plank road; Frankford street, from ISellcrs to Church streets;
Oxford street, from Frankforcl to Josephine streets; Green
street, from Frankford to Paul streets ; Tacony street, from
Frankford to Orchard streets ; Thomas street, from Green to
Tacony streets; Josephine street, from Church to Oxford
streets : Meeting-house lane, from Church to Oxford streets ;
Hedge street, from Unity to Meadow streets ; Meadow street,
from Hedge to Paul streets ; Dyre street, from Frankford to
Franklin streets, in the Twenty-third Ward, and Manheim
street, from Germantown avenue to the plank road, in the
Twenty-second Ward, to set their curb, grade and pave their
footways in front of their respective properties, in accordance
with the laws and ordinances made and provided for the same;
and in case parties notified neglect or refuse to comply with
their respective notices within thirty days, the Commissioner
of Highways is hereby authorized to employ such parties on
such portions of the work, who will engage to do the same
and collect the proper cost thereof from the respective
owners.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clei'k of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved May 10, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 112.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an Appropriation to pay certain claims against the
City.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of seven hundred and
sixty-five dollars and eighty-eight cents be, and the same is
hereby appropriated to pay the following claims against the
City of Philadelphia ;
1. To J. B. Smith & Co., for books furnished City Com-
missioners in 1857, ninety dollars.
2. For collecting ballot boxes of October Election, 1857,
seventy-five dollars.
3. For meals for Jurors for the year 1858, in addition to
five hundred dollars, appropriated and exhausted, two hun-
dred and fifty dollars.
4. To C. Burt Town, for printing and stationery furnished
the Board of Health, in 1857, one hundred and fifty dollars.
5. To Alderman John Clouds, for fees and costs as Police
Magistrate of 18th Ward, thirty-seven dollars and thirteen
cents.
6. To Alderman James B. Freeman, for affidavits taken
before him by direction of the Guardians of the Poor and for
services rendered to the Guardians of the Poor in de-
sertion cases, during the year 1857, one hundred and three
dollars and seventy-five cents.
7. To Alderman James B. Freeman, for affidavits taken
before him in absconding cases, ten dollars.
8. To Edward G. Wood, for services as Constable in de-
sertion cases in the year 1857, fifty dollars.
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Section 2. Warrants for the said appropriation shall be
drawn as follows: items 1, 2 and 3, by the City Commissioners;
item 4, by the President of the Board of Plealth; item 5, by
the Mayor; items 6 and 8, by the Guardians of the Poor,
and item 7, by the City Solicitor.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Com77ion Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved May 10, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 113.
AN ORDINANCE
Relating to certain City Ojficers and Departments.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That all warrants to be drawn on
the City Treasurer, in accordance with the provisions of the
third section of the Act of the General Assembly, approved
April 21st, 1858, entitled " A further supplement to the Act
Incorporating the City of Philadelphia," may be issued by
such officer of the Board of Health, or the Board of Guardians
of the Poor, as the said Boards may respectively direct, and
shall be countersigned by the City Controller in all cases. The
City Controller is hereby declared to be the officer directed to
perform said duty of countersigning such warrants in con-
fonnity with the provisions of the said third section of the
said Act of Assembly, and he shall give bond to the City
of Philadelphia, in the sum of twenty thousand dollars,
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with surety to be approved by Councils, and with the condi-
tion prescribed in the said third section of the said Act of
Assembly.
Section 2. Every City Commissioner shall, before enter-
ing upon the duties of his office, give bond to the City of
Philadelphia, in the sum of ten thousand dollars, with two
sureties, to be approved by Coimcils, and with the condition
prescribed by the fourth section of the .said Act of Assembly.
Section 3. The duties of the City Controller, under the pro-
visions of the seventh section of th« said Act of Assembly shall
apply and extend to all officers and persons, whether elected or
appointed, who are required by law or ordinance to give bond
to the City for the performance of their duties, and to such
other officers and persons as Councils may hereafter by ordi-
nance prescribe ; and to enable the City Controller to execute
the duties enjoined on him by the seventh and second sections
of the said Act of Assembly, he shall require all officers and
persons mentioned or included within the provisions of said
act, or of this ordinance, to deposit their books or vouchers in
his office for examination. He shall communicate to Councils
the result of each such examination as soon as made, and
whenever a balance shall be found due to the City by such
officer or person, he shall furnish a copy of his report to the
City Solicitor, who shall proceed thereon as directed by the
said seventh section of the said Act of Assembly.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk af Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved May 10, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 114.
RESOLUTIONS
To authorize the 'paving of Wharton street, and for other
purposes.
Resolved, Bj the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the owners of property or a majority
thereof, fronting on "Wharton street, from Thirteenth street
to Seventeenth, and Earp street, from Eighth street to Ninth
street, in the First Ward ; Twenty-third street, from Arch
street to Vine street, in Tenth Ward; Apple street, from
Franklin avenue to Master street, in the Seventeenth Ward ;
Fifth street, from Dauphin street to York street; Emerald
street, from Front street to Lehigh avenue, in the Nineteenth
Ward ; Franklin street, from Oxford street to Columlna ave-
nue; Girard avenue, from Eleventh street to Twelfth street;
Jefferson street, from Sixth street to Eighth street, and Mul-
vaney street, and Byrne street, from Jefferson street to Colum-
bia avenue, in the Twentieth Ward, are hereby authorized to
jDave the same, the contractor for doing the said work in each
case to be a competent paver, to be approved by the High-
way Department, and the work to be supervised by the proper
officer of the Department while the same is progressing ; pro-
vided, that the City shall not be at any expense thereof, other
than the paving of the intersections of said streets, and that
the persons doing said paving shall recover the cost of the
same from the owners of property fronting on said streets ;
and provided further, that the water-pipe shall be laid in the
said streets before the paving is begun.
Resolved, That the Highway Department is hereby au-
thorized to grade the remainder of Alleghany avenue, from
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the Frankford Turnpike to the Frankford avenue Railroad, and
to erect a proper bridge or causeway over Gunner's Run, at
an expense not to exceed six hundred dollars; and, also, to
grade the several streets named in the first Resolution, with-
in the spaces specified, preparatory to the paving thereof.
JOHN MILLER,
President uf Common Council.
Attest — Jng. D. Miles,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Councils
Approved May 10, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD YAJJX, Mayor of Phila..
CHAPTER 115.
AN ORDINANCE
For the further extension of the Philadelphia Gas Works.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain. That the Trustees of the Philadel-
phia Gas Works be, and they are hereby authorized to agree
for a conveyance to the City of Philadelphia in trust, under
sufficient covenants and deeds of conveyance, securing the
rights and interests of the parties to said deeds, the works,
■pipes, and metres, and all other property, both real and per-
sonal, used for making, storing, distributing, and selling gas
belonging to any or all of the several Gas Companies hereinaf-
ter named, who shall consent to convey and transfer the same
in such manner, that upon the fulfilment of all the terms and
eonditions of said trust, the property conveyed in trust may
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become vested absolutely in the City of Philadelphia, clear of
all incumbrances or liabilities other than any rent charge in
the nature of ground rent to which said real estate is now
sulyect; and, provided further, that said conveyances shall be
effected without the issue of any bonds or other obligations in
the nature of a bond, whereby the city corporation or its pro-
perty, or the Gas Works and property now held by the said
Trustees, may be involved in any debt or liability on account
of said conveyances.
Section 2. An assessed valuation shall be aflBxed in said
deeds of conveyance to said works and otiier property, which
shall not be greater tlian the sums following, with such addi-
tions as will fairly represent the proper cost of any pipes or
other apparatus that may have been added to said works since
the first day of January, A. D. 1857.
The Germantown Gas Company, - - - $ 85,000 00
The Richmond Gas Company, - - - 16,500 00
The Kensington Gas Company, - - - 90,000 00
The Northern Liberties Gas Company, - 360,000 00
The Southwark and Moyamensing Gas Com-
pany, 109,000 00
The Manayunk Gas Company, - - - 65,000 00
$725,500 00
Section 3. In order to provide for the payment of any
moneys made payable by and under tlic said deeds of trust,
the Trustees of the Gas Works are hereby authorized to set
apart out of the proceeds of the sales of gas, semi-annually on
the first of January and July, a sum equal to four per cent.,
on the aforesaid assessed values, and to aj)ply the same to pay
the interest thereon, and further to the accumulation of a sink-
ing fund for the liquidation of the principal. The said sinking
fund to be kept separate and distinct from tlie sinking fund
heretofore authorized, and to be invested and secured in such
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manner, and devoted to such uses beneficial to the grantors as
may be agreed on, and directed in said deeds ; provided,
that it shall not be lawful for the Trustees of the Gas Works
to raise the price of gas to private consumers to a higher rate
than two dollars and twenty-five cents per thousand, in any
portion of the City of Philadelphia, in which the present price
of gas does not exceed that rate.
Section 4. Upon taking possession of the works, pipes, &c.,
conveyed under authority of this Ordinance, it shall be the
duty of the Trustees of the Gas Works to make a detailed re-
port to Councils of the property, real and personal, so con-
veyed, and its assessed value ; and the said Trustees shall
have with respect to said works, pipes, &c., the same powers
and authority in all respects as they now have, or hereafter
may have, with respect to the works already intrusted to their
care.
Section 5. For the purpose of enabling the Trustees of
the Philadelphia Gas Works to carry out the various trusts
confided to them by Ordinances of Councils, and to increase,
extend, locate and improve in the most economical manner the
pipes, metres and works under their care, so as to meet the
increasing wants of the citizens for gas light, the said Trustees
are hereby authorized and required so to regulate the price
of gas and the several products of its manufacture as may
from time to time be necessary ; the said price of gas to be
the same in all the Wards of the City supplied by the gas
works under the control of the Trustees, unless otherwise
ordered by Councils ; provided, that the said Trustees shall
not be required to make more extensions or additions than the
contingent fund raised out of the net earnings of the works
will pay for, nor in any one year to a greater extent than five
per cent, of the existing pipes and metres; and provided fur-
ther, said Trustees shall not be allowed to sell any portion of
the real estate acquired by this Ordinance without the con-
sent of Councils.
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Section 6. Anything in any otlier Ordinance contrary to
this Ordinance is hereby repealed.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
attest — Jno. D. Miles,
Clerk of Comm,on Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved May 10, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 116.
RESOLUTION
To release certain property of Robert Laughlin from the lien
of a judgment hereinafter mentioned.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Mayor be, and he is hereby au-
thorized on behalf of the Corporation of the City of Phila-
delphia, to release from the lien of a judgment entered in the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania for the Eastern District, to
January Term, 1858, No. 102, wherein the City of Philadel-
phia is plaintiff, and John Matz, Roliert Laughlin, and Christ-
ian Gross and Brothers, are defendants, the following de-
scribed property, owned by Robert Laughlin, one of the said
defendants, viz :
No. 1. All that certain lot or piece of ground, situate on
the east side of the Frankford and Bristol turnpike road, and
north-westerly side of Duke street, as now laid out and opened,
in that part of tlie City of Philadelphia lately called Ken-
sington District, bounded and described agreeably to a survey
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made thereof by Benjamin Moore, Surveyor, as follows, to
wit: beginning- at the north-east corner of the said Duke
street and Frankford road, thence extending along the said
Duke street north sixty-seven degrees and twenty-eight
minutes and a-half, east sixty feet to ground granted by
Charles E. Pleasants to Genel Ely on ground rent, thence by
the same north-westward thirteen feet nine inches and a-quar-
ter to ground late of John Dean, deceased, thence by the
same south-westerly eleven feet eight inches, and thence west-
ward at right angles with the said Frankford road thirty-
eight feet five inches and a-half to the east side of the said
road, and thence southward along the said road thirty-two
feet four inches and a-half to the place of beginning.
No. 2. All that certain three story brick messuage or
tenement and lot or piece of ground, situate on the north-
westerly side of Duke street, as now laid out and opened in
the said late Kensington district, beginning at a point on the
north-westerly side of said Duke street, at the distance of sixty
feet north-eastward from the north-cast corner of the said
Frankford and Bristol turnpike road and the said DuJiC street,
thence extending north-westerly, by ground formerly of
Charles E. Pleasants, now of the said Eobert Laughlin,
tliirteen feet nine inches and a-quarter, to ground formerly of
John Dean, thence north-easterly, along the line of said John
Dean's ground, the distance of twenty-six feet nine inches
and a-half, to ground late of Clayton Earl, deceased, thence
south-westerly, along the line of said Earl's ground fifteen feet
two inches and three-quarters, to the north-westerly side of
said Duke street, and tlience south-westerly, along the said
Duke street, twenty-seven fcet six inches and a-quarter, to
the place of beginning.
No. 3. All that certain lot or piece of ground, situate in
the said late district of Kensington, and fronting on the
Frankford turnpike road, beginning at the distance of about
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three hundred seventy-nine feet t\Fenty-one inches from
the northerly corner of Widow Norris'land, on Shackamaxon
street, (which distance is measured along said Shackamaxon
street and the said road,) and a corner of lot sold to Philip
Smith, containing in front, northerly from said Smith's lot on
Frankford road, twenty-one feet six inches, and continuing
that breadth, between lines that are not straight, but forming
a half elbow southerly at about half the depth of the said lot,
which extends to ground now or lately owned by Jacob Shoe-
maker and others, the northerly line of said lot being the same
direction of and equal distance from the southerly line thereof,
but not of the same length, but the direction of both agree-
ing with the line of the said Philip Smith's lot on the south.
Bounded northerly by ground of the said John Dean, east-
wardly by ground now or late of Jacob Shoemaker and others,
southwardly by ground of Philip Smith, and westwardly by
the said Frankford road.
Provided, the other defendants in said judgment consent
thereto, and that the City Solicitor give a certificate that the
remaining property of said defendants is sufficient for the se-
curity of the Corporation.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leiseneing,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved May 11, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of P/iila.
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CHAPTER 117.
AN ORDINANCE
To fix the amount of the security to he given by the City Com-
missioners.
Whereas, By the provisions of Section 4 of an Act of
Assembly, approved April 21st, A. D. 1858, entitled "A fur-
ther supplement to the Act incorporating the City of Phila-
delphia," it is provided, " that the City Commissioners shall
before entering upon the duties of their of&ce, give such
security as shall be required by Councils f therefore,
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain. That the City Commissioners, before
entering upon the duties of their office, shall give bond, with
two or more sureties, to be approved by Councils, to the Cor-
poration of the City of Philadelphia, in the sum of ten thous-
and dollars, in the form prescribed by existing Ordinances, and
for the faithful performance of the duties of the said office ; and
that no debt shall be contracted, or warrant drawn against the
City by said Commissioners, except for purposes legally author-
ized, and not to exceed the appropriation therefor made by
Councils.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved May 11, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 118.
AN ORDINANCE
To authorize the sale of Bonds, Mortgages, Plank Road and
Rail Road stocks, owned by the City of Philadelphia.
Section 1. Tlic Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain, That the Commissioners of the Sink-
ing- Fund be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered
to sell and transfer, or cause to be sold and transferred, the
bonds, mortgages, plank road and rail road. stocks, or any por-
tion or portions of them, now owned by the City of Philadel-
phia, and to invest the proceeds Of the same in certificates of
the six percent, loans of the said City; provided, that the
sales and investments hereby authorized shall be made at prices
equivalent to an equal exchange at the respective par values
thereof; provided also, that the obligations issued respective-
ly by the Districts of Spring Garden and the Northern Liber-
ties only shall be received in , payment for the stock of the
Pennsylvania Rail Road Company, subscribed for by those
Districts.
Section 2. The certificates of loan forming said invest"
ments, shall, when received, be appropriated to tlie respective
Sinking Funds of said City, in accordance with tlie laws and
ordinances thereof.
JOHN MILLER,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Thos. W. Duffield,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved May G, A. D. 1858.
RICHARD VAUX, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 119.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an Appropriation to pay the expenses of the Inau-
guration of the Mayor,
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of fifty dollars and
forty cents be, and the same is hereby appropriated to pay
the following claims, viz:
1. To William C. Lawson, forty-four dollars and forty
cents, for the erection of a staging in Independence Square.
2. To John Hassan, six dollars, for carriage hire for use of
Special Committee to make arrangements for the inauguration
of the Mayor.
Section 2. Warrants for the said appropriation shall be
drawn by the Clerks of Councils, in conformity with exist-
ing ordinances.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved May 14, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 120.
RESOLUTIONS
Relative to the death of Major General Perslfer F. Smith,
Whereas, The Councils of the City of Philadelphia have
heard with sincere regret of the recent death of General
Fersifer F. Smith, of the United States Army; and it is proper
that some expression of the sympathy of the citizens of Phila-
delpliia in the general loss which the nation has sustained in his
demise, as well as in the grief which this bereavement has
occasioned to his family, should be made, therefore
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That in the death of General Persifer F.
Smith, the citizens of Philadelphia, and of the State of Penn-
sylvania, are called upon to deplore the loss of one of their
most distinguished fellow citizens, and the army of the United
States one of its most gallant and meritorious officers.
Resolved, That the patriotic services of General Smith, in
the Florida war, and his brilliant career during the late war
with Mexico, have endeared his name to every Pennsylvanian,
and rendered his memory and worth the richest legacy he
could bequeath to his native State.
Resolved, That a copy of these Resolutions be transmitted
to the family of the deceased.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council,
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select CounciL
Approved May 26, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 121.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia^ That the sureties offered by Edward R.
Williams, to wit : Matthias Haas, Andrew Graver, and Custus
I. Gilbert, for the faithful performance of his duties as City
Commissioner, be accepted.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
O/erA of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council*
Approved May 28, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila,
CHAPTER 122.
RESOLUTION
Authorizing the transfer of a certain item of appropriation.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the City Controller be, and he is here-
by authorized to transfer the sum of five hundred dollars from
item No. 28, for "painting," to item No. 43, for "improve-
ment of lot north of Fairmount basin," in the Ordinance
entitled " an Ordinance to make an appropriation to the De-
partment for supplying the City with Water, for the year
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eighteen hundred and fifty-eight," approved January 28,
A. D. 1858.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Cq^neih
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved June 3, A, D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila,
CHAPTER 123.
RESOLUTION
To pay a claim therein named.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Engineer of the Water
Works be, and he is hereby authorized to draw a warrant in
favor of Thomas Daly for the sum of eighty-seven dollars afid
forty-eight cents, ($87 48,) and that the same be charged to item
No. 34 of an Ordinance making an appropriation to the De-
partment for supplying the City with water, for the year 1858.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council,
Approved June 3, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 124.
RESOLUTION.
To pay claims for introducing Gas into the Almshouse.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadclpliia, That the City Controller be, and he hereby
is authorized to countersign warrants to the amount of five
thousand dollars, for the payment of claims against the " De-
partment of Poor," for the introduction of Gas into the
" Almshouse," said warrants to be drawn upon item number
sixty-four of appropriations to the said Department for the
year 1858.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest— Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved June 8, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 125.
RESOLUTION
To authorize the City Solicitor to compromise a claim against
John Hemphill, a former Treasurer of the Guardians of the
Poor.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphi,a, That the City Solicitor be, and ho hereby is
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authorized to receive from John Hemphill, a former Treasurer
of the Guardians of the Poor, the sum of four thousand dol-
lars in full compromise and settlement of any claim the City
may have against the said John Hemphill as such Treasurer,
and that upon payment of said sum to the City Solicitor, ho
be authorized to surrender to said John Hemphill his two
bonds now held by the City, each for twelve thousand five
hundred dollars, dated April 8th, 1846, payable without
interest, the one in ten years, the other in twelve years from
date ; provided, however, that Mr. Hemphill release to the
City all his right, title and interest in any and all collaterals
now held by them for said bonds.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
Pi'csident of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved June 11, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Pliila.
CHAPTER 126.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation to pay certain claims against the
City.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadel})hia do ordain, That the sum of five thousand five
hundred and eighty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents be, and
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the eame Is hereby appropriated, to pay the following claims,
to wit :
1. To the Trustees of the Philadelphia Gas Works, five
thousand four hundred and fifty-five dollars and twenty-four
cents, for gas consumed by the va,rious departments of the
City government, as per account rendered.
2. To Henry Roiirman, for overpaid taxes for 1856, thirty-
nine dollars and seventeen cents.
3. To Alderman John Apple, for affi(k,vits taken before liim
by directioB of the Guardians of the Poor, and for services
rendered to the Guardians of the Poor in desertion cases
during the years 1857-'58, sixteen dollars and sixty-two
cents.
4. To pay Edward N. CreigTiton, seventyjcight dollars and
twenty-two cents, for one month and seventeen days' services,
in full, as Assistant Engineer of Steam Fire Engine Young
America.
Section 2. Warrants for the said appropriation shall be
drawn as follows: — Item 1, by tlie Commissioner of City
Property, item 2 by the City Treasurer, item 3 by the Guar-
dians of the Poor, item 4 hy the Chief Engineer of the Fire
Department.
CHAS. B. TPtEGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerh of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved June 12, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 127.
AN ORDINANCE
To auihorixe the construction of a certain Culvert or Drain on
the line of Tuentieth street, nort/nvardly fro7n Arch street,
in the Tenth Ward,
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the owners of property situ-
ate on the line of Twentieth street, between Arch and Sum-
mer streets, (Tenth Ward,) are hereby authorized to construct
a Culvert or Drain, to commence at and intersect the Culvert
at Arch and Twentieth streets, and to extend northwardly
along Twentieth street to the south side of Summer street :
to be of such form and dimensions as the Department of Sur-
veys may prescribe, and to be constructed under the super-
vision of the Department of Highways ; provided, before the
said Culvert is commenced, the parties who are hereby au-
thorized to construct the same, shall enter into a covenant
with the City of Philadelphia to build it at their own expense,
and upon its completion, to restore the pavement to its present
condition.
Section 2. The said Culvert when completed, shall become
the property of the City, without condition, saving and ex-
cepting, that should a permit to make a drain to the said culvert
be hereafter granted by the City, to a person or persons who
have not contributed to the expense of constructing said cul-
vert, then and in such case, the parties constructing the same,
under this Ordinance, are hereby authorized to demand of the
person or persons to whom such permit shall be granted, such
part of the original cost thereof as shall be proportionate to the
frontage of his, her, or their property thereon ; and in case of ne-
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gleet or refusal to pay said sum, they may sue for, and collect
the same ; provided, a certificate of approval and acceptance
thereof from the Chief Engineer and Surveyor, and a state-
ment of the actual cost of such culvert shall have been filed in
the office of the Department of Surveys ; and provided also,
that the annual charge or rentage shall be paid as specified
in " Ordinance providing for the granting of permits to make
openings into Common sewers," approved May 3rd, 1855.
CHAS. B. TEEGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved June 12, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 128.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
©f Philadelphia, That the Mayor be requested to enter satis-
faction upon the bonds of the sureties of Wm. L. Hirst, Esq.,
late City Solicitor.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest— Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved June 12, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 129.
RESOLUTION.
H-ESOLVED, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the sureties offered by A. I. Flomer-
felt, to wit: John Lancaster and Thomas McCoy, for the
faithful performance of his duties as Receiver of Taxes, be
accepted, acd that the Solicitor be directed to prepare the
bond, in form to be approved by him, and have the same en-
tered of record.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
^resident of Common Council,
Attest— Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council,
Approved June 12, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 130.
RESOLUTION
To fay certain claims against the City of Philadelphia.
Resolved, Ej the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Engineer and Surveyor
be authorized, and is hereby directed to draw warrants
cliargcable to item 25 of Ordinance to make an appropria-
tion to the Department of Surveys for tlie year 1858, ap-
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proved January 18th, 1858, for work done in the late Town-
ship of Blockley, prior to and during the year 1857, in con-
formity with Acts of Assembly of April 3d, 1851, and May
13th, 1856; and also warrants chargeable to item No. 24
for such bills of work made prior to the 1st of January, 1858,
on the Survey of the late Township of Passyunk; provided
said bills are prepared and certified to as directed in Section
28 of Act of Assembly, approved April 18th. 1853, author-
izing the prosecution of said Survey; and provided also, that
no warrant shall be drawn for payment of said claims until
the bills so rendered for said surveys shall be approved by
the Committee on Surveys and Regulations.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common CounciL
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved June 18, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 131.
AN ORDINANCE
To authorize the construction of a Culvert or Drain on the
line of Twelfth street, southwardly from Parrish street, in
the Fourteenth Ward.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain, That the property owners situate on
Twelfth street, south of Parrish street, are hereby author-
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ized to construct a CulVfert or Drain, to commence at and in-
tersect the culvert at Parrish street, to extend southwardly
along said Twelfth street two hundred feet, more or less, to
be of such form and dimensions as the Department of Surveys
may prescribe, and to l)e constructed under the supervision of
the Department of Highways ; provided, before the said culvert
is commenced, the parties who are hereby authorized to con-
struct the same, shall enter into a covenant to build it at
their own expense, and upon its completion to restore the
pavement to its present condition.
Section 2. The said culvert when completed, shall become
the property of the corporation, without condition, except that
no permit or permission shall be granted to make any drain
thereto, except to persons who may have contributed to the
construction thereof, before he or she shall have paid to the
parties so constructing, a sum proportionable to the extent of
the front of his or her property on said culvert; provided, a
certificate of approval and acceptance thereof from the Chief
Engineer and Surveyor, and a statement of the actual cost of
such culvert shall have been filed in the office of the Depart-
ment of Surveys ; and provided also, that the annual charge
or rentage shall be paid as specified in the " Ordinance provid-
ing for the granting of permits to make openings into Common
Sewers," approved March 3rd, 1855.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved June 21, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 132.
RESOLUTIONS
To authorize the paving of certain streets in the several
Wards therein najned, and for other purposes.
1. Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the
City of Philadelphia, That the owners of property, or a ma-
jority thereof fronting on the following named streets, viz: —
Mifflin street from Master street to Jefferson street, in the
►Seventeenth Ward — Fourth street from Cherry street to Co-
lumbia street, in the Nineteenth "Ward — Thompson street
from Thirteenth street to Broad street. Merchant street from
Thompson street to Master street, in the Twentieth Ward —
are hereby authorized to pave the same ; the contractor for
doing said work to be a competent paver approved by the
Department of Highways, who sliall enter into an obligation
to the City to keep the said streets in good repair for two
years after the paving is finished; said paving to be carefully
supervised by the proper officer of the Department while the
same is progressing, and the water-pipe to be laid in the said
streets before the paving is begun.
2. Resolved, That the Highway Department is hereby
authorized to enter into a contract with a competent paver
for the re-paving of Monroe street from Second street to
Third street, in the Fourth Ward.
3. Resolved, That the Highway Department is hereby
autliorized to enter into a contract for dirt, at 15 cents per
yard, to fill up Girard avenue at the Bridge on Girard ave-
nue, that crosses the Pennsylvania Railroad in the Twenty-
fourth Ward.
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Resolved, That the City Solicitor be, and is hereby di-
rected to enter satisfaction upon the bond given by C. V.
Naumann, contractor, and his sureties, for grading and filling
up at the Bridge at Gunner's Run and Franklin avenue, in
the Nineteenth Ward, upon certificate being furnished by
the Chief Commissioner of Highways that the work has been,
completed according to contract.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council,
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Comm,on Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved June 23, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila,
CHAPTER 133.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Commissioner of City Property be
authorized, under the direction of the Committee on City
Property, to remove the tenants from the Lemon Hill pro-
perty, at the earliest period practicable, and employ a Super-
intendent to take care of the property.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved June 23, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 134.
AN ORDINANCE
Authorizing the Chief Engineer to suspend riotous and dis-
orderly Fire Companies.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the Chief Engineer of the
Fire Department be, and is hereby empowered to suspend any
Fire Engine, Hose, or Hook and Ladder Company, which may
be guilty of riotous or disorderly conduct at, or in going to or
in returning from fires, or during alarms of the same, or which
may be guilty of any disobedience of his orders, or those of his
Assistants ; and it shall be his duty to report at the next stated
meeting of Councils, the name or names of such Company or
Companies so suspended by him, with a detailed statement of
the facts and causes therefor.
Section 2. That the report of the Chief Engineer suspend-
ing any such Company from service, shall thereupon be referred
to the Committee on Trusts and Fire Department, who shall
examine the charges so preferred by the Chief Engineer, and
report to Councils such further action in the premises as they
may deem necessary and proper.
Section 3. That the appropriation made to any Fire En-
gine, Hose, or Hook and Ladder Company, which may be sus-
pended by the action of the Chief Engineer, or by Councils
in pursuance of the recommendation of the Committee on
Trusts and Fire Department, or which may be suspended or
expelled by Councils, shall be withheld from said Company
during such suspension, and a sum deducted therefrom, equal
to the proportion which would have been due, and payable to
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said Corr\pany during its suspension, if such suspension had
not been made ; and that the whole appropriation due and
payable to such Company, shall be forfeited upon its expul-
sion from the Department.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved June 23, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 135.
AN ORDINANCE
To authorize the construction of a Culvert or Drairi, on the
line of JVorris street, westwardlyf^om Gunner's Run, in the
Eighteenth Ward.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the owners of property situ-
ate on the line of Norris street, in the Eighteenth Ward, are
hereby authorized to construct a Culvert or Drain, to com-
mence at and intersect the Aramingo Canal, at Norris street,
to extend westwardly along said Norris street to the westerly
side of Brown street ; to be of such form and dimensions as
the Department of Surveys may prescribe, and to be con-
structed under the supervision of the Department of High-
ways; provided, before the said Culvert is commenced, the
parties, who are hereby authorized to construct the same,
shall enter into a covenant with the City of Philadelphia, to
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build it at their own expense, and upon its completion, to re-
store the pavement to its present condition.
Section 2. The said Culvert when completed shall become
the property of the City without condition, saving and except-
ing, that should a permit to make a Drain to said Culvert be
hereafter granted by the City, to a person or persons who
have not contributed to the expense of constructing said Cul-
vert, then and in such case the parties constructing the same,
under this Ordinance, are hereby authorized to demand of the
person or persons to whom such permit shall be granted, such
part of the original cost thereof as shall be proportionate to
the frontage of his, her or their property thereon ; and in case
of neglect or refusal to pay said sum, they may sue for and
collect the same ; provided, a certificate of approval and
acceptance thereof from the Chief Engineer and Surveyor,
and a statement of the actual cost of such Culvert, shall have
been filed in the Office of the Department of Surveys; and
provided also, that the annual charge or rentage shall be paid
as specified in " Ordinance providing for the granting of per-
mits to make openings into Common Sewers," approved May
3rd, 1855.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council,
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved June 18, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 136.
RESOLUTION
Authorizing the Chief Engineer of the Water Works to draw
icarraJits in favor of certain persons.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Engineer of the Water
Works be, and is hereby authorized to draw warrants in favor
of William King, of one hundred and thirty-two dollars and
twenty-nine cents, for fluid, from items Nos. 23, 25, and 26.;
Collins & Robb, of one hundred and thirty-nine dollars and
forty-one cents, for lumber, from item No. 27 ; Hoif & Fon-
taine, of thirty-one dollars and twenty -five cents, for planing
caps, &c., from item No. 27 ; Henry Kleiss, of sixteen dollars
and ten cents, for repairs to Spring Garden Works, from item
No. 30 ; Thomas Mercer, of two hundred and fifty-seven dol-
lars, for repairs to Schuylkill Works, from item No. 30 ; F. J.
Borie, of thirty-nine dollars, for picks, from item No. 33 ;
Thomas E. Cahill, of fifty-three dollars and ninety cents, for
Alleghany coal, from item No. 33 ; E. J. Etting & Brother of
sixty-eight dollars and ninety-six cents, for iron for stop-cocks,
from item No. 33 ; Keysers & Shively, of ninety-eight dollars
and fifty-two cents, for lumber for stop-cock boxes, from item
No. 33; Samuel Magarge, of ten dollars and seventy-five
cents, for lumber for laying pipes, from item No. 33 ; James
W. Packer, of thirty dollars and ninety-four cents, for shovels,
from icem No. 33 ; Richard Trinick, of sixty-six dollars and
thirty-one cents, for repairs to tools, &c., from item No. 33 ;
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Wood & Brother of twenty-one dollars, for wharfage on pipes,
from item No. 33.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHAETON,
President of Select Council.
Approved June 25, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 137.
AH ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation to pay the interest on the Funded
Debt of the City of Philadelphia, falling due on the first day
of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain. That the sum of five hundred and
sixty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropri-
ated to pay the interest of the Funded Debt of the City of
Philadelphia, falling due on the first day of July, one thous-
and eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Section 2. Warrants for the payment of the said interest
shall be drawn as follows : the City Treasurer shall present to
the Mayor a list of the Loan holders, to be paid, as aforesaid;
the amount of the principal of the debt owned by them re-
spectively ; the rate and amount of interest accrued ; the
amount of the State tax to be deducted and retained ; and the
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net sum due for interest ; and at the foot of said list the
Mayor shall add the following warrant: —
Mayok's Office, (Date.)
To the City Treasurer :
Pay to the persons and Corporations above named, the
amounts respectively due to them as above set forth, for inter-
est on City debt due.
(Signed by the Mayor.)
The said list and warrants shall then be presented to the
Controller to be countersigned.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved June 26, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 138.
AN ORDINANCE
To authorize the sale of City Loans, to fay the Funded
Debt of the City of Philadelphia falling due on July \st,
1858, and to make an appropriation for the payment of the
same.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain. That the Commissioners of the Sink-
ing Fund are hereby authorized and directed to sell, at fair
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market rates, so much of the six per cent. Loans of the City
of Philadelphia, now forming a part of tlie Sinking Fund of
the City, as well produce the sum of fifty-six thousand and
seventy-eight dollars and twenty-six cents; which said sum
is hereby appropriated, when realized by such sales, to the
payment of the principal of the Funded Debt of said City,
falling due on the first day of July, 1858.
Section 2. Warrants for the payment of the said appro-
priation shall be drawn by the Commissioners of the Sinking
Fund, in the manner and form, and with the requisites pre-
scribed in existing Ordinances, respecting the drawing of
warrants for the payment of money from the City Treasury.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Co7nmon Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved June 26, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 13?.
RESOLUTION
Approving the sureties of George W. Huftj/, City Controller.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the sureties offered by Mr. George W.
Hufty, for the fiiithful performance of his duties as City Con-
troller, to wit: Robert Clifton, James Chambers, John Evans,
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and William G. Conrow, be accepted, and that the City Solici-
tor be requested to receive the bond, and enter it of record.
CHAS. B. TJREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved June 26, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 140.
RESOLUTION
Changing the place of voting in the Third Division of the
Fourth Ward.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the election for the Third Division of
the Fourth Ward shall hereafter be held at the Hotel of
Daniel McDonald, on the corner of Second and Monroe
streets, in said Division.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council
Approved June 26, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phiia.
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CHAPTER 141.
AN ORDINANCE
To authorize a Temporary Loan.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the City Treasurer, with the
approbation of the Committee on Finance be, and he is hereby
authorized to borrow on the credit of the Corporation, such
sums of money, as may be necessary to nueet the curi-ent de-
mands on the City Treasury, not exceeding in the aggregate
four hundred thousand dollars, and redeemable at, or within
ninety days from the date of such loans, for which sums so
borrowed, certificates of City debt shall issue in the form
prescribed in existing ordinances, bearing interest at the rate
of not exceeding six per centum per annum, and which shall
be transferrable in the same manner as other certificates of
City debt.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved June 30, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Pkila.
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CHAPTER 142.
A SUPPLEMENT
To a Resolution entitled a " Resolution to authorize the City
Solicitor to compromise a claim against John He?nphill, a
former Treasurer of the Guardians of the Poor.'^
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philajdelphia, That the Resolution to which this is a Sup-
plement, passed June 3rd, 1858, shall be construed, considered
and taken, to read and refer to " two Bonds, now held by the
City, each for twelve thousand three hundred and twenty-nine
dollars and ninety-four cents, dated April 9th, 1846, payable
without interest, the one in nine years, the other in twelve
years from date," instead of " two Bonds now held by the City,
each for twelve thousand five hundred dollars, dated April
8th, 1846, payable without interest, the one in ten years, the
other in twelve years from date."
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved June 11, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 143.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation for tJie pay?nent of a Decree against
the Citi/ of Philadelphia.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of twenty-five thous-
and six hundred dollars is hereby appropriated, as follows:
1. To Benjamin F. Vandyke, complainant in a case in the
Supreme Court in Equity, brought to July Term, 1854, No. 8,
the sum of eleven thousand two hundred and ninety dollars.
2. To F. A. Vandyke, complainant in a case in the Supreme
Court in Equity, brought to July Term, 1854, No. 8, the sum
of thirteen thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars.
3. To John K. Findlay, Esq., Master in said case, three
hundred dollars.
4. To Prothonotary of the Supreme Court, for costs in said
case, thirty-five dollars.
Section 2. That warrants for said appropriation shall be
drawn by the City Solicitor, on receiving a bond of indem-
nity from Benjamin F. Vandyke, and F. A. Vandyke, indem-
nifying the City of Philadelphia from all claim of Engard and
Fitch for extra work and material done and furnished by the
said Engard and Fitch for the Waterworks of the late Dis-
trict of Kensington.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council,
Attest— Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Com?non Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved July 2, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 144.
RESOLUTION.
To lay water pipes in Johnson street.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Engineer of the Water Works
be authorized and directed to cause water pipes to be laid in
Johnson street, between Twentieth and Twenty-first streets,
and between Market and Chestnut streets.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council,
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved July 6, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Pkila.
CHAPTER 145.
AN ORDINANCE
To authorize the Commissioner of City Property to purchase
Property against which the City may hold mortgages, in
certain cases.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the Commissioner of City
Property be, and he is hereby directed, under the instruction
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of the City Solicitor, to purchase any property that may be
sold under mortgage held by the City, at a price not exceed-
ing the amount of such mortgage.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved July 8, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 146.
RESOLUTION
Approving the sureties of William Elliott.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the sureties offered by William Elliott
for the position of Agent of the Girard Estate, to wit: Edwin
Greble and Joseph Shermer, be, and are hereby accepted.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council,
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clei'k of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved July 8, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 147.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation to pay the interest on a Temporary
Loan.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of four thousand dol-
lars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to pay the in-
terest on the Temporary Loan, created by Ordinance on the
26th day of June, 1858.
Section 2. Warrants for the payment of this appropriatioa
shall be drawn by the City Treasurer.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council,
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common CounciV
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved July 8, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 148.
RESOLUTION
Approving the sureties of W. J. P. White^ as Register of
the Water Department.
Res^olved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the sureties offered by W. J. P. White,
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for the faithful discharge of his duties as Register of the-
Water Department, to wit : George W. Simons and Samuel
M. White, be accepted.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest— Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved July 8, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 149.
RESOLUTIONS
To authorize the grading of Pratt street and Ninth street, and
the construction of a Culvert on Jasper street, in the JVine-
teenth Ward.
1. Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the
City of Philadelphia, That the Highway Department is here-
by authorized to grade Pratt street, westward from Logan
street, in the Twenty-fourth Ward, so as to make it passable
for travel, at an expense not to exceed one hundred dollars.
Resolved, That the Highway Department is hereby author-
ized to grade Ninth street, from Morris street to McKean
street, in the First Ward, at an expense not to exceed four
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hundred dollars, said "work to be done by contract with the
lowest bidder by proposals to be advertised for in two daily
papers.
Resolved, That Isaac Norris and others are hereby author-
ized to construct a culvert, to commence at and intersect with
the York street culvert, to extend along the line of Jasper
street, from the north-east corner of Dauphin street to York
street, in the Nineteenth Ward, to be of such form and dimen-
sions as the Department of Surveys may prescribe, and to be
constructed under the supervision of the Department of High-
ways ; provided, before the said culvert is commenced, the par-
ties who are hereby authorized to construct the same, shall
enter into a covenant to build it at their own expense, and
upon its completion to restore the pavement to its present
condition, and that the said culvert, when completed, shall
become the property of the Corporation, without condition,
except that no permit or permission shall be granted to make
any drain thereto, except to persons who may have contri-
buted to the expense of the construction thereof, before he or
she shall have paid to the parties so contributing, a sum pro-
portionable to the extent of the front of his or her property
on said culvert ; provided, a certificate of approval and accept-
ance thereof, from the Chief Engineer and Surveyor, and a
statement of the actual cost of such culvert, shall have been
filed in the office of the Department of Surveys ; and provided
also, that the annual charge for rentage, shall be paid as speci-
fied in " Ordinance providing for the granting of permits, to
make openings into counnon sewers," approved March 3rd,
1855 ; and provided further, that a failure on the part of the
property holders so applying for said culvert to comply with the
said requisitions, shall suly'ect them to a penalty of one hun-
dred dollars, to be recovered in the same manner as debts of the
same amount are now or may hereafter be by law recoverable,
and said fine shall be paid into the City Treasury, and the
Highway Department is hereby authorized to construct at the
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expense of the City, the neoessarj inlets to connect with the
Baid culvert.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Councih
Approved July 8, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 150.
RESOLUTION
Approving the sureties of Jesse M. Christopher, as Commis-
sioner of City Property.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the sureties offered by Jesse M. Chris-,
topher, for the faithful discharge of his duties, as Commis-
sioner of City Property, to wit : Michael Moloy and Henry
B. Gillingham, be accepted.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved July 9, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 151.
RESOLUTION
Approving the sureties of H. P. M. Birkinhine, as Chief En-
gineer of the Water Depaj-tme7it.
Eesolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the sureties offered by H. P. M. Eirk-
inbine, for the faithful discharge of his duties as Chief En-
gineer of the Water Department, to wit : David Woelper and
George Woelper, be accepted.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved July 9, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 152.
RESOLUTION
Apjproving the sureties of A. W. Juvenal, as Superintendent of
the Girard Estates.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the sureties offered by Abraham W
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Juvenal, for the faithful discharge of his duties as Superinten-
dent of the Girard Estates, to wit : Samuel J. Pancoast and
Michael Wartman, be accepted, if found as represented upon
being examined by the City Solicitor.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved July 9, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, JI/a2/oro/PM«.
CHAPTER 153.
RESOLUTION
Authorizing the Committee on Finance to approve the sureties
of certain oj^cers.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Committee on Finance be, and they
are herel^y authorized to receive and approve the sureties of
the Chief Commissioner of Highways, the Commissioners of
Highways, and the Superintendent of City Railroad ; and
upon the City Solicitor's certifying that the necessary bonds
are filed, the officers aforesaid shall immediately enter upon
the duties of their respective offices ; and that the said sure-
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ties be submitted to Councils at their next meeting for their
approval.
CHAS. JB. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved July 10, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 154.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Board of Surveyors be, and they
are hereby instructed not to approve or sanction the plan of
any Passenger Railway, unless the guage and form of rail be
made to conform to the guage and form of rail used on the
Fifth, Sixth, Tenth and Eleventh Street Railways.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
Prendent of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leiseneing,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved July 19, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 155.
To authorize the construction of a certain culaert or drain, on
the line of Carlto7i street, from Fifteenth to Sixteenth street,
in the Fifteenth Ward.
Section 1. The Select aud Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain, That the owners of property situate
on the line of Carlton street, between Fifteenth street and
Sixteenth street, arc hereby authorized to construct a cul-
vert or drain on Carlton street, westwardly from Fifteenth
street to Sixteenth street, to be of such form and dimensions
as the Department of Surveys may prescribe, and to be con-
structed under the supervision of the Department of High-
ways ; provided, before the said culvert is commenced, the
parties who arc hereby authorized to construct the same shall
enter into a covenant to build it at their own expense, and to
pay to the Department of Highways a sufficient sum for the
repaving of said street.
Section 2. The said culvert, when completed, shall become
the property of the corporation, without condition, except that
no permit or permission shall be granted to make any drain
thereto, except to persons who may have contributed to the
expense of tlie construction thereof, before he or she shall
have paid to the parties so contributing, a sum pi'oportionable
to the extent of the front of his or her property on said cul-
vert ; provided, a certificate of approval and acceptance there-
of from the Chief Engineer and Surveyor, and a statement of
the actual cost of such culvert, shall have l)ccn filed in the
office of the Department of Surveys ; and provided also, that the
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annual charge or rentage shall be paid as spocifiod in " Ordi-
nance providing lor the granting of permits to make openings
into common sewers," approved March 3rd, 1855; and pro-
vided further, that a failure on the part of the property
holders so applying for said culvert or drnin, to comply with
the said requisitions, shall subject them to a penalty of one
hundred dollars, to l)e recovered in the same manner as debts
of the same amount are now or may hereafter be hj law re-
coverable, and said fine shall be paid into the City Treasury.
CHAS. 13. TREGO,
President of Common Coimcil.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved July 22, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Pkilcu
CHAPTER 156.
RESOLUTION
Authorizing the Chief Engineer of the Water Works to c'dUse
icater-pipes to be laid in certain streets.
Resolved, Ey the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Pliiladelphia, That the Chief Engineer of the Water Works
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be authorized and directed to cause water-pipes to be laid in
the following streets :
Barton street, from Wharton to Reed, First Ward.
Burns street, from Oxford to Columbia avenue, Twentieth
Ward.
Cadwalader street, from Oxford to Cherry, Nineteenth
Ward.
Coral street, from Front to Huntingdon, Nineteenth Ward.
Coral street, from York to Taylor, Nineteenth Ward.
Cumberland street, from Coral to Jasper, two squares, Nine-
teenth Ward.
Emerald street, from York to Huntingdon, about one thous-
and feet. Nineteenth Ward.
Franklin street, from Thompson to Master, Twentieth Ward.
George street, from Eighteenth to Nineteenth, Eighth
Ward.
Girard avenue, north side, from Alder to Lewis, Twentieth
Ward.
Hamilton street, from Twentieth to Twenty-fii-st, Fifteenth
Ward.
Hamilton street, from Twenty-fourth to Callowhill, Fif-
teenth Ward.
Jefferson street, from Sixth to Eighth, Twentieth Ward.
Merchant street, from Thompson to Master, Twentieth
Ward.
Parker street, from Wood to Dauphin, Nineteeth Ward.
Pierce street, from Fourth to Fifth street. First Ward.
Sargeant street, from Frankford road to Emerald street,
two squares, Nineteenth Ward.
Seventeenth street, between Carpenter and Prime.
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Shippen lane, from Fitz water to Shippen street, Fourth
Ward.
Walter street, from Twenty-first to Twenty-second, north
of Pine, Seventh Ward.
York street, from Frankford road to Gunner's Run, Nine-
teenth Ward.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — HoR. M. Martin,
Assistant Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved August 16, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 157.
RESOLUTION
To authorize the Second and Third street Passenger Railway
Company to construct a connecting line on Race street.
Whereas, The interest of the citizens of Philadelphia,
residing upon the line of the Fairmount Railway Company,
demands that a connection should be made between that road
and the Second and Third street Railroad, at the intersection
of Race and Second streets, for the purpose of preventing a
conflict in the travel between said railway companies, and
enabling them to adopt such direction of travel as will accom-
modate the residents thereon. And whereas, by an Act of As-
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sembly, incorporating the Second and Tliird street Railway
Company, approved April 10th, 1858, the Councils of the City
of Philadelphia are empowered to grant the Second and Third
street Railway Company privilege to construct such connecting
links ])etween their lines on Second and Third streets, as may
be required by them : therefore,
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Second and Third street Passenger
Railway Company are hereby authorized to construct a single
track passenger railway on the line of Race street, from Sec-
ond to Third street; provided, they conform to existing laws
and ordinances.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — HoR. M. Martin,
Assistant Clerk of Select Council,
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved August 20, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 158.
RESOLUTION
To transfer a certain item of appropriation to the Department
of City Property.
E/ESOLVED, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the sum of one thousand dollars be
transferred from item " eleven" in the appropriations made
to the Department of City Property, " for the improvement
of Fairmount Park," to item "twenty-two," "for repairs,
cleansing and supplies to the Court Houses and Law Build-
ings."
CHARLES B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
O. P CORNMAN,
President pro tern, of Select Council.
Approved August 20, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 159.
RESOLUTION
To lay a ivaler main on Twentieth street.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Engineer of the Watering
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Department be directed to lay a sixteen inch iron water main
on Twentieth street, from Poplar to Green streets.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leiseneing,
Clerk of Select Council.
0. P. CORNMAN.
President pro tern, of Select Council.
Approved August 20, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 160.
RESOLUTION
To enter satisfaction on certain official lands.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the City Solicitor be instructed to enter
satisfaction on the official bonds of William Bonsall, late
Register of the Water Department; also on the bonds of
Gerard R. Tisdale and William McGlensey, late Clerks in
the Highway Department : and that the City Solicitor be in-
structed to enter satisfaction on the official bonds of John
McCarthy, late Chief Commissioner of Highways, upon a cer-
tificate from the Controller, that the accounts of said McCarthy
are correct.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved August 21, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 161.
AN ORDINANCE
To authorize the extension of the City Railroad on Market and
Second streets.
Whereas, By an Act of Assembly of March 21st, 1831, the
City of Philadelphia is authorized to constuct such branches
of the City Railroad as^they may see fit, l^etween Broad
street and the river Delaware ; and whereas, the laying of
an extra track for the use of the Passenger Railroads now
authorized by Acts of Assembly along Third street, in order
to prevent obstruction and delay on said street, would greatly
interfere with the travel along and ordinary use of said
street ; and whereas, it is to the common advantage of the
said city and also of the several Passenger Railroads hereto-
fore authorized to use Second and Third streets between
Market and Dock streets, that all the travel should be down
one street and up the other; now tlierefore,
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain. That an additional track for the
City Railroad shall be constructed along Market street from
Third to Second street, and thence along Second street to
Dock street, said track to be laid in accordance with plan and
under the direction of the Chief Engineer and Surveyor of
the City ; provided, that the Companies now authorized by
Acts of Assembly to construct a I^assenger Railroad on Second
and Third streets, or either of said Companies, shall first
undertake to defray all expenses incident to such construction,
and give security for that purpose, to be approved by the City
Solicitor; jn'ovided, that no existing contract be hereby inter-
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fered with ; and provided the City shall have the free use
of the said road for all future time without cost or charge.
Section 2. That the said Company and Companies defray-
ing, or contributing to defray the said expenses, may use for
passenger purposes only, and without further charge, that por-
tion of the City Railroad constructed as above specified, and
also so much of the said City Eailroad as now extends from
Second to Market street on Dock and Third streets.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — IIoR. M. Martin,
Jlssistajit Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Clerks' Office, Select and Common Councils, |
Philadelphia, August 22nd, 1858. \
This is to certify that the above Ordinance was returned by
His Honor, the Mayor, to the Select Council, on the 19th day
of August passed, without his approval; and said bill having
been re-considered, was passed on the 19th day of August,
aforesaid, agree bly to the seventh section of the Act of As-
sembly, approved February second, one thousand eight hun-
dred and fifty-four, entitled '•' a further supplement to an Act
to incorporate the City of Philadelphia," by the following
vote : —
Yeas — Messrs. Benton, Bringhurst, Cornman, Davis, Enos,
Foster, Kline, Leidy, Mclntyre, Norman, Parkei-, Read,
Thompson and W-illiams.
Nays — None.
And the said Ordinance, together with the objections of
His Honor, the Mayor, having been sent to the Common Coun-
cil for their consideration, was passed by that body on the
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nineteenth da}^ of August, agreeably to the seventh section of
the Act of Assembly, approved February second, one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-four, entitled •* a further supplement
to an Act to incorporate the City of Philadelphia," by the
following vote :
Yeas — Messrs. Baird, Bowker, Brown, Bullock, Case, Cat-
tell, Osborn Conrad, Cooper, Day, Dennis, Doerr, Dickinson,
Ellis, Enyard, Eppler, Fish, Fisher, French, Gamble, Gay,
Gheen, Gillingham, Gordon, Haas, Hacker, Handy, flarbert,
Heins, Hodgdon, Hutchinson, Jones, Kelton, Kerr, Kersey,
Ketcham, Krider, Luther, Mandertield, Manuel, Mascher,
McBride, McCahen, McDonough, Geo. B. Miller, Hiram Mil-
ler, Mingle, Morris, Moyer, Xippes, Pugh, Riley, Rubicam,
Server, Schoch, Simons, Smedley, Steelling, Thompson, Uber,
Wagner, Wildey, and Trego. President.
Nays — Messrs. Brenan, Kelley, Megary, Walsh, Wistar
and Wetherill.
Therefore, the said Ordinance having been passed agree-
ably to the provisions of the Act of Assembly, in such cases
made and provided, is now a law in full force and virtue.
HOR. M. MARTIN,
Assistant Clerk of Select Council.
WM. F. SMALL,
Clerk of Common Council,
CHAPTER 162.
RESOLUTION
Authorizing the grading of East Washington Lane.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Commissioner of the High-
way Department, be authorized to enter into a contract with
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John Nolan, for grading to its established grade, East Wash-
ington Lane, in the Twenty-second Ward, from Nash street,
to East Bristol Township Line Road, for a sum not to exceed
twelve hundred dollars.
CHAS. B. TRECxO,
President of Common Council.
Attest— Wm. F. Small,
Clei-Ji of Common Council.
0. P. CORNMAN,
President pro tern, of Select Council.
Approved August 23, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 1G3.
RESOLUTION
Authorizing the laying of an iron pavement.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That B. C. Smith, the inventor, or the peti-
tioners, shall have permission to lay or cause to be laid, at
his or their own expense, under tlie direction of the Chief
Commissioner of Highways, one square of his iron pavement,
provided that they will take the same up and replace the
pavement so removed, whenever directed by Councils; and
provided also, that they shall give security for the faithful
performance of the same.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest— Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of ConiJJion Council.
0. P. CORNMAN,
President pro tem. of Select Council.
Approved August 23, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 1G4.
RESOLUTION
Authorizing the grading of Spring Garden street, icest of
Broad, and to require the -paving of footways on the same
street, from Broad street to Sixteenth street.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the
City of Philadelphia, That the Highway Department is here-
by authorized to grade Spring Garden street, west of Broad
street, and that the sum of twelve hundred dollars be, and
the same is hereby appropriated to defray the expenses of
said grading.
Also, that the Highway Department is hereby authorized
to notify the owners of property on Spring Garden street,
from Broad to Sixteenth street, to curb and pave their foot-
ways within thirty days from the time of serving said notice
by the aforesaid Department.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common CounciL
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Com?non Council.
0. P. CORNMAN,
President pro tern, of Select Council.
Approved August 23, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 165.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an Apjtropriatioii to the Department of City Pro-
perty, for the payment of labor and other expenses at the
Public Squares.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of one thousand
dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to the De-
partment of City Property, for the payment of labor and
other expenses incident to the care and management of the
Public Squares.
Section 2. That warrants for the said appropriation shall
be drawn in accordance with, existing Ordinances.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk oj Select Council.
O. P. CORNMAN,
President pro tem. of Select Council.
Approved August 23, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER IGG.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation to the Superintendent of Trusts, for
the purposes therein mentioned.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of twenty dollars,
out of the income of the fund bequeathed by John Scott, of
Edinburg, and now vested in the Corporation of the City of
Philadelphia " to distribute premiums among ingenious men
and women who make useful inventions," be, and the same is
hereby appropriated to the Superintendent of Trusts, to pay
the same to Professor William Chnuvenet, the Franklin Insti-
tute having reported the said jx^rson as being tlie nutlior of a
useful invention within the terms jjrescribed by the creator
of the said trust.
Section 2. The warrant for the ]>avment of tlie same shall
be drawn l)y tlie SujK'rintendeut of Trusts.
CHAS. B. TREr40.
President of Common Council.
Attest— Wm. F. Smalt-.
Clerk of Common Council.
O. P. CORNMAN,
President pro tern, of Select Council.
Approved August 23, A- D. 1858.
ALEXANDER IJENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 1G7.
RESOLUTION
Authorizing the pavivg of Church, Centre and Huntingdon
streets.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of" Philadelphia, That the Department of Highways is hereby
authorized to enter into a contract with a competent paver,
for the pavinf^ of Church street, from Twenty-second to
Twenty-third street, in th<3 Fifteenth Ward, Centre street,
from Seventeenth to Nineteenth street, in the Fifteenth
Ward, Huntingdon street, from Frankford road to the Plank
road, in the Nineteenth Ward. The conditions of which
contract shall be, that the contractors will collect the cost
and expenses of said paving, from the owners of property
fronting on said streets, and that the City shall be liable only
for the intersections.
Also, that the contractors shall enter into an obligation to
the City to keep the said streets in repair for two years after
the paving is finished, and that the water-pipes be laid in said
streets l^fore the paving is commenced, and the Highway
Department is hereby authorized to do the grading on said
streets necessary to be done therein preparatory to the
paving thereof.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
0. P. CORNMAN,
President p'o tern, of Select Council.
Approved August 23, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 168.
RESOLUTION
Authorizing the repavivg of Little Pine and State streets, ivith
tramwaij.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Commissioner of Highways
is hereby authorized to repavc Little Pine street, between
Sixth and Seventh streets, in the Fifth Ward, and State
street, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets, in the Tenth
Ward, said repaying to be done with tramway stone in the
track of the wheels, and if the cartway is wider than is neces-
sary for a single track, the Commissioner is authorized to re-
duce the width thereof, so that an equal quantity be taken
from each side.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
O. P. CORNMAN,
President iwo tem. of Select Council.
Approved August 23, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 160.
AN ORDINANCE
To provide for the -payment of six Inindred dollars to John
Draper ; a claim for damages assessed in opening Sixth
street, near Elboio lane.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of six hundred dol-
lars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to pay John
Draper for a certain claim of damages assessed in opening-
Sixth street, near Elbow lane.
Section 2. A warrant for the payment of the said appro-
priation shall be drawn by the Chief Commissioner of High-
ways in favor of said John Dj-aper, for the aforesaid amount,
say six hundred dollars.
CtlAS. R TREGO,
President of Co7nmon Council.
Attest — J. Barclay Harding,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
0. P. CORNMAN,
President pro tern, of Select Council.
Approved August 25, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 170.
RESOLUTION
Accepting the sureties of certain Supervisors.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the sureties offered by the followicg;
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named Supervisory, I'or the faithrul pcribrmancc ol" their
duties, be accepted, to Avit:
James Riding-, surety for William Riding; Charles Perrine,
surety for Evan Dalrymple; William H. French, surety for
John Gibbs; Daniel B. Beitler and John Stewart, sureties
for James Kelly; Henry Schell and Charles Geehr, sureties
for William M. Wilson; J. B. Thompson and John B. Hahn,
sureties for John Sailor; Henry R. Gaskill, surety for Wil-
liam T. Doyle ; John D. Lentz, surety for James Davenport ;
John W. Hoffner, surety for Daniel R. Harper; John C.
Gilbert, surety for Reuben Sands; Samuel Wright and David
E. Thompson, sureties for Isaac Mann; Thomas Haig and
Alfred R. Lentz, sureties for Edward Painter; John Wil-
liamson and Jacob Myers, sureties for Joseph S. Williams;
Wm. P. Cooper and George L. Ritman, sureties for Daniel D.
George; Nathan W. Ellis and Samuel W, Black, sureties for
Joshua Ellis ; William Smith, surety for Wm. A. Frederick ;
John Sloan, surety for Joseph Freas; Edward Holgate,
surety for Jacob M. Keech; Joseph Boucher, surety for Wil-
liam D. Thomas; Samuel W. Middleton, surety for John W.
Middle ton; John S. Gill, surety for Samuel Ware; Chas. C.
Hicks, Jr., surety for George Hart; Friend J. Streeton,
surety for John Franklin; Geo. De Hahn and Thomas H.
Bartolet, sureties for Chas. A. Souder.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — J. Barclay Haiidixg,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council. *
0. P. CORNMAN,
President -pro tern, of Select Council.
Approved August 25, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Pkila.
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CHAPTER 171.
RESOLUTION
Auihoriuvg the Chief Engineer cf the Water Works to lay
water pipes in certain streets.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of tlie City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Engineer of the Water
AVorks be authorized and directed to cause water pipes to be
laid in the following streets, namely:
Earp street, between Eighth and Ninth streets. First Ward.
West street, from Marion to Wharton street. First Ward.
Wheat street, from Marion to Wharton street, Second
Ward.
Evangelist street, from Seventh to Eighth street, Third
Ward.
Biddle street, from Twenty-third to Twenty-fifth street'
Fifteentli Ward.
Ringgold street, from Pratt to Brown street, Fifteenth
Ward.
Spring Garden street, from Twenty-fourth to Twenty-fifth
street. Fifteenth Ward.
Jefferson street, between Fourth street and the German-
town road, Seventeenth Ward.
Parker street, from York to Adams street, Nineteenth
Ward.
Cabot street, from Eighteenth to Nineteeath street,
Twentieth Ward.
Cadwalader avenue, between Jelieison and Oxford streets,
Twentieth Ward.
Columbia avenue, from Eleventh to Thirteenth street,
Twentieth Ward.
Jeiferson street, from Sixth to Eighth street, Twentieth
Ward.
Master street, from Twelfth to Broad street, Twentieth
Ward.
Mulvany street, from Jefferson to Columbia street. Twen-
tieth Ward.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved August 27, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 172.
AN ORDINANCE
To regulate the -paving of streets, lanes, and alleys.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain. That in any contract hereafter to
be made, for paving or repaving in any public or private
street, lane, or alley in said City, whether made by property
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owners or by the Department of Highways, the deptli of
gravel shall ))e at least IG inches helow the top of the i)aving
stones when finished; and any violation by a contractor of
this regulation shall be a bar to his recoA'ering the payment
for said work.
Section 2. That wdien the District Surveyor shall have
measured that portion of the paving chargeable to the pro-
perty owners upon the line of any street, as aforesaid, and
made out bills for the same, it shall be the duty of the Chief
Commissioner of Highways to certify on tlio said bills that the
paving has been done in a workmanlike manner, and in con-
formity with the requirements of the above first section: and
no owner of property shall be lial^le for paving of any street,
lane, or allej^, unless done in accordance Avith the foregoing
Ordinance.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Cotnmon Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved August 30, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phi la.
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CHAPTER 173.
AN ORDINANCE
To change the namea of ccrtanL Streets, Lanes, Courts
jllleys, »5*c-., in the City of Philadelphia.
Section 1. The J^elcct and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain, That the names of certain Streets,
Lanes, Courts and Alleys, shall be changed as follows :
Washington street, from Pelawa) o Eiver to Third street —
Prime street from Third street to .Scliuylkill River, hereafter
to be called "Washington avenue.
John street, from Front street to Moyamensing avenue, and
Tidmarsh street from Eleventh to Paynter street, hereafter to
be called Carpenter street.
Larch street, from Eighth to Ninth, above Prime, hereafter
to be called Suffolk street.
Southwark street, between Seventh and Eiglith, Wharton
and Federal, hereafter to be called Enue street.
Moyamensing alley, between Ninth and Tenth, below Chris-
tian street, hereafter to be called Milton street.
George street, from Eighth to the Schuylkill River, here-
after to be called Sansom street.
Zane street, between Seventh and Eighth; and Farmer
street, between Sixth and Seventh, hereafter to be called Fil-
bert street.
Castle street, between Tenth and Eleventh, above Race,
hereafter to be called Sargeant street.
North street, above Tenth and below Vine, hereafter to be
called Morgan street.
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James street, from Ninth to Broad, hereafter to be called
Noble street.
Morris street, from Broad to Fairmount, hereafter to be
called Spring Garden street.
Andrew street, between Twentieth and Twenty-second
streets, (Fifteenth Ward) hereafter to l)e called Wallace street.
Franklin avenue, from Sixth street to Gunner's run, here-
after to be called Girard avenue.
Phoenix street, from Germantown road to Frankford road ;
and Duke street, from Frankford road to Norris street, here-
after to be called Tiiompson street.
Cherry street, from Germantown road to Queen street,
hereafter to 1)c called Montgomery avenue.
Lelianon street, from Germantown road to the Schuylkill
river; and Coral street, from Front to Somerset streets, here-
after to be called Diamond street.
Perry street, south of Spruce, between Twelfth and Thir-
teenth streets, hereafter to be called Dean street.
Chatham street from Front to Broad streets, hereafter to
be called Berks street.
Lancaster street, from Broad street to the Schuylkill river,
hereafter to be called Norris street.
Linden street, from Front street to Frankford road ; and
Queen street, from Frankford road east, hereafter to be called
Richmond street.
Maiden street, east of Front, hereafter to be called Laurel
Btreet.
Penn street, in the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Wards, here-
after to be called Delaware avenue.
Carpenter street. Lodge street and Grape street, running
from Sixth to Ninth streets, above Chestnut, hereafter to be
called Jayne street.
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Cresson alley, from Fifth to Sixth street, below Ilacc ; aud
Ilaines street west from Sixth, below Race, hereafter to be
called Cresson street.
Franklin place, south of Market street, above Third ; and
Hudson alley, south of Chestnut street above Third, hereafter
to be called Hudson street.
Hanover street, from the Delaware river to Frankford road,
below Palmer street, hereafter to be called Columbia avenue.
Bacon street, east of Broad, below Buttonwood street, here-
after to be called Hamilton street.
Lewis street, west from Fifteenth above Walnut; and
Jefferson avenue, east from Fifteenth street above Walnut,
hereafter to be called Moravian street.
Centre street, west from Broad street below Green, here-
after to be called Brandjwine street.
Fairview street, west from Broad below Spring Garden
street, hereafter to be called Buttonwood street.
Adams street, south from Fitzwater, above Sixth street,
hereafter to be called Alexander street.
Adams street, from Twelfth to Thirteenth streets, between
Spruce and Pine streets, liereafter to be called Aurora street.
Adams street, north from Jefferson, to Montgomery below
Cadwallader street, hereafter to be called Bodine street.
Amber street, north and south from Phoenix, and west of
Frankford road, shall 1)0 called Adrian street.
Aim street, from Twelfth to Thirteentli streets, between
Lombard and South streets, hereafter to he called Rodman
street.
Ann street, from Wissahickon to Charles street, l)etween
Francis and Vineyard streets, herefter to be called Wilton
street.
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Ashland street, from Union to Spruce streets, between
Second and Third streets, hereafter to be called Aberdeen
street. *
Aspen street, north of Lombard, above Twenty-first street
hereafter to be called Albion street.
Adams avenue, from Thirteenth street below Buttonwood,
hereafter to be called Adair avenue.
Allen's alley, from 159 south Sixth street, hereafter to be
called Alford street.
Allen's court, east from 159 south Sixth street, hereafter to
be called Algier place.
Allen's court, west from 84 north Front street, hereafter to
be called Allison place.
Allen's court, south from 150 Spruce street, hereafter to be
called Alsop place.
Arch court, west from 178 Marshall street, hereafter to be
called Armand place.
Ash alley, from Twenty-second street, between Market and
Chestnut streets, hereafter to be called Barker street.
Atkinson court, west from Sutherland street, hereafter to
be called Atlee place.
Atkinson court, from Pleasant street below Eleventh street,
hereafter to })e called Atwood place.
Bache's court, west from 180 Marshall street, hereafter to
be called Backus place.
Baker's alley, from 55 New street to 70 Vine street, here-
after to be called Balch street.
Baker's court, east from York avenue to Little Crown
street, hereafter to be called Baldwin place.
Baker's court, cast from 49 New Market street, hereafter
to be called Berwick place.
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Eracllbrd alley, west of »^eventli street, below Loiii))ard
street, hereafter to be called Cullen street.
Bilew street, from Oxford street to Columbia avenue, below
Fourth street; Robinson street, from Master to Jefferson
street, below Eighth street; Merchant street, from Thompson
to Master, and Roljertson street, from Parrish to Poplar,
below Eighth street, to be called Cohocksink street.
Baker's court, rear of Eighth street, between Fitzwater
and Shippcn streets, hereafter to be called Barlow place.
Baker's court, west from Cadwallader street below Phoenix
street, hereafter to be called Bertrand place.
Baker's court, north from Pleasant street below Eleventh,
hereafter to be called Benedict place.
Baker street, east and west from Sixteenth street, between
Shippen and Fitzwater streets, hereafter to be called Bangor
street.
Bank street, north from William street, (R.) hereafter to be
called Brabant street.
Bank street, from Pine to South streets, east of the Schuyl-
kill river, hereafter to be called Barnwell street.
Beck street, from Swanson to south Front street, hereafter
to be called Bulletin street.
Bedford street, (K.) from Frankford road to Hanover
street, hereafter to be called Wildey street.
Baker's court, east from Lilly alley, hereafter to be called
Burbank place.
Baker's court, cast from Charlotte above George street,
hereafter to be called Barnes place.
Ball alley, from 120 South street to No. 77 Shippen street,
hereafter to be called Barrow street.
Ball's alley, from Delaware river to 391 north Front street,
hereafter to be called Barr street.
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Ball's court, west from 514 north Front street, hereafter to
Lc called Bartell place.
Barclay's alley, from 190 south Sixth street, hereafter to be
called Bartram street.
Barley court, north from 31 Barley street, hereafter to be
called Bascom place.
Baxter's court, south from 120 German street, hereafter
to be called Bastian place.
Beaver court, north from 37 Cherry street, hereafter to be
called Bissell place.
Beck's court, north from 59 Coates street, hereafter to be
called Devon place.
Beck's court, north from 41 Beck street, hereafter to be
called Belfast place.
Beck's court, north from 7 Peg street, hereafter to be called
Beaumont place.
Benner's court, north from 39 Cherry street, hereafter to
be called Bedell Place.
Benton court, south from 98 Prime street, hereafter to be
called Otego place.
Benton's avenue, west from Flower above Catharine street,
hereafter to be called Lincoln avenue.
Benton's lane, east from south Front street above Reed,
hereafter to be called Navy street.
Berk's court, rear 69 Lawrence street, hereafter to be
called Blake place.
Biddle's alley, from 78 Market street to Elbow lane, here-
after to be called Ashhurst street.
Binder's court, west from Queen, above Cherry street, here,
after to be called Block place.
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Bird's avenue, west Iroiu Raspberry street, above Spruce
street, hereafter to be called Bliss street.
Black Horse alley, from 202 South street, to Bedford
street, hereafter to be called Ashbury street.
Bladen's court, south from Spruce, below Little Dock street,
hereafter to be called Bonham place.
Bond's court, from 15 Laurel street, hereafter to be called
Bonner place.
Bowman's court, in Rachel street, hereafter to be called
Bower place.
Boyd's alley, from rear 119 north Eleventh street to iWiley
court, licreafter to be called Bosler street.
Boyd's court, from 3 South Tenth street, hereafter to be
called Boyer place.
Boyd's court, south from South street to Bedford street
licreafter to be called Brace place.
Boyle's court, east from 79 Passyunk road, hereafter to be
called Bramble place.
Boyle's court, west from Seventeenth, below Christian
street, hereafter to be called Bowen place.
Branch alley, from 5 Madison street, hereafter to be called
Brigg street.
Bonsall street, from Ninth to Tenth streets, above South
street, hereafter to be called Rodman street.
Benton street, from School to William streets, hereafter to
be called Chenango street.
Benton street, from High's court to Linden street, here-
after to be called Cowper street.
Brown street, from Budden's to Walnut alley, between
Thirteenth and Juniper streets, hereafter to be called Marston
street.
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Brown street, east of Hanover, below Duke street, here-
after to be called Mojer street.
Brown street, north from Gunner's Run, above Salmon
street, (R) hereafter to be called Edgemont street.
Budd street, south from Haverford to Bridge street, here-
after to be called French street.
Burns street, north from Columbia street, between Twelfth
and Thirteenth streets, hereafter to be called Fawn street.
Brazier's court, from Pascal alley, above Fourth street,
hereafter to be called Beekman place.
Brazier's avenue, west from Twenty-second, above Callow-
hill street, hereafter to l^e called Barney avenue.
Brinton alley, east from Eleventh street to Ridge avenue,
above Callowhill street, hereafter to be called Portland street.
Britten's alley, south from Bedford to Shippen street, below
Eighth street, to be hereafter called Baden street.
Brook's court, west from 126 North Front street, to be
hereafter called Augusta place.
Brook's court, west from St. Joseph's avenue, west of
Eighteenth street, to be hereafter called Beale place.
Brown court, Marshall street, above Poplar street, here-
after to be called Baynou place.
Brown's court, north from 93 Race street, hereafter to be
called Bean place.
Brown's court, north from Carlton street, below Broad
street, hereafter to be called liedlow place.
Brown's court, south from 226 Lombard street, hereafter to
be called Balston place.
Brown's court, west from Twenty-third street, above Cal-
lowhill street, hereafter to be called Brolaskie place.
Browne's court, east from 19 New Market street, hereafter
to be called Bristow place.
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Bryan's court, south froui 102 Cherry street, hereafter to
be called Brinklcy place.
Buchanan place, east from 43 George street, hereafter to
be called Bristol place.
Burd's court, south from 124 Locust street, hereafter to be
called Brier place.
Burd's alley, from Raspberry to Watson alley, hereafter to
be called Brogan street.
Burr's court, north from Pleasant street, above Twelfth
street, hereafter to be called Bride place.
Burr's court, west from Hanover, between Duke and
Franklin streets, hereafter to be called Burgess place,
Butler's court, south of Locust street, west of Ninth street,
hereafter to be called Berry place.
Butler's place, south from George street, west of Tenth
street, hereafter to be called Burgoyne place.
Buttonwood alley, from North Thirteenth to Juniper street,
near Market street, hereafter to bo called Button street.
Cadwalader avenue, south from Oxford street, below Broad
street, liereafter to be called Cadbury avenue.
Campbell's court, west from Nineteenth street, near Car-
penter street, hereafter to be called Cadmus place.
Carbon place, south from Race street, west of Broad street,
hereafter to be called Cliff place.
Campbell's court, north from 71 German street, hereafter
to be called Catlin place.
Carlisle court, south from 224 Coates street, hereafter to be
called Candia place.
Carpenter's alley, north from 105 Catharine street, hereafter
to be called Baltic place.
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Carpenter's court, north of 93 Carpenter street, hereafter
to be called Coke place.
Carpenter's court, south from Chestnut street, below Fourth
street, hereafter to be called Congress place.
Carpenter's court, east from north Fifth street, below Eut-
tonwood street, hereafter to be called Cahill place.
Carroll avenue, south from Carroll street, above Twelfth
street, hereafter to be called Osage avenue.
Carroll court, south from Lemon street, between Seven-
teenth and Eighteenth streets, hereafter to be called Calvert
place.
Carroll's court, Fourth street, near Germantown road, here-
after to be called Cameron place.
Carson court, from Brown above north Fourth street, here-
after to be called Camp place.
Canal street, north of Master, near High Bridge, hereafter
to be called Harbor street.
Carter's alley, east from Thirteenth street, near Wood street,
hereafter to be called Rock street.
Caufifman's court, south from 14 Cherry street, hereafter to
be called Cantwcll place.
Centre alley, from south Eleventh street to Quince street,
below Walnut street, hereafter to be called Canning street.
Charles' place. Willow, above Charles street, hereafter to
be called Cannon place.
Chester court, from Eleventh street, below Coates street,
hereafter to be called Cantman place. ,
Christians' court, west from 328 south Front street, here-
after to be called Cohen place.
Church alley, from Arch street to 142 Cherry street, here-
after to be called Carman place.
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Church avenue, cast from Juniper street above Locust street,
hereafter to be called Carney avenue.
Church avenue, east from Broad street below Brown street,
hereafter to be called Carsell avenue.
Church avenue, north from Lombard street, east of Twen-
tieth street, hereafter to be called Carty avenue.
Clare alley, from north Thirteenth street to Juniper street,
below Vine street, hereafter to be called Cowley street.
Clare's court, from E. Charles street to Washington street,
above Sixth street, hereafter to he called Carswell place.
Clark's court, north from Johnson's lane, above Fourth street,
hereafter to be called Caruth place.
Clark's avenue, south from Wood street to Pearl street,
above Twentieth sticet, hereafter to be called Caseltine
avenue.
Clay avenue, north from Orchard street above Culvert street,
hereafter to be called Castner avenue.
Clay court, north from Hanover street, below Franklin
street, hereafter to be called Cassion place.
Clinton avenue, north from Pearl street l)clow Twentieth
street, hereafter to be called CattcU avenue.
Coates alley, from 134 nortli Front street to 151 north Sec-
ond street, hereafter to be called Craven street.
Coates court, cast from ?A New Market street, hereafter to
be called Chance place.
Cobb's court, west from Fourth street, south of Poplar
street, hereafter to 1)C called Chadwick place.
College avenue, east from Tenth street below Market, here-
after to 1)0 called Cliant street.
Collins alley, from 40o south Front street to Swanson street,
hereafter to be called Chapman street.
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Collins court, west from Nixon street (F. M.) hereafter to
l»c called Chase place.
Cooml)S court, north from 35 German street, hereafter to
be called Burlington place.
Cooper's court, north from Shippen street below Ninth
street, hereafter to be called Chur place.
Cooper's court, from 408 north Front street, hereafter to be
called Claghorn place.
Coxe's court, east from Dunton street above Otter street,
hereafter to be called Champion place.
Coxe's alley. South street near Twelfth, hereafter to be
called Clawson street.
Craig's court, from St. John street above Poplar street,
hereafter to be called Christy place.
Cresson's court, from 61 Cherry street, hereafter to be
called Clyde place.
Carbon street, west of Twenty-fifth street, above South
street, on Schuylkill river, hereafter to be called Welsh street.
Carroll street, west of Twelfth street, above Poplar street,
hereafter to be called Heath street.
Carter street, north from Carpenter street, below Eleventh,
hereafter to be called Florence street.
Carver street, east from 319 South Fifth street, hereafter to
' be called Geneva street.
Centre street, from Twelfth to Thirteenth streets, between
Lyndall alley and Locust streets, hereafter to be called Canby
street.
Center street, west from William street, below Columbia
railroad, hereafter to be called Zanoni street.
Centre street, from Lancaster Pike, between Mary and
Parke streets, (W. P.) hereafter to l)e called Spartou street.
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Centre street, nortli from JBrown street, between Ninth and
Tenth streets, hereafter to be called Knox street.
Charles street, south from Ball to Plum streets, (K) here-
after to 1)6 called Claiborne street.
Charles street, from Callowhill to Buttonwood street, above
Ninth street, hereafter to be called Canton street.
Charles street, from Francis to George, (Francisville,) here-
after to be called Shirley street.
Charles street, south from Dickinson street, between
Seventh and P]ighth streets, hereafter to be called Tudor
street.
Charles street, north from South above Fourth street, here-
after to be called Berlin street.
Charlotte street, west from No. 138 South Eleventh street,
hereafter to be called Zenobia street.
Chatham street, from Sixteenth to Seventeenth streets,
between Chestnut and George streets, hereafter to be called
Exeter street.
Chatham street, from Penn avenue to Spring Garden street,
hereafter to be called Linville street.
Church street, from Christian to Prime streets, and from
Navy Yard to Southwark canal, hereafter to be called Otsego
street.
Church street, from Darby road, (W. P.) hereafter to be
called Irving street.
Church street, from Twenty-second to Twenty-third street,
above Callowhill street, hereafter to be called Shamokin
street.
Clark street, from Thirteenth to Juniper street, below
"Walnut street, hereafter to be called Kingston street.
Clay street, above Pine street, near Schuylkill river, here-
after to be called Kent street.
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Clinton street, between Howard and Hancock streets, here-
after to be called Maschcr street.
Clinton street, from Franklin to Master streets, (E. K.)
hereafter to be called Lackawaua street.
Clinton street, from Brown to Master streets, between
Eighth and Ninth streets, hereafter to be called Darien street.
Clymer street, north from Montgomery street, below G. T.
road, hereafter to be called Montrose street.
Clymer street, north from Mnd lane, below G. T. road,
hereafter to be called Manor street.
Clymer street, east from Amber street to Trenton avenue,
above Dauphin street, hereafter to be called Charter street.
Crown street, from Queen to Frankford road, between
Shackamaxon and Marlborough streets, hereafter to be called
Crease street.
Cypress street, west from Nineteenth street, above Callow-
hill, hereafter to be called Cuyler street.
Cypress avenue, south from Rhodes, east of Twentieth
street, hereafter to be called Culp avenue.
Darrach's court, south from 136 South Twelfth street, here-
after to be called Cahawba place.
Davies' place, north from Green below Twelfth street,
hereafter to be called Dale place.
Davis' or Davison's alley, from South Thirteenth to Juni-
per street, between Chestnut and Market streets, hereafter to
be called Dallas street.
Davis' court, Avest from York avenue, above North Fifth
street, hereafter to be called Brussels place.
Davis' or Whitebread's court, south from 72 Christian
street, hereafter to be called Whitebread place.
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Davis' court, nortli from Stanley, between TI)ird and
Fourth streets, hereafter to he called Brunswick place.
Davis' court, from Pleasant street below Twelfth street,
hereafter to be called Dart jdace.
Dean street, nortli and south from Franklin, (K.) hereafter
to be called Day street.
Dean's alley, from 144 south Eighth to Duj)onccau street,
hereafter to bo called Davenport street.
Dean's court, south froui Pearl above Thirteenth street,
hereafter to be called Dawson place.
Decatur street, from Eye to Corn, betAveen Marion and
Wharton, hereafter to be called Drayton street.
Derringer's court, east from 15 Tamarind street, hereafter
to be called Deagen place.
Derringer's court, west from Sixth below Coates street,
hereafter to be called Dayton place.
Diamond street, from Thirteenth to Juniper, between Broad
and Chestnut, hereafter to be called Drury street.
Dickerson court, north from Olive below Broad street, here-
after to be called Delta place.
Dickson's court, east from Broad above Poplar street, here-
after to be called Dalton place.
Dickson's court, west from Front between Reed and Green-
wich streets, hereafter to be called Dailey place.
Dickson's court, rear of Cadwallader above Oxford street
hereafter to be called Bremen place.
Dickson's court, east from German town road, above Fourth
street, hereafter to be called Danforth place.
Dillwyn place, south from Willow below Fourth street,
hereafter to be called Darling place.
Division street, north from Ann street, Francisville, here-
after to be called Dubrec street.
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Donnelly's place, nortli from 45 New street, liereaf'ter to
be called Danvcr place.
DouglaJis avenue, north from Pine below Twelfth street,
hereafter to be called Dougherty avenue.
Drinker's court, south from 66 Union street, hereafter to
be called Deimling place.
Duffy's court, from Fitzwater between Sixth and Seventh
streets, hereafter to be called Delany place.
Duke street, from 242 north Front to 363 north Second
street, hereafter to be called Dana street.
Duncan court, south from 108 Shippen street, hereafter to
be called Demar place.
Eagle court, from flaliburton's court, across Currant alley,
hereafter to be called Eakin place.
Eagle place. Otter street near Frankford road, hereafter to
be called p]aton place.
Earl's court, south from 292 Pine street, hereafter to be
called Edgar place.
Elbow alley, from 184 south Sixth street, west of Barclaj's
alley, hereafter to be called Edmond street.
Elizabeth's avenue, south from Ogden above Sixteenth
street, hereafter to be called Eastwick avenue.
Elizabeth's court, west from south Sixth street, above Car-
penter, hereafter to be called Himmelwright place.
Ellen's place, east from 371 south Front street, hereafter
to be called Eva place.
Ellen street, west from Ninth, below Christian street, here-
after to be called Erricson street.
Elliotts' place, north from 89 Monroe street, hereafter to be
called Emanuel place.
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Ellis' court, from Pleasant street, bclo-w Ridgo avenue,
hereafter to be called Eagen place.
Elm street, from Pino to Lombard, between Nineteenth
and Twentieth, hereafter to be called Ford street.
Elm street, west from Salmon, ])clow William street, (R.)
hereafter to be called Fremont street.
Elm street, north from Ilaverford and west fi-om Schuyl-
kill, (W. P.) hereafter to be called Eadline street.
Elmes' court, nortli from A'inc street, near the Schuylkill,
hereafter to be called Ennis place.
Emerald street, from Sixteenth to Seventeenth, between
Chancellor and Locust streets, hereafter to be called Erety
street.
Emlen's alley, south from Clover alley to 5 Powell street,
hereafter to be called English street.
Emlen's court, from Peg or Willow to No. 4 Noble street,
hereafter to be called Everett place.
Emery's court, east from 383 St. John, above Beaver street,
hereafter to be called Eveland place.
Evan's court, east from 1G3 north Sixth street, hereafter to
be called Evei-all place.
Evan's court, east from Ontario, above Poplar street, here-
after to be called Elba place.
Evan's place, from Williams' street, above Eighteenth street,
hereafter to be called Ewald place.
Evan's street, Fitzwatcr to Catharine, below Ik-oad, here-
after to be called Espey street.
Faries' court, north from North street, above Tenth, liere-
after to be called Faas place.
Fayette avenue, from .34 .lulianna street, hereafter to be
called Fable avenue.
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Federal alley, from Federal road to A]'sciial, hereafter to
be called Faddcu street.
Filbert avenue, south from 1 Filbert street, hereafter to he
called Fagan avenue.
Fisher street, south from 258 Catharine to Queen, hereafter
to be called Foster street.
Fisher street, west from hjghth, below Franklin, hereafter
to be called Fernon street.
Fisher's coui't, west from No. 6 Rachel, hereafter to be
called Fail place.
Fisher's court, east from No. 13 Laurel, liereafter to be
called Fairbauk place.
Fisher's court, west from Palmer, between Prince and
Queen, hereafter to be called Fairchild place.
Fisher's court, north of Torr's alley, hereafter to be called
Fairlamb place.
Fisher street, north of Carpenter, above Third, hereafter
to be called Faulkner street.
Flower court, north of Xo. 3 Torr's court, hereafter to be
called Fairman place.
Flower's street, from Fitzwater to Christian, above Hub-
bell, hereafter to be called Fallon street.
Flower's court, north from Lawrence, above Eighth, here-
after to be called Fairdaj' place.
Forrest place, east from 51 George street, hereafter to be
called Farley place.
Fowler court, west from Philip, above Oxford, liereafter to
be Ccillcd Farner place.
Fox's court, east from Ai)ple, below Master, hereafter to
be called Farrell place.
Fraley's court, between Shackniiinxon sti-cet n?id Franklbrd
road and Allen and J>oach streets, hereafter to lie called Far-
son place.
Frances' court, lietween Dickerson and AVliarton, from
Fifth to Sixth streets, hereafter to ))e called "Wilder street.
Frankford i)lace, Avest from 74 Franklbrd road, hereafter
to be called Faust ])Iace.
Frankford avenue, north-east of Lehigh avenue, hereafter
to be called Kensington avenue.
Franklin ])lace, east from Ninth, above Coates street, here-
after to l)c called Franconia jilace.
Franklin street, Avest from Moyamcnsing- road, below
Greenwich street, hereafter to be called Tasker street.
Frascr's court, east from Carpenter, al)ove Fourth street,
hereafter to l)e called Floyd place.
Frazier's court, Avest from .Sixth, beloAV Christian street,
hereafter to be called Flood place.
Frombcrger's court, Avest from 34 Xorth Second street,
hereafter to be called Fcnncr place.
Frombcrger's court, Avest of Ann. (Francisville,) hereafter
to be called Fen ton place.
Fulton's aA'cnue, south of Washington, above Eighteenth
street, hereafter to be called Fearon avenue.
Fulton street, south of Race, IjcIoav Twenty-second street,
hereafter to be called Fitch street.
Gabeirs court, south of Lombard, near Eighteenth street,
liereafter to be called (xadsby place.
(Jalbraith's court, north of 110 Queen street, hereafter to
be called Gaint-s place.
(Jardcn street, betAveen liavcrford street and Bridge, Avest
of Fifth street, (W. P.) hei-eafter to be called Rockland
street.
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Garrett's court, north of St. Joseph's avenue, herealter to
be called Gallagher ithicc.
Gaskill place, Ijetween Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets,
hereafter to be called Galvin place.
Gay's court, cast from Charlotte, above Culvert, hereafter
to be called Gwinn place.
George's alley, from New to Vine, between Second and
Third streets, hereafter to be called Galleo stt-eet.
George street, from 82 South to 27 Monroe, hereafter to be
called Guilford street.
George street, south from Kidgc road to Twentieth and
Parrish streets, hereafter to be called Ginnodo street.
Gilbert's avenue, between Vine and Callowhill streetsi
from 42 New Market street, hereafter to be called Gascon
avenue.
Gilbert's court, east from 103 New Market street, hereafter
to be called Garber place.
Gold street, Avest from Salmon, below Clearfield street,
hereafter to be called Gcisler street.
Goldsmith's court, cast from Eachel, between Poplar and
Brown streets, hereafter to l^e called Gardy place.
Goldsmith's court, cast from Rachel, below Laurel street,
hereafter to be called Garland place.
GoodAvill court, north of Callowhill, west of Twentieth
street, hereafter to be called Goodwood place.
Graii' alley, north from 57 Race street, hereafter to be
called Garside street.
Graham's court, from JJedford, above Twelfth street, here-
after to be called Garten i)lace.
Graham's court, south from 124 Catharine street, hereafter
to be called (Jarwin })laco.
Gi'anitc street, west from Scventconth, aliovc Coates sticct,
hereafter to be called Grayson street.
Grape alley, from Ann to George, between Fov.ell and
Eidge road, hereafter to be called Geary street.
Grape court, Grape, above Eiglith street, hereafter to be
called Garwood place.
Gray street, from T)aii]»hin to York, east of Frankford road,
hereafter to be called (Jciss street.
Gray's alley, from Front to Second, between Chestnut and
Walnut streets, hereafter to be called Gatzmer street.
Gray's court, east from 157 north Eleventh street, hereafter
to be called Bolivia place.
Gray's court, east from Thirteenth, near Coates street, here-
after to be called Grampian place.
Gray's allej', Eleventh street to Faries' court, Ijetwcen Vine
and North, hereafter to be called Gibbons street.
Green Hill place, north from Ogdcn street, opposite Ridge
road, hereafter to be called Giflbrd place.
Green Hill place, west of Carlisle street and near Girard
avenue, hereafter to be called Gilion place.
Green street, from 127 Pine to 152 Spruce street, hereafter
to be called Griscom street.
Green street, west of Cadwalader street, (K.) hereafter to
to be called Gillingham street.
Green street, west of Rose, between Washington and Pratt,
(W. P.) hereafter to be called Kansas street.
Green's court, south from 248 Shippen street, hereafter to
be called Gill place.
Green's court, west from 36 Lawrence to Orchard street,
hereafter to be called Gil})in place.
(Jj'oeirs court, Avcst from Xo. 302 St. John's street, liere-
aftcr to lie failed Gilniore ])lace.
(Ircl>le'8 court, north from 117 Christian street, hereafter
to be called (xiven place.
(I I'ici-'s avenue, nortli fi'oni James to Pleasant above Tenth
street, hereafter to be called Gossamer avenne.
drier's court, west from Thirteenth, above Coates street,
liereafter to called (Hading- jdacc.
drier's coui-t, nortli of James, al)OA'e Twelfth street, here-
aftei" to l)c called dlancv jdaee.
(Ji-im's court, south from Poiilar, near Second street, here-
after to 1)0 called Glasgow j)lace.
(J rim's court, north-cast from Orchard street, hereafter to
l>e called (Jlasmire place.
Grim's court, east from 4SG noi'tli Third street, hereafter
to be called Glazier place.
Grulib street, from "Wall to Catharine, between Sixtli and
Seventh streets, hereafter to be called Godey street.
Guliclma street, east from Hanover al)ove Puke street,
hereafter to be called Gerker street.
Ifaas court, nortli from St. John street, hereafter to. be
called Haddock place.
HalloweU's court, south from I'ojJar above Seventh street,
hereafter to be called Haddon place.
HalloweU's court, north from Paschall alley, aliove Fourth
street, hereafter to l)e called Hagedorn ])lace.
Hamilton court, rear of Linden above Spring Garden street,
liereafter to 1)C called Havanna place.
Hamilton jdace, north from C>allowhill al»ove Thirteenth
street, hereafter to be called Harbeson place.
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Jlamiltoii street, from SoutJi to AVatJliiiiL'.toii, lictween
Eleventh arid 'J'well'tli ^^trcets, liorea]"ter to lie calh^l Jja.irner
street.
llaiiiiltoii street, south IVoin Clicstnut a'love Till street,
hereafter to lie ealle(l ILiiidy street.
lEaiuiltoirs court, from 7G German aljovc Third street, here-
after to be called J larding" place.
Hamilton's court, "west from Fourth aljovc ^\'ashing•ton
street, hereafter to be called Hacker place.
Hancock's court, north from Lemon, l)ctween Tenth and
Eleventh streets, hereafter to be called Hamstead place.
Hank's court, rear of No. 7 Budd street, hereafter to be
called Hamburg i)lace.
Harmony court, oi* Cake court, north fi-om 27 Coates' alley,
hereafter to be calletl Packer })lace.
Harmon}' court, fr(jm Shippen to Small street, hereafter to
be called Heron i)lace.
Harmony court, east from 327 south Foujth stieet, hereafter
to be called l>oliemia place.
Harmony court, Avest from Cadwallader above Jefferson
street, hereafter to be called Hancc place.
Harmony place, east from Beach beloAV Hanover street,
liereafter to be called Ilillcs place.
Harper's court, Barker beloAv Nineteenth street, hereafter
to be called Harker place.
Harper's court, south of Shippen above Broad street, here-
after to be called Grinnel place.
Harper's place, cast of No. 53 George street, hereafter to
be called Hirst i)lace.
Harrison avenue, west from Juniper below Cheny street,
hereafter to be called Hassinuer avenue.
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Harrison street, from Twentieth to Twenty-first streets,
l)ctween Pine and Lombard, hereafter to l)e called Hand
street.
Harrison place, north from Coates below Second street,
hereafter to be called flobcnsack place.
Harrison place, noith of Parrish below Eleventh street,
hereafter to be called Holland place.
Harrison street, south from Locust below Eighteenth street,
hereafter to l)e called Illinois street.
Harrison avenue, from New Market between Coates and
Green streets, hei^eafterto be called Holt avenue.
Harrison avenue, west from Fourth below Jeflcrson street,
hereafter to be called Eisen avenue.
Harrison avenue, west from Fourth street, opposite the
Germantown road, hereafter to be called Godfrey avenue.
fLarrison court, from Germantown road to William, between
Otter and Rose streets, hereafter to be called Rockhill place.
Hay's court, east from Third above Coates street, hereafter
to be called Hoover place.
Hay's court, from Pleasant to James, above Charles street,
hereafter to be called Haywood place.
Hay's court, from Pcnn to Beach, below Maiden street,
hereafter to be called Hull place.
Hazel street, from Eleventh to Twelfth, below Poplar
street, hereafter to be called Denmark place.
Henry's court, west from 536 Germantown road, hereafter
to be called Heberton place.
Hermitage place, east from Third, opposite Branch street,
hereafter to l)e called Hebrew place.
High's court, Second above Laurel street, hereafter to be
called Heck place.
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night's court, north from Willow above Eighth street,
hereafter to be called Heckman place.
Hill's court, west from Weaver street, hereafter to be
called lleckroth i)lace.
Hincle's court, from Pleasant below Tenth street, hereafter
to be called Hedges place.
Hiukel's court, from 207 Race street to Bryan's alley,
hereafter to lie called Heft place.
Hogg's court, from 133 Carpenter street, hereafter to be
called Heilig place.
Hollowa}' place, west from Front near Laurel street, here-
after to be called Heisler place.
Hood's court, east from 21 Garden street, hereafter to be
called Hello rman place.
Horstman's court, south from 76 German street, hereafter
to be called Hepburn place.
Howard place, north from 107 Carpenter street, hereafter
to be called Hero place.
Howard place, south from Washington street, between
Eighth and Ninth, hereafter to be called Havre place.
Howard place, west from Quince, between Spruce and Pine
streets, hereafter to be called Hewitt place.
Howard place, south from Brown above Broad street, liere-
after to be called Hock place.
Howard's court, west from Laurel below Pear street, here-
after to be called Heyer place.
Howard's court, south from 268 Race street, hereafter to be
called Huey place.
Howard's court, north fi-om Hamilton below Seventeenth
street, hereafter to be called Heyman place.
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Howard's place, north from Baker between Seventh and
Eighth streets, liercafter to be called Harkinson place.
Howard street, south from Market, west of Fifteenth street,
hereafter to be called Hickey street.
Howell's court, north from Noble above Fourth street,
hereafter to be called Hydra place.
Hudson's lane, west from Passyunk road, rear of Christian
street, hereafter to bo called Hildel.)urn street.
Hughes' court, from Federal to Marion, below Moyamen-
sing road, hereafter to be called Hoskin place.
Hughes' court, north from Carpenter, above Sixth street,
hereafter to be called Heib place.
Hulseman's place, west from Front, above Franklin street,
hereafter to be called Hamlet place.
Hunter court, east from Eleventh, between Market and
Filbert streets, hereafter to be called Highland place.
Hutchinson court, west from Frankford road, below Otter,
hereafter to be called Hyatt place.
Jackson's avenue, from Front to Frankford road, below
Master, hereafter to be called IngersoU avenue.
Jackson court, south from Maiden, near Front street, here-
after to be called Iron place.
Jackson court, north from Baker street, hereafter to be
called Ivory place.
Jackson court, south from 336 Vine, between Ninth and
Tenth streets, hereafter to be called Java place.
Jackson place, north from Jackson street, below Fifth, here-
after to be called Janitor place.
Jackson street, from Brown to Parrish, ])etween Eleventh
and Twelfth streets, hereafter to be called Inquirer street.
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Jackson street, from Bndd to AdnmR, lictwcon Ppruco and
Pino and Pon-y ar.d Thirteeiitli streets, hereafter to he called
Iscmin,<icr street.
Jackson street, "w^est from Palmer, above West street, here-
after to be called Ireland sti-eet
Jackson street, Lawrence to York avenue, above Poplar
street, hereafter to be called Kerr street.
Jackson street, from Marriott to Carpenter, above Third
street, hereafter to be called Isard street.
Jackson's court, east from Phillip, above Columbia, hero-
after to be called Jersey place.
Johnson's court, west from Penn, near Maiden, hereafter to
be called Judah place.
Johnson's court, cast from Passyunk road, hereafter to be
called Judd place.
Jones' alley, north from 15 St. Mary's alley, hereafter to
be called Goiisha street.
Jones' alley, west from Lilly alley, above Green street,
hereafter to be called Edisto street.
Jones' alley, south from Brown, between Second -and New
Market streets, hereafter to be called Julia street.
Jones' court, west from Front, below Master street, here-
after to be called Judge place.
Jones' court, cast from 491 south Second street, hereafter
to he called Julius place.
Joseph's alley, Montgomery to Marion, above Twelfth street,
hereafter to be called Desoto street.
Juniper alley, from south Tenth, near Walnut street to
Juniper lane, hereafter to be called Medical street.
Juniper lane, from George to Walnut streets, between Tenth
and Eleventh streets, hereafter to be called Juvenal street.
James' court, north from Bedford, above Twelfth street,
hereafter to be called Jolly place.
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James' court, east from 397 south Front street, hereafter to
be called Kickel place.
James' court, from Front street to Hope, hereafter to be
called Junior place.
James street, from Maple to Lemon street, hereafter to be
called Ristine street.
James' street, vest from Seventh, below Federal street,
hereafter to be called Jamison street.
Jane's place west from Front street, above Otter, hereafter
to be called Jeffrey place.
Jeilerson avenue, south-west from the intersection of Chris-
tian and south Second streets, hereafter to ]je called Mojamcn-
sing avenue.
Jefferson street, from Harrison to Sovcntcentli street, be-
tween Locust and Rittenhouse, licrcalter to be called Latimer
place.
Jefferson place, west from 464 north Front street, liereafter
to be called Jessup place.
John court, east from Second, above Market street, here-
after to be called Jenkiu place.
John's court, east from Hamilton to Callowhill, above
Twenty-fourth street, hereafter to be called Jordan place.
Johnson's court, east from Parker's alley, hereafter to be
called Joy place.
Johnson's court, east from Tliirtccnth, above South street,
hereafter to be called Juan place.
Johnson's lane, west from Moyamcusing road, below Whar-
ton, hereafter to be called Borden street.
Kelley's avenue, east from north Thirteenth street, below
Vine, hereafter to be called Horner avenue.
Kelley's court, north from Kelley's street, lielow Juniper,
hereafter to be called Bragg place.
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Kelley's court, east from No. 295 South Fifth street, here-
after to be called Balsam place.
Kellcy's court, north from German street, between Third
and Fourth streets, hereafter to be called Benson place.
Kelly's court, north from Washington street, below Third
street, hereafter to be called Bcllona place.
Kelley's court, north from Concord street, below Third
street, hereafter to be called Balstou place.
Kensington court, between Bedford and Franklin streets,
(Kensington,) hereafter to be called Belgrade place.
Kessler's court, east from north Fourth street, in Coates
sti-eet, hereafter to be called Curran place.
Kayser's avenue, west side between Yine and Callowhill
streets, hereafter to be called Champlain avenue.
Kayser's court, west from New Market street above Vine,
hereafter to l)e called Corwiu place.
Keyser's court, west from Cadwallader street, below Jeffer-
son street, (Kensington,) hereafter to be called Hiland place.
King court, between Queen and Bedford streets, (Kensing-
ton,) hereafter to be called Carthage place.
King street, from Morris street to Fifteenth street, between
Pine and Lombard streets, hereafter to be called Chippewa
street.
King street, from Race to Cherry, between Fifteenth and
Broad streets, hereafter to be called Kelton street.
King street, east from Passyunk road, below Dickerson
street, hereafter to be called Cross street.
Kline court, from No. 120 Christian street, hereafter to be
called Lock place.
Krider's court, north from Krider's alley, between Almond
and Mead streets, hereafter to be called Lacon place.
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Lfi Fayette court, from north side of South street, between
Fourth and Fifth streets, hereafter to be called Lansing place.
La Fayette place, north from Coates above Thirteenth
street, hereafter to be called Lockland place.
Lagrange place, west from No. 34 north Second street,
hereafter to be called Ledger place.
Lagrange court, west from No. 6 Lagrange place, hereafter
to be ca,lled Herald place.
Lancaster court, east from Lancaster street, below Whar-
ton, hereafter to be called Bunyan place.
Larch street, north from William street, l^elow Richmond
street, (Kensington,) hereafter to be called Melvale street.
Laurel street, from No. 29 Spruce street, to Pear street,
hereafter to be called Levant street.
Laurel court, rear of Laurel street, hereafter to be called
Tivoli place.
Lawrence court, west from Chatham street, below Green
street, hereafter to be called Tildcn place.
Lawrence place, north from Juliana street, hereafter to be
called Tecumseh place.
Lawrence court, west from Penn above Marsh street, here-
after to be called Summerville place.
Lawrence court, west from Eighth street, below Vine
street, hereafter to be called Havilaud place.
Lawrence street, west from North T\velfth street, to Juni-
per, between Market and rilliort streets, hereafter to be
called Silver street.
Lee's court, from Pleasant street below Tenth street, here-
after to be called Silma place.
Lee's court, west from No. 302 St. John's street, hereafter
to be called Selvisa place.
287
Leipcr court, cast fi'om No. 33 North Seventh street, here-
after to be called Scipio place.
Leiper alley, from Vine to North street, west of Tenth
street, hereafter to Le called Sonora street.
Lemon place, north from Lemon street, below Chester
street, hereafter to be called Sabula place.
Lemon street, west from Seventeenth street, above Pine,
hereafter to be called Vasey street.
Lemon street, from No. 156 North Eighth street, to Ches-
ter street, hereafter to be called Mackinaw street.
Lemon street, north from Norris and cast of Tnlip street,
(Kensington,) hereafter to be called Memphis street.
Lemon's court, rear of 218 Front street, above Phoenix,
(Kensington,) hereafter to be called Luzerne place.
Lewis' alley, from No. 24 Small street to Plum alley, here-
after to be called Glendale street.
Lewis court, north from St. Mary street, alcove Sixth street,
hereafter to be called Palmetto place.
Lewis court, south from No. 18 Plum street, hereafter to
be called Pomroy place.
Lewis court, north from No. 297 Callowhill street, here-
after to be called Pilgrim place.
Lewis street, south from Marriott street, below Third (Sk.)
hereafter to be called Pennington street.
Lewis street, north from Poplar street, above Tenth, here-
after to be called AVarnock street.
Lewis street, west from Eightli street, between Franklin
and Morris streets, hereafter to be called Mountain street.
Lewis street, north from Cumberland street, east from
Canal street, (Kensington,) hereafter to be called Ncwkirk
street.
288
Leyden court, north from Spruce street, al>OTC Aspen
street, hereafter to he called Opelika place.
Liberty alley, from No. 9 Duke street to No. 10 Green
street, hereafter to he called Ocean street.
Liberty avenue, east side New Market street, above Vine,
hereafter to he called Upshur avenue.
Liberty court, west from No. 2 North Ninth street, here-
after to be called Urbanna place.
Liberty avenue, west from North Seventh street, between
Poplar and Franklin, hereafter to be called Vermont place.
Lily alley, from Tammany, near Second and Coates streets,
hereafter to be called Vincent street.
Linden avenue, west from Linden street, (Spring Garden,)
hereafter to be called JBeckel avenue.
Linden place, west from Linden street, (Spring Garden,)
hereafter to be called Wirt place.
Linden place, west from Eighteenth, on Bedford street,
hereafter to be called Winooska place.
Linden place, south of South street and west from Fif-
teenth street, hereafter to be called Winder place.
Linden court, west from Third, below Green street, here-
after to be called Rupert place.
Linden street, from Fifteenth to Seventeenth streets, be-
tween Chestnut and Barker streets, hereafter to be called
Melloy street.
Linden steet, east from Larch street, above Maple, here-
after to be called Elkhart street.
Lindsey avenue, south from South street, between Eleventh
and Twelfth streets, hereafter to be called Prairie avenue.
Little Crown street, north from Tammany street, above
York avenue, hereafter to be called China street.
289
Little Dock street, soiitli from 50 Spruce street to 177
South Second street, hereafter to be called Mattis street.
Little Gable court, south from Lombard and east of
Ei,^-litcenth street, lioroafter to be called May place.
Little Green street, from Second street to German town
road, cast and west, (W. K.) hereafter to be called Merino
street.
Little German street, west from 99 Swanson street to 377
South Front street, hereafter to be called Merritt street.
Little Oak street, west from Twelve Feet alley, between
Shippcn and Fitzwator streets, hereafter to be called Metcalf
street.
Little Pine street, from S. Sixth street to S. Eighth street,
between Pine and Loml)ard streets, hereafter to be called
Minster street.
Little Perry street, from Norris to Diamond, near Fifth
street, hereafter to be called Manakin street.
Little Poplar street, east from Germantown road, between
Fifth and Sixth streets, hereafter to be called Meetler street.
Little Poplar street, west from Thirteenth between Car-
penter and Prime streets, hereafter to be called Mosely street.
Little Washington street, west from Charles street, below
"Washington street, hereafter to be called Moss street.
Little Washington street, from S. Front street to S. Second
street, below Federal street, hereafter to be called Morrow
street.
Little Wasliington street, west from Passyunk road, below
Eighth street, hereafter to be called Maurice street.
Little Water street, from Lombard to South streets, here-
after to be called Larkin street.
Little Willow street, south from Wood street below
Twelfth street, hereafter to be called Lawsou street.
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290
Lodge place, north from Lodge alley, a1)0ve Seventh street,
hereafter to be called Layman place.
Lodge court, west from Ninth street below Christian street,
hereafter to be called Levan place.
Logan place, rear of No. 8 north Ninth street, hereafter to
be called Linwood place.
Logan place, Nineteenth street, between Vine and Callow-
Mil streets, hereafter to be called Louden place.
Logan street, below Eighth street, from Jjuttonwood to
Green, hereafter to be called Loi^ian street.
Logan street, north from Haverford road, hereafter to be
called Forty -first street.
Logan's court, east from St, Jolin street above Beaver, (K.)
hereafter to be called Luther street.
Lombard court, west from Fourth street, between Pine
and Lombard, hereafter to be called Tenor place.
Louisa avenue, north from Lewis street, east of Eighteenth
hereafter to be called Lyman avenue.
Lowry's court, west from Beach street, above Poplar, here-
after to be called Lanark place.
Loxley's court, north from No. 115 Arch street, hereafter
to be called Markley place.
Lybrand court, east from Crown street, below Bedford,
hereafter to be called Mattson place.
Lydia avenue, south from Vienna street, above Franklin
avenue, hereafter to be called Mershon avenue.
Lyndall court, east from Tenth street, below Pine, hereafter
to be called Milburn place.
Madison street, Moyamensing road to Lewis street, below
Carpenter, hereafter to be called Milman street.
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Madison avenue, east from Thirteenth above Willow street,
hereafter to be called Mohiiid avenue.
Madison court, north from Twenty-third to St. Mary street,
hereafter to be called Morton place-
Madison street, west from Ashton street, hereafter to be
called Mulford street.
Madison street, east from Eleventh street, between Federal
and Wharton, hereafter to be called Naylor street.
Maiden lane, south-east from Gray's Ferry, hereafter to be
called Newport street.
Maple street, west from Delaware above Ann street, here-
after to be called Nefl" street.
Marble court, north from Mulljcrry alley, heiM3after to be
called Neville place.
Marble place, north from Green street above Seventli street,
hereafter to be called Tappan place.
Marble street, west from Seventeenth street to Granite
street, hereafter to be called Markham street.
Margaret street, west from Ninth street below Christian
street, hereafter to be called Manilla street.
Margaretta street, from N. Twelfth street to Thirteenth
street between Cherry and Race, hereafter to be called Lan-
dreth sti^eet.
Margaretta place, from Nintli to Margaretta street, here-
after to be called Langdon place.
^Margaretta street, l)etwcen Eleventh and Twelfth streets,
north from Poplar to Girard street, hereafter to be called Sar-
tain street.
Marion street, east from Thirteenth street, between Race
and Vine streets, hereafter to be called Struther street.
Marion court, west from Thirteenth street, below Catharine
street, hereafter to bo called Cregar place.
292
Marshall court, west from Gcrmantown road, above Fifth
street, (K.,) hereafter to I'C called Malcolm place.
Marshall court, from 120 south Fourth street to 135 south
Fifth street, hereafter to be called Landis sti-eet.
Marshall street, south-west from south Third, above Whar-
ton street, hereafter to be called Mclllwain street.
Mary street, from Cherry street to Frankford road, hereafter
to be called Alston street.
Mary street, west from Twenty-second street to the Schuyl-
kill, hereafter to be called Maning street.
Mary street, from Lancaster avenue to Darb^^ road, here-
after to be called Thirty -eighth street, (W. P.)
Mary's alley, from 27 Gilles' alley to south Sixth street,
hereafter to be called Manson street.
Mary's court, north from 149 Cherry street, hereafter to be
called Mureus place.
Mary's court, east from 239 south Second street, hereafter
to be called Marklc place.
McAfee's place, west from Cadwalader street, above Jefl'er-
son street, (K.,) hereafter to be called Marsdeu place.
McCoy's court, cast from 385 South Front street, hereafter
to be called Merida place.
McGinley court, west from Swanson street, below Wash-
ington street, hereafter to be called Leighton place.
McGinnet's court, east from 7 Vernon street, hereafter to
be called Leib place.
McMullin's court, from Harriet street, below Ross street,
(K..) hereafter to be called Leinau place.
Mechanic avenue, north from Lawrence street, above
Twelfth street, hereafter to be called Forder avenue.
Mechanic court, south from 70 Maiden street, hereafter to
be called Litford place.
293
Mechanic street, north from Linn street, (F. M.,) hereafter
to he called Levering street.
]\[echanic street, from 318 Vine street to Maple street, here-
after to he called Schcll street.
Mechanic street, nortli from Poplar street, west of Fourth
street, hereafter to be called Leithgow street.
Melon street, north from Ridge road, near Girard avenue,
hereafter to be called Manley street.
Melon place, from Melon street, above Ninth street, here-
after to be called Mausure place.
Mercer street, from Warren street to Locust street, here-
after to be called Manship street.
Merchant court, west from 50 Dillywn street, hereafter to
be called Marter place.
Meredith alley, enters Poplar street, above north Third
street, hereafter to be called Maxon street.
Meredith court, enters north Fifth street, al)Ovc J3utton-
"wood street, hereafter to be called ^Melcher place.
Meredith street, between Carbtn and Willow streets, here-
after to be called Michigan street.
Meredith street, west fi-om Nineteenth street, below Lom-
bard street, hereafter to be called Naudine street.
Mervine street, east from Thirteenth street to Ridge road,
hereafter to be called Mineral street.
Middle alley, south from Callowhill street, between Nine-
teenth and Twentieth streets, hereafter to be called Newbold
street.
Middle court, south from Sin-ing Garden below Broad
street, hereafter to be called Niblow place.
Mifflin's court, west from No. 318 south Front street, here-
after to ]jc called Nisbet place.
294
Mifflin street, from Twelfth to Thirteenth street, between
Pine and Lombard, hereafter to be called Kemble street.
Miles alley, west from No. 102 south Tenth street, here-
after to be called Miles street.
Millar's alley, east from Fifteenth and llace streets, here-
after to 1)0 called Azalia street.
Millar's alley, east f]-om No. 87 south Sixth street, here-
after to be called Kcmpton street.
Millar's court, west from 314 north Second street, (N. L.,)
hereafter to be called Keating place.
Millar's court, east from north Fourth street, above Branch
hereafter to be called Kivley place.
Millar's court, rear of No. 217 St. John street, hereafter to
be called Keren place.
Millar's court, north from 45 Green street, (N. L.,) here-
after to be called Kiblen place.
Millar's court, east from No. 89 south Sixth street, hereafter
be called Kinsley place.
Millar's court, east from Garden street, north of Willow
street, hereafter to be called Kirbey place.
Miller's court, south from No. 260 Race street, hereafter to
be called Kirkham place.
Millar street, from Broad street, between Parrish and
Brown, hereafter to be called Atmore street.
Miles court, north from Beach street above Poplar street,
hereafter to be called Peru place.
Minor street, north from Coates street, near Fairmount
street, hereafter to be called Taney street.
Mintzer court, w^est of 244 north Second street, hereafter
to be called Scaton place.
295
Moffit court, yvQ^t from Twenty-second above Oxford street^
hereafter to be called Stanton place.
Monmouth court, south from Middle Jones alley, hereafter
to be called Tower place.
Monroe court, south from Lawrence below Juniper street,
hereafter to be called Maison place.
Monroe place, west from Cadwalader street, below Master
street, hereafter to be called Byron place.
Monroe street, west from Cherry to Palmer, below Duke
street, (K.) hereafter to be called Mercury street.
Monroe street, east from Germantown road, below Sixth
street, hereafter to be called McManus street.
Montgomery street, west from Twelfth to Tliirteenth»
between Race and Vine, hereafter to be called Leisenring
street.
Montgomery street, west from Nineteenth to Twentieth
streets, below Fairview, hereafter to be called Rochford
street.
Moore's alley, from 8ay street, between Sixteentli and
Seventeenth streets, hereafter to be called Graydon street.
Moore's avenue, west from Front above Coates street, here-
after to be called Clifibrd avenue.
Moore's court, west from Weaver street, to be hereafter
called Stanbury place.
Moore's court, west from Jackson street, between Eleventh
and Twelfth, and Brown and Farrish, hereafter to be called
Lowd place.
Moore's court, from Green near Sixth street, hereafter to
be called Trent place.
Moore's court, north from German above Fourth street,
hereafter to be called Irauistan place.
296
Moore's court, north from Nectarine street, above Tenth,
hereafter to ])e called Frampton place.
Morgan's court, south from Carpenter above Eighth street,
hereafter to be called Tottenham place.
Morgan's court, east from Chatham street, hereafter to l)e
called Carthage place.
Morgan's court, north from Vine ])elow Twelfth street,
hereafter to be called Mouckton place.
Morgan's court, from Sixth and Washington square, here-
after to be called Pharo place.
Morris court, from Apple to Mechanic, below George street,
hereafter to be called Morencie place.
Morris alley, from south Front to south Second street, below
Market, hereafter to be called Orum street.
Morris street, from Pine to Lombard, between Broad and
Fifteenth streets, hereafter to be called Blackstone street.
Morris street, between Seventh and Eighth, below Chestnut
street, hereafter to be called Bennett street.
Morris street, from Frankford avenue above Mary street,
Ei'^-hteenth Ward, hereafter to be called Kendall street.
Morris street, south from Fitzwater, between Ninth and
Tenth streets, hereafter to be called Montcalm street.
ISlorris street, east from Hanover street above Franklin,
Eighteenth Ward, hereafter to be called Megary street.
Morris court, form north Sixth above Market street, here-
after to be called Discount place.
Moyamensing court, south from Shippen below Ninth street,
hereafter to be called Metamora place.
Mullen's court, from Lombard below Twenty-first street,
hereafter to be called Duusdale place.
297
Mullin's court, south from Master street, hereafter to be
called Genoese place.
Murray street, from Pine to Lombard, between Broad and
Fifteenth streets, hereafter to be called Wetherill street.
Murray street, from Spring Garden to Centre streets, above
Twenty -fourth, hereafter to be called Osprey street.
Murray street, from Twenty-fourth to Tweiity-fifth, between
Willow and Biddle streets, hereafter to be called Wilcox
street.
Murray's court, from 374 south Front street, hereafter to
be called Winchester place.
Myer's court, north from 221 Race street, hereafter to be
called Durham place.
Myer's place, south from Mulberry alley, north of Sixth
street, hereafter to be called Canterbury place.
Naglee's court, east from 25 St. John street, hereafter to
be called Pequinot place.
Nichol's avenue, north from Harrison f5treet, hereafter to
be called Herschell avenue.
Ninth Street avenue, east from Ninth above Coates street,
hereafter to be called Anandrtlc avenue.
Norris' alley, from south Front to south Second street, here-
after to be called Gothic street.
Norris' court, north from Carpenter near Fourth street,
hereafter to be called Roderick place.
Norris' court, east of New Market, l)ctween Vine and
Callowhill streets, hereafter to be called Conway place.
North court, west from 216 north Eighth street, hereafter
to be called Burgundy i)lace.
North court, east from Fiftli above Wasliington street, here-
after to called Kenilwortii j^laco.
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North-east avenue, east from Front above Haydock street,
hereafter to be called Bristol avenue.
Oak street, north from Market to Filbert street, and south
from Market to Olive, hereafter to be called Merrick street.
Oak street, south from Crabb street to Passyunkroad, here-
after to be called Unadilla street.
Oak street, east from Bridgewater, between Washington
and Chestnut streets, (W. P.) hereafter to be called Ludlow
street.
Oak street, south from Graff street to Sheaff's alley, between
Eleventh and Twelfth streets, hereafter to be called Sussex
street.
Ogden court, from Ogden street above Ninth street, here-
after to be called Saffin place.
Olive street, south from Noble above Fifth street, hereafter
to be called Pembroke street.
Olive street, from Juniper, continued through to Fifteenth
above Chestnut street, hereafter to be called South Penn
square.
Oliver's place, from Christian to Marriott's street, below
Third, hereafter to be called Tisdale place.
Orange street, from Washington to Melon, between Twelfth
and Thirteenth streets, hereafter to be called Andross street.
Orange street, north from Pine and west of Eighteenth
street, hereafter to be called Rodney street.
Orange street, from Eleventh to Thirteenth, below Catha-
rine street, hereafter to be called Thurlow street.
Orchard street, north from Norris and east of Fifth street,
hereafter to lie called Orkney street.
Orleans street, from Mifflin to Lombard, betAveen Twelfth
and Thirteenth streets, hereafter to be called Stockton street.
299
Owen street, from Thirteenth to Juniper, between Lombard
and Soutli, hereafter to be called Rodman street.
Palm street, from Ann above Larch street, Nineteenth
Ward, hereafter to be called Toronto street.
Park avenue, east from Twentieth below Locust street,
hereafter to be called Panama avenue.
Park street, from Washington square to south Eighth street,
hereafter to be called Goodwater street.
Park street, north of Girard, between Fifteenth and Car-
lisle, hereafter to be called Banana street.
Parker street, south from Adams, west of Frankford avenue,
hereafter to be called Holman street.
Parke's place, west of Corn street, First Ward, hereafter
to be called Langdon place.
Paschall's alley, from north Fourth to Fifth street, between
Green and Coates streets, hereafter to be called Lynd street.
Paschall street, west from Lancaster avenue, Twenty-fourth
Ward, hereafter to be called Lovelace street.
Peach street, north and south from Little Oak, between
Fifth and Sixth streets, hereafter to be called Calvert street.
Pearl street, south from Clearfield, Nineteenth Ward, here-
after to be called Clifton street.
Pearson's court, north from Bedford above Crown street,
hereafter to be called Ottawa place.
Pemberton's alley, south from No. 102 Vine street, here-
after to be called Kenyon street.
Pemberton court, north from Lodge above Second street,
hereafter to be called Kenton place.
Ponn avenue, north from Noble street, below ISixth, here-
after to be called Osier avenue.
300
Penn avenue, north from Seventh, above Poplar street,
hereafter to be called Treaty avenue.
Penn street, east from Broad, below Coatcs srtrcet, (Four-
teenth Ward,) hereafter to be caikd Potts street.
Penn street, east and west from Lancaster avenue, hereafter
to be called Strickland street.
Perry street, from Franklin street to Master, east of Second
street, hereafter to be called Palethorp street.
Pine street, from Ball alley to Fourth, below South street,
hereafter to be called Trout street.
Pleasant street, from Charles street to Thirteenth, between
James and Buttonwood streets,, hereafter to be called Hamil-
ton street.
Poplar street, from Thirteenth to Broad street, between
Carpenter and Mariner, hereafter to be called Mott street.
Perry court, west from No. 58 north Eighth street, here--
after to be called Birch place.
Perry court, north from South street, east of Thirteenth,
hereafter to be called Tully place.
Petar's alley, north from Callowhill, between Twentieth
and Twenty-first streets, hereafter to be called Downing
street.
Pfeiffer's alley, from No. 22 New Market street, to No.
235 north Second street, hereafter to be called Bolivar street.
Phillips' place, from Lombard street, below Eighteenth,
hereafter to l)e called St. Omar place.
Phillips' court, cast from Flower street, l)elow Catharine,
hereafter to l)e called Grafton place.
Pierce court, east from north Fourth, above German street,
hereafter to be called Saxon place.
301
Pleasant avenue, from No. 235 Lombard street to Little
Pine, hereafter to be called Ratcliffe avenue.
Pleasant retreat, west from north Seventh, below Coates
street, hereafter to be called Prosser retreat.
Pleasant court, north from north side of Lawrence street,
between Twelfth and Thirteenth, hereafter to be called
Herbert place.
Pleis court, south from Poplar street, above Third, here-
after to be called Silvia place.
Pleis court, east from St. John street, above Beaver, here-
after to be called Surrey place.
Poplar alley, north from Locust street, between Currant
alley and south Eleventh street, hereafter to be called Ely
street.
Poplar court, from Rose alley to Miles' alley, south Tenth
street, hereafter to be called Stratford place.
Poplar place, south from Poplar street, below Third, here-
after to be called Buckingham place.
Porter's court, west from No. 532 north Third street, here-
after to be called Cranmcr place.
Powell street, west from Francis street, hereafter to be
called Perkiomcn street.
Pratt street, west from William street, above Coates, here-
after to be called Hare street.
Pratt street, west from Spruce street, above Sixteenth to
Pine, hereafter to be called Bradford street.
Preston street, from Melon to Wallace, above Ninth street,
hereafter to be called Steiner street.
Price street, south from Ball street, below Queen street,
liereafter to be called Artisan street.
Price street, from Franklin avenue, below York street,
hereafter to be called Ella street.
302
Price's court, south from between Nos. 66 to 68 Lombard
street, hereafter to be called Wareham place.
Pritchett court, east from Duponceau street, hereafter to be
called Lara place.
Prospect alley, east from 27 North Tenth street, hereafter
to be called Rementer alley.
Prospect street, east from north Eleventh, between Filbert
and Arch streets, hereafter to be called Benezet street.
Prospect place, south from No. 230 Christian street, here-
after to be called Dudley place.
Prosperous alley, west from SpaflFord street, below Shippen,
hereafter to be called Darcy street.
Queen's avenue, from Queen street, above Third street,
hereafter to be called Morton avenue.
Quigg's court, north from Catharine street, above Third,
hereafter to be called Ezra place.
Quigg's row, north from Pleasant street, near Ridge ave-
nue, hereafter to be called Manhattan place.
Quigg's court, north from No. 5 Quarry street, hereafter to
be called Palisade place.
Railroad court, west from Jay, below Coates street, here-
after to be called Osbec place.
Ralston court, north of Hamilton street, west of Twenty-
second street, hereafter to be called Kildare place.
Randolph's court, west from No. 126 north Second street,
hereafter to be called Pembroke place.
Randolph street, east from Waterloo, above Clearfield
street, hereafter to he called Kiehl street.
Raspberry lane, from No. 173 Cherry street to No. 286
Race street, hereafter to be called Hatton place.
Reckless court, west from Church, above Reckless street,
hereafter to be called Sheldon place.
303
Reed avenue, north of Vienna, above West street, hereaf-
ter to be called Ridley avenue.
Reed's court, from Si)ruce street, below Little Dock, here-
after to be called Melville place.
Reid's court, north from No. 107 German street, hereafter
to be called Percy place.
Reid's court, east from Fifth street, below Christian, here-
after to be called Fairfax place.
Reid's court, north from Catharine street, above Twelfth,
hereafter to be called Register place.
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Relief alley, from Cai ter's alley to Dock street, hereafter
to be called Stapleton street.
Relief place, from No. 19 Relief street, hereafter to be
called Maynard place.
Renchler place, north-east from Charlotte street, hereafter
to be called Pendennis place.
Rex's coui-t, west from Beaver, above Green street, here-
after to be called Clyde street.
Richmond lane, running west from the DclaAvare river,
above William street, hereafter to be called Ann street.
Rihl's court, west from No. 526 north Third street, here-
after to be called Ripton place.
Rihl's court, north from No. 19 Poplar street, hereafter to
1)0 called Stratton place.
Rinder place, south from Marriott below Broad street, here-
after to be called Newport place.
Ringgold place, south from No. 486 Race street, hereafter
to be called Arch bold place.
Rentshler's place, east from Charlotte, between Brown and
Poplar streets, hereafter to be called Colchester place.
304
Ringgold street, east from No. 482 Passyunk ayenue, here-
after to be called Whitney street.
Eittenhouse street, from Fifteenth to Sixteenth, above Race
street, hereafter to be called Palmetto street.
Roberts' court, north from Marks' lane, between Eleventh
and Twelfth streets, hereafter to )je called Nescopeck place.
Roberts' €oui-t, north from No. 53 Mead street, hereafter
to be called Felton street.
Richard street, west from Ninth street, below Race, here-
after to be called Nassau street-
Robinson street, north from Thonr''' <yn to Jefferson street,
below Eighth, hereafter to be called Perth street.
Robinson street, south from Oxford below Broad street,
hereafter to be called Amboy street.
Robinson court, north from No- 299 Callowhill street, here-
after to be called Crampton place.
Robinson's court, west from Perm near Maiden street, here-
after to be called Lay ton place.
Robinson's court, north of Spruce to Ann street, above
Eighteenth, hereafter to be called Sidmouth place.
Ritner street, from Fifteenth to Sixteenth, below Locust
street, hereafter to be called Latimer street.
Rose alley, from Rose to Lydia streets, between School and
William streets, hereafter to be called Peel street.
Ross court, south from No. 25 Concord street, hereafter to
be called Swartz place.
Ross court, north from Little Oak street, hereafter to be
called Dodge place.
Rule's court, east from No. 391 south Fifth street, here-
after to be called Ruby place.
Russell's court, near Twenty-second and Callowhill streets,
hereafter to be called Loomis j)lace.
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Russcirs avenue, east from Russel street, below Shippen,
hereafter to be called Robin avenue.
Russell's court, west from Third street, above Washington,
hereafter to be called Dove place.
Rose street, from Germantown road to School street, east
and west, (W. K.) hereafter to be called Van Horn street.
Rose street, north from Washington to Pratt street, here-
after to be called Blanche street.
Rye street, (old city,) from Graff street, south, forming an
elbow to Madison street, hereafter to be called Timothy
street.
Sansom's alley, from Willow to Noble, between St. John
and north Third streets, hereafter to be called Belrose street.
Say's alley, from Fifteenth to Sixteenth streets, between
Race and Vine, hereafter to be called Cowslip street.
Say's court, west from 36 north Third street, hereafter to
be called Orion place.
Scattergood's court, west from No. 408 north Front street,
hereafter to be called Muskingham place.
School avenue, west from Twelfth street, between Brown
and Parrish, hereafter to be called Eliza avenue.
School avenue, south from Union near south Second street,
hereafter to be called Iowa avenue.
Schuylkill avenue, from Eleventh to Quince street, between
Spruce and Pine streets, hereafter to be called Goshen
avenue.
Scott's alley, from 379 Market street to Filbert street,
hereafter to be called Henrietta avenue.
Scott's alley, south from 1-i Poplar above Front street,
hereafter to be called Cuba place.
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Scott's court, west from No. 342 south Front street, here-
after to be called Colebrook place.
Scott's court, north from No. 153- South street, hereafter to
be called Priscilla place.
Scott's court, east from Fourth street below George street,
hereafter to be called Lorain place.
Seiser's court, soutli from 56 Race street, hereafter to be
called Peedee place.
Shackamaxon avenue, above Queen street, from SKaeka-
niaxon to Bedford streets, hereafter to be called Sacramento
avenue.
Shafer's court, cast from No. 21 Garden street, hereafter
to be called Sharon place.
Shafer's avenue, from 40 Cherry street, hereaftcF to be
called Shelburne avenue.
Shafer's court, from Ridge road above Thirteentir street,
hereafter to be called Shaw place.
Shafer's court, east side of north Fourth street below Cal-
vert street, hereafter to be called Springfield place.
Shafer's court, south from Rawle, north of Apple street,
hereafter to be called Tyrone place.
Sharpless court, north from St. Joseph's avenue, below
Eighteenth street, hereafter to be called Woodville place.
Shields alley, from Prosperous alley, to Quince street,
hereafter to be called Breese street.
Shields alley, from 140 south Ninth street to Raspberry
alley, hereafter to be called Aurora street.
Shippen lane, from South street near Broad to Federal,
hereafter to be called Copper place.
Shippen place, east from No. 305 Shippen street, hereafter
to be called Beverly place.
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Shippen court, south from Pearl street, between Twelfth
and Thirteenth, hereaftc]- to lie called Trcmont place.
Shoemaker's court, north from Broad street, above Coates,
hereafter to be called Slieiby place.
Shoemaker's court, west from north Front street, between
Nos. 10 and 12, hereafter to be called Audubon place.
Simmons court, east from Cadwallader street, below Oxford,
(K.) hereafter to be called Almont place.
Simmons court, west from No. 216 north Front street
hereafter to be called Victoria place.
Simpson's court, north from No. 119 Queen street, here-
after to be called Moss-rose place.
Smith's alley, from No. 219 south Third street to Gaskill
street, hereafter to be called Lavinia street.
Smith's avenue, west from No. 488 north Sixth street, here-
after to be called Buckeye avenue.
Smith's avenue, west from Phillip above Master street,%ere
after to be called Huron avenue.
Smith's court, north from Pleasant above Thirteenth street,
hereafter to be called Prescott place.
Smith's court, north from Allen's court, north Front street,
hereafter to be called Richland place.
Smith's court, south from Market, north Fifteenth street,
hereafter to be called Ripley place.
Smith's court, north from No. 203 Lombard street, here-
after to be called Rockdale place.
Smith's coui-t, east from No. 107 north Fifth street, here-
after to be called Rausom place.
Smith's court, west from Apjtle above Thompson street,
hereafter to be called Refuge place.
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Smith's court, west from No. 182 north Eighth street, here-
after to be called Boxwood place.
Smith's court, west from Fothergill street, hereafter to be
called Utica place.
Smith's court, west from rear of No. 88 north Front street,
hereafter to be called Dunleith place.
Smith's court, east from St. John street, near Globe Mill,
hereafter to be called Crocus place.
Smith's court, south from Gaskill street, below Third street,
hereafter to be called Oakford place.
Smith's court, nortlifrom Bedford street, below Eighth
street, hereafter to be called Belinda place-
Smith's court, south from Pearl street, above Twelfth
street, hereafter to be called Jerusalem place.
Smith's court, west from Cadwallader street, above Jeffer-
son street, hereafter to be called Olivia place.
Smith's court, south from Linden street, above Fifteenth
street, hereafter to be called Andover place.
Smith's court, east from Shippen alley, below South street,
hereafter to be called Elvira place.
Smith's court, west from St. David's street, near Schuylkill,
hereafter to be called Amanda place.
Smith's court, west from Linden street, above Spring Gar-
den street, hereafter to be called Clementine place.
Smith's place, from No. 8 Linden street, below Green street,
hereafter to be called Clarissa place.
South avenue, west from Eighteenth street, above South
street, hereafter to be called Daisy avenue.
South avenue, along Schuylkill, above Catharine street,
hereafter to be called Dahlia avenue.
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South court, east from Fifth street, above Washington
street, hereafter to be called Samper place.
South court, rear of No. 214 north Eighth street, hereafter
to be called Narcissus place.
South row, west from Nineteenth street, above Hamilton
street, hereafter to be called Lower place.
Spragg's avenue, from No. 64 Christian street, hereafter
to be called Clematis avenue.
Spring Garden Retreat, north from Spring Garden street,
below Thirteenth street, hereafter to be called Potosi Retreat.
St. James' court, from James, above Charles street, here-
after to be called Marengo place.
St. John's place, east from St. John sti-eet, below J^rown
street, hereafter to be called Nahant place.
St. Mary's alley, north from Gilles' alley, a])ove South
street, hereafter to be called Lisbon street.
State street, from Seventh to Eighth streets, below Whar-
ton street, hereafter to be called I^fedina street.
Steele's court, north from St. ]\Iary street, above Sixth
street, hereafter to be called Cove place.
Steel's court, north from No. 13 German street, hereafter
to be called Catawba place.
Steel's court, north fi-om No. 251 South street, hereafter to
be called Lima place.
Steinmetz court, east from No. 93 north Fourth street,
hereafter to be called Lenox place.
Steinmetz court, (N. L.,) from Buttonwood street, near N.
Fifth street, hereafter to be called La Haipe place.
Steinmetz court, (S. G.) from Pleasant, above Tenth street,
hereafter to be called Kenwood place.
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Sterling'? alley, from No. 15 Cherry street to No. 118 Race
street, hereafter to be called Hillsdale street.
Stewart place, south from Ogden street, above Ninth
street, hereafter to be called Hamstead place.
Stewart's alley, from Cherry street to No. 394 Race street,
hereafter to be called Hamlin street.
Stewart's court, west from Yaugh street, hereafter to be
called Greenville place.
Stewart's court, north from Mark's lane, hereaftei- to be
called Greenock place.
Stewart's court, from 92 Gaskill street, h-ereafter to be called
Galena place.
Stiles court, opens at No. 110 Washington street, hereafter
to be called Gallatin place.
Stiles court, east from Beach street, below Maiden street,
hereafter to be called Elba place.
Stilz's court, east from Charlotte street, above Beaver, here-
after to be called Eshner place.
Stump lane, N. E. from Girard College, hereafter to be
called Portage place.
Summer's court, west from No. 414 south Second street,
hereafter to be called Placid place.
Sutherland avenue, from South streot, along Schuylkill
river, hereafter to be called Humes avenue.
Swanson court, from Sansoni street, to 153 Walnut street,
hereafter to Ijc called Seclgewick street.
Swede's court, east from No. 463 south Second street,
hereafter to be called Little Belt place.
School street, east from No. 54 Apple street, (N. L.) here-
after to be called McGrath street.
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Sergeant street, east and west from Broad above Cumber-
land street, hereafter to be called Serrill street.
School street, from Otter to Franklin, north and south,
("VV. K.) hereafter to be called Sites street.
State street, from Seventh to Eighth, below Wharton
street, hereafter to be called Perot street.
Sterling street, south from Shippen from Sixteenth street,
hereafter to be called Hampden street.
Summer street, west from Tenth street, (W. P.) hereafter
to be called Autumn street.
Summer street, west from Ninth, between Lafayette and
Little Washington streets, hereafter to be called Ernst street.
Summer street, west from Second street below the Canal,
hereafter to be called Poulson street.
Summit street, west from Fifth street above Master, here-
after to be called Sutton street.
Sj'camore street, west of Elm street, north from the Schuyl-
kill, (W. P.) hereafter to be called Transcript street.
St. James street, from Sixth to Seventh, above Marketi
hereafter to be called Commerce street.
Taylor street, from Filbert to Jones street, east of Twenty-
first street, hereafter to be called Shock street.
Temple street, north from Catharine below Twelfth street,
hereafter to be called Beckwith street.
Tyler street, north from Poplar street above Ninth street,
hereafter to be called Percy street.
Taylor's alley, from 58 S. Front street to 73 S. Second
street, hereafter to be called Inglis street.
Taylor's court, east from Thirteenth street, above Willow,
Jiereafter to be called Avon place.
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Taylor's court, east from Barron street, above South street,
hereafter to be called Cordova place.
Taylor's court, west from Charlotte street, above Thomp-
son, hereafter to be called Halleck place.
Taylor's place, east from St. John street, above Beaver,
hereafter to be called Keturah place.
Temperance court, from 29 Bonsall street, hereafter to be
called Salvia place.
Temperance place, west from Lisle street to Russell street,
hereafter to be called Bonneville place.
Thomas alley, from 116 Oak to 415 north Front street, here-
after to be called Marmora street.
Thompson's court, east from No. 283 south Fourth street,
hereafter to be called Maddox place.
Thome's court, west from north Fourth street, near George*
(N. L.) hereafter to be called Wade place.
Thorn's court, from Ninth, near Coates street, hereafter to
be called Vienna place.
Tower's court, west from Second, below Master street,
hereafter to be called Conestoga place.
Townsend's avenue, from No. 118 New Market to Rachel
street, hereafter to be called Cozzens avenue.
Trinity place, east from Seventh, above Brown street, here-
after to 1)0 called Calvin place.
Turner's court, north from Catharine street, below Tiiird,
hereafter to be called Yining place.
Turner's street, east from No. 337 south Fourth street,
hereafter to be called Kaufiman street.
Union court, (K.,) from Bedford to Prince streets, between
Marlborough and Hanover, hereafter to lie called Accomac
place.
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Union place, S. W. from Lombard and Asliton streets,
Scliujlkill, licreaftcr to I)G called Morality place.
Union court, from 150 Wood street, above the Eidge
road, liereafter to be called Pensive place.
Union place, north from Union street, above Front street,
hereafter to be called Rutledge place.
Union place, south from Zane street, below Eighth street,
hereafter to be called Wadsworth place.
Union alley, from No. 180 Swanson street to No. 463 south
Front street, hereafter to be called Norfolk street.
Union street, from Bedford street to Frankford road, north
and south (E. K.) hereafter to be called Savery street.
Union street, from Moore street to Crammond street, here-
after to be called Gilboa street.
Vail's place, south from No. 114 German street, hereafter
to be called Nineveh place.
Van Buren place, rear north side of Parrish street, below
Eleventh street, hereafter to be called Paley place.
Venango street, west from Twelfth street to Dean sti-eet,
below Locust, hereafter to be called Arizona street.
Venango street, west from Till street, below Pratt street,
hereafter to be called Tilghman street.
Vernon street, from No. 44 South street to No. 29 Shippcn
street, hereafter to be called Annapolis street.
Vernon ])la.ce, south from Vernon street, lietween Shippen
and Almond streets, hereafter to be called Litchfield jdace.
Vine alloy, from north Tcutli street to Broad, above Vine
street, hereafter to be called Sciota place.
Vine court, north from Vine street, below Twelfth street,
hereafter to be called Ellsin place.
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Wagner's alley, from Fitzwater to Brinton street, between
Twelfth and Thirteenth streets, hereafter to be called Moro
street.
Wagner's court, north from north Fifth street, above Noble
to Dean street, hereafter to be called Mendon place.
Wagner's court, west from Fifteenth street, between Race
and Vine streets, hereafter to be called McDonald place.
Walker's court, east from No. 229 north Second street,
hereafter to be called Lownden place.
Walker's court, (K.) rear of Germantown road and Second
street, hereafter to be called Lucas place.
Wall's elbow, from Emlen's court, to Rogers' court, here-
after to be called Crooked place.
Wallace court, in rear of Ann street, (F. V.) hereafter to
be called Wilmington place.
Wallace court, west from No. 10 north Front street, here-
after to be called Wabash place.
Wallace court, west from Church street, below Christian
street, hereafter to be called Winchester place.
Walnut alley, from north Thirteenth street, west, to Juni-
per street, between Cherry and Race streets, hereafter to be
called Shellbark street.
Walnut place, south from No. 84 Walnut street, above
Third street, hereafter to be called Feccan place.
Warder's place, north from Duke street, above Front street,
hereafter to be called Wellington place.
Ward's retreat, south from Carroll street, below Thirteenth
street, hereafter to be called Elgin place.
Warner's court, from No. 118 Catharine street, hereafter
to be called Eden place.
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Warner's court, west from No. 634 north Fourth street,
(N. L.) hereafter to be called Edina place.
"Warner's court, south from No. 230 Shippen street to Ger-
man street, hereafter to be called Koxburj place.
Warner's court, south from Stanley to German streets,
hereafter to be called Sabine place.
Warner's court, south from No. 234 Shippen street, here-
after to be called Samp place.
Warner's court, east from Marshall street, above Poplar
street, hereafter to be called Davidson place.
Warren's court, north from No. 5 Farmer street, hereafter
to be called Scranton place.
Watkin's alley, from 22 Bread street to 85 north Third
street, hereafter to be called Godwin street.
Watson's alley, from Branch to New streets, hereafter to
be called Furness street.
Watson's alley, south from 104 Locust street, hereafter to
be called Vanderveer street.
Watt's court, Twenty-fourth street, below Spring Garden,
hereafter to be called Smethurst place.
Waverly place, from W. to Noble street, north Front,
hereafter to be called Clarkson place.
Weaver's court, south from 76 German street, hereafter
to be called Lamsen place.
Weaver's court, rear of No. 337 north Front street, here-
after to be called Mansfield place.
Weaver's court, east from 337 north Second street, here-
after to be called Westmore place.
Weaver's court, east from Germantown road to Cadwallader
street, north of Camac street, hereafter to be called Warmin-
ster place.
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Webb's alle}% from 221 Cherry street to 336 Race street,
hereafter to be called Elwjai street.
. Webb's alley, from Oak street, (N. L.) to 371 north Front
street, hereafter to be called Wexford street.
Webster place, between Duke and West streets, (K.) here-
after to be called Daniel place.
Webster's court, west from 26 Passyunk road, hereafter to
be called Pickering place.
Webster's court, rear of Otter street, below Germantown
road, (K.) hereafter to be called Wonderly place.
Weccacoe avenue, south from No. 12 Christian street, here-
after to be called Greenway avenue.
Weccacoe avenue, south from Christian street near Swanson,
hereafter to be called Woodwortli avenue.
Wesley's court, Second above Montgomery street, hereafter
to be called Wamly place.
West court, from Spring Garden street above Broad, here-
after to be called Martindale place.
West avenue, east from No. 29 New Market street, here-
after to be called Millicent avenue.
Wheeler's court, from St. James street, east end of St. James
church, hereafter to be called Bromley place.
White's court, east from No. 325 St. John street, (K.) here-
after to be called Brodie place.
White's court, east and west from Carolina place, hereafter
to be called Plume place.
White's court, east from 531 north Fourth street, below
George, (N. L.) hereafter to be called Blue Bell place.
Whiteman's court, north from Federal above Fifth street,
hereafter to be called Cottingham place.
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Wiley's court, north from 35 Plum street, hereafter to Le
called Womrath place.
Williams court, east from Vaughn below Locust street,
hereafter to be called Barbary place.
Williams court, from 262 South street to 71 Bedford street,
hereafter to be called Mangrove place.
Williams court, north from Pleasant above Tenth street,
hereafter to be called Hayward place.
Williams court, north from No. 343 Callowhill street, here-
after to be called Winipeg place.
Williams court, north from 79 South street, hereafter to be
called Winner place.
Williamson court, William street, between Eighteenth and
Nineteenth streets, hereafter to be called Winthrop place.
Williamson court, from Swanson below Prime street, here-
after to be called Wimple place.
Williamson place, north from Cherry above Ninth street,
hereafter to be called Witherspoon place.
Willing's street, north from Arch above Twentj-secoud
street, hereafter to be called Filson street.
Willow alley, from Willow street above Second street,
hereafter to be called Pine Tree street.
Willow court, south from 180 Pine street to Little Pine
street, hereafter to be called Bay Tree place.
Wilson's court, rear of 3 Poplar street, hereafter to be
called Wier place.
Wilson's court, rear of 132 Buttonwood street, hereafter to
be called Windham place.
Wilson's court, north from Carpenter street, between Eighth
and Ninth, hereafter to be called Gramment place.
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Wistar's avenue, south from Jones street, between Seventh
and Eighth streets, hereafter to be called Casper avenue.
Wistar's court, south from Phoenix street, below German-
town road, hereafter to be called Dryden place.
Wistar's court, south from Vine street, east of Broad, here-
after to be called Spenser place.
Wistar's court, south from Jones sti'cct, between Fifteenth
and Sixteenth, hereafter to be called Ohio place.
Wood court, east from Swauson street, north of Prime,
hereafter to be called Bourbon place.
Wager street, east from Germantown road, above Fifth
street, (K.) hereafter to be called Hacklej street.
Wager street, from Twelfth to Thirteenth streets, above
Eace, hereafter to be called Winslow street.
Warren street, west from Thirty-third street, north of
Washington street, hereafter to be called Toronto street.
Warren street, from Dean to Quince street, above Spruce
street, hereafter to be called Steadman street.
Washington court, west from Washington avenue, above
Green street, hereafter to be called Greenwood place.
Washington court, north from No. 203 Lombard street,
hereafter to be called Tangier place.
Washington place, south from No. 109. west Filbert street,
hereafter to be called Elwood place.
Washington court, from north Fifth to Orchard street,
above Brown street, hereafter to be called Holland place.
Washington place, south from Washington street, below
Seventh, hereafter to be called Fishbourne place.
Washington place, south side of Shippen street, between
Twelfth and Thirteenth streets, hereafter to be called Long-
fellow place.
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Washington place west from Jumper street, below Cherry
street, hereafter to be called Hopkinson place.
Washington road, between Green and Hickory streets,
hereafter to be called Waterford road.
Washington row, west from No. 130 Lawrence street, (N.
L..) hereafter to be called Wingohocking place.
Washington street, continued from the Permanent Bridge,
through Hamilton village, hereafter to be called Market
street.
Washington street, from Master street, north above Second
to Montgomery street, (W. K.,) hereafter to be called Ameri-
can street.
Washington street, (Spring Garden,) from Ninth street to
Schuylkill, between Green and Wallace streets, hereafter to
be called Mount Vernon street.
Washington street, north from Otter street, between Wil-
liam and Front streets, hereafter to be called McLean street.
Washington avenue, (N. L..) from Willow street, north, to
the High Bridge, hereafter to be called Beach street.
Washington street, west from Eleventh, between Lombard
and South streets, hereafter to be called Rodman street.
Washington street, west from Eighth below Prime street,
hereafter to be called Ellsworth street.
Water street, Scliuylkill, west of Twenty-second street,
hereafter to be called Chippewa street.
Watson street, from Fifth to Arabella streets, hereafter to
be called Paxton street.
Wayne street, east from No. 293 south Tenth street, here-
after to be called Souder street.
Wesley street, from jMoyamensing road west, hereafter to
be called Emmet street.
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West street, from Frankford road to Wood street, (K.)
al)ove Duke street, hereafter to be called Belgrade street.
West street, between Beach and Twenty-third streets, from
Broad to Walnut, hereafter to be called Cope street.
West street, east from No. 233 north Second street, here-
after to be called Wilmer street.
Westmoreland street, from Broad to Fifteenth, above
Spruce street, hereafter to be called Lardner street.
William street, from Twenty-first to Twenty-second streets,
between Lombard and South, hereafter to be called McBuffie
street.
William street, from Eighteenth to Nineteenth streets,
above South, hereafter to be called McDuffie street.
William street, from Otter to Edward streets, north and
south, (W. K.) hereafter to be called Sophia street.
William street, north from Washington street to Lancas-
ter pike, hereafter to be called Boudinot street.
Winter street, north from George above Third street, (N.
L.) hereafter to be called Galloway street.
Wilson street, north from Carpenter, l)etwcen Eighth and
Ninth streets, hereafter to be Hemphill street.
Wistar street, south from Washington street, above Sev-
enth, east of Fassyunk road, hereafter to be called Sidmouth
street.
Wistar street, from Seventh to Franklin, above Spring
Garden street, hereafter to be called Minerva street.
Wood street, (K.) from Queen street, north of Gunner's
run, to West street, hereafter to be called Otis street.
Wyoming street, from Thirteenth to Juniper, between Lo-
cust and Spruce streets, hereafter to be called Wynkoop
street.
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Wyoming street, south from Ilaverford road to Market or
Washington street, hereafter to be called Antoinette street.
Wyoming street, from Twenty-second to Twenty-third
streets, between Market and Filbert, hereafter to be called
Fairfield street.
Yeager's court, north from Shippen street, below Seventh,
hereafter to be called Emden street.
Yeager's court, north from Carlton street, below Broad
street, hereafter to be called Nevin place.
York place, east from Fifth street, below Poplar street,
hereafter to be called Hubert place.
Young's avenue, north from No. 121 Christian street, here-
after to be called Plelena avenue.
Young's court, rear of Twentieth street, below George
street, hereafter to be called Plumstead place.
Young's place, from No. 118 Christian street, hereafter to
be called Marmion place.
Young's place, north from No. Ill Queen street, hereafter
to be called Seville place.
York street, east from No. 37 New Market street to Frank-
ford road, hereafter to 1)C called Unas street.
York street, or court, from No. 103 south Third street,
east, to Laurel street, hereafter to be <!alled Evelina street.
York place, east from Fiftli street, below Poplar sti'cet,
hereafter to be called Paulding place.
German town road, north-west IVom Laurel street, liereafter
to be called Germantown avenue.
Section 2. That upon the passage of this Ordinance, it
shall be the duty of the Board of Surveys to have a correct
list of the names of the Highways of tiie City made out, and
keep the same on file in the Department, and thoy are hereby
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authorized to change tlie names of the Higliwa}'^ upon the
plans in their office, so as to correspond with this Ordinance.
Section 3. That hereafter the name of any new street or
highwa}', shall be submitted to the Board of Surveys for its
approval — said name to be unlike any now in use in the City
of Philadelphia — before said street or highway shall be dedi-
cated to public use.
Section 4. Immediately upon the passage of this Ordinance,
the Chief Commissioner of Highways shall cause the old
names to be removed, and the new names placed at each
crossing, upon at least two, and where possible, upon diag-
onally opposite corners of the Highways; provided, that said
placing of new names shall be done by contract.
Section 5. That so much of any Ordinance as is inconsis-
tent herewith, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Conwion Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clei'k of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved September 1, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 174.
RESOLUTION
To 'pay certain claims.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Engineer of the Water De-
partment be, and is hereby autliorized to draw warrants in
favor of the following persons :
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From item No. 30, Matthews and j\roore, for repairing Cor-
nish engine, at Schuylkill Works, three hundred and twenty-
eight dollars and twenty-nine cents.
From item No. 33, William F. Potts, for iron, thirty-seven
dollars and thirty-one cents.
From item No. 33, George Woeli)per, for lumber, eiglity-
one dollars and fifty-two cents.
From item No. 33, Field & Hardie, hardware, twenty-one
dollars and thirty-eight cents.
From item No. 34, Field and Ilardie, three dollars and
fifty cents.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council,
Attest— H. G. Leisenring,
Cleric of Select Council.
Vr. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved September 6, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 175.
RESOLUTION
Authorizing the Chief Engineer of the Water Worl<s to lay
water-pipes in the several streets.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Engineer of the Water Works
be authorized and directed to cause water-pipes to be laid in
the following streets, namely : — Coral street, from Front to
Huntingdon street, Nineteenth Ward ; Walter street, from
Twe-nty-first to Twenty-second, north of Pine, Seventh Ward.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. LEISENBIN&,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved September 6, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 176.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation to the Department of Highways,
Bridges, Seveys, and Cleansing the City.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of twenty-two thous-
32-5
and dollars be, and tlic same is hereby appropriated to the
Department of Highways, Bridg-es, Sewers, and Cleansing tho
City, for the building of AVing Walls to Girard avenue Bridge,
and tlie repairs to Bridges.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Conwion Council.
Attest— Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved September 9, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 177.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation to the Department for Supplying
the City with Water, for the year 1858.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of seventeen thous-
and five hundred and fifty-seven dollars and thirteen cents be,
and the same is hereby further appropriated to the Depart-
ment for Supplying the City with Water, for the year 1858,
to the following items of the original appropriations, namely :
Item 19. For the purchase of coal at Delaware Works,
four thousand and three dollars and thirty-nine cents.
Item 20. For the purchase of coal at the Schuylkill Works,
two thousand four hundred and sixty-two dollars and sixty
cents.
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Item 21. For the purchase of coal at the Twenty-fourth
AVard Works, one thousand and eighty dollars.
Item 22. For the purchase of wood for the several Works,
for kindling purposes, one hundred and thirty dollars and
twelve cents.
Item 23. For the purchase of tallow and oil for the Schuyl-
kill AVorks, six hundred and sixteen dollars and fifty-two
cents.
Item 24. For the purchase of tallow and oil for Delaware
AYorks, six hundred and tlirce dollars and sixty-three cents.
Item 25. For the purchase of tallow and oil for Fairmount
AVorks, four hundred and four dollars and thirty-three cents.
Item 26. For the purchase of tallow and oil for Twenty-
fourth Ward Works, two hundred and twenty-four dollars
and thirty-three cents.
Item 27. For repairs to Fairmount Works, including labor,
lumber and other materials, nine hundred and fifteen dollars
and ninety-three cents. D t*^
Item 29. For repairs to Delaware Works, one thousand
six hundred and ninety-eight dollars.
Item 30. For repairs to Schuylkill AVorks, seA'cn hundred
and thirty-five dollars and twenty-five cents.
Item 31. For repairs to Twenty-fourtli Ward Works, one
thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars and thirty-six
cents.
Item 32. For the purchase of small stores, tools, soap,
white and red lead, packing hemp and gun, &c, for all the
AVorks, four hundred and seventy dollars and sixteen cents.
Item 37. To pay for keeping the l)uildings, grounds, and
reservoirs in good order, two thousand three hundred and ten
dollars and sixty-nine cents.
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Itoin 38. To pay for l)ook>!, stationorv, advertising-, priiit-
h\iX- Itiiuliiig-, and posting- bills, two hundred and tliirty-fivo
dollars antl seventy cents.
Item 40. For fuel for offices, cleaning offices, ground rent
of shop, and incidentals, three hundred and ninety-one dol-
lai'S and twenty-two cents.
And the further sum of nine thousand eight hundred and
sixty-four dollars and lifty-two cents, an amount necessary to
pay bills contracted i)rior to July 1st, 1858, for which war-
rants have not been drawn, provided such bills shall he first
approved by the Committee on Water "Works, before any
warrants shall be drawn therefor.
To item No. 20, for coal at Schuylkill Works, three hun-
dred and seventy-five dollars and thirty cents.
Item 21. For coal at Twenty-fourth Ward Works, five
hundred and twenty dollars.
Item 22. For purchase of wood, eleven dollars and sixty-
one cents.
Item 23. For tallow and oil at Schuylkill Works, two hun-
dred and seventeen dollars and eighty-four cents.
Item 25. For tallow and oil at Fairmount Works, eighty-
two dollars and fifteen cents.
Item 2G. For tallow and oil at Twenty-fourth Ward Works,
twenty-seven dollars and forty-eight cents.
Item 27. For repairs to Fairmount Works, one hundred
and seventy dollars and seventy-six cents.
Item 29. For repairs to Delaware Works, four hundred
and five dollars and seventy cents.
Item 30. For repairs to Schuylkill Works, six thousand
seven hundred and sixty-seven dollars and forty-one cents.
Item 31. For repairs to Twenty-fourth Ward AVorks, fifty-
two dollars and six cents.
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Item 32. For purchase of small stores, one hundred and
ninety-three dollars and sixty-four cents.
Item 33. For purchase of iron pipe, plujis, (fee, seven hun-
dred and six dollars and seventy-three cents.
Item 34. For labor, laying pipe, &c., one hundred and
ninety-six dollars and ninety cents.
Item 35. For keeping pipes, plugs, <fcc., in order, seventy-
one dollars and seventeen cents.
Item 38. For books, stationery, advertising, &c., twenty-
seven dollars and sixty-two cents.
Item 39. For carriage hire, fifteen dollars.
Item 40, For fuel for offices, &c., cleaning, six dollars and
ninety cents.
Item 43. For repairing ground N. F. Basin, sixteen dol-
lars and twenty -five cents.
Section 2. That warrants for the said appropriation shall
be drawn in conformity with existing ordinances.
CIIAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk »/' Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council,
Approved September 9, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 178.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appi'opriation to the Department of City Property,
for the purposes therein stated, and also to prevent the burial
of todies in a certain lot of ground in the Fifteenth and
Twentieth Wards of the City.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the Citj
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of fourteen hundred
and fortj-two dollars and fifty-nine cents be, and the same is
hereby appropriated to the Department of City Property, for
the following purposes, viz :
For repairs of the wall and iron railing on the south side
of Independence Square, one hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For payment of bills for paving and curb setting on Wood
street, opposite Norris Square, from Howard to Hancock
street, eight hundred and sixty-eight dollars and sixteen cents.
For payment of bills for paving and curb setting at City
premises upon Twenty-first street, between Spruce and Pine
streets, forty-three dollars and nineteen cents.
For payment of bills for paving and curb setting opposite
city premises on Twentieth street, between Wallace and
Coates streets, three hundred and fifty-six dollars and twenty-
four cents.
Section 2. Warrants for the payment of said amounts
shall be drawn by the Commissioner of City Property, in con-
formity with existing Ordinances.
Section 3. That hereafter it shall not be lawful for the
Coroner or for any other person, to permit or to cause to be
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buried any bodies of deceased persons in the City burial
ground premises, situate in the late District of Penn Town-
ship, now Fifteenth and Twentieth Wards of the City, and
that the Commissioner of City Property be, and he is hereby
required to see that this provision of law is carried out.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. LErsENRiNG,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved September 14, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila,
CHAPTER 179.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Engineer of the Water
Works be, and is hereby authorized to draw on item No. 35
of an appropriation made to that Department, approved Janu-
ary 28th, 1858, to an amount not exceeding fifteen hundred
dollars, to pay for labor and materials contracted for the
month of August, and which may be contracted for in Septem-
ber, October and November.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council,
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clo'k of Select Council.
. G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved September 14, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 180.
RESOLUTION
To lay icatei'-pipes on Ash and other streets.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That tlie Chief Engineer of the Water
Works be authorized and directed to cause water-pipes to be
laid in the following streets, vi^ :
Ash street, between Duke and Brown, Eighteenth Ward.
Sixth street and Germantown road, from Diamond to Eighth
street, Nineteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-first Wards.
Fourth street, l)etwcen Diamond and Dauphin, Nineteenth
Ward.
Jefferson avenue, from Franklin to Moore, Fir-st Ward.
Shippen street, from Twentieth to Gray's Ferry road, First
Ward.
Sixteenth street, from South to Shippen, First Ward.
Jeflerson avenue, from Greenwich to Mifflin, First Ward.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council,
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved September 14, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phiia.
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CHAPTER 181.
AN ORDINANCE
Providing for the care and management of the Steam Fire
Engines Philadelphia and Hope.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Select and Common Coun-
cils of the City of Philadelphia, That the sum of two thous-
and one hundred dollars ($2,100 00,) be, and the same is
hereby appropriated for the use of the Steam Fire Engine
Philadelphia, for the year 1858; and the further sum of one
thousand dollars ($1,000) for the use of the Steam Fire En-
gine Hope, for the year 1858.
Section 2. And be it further enacted, that the Chief En-
gineer of the Fire Department have power to draw warrants
on the City Treasury, to meet the expenses attending the
said Engines; provided, he does not exceed the amount
appropriated.
CHAS. B. TBEGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved September 14, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 182.
RESOLUTION
To change an item of appropriation.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the sum of four thousand dollars be, and
the same is hereby changed from item 2, to item 1, of an
appropriation made to the Department of Highways, Bridges,
Sewers, and Cleansing the City, January 18th. 1858.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest— Wm. F, Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved September 14, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 183.
RESOLUTION
Authorizing the cleansing of Spruce Street Dock on the
Delaware.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Commissioner of Markets be, and
he is hereby authorized to have that portion of the dock at
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tiie loot of Spruce street on tlie Delaware, belonging to tiie
City, cleaned at a cost not exceeding two hundred dollars, to
be done under the supervision of the Committee on Port
Wardens, Public Wharves, and Landings.
CHAS. E. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved September 16, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila,
CHAPTER 184.
RESOLUTION
To release the sureties of R. L. West.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the City Solicitor be, and he is hereby
authorized to release the sureties of R. L. West, late Super-
intendent of the City Railroad.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved September 16, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phiia.
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CHAPTER 185.
RESOLUTION
Admitting the Congress Fire Companij into the Fire Depart-
nient.
Resolved, Bj the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the services of the Congress Fire Com-
pany be accepted and that they Be admitted into the Fire
Department.
CHAS. J3. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. SiMALLy
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved September 16, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Pliila.
CHAPTER 186.
RESOLUTIONS
Authorizing the re-paving of certain streets with tramuuiy,
and for other purposes.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Ciiicf Commissioner of Highways
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is hereby authorized to rcpave the following streets ; said re-
paving to be done with tramway stone in the track of the
wheels; and if the cartways are wider than is necessary for
a single track, the Commissioner is authorized to reduce the
width thereof, so that an equal quantity be taken from each
side, viz:
Liberty court west of Ninth street, and north of Mar-
ket, in the Ninth Ward.
Clymer street, from Sixth to Adams street, in the Third
Ward.
Howard street, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets,
south of Market street, Ninth Ward.
Resolved, That the Chief Commissioner of Highways be,
and he is hereby instructed to notify the " Southwark Rail-
road Company" to pave the street between the tracks of their
road on Washington avenue and Swanson street.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest— Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved September 16, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Pliila.
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CHAPTER 187.
AN ORDINANCE
To malie an appi-opriation to the Suferintendent of Trusts, to
pay taxes, and make a Survey of the Boudlnot Lands and
expenses.
Section 1. The Select and Common Coimcils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordaiu, That the sum of eight hundred
dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to the Super-
intendent of Trusts, for the following purposes, viz :
For a survey of the Boudlnot Lands, three hundred dollars.
For expenses in ejection of tenants or squatters on said
lands, two hundred dollars, as per ordinance, December 5,
1856.
For taxes now due, one hundred and fifty dollars.
For expenses of agent, and visiting "lands, one hundred and
fifty dollars.
Section 2. Warrants for the payment of said appropria-
tion shall be drawn by the Superintendent of Trusts.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President qf Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Smalx,
Clerk of Common Caiincil.
(1. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved September 16, A. H. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 188.
AN ORDINANCE
To authorize the Post Office Department of the United States
to attach metallic letter boxes to the lamp posts of the City
of Philadelphia.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain, That the Post Office Department of
the United States be, and are hereby authorized to attach
metallic letter boxes to such lamp posts of the City as they
deem necessary for postal purposes; provided, that the work
be done under the supervision of the Committee on Police,
and that the City be at no expense thereby.
CHAS. B. TEEGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved September 16, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 189.
RESOLUTION
Authorizing the Chief Commissioner of Highways to cancel
certain contracts.
Whereas, there are various contracts in existence made
prior to the Act of Consolidation, which it is the interest of
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the City to have cancelled, and as it is unnecessary to have
said work done at present ; and whereas, Lewis Smith, one of
the said contractors, is willing to cancel the contract now held
by him for the sum of eleven hundred and fourteen dollars
and eight cents, the balance duo him as per estimate of the
District Surveyor, therefore be it
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the
City of Philadelphia, That the Chief Commissioner of High-
ways be directed to draw a warrant for the said Lewis Smith,
for the sum of eleven hundred and fourteen dollars and eight
cents, out of item 14, of appropriation to the Highway De-
partment, Ordinance, January 18, 1858, whenever the said
Lewis Smith signs an agreement, drawn by the City Solicitor,
releasing the City from all contracts and claims that he now
has; and that the Chief Commissioner of Highways, under
the direction of the Committee on Highways, is herel)y au-
thorized to cancel any other of such contracts, provided the
same can be done on equitable terms.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clej^k of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved September 16, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 190.
RESOLUTION
Relative to the examination of certain warrants drawn upon
the City Treasurer.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Department of the City Controller
be requested (under the supervision of the Committee on Fi-
nance) to make a thorough examination into all the warrants
issued since consolidation, with a view to ascertain what war-
rants (if any) have been twice paid, and to detect any inac-
curacies that may have occurred in the various Departments
of the City ; the work to be done at such times as will not.
conflict with the regular and stated duties of the office.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council,
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved September 16, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER EENUY , Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 191.
AN ORDINANCE
Ojfering a reward of jive hundred dollars for the apprehen-
sion and conviction of the murderer or murderers of John E.
Clark.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the Mayor be, and is hereby
authorized to offer a reward for the apprehension and con-
viction of the murderer or murderers of John E. Clark.
Section 2. That the sum of five hundred dollars be, and
the same is hereby appropriated for the above purpose.
Section 3. That warrants for the said appropriation shall
be drawn by the Mayor, in conformity with existing Ordi-
nances.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council,
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved September 16, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 192.
RESOLUTION
Authorizing the rejpaving of Locust street.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Commissioner of Highways is
hereby authorized to repave Locust street, from Seventeenth
to Eighteenth streets, in the Eighth Ward.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved September 16, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 193.
RESOLUTION
Transferring an item of appropriatian to the City Commis-
sioners.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the sum of twelve hundred and thirty
dollars be transferred from item No. 14 in the appropriation
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to the City Commissioners, to the payment of jurors for the
special term of the Court of Quarter Sessions.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council,
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved September 16, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 194.
RESOLUTION
Authorizing the paving of certain streets.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Department of Highways is hereby
authorized to enter into a contract with a competent paver or
pavers for the paving of the following streets, viz : — Fifth
street between Chatham and Diamond streets, in the Nine-
teenth "Ward, and Twenty-second street, from Vine to Callow-
hill streets, in the Fifteenth Ward. The conditions of which
contracts shall be, that the contractors will collect the cost
and expenses of said paving from the owners of property
fronting on said streets, and that the City shall be liable only
for the intersections ; also that the contractors shall enter into
an obligation to the City to keep the said streets in repairs
for two years after the paving is finished ; and that the water-
pipes be laid in said streets befoio the paA ing is commenced,
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and the Highway Department is hereby authorized to do the
grading in said streets necessary to be done therein prepara-
tory to the paving tliereof.
CHAS. 13. TREGO,
President of Common Council,
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council,
Approved September 16, A. D, 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila,
CHAPTER 195.
AN ORDSNANCE
To authorize the Commissioner of Markets to lease Dock street
whaif to the Pennsylvania Railroad Compaiiy.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the Commissioner of Mar-
kets is hereb}'' authorized to let Dock street wharf to the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, for the term of five years
from the first day of January, A. D. 1859, at an annual rent
of four thousand dollars.
Section 2. That the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
after they have taken possession of Dock street wharf under
the lease authorized by Section 1 of this Ordinance, shall have
authority to make at their own expense such improvements as
may be necessary and proper, to enalilc said Company to
transact their usual business ; provided, that the City of Phila-
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delphia shall not be made liable therefor, at the expiration
of said lease ; and provided further, that said Company shall
remove all such improvements if required by the Councils of
the City of Philadelphia.
CHAS. B. TEEGO,
President cf Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved September 22, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.' ^
CHAPTER 196.
RESOLUTION
To enter satisfaction on a certain lien.
Whereas, On the 17th day of January, 1852, a Deed was
made by William Deal, Esq., Sherifl", to Alexander Moore, for
a certain lot of ground, situated on the south side of Market
street, (West Philadelphia,) between Moore and Margaret
streets, containing in front on the said Market street 100 feet,
said property having been sold as the property of A. J. Bra-
zier, D. C, book Y., page 254; and whereas, it appears
that a lien was entered against said lot, (for water-pipe, amount
$100,) as the property of A. J. Brazier. Lien is marked M.,
64, No. 85, March 15th, 1854.
And inasmuch as it appears that the amount of said lien
was paid by Alexander Moore on the 5th day of May, 1854,
as appears by the books of the Treasurer of the late District
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of West Philadelphia, aud also by check of Alexander Moore,
in favor of aud endorsed by the said Treasurer, that the same
has been paid in full, the receipt for which has been lost or
mislaid ; and as it is desired that satisfaction should be en-
tered of record ; be it
Resolved, That the City Solicitor be, and he is hereby
authorized to enter satisfaction on a certain lien for water-pipe
in the late District of West Philadelphia, marked M., 54, No.
85, for $100, in the name of A. J. Brazier; provided, that
the Solicitor be satisfied that the same is correct.
CIIAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved September 22, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Pliila.
CHAPTER 197.
To make an appropriation to the Board of Health, for the ex-
penses of that Department, for the year 1858.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of twenty thousand
three hundred and sixty-six dollars and fifty cents be, and the
same is hereby appropriated to the Board of Health, for the
following purposes, viz:
1. For the salaries of officers attached to the Lazaretto and
Fort Physician's Department, viz:
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Lazaretto Physician, six months, July to December 31,
1858, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Quarantine Master, six months, July to December 31, 1858,
five hundred dollars.
Steward and Gardener, six months, July to December 31,
1858, four hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
Two Nurses, six months, July to December 31, 1858, one
hundred and fifty dollars.
Six Bargemen, six months, July to December 31, 1358, one
thousand and eighty dollars — in all two thousand nine hun-
dred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
2. For salaries of Officers in the Health Office :
Chief Clerk, six months, July to December 31, 1858, at
the rate of $ 1200 a year, six hundred dollars.
Assistant Clerk, six months, July to December 31, 1858,
at the rate of $ 600 a year, three hundred dollars.
Ilcalth Officer, six months, July to December 31, 1858, at
the rate of $ 1200 a year, six hundred dollars.
Port Physician, six months, Jul}' to Decem])er 31, 1858, at
the rate of $ 800 a year, four hundred dollars.
Chief Messenger, six months, July to December 31, 1858,
at the rate of $45 per month, two hundred and seventy dol-
lars.
Four Assistant Messengers, six months, July to December
31, 1858, at the rate of $45 per month, each, one thousand and
eighty dollars.
One Runner, six months, July to December 31, 1858, at
the rate of $30 per month, one liundred and eighty dollars.
Two Inspectors of Vessels, three months, July to October 1,
at the rate of $45 per month, two hundred and seventy dol-
lars.
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Deficiency due said Officers for June, tten dollars — in all
three thousand seven hundred and ten dollars.-
For salaries of Officers at the City Hospital, viz :
Physician, six months, from July 1 to December 31, 1858,
at the rate of $ 500 per annum, two hundred and fifty dollars.
Matron, six months, from July 1 to December 31, 1858, at
the rate of $400 per annum, two hundred dollars.
Three Nurses, six months, from July 1 to December 31,
1858, two hundred and fifty dollars.
Watchman, six months, from July 1 to December 31, 1858>
at the rate of $ 240 per annum, one hundred and twenty dol-
lars.
One Laundress, six months, from July 1 to December 31,
1858, at the rate of $3 per week, seventy-eight dollars.
One Nurse, one month due to July 1, 1858, twelve dollars
— in all nine hundred and ten dollars.
For expenses at the Lazaretto property :
For clothing, bedding, straw, brushes, soap, Hospital furni-
ture and incidentals, fifteen hundred dollars.
For medicines, lime and chloride, one hundred dollars.
For coffins, one hundred dollars.
For coal, wood, oil and fluid, one hundred and fifty dollars.
For carriage hire, tolls and railroad tickets for Lazaretto
Committee, one hundred and fifty dollars.
For horse-keep, one hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For board of Bargemen, Nurses and Patients, one thous-
and dollars.
For general repairs at Lazaretto station, one thousand dol-
lars.
For outside channel visits, two hundred dollars.
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For small boat fbr Quarantine Master, forty dollars — in all
four thousand four hundred and fifteen dollars.
For expenses at Health Office, viz:
For carriage hire and omnibus tickets for Poudrette Com-
mittee, one hundred dollars.
For carriage hire and omnibus tickets for five District
Committees, two hundred dollars.
For taxes, fuel, gas, water rent and repairs, one hundred
dollars.
For printing and publishing, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For stationery and blanks, two hundred dollars.
For office furniture, postages, cleaning and incidentals, one
hundred and fifty dollars.
For removal of nuisances, three thousand five hundred
dollars.
For carriage hire and omnibus tickets for Burial Ground
Committee, fifty dollars.
For Committee on Bills of Mortality, one hundred dollars.
For Committee on Library, fifty dollars — in all four thous-
and four hundred dollars.
For expenses at City Hospital, viz:
For ]3oard of Watchmen, Nurses and Laundress, seven hun-
dred and fourteen dollars.
For board of Patients, eight hundred dollars.
For coffins and digging graves, one hundred and fifty dol-
lars.
For bedsteads and other furniture, fifty dollars.
For coal, wood and porterage, three hundred dollars.
For horse, wagon, harness, keep and repairs, two hundred
and seventy-five dollars.
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For bedding and clothing, two hundred dollars.
For ice, seventy-live dollars.
For incidental i^epairs, and small miscellaneous repairs and
expenses, one hundred and fifty dollars.
For carriage hire and omnibus tickets for Sanitary Com-
mittee, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For extraordinary expenses of same, in cases of Epidemic,
two hundred and fifty dollars.
For soap, starch, fluid, oil, indigo, matches, brushes, &c.,
two hundred dollars.
For medicines, leeching, lime, &c., one hundred and fifty
dollars.
For brandy, wine, porter and ale, one hundred dollars.
Section 2. Warrants shall be drawn in conformity with
existing Ordinances.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Com7non CounciL
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clei'k of Select CoiinciL
G. M. WHAHTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved September 25, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 198.
AN ORDirSIANCE
Providing for the removal of the City Hospital building, upon
Coates street, and the sale of the materials contained in the
same.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain. That the Commissioner of City
Property be and he is hereby authorized and required to
cause to be disposed of at public auction sale, in the month of
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October next, the material of all kinds now contained in the
buildings on the premises of the Citj Hospital upon Coates
street; and that the purchasers be required to remove the
same immediately after said sale.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. Gr. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council,
Approved September 25, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 199.
To an Ordinance, entitled " An Ordinance 'prescribing the
poivers and duties of the Receiver of Taxes,'^ appi'oved July
27, 1854.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That from and after the passage
of this Ordinance, the Receiver of Taxes be, and is hereby
authorized to appoint six additional permanent clerks — the
said clerks to be removable at the pleasure of the said Re-
ceiver. The salaries of the said clerks shall be tlie same
amount per annum, j^ayable monthly, as now provided by Or-
dinance, to wit : eight hundred and fifty dollars.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved September 27, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 200.
RESOLUTION
Relative to grading around the Pennsylvania Hospital, in
the Tuenty-foiLrth Ward.
Resolyed, That the Department of Surveys be, and is
hereby authorized and directed to arrange the regulation of
the curb heights and grades upon so much of the Twenty-
fourth Ward as is embraced within the limits of the Fifth
Section of the Survey of the late townsliip of Blockley. And
also, that Forty-ninth street be extended from Market street
to the Haverford road, one hundred feet in width, along the
western line of th€ property owned by the Pennsylvania Hos-
pital for the Insane ; provid^ed. That the said Pennsylvania
Hospital dedicate to the public use of the City of Philadel-
phia, for said street, a strip of ground fifty feet in width,
along said western front, from ]\Iarket street to Haverford
road.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved September 29, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 201.
RESOLUTION
To draw a iDarrant in favor of George Sturges.
Whereas, the Committee on Finance, and the Committee on
Surveys and Regulations, at the preparation of the appropria-
tion bills for the year 1858, being fully advised of the amount
of extra work performed for the Committee, &c., since May,
1855, by George Sturges, Recording Clerk of the Depart-
ment of Surveys, and that the salary of said officer is far be-
low a remuneration for the duties and qualifications necessary
for that position, did add a sum of two hundred dollars to
Item No. 1 of the Ordinance Jiiaking an appropriation for the
year 1858 to pay for said duties, therefore.
Resolved, That a warrant be drawn chargeable to Item
No. 1 of an Ordinance making an appropriation to the De-
partment of Surveys for the year 1858, in favor of George
Sturges, for two hundred dollars to be drawn in the usual
form and manner prescribed by law.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved September 29, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER LIEN RY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 202.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation to pay the expenses of obtaining
satisfaction on two certain mortgages against t/ie Estate
known as the Manayunk Poor House.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain, That a sum not exceeding one hun-
dred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the
payment of the legal and other expenses requisite to procure
the authority of the court for the satisfaction of the following
mortgages, which appear of record against the Manayunk
Poor House Property which it is supposed have long since
been paid off; tliat is to say one of the said mortgages given
by John Righter to Sai-ah Woodward dated April 26th, A. D.
1798, for 200 pounds, recorded in mortgage book No. 16, page
468, &c., the other given by John Davis to Isaac Bringhurst
dated March 8th, A. D. 1809, for $669 22, recorded in mort-
gage book, J. C, No. 1, page 75, &c. ; and upon the receipt of
the consideration money from the purchasers of the said pro-
perty the City Treasurer is hereby authorized to pay or allow
the said amount of one hundred dollars out of the payment
aforesaid.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved September 30, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER PIENRY, Mayor of Phila,
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ClIAFTER 203.
AN ORDINANCE
To authorize the construction of a certain culvert or drain on
the line of Seventh street, southicardly from Race street^
in the Tenth Ward.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the Citj of
Philadelphia do ordain, That the owners of property situate
on the line of Seventh street hetween Race and Cherry-
streets are hereby authorized to construct a culvert or drain
to commence at and intersect the culvert at Race and Seventh
streets and to extend southwardly along Seventh street to
the south side of Cherry street ; to be of such form and di-
mensions as the Department of Surveys may prescribe, and
to be constructed under the supervision of the Department of
Highways; provided, before the said culvert is commenced,
the parties who are hereby authorized to construct the same,
shall enter into a covenant with the City of Philadelphia to
build it at their own exi)ense, and upon its completion, to re-
store the pavement to its present condition.
Section 2. The said culvert when completed shall become
the property of the City without condition, saving and ex-
cepting, that should a permit to make a drain to said culvert
be hereafter granted l)y tlie City, to a person or persons who
have not contributed to the expense of constructing said
culvert, then and in such case the parties constructing the
same, under this Ordinance are hereby authorized to demand
of the person or persons to whom such permit shall be granted
such part of the original cost thereof, not exceeding seventy-
five cents per lineal foot on either side of said street, as shall
be proportionate to the frontage of his, her or their property
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thereon ; and in case of neglect or refusal to pay said sum,
they may sue for and collect the same ; provided a certificate
of approval and acceptance thereof from the Chief Engineer
and Surveyor, and a statement of the actual cost of such cul-
vert shall have been filed in the office of the Department of
Surveys ; and provided also, that the annual charge or rent-
age shall be paid as specified, in " Ordinance providi-ng for
the granting of permits to make openings into common
sewers," approved May 8rd, 1855.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — J. Barclay Harding,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 1, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 204.
AN ORDINANCE
To authorize a Loan to pay claims against, and to defray
expenses of the City.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the Mayor of the City of
Philadelphia be, and he is hereby authorized to borrow at
not less than par, on the credit of the City Corpoi'ation, from
time to time, as may be required by the City Treasurer, such
sums of money as may be necessary to pay claims against and
to defray expenses of the said Corporation not exceeding in
the whole the sum of four hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
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for which interest not to exceed the rate of six per cent, per
annum shall be paid half yearly, on the first days of January
and July, at the office of the City Treasurer ; the principal of
said Loan, shall be payable and paid at the expiration of
thirty years from the date of the same, and not before, with-
out the consent of the holders thereof; and certificates there-
for in the usual foiin of certificates of City Loan, shall be
issued in such amounts as the lenders may require, but not for
any fractional part of one hundred dollars ; or if required in
amounts of five hundred or one thousand dollars, and it shall
be expressed in said certificates, that the said Loan therein
mentioned, and the interest thereof are payable free from all
taxes.
Section 2. AVhenever any Loan shall be made by virtue
hereof, there shall be by force of this Ordinance, annually
appropriated out of the income of the corporate estates and
from the sum raised by taxation, a sum sufficient to pay the
interest on said certificates and the further sum of three-tenths
of one per-centum on the par value of such certificates so is-
sued, shall be appropriated quarterly out of said income and
taxes, to a sinking fund, which fund and its accumulations are
hereby specifically pledged for the redemption and payment
of said certificates.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — J. Barclay Harding,
Assistant Clerk of Cojnmon Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 1, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila,
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CHAPTER 205.
RESOLUTION
Authorizing the Mayor to advertise for proposals for a certain
Loan.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Mayor of the City of Philadelphia
be authorized and directed to publish in three daily papers
in the City of Philadelphia, and in two in the City of New
York, that proposals endorsed " proposals for loan of the
City of Philadelphia," will be received until the fifteenth day
of October, A. D. 1858, at 12 o'clock, M., for loaning to the
City of Philadelphia the sum of four hundred and fifty thousand
dollars as authorized by an Ordinance, approved the first day
of October, A. D. 1858, with interest not to exceed six per
cent per annum and free from taxation, said interest payable
half-yearly on the first day of January and the first day of
July, for which certificates of one hundred dollars each or in
larger amounts shall be issued, redeemable in thirty years
from the date thereof; the proposals to be for any part of said
loan; the highest offer will be accepted, the City reserving
the right to accept or decline the whole or any part thereof;
the amount to be paid on the twentieth of October, the inter-
est to commence from that date ; the proposals to be opened by
the Mayor of the City in the presence of the City Treasurer
and Committee on Finance ; the premium received above par
to be appropriated to the Sinking Fund for the payment of
loans maturing.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — J. Barclay HardinCx,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
0. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 1, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 206.
A SUPPLEMENT TO AN ORDINANCE
To regulate the sale of Fruits and Vegetables, approved A'b-
veinber llt/t, 1857-.
Section 1. Be it ordained hj the Select and Common Coun-
cils of the City of Philadelphia, That every basket, box, tub,
or other article used for the sale of fruits, vegetables, or ber-
ries that require measurement, in market houses, or market
stands, shall have the fractional part or parts of a bushel,
which said basket, box, or other article will contain when
even-full, labelled, stamped or marked thereon, outside, in
plain characters of at least one inch in size.
Section 2. After the passage of this Ordinance, the several
Clerks of the Markets are hereby authorized and instructed
to test the correctness of such labels, stamps, or marks, as
often as they may judge proper, by measuring the contents of
any basket, box, tub, bucket, or any other article, by sealed
measures of this city; and if any Clerk should find any bas-
ket, or other article, wliich will not contain the quantity rep-
resented by the figures or characters marked thereon, or if
he shouU find any basket or other article without such marks,
in either case, such Ijasket, box, tub, or other article, with its
contents, shall be forfeited, one-third to the Clerk, and the
other two-thirds, with the basket, box or tub, shall be de-
livered by the Clerk to the Guardians of the Poor.
Section 3. Whenever any potatoes shall be sold within
said limits, by the Imshel or its divisions, and any controversy
shall arise 1)etween the parties as to the accuracy or truth of
the measurement, or if any ctispute sliould arise between the
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Clerk and any party whilst testing the correctness of the
stamps or marks, as to the proper heaping of the measure,
the question sliall be decided by weight, allowing sixty pounds
of white potatoes to the bushel and fifty pounds of sweet po-
tatoes, and in the same proportion for any of the divisions of
the bushel.
Section 4. The sum of two hundred dollars is hereby
appropriated to the Department of Market Houses, to be
drawn for by the Commissioner in the usual way, for the pur-
pose of supplying the Clerks of the Markets with the neces-
sary sealed measures for the proper fulfillment of this Ordi-
nance ; which measures shall be the property of the City, and
be deposited with the Aldermen whose offices are the nearest
to the market houses where they are to be used.
Section 5. Immediately after the passage and approval of
this Ordinance, the Commissioner of Market Houses shall
have five huudred copies thereof printed in hand bill form,
and posted up in the market houses at such places as will give
the best notice thereof, and said Ordinance shall go into effect
in two weeks from the date of its approval.
Section 6. Such parts of the Ordinance to which this is a
supplement as are inconsistent with this Ordinance, are here-
by repealed.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 1, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 207.
AN ORDINANCE
To authorize a loan to construct certain Culverts.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordaiu, That the Mayor of the City be,
and he is hereby authorized to borro\r, at not less than par,
on the credit of tlie City corporation, from time to time, as
he may be required by the City Treasurer, such sums of
money as may be necessary to construct the Cohocksink Creek,
Vine sti-eet, Moore street, and Twenty-fifth street Culverts,
not exceeding- in the whole the sum of two hundred thousand
dollars, for which interest, at a rate not to exceed six per
centum per annum, shall be paid half-yearly, on the first days
of January and July, at the office of the City Treasurer.
The principal of said loan shall be payable and paid at the
expiration of thirty years from the date of the same, and not
before, without the consent of the holders thereof; and cer-
tificates therefor, in the usual form of certificates of City
Loan, shall be issued in such amounts as the lenders may re-
quire, but not for any fractional part of one hundred dollars,
or, if required, in amounts of five hundred or one thousand
dollars, with coupons attached for the payment of the interest
therein named ; the said coupons shall be signed by the City
Treasurer, and the said certificates sliall have expressed
therein, that the said loan therein mentioned, and the interest
thereof, are payable free from all taxes.
Section 2. Whenever any loan shall be made by virtue
hereof, there shall be, by force of this Ordinance, annually
appropriated out of the income of the corporate estates, and
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from the sums raised by taxation, a sum sufficient to pay the
interest on said certificates, and the further sum of three-
tenths of one per centum on the par value of such certificates
so issued, shall be appropriated quarterly, out of said income
and taxes, to a Sinking Fund, which fund and its accumula-
tions are hereby specifically pledged for the redemption and
payment of said certificates.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 1, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 208.
AN ORDINANCE
To authorize the construction of a certain culvert or drain on
the line of Wood street, westivardly from Queen street, in
the Eighteenth Ward.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain. That the owners of property
situate on the line of Wood street, between Queen street and
Franklin Avenue, are hereby juithorized to construct a cul-
vert or drain, to commence at, and intersect the culvert on
the line of Queen street, and to extend westwardly along
Wood street to the easterly side of Franklin Avenue ; to be
of such form and dimensions as the Department of Surveys
may prescribe, and to be constructed under the supervision of
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the Department of Highways ; provided, before the saifl
culvert is commenced, the parties who are liereby authorized
to construct the same, shall enter into a covenant with the
City of Philadelphia, to build it at tlieir own expense, and
upon its completion, to restore tlie pavement to its present
condition.
Section 2. The said culvert, when completed, shallbecome
the property of the City without condition, saving and except-
ing, that should a permit to make a drain to said culvert, be
hereafter granted by the City, to a person or persons who
have not contributed to the expense of constructing said cul-
vert, then and in such case the parties constructing the same,
under this Ordinance, are hereby authorized to demand of the
person or persons to whom such permit shall be granted, such
part of the original cost thereof, not exceeding seventy-five
cents per lineal foot, on either side of said street, as shall be
proportionate to the frontage of his, her, or their property
thereon ; and in case of neglect or refusal to pay said sum,
they may sue for, and collect the same ; provided, a certifi-
cate of approval and acceptance thereof from the Chief
Engineer and Surveyor, and a statement of the actual cost of
Buch culvert shall have been filed in the Office of the Depart-
ment of Surveys ; and provided al'so, that the annual charge
or rentage shall be paid as specified in " Ordinance pro-
viding for the granting of permits to make openings into
Common Sewers," approved May 3rd, 1855.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — J. Barclay Harding,
.Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 6, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 209.
AN ORDINANCE
To aiithorhe the construction of a certain culvert or drain, on
the line of Randolph street, nor ihu^ard from Parrish street,
in the Ticelfth Ward.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the owners of property
situate on Randolph street, between Parrish and Poplar
streets, are hereby authorized to construct a culvert or drain,
to commence at and inteii^ect the culvert on the line of Par-
rish street, to extend northwardly along Randolph street, to
the school-house erected by trustees of legacy of Nathan
Sheppard ; to be of such form and dimensions as the Depart-
ment of Surveys may prescribe, and to be constructed under
the supervision of the Department of Highways ; provided,
before the said culvert is commenced, the parties who are
hereby authorized to construct the same, shall enter into a
covenant with the City of Philadelphia, to build it at their
own expense, and upon its completion, to restore the pave-
ment to its present condition.
Section 2. The said culvert when completed shall become
the property of the City, without condition, saving and ex-
cepting, that should a permit to make a drain to said culvert,
be hereafter granted by the City, to a person or persons who
have not contributed to the expense of constructing the said
culvert, then and in such case the parties constructing the
same, under this ordinance, are hereby authorized to demand
of the person or persons to whom such permit shall be granted,
such part of the original cost thereof, not exceeding seventy.
five cents per lineal foot, on either side of said street, as
shall be proportionate to the frontage of his, her, or their
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property thereon ; and in case of neglect or refusal to pay
said sum they may sue for, and collect the same; provided, a
certificate of approval and acceptance thereof from the Chief
Engineer and Surveyor, and a statement of the actual cost of
such culvert shall have been filed in the office of the Depart-
ment of Surveys ; and provided, also, that the annual charge
or rentage shall be paid as specified in " Ordinance providing
for the granting of permits to make openings into Common
Sewers," approved May 3rd, 1855.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — J. Barclay Harding,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council,
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October G, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 210.
RESOLUTION
Designating the ferson to v^hom the honor belongs of having
originated the project of laying a Telegraph Cable across
the Atlantic.
"Whereas, Horatio Hubbell, a citizen of Philadelphia, did,
by his memorial of 1849, first project a plan of Telegraph
communication between America and Europe, which memorial
was presented by himself, in connection with the late Colonel
John H. Sherburne, to Congress, through the hands of ex- Vice
President Dallas and the Hon. Joseph R. Ingersoll, on the
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29th day •of January, 1849, in which memorial the existence
t)f a plateau and table land, between Newfoundland and Ire-
land, was first announced to the world, and designated as the
spot peculiarly adapted for laying down the Telegraph wire.
Therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the honor of having originated the
gigantic project of laying a Telegraph across the Atlantic
belongs, and ought to be given, to Horatio Hubbell, a -citizen
of Philadelphia.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — J. Barclay Harding^
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 6, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 211.
RESOLUTION
Authorizing the paving of Shippen street.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the
City of Philadelphia, That the Department of Highways is
hereby authorized to enter into a contract with a competent
paver to pave Shippen street, from Twentieth street to Gray's
Ferry Road, in the First Ward ; the conditions of which con-
tract shall be that the Contractor will collect the cost and
expenses of said paving from the owners of property fronting
on said street ; and that the City shall be at no expense what-
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ever. Also that the Contraetor shall enter into an obUgation
to tlie City to keep the said street in repair for two years
after the paving is finished, and that the "water-pipes be laid
in said street before the paving is commenced.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — J. Barclay Harding,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 7, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 212.
RESOLUTION
To grade Bridge street.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Commissioner of Highways
be, and the same is hereby authorized to have Bridge street,
from Jackson street, to the Bristol Turnpike, in the Twenty-
third "Ward, graded ; provided, that it shall not cost over one
hundred and fifty dollars.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common CounciL
Attest — J. Barclay Harding,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 7 A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 213.
RESOLUTION
To authorize satisfaction to be entered upon certain official
bonds.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the City Solicitor be, and he is hereby
directed to enter satisfaction upon the official bond of
George F. Goodman, late Superintendent, and J. H. Fisler,
late Agent of the Girard Estates, when tlio City Controller
shall certify to the correctness of their accounts. And also,
that the City Solicitor be directed to enter satisfaction on the
bond of Thomas E. Gaskill, late Collector of Revenue of the
Tobacco Warehouse.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 7, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 214.
RESOLUTION
To authorize the paving of Franklin and other streets.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Department of Highways is here-
by authorized to enter into a contract with a competent paver
or pavers, for the paving of the following streets, viz : — Frank-
lin, from Thompson to Master, in the Twentieth Ward ; West
street, from Coates to Parrish, in the Fifteenth Ward ; and
Simes street, from Twenty-third to Twenty-fourth streets, in
the Ninth Ward. The conditions of which contracts shall be,
that the contractors will collect the cost and expenses of said
paving, from the owners of property fronting on said streets,
and that the City shall be liable only for the intersections ;
also, that the contractors shall enter into an obligation to the
City, to keep the said streets in repair for two years after the
paving is finished, and that the water-pipes be laid in said
streets, before the paving is commenced; and the Highway
Department is hereby authorized to do the grading in said
streets necessary to be done therein, preparatory to the pav-
ing thereof.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — J. Barclay Harding,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 7, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila,
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CHAPTER 2T5.
RESOLUTION
Explaining an Ordinance relative to an appropriation for the
repairs of Girard Jlvenue Bridge.
Eesolved, Bj the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Ordinance passed September 9,
1858, making an appropriation to the wing walls of Girard
Avenue Bridge, and the repairs of Bridges, be construed to
apply to all Bridges needing repairs.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council,
Attest — J. Barclay Harding,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 7, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 216.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation to the Department of Highways^ to
pay certain Road damages.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of one thousand
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dollars is hereby appropriated to the Department of Highways,
for the purpose of paying to the heirs or legal representatives
of Benjamin Jones, dec'd, for damages sustained by the open-
ing of Lancaster street, from Reed to Dickinson streets, in
the First Ward.
Section 2. Warrants for tlie payment of the said appropri-
ation, shall be drawn by the Chief Commissioner of Highways,
whenever the City Solicitor, upon the faith of proper certifi-
cates of search, to be produced to him, shall certify that there
are no liens or incumbrances against the property to ba taken
for the said street, for which damages have been awarded.
Section 3. Upon the delivery of such warrants counter-
signed by the City Controller to the City Treasurer, he shall
deliver to the person in whose favor the same is drawn, or to
his, or their order, certificates of City debt, to the amount
of such warrant, which certificates shall be such as are pro-
vided for in an Ordinance, approved August 23, 1855, entitled
"An Ordinance to provide for the issuing of certificates of
debt, in payment of Road damages, and to pay the contract
price of the Fire Alarm and Police Telegraph." And the
said certificates shall be a portion of those authorized to be
issued by that Ordinance.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — J. Barclay Harding,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 7, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 217.
RESOLUTION
To transfer an item of appropriation to the Department of
Highways.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the sum of six thousand dollars be, and
tke same is hereby transferred, from item two, as follows, four
thousand dollars to item four, and two thousand, to item three,
of an appropriation made to the Department of Highways,
Bridges, Sewers and Cleansing the City, January 18, 1858.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council,
Attest — J. Baeclay Haeding,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 7, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 218.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation to the Department of Highways,
Bridges, Sewers, and Cleansing the City.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of two thousand dol-
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lars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to the Depart-
ment of Highways, Bridges, Sewers, and Cleansing the City,
for repairs to the City Railroad.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of, Common Council.
Attest — J. Barclay Harding,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 9, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
. CHAPTER 219.
RESOLUTION
To transfer certain items of appropriation to the Department
of Police.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That so much of the appropriation as was
made to the Department of Police, by Ordinance approved
December 31st, 1857, as shall amount to fourteen hundred
dollars, be transferred to the following accounts, viz : —
From item 4, " Salaries of Policemen," six hundred dol-
lars, to item 10, " Repairs to Station Houses."
From item 4, <' Salaries of Policemen," five hundred dol-
lars, to item 11, " Stationery and Printing."
From item 19, " Expenses incurred in procuring evi-
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dence, &c.," three hundred dollars, to item 13, " Beds, Bed-
ding, and Rattles."
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Cotnmon Council.
Attest — J. Barclay Harding,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 9, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 220.
RESOLUTION
To lay Water Pipes in Barker and other streets.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That tlie Chief Engineer of the Water
Works be authorized and directed to cause Water Pipes to
be laid in the following streets : —
Barker street, from Nineteenth to Twentieth, Ninth Ward.
Centre street, from Eighteenth to Twentieth, Fifteenth
Ward.
West street, from Coates to Brown, Fifteenth Ward.
Ann street, from three hundred feet westwardly from Em-
erald, Nineteenth Ward.
Logan street, from the Lancaster turnpike to the stables of
the West Philadelphia Railroad Company.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clej'k of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 13, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Maijor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 221.
RESOLUTION
Of thanks for a Photographic Copy of the Charter of the
City.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the thanks of the Corporation be, and
they are hereby tendered to Mr. J. E. McClees, Photographic
Artist, for a handsome Plwtographic copy of the original
Charter of the City of Philadelphia, granted by William
Penn, in 1701.
Resolved, That the Clerks be directed to have the same
placed in Independence Hall.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council,
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 15, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 222.
RESOLUTION
Authorizing the Chief Engineer of the Water Department to
pay certain claims.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Engineer of the Water De-
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partment be, and is hereby authorized to draw warrants for
the following persons, from item No. 33 of an Ordinance ap-
proved January 27th, 1858, entitled " An Ordinance to make
an appropriation to the Department for Supplying the City
with water, for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-eight :" —
Field & Hardie, for hardware, sixty-six dollars and twen-
ty-seven cents; William T. Potts, for iron, fifty-four dollars
and eighty-six cents; John Collins, for gasket, sixty-seven
dollars and thirty-five cents; E. Schreiner, for coal for shop,
twenty-six dollars and twenty-five cents ; George Woelpper,
for lumber, one hundred and twenty dollars and ten cents ;
Stileman & Ellis, for castings, two dollars and nine cents ;
Stileman, Ellis & Co., for plug cases, forty-four dollars and
fifty cents : Charles Morris, for meals for men, one dollar and
fifty cents ; Robert Scott, for repairs to cart, two dollars and
seventy-five cents ; Samuel MauU, for repairs to cart, seven
dollars — in all three hundred and ninety-two dollars and
sixty-seven cents.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 15, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 223.
RESOLUTION
To transfer certain items of appropriation to the Department
of City Property.
Eesolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the sum of five hundred dollars be, and
the same is hereby transferred from item 17, and the sum of
two hundred and fifty dollars from item 11, of the general
appropriation bill to the Department of City Property, to
item 24 in said bill : provided, however, that the Commis-
sioner of City Property shall, under the supervision of the
Committee on City Property, cause such trees as have been
removed from Independence and other squares, by reaeon of
their decay, to be replaced out of the moneys hereby appro-
priated.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 15, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 224.
RESOLUTION
Approving the sureties of JV. T. Baroux.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the sureties offered by N. T. Baroux
for the faithful performance of his duties as Commissioner of
Markets, to wit : — Philip B. Mingle and Robert P. King —
be approved, and that the Solicitor be instructed to draw the
necessary bonds.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — J. Baeclay Haeding,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 15, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 225.
RESOLUTION
To transfer a certain item of appropriation to the Department
for supplying the City with water.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the sum of five hundred dollars be
transferred from item " twenty-eight" of the appropriation
made to the Department for supplying the City with water,
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" for painting at Fairmount Works," to item " forty-three,"
" for preparing grounds and planting trees on the lot north
of Fairmount Basin."
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leiseneing,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 15, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER RE^UY , Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 226.
AN ORDINANCE
To mahe an appropriation to pay certain claims against the
City of Philadelphia.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of three thousand
eight hundred and thirty-four dollars and twenty-four cents
be, and the same is hereby appropriated to pay the following
claims, to wit : —
1. Crissey and Markley, for printing and for bound copies
of the Act of Consolidation, four hundred and thirty-two dol-
lars and twenty-four cents.
2. Professor R. E. Rodgers, for post mortem chemical analy-
zations, three hundred dollars.
,3. Leonard B, Wales, for legal services in the State of
Delaware, two hundred dollars.
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4. Thomas Le Sage, for chiming the bells of St. Stephen's
Church, on the Fourth of July, 1858, twenty dollars.
5. A. S. Noe, for four new desks for Common Council
Chamber, fifty- two dollars.
6. Marcus Aurelius Davis, for four new chairs for Common
Council Chamber, thirty dollars.
7. Thomas Craven, agent for Ridgeway Estate, for over-
paid taxes on Assembly Building, two hundred dollars.
8. The City Treasurer, for interest on temporary loan,
twenty-two hundred dollars ; and for engraving steel plate of
certificate of loan, four hundred dollars.
Section 2. That the City Controller be authorized to
transfer in the appropriation made to the Law Department,
December 31, 1857, from item 4, Sheriff's costs, &c., to item
5 for Blank Books and Stationery, one hundred dollars ; to
item 6 for Printing, fifty dollars; to item 10 for miscellaneous
expenses, one hundred dollars; and to item 11 for advertis-
ing, posting, &c., one hundred dollars.
Section 3. "Warrants for the appropriations contained in
Section 1 of this Ordinance, shall be drawn as follows : —
items 1, 5, and 6, by the Clerks of Councils; Items 2 and 4
by the Mayor ; item 3, by the City Solicitor ; items 7 and 8,
by the City Treasurer.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — J. Barclay Harding,
Assistant Clerk of Cominon Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 15, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 227.
RESOLUTION
Requiring the City Solicitor to compel the Frankford and
Southwark Passenger Railway Company to file a statement
of the cost of their Road.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the City Solicitor be requested to take
legal measures to compel the Frankford and Southwark Pas-
senger Railway Company to file their statement in detail of
the cost of the road, in compliance with the eighth section
of an Ordinance entitled " An Ordinance to regulate Passen-
ger Railways. "
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 16, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 228.
RESOLUTION
To lay water-pipes on Twenty first and other streets.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Engineer of the Water
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Works be authorized and directed to cause water-pipes to be
laid in the following streets, viz :
Twenty-first street, from South to Shippen, First Ward ;
Amber street, from Cumberland to Frankford road, Nine-
teenth Ward ;
Fourth street, from Diamond to Dauphin, Nineteenth
Ward ;
Cambridge street, from Twentieth to Twenty-first, Twen-
tieth Ward ;
Letterly street, between Amber and Earl, Nineteenth
Ward;
Scott street, between Poplar and Girard avenue, Twentieth
and Fifteenth Wards ;
Cabot street, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth, Twentieth
Ward ;
Brown street, from Twenty-fourth to Minor, Fifteenth
Ward;
Brown street, from Twenty-third to Twenty-fourth, Fifteenth
Ward ;
Fennimore street, from Sixteenth to Seventeenth, Fif-
teenth Ward.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 16, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 229.
RESOLUTION
Explanatory of a Resolution therein named.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the resolution approved September 14,
1858, viz:—
'* That the Chief Engineer is hereby authorized to draw on
item No. 35 of an appropriation made to that Department,
approved January 25, 1858, to an amount not exceeding fif-
teen hundred dollars, to pay for labor and materials contract-
ed for the month of August, and which may be contracted for
in September, October and November," — shall be taken and
understood to mean that he shall be authorized to draw on
said item for the sum of fifteen hundred dollars for each of
the months named in said resolution.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council,
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 16, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila
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CHAPTER 230.
RESOLUTION
Authorizing the transfer of certain items of appropriation of
the Gtrard Trust.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the City Controller be, and he is
hereby authorized to transfer the sum of sixteen hundred
dollars from item No. 11, for "miscellaneous expenses," sev-
erally as follows : — To item No. 4, "lands out of the county,"
eight hundred dollars; to item No. 7, for 'inside painting,"
five hundred dollars, and to item No. 9, for " paper and hang-
ing," three hundred dollars ; also, to transfer the sum of five
hundred dollars from item No. 5, for " permanent improve-
ments," to item No. 8, for " outside painting," as contained in
an Ordinance entitled, " An Ordinance to make an appropria-
tion out of the income of the Girard Estates, for the purposes
therein mentioned, for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-
eight," approved December 22nd, 1857.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leiseneing,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 16, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 231.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation to the Department of the City
Controller.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of two thousand and
sixteen dollars and sixty-seven cents be, and the same is here-
by appropriated to tho Department of the City Controller, for
the following purposes, to wit : —
1. For books and stationery, one hundred and 'fifty dollars.
2. For the salaries of four clerks employed in the examina-
tion of the books of the late Receivers of Taxes, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents.
Section 2. That warrants for the said appropriation shall
be drawn in conformity with existing Ordinances.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — J. Barclay Haeding,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 16, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 232.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation for the 'payment of claims for building
the Police Station House of the Eleventh District.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of eight thousand
nine hundred and sixteen dollars and ninety cents, is hereby
appropriated to the Department of City Property, to pay
claims against the City arising out of the construction of the
Eleventh District Police Station House, in the Nineteenth
Ward, in accordance with the report of the Committee on
City Property, September 9, 1858, to be found in appendix of
Select Council, No. 132.
Section 2. Warrants for said appropriation shall be drawn
in conformity with existing Ordinances.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common CounciL
Attest — J. Barclay Harding,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council,
Approved October 16, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila,
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CHAPTER 233.
A SUPPLEMENT TO "AN ORDINANCE
Organizing the Department for svpplying the City with Water,^^
approved October 3d, 1854.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the Chief Engineer of the
Water Department, under the supervision of the Committee
on Water Works, is hereby authorized, and required to re-
assess all properties subject to water rates in the City of Phila-
delphia, and cause to be made the necessary duplicates for
the use of the Register of Water Rents ; and for this purpose,
he is, subject to the supervision aforesaid, authorized and em-
powered to employ such agent or agents as may be necessary to
complete said re-assessment on or before the first day of De-
cember, A. D. 1858: and the said agents are authorized and
required to enter all property where the water-pipes are laid,
to examine the same, and make a full and accurate descrip-
tion of all hydrants, boilers, baths, water-closets, sinks, wash
paves, and other appliances for the use of water, of whatever
kind or character thereon, giving the numl3er of each house,
store, shop and factory, with the purposes for which it may
be used, and the name of the street, lane, alley or court, where
located ; and also to note each dwelling house or other build-
ing where the water is not introduced, as well the name of
the owner or owners thereof, in a book or books, which shall be
provided for that purpose, and return said books to the office
of the Water Department as fast as the same may be completed.
And it shall be the duty of the Engineer aforesaid to cause
to be made out such duplicates as will enable the department
to assess against each house, houses or other buildings so re-
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assessed, a rate of water rent in conformity witli the rules,
regulations and charges now fixed by the Water Department ;
provided, that the whole cost of re-assessing and making the
duplicates provided for in this Ordinance, shall net exceed
the sum of three thousand dollars.
Section 2. That hereafter there shall be levied a tax to
defray the expenses of the Water Department, to be styled
a Water Tax, against each and every dwelling house situate
on any street, lane, alley, court, or other place, where the water-
pipe is laid ; and as fast as it may be laid along the line of
any such property as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the Chief
Engineer to assess a rate of tax of such amount against every
dwelling house as is now charged where the water is intro-
duced. And the Register of Water Rents is hereby author-
ized and directed to collect the same at the time water rents
are collected by law ; and in the event of any owner or owners
of such property neglecting or refusing to pay the same on or
before the thirtieth day of September in each year hereafter,
the same shall be registered against his or their property, and
be collected as other registered taxes are now collected by
law; provided, that the owners of such properties cannot show
that the said property obtains water from other sources than
the Water Department of the City of Philadelphia.
Section 3. That hereafter no permit shall be issued for
the construction of wash paves, except such permit shall con-
tain a provision that the same shall be constructed so that the
water may be checked from the street, and any person who
shall construct or cause to be constructed a wash pave without
having a stop cock that may be used from the street, shall
be liable to a penalty of Twenty dollars for such and every
such ofi'ence, to be recovered as sums of like amount are now
by law recoverable.
Section 4. That the sum of three thousand dollars is here-
by appropriated to execute the duties enjoined upon the Chief
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Engineer of the Water Department by the first section of this
Ordinance.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Conmion Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 16, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 234.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation for repairs to Station Houses.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of two thousand
six hundred and forty-eight dollars be, and the same is here-
by appropriated for repairs to Station Houses, as follows, viz :
to Second District Station House, the sum of five dollars ;
to Third District Station House, one hundred dollars; to
Fourth District Station House, twenty-five dollars ; to Fifth
District Station House, ten hundred and forty-three dollars ;
to Sixth District Station House, one hundred dollars; to
Seventh District Station House, three hundred dollars ; to
Eighth District Station House, one hundj'ed dollars ; to Tenth
District Station House, one hundred and fifty dollars; to
Eleventh District Station House, two hundred dollars; to
Twelfth District Station House, one hundred dollars ; to Thir-
teenth District Station House, one hundred and twenty-five
dollars; to Fourteenth District Station House, one hundred
dollars ; to Fifteenth District Station House, one hundred
dollars ; for cleansing Station Houses, two hundred dollars.
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Section 2. Warrants for the payment of said appropriation
shall be drawn by the Mayor, in conformity with existing
Ordinances.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council,
Attest — J. Baeclay Haeding,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 16, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 235.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation to the Board of Controllers of Public
SchoolSy for the repair of certain School Houses and for other
purposes.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain. That the sum of four thousand five
hundred and thirty-three dollars and forty cents be, and the
same is hereby appropriated to the Board of Controllers of
Public Schools of the First School District of Pennsylvania,
for the following purposes, to wit :
1. For finishing and furnishing the second story and fenc-
ing at the Roxborough School, Twenty-first Section, one thous-
and dollars.
2. For repairs to the foundation of the iron railing and
paving the yard at Glenwood School House, Twenty-first Sec-
tion, five hundred and fifty dollars.
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3. For the payment of expenses of laying water-pipe in
fi'ont of the School House property, corner of Eighth and
Thompson streets, in the Twentieth Section, fifty-six dollars
and seventy-five cents.
4. For cleansing cess-pools, in the Fourteenth Section, two
hundred and six dollars and sixty-five cents.
5. For paving of highways and water-pipBS in the several
Sections, four hundred and twenty-dollars.
6. For general repairs to heaters, &c., in the several Sec-
tions, two thousand dollars.
7. For an iron railing to the Francisville School House, in
the Fifteenth School Section, three hundred dollars.
Section 2. That the sum of three hundred dollars of the
appropriation made to the Board of Controllers of Public
Schools by the Ordinance approved February 10, 1858, for
the support of Night Schools in the Twenty-fourth Section, be
and the same is hereby transferred to item " repairs and addi-
tions," in the same Section, and the further sum of one hun-
dred and ninety-five dollars and twenty-seven cents, be and
the same is hereby transferred from item " Night Schools," in
the Twenty-fourth Section, to item " furniture," in the same
Section.
Section 3. That warrants for the above appropriations
shall be drawn in conformity with existing Ordinances.
CHAS. B. TKEGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 16, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 236.
RESOLUTION
To authorize the City Solicitor to enter satisfaction on a certain
Bond and Judgment.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the City Solicitor be authorized and
directed to enter satisfaction on the bond of Henry Bickley j
provided, the Chief Commissioner of Highways shall certify
that his accounts are correct with the Highway Department.
And also upon a judgment against Samuel P. Fearon and
others, in the Supreme Court, January Term, 1857, No. 64,
said judgment being entered upon bond given by said Fearon
to the City of Philadelphia, for the performance of the duties
of Chief Engineer of tho Fire Department.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — J. Barclay Harding,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 21, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Ma]/or of Phila.
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CHAPTER 237.
AIS^ ORDINANCE
To widen the footways on Moyamensing Avenue, from Greenwich
to Mifflin Streets.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the widths of the foot- way on
the line of Moyamensing avenue, between Greenwich street and
Mifflin street, shall be twenty-five feet, any existing regula-
tion or ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding ; the in-
creased width to be taken from width of carriage way as
heretofore adopted, and that the same be duly recorded on
the plans on file in the Department of Surveys.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common CounciL
Attest — X Barclay Harding,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 22, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 238.
AN ORDINANCE
To authorize the Superintendent of the Girard Estates to widen
Delaware Avenue.
Whereas, By an Ordinance of the City of Philadelphia,
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entitled " An Ordinance to fix the lines on the Delaware
River, between Frankford Creek, on the north, and the Point
House wharf, on the south, beyond which no wharf nor pier
shall be constructed," passed the 4th day of December, A. D.
1856, it is provided that no permit should be thereafter
granted by the Board of Port Wardens to extend any wharf
between South and Vine streets, until the owner or owners
thereof should convey to the City of Philadelphia so much of
his or tlieir property east of Delaware avenue, as might be
required to make said avenue Mtj feet in width from the estab-
lished line of buildings on the western line thereof.
And Whereas, under said Ordinance the Board of Port
Wardens on the fourth day of August, A. D. 1857, did issue a
license to S. Morris Wain and Henry Cope, permitting them
to extend a wharf according to a certain plan, provided they
should comply with the terms of said Ordinance as aforesaid ;
and whereas, the said S. Morris Wain and Henry Cope have
conveyed to the City of Philadelphia so much of their said
property east of Delaware avenue as is required to make said
avenue fifty feet in width from the established line of build-
on the western line thereof; now therefore,
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the Superintendent of the
Girard Estates be, and he is hereby authorized and directed
to advertise for proposals, and to make contracts with the
lowest bidder, who shall give the requisite security, for the
construction of such bulkheads across the docks now heading
on property belonging to Messrs. Henry Cope and S. Morris
Wain, fronting three hundred and two feet northward from
Walnut street, and also across the dock that now heads on
Walnut street, belonging to the City of Philadelphia, as may
be requisite and necessary, and in accordance with plans fur-
nished by the Department of Surveys for the proper widening
of Delaware avenue to fifty feet, as prescribed by law, and
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also for the filling in and paving with cubical blocks of the
increased width, to conform with that laid and now in use on
said aveuuG ; and also for the extension of the culvert that now
empties into the dock at the foot of Walnut street, accord-
ing to plans to be furnished by the Department of Surveys.
Section 2. That the sum of ten thousand dollars, out of
the income appropriated under the 22nd item of the Will of
Stephen Girard, for the improvement of the eastern part of
the City and Delaware avenue, be, and the same is hereby
appropriated to carry into effect this Ordinance.
Section 3. Warrants for the payment of the said appro-
priation shall be drawn by the Superintendent of the Girard
Estate ; but no warrant shall be drawn unless the Superinten-
dent of the Girard Estates certify that the bill for payment
of whicli such warrant is to issue is correct.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 22, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phi la.
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CHAPTER 239.
RESOLUTION
Transfening certain items of appropriation to the Board of Health.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the City Controller be, and is hereby
authorized to transfer the following items appropriated for
the expense of the Board of Health for 1858, to item for
" Good- Will, Rent, and Repairs of Hospital Building."
From removal of nuisances, $1500
" carriage hire and omnibus tickets for Burial
Committee, 50
" Committee on bills of mortality, - - - 100
" board of patients, ------ 200
" coffins, and digging of graves, - - - - 100
" coal, wood, and porterage, .... 100
" incidental repairs, and small miscellaneous
repairs and expenses, 150
" carriage hire and omnibus tickets for Sanitary
Committee, 100
" extraordinary expenses of same in cases of
epidemic, - 100
" for soap, starch, fluid, oil, indigo, matches,
brushes, &c., 100
" medicines, leeching, lime, &c., - - - 100
" brandy, wine, porter, and ale, - - - - 50
" clothing. Bedding, straw, brushes, soap, Hos-
pital furniture and incidentals, - - - 300
" general repairs at Lazaretto Station, - - 600
Making a total of $3550
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Provided, that the Board of Health, in connection with
the Committee on Health, shall select a suitable building for
the accommodation of the small-pox patients, outside of the
paved limits of the Citj.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 23, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 240.
AN ORDINANCE
To fix certain revised line and grade regulations.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the lines, ascents, and de-
scents, as noted upon the following plans, prepared by direc-
tion of Councils and approved by the Board of Surveyors,
shall be, and the same are hereby fixed and established ac-
cording to plans now on file in the Department of Surveys,
dated March 11th, 1858, which are a part of this Ordinance,
any existing Ordinance or Resolution to the contrary notwith-
standing.
No. 146. — Revised grade for Green street, from School
street to Rittenhouse street, in the Twenty-second Ward.
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No. 13. — Revised grade for "Wallace, Washington, and
Twentieth streets, in the Fifteenth Ward.
No. 13. — Revised grade for Landing Avenue, Fifteenth
Ward.
No. 103. — Revised grade to suit the bridge constructed
over Gunner's Run Canal, in the Nineteenth Ward.
No. 134, 140. — Revised grade for Second and Third Dis-
tricts of Frankford, in the Twentj-third Ward.
No. 122. — Revised grade on Girard Avenue, from Twen-
tj-ninth street, to the river Schuylkill, in the Twentieth
Ward.
No. 13. — Revised grade for lines locating Powelton Ave-
nue, in the Fifteenth and Twenty-fourth Wards.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common CounciL
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 26, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 241.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an additional appropriation to the Board of Guardians of
the Poor, for the expenses of that Department, for the balance of
the year eighteen hundred and fifty-eight.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of fortj-six thous-
and six hundred and fifty-five dollars be, and the same is
hereby appropriated to the Board of Guardians of the Poor —
the said appropriations being necessary for expenses for the
present year, since July 5, 1858.
Section 2. The appropriations named in the first section,
to be for the following purposes, namely —
1. For flour and corn meal, fire thousand six hundred dol-
lars.
2. For beef and mutton, bacon and pork, nine thousand
five hundred dollars.
3. For codfish, three hundred and fifty dollars.
4. For tea and coffee, two thousand three hundred dollars.
5. For brown sugar, one thousand five hundred dollars.
6. For rice, two hundred dollars.
7. For butter and lard, one thousand two hundred dollars.
8. For crackers, three hundred dollars.
9. For pepper, hops, and malt, ninety dollars.
10. For molasses, eight hundred dollars.
12. For potatoes and beans, one thousand five hundred
dollars.
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13. For salt, one hundred dollars.
14. For eggs, one hundred and fifty dollars.
17. For shirting, sheeting, and flannels, one thousand two
hundred dollars.
18. For calicoes, ticking, diaper, and crash, two hundred
dollars.
22. For yarn, thread, and cotton, four hundred and fifty
dollars.
25. For marketing and provisions for sick and nurses, in
Hospital and Lunatic Asylum, six hundred and fifty dollars.
26. For di-ugs and medicines, one thousand seven hundred
dollars.
27. For white and brown sugar, one hundred dollars.
28. For butter and lard, seventy-five dollars.
29. For brandy for the use of th^e sick, one hundred and
fifty dollars.
31. For wine for the use of the sick, two hundred dollars.
32. For whiskey for the use of the sick, three hundred dol-
lars.
33. For porter for the use of the sick, four hundred and
fifty dollars.
34. For surgical instruments, one hundred dollars.
35. For leeches, seventy-five dollars.
36. For incidental expenses of Hospital and Lunatic Asy-
lum, one hundred dollars.
For the expenses of the Children's Asylum, as follows: —
40. For muslin, ticking, satinets, flannels, drillings, and
dress goods, for boys' and girls' wear, three hundred and fifty
dollars.
43. For school books, fifty dollars.
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For the expenses of the Manufacturing Department, as follows ;—
45. For leather, one thousand five hundred dollars.
46. For tallow and caustic alkali, five hundred dollars.
48. For tin, glass, paints, varnish, oil, glue, and brushes,
three hundred dollars.
50. For shoe findings, one hundred dollars.
51. For chain and filling, two thousand dollars.
52. For incidentals, one hundred dollars.
For the expenses of the Farm, BlocMey Estate, and the House gener-
ally, as follows : —
53. For repairs to stoves, ranges, and other cooking appa-
ratus, eight hundred dollars.
57. For furniture, three hundred dollars.
58. For hardware and crockery ware, three hundred dollars.
59. For lumber, five hundred dollars.
60. For straw, four hundred dollars.
61. For tobacco, one hundred and fifty dollars.
62. For yarn, two hundred dollars.
63. For soap, candles, lime, and starch, three hundred and
fifty dollars.
64. For oil, one hundred dollars.
66. For feed for horses, for use of Almshouse, one hundred
and fifty dollars.
70. For blacksmith work, two hundred dollars.
For incidentals, one hundred dollars.
For salaries, as follows :
94. For wages on pay roll, chargeable to manufactory, two
hundred and -fifty dollars.
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97. For wool for Almshouse, five hundred dollars.
100. For Stationery, printing, and advertising, five hundred
dollars. ■
104. For cupping and leeching, three hundred dollars.
105. For the burial of small-pox and other cases, one hun-
dred and fifty dollars.
108. For the removal of non-resident paupers, two hundred
and fifty dollars.
For the relief of the out-door Poor of the City, as follows : —
110. For the first poor district, for other purposes than
fuel, one hundred and fifty dollars.
111. For the second poor district, for fuel, two hundred
dollars.
115. For the fourth poor district, for fuel, three hundred
and fifty dollars.
116. For the fourth poor district, for otlier purposes, three
hundred and fifty dollars.
117. For the fifth poor district, for fuel, two hundred and
fifty dollars.
118. For the fifth poor district, for other purposes, two
hundred and fifty dollars.
122. For the seventh poor district, for other purposes, one
hundred and fifty dollare.
124. For the eighth poor district, for other purposes, one
hundred and fifty dollars.
125. For the ninth poor district, for fuel, seventy-five dol-
lars.
126. For the ninth poor district, for other purposes, one
hundred and fifty dollars.
128. For the tenth poor district, for fuel, seventy-five dol-
lars.
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129. For the tenth poor district, for other purposes, one
hundred and seventy-five dollars.
130. For the eleventh poor district, for fuel, fifty dollars.
131. For the eleventh poor district, for other purposes,
fifty dollars.
132. For two thousand feet new gutta percha fire hose, one
thousand three hundred dollars.
133. For lasts, for manufactory, one hundred dollars.
134. For consumption of gas, two thousand dollare. For
the employment of nine additional keepers of the Insane in
the Lunatic Asylum, four hundred dollars.
135. For materials and fixtures for the employment of the
insane, six hundred dollars.
136. For ground rent of city office, (six months,) ninety
dollars.
Provided, that no part of item two shall be drawn upon
for the supply of beef or mutton, under alleged existing con-
tracts, until those contracts have been thoroughly investigated
by a joint select committee of Councils, and the committee
shall report that the contracts were entered into in due form,
and are, in every respect just ; and provided further, that
nothing in this proviso shall prevent the payment of such bills
for beef and mutton contracted for previous to October 31,
1858.
Section 3. That the proviso in items Xos. 41, 20, and 65 —
to wit : " provided that the same shall be purchased of the
Board of Managers of the House of Refuge," of an ordinance
making an appropriation to the Board of Guardians of the
Poor, approved January 27, 1858 — be, and the same is here-
by repealed.
Section 4. That all articles enumerated in the second sec.
tion of this ordinance shall be purchased at the wholesale
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cash prices of said articles ; and that the Controller shall not
approve any bills in which the price of articles are higher than
the aforesaid wholesale cash prices.
Section 5. That warrants for said appropriations shall be
drawn in conformity with existing Ordinances.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council*
Attest — J. Baeclay Harding,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 27, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 242.
RESOLUTION
To transfer certain items of appropriation to the Department for
supplying the City with Water.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That one thousand dollars from item No. 37,
one thousand dollars from item No. 35, and four hundred dol-
lars from item No. 41, be, and the same are hereby trans-
ferred to item No. 34 of the appropriation made to the De-
partment for supplying the City with water, approved Janu-
ary 28, 1858.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 29, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, May&r of Phila.
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CHAPTER 243.
RESOLUTION
To change the places of holding elections in the Fourth Division of
the Fifth Ward and the Fkird Division of the Twenty first
Ward.
Whereas, The Hope Hose Company have refused to allow
their house to be used for holding Elections hereafter; there-
fore,
Resolved, Bj the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the place of holding the Elections in
the Fourth Division of the Fifth Ward be removed from the
house of tlie Hope Hose Company, and that the Elections in
said Division shall hereafter be held at the house of Frederick
Goodhoff, at the north-west corner of Front and Union
streets; and that the place of holding the Elections of the
Third Division of the Twenty-first Ward shall hereafter be
at the Fountain Hotel, in said Division.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 29, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 244.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation to the Board of Health.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the Citrof
Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of three hundred and
twelve dollars and twenty-five cents be, and the same is here-
by appropriated to the Board of Health, to pay a claim of
Lane Schofield, for filling up certain lots on Stiles and Cabot
streets, west of Sixteenth.
Section 2. That the warrant shall be drawn by the Board
of Health, in conformity with existing Ordinances.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
^ President of Select Council.
Approved October 2^^, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila,
CHAPTER 245.
RESOLUTION
To pay certain bills therein named.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Engineer of the Water
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Works be, and is hereby authorized to draw warrants in favor
of the following persons : — From item No. 27, J. Sidney Keen
& Brother, two hundred and fifty-three dollars and seventy-
four cents, for lumber; item No. 29, I. P. Morris & Co., for
repairs, four hundred and twenty dollars and eighty cents •
item No. 33, J. T. Rich, cast iron nuts, fifty dollars; item
No. 33, George Woelpper, lumber, fourteen dollars and sixty-
nine cents ; item No- 33, Daniel Thackara, wood, eleven dol-
lars and seventy-five cents ; item No. 33, Hoopes & Townsend,
bolts, &c., one hundred and eighteen dollars and sixty cents ;
item No. 33, Tyler & Smith, for leather, fifty-six dollars
seventy-five cents ; item No. 33, Billington & Emery, felting,
ten dollars ; item No. 33, R. Scott, repairing cart, two dollars
and six cents ; item No. 33, Field & Hardie, hardware, sixty-
one dollars and thirty-eight cents ; item No. 33, William F.
Potts, iron, sixty-two dollars and twenty-four cents ; item No.
33, John Franklin, stamps, eight dollars; item No. 31, AVil-
liam Smith, repairs, Twenty-fourth Ward Works, three hun-
dred dollars and eighty -three cents — total, thirteen hundred
and seventy dollars and eighty-four cents.
CHAS. B. TRECxO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring.,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved October 29, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 246.
RESOLUTION
Authorizing the Chief Engineer of the Water Works to place
Fire Plugs.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Engineer of the Water
Department be authorized and directed to place a plug or
plugs in the grounds of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the
Insane ; provided, the Managers pay all expenses incurred in
making the attachments, and that the Chief Engineer of the
Water Works be also directed to cause water-pipes to be laid
in Twenty-second street, from Spring Garden to Callowhill
streets, in the Fifteenth Ward.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved November 1, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 247.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation for repairs to the Permanant Bridge.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of five thousand
dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to the De-
partmeut of Highways, &c., for the repairs to flooring and
City Railroad track on the northern section of the bridge over
the river Schuylkill at Market street.
Section 2. That the Chief Commissioner of Highways be,
and he is hereby authorized and required to advertise for pro-
posals for all the old wrought or cast iron rails, frogs, &c.,
that may have been or shall be taken up from the City Rail-
road, as worn out or useless for the purpose intended, and sell
the same to the highest bidder ; the proceeds of said sales to
be deposited with the City Treasurer.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm, F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council,
Approved November 1, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 248.
RESOLUTION
To open Fourth street, from Oxford to Cadwallader street.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Commissioner of Highways
is hereby directed to give notice to the owners of property,
through, and over which, Fourth street, from Oxford to Cad-
wallader streets, will pass, that at the expiration of three
months from the time of service of said notice, the street will
be opened for public use, as authorized by the seventh section
of the Act of Assembly, approved April 21st, 1855.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved November 1, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 249.
RESOLUTION
To grade certain streets.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Highway Department is hereby
authorized to grade Clinton and Howard streets, from Somer-
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set to Cambria streets, in the Nineteenth Ward, preparatory
to the paving thereof, and to expend therein a sum not ex-
ceeding three hundred dollars; also, to enter into a contract
with a responsible person, to grade Haverford street, from
Thirty-third street to Lancaster avenue, in the Twenty-fourth
Ward, to its proper grade, preparatory to the paving thereof,
at a cost not to exceed six hundred dollars.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved November 1, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 250.
RESOLUTION
To notify the property owners on Franklin street to pave the
footways.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the owners of properties on Franklin
street, between Master and Thompson streets, Twentieth
Ward, be notified by the Department of Highways to set the
curb, grade and pave the sidewalks opposite their respective
properties.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved November 1, A. D. 1858.
• ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 251.
RESOLUTION
To authorize notice to be given of the intended opening of certain
streets.
Resolved, Bj the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Commissioner of Highways
be, and he is hereby directed to give notice to the owners of
the ground, through, and over which the following named
streets are laid out in the plan of said City, that at the
expiration of three months from said notice. Councils will
order said streets, within the limits hereafter named, to be
opened for public use, as they are authorized by the Seventh
section of an Act of Assembly, approved April 21st, 1855,
viz : — Brown street, from Corinthian avenue to Twenty-second
street ; Coral street, from the point that it is now opened,
northward to its intersection with the Frankford road ; and
Lehigh avenue, from Kensington avenue, to the Frankford
Road.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest— Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved November 1, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 252.
RESOLUTION
To "proceed with the Survey and Regulations of a portion of the
late Townships of Kingsessing and Blockley.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Department of Surveys be author-
ized, and is hereby directed to proceed with the survey of
line and grade regulations of so much of the late Township of
Kingsessing as lies eastwardly of the Darby Plank Road and
northerly of the Island Road ; and also the unsurveyed por-
tion of the late Township of Blockley as lies south of Market
street.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council,
Attest — J. Baeclay Haeding,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved November 1, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila,
CHAPTER 253.
RESOLUTION
Authorizing advertisement for proposals for the construction of
certain culverts.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, in order that the work of constructing the
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Cohocksink Creek, Vine street, Moore street, and Twenty-
fifth street culvcrte, may be proceeded with as far as practi-
cable the present season, that the Chief Engineer and Sur-
veyor, and Chief Commissioner of Highways be, and they are
hereby directed and required, to forthwith advertise for pro-
posals.
CHAS. B. TEEGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved November 1, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila,
CHAPTER 254.
AN ORDINANCE
Supplementary to an Ordinance, entitled " An Ordinance to author-
ize the sale of a certain lot of ground in the Fifteenth Ward, and
to provide for the erection of a Hospital building with part of the
proceeds thereof ^^ approved March bthj 1856.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That so much of the first section
of the said Ordinance to which this is a supplement, as refers
to the prices and terms and conditions of sale set forth in the
schedule annexed to and made part of said Ordinance ; and
that so much of the second section thereof, as refers to the
covenants and reservations set forth in said schedule, and
thereby required to be inserted in the deeds of conveyance
thereby authorized to be executed and delivered by the
Mayor ; and that the whole of the fourth section thereof, be
and the same are hereby repealed, with the same force and
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effect as if such repeal had been made by the supplemental
Ordinance of November 8th, 1856.
Section 2. That all the sales heretofore made of any of the
lots of ground, described in the said schedule annexed to and
made part of the Ordinance to which this is a supplement, at
the prices obtained for the same at the public sales thereof,
be and the same are hereby ratified, approved and confirmed,
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved November 4, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER EENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 255.
RESOLUTION
Removing the suspension of the Niagara Hose Company.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Engineer be directed to re-
move the suspension of the Niagara Hose Company, so that
they can resume their place in the Fire Department.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council,
Approved November 4, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila
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CHAPTER 256.
AN ORDINANCE
For the suppression of Nuisances.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That if any person or persons shall
hereafter dig or cause to be dug, within the limits of the city
of Philadelphia, any vault or sink for a privy or necessary,
nearer than two feet from his or their neighbor's line, every
such person or persons so offending, and being convicted thereof
before an Alderman, shall pay the sum of twenty dollars, for
the use of the City, to be recovered as other debts of a like
amount are by law recoverable ; and the said vault or sink
shall be filled up at the expense of the owner or owners there-
of, by the Supervisor of the District in which said property is
located.
CHAS. J3. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest— Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved November 4, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 257.
RESOLUTION
Giving authority to the Committee on Trusts and Fire Department
to direct the Chief Engineer to suspend Fire Companies.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That if, in the investigation of alleged viola-
tions of law by one or more Fire Companies, the Committee
on Trusts and Fire Department have reason to believe, from
evidence presented in the progress of such investigations, that
other companies are implicated in like violations of law, then,
and in that case the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department
shall have power, and is hereby instructed, under the direc-
tion of the Committee, to suspend such companies from ser-
vice until a full examination be made by the Committee into
the conduct of said companies.
Resolved, That whenever, by the authority given in the
above resolution, the Chief Engineer suspends any Company
from service, the same shall be reported by him to Councils
at their next stated meeting.
W. P. HACKER,
President pro tern, of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
THEO. CUYLER,
President pro tern, of Select Council.
Approved November 5, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 258.
RESOLUTION
To enter satisfaction upon the bonds of the Supervisors of the
Twentieth Ward.
Eesolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the City Solicitor be directed to enter
satisfaction on the bonds given by Charles Justice and Patrick
McEntee, late Supervisors of the Twentieth Ward, upon their
furnishing a certificate from the Department of Highways,
that the accounts have been settled.
W. P. HACKER,
President pro tern, of Oommon Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
THEO. CUYLER,
President pro tern, of Select Council.
Approved November 5, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 259.
RESOLUTIONS
Fixing the salary of the Superintendent of Fairmount Park, and
for other purposes.
1. Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the salary of the Superintendent of
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Fairmount Park be, and the same is hereby fixed ait the sum
of five hundred dollars per annum, with the privilege of
occupying such house or part of a house, on the premises, as
the Committee on City Property may indicate ; provided, that
it shall be one of the principal duties of the Superintendent
to prevent the sale of malt or spirituous liquors, on any part
of said Park.
2. Resolved, That the Commissioner of City Property be, and
he is hereby authorized and directed, under the advice and
direction of the Committee on City Property, to advertise for
plans for the improvement of Fairmount Park, and to offer
such premiums to competitors as the Committee may direct,
and to approve and finally adopt such plans as the Comniittee
may select.
3. Resolved, That the unexpended balance of the appropria-
tion made in item eleven of the general appropriation bill, for
the year 1858, to the Department of City Property, is hereby
authorized to be ex]3ended by the Commissioner of City Pro-
perty, under the direction of the Committee in payment of
premiums for plans for the improvement of Fairmount Parlj,
of the salary of the Superintendent, and of such other improve-
ments at said Park as the Committee may direct.
W. P. HACKER,
President pro te7n. of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
THEO. CUTLER,
President pro tern, of Select Council.
Approved November 5, A. D. 1858. .
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 260.
RESOLUTION
To pay claims for introducing Gas into the Almshouse, and to
transfer a balance of appropriation to item No. 2.
Resolved, Bj the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the City Controller be, and he is here-
by authorized to countersign warrants to the amount of eight
hundred and sixty-five dollars and sixty-two cents, for the
payment of claims against the Department of Poor, for the in-
troduction of gas into the Almshouse — said warrants to be
drawn upon item 64 of appropriation to said Department for
the year 1858.
Resolved, That the City Controller be, and he is hereby
authorized to transfer the sum of eight hundred and nineteen
dollars and ninety-seven cents, being the balance of item 64
of appropriation made to the Department of Poor, for the in-
troduction of gas into the Almshouse, for the year 1858, to
item No. 2.
W. P. HACKER,
President pro tern, of Common Council,
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
THEO. CUYLER,
President pro tem. of Select Council.
Approved November 5, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 261.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation to the Board of Health, to pay salaries of
Vaccine Physicians, for the year 1858.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of twelve hundred
dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to the Board
of Health to pay the salaries of twenty-four Vaccine Phy-
sicians, for the year 1858.
Section 2. That Warrants for the said appropriation shall
be drawn in conformity with existing Ordinances.
W. P. HACKER,
President pro tern, of Common Council.
Attest — H. Gr. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
THEO. CUTLER,
President pro tern, of Select Council.
Approved November 5, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 262.
RESOLUTION
To lay water-pipes in Hoivard and other streets.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Engineer of the Water
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Works be authorized and directed to cause water-pipes to be
laid in the following streets, viz :
Howard street, from Norris to York, Nineteenth Ward.
Sepviva street, from Vienna street, in the Eighteenth Ward,
to Cumberland street, in the Nineteenth Ward.
Canal street, from Mojamensing avenue to Fifth street,
First Ward.
Moore street, from Shippen lane to Evans street. Third
Ward.
Williamson street, from Mojamensing avenue to Crosby
street, in the First Ward.
Catharine street, from Twentieth to Twenty-first street,
First Ward.
Bedford street, from Twentieth to Twenty-first street.
First Ward.
North side of Girard avenue, from Tenth to Eleventh street.
Twentieth Ward.
W. P. HACKER,
President "pro tern, of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
THEO. CUYLER,
President pro tern, of Select Council.
Approved November 5, A. D. 1558.
ALEXANDER BmiRY , Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 263.
RESOLUTION
To lay Water-Pipes on Front and other streets.
Resolved, Bj the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Engineer of the Water
Works be, and he is hereby authorized to cause water-pipes to
be laid in the following streets, viz :
Front street from York to Cambria, in the Nineteenth
Ward.
Seventh street from Germantown road to Columbia Ave-
nue, in the Twentieth Ward.
W. P. HACKER,
President pro tern, of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leiseneing,
Clerk of Select Council.
THEO. CUYLER,
President pro tem. of Select Council.
Approved November 5, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila,
CHAPTER 264.
AN ORDINANCE
To make a further appropriation to the Directors of Girard College,
for the purpose of completirig the Infirmary Building.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Select and Common Coun-
cils of the City of Philadelphia, That the sum of three thous-
and five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appro-
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priated out of the income of the Girard Estates to the Direc-
tors of Girard College for the purpose of completing th(
Infirmary Building.
W. P. HACKER,
President pro tern, of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leiseneing,
Clerk of Select Council.
THEO. CUYLER,
President pro tem. of Select Council.
Approved November 5, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 265.
RESOLUTION
To transfer a certain item of appropriation made the Depart-
ment for supplying the City with water.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the sum of fifteen hundred dollars be,
and the same is hereby transferred from item No. 19, of the
appropriations made to the Department for supplying the City
with water, approved January 28th, 1858, and September
9th, 1858, to item No. 34 of the same appropriations.
W. P. HACKER,
President pro tem. of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leiseneing,
Clerk of Select Council.
THEO. CUYLER,
President pro tem. of Select Council.
Approved November 5, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 266.
RESOLUTION
Approving the sureties of Charles Oat.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the sureties offered by Charles Oat,
Superintendent of Trusts, to wit: Joseph Oat and Joel
Reeves, be accepted, and that the Solicitor be instructed to
file the requisite bonds.
W. P. HACKER,
President pro tern, of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
THEO. CUYLER,
President pro tem. of Select Council.
Approved November 5, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 267.
RESOLUTION
. , 7b re-pay Frederick Zaissfor ivater-pipe paid for twice.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Engineer of the Water
Works be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to draw
a warrant in favor of Frederick Zaiss, for thirty-one dollars
and ninety-four cents — being amount overpaid for water-pipe
in front of his premises, on the east side of Twenty-first street,
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south of Jeiferson street, in the Twentieth Ward — said water-
pipe having been previously paid for by John Lambert, the
former owner of said premises, on the fourteenth day of Jan-
uary, A. D. 1852.
W. P. HACKER,
President fro tern, of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
THEO. CUYLER,
President pro tern, of Select Council.
Approved November 5, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 268.
RESOLUTIOISr
.Approving the sureties of John Mel.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the sureties ojBered by John Abel,
License Clerk in the Highway Department, to wit : Lewis B.
Taylor and Clarkson B. Davis, be accepted, and that the
Solicitor be instructed to prepare and file the requisite bonds.
W. P. HACKER,
President fro tern, of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
THEO. CUYLER,
President fro tern, of Select Council.
Approved November 5, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila,
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CHAPTER 269.
RESOLUTION
Dissenting from the application of the West Philadelphia Passen-
ger Railway Company for permission to extend their road on
Woodland and other streets in the Twenty fourth Ward.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That in pursnance of the power vested in the
Councils of the City by an Act of Assembly, approved April
8th, 1858, entitled "A Supplement to an Act to Incorporate
the West Philadelphia Passenger Railway Company," ap-
proved the 14th day of May, A. D. 1857, they hereby declare
their disapproval of the plans submitted by the said West
Philadelphia Passenger Railway Company, for the extension
of their road over parts of Woodland, Chestnut and William
streets, to Woodland Cemetery, in the Twenty-fourth Ward.
W. P. HACKER,
President pro tern, of 'Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leiseneing,
Clerk of Select Council.
THEO. CUYLER,
President pro tern, of Select Council.
Approved November 5, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 270.
RESOLUTION
In reference to sealed proposals.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That whenever the Head of any Department
shall advertise for sealed proposals to furnish either labor or
materials, or both for the use of the City, in order to avoid
all suspicion of unfair dealing in awarding the contract, he
shall in his advertisement specify the time when said proposals
shall be opened, and invite all those who may offer proposals
to be present at the opening of the same, which shall be done
in the presence of the Committee having supervision of the
Department.
W. P. HACKER,
President pro tern, of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
THEO. CUYLER,
President pro tem. of Select Council.
Approved November 5, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 271.
RESOLUTION
To authorize a Temporary Loan.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, do ordain, That the City Treasurer, with the
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approbation of the Committee on Finance, be, and he is here-
by authorized to borrow on the credit of the Corporation such
sums of money as may Ix; necessary to meet the current de-
mands on the City Treasury, not exceeding in the aggregate
five hundred thousand dollars, and redeemable at or within
four months from the date of such loans ; for which sums so
borrowed, certificates of City debt shall issue in the form pre-
scribed in existing Ordinances, bearing interest at the rate of
not exceeding six per centum per annum, and which shall be
transferable in the same manner as other certificates of City
debt.
W. P. HACKER,
President pro tem. of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerli of Common Council.
THEO. CUYLER,
President pro tern, of Select Council.
Approved November 6, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila,
CHAPTER 272.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation to pay the expenses of Contested Election
Cases.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain. That the sum of one thousand three
hundred and sixty -one dollars and seventy-nine cents is here-
by appropriated for the purpose of paying expenses incurred
in conducting the contested elections of the Second and Twen-
tieth Wards in Select Council, and the Fifteenth, Twentieth
and Twenty-third Wards in Common Council, as appears from
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the records of the Committees of the respective cases, as fol-
lows: —
In the case of the Second Ward, in Select Conncil, for
clerk and messenger, two hundred dollars ; for fees and mileage
of witnesses, one hundred and fifty-one dollars and sixty-two
cents ; for serving subpoenas and attachments, thirty-seyen
dollars.
In the case of the Twentieth Ward, in Select Council, for
the clerk and messenger, one hundred and seventy-five dollars ;
for witness fees and mileage, one hundred and fifty-seven dol-
lars and seventeen cents; for serving subpoenas and attach-
ments, forty-six dollars and eighty-three cents.
In the case of the Fifteenth Ward, in Common Council,
for clerk, witness fees and mileage, fifty dollars.
In the case of the Twentieth Ward, in Common Council,
for clerk and two messengers, two hundred and fifty dollars;
for witness fees and mileage, one hundred and fifty-seven
dollars and seventeen cents ; for serviug subpoenas and attach-
ments, seventy-nine dollars and fifty cents; for printing and
stationery, seven dollars and fifty cents.
In the case of the Twenty- third Ward, in Common Council,
for clerk, fees of witnesses and mileage, fifty dollars.
Section 2. Warrants for the said appropriation shall be
drawn by the Clerks of Councils in conformity with existing
Ordinances.
W. P. HACKER,
President pro tern, of Common Councils
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
THEO. CUYLER,
President pro tern, of Select Council.
Approved November 6, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 273.
RESOLUTION
Returning thanks for an Old Map of Philadelphia.
Eesolved, By tlie Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Map of Philadelphia as it was one
hundred years ago, this day presented by Messrs. Bonsall and
Smedley, be accepted.
Resolved, That the thanks of the Select and Common
Councils 1)6 returned to Messrs. Bonsall and Smedley for their
handsome present, and that the same be placed in Indepen-
dence Hall.
W. P. HACKER,
President pro iem. of Common CounciL
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
THEO. CUYLER,
President pro tem. of Select CounciL
Approved November 8, A. B. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila,
CHAPTER 274.
RESOLUTION
Directing a change of grade Regulations on Leiper street, in the
Twenty-third Ward. {
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Department of Surveys be, and
is hereby directed to so arrange the grade on Leiper street
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from Pine street to natural depression near Unity street, in
the late borough of Frankfort!, Twenty-third Ward, so that
there shall be a continuous descent on the south-east side of
said Leiper street of, (1 5-10) one and five-tenths per hundred
feet, and on the north-west side of same street (1 21-100) one
and twenty-one one-hundredths feet, any existing ordinance
or regulation to the contrary notwithstanding.
W. F. HACKER,
President pro tern, of Common Council*
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
THEO. CUYLER,
President pro tern, of Select Council.
Approved November 8, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 275.
RESOLUTION
Approving the Sureties of Robert Neat.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the sureties offered by Robert Neal, as ^
Supervisor of the Twentieth Ward, to wit: — William Yeager
and Andrew Brodie, be accepted, and that the Solicitor be
instructed to receive their bond.
W. P. HACKER,
President pro tern, of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
THEO. CUYLER,
President pro tem. of Select Council.
Approved November 8, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 276.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation to pay certain claims against the City
of Philadelphia.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of four thousand three
hundred and seventeen dollars and thirteen cents be, and the
same is hereby appropriated to pay t]ie following claims, to
wit: —
1. To James Morrison, M. D., for services as Vaccine
Physician, for the Twenty-first AYard, in 1856, fifty dollars.
2. To William Maule. for use and occupation of lot of
ground, on Chestnut street, between Twenty-second and Twen-
ty-third streets, from the 28th of November, 1857, to the 13th
of January, 18o8, and for registered taxes against said lot
paid by Mr. Maule, five hundred and thirty-eight dollars.
3. To Thomas W. Price, for books, stationery, &c., fur-
nished the Court of Quarter Sessions, the Court of Common
Pleas, the District Courts, the Supreme Court and the County
Commissioners' Office and the Recorder of Deeds, from August
14, 1856, to February 15th, 1858, two thousand and forty-
three dollars and twenty-four cents.
4. To Altamont J. Phillips, for compiling digest, for the
Board of Health, two hundred dollars.
5. To Crissey & Markley, for binding, lettering, &c., five
hundred copies of Digest, with Rides. Regulations and By-
Laws of the Board of Health, two hundred and fifty-three
dollars.
6. To Frederick W. Binder, for services as Police Magis-
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trate of the Fifteenth Ward, for 1857 and 1858, two hundred
and thirty-two dollars and eighty-nine cents.
Section 2. That warrants for the said appropriations shall
be drawn in conformity with existing Ordinances.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — J. Barclay Harding,
Assistant Clerk of Common Conn oil.
G. M. WHAETON,
President of Select Council.
Approved November 1, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 277.
RESOLUTION
To transfer an item of appropriation.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, that the sum of ten thousand dollars be, and
the same is hereby transferred from item 16, of an appropria-
tion made to the Department of Highways, Bridges, Sewers,
and cleansing the City, made January 18th, 1858, as follows,
viz : seven thousand dollars to item 4, repairing roads and
Tinpaved streets, &c., three thousand dollars to item 9, cleans-
ing and repairing unpaved streets, &c.
W. P. HACKER,
President pro tern, of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
THEO. CUYLER,
President pro tem. of Select Council.
Approved November 5, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 278.
RESOLUTION
Suspending the Hope and Franklin Engine Companies.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Hope and Franklin Engine Com-
panies be suspended for two months from the twenty-third of
September, for running through the streets at false alarms
of fire.
W. P. HACKER,
President 'pro ie?n. of Common CounciL
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
THEO. CUYLER,
President pro tern, of Select CounciL
Approved November 8, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 279.
RESOLUTION
Tramferring certain items of appropriation to tlie Department of
Police.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That so much of the appropriation as was
made to the Depaitmcnt of Police by ordinance appjroved
December 31st, 1857, as shall amount to six hundred dollars,
be transferred to the following accounts, viz :
From item one, " Salary of Mayor, &c.," one hundred dol-
lars, to item nine, " Meals and Medical Attendance."
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From item one, " Salary of Mayor, &c.," one hundred and
fifty dollars, to item sixteen, "Incidental Expenses, Postage
and Porterage."
Prom item two, " Salaries of High Constables, &c.," three
hundred and fifty dollars, to item eighteen, " Acids and Re-
pairs."
W. P. HACKER,
President fro tern, of Common Council,
Attest — Wm. p. Small,
Clerk of Common Council,
THEO. CUYLER,
President pro tern, of Select Council.
Approved November 8, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 280.
RESOLUTION
Relative to the Southivark and Moyamensing Gas Company.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the City Treasurer be appointed to
represent the City at the meeting of the Southwark and Moy-
amensing Gas Company, to be held November 11th; and
that he be instructed to vote in favor of the sale of the pro-
perty of the Southwark and Moyamensing Gas Company, on
the terms of the Ordinance approved May 10th, 1858.
W. P. HACKER,
President pro tern, of Common Council.
Attest — J. Barclay Harding,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
THEO. CUYLER,
President pro tem. of Select Council*
Approved November 9, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 281.
RESOLUTION
Suspending the Franklin Hose.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Franklin Hose Company be sus-
pended for the space of one month fi-om the passage of this
Resolution, they having been found guilty of the charge pre-
ferred against them by the Chief Engineer, for riot and diso-
bedience of orders.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved November 11, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 282.
AN ORDINANCE
Making an appropriation to the Companies composing the Fire
Department.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain, That from Item 6, of an Ordinance
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entitled, " An Ordinance to make an appropriation to the Fire
Department for the year 1858, approved January, 2, 1858,
there shall be appropriated to each of the following named
companies, to wit : —
To the Ajnerica Engine, America Hose, Assistance Engine,
Columbia Engine, Cohocksink Hose, Diligent Hose, Delaware
Engine, Diligent Engine, Fairmount Engine, Fairmount Hose,
Franklin Engine, Franklin Hose, Friendship EnginC; Good
Will Engine, Good Will Hose, Good Intent Engine, Good
Intent Hose, Globe Engine, Hand-in-Hand Engine, Humane
Hose, Hibernia Engine, Hope Engine, Humane Engine, Inde-
pendence Engine, Independence Hose, Kensington Hose, La
Fayette Hose, Marion Hose, Mechanic Engine, Northern
Liberty Engine, Northern Liberty Hose, Neptune Hose,
Niagara Hose, Philadelphia Engine, Pennsylvania Hose, Per-
severance Hose, Phoenix Hose, Reliance Engine, Robert Mor-
ris Hose, Ringgold Hose, Southwark Engine, Schuylkill
Hose, Spring Garden Engine, Shiffler Hose, South Penn Hose,
Southwark Hose, Spring Garden Hose, Taylor Hose, United
States Hose, United States Engine. United Hose, Vigilant
Engine, A^igilant Hose, Washington Engine, Warren Hose,
Washington Hose, Western Hose, Weccacoe Engine, Western
Engine, and William Penn Hose, each the sum of four hun-
dred dollars, being the amount of their appropriations for the
year, ending July, ] 858, (one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-eight.)
To the Decatur Engine, Franklin Engine of Frankford,
Monroe Engine, Washington Engine of Frankford, and West
Philadelphia Engine, each the sum of three hundred dollars,
being the amount of their appropriation for the year, ending-
July, 1858.
To the Columbia Engine of Germantown, Franklin Engine
of Germantown, Fellowship Engine, Good Intent Engine of
Eoxborough, Germantown Hose, Liberty Engine, Manayunk
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Engine, Nicetown Hose, Union Engine, Union Hose, Wash-
ington of Germantown, West Philadelphia Hose, Columbia
Hose, and Tivoli Hose, each the sum of two hundred dollars,
being the amount of their appropriation, due July 1, 185S.
To the Moyamensing Hose Company, the sum of three
hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents, being the
amount of their appropriation for ten months, due July 1, 1858.
To the Mount Airy Engine, one hundred dollars, and to
the Wissahiccon Engine, fifty dollars, and to the Fame Hose,
one hundred and fifty dollars, respectively, being the amount
of their appropriations for the year, ending July 1, 1858.
To the Empire Hook and Ladder Company, the sum of two
hundred and fifty dollars ; to the Protection Hook and Lad-
der, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars ; to the Rescue,
Excelsior, and Mantua Hook and Ladder Companies, each,
the sum of one hundred and seventy-five dollars, being the
amount of their appropriation for the year ending July 1, 1858.
Section 2. Warrants for the said appropriations shall be
drawn by the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, in the
manner and form, and with the regulations prescribed in ex-
isting ordinances ; provided, that the item of appropriation
made to the Moyamensing Hose shall not be paid to said com-
pany if the charges now pending against them are sustained.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved November 11, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 283.
AN ORDINANCE
To provide for the construction of branch Culverts or Drains.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain, That hereafter all applications for
the construction of branch Culverts or Drains not exceeding
three feet in diameter, shall be made to the Department of
Surveys. That every application for the construction of
branch Culverts or Drains as aforesaid, shall be signed by
owners of property fronting upon the proposed line thereof,
and shall contain a statement of the number of feet of front-
age thereon owned by each signer, together with a list of all
the owners of property along the line thereof, and a statement
of the frontage of their several properties thereon; provi-
ded, that it may be lawful for the owner or owners of pro-
perty along the line of any street to construct a Culvert
under the authority here given, and to employ such person or
persons as they may think proper for that purpose ; provided
further, that the work shall be done under the supervision of
the Highway Department, and in conformity with plans to be
furnished by the Chief Engineer and Surveyor, and that such
Culvert when finished shall become the property of the City,
without condition : and provided further, that the Chief Engi-
neer and Surveyor shall make report to Councils of all or any
applications for the construction of Culverts, which have not
been approved by them.
Section 2. Whenever the Chief Engineer and Surveyor
shall certify to the Highway Department that the Board of
Surveyors have authorized the construction of a branch Cul-
vert or Drain, not to exceed three feet in diameter, which
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shall have been approved by the Committee of Surveys and
Regulations, it shall be the duty of the said Highway Depart-
ment to advertise three times, once a week for three succes-
sive weeks in three daily newspapers, inviting proposals for
the construction of such branch Culvert or Drain, in accord-
ance with plans and specifications to be furnished by the De-
partment of Surveys, and the said Highway Department shall
allot such contract to the lowest bidder who will give the
requisite security for the faithful performance of his duties.
Section 3. Upon the commencement of any branch Culvert
or Drain, under the provisions of this Ordinance, it shall be
the duty of the Survej^or and Regulator of the District in which
said proposed Culvert may be, to return to the Department of
Surveys within ten days after notice, a plan exhibiting the
properties fronting on said branch Culvert or Drain, with the
names of the owners thereof, and also, bills in duplicate made
out against each owner, in accordance with the 8th section
of Supplement to act of Consolidation, approved 21st of
April, 1855, in same form as specified in section 1 of " Ordi-
nance to provide for the payment of expenses incurred in
laying pipes for the conveyance of water, &c.," approved 29th
January, 1855, and supplement approved May 10th, 1855,
except that the amount thereof shall be made payable at the
office of the Department of Highways; the said bills shall be
recorded and certified to by the Chief Engineer and Sur-
veyor, and sent to the Chief Commissioner of Highways.
Section 4. It shall be a condition of the contracts awarded
under the provisions of this Ordinance, that the contractor
shall accept assessment bills prepared under the foregoing
section of this Ordinance, and endorsed by the Chief Commis-
sioner of Highways in favor of said contractor, as so much
cash paid by the City on the said contract, and that he shall
collect the same at his own cost, without recourse to the City
in any event, and the better to enable him so to do, he may
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use the name of the City of Philadelphia, and employ all legal
remedies or proceedings whether of lien or otherwise, to which
the City may be competent, the contractor to be responsible
for the faithful observance of the lines and levels which he
shall obtain from the Surveyor and Regulator of the District.
Section 5. Should any of the bills of Culvert assessment
so prepared against the owners of property upon said branch
Culvert or Drain, remain in the possession of the City, after
the contract shall have been completed and paid for, then and
in that case, the Supervisor in whose bounds the branch Cul-
vert or Drain is situate, shall within ten days after such com-
pletion, deliver the said bills to the owner or owners against
whom such bills are made out, or if such owner or owners
cannot be found, shall place or cause the same to be placed
upon the premises with the date of delivery marked thereon,
and if the same shall not be paid within thirty days from the
date of delivery, as aforesaid, the duplicates shall have noted
thereon the date of their delivery, and shall be returned to
the Department of Surveys within five days thereafter, where-
upon the said Department of Surveys shall, within ten days,
have prepared a full description by metes and bounds of each
property wdiose owner or owners have not paid the amount
charged against him or them, and deliver the same with said
bill to the City Solicitor, who shall forthwith file claims for,
and proceed to collect the same as is now practised and al-
lowed by law.
Section 6. Should the amount of the bills of assessment
for the frontage on any branch Culvert or Drain constructed
under this Ordinance be insufficient to meet the requirements
of the contract, it shall be the duty of the Chief Commis-
sioner of Highways to withhold awarding such contract until
authorized by an appropriation from Councils for such purpose.
Section 7. All persons owning property upon the line of
any branch Culvert or Drain, who have paid the Culvert rate
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as assessed under tliis Ordinance, and may make application
for a Culvert connection for private drainage, shall pay a fee
of three dollars for making an opening into said branch Cul-
vert or Drain, in lieu of ten dollars as specified in Ordinance,
*' Providing for the granting of permits to make openings into
the Common Sewers, '^ approved May 3d, 1855, and the sup-
plement thereto, the annual rental shall remain the same as
provided for in said Ordinance, approved May 3d, 1855, pro-
vided, that the fee aforesaid shall only be required in case
the highway shall have been paved.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council,
Attest— Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Cojnmon Council.
G. M. WHAETON,
President of Select Council.
Approved November II, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mmjor of Philcu
CHAPTER 284.
RESOLUTION
Authorizing the Highivuy Department to finish grading bridge
■Street in the Twentyfourth Ward.
Resolved, Ej the Select and Common Councils of the
City of Philadelphia, that the further sum of five hundred
dollars is hereby appropriated out of Item 3, of the appro-
priation to the Department of Highways for the year 1858,
to be paid to the parties to complete the grading on Bridge
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Street, from Thirty-fifth Street to the Wire Bridge, in the
Twenty-fourth Ward.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clei'k of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved November 20, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 285.
RESOLUTION
To transfer certain items of appropriation to the Superintendent
of Trusts.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Conncils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the sum of one hundred dollars be, and
the same is hereby transferred from item two to item one, and
sixty dollars from item three to item four of an appropriation
made to the Superintendent of Trusts, to pay taxes and for a
survey of the Boudinot Lands and expenses.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved November 20, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 286.
AN ORDINANCE
For the construction of a Bridge across the River Schuylkill at
Chesniit Street.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the Chief Engineer and Sur-
veyor, and the Chief Commissioner of Highways are hereby
authorized to enter into contracts with one or more competent
persons, for furnishing all material and performing all work
of excavation, embankment, crib-work, piling, masonry, cast-
iron work, paving, and painting, and such other work as may
be requisite for constructing a cast-iron arched bridge across
the Schuylkill River on the line of Chesnut street, with such
approaches on the line of Chesnut street, between Twenty-
third street and the Schuylkill River on the east side, and
between Bridgewatcr street and the Schuylkill River on the
west side, as may be requisite and necessary to reach the ele-
vation of roadway on bridge, at the same time allowing a pas-
sage-way at Beach street, of not less width than forty feet
in the clear.
Section 2. The bridge to be in length not less than three
hundred and sixty feet between the faces of abutments, with
one pier in the middle of the river, and in width not less than
forty-two feet, with carriage-way of twenty feet between curbs;
and of such elevation at the soffit of each arch as will give a
clear height above high water, not less than that of Market
Street Bridge.
Section 3. That it shall be the duty of the Chief Engineer
and Surveyor to prepare plans in detail, and corresponding
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specifications for said bridge, which shall be approved by the
Board of Surveyors and the Select and Common Councils, and
that the contract or contracts entered into for the construc-
tion thereof shall be in accordance with such plans and
specifications.
Section 4. That before entering into said contract or con-
tracts, the Chief Engineer and Surveyor and Chief Commis-
sioner of Highways shall cause advertisements to be published
in three daily newspapers in the City of Philadelphia, giving
thirty days' notice for seakd proposals for the construction of
said bridge, and that the contract or contracts therefor shall
be awarded by them to the lowest and best bidder, subject to
the approval of the Select and Common Councils.
Section 5. That no proposal for the construction of said
bridge shall be considered by the said Chief Engineer and Sur-
veyor and Chief Commissioner of Highways, unless the same
be accompanied by an engagement in writiiig from two or
more responsible citizens, guaranteeing the faithful execution
of the contract, in case such proposal be accepted.
Section 6. That payments for said work shall be made in
the bonds of the City of Philadelphia, said payments to be
made on or about the first of each month during the progress
of the work, upon an estimate of the relative value of work
done, to be judged of by the Chief Engineer and Surveyor ;
and upon his certificate being presented to the Chief Com-
missioner of Highways, four-fifths of the amount of said esti-
mate shall be paid, provided the amount due shall exceed
five hundred dollars; and when all the woik shall be com-
pleted agreeably to the specifications, and in accordance with
the directions and to the satisfaction and acceptance of the
Chief Engineer and Surveyor, there shall be a final estimate
made, when the balance appearing due under contract shall
be paid, upon a release being given to the City, under seal,
from all claims or demands whatsoever growing out of said
agreement.
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Section 7. That tlie expense of constructing the said
bridge and any land damages arising therefrom, shall be de-
frayed out of a loan to be hereafter created by the City of
Philadelphia, and that no contract shall be entered into nor
work done under this Ordinance until such loan shall be
created, but when, and so soon as, such loan shall have been
duly authorized by law and taken, then and in such case, this
Ordinance shall instantly take effect.
Section 8. That the sureties ofi'ered in accordance with the
fifth section of this Ordinance, shall be subject to the approval
of the Councils of the City of Philadelphia.
W. P. HACKER,
President pro tern, of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
THEO. CUYLER,
President pro tem. of Select Council.
Approved November 20, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 287.
AN ORDINANCE
Jlmendatory of the Sixth and Seventh Sections of " .^n Ordinance
for the Construction of a Bridge across the Schuylkill at Chesnut
Street. "
Whereas, Sections G and 7 of Ordinance, entitled " An
Ordinance for the construction of a Bridge across the Schuyl-
kill at Chesnut street, so reads that the City of Phila-
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delphia, in the payment of estimates therein specified, will
lose all advantages that might accrue from the market value
of the bonds of the City being above par, and also renders
the negociation of the entire loan requisite so soon as any
payments therefrom may be necessary, therefore,
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, that the mode of payment, as spe-
cified in section 6 of Ordinance, of which this is amendatory
shall be so altered and modified as to require that the pay-
ments which are directed to be made, on or about the first of
each month during the progress of the work, shall be made in
warrants on the City Treasurer, payable either in bonds of
the City of Philadelphia, at par, or in cash, to be realized
from the issue of the bonds aforesaid, at the discretion of
the Mayor; and that section 7 of the Ordinance aforesaid
shall be so altered and modified as to require that the loan
therein referred to shall be created for the specific purpose of
building said Bridge, and that the Ordinance relative thereto
shall take effect so soon as such specific loan may be author-
ized by law.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved November 20, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 288.
RESOLUTIONS
To construe an appropriation, and to transfer certain items of ap-
propriations made to the Board of Health.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the City Controller be, and is hereby
authorized to construe the appropriation to the Board of
Health for the expenses of that Department for the year 1858,
aj^proved September 25, 1858, to be a further appropriation
to an appropriation made to the same Department for 1858,
and approved April 29, 1858.
Resolved, That the said City Controller be, and is also
authorized to transfer from item 24, " for carrying infected
vessels back to Quarantine," approved April 29, 1858, the
sum of one hundred and fourteen dollars and fifty-two cents,
to item 5, " for the payment of salaries of bargemen," ap-
proved September 25, 1858, for the purpose of paying the
salary of Robert Barnes, (accidentally omitted in said appro-
priation,) from July 1, to October 15, 1858 ; also, to transfer
from said item 24, the further sum of seventy dollars, to item
28, appropriation September 25, 1858, to pay deficiency for
" outside channel visits."
Resolved, That the said Controller be authorized to trans-
fer the unexpended balance of item 12, of an appropriation
passed February , 1858, " for salary of two nurses," to item
4, appropriation September 25, 1858, for the same purpose.
Resolved, That he be and is also authorized to transfer
the balance of said item 24, of appropriation approved April
29, 1858, to item 20, of appropriation September 25, 1858.
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Resolved, That the Committee on City Property be, and
they are hereby authorized to have the buildings at the
" Lazaretto" insured forthwith.
Resolved, That the said Controller be, and he is hereby au-
thorized to construe a transfer of appropriation to the Board
of Health, for good-will, rent and repairs of Hospital build-
ing, so as to include the expenses of removal from Old City
Hospital to the building now leased by the Board of Health,
at Islington Lane, and fitting up the same, as well as for the
payment of any incidental repairs and small miscellaneous
expenses incurred by said Board of Health at the Old City
Hospital during the year 1858.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved November 20, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 289.
RESOLUTION
To Bepave and Tramway Budd Street, in the Seventh Ward.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the
City of Philadelphia, That the Highway Department is hereby
authorized to repave Budd street, between Thirteenth and
Juniper streets, in the Seventh Ward — said repaving to be
done with tramway stone in the track of the wheels — and if
the cart-way is wider than is necessary for a single track,
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the Commissioner is authorized to reduce the width thereof,
so that an equal quantity be taken from each side.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm, F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved Noyember 20, A. D. 1858,
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 290.
RESOLUTION
Prescribing conditions for petitioners for Water-pipes.
Resolved, Ej the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That it shall be the duty of petitioners to
have "water-pipes laid in any of the streets of the City of
Philadelphia, to accompany each petition with a certificate
from the Department of Surveys, that the street has been
opened according to law, or the soil dedicated to the City,
and they shall state as near as possible the number of feet
wanted, what front they own, and their residence.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council,
Attest— Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Com?non Council.
€t. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved November 20, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 291.
AN ORDINANCE
Supplementary to an Ordinance entitled "An Ordinance to author-
ize the construction of the Cohocksink Creek, Vine street, Moore
street, and Twenty-ffth street Culverts,^'' approved February
27, 1858.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, do ordain, That the location of branch Cul-
verts from Pennsylvania avenue to the intersection of Twen-
ty-fifth and Poplar streets, shall be so changed, as to read,
with a branch Culvert diverging' at the intersection of Penn-
sylvania avenue and Twenty-eighth street, thence on Twen-
ty-eighth street to Brown street, thence on Brown street to
Twenty-seventh street, thence on Twenty-seventh street to
Parrish street, thence as designated in the Ordinance to
which this is a Supplement ; and that so much of the said
Ordinance as is inconsistent herewith be, and the same is
hereby repealed.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved November 20, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 292.
RESOLUTION
To interpret an Ordinance making an appropriation to the Guar-
dians of the Poor, approved October 27, 1858.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the
City of Philadelphia, That the true intent and meaning of
the third section in an Ordinance making an appropriation to
the Guardians of the Poor, approved October 27, 1858, is,
that bills of articles purchased previous to the passage of
said Ordinance, are to be audited by the Controller in the
usual way ; but all bills of articles of merchandize enumerated
in said Ordinance, purchased after its passage, shall be audit-
ed by the Controller in accordance with the said third section.
The Controller to be governed as to wholesale prices by the
" Philadelphia Price Current" at the date of the purchase ; and
the said Controller shall require all bills under the said Or-
dinance to set forth the kind and quality of each article pur-
chased under the oath of the party furnishing the same ; provi-
ded nevertheless, that all articles of merchandize purchased
for out-door relief by the several Visitors of the Poor, shall
be exempt from the provisions of the said third section.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — "Wm- F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved November 20, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 293.
RESOLUTION
To transfer Certain items of Appropriation to the Department for
Supplying the City with Waiter.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That seven hundred dollars from item No.
19, and five hundred dollars from item No. 21, be, and the
same are hereby transferred to item No. 20 of the appro-
priations made to the Department for Supplying the City with
Water, approved January 28th, 1858, and September 9th, 1858.
Also, That three hundred and fifty dollars from item No. 24,
be, and the same is hereby transferred to item No. 37 of the
same appropriations.
Also, That five hundred dollars from item No. 25 ; one
hundred dollars from item No. 36, be, and the same are here-
by transferred to item No. 27 of the sam€ appropriations.
Also, That two hundred and fifty dollais from item No. 22 ;
two hundred dollars Irom item No. 23, and seventy-five dol-
lars from item No. 26, be, and the same are hereby trans-
ferred to item No. 43, of the same appropriations.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leiseneing,
Clerk ef Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved November 20, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER im^RY , Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 294.
RESOLUTION
To authorize transfers of appropriation.
Resolved, Bj the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the City Controller be, and he is here-
by authorized to make the following transfers from the appro-
priations made by the Ordinance entitled, " An Ordinance to
make an appropriation out of the income of the Girard Estates,
for the purposes therein mentioned, for the year 1858," ap-
proved December 22, 1857 :
From item No. 2, taxes, to item No. 6, general repairs, two
thousand dollars.
From item No. 2 to item No. 9, paper and hanging, four
hundred dollars.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of SeUct Council.
Approved November 20, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 295.
RESOLUTION
To pay certain Bills for repairing Coates street Wharf.
Resolved, Bj the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, that the sum of one hundred and fifteen dol-
lars be, and tlie same is hereby appropriated to pay the fol-
lowing bills, to wit ; —
J. & C. Lownsbury for repairing Coates street Wharf, one
hundred dollars.
J. & C. Lownsbury for repaying, &c., at Coates street
Wharf, fifteen dollars.
Warrants for said appropriation shall be drawn by the Com-
missioner of Markets, and charged to Item 2 for repairs of
Wharves and Landings, for that Department for the year 1858.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council,
Approved November 20, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 296.
AN ORDINANCE
To authorize a certain release to be given by the City Solicitor.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the City Solicitor is directed
and hereby authorized to release James K. Kelly from all
liability to the City of Philadelphia, arising from the loss of
the brig Evergreen.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Comm.on Council.
Attest — H. G. Leiseneincx,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved November 22, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 297.
A SUPPLEMENT TO AN ORDINANCE
Entitled " ^n Ordinance to make appropriations to the Department
for supplying the City loith Water, ''^ passed January^lth, 1858.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of fifteen thousand
dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to the De-
partment for supplying the City with water, to wit: — to item
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No. 33, for purchasing of iron pipe, &c., ten thousand dollars,
and to item No. 34, to pay for labor connected with laying pipe,
&c., five thousand dollars; the same to be charged to ex-
penses of said Department for the year 1858.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved November 23, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 298.
RESOLUTION
Releasing the sureties of William Engard.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the sureties of William Engard, late
Supervisor of the First Precinct of the Twenty-third Ward, be
released ; provided, that the City Solicitor be satisfied that
his accounts are correct.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council,
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved November 25, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 299.
RESOLUTION
Releasing the sureties of Eugene Ahem.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the City Solicitor be instructed to enter
satisfaction on the bonds of the sureties of Eugene Ahern, late
Commissioner of City Property.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common CounciL
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select CounciL
Approved November 27, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Maijor of Phila.
CHAPTER 300.
AN ORDINANCE
Providing for the removal of the materials contained in the Mar-
ket Houses in 3Iarket Street, and also prohibiting the occupying
of the side walk of said street by stands for the sale of Meats,
Vegetables and Farm Products, and also prohibiting the stand-
ing of Market Wagons in said street.
Section 1. Tlie Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the Commissioner of Market
Houses be, and is hereby required to cause the market build-
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ings on Market street to be taken down, and tlie materials of
all kinds contained in said buildings and belonging to the city
to 1)6 placed in some of the city lots, subject to the further
action of Councils: provided, the same shall not be removed
before the 15th day of April, A. D. 1859.
Section 2. That from and after the first day of March
next, 1859, it shall not be lawful for any wagon or other
vehicle to stand in Market street, Broad street, or any other
street adjacent to Market street, for the purpose of vending-
meats, vegetables or farm products, of any description whatso-
ever ; nor shall it be lawful to occupy the side-walk or curb in
said streets with stands, or arrangements or devices of any kind,
for the purpose of dealing in or vending such commodities ;
and for any violation of the provisions of this section there
shall be imposed a penalty of fifty dollars, recoverable in like
manner as penalties are usually recovered for violations of
city ordinances, the one-lialf of which penalty shall be paid
to the informer and prosecutor, and the other half into the
City Treasury.
Section 3. That it shall not be lawful from and after the
first day of March next, for any person to vend meats from
wagons, or other vehicles, passing through the streets of the
city lying south of Diamond street and north of Reed street,
(South wark,) nor in that portion of the Twenty-fourth Ward
which lies east of Till street, under the like penalties with
those prescribed in the second section of this Ordinance.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenking,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 1, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Maijor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 301.
RESOLUTIONS
To authorize the paving of certain streets, grading at Girard Ave-
nue, Twenty-fourth JVard, and the erecting of a Bridge over
Crcesham Creek.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Conncils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the owners of property, or a majority
thereof, fronting on Hare (late Pratt) street, from Twenty-
second to Twenty-fonrth streets, in the Fifteenth "Ward, are
hereby authorized to pave the same. The contractor for said
paving shall be a competent })aver, to be a])proved by the
Highway Department, who shall enter into an obligation to
keep the street paved and in good repair for the space of two
years from the time it is finished and completed ; said paving
to be carefully supervised by the proper officer of the depart-
ment while the same is progressing, and the water-pipe to be
laid in said street before the paving is begun.
Resolved, That the Highway Department, is hereby au-
thorized to repave and tramway Wheat street, from Marion
Avenue to Wharton street, in the Second Ward ; and Exeter
(late Chatham street,) from Sixteenth to Seventeenth streets,
in the Eighth Ward.
Resolved, That the Highway Department is hereby au-
thorized to do the grading around the wing wall at Girard
Avenue Bridge, in the Twenty-fourth Ward, and to expend
therein a sum not exceeding twelve hundred dollars, out of
the appropriation of five thousand dollars, made for the
grading of Girard avenue in the Twenty-fourth Ward.
Resolved, That the Highway Department is hereby au-
thorized to enter into a contract with a responsible person,
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for tlie erection of a culvert bridge, over Creesham Creek, at
Hill's mills, in the Twenty-second Ward ; said bridge to be in
accordance with a plan furnished by the District Surveyor,
and to be built with stone ; the arch to be twelve feet in
width by forty feet in length ; the contractor to build the
wing walls, and do all the necessary grading, &c., for the
sum of four hundred and fifty dollars, — the same to be paid
when the contractor produces a certificate from the said Dis-
trict Surveyor, that the bridge is completed and the road in
good travelling condition, out of item 7, for repairs to bridges,
of appropriation made to the Department of Highways,
Bridges, Sewers, and cleansing the City.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — J. Baeclay Harding,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 3, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila,
CHAPTER 302.
RESOLUTION
Releasing the sureties of Edward Ellis and Emanuel Street.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the City Solicitor be, and he is hereby
instructed to release the bonds of Edward Ellis, late messen-
ger in the Department of Highways, and of Emanuel Street,
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late Commissioner of Highways, when he is satisfied that
their accounts are correct.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 4, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila,
CHAPTER 303.
RESOLUTION
Authorizing the Mayor to sell certain articles.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Mayor be authorized to have all
the articles received and detained in his office, as evidence of
crime, and deposited prior to the first day of January, 1858,
disposed of at public sale, and that the sum realised there-
from be paid into the City Treasury.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council,
Attest— Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 4, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 304.
AN ORDINANCE
Making an appropriation to George Loivher and to the widow of
the late Thomas H. Snyder.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of on« thousand dol-
lars be, and the same is hereby appropriated as follows, viz : —
Item 1. To George Lowber, the sum of five hundred dol-
lars.
Item 2. To the widow of the late Thomas H. Snyder, the
sum of five hundred dollars, said sum to be paid to her in
such amounts and at such times, or to be entirely invested for
her benefit as the Mayor may deem most advisable.
Section 2. Warrants for the above appropriation shall be
drawn by the Mayor, in conformity with existing Ordinances.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest— Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WPIARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 4, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Pkila.
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CHAPTER 305.
RESOLUTION
Transferring certain items of appropriation to the Police Depart-
tnent.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That so much of the appropriation as was
made to the Department of Police, by Ordinance approved
December 31, 1857, as shall amount to four hundred and fifty
dollars, be transferred to the following- accounts : — From item
4, " Salaries of Policemen," one hundred and fifty dollars, to
item 9, "Meals and Medical Attendance;" from item 4,
" Salaries of Policemen," one hundred and fifty dollars, to
item 16, "Incidental Expenses;" from item 4, " Salaries of
Policemen," one hundred and fifty dollars, to special item 11,
" Repairs to Thirteenth District Station House."
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 4, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 306.
A SUPPLEMENT TO AN ORDINANCE
To authorize the construction of a culvert or drain on the line of
Twentieth street, northwardly from Arch street.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That should the owners on the
line of Twentieth street, as specified in the ordinance to
which this is a supplement, fail to commence a construction
of said culvert or drain, so authorized, within twenty days
after the passage of this supplement, then and in that case
the Chief Commissioner of Highways is hereby authorized
and directed to construct the same from a point about one
hundred feet north of Race street as prescribed, and charge
the cost thereof to the owners of property adjacent, as au-
thorized by act of Assembly ; provided, the " Pennsylvania
Institution for the Instruction of the Blind" will agree to pay
five hundred dollars toward the cost thereof, inclusive of as-
sessment.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 10, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 307.
RESOLUTION
Instructing the City Controller not to sign certain TFarrants.
Resolved, Bj the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the City Controller be instructed not
to countersign any Warrants drawn by the Department of
City Commissioners to the order of any party or parties for
"vrriting out, indexing, and comparing the Tax Duplicates for
the year 1859, unless they, the City Commissioners, shall first
certify to the Controller, that they have carefully examined
the several Tax Duplicates so written out, and found them
correct.
Resolved, That a copy of the above Resolution be fur-
nished to the City Commissioners.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 10, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 308.
RESOLUTION
To transfer an item of appropriation, and to authorize the paint'
ing of the Wire Bridge.
1. Resolved, Bj the Select and Common Councils of the
City of Philadelphia, That the sum of fifty-one dollars and
fifty cents be, and the same is hereby transferred from item
six to item sixteen in the General Appropriation Bill for 1858
to the Department of City Property.
2. Resolved, That the restriction upon the expenditure
of item twenty-five, in the General Appropriation Bill for
1858, to the Department of City Property, be, and the same
is hereby removed, and that the Commissioner of City Prop-
erty proceed, under the direction of the Committee on City
Property, to have the Wire Bridge painted ; the work to be
given out by contract to the lowest and best bidder, giving
the requisite security.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leiseneing,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 10, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 309.
RESOLUTION
To lay water-pipes in Tenth and Stacker, and other streets.
Resolved, Bj the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Engineer of the Water
Works be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to cause
water-pipes to be laid in Tenth street, from Oxford to Mont-
gomery streets, in the Twentieth Ward, and in Stocker street,
from Carpenter to Prime streets, in the Second Ward ; also,
on the north side of Girard avenue, from Ash to Norris streets,
in the Eighteenth Ward, and Eagle court, from Burd's alley
to its termination, in the Eighth Ward, and on Willow street,
from Twelfth to Thirteenth streets, in the Fourteenth Ward.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council,
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
ClerJi of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council,
Approved December 10, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila,
CHAPTER 310.
RESOLUTION
Relative to the leasing of the Tobacco Warehouse.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Commissioner of City Property be,
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and he is hereby authorized, under the direction of the Com-
mittee on City Property, to lease tlie Tobacco Inspection
Warehouse by public vendue, to the highest and best bidder,
for an annual rent of not less than five thousand dollars, for
five years, from the first day of January next, said lease to be
terminated on six months' notice to the parties, in the event
of a sale of the premises by the City ; the lessees to do their
own repairs. And that from and after the first day of Janu-
ary next the office of Collector of Revenue, at the Tobacco
Inspection Warehouse be, and the same is hereby abolished.
CHAS. B. TEEGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 10, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 311.
RESOLUTION
To transfer certain items of appropriation to the Board of Con-
trollers of Public Schools.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the sum of two hundred dollars of the
appropriation made to the Controllers of Public Schools for
the First School District of Pennsylvania, to defray the ex-
penses of the Public Schools for the year 1858, be, and the
same is hereby transferred from item " Furnaces and stoves,"
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in the Fifteenth School Section, to item " Repairs and addi-
tions," in the same Section, and that the sum of two hundred
dollars in the item of ajtpropriatiou to "Night Schools," in
the Second Section, be transferred to the item " Repairs," in
the same Section.
CHAS. B- TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 10, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 312.
RESOLUTION
To change certain items of appropriation to the Receiver of Taxes.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the Citj
of Philadelphia, That the City Controller be instructed to
change the following items of appropriation to the Receiver
of Taxes for the year 1858, to wit: —
From item 4 to item 5, one hundred and fifty dollars.
From item 4 to item 6, fifty dollars.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 13, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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€HAPTER 313.
AN ORDINANCE
To authorize the Coimnissioner of Markets to pay certain claims.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, do ordain, That the Commissioner of Markets
be authorized to draw warrants for the payment of the claims
hereinafter mentioned, that is to say, and charge item 5 for
repairs-
Charles R. Abel, for painting and repairing tin roof, Sec-
ond street Market, one hundred and twenty-four dollars and
fifty-six cents.
Charles R. Abel, for painting and repairing tin roof, Cal-
lowhill street Market, forty-six dollars and forty cents.
Joseph P. Wightman, for painting Frankford Market, ten
dollars.
James Mullin, for plastering Market Houses, in Frankford
and in Franklin street, forty-live dollars.
Alexander, for jirinting, twelve dollars.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 13, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 314.
RESOLUTION
To transfer certain items of appropriation to the Inspectors of the
County Prison.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the
City of Philadelphia, That the Controller be directed to
transfer the following- items of an appropriation made to the
Inspectors of the County Prison for the expenses of the year
1858, to wit : — from item 2, " beef, mutton, and pork," to item
10, •'• brushes, combs, and hardware," one hundred dollars.;
from item 2, " beef, mutton, and pork," to item 17, " roasting
coffee, shoeing horses, furniture, and miscellaneous expenses,"
four hundred dollars ; from item 3, " groceries," to item 20,
'* repairs" and alterations, four hundred dollars ; from item 3,
" groceries," to item 11, " tol)acco," two hundred dollars; and
from item 5, "potatoes and vegetables," to item 37, "supplies
and subsistence Debtor's Prison," one hundred and fifty
dollars.
CHAS. B. TREGO.,
Pi-esideni of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 13, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Philcu
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CHAPTER 315.
RESOLUTION
To open Twenty-first street, from Columbia Jivenue to the Town-
sliip Line Road.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Commissioner of Highways is
hereby directed to give notice to the owners of property
through and over which Twenty-first street, from Columbia
Avenue to Township Line Road or Ontario street, will pass,
that at the expiration of three months from the time of serv-
ing of said notice, the street will be opened for public use, as
authorized by the seventh section of the Act of Assembly,
approved April 21, 1855.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk oj Conunon Council.
(J. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 13, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 316.
RESOLUTION
Authorizing the Commissioner of Markets to have Feed street
JVharf repaired.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the
City of Philadelphia, That the Commissioner of Markets be,
and he is hereby authorized to have Reed street Wharf re-
paired, and a trunk, leading from the culvert at the foot of
said street constructed through the wharf, at a cost not ex-
ceeding two hundred and twenty-five dollars, to be charged
to item 2 for repairs of Wharves and Landings for that De-
partment for the year 1858 — said repairs to be done under the
supervision of the Committee on Port Wardens, Public
Wharves and Landings.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest— Wm. F. Small,
Cli'rh of Common Council.
G. M. WflARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 13, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mai/or of Phila.
CHAPTER 317.
RESOLUTION
To authorize the paving of Stiles and other streets.
Resolved, By the Select am^ Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Department of Highways is here-
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by authorized to enter into contract with a competent paver
or pavers, who shall be selected by a majority of the property
owners on each of the folloAving streets, respectively, who
shall be the owners of at least one-half of the whole length
to be paved, viz : — Stiles street, from Sixteenth to Seventeenth
streets ; Tenth street, from Jefferson street to Columbia ave-
nue ; Oxford street, from Twelfth to Broad streets, in the
Twentieth Ward ; Norris street, from Kressler to Mechanic's
streets ; Apple street, from Diamond to Norris streets, in the
Nineteenth Ward ; Adams street, from Jefferson to Oxford
streets, in the Seventeenth Ward : Lentz street, from Eleventh
to Twelfth streets, in the First Ward ; Sepviva street, from
Vienna street, in the Eighteenth Ward, to Cumberland street,
in the Nineteenth Ward.
The conditions of which contracts shall be, that the con-
tractor will collect the cost of said paving from the owners
of property fronting on said streets, and the City shall be lia-
ble only for the intersections ; also, that the contractor will
enter into an obligation to the City to keep the said streets
in repair for two years after the paving is finished, and that
the water-pipes be laid in said streets before the paving is
commenced.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm, F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 13, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 318.
AN ORDINANCE
To confirm the title to certain Real Estate in the City of Philadel-
phia.
Whereas, Certaiu Ileal Estate belonging to the City of
Philadelphia, situate in the late borough of Bridesburg, in the
Twenty-third Ward of said City was sold at public auction,
by M. Thomas & Sons, on the first day of May, 1857, to John
G. Schnider and John Young; and, whereas the said proper-
ty was not included in the schedule of the list of property
mentioned in the ordinance passed the 7th day of May, 1856,
entitled " An Ordinance to provide for the sale of certain Real
Estate vested in the City of Philadelphia," therefore,
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain. That the sale made by M. Thomas
& Sons, on the first day of May, 1857, of the property de-
scribed in the public advertisements, situate on the Frankford
Creek, in the late borough of Bridesburg, and sold to the said
John G. Schnider and John Young, the purchasers, their
heirs and assigns, forever, upon the compliance with the con-
ditions of sale under which the same were sold, be and the
same is hereby ratified and confirmed ; provided a reservation
be made in the deed of conveyance to use at all times so
much of said property as may be necessary for the swinging
the draw of the present, or any bridge thay may be hereafter
erected over the Frankford Creek, at Bridesburg, and the
Mayor of the City of Philadelphia is hereby re(iuired to ex-
ecute a deed of conveyance, in fee simple for the same, to the
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purchasers, agreeably to the third section of said ordinance,
and the proviso in this ordinance.
CHA3. B. TREGO,
Prrs''^'''^' '■' ^-'imon Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisefrifg,
Clerk of Selcc
HARTON,
P'^s .'■.[ of Select Council,
Approved December 14, A. D. 1853.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 319.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation to the Board of Controllers of Public
Schools, for the payment of certain bills, and for fitting up the
new Secondary School House in Fitzivater street.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of twelve hundred and
twenty-three dollars and eighty-one cents be, and the same is
hereby appropriated to the Board of Controllers of Public
Schools of the First School District of Pennsylvania, for the
following purposes, to wit :
1. To pay bills for paving done at the Pollock School
House, in the First Section, ninety-one dollars and twenty-
nine cents.
2. To pay sundry bills for repairs to school houses in the
Twenty-second Section, three hundred dollars.
3. To pay bills for cleaning privy well and re-building
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privy at the North- West School House, two hundred and thir-
ty-two dollars and fifty-two cents.
4. For fitting up the New Secondary School House in Fitz-
water street, in the Fourth Section, sis hundred dollars.
Section 2. Tliat warrants for the above appropriations
shall be drawn in conformity with existing Ordinances.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 14, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Maijor of Phila.
CHAPTER 320.
RESOLUTION
In reference to Street Nomenclature.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That whereas the late Special Committee
upon the revision of Street Nomenclature, from deficiency of
information, have omitted to provide for the change of the
names of any streets, courts, lanes and alleys, &c., in said City
in accordance with the Resolution creating and instructing
said Committee, or wliore they have committed errors in said
revision, it shall be the duty of the Chief Commissioner of
Highways to report such omissions and errors to the Com-
mittee on Highways for correction, who, if they approve of
the same, may order the said Commissioner to make the
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necessary correction; provided, that all the amendments be
made in accordance with the Ordinance entitled, " An Ordi-
nance to change the names of certain streets, lanes, courts,
alleys, &c., in the City of Philadelphia," approved September
1st, 1858.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 14, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 321,
To pay certain bills contracted by the Guardians of the Poor, in
excess of the annual appropriation, and contracted for principally
previous to July, 1858.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of seven thousand two
hundred and six dollars and ninety-six cents, be and is
hereby appropriated to the Department of the Guardians of
the Poor, to pay the following bills, to wit : —
p Mactier & Steel, for coal, twenty-one dollars and seventy-
five cents.
J. M. Donnell, for crackers, thirty-two dollars and twenty-
four cents.
N. H. Graham & Co., for lard oil, one hundred and sixty-
three dollars.
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G. W. Moutgomciy, for coal, forty-eight dollars and one
cent.
Thomas J. Martin, for sugar, seventy-seven dollars and fifty
cents.
C. J. McNeil, for water cooler, three dollars and fifty
cents.
Harbert & Davis, for lumber, fifty-six dollars and seventy-
five cents.
George Russell, for lumber, ninety-eight dollars and fifty-
six cents.
McGarry & Kennedy, for lime, twenty-five dollars and sixty-
two cents.
William Tate, for leechiug, in Second District, twenty-one
dollars and fifty cents.
Thomas J. Natt, Agent, for coal, Ninth District, eleven
dollars and eighty-eight cents.
Arrison & Smith, for sugar, two hundred and seventy-two
dollars and sixty-four cents.
Arrison & Smith, for Vinegar and Rice, one hundred and
four^dollars and sixty-one cents.
Hood & Co., for muslins, one hundred and eighty-three dol-
lars and thirty-two cents.
John C. Baker & Co., for drugs, two hundred and eighty
dollars and fifty-nine cents.
E. McGovern, for crockery ware, fourteen dollars and fifty
ceuts.
George Boon, for blacksmithing, seventy-one dollars and
sixty-two cents.
Joshua Wright, for groceries, Fifth District, forty-six dol-
lars.
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George Frick, for cupping, in Seventh District, forty -six dol-
lars.
R. H. Henderson, for cupping and leeching, Third Dis-
trict, fifteen dollars and fifty cents.
Jacob W. Anderson, for cupping and leeching, Sixth Dis-
trict, ten dollars.
James Galbraith, for wood. Fourth and Sixth Districts,
twenty-one dollars and seventy cents.
William Green, for crackers, twenty-one dollars and twen-
ty-four cents.
Henry Remmy, for stone ware, sixty-six dollars and ninety-
three cents.
Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind, for brushes, one
hundred and twenty dollars and fifty cents.
W. H. Smith, for netting and fans, thirty dollars and thir-
ty-seven cents,
Charles Magrady, for cupping and leeching, Fourth Dis-
trict, thirty-five dollars.
Francis McGuigan, for coal. Fifth District, twenty-six dol-
lars and ten cents.
R. & J. Attmore, for groceries. Fifth District, fifty-two
dollars.
Lewis Lockard, for leeching, Fifth District, three" dollars.
George Boon, for blacksmithing, eight dollars and seventy-
one cents.
Arrison & Smith, for salt and meal, thirty-seven dollars.
Thomas E. Baxter, for hardware, twenty-nine dollars and
forty-two cents.
Thomas E. Baxter, for hardware, ninety-two dollars and
eight cents.
S. C. Foulk, for carpeting, one hundred and sixty-two dol-
lars and twenty -three cents.
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Jacob Anderson, for cupping, Fourth District, two dollars.
Robert Henderson, for coal, Fourth District, one hundred
and fourteen dollars and seventy-five cents.
James Galbraith, for wood, Fourth District, one hundred
and twenty dollars and seventy-five cents.
Robert Henderson, for coal, Fourth District, eleven dollars
and twenty-five cents.
A. L. Crawford, for groceries, Fourth District, fifty-one
dollars and eighty-seven cents.
C. Webster, for cupping and leeching, Fourth District,
twenty dollars.
Joshua Wright, for groceries, Fifth District, twenty-nine
dollars.
Henry Styer, for coal, Fifth District, ninety-four dollars
and seventeen cents.
Rachel Calvert, for cupping and leeching. Fifth District,
four dollars.
James Lowery, for burials and hauling, forty-three dollars.
Thomas Carrick & Co., for crackers, thirty-one dollars and
twenty-six cents.
J. Cadmus, for boots and shoes, one hundred and fifteen
dollars.
S. Shelladay, for leeching, Fifth District, one dollar.
R. A. Jamison, for groceries, Fifth District, one hundred
and thirteen dollars.
J. W. Anderson, for cupping and leeching, Sixth District,
one dollar.
J. M. Ellis & Son, for brown sugar, three hundred and
seventy-two dollars and eight cents.
Landy & Uhler, for sugar, molasses, and rice, three hun-
dred and seventy-three dollars and fifty-five cents.
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A. M. Grauel, for roasticg coffee, forty-six dollars and forty-
seven cents.
Landy & Uhler, for crackers, salt, and barley, seventy-four
dollars and five cents.
Wills & Babbit, for salt, eighteen dollars and fifty cents.
Reeves S. Dyer, for potatoes, one hundred and forty-two
dollars and fifty cents.
Jenks & Og'den, for drugs, two hundred and eighty-four
dollars and fifty-eight cents.
Charles Shivers, for drugs, forty dollars.
Garrigues & Magee, for drugs, seven dollars and seventy
cents.
Morris, Jones & Co., for hardware, seven dollars.
John Henderson, for salt, twenty-three dollars and thirty-
eight cents.
James Lowery, for women's lace boots, one hundred and
twelve dollars.
W. P. & G. W. Hacker, for bowls, eighteen dollars.
Anspach, Reed &, Co., for muslins, &c., one thousand and
one dollars and ninety-four cents.
Andrews & Brother, for muslins, &c., four hundred and
fifty dollars and thirty-eight cents.
Burton & Laning, for paper hangings, twenty-nine dollars
and fifty-five cents.
J. M. Ellis & Son, for groceries, eighty-seven dollars and
seventy-five cents.
Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind, for brushes, one
hundred and seventeen dollars.
John Ziegenfuss, for balance of coal account for 1857,
thirty-four dollars and thirty cents.
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Thomas E. Baxter, for hardware, two hundred and seventy-
three dollars and eighty- one cents.
J. M. Ellis & Son, for balance coffee, twelve dollars and
sixty-two cents.
J. M. Ellis & Son, for white sugar, one hundred and ten
dollars and fifty-eight cents.
J. M. Ellis & Son, for sugar, one hundred and five dollars
and eighty cents.
For the purchase of tools, &c., for quarrying stone on the
Alms-house Property, by the inmates, four hundred dollars.
Section 2. Warrants for the said appropiiations shall be
drawn in conformity with existing Ordinances.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Comvion Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 16, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 322.
AN ORDINANCE
Authorizing the Second and Third Street Passenger Railway
Company to construct a Railway along Jefferson street and Ox-
ford street.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain. That the Second and Third street
Passenger Railway Company be, and the same is hereby au-
thorized to lay out and construct an additional track of Rail-
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way, beginning at Oxford and Third streets, and extending
along Oxford street to Front street ; and also, a track begin-
ning at Jeiferson street and Frankford road, and extending
along Jefferson street to Second street, in accordance with
the grades and regulations established bj the Board of Sur-
veyors and Regulators ; provided, that nothing herein con-
tained shall be construed to authorize the construction of a
double track on either of the streets hereby designated ; and
provided further, that the Ordinance shall not take effect until
the said Second and Third Street Passenger Railway Com-
pany shall have filed in the office of the City Solicitor a full
and complete account of the cost of their road so far as the
same has been constructed.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leiseneing,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 17, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 323.
RESOLUTIONS
Relative to the Lease of the Tobacco TVarehouse, Insurance of City
Property and Public Records.
Resolved, That the Mayor of the City be, and he is here-
by authorized to aflix the Corporate Seal of the City of Phil-
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adelphia to a lease of the Tobacco Inspection "Warehouse and
its appurtenances to the Warehousing Company of Philadel-
phia, for five years, at an annual rental of six thousand seven
hundred dollars, ($G,700,) payable quarterly — said lease to
embody the restrictions and qualifications expressed in the
Resolution of Councils on the subject of the leasing of these
premises.
Resolved, That the Committee on City Property be, and
they are hereby instructed to inquire into and report upon
the subject of the propriety of insuring such property of the
City as is now uninsured, and of increasing the insurances
upon such properties as are now inadequately insured, with
an estimate of the expense of so doing.
Resolved, That the City Solicitor be, and he is hereby
directed to cause such steps to be taken as may insure the
gathering together of all the deeds, muniments of title, pol-
icies of insurance, &c., pertaining to the real estate of the City
of Philadelphia, in his office, and their arrangement in con-
venient form for reference when necessary, and for their pre-
servation from loss and injury.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 17, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 324.
Expressing the consent of Councils to the construction, by the Fair-
mount and Jlrch street City Passenger Railroad Company, of
Railway Tracks upon Arch, Twenty-first and Twenty-second
streets.
Section 1, The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain, That the consent of the Councils of
the City of Philadelphia be, and the same is hereby given to
the use and occupation by the Fairmount and Arch street
City Passenger Railway Company of the following streets,
viz : — commencing at Tenth and Arch streets and continuing
westward ly along the same with double track to Twentieth
and Twenty-first streets, respectively, with single track to
Callowhill street, and thence westwardly with double track
to Wire Bridge at Fairmount, as provided for in an Act of
the General Assembly of the Commonwealth, entitled " An
Act to incorporate the Fairmount and Arch street City Pas-
senger Railway Company," approved April 16th, 1858, and
upon no other streets, and this consent and allowance is given
upon the condition that the said Company shall not exercise
any power conferred upon them to build any road on any
other streets than those hereinbefore designated, and should
they at any time hereafter construct or commence to construct,
without further express consent of Councils thereto, any road
upon any other street or streets than those hereinbefore desig-
nated, then the consent hereby given shall cease and termi-
nate, and the said Company shall have no longer the right to
run and use the said railway on the streets aforementioned ;
and provided further, that within ninety days from the date
of approval of this Act, and before the said Company shall in
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anj^ise use the said streets, the said Company shall file in
the office of the City Solicitor, a covenant under their com-
moQ seal to observe and be subject to all Ordinances of the
City of Philadelphia tlien in force, or at any time thereafter
to be passed, and especially to comply with the provisions of
this Ordinance, and to construct no other railroad or portion
of a railroad than is hereby consented to and allowed, with-
out the express consent of Councils thereto, first had and ob-
tained, and also within ninety days from the approval of this
Ordinance, and before occupying any of said streets to execute
and file in the office of the Department of State, an instrument
in writing, surrendering to the Commonwealth of Pennsylva-
nia all and every power, franchise and right to construct any
road or portion of a road under the authority of the Tenth
Section of their charter, and any Ordinance that may be in-
consistent herewith be and the same is hereby repealed.
CIIAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Cle7-k of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Clerk's Office, Select and CoMMoisr Councils,
Philadelphia, December 17, 1858.
Tliis is to certify that the above Ordinance was returned
by his Honor, the Mayor, to the Select Council, on the ninth
day of December, 1858, without his approval, and said bill
having been re-considered, was passed on the sixteenth day of
December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, agree-
ably to the seventh section of the Act of Assembly, approved
February second, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four,
entitled " A further su{)plcment to an act to incorporate the
City of Philadelphia," by the following vote :
Yeas — Messrs. Beideman, Benton, Bradford, Cornman, Cuy-
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ler, Davis, Enos, Kline, Loughlin. Leidy, Nathans, Norman,
Parker, Schofield, Williams and Wharton, President.
Nays — Messrs. Bringhiirst, Ford, Mclntyre, Neal and
Thompson.
And the said Ordinance, together with the objections of his
Honor, the Mayor, having been sent to the Common Council
for their consideration, was passed by that body on the six-
teenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-eight, agreealjl}^ to the seventh section of the Act of As-
sembly approved February second, one thousand eight hun-
dred and fifty-four, entitled " A further supplement to an act
to incorporate the City of Philadelphia," by the following
vote :
Yeas — Messrs. Brennan, Bobb, Brown, Bullock, Cattell,
Comly, William Conrad, Cooley, Cooper, Day, Dennis, Doerr,
Dickinson, Eckfeldt, Ellis, Fish, Fisher, Gay, Gillingham,
Gordon, Haas, Hacker, Handy, Harbert, Heins, Hodgdon,
Hutchinson, Jones, Kelton, Kerr, Krider, Luther, Mander-
field, Manuel, Mascher, McBride, McCahen, McHvain, Me-
gary, George B. Miller, Hiram Miller, Morris, Moyer, Potter,
Pugh, Rothermel, Rubicam, Server, Simons, Thompson, Uber,
AValsh, Wildey, Wistar, Wright and Trego, Presidejii.
Nays — Messrs. Baird, Bowker, French, Gamble, Kelly,
Ketchum, Nippes, Smedley, Steeling, Wagner and Wetherill.
Therefore, the said Ordinance having been passed agree-
ably to the provisions of the Act of Assembly, in such cases
made and provided, is now a law in full force and virtue.
H. G. LEISENPING,
Clerk of Select Coimcil.
WM. F. SMALL,
Clerk of Co7nmon Council.
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CHAPTER 325.
RESOLUTION
T'd notify the property owners on Haverford street to grade foot-
ways and to authorize the grading of certain streets.
Resolved, By tlic Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Highway Department is hereby au-
thorized to notify the owners of property on Haverford Ave-
nue, from the eastern gate of the Pennsylvania Hospital to
Forty-first street in the Twenty-fourth Ward, to have their
footways graded. Also that the said Department is hereby
authorized to grade Lexington Avenue and Eagle street in
the Twenty-fourth Ward, and to expend therein a sum not to
exceed sixty dollai-a.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest— Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 10, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 326.
RESOLUTION
Authorizing a certain transfer of appropriation to the Department
of Surveys for the year 1858.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the City Controller be, and is hereby
authorized and directed to transfer the sum of two hundred
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and fifty dollars, from item No. 23, as specified in Ordinance
entitled " An Ordinance to make an appropriation to the De-
partment of Surveys for the year 1858," to item No. 4 of
same Ordinance.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest— Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 13, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 327.
RESOLUTION
To transfer certain items of appropriation to the Department of
Highways.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the sum of one thousand dollars be,
and the same is hereby transferred from item 6 ; five thousand
dollars, from item 16; and two hundred and seventy-seven
dollars from item 22, as follows: three thousand one hundred
and seventy-seven dollars, to item 2 ; one hundred dollars, to
item 11 ; and three thousand dollars, to item 7, of an appro-
priation made to the Department of Highways, Bridges, Sew-
ers and Cleansing the City, approved January 18th, 1858.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 13, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 328.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation to pay certain claims of m,andamu8
executions and judgments against the City, and to pay interest
on Temporary Loan of 1858.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of fifty-three thous-
and four hundred and fourteen dollars and twenty-one cents
be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the the payment
of the following mandamus executions and judgment claims
against the City of Philadelphia, to wit : —
Joseph Peir and George Hollick, mandamus, one hundred
and sixty-two dollars forty- five cents.
John Nelson, mandamus, twenty-three dollars and ninety-
five cents.
Charles Shivers, judgment, sixty-one dollars and twenty-five
cents.
Edward G. Webb, judgment, thirty-four dollars and sixty-
two cents.
Jacob C. Hoffman, judgment, ninety dollars and fifty-eight
cents.
James Mider, judgment, seventy-four dollars and twenty-
two cents.
W. J. Schweppenheiser, mandamus, one hundred and forty-
six dollars and four cents.
M. A. Kellogg, judgment, one hundred and two dollars and
thirty-seven cents.
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Abraham Myers, judgment, thirty-five dollars and fifty-five
cents.
Samuel Allen, mandamus, four thousand six hundred and
ninety-seven dollars and ninety cents.
James Taggert, judgment, eighty-two dollars and nine cents.
Thomas Hawkesworth, mandamus, five hundred and forty-
six dollars and twenty-seven cents.
Philip Beohur, mandamus, three hundred and twenty-seven
dollars and ninety-nine cents.
John Kain, mandamus, five hundred and forty dollars and
eighty-four cents.
George J. Hamilton, mandamus, five hundred and eighty-
two dollars and eighteen cents.
George Moore, judgment, fourteen dollars and sixty-eight
cents.
B. F. Vandyke, et. al.., mandamus, thirty-three thousand
nine hundred and eighty-six dollars and thirty-one cents.
Hugh Mcllvaine, judgment, sixteen dollars and thirty-six
cents.
James Spear, judgment, six dollars and forty-three cents.
Hannah Boesch, judgment, forty-two dollars and thirty-one
cents.
J. Marshall, judgment, eight dollars and eighty-seven cents.
William Nuttall, judgment, five dollars and thirty-seven
cents.
George Shessler, Jr., mandamus, four hundred and eighty-
four dollars.
William Reed, mandamus, fifty-six dollars and six cents.
E. J. Farson & Co., judgment, eighteen dollars and twenty-
one cents.
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Brennan & Co., mandamus, nine hundred and seventy-five
dollars and nineteen cents.
William Rice, to the use of the City, mandamus, nine hun-
dred and seventy-four dollars and twenty-seven cents.
Baldwin, Liuderman & Co., mandamus, five hundred and
fifty-two dollars and sixty- three cents.
C. Y. Nauman & Co., mandamus, one hundred and fifty
dollars and twenty-five cents.
John Rowan & Co., mandamus, eleven dollars and eighty-
seven cents.
Abraham Whitehead, mandamus, two hundred and forty
dollars and sixty cents.
George W. Flanagan, mandamus, one hundred and thirty-
four dollars and seventy cents.
Peter Kelley, mandamus, twenty-six dollars and eighteen
cents.
Lewis & Butler, four thousand three hundred and twenty-
one dollars and fifty-four cents.
Lewis & Butler, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine
dollars and sixty-five cents.
Lewis & Butler, one thousand four hundred and thirty-
eight dollars and forty-two cents.
Thomas McConnell, forty-three dollars and ninety-seven
cents.
Arthur Nugent, two hundred and twenty-two dollars and
forty-five cents.
W. E. Harris, three hundred and twenty-five dollars and
fifty-nine cents.
And the further sum of eight thousand six hundred and
eleven dollars to pay interest on Temporary Loans.
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Section 2. Warrants for the said appropriation shall be
drawn by the City Treasurer.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 14, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 329.
AN ORDINANCE
To make a further appropriation to the Department of High-
ways, ^'C.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain, That the further sum of thirteen
thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to the Department of
Highways, <fec., to pay claims against the City for the paving
of intersections, and for materials.
Section 2. Warrants for said appropriation shall be drawn
in conformity with existing Ordinances.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council,
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 14, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 330.
AN ORDINANCE
For the repair of a small Bridge and a Road in the Twenty -third
Ward.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the Department of High-
ways, under the supervision of the Chief Engineer and Sur-
yeyor be, and is hereby authorized to make the necessary re-
pairs to a small bridge on the Axe Factory Eoad in the
Twentj'-third Ward, immediately west of property owned by
A. E. Outerbridge, Esq., by throwing a stone arch across, so
as to make the same a substantial and durable structure, and
also to grade so much of the road within a distance of five
hundred feet eastward as may be requisite for the proper
repairs of said bridge ; the costs and expenses of the said
repairs shall be charged to items 4 and 7 of the appropria-
tion to the Department of Highways for the year 1858 ; pro-
vided the cost of said repairs and grading shall not exceed
six hundred and fifty dollars, and shall be given out to the
lowest bidder, giving the necessary security, the Department
of Highways receiving proposals for the same.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
U. M. AVHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 14, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 331.
RESOLUTION
Relative to cleansing the streets of the City.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Commissioner of Highways
is hereby authorized to give public notice that proposals will
be received at his office until 12 o'clock, M., of Monday, the
twentieth day of December, inst., for cleansing the streets of
the City of Philadelphia, said proposals to be made upon the
basis of certain specifications to be furnished by the High-
way Department, and to be made for the period of one year,
commencing January 1st, 1859.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 15, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, May(yr of Phila.
CHAPTER 332.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an approprialion to the Department of the City Commis-
sioners, to pay certain claims and expenses.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphh do ordain, That the further sum of six thous-
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and nine hundred and ninety-three dollars and thirty-four
cents, is hereby appropriated to the City Commissioners, to pay
certain claims and expenses for the year 1858, to wit : —
To item 13 — For pay of Officers of the Court of Quarter
Sessions, Wo hundred and twenty-five dollars.
To item 16 — To pay interpreter of the Court, one hundred
dollars.
To item 18 — Meals for Jurors, six hundred and fifty dol-
lars.
To item 19 — Witness F^es, three hundred dollars.
To item 20 — Fees of the District Attorney, one thousand
and ninety-four dollars.
To item 21 — Fees of the Clerk of Quarter Sessions, eleven
hundred and seventy-six dollars.
To item 23 — Fees of the Coroner, one thousand dollars.
To item 34 — Salaries of the Return Judges, thirty dollars.
To item 60 — Board of Patients at the Lunatic Asylum one
thousand dollars.
To Paul J. Field, for tape lines, twenty-four dollars.
To B. F. Jackson, for stationery, twenty-one dollars and
seventy-five cents.
Phincas Dow, for repairing the seal of the Court, four-
teen dollars and twelve cents.
For new jury wheel and expenses of drawing jurors, in con-
formity with Act of Assembly, two hundred and fifty dollars.
To Thomas Duncan and Alexander Mallock, for street lists,
sixty-seven dollars and seventy-two cents.
To Richard V. Brenan, for binding, one hundred and
twenty dollars.
To James Lane, for labor, two dollars.
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To John McFaull, for making platform for scales, eleven
dollars and seventy-five cents.
For payment of Jurors in District Court, seven hundred
dollars.
To James Clifton, for services as Return Judge and Presi-
dent of Board of Return Judges, in October, 1857, twelve
dollars.
To Joseph R. Williams, for carriage hire, ninety-five dol-
lars.
To Andrew J. Severns, for comparing and correcting tax
duplicates, for 1858, fifty dollars.
To F. Graham, for comparing and correcting tax duplicates
for 1858, fifty dollars.
Section 2. Warrants for the said appropriation shall be
drawn by the City Commissioners, in conformity with exist-
ing Ordinances.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 24, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 333.
RESOLUTION
Authorizing the release of a certain property of George W. Simons.
Resolved, Bj the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the City Solicitor be, and he is hereby
directed to release the folio-wing described property from the
lien of a judgment entered in favor of the City of Philadel-
phia, in the Supreme Court for the Eastern District of Penn-
sylvania, of July term, 1858, No. 79, D. S. B., for $10,000,
against Geo. W. Simons, et al, to wit: — All that certain
piece of ground situate on the east side of Seventeenth
street, at the distance of one hundred and four feet north of
Poplar street, in the Twentieth "Ward of said City of Phila-
delphia, containing in front or breadth on said Seventeenth
street sixty-eight feet, and in length or depth, eastwardly
from said Seventeenth street sixty-eight feet ; and also that
he be authorized and directed to release all and every ground
rent or ground rents issuing out of said lot, or chargeable
thereon, from the lien of said judgment.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 24, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 334.
RESOLUTION
Transferring certain items of appropriation to the Police Depart-
ment.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelpliia, That so much of the appropriation as was
made to the Department of Police, by Ordinance, approved
December 31, 1857, as shall amount to two hundred and
ninety-nine dollars and twelve cents, be transferred to the
following accounts :
From item 4, " salaries of Policemen," one hundred dol-
lars, to item 13, " Beds, Badges, and Rattles."
From item 4, "salaries of Policemen," one hundred and
ninety-nine dollars and twelve cents, to item 16, " Incidental
Expenses, Postage and Porterage."
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — J. Barclay Harding,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 24, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 335.
RESOLUTION
To transfer certain items of appropriation.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the sum of one hundred and fifty
dollars be and the same is hereby transferred from item
twenty, and the sum of fifteen dollars from item twenty-one,
to item twenty-two, of the general appropriation bill for
1858, to the Department of City Property.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 27, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 33G.
RESOLUTION
Relative to the Fifth and Sixth street Passenger Railway Company.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Chief Commissioner of Highways
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be, and he is hereby required to take measures forthwith to
stop the laying down of the curves and intersections now in
progress at Fifth and Sixth streets and Washington avenue,
until it has been determined whether the same is legal and
proper, and if the privilege for doing said work has been
given by the said Commissioner, that he is hereby required to
report to Councils by what authority such permission has been
given.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leiseneing,
Clerk of Select Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 27, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 337.
RESOLUTION
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To transfer certain items of appropriation to the Department for
supplying the City with fJatcr.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the
City of Philadelphia, That eight hundred dollars from item
No. 29, and one thousand dollars from item No. 30, be, and
the same are hereby transferred to item No. 20 of the appro-
priations made to the department for supplying the City with
water, approved January 28, 1868, September 9, 1858, Octo-
ber 16, 1858, and November 23, 1858.
Also, That four hundre(^ dollars from item No. 34, be, and
the same is hereby transferred to item No. 27 of the same
appropriations.
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Also, That one hundred dollars from item No. 34, be, and
the same is hereby transferred to item No. 31 of the same
appropriations.
Also, That one thousand dollars from item No. 34, be, and
the same is hereby transferred to item No. 33 of the same
appropriations.
Also, That eight hundred dollars from item No. 34, be,
and the same is hereby transferred to item No. 35 of the same
appropriations.
Also, that one hundred and fifty dollars from item No. 34,
be, and the same is hereby transferred to item No. 38 of the
same appropriations.
Also, That two hundred dollars from item No. 40, be. and
the same is hereby transferred to re-assessment of Water
Rents, approved October 16, 1858.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
Pi^sident of Common Council,
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
THEO. CUYLER,
President fro tern, of Select CounciU
Approved December 29, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 338.
AN ORDINANCE
To provide for an allerafion in the mode and manner of leaning the
Public JVharves and Landings.
Pectiox 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That from and after the passage
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of this Ordinauce all leases for the renting of Public Wharves
and Landings shall be exposed to public sale, and sold by
public vendue or outcry, to the highest and best bidder at
such place and time as the Committee on Port Wardens,
Public Wharves and Landings may designate, and if no bid
is made at such public sale, the Commissioner of Market Houses
is hereby empowered to lease said wharves under the super-
vision of the Committee on Port Wardens, Public Wharves
and Landings.
Section 2. That the said leases shall be for a period of
not less than one year, nor more than three years as the
Committee on Port Wardens, Public Wharves and Landings
may direct, and that the rental per annum, at Avhich they
may be sold or leased, shall not be less than the rent paid
under the leases existing at the time of the passage ol this
Ordinance.
Section 3. That so much of any Ordinance now in force as
is hereby altered or supplied, be and the same is hereby re-
pealed.
CHAS. B. TPEGO,
President of Common Council,
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
THEO. CUYLER,
President pro tern, of Select Council.
Approved December 29, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 339.
RESOLUTION
To pay cerlain bills.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, Tliat the Chief Engineer of the AVater
Works be, and he is hereby authorized to draw warrants for
the following persons: —
From item No. 33, of the appropriations made to tlie De-
partment for Supplying the City with Water, approved Janu-
ary 28, 1858, September 9, 1858, and November 23, 1858.
Field & Hardie, for hardware, sixteen dollars and sixty-
five cents.
Richard Stileman S: Son, for two eighteen inch stop-cocfcs,
three hundred dollars.
To pay I. P. Morris & Co., for repairs, seven hundred and
fifty-seven dollars and eighty-three cents, and
To pay Flunsworth, Eakin & Co., three hundred and ninety,
five dollars and seventy -seven cents, for repairs to the Dela-
ware Works.
Total — Fourteen hundred and seventy dollars and twenty-
five cents.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
THEO. CUYLER,
President pro tern, of Select Council.
Approved December 29, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Maijor of Pliila.
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CHAPTER 340.
RESOLUTION
To transfer certain items of appropriations to the Board of Health.
Resolved, JB j the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the City Controller be, and is hereby
authorized to transfer the sum of four hundred dollars from
item 20, " for clothing, bedding, straw, &c., &c.," of an appro-
priation to the Board of Health, for the year 1858. approved
September 25, 1858, to item 27 of the same appropriation,
" for general repairs at Lazaretto Station."
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council'
THEO. CUYLER,
President pro te?n. of Select Council.
Approved December 29, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 341.
To make an appropriation to the Department for Supplying the
City ivith TVater.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of two hundred dol-
509
lars and eighteen cents be, and the same is hereby appropri-
ated to the Department for supplying the City with water,
for the following purposes, to wit : —
1. To pay John W. Forney, for printing bill heads, &c.,
one hundred and thirty-five dollars and twelve cents.
2. To pay Frederick Zaiss, thirty-one dollars and ninety-
four cents, for amount over-paid for water-pipes in front of
his premises, on the east side of Twenty-first street, south of
Jeflerson street, in the Twentieth "Ward.
3. To pay the West Philadelphia Passenger Railroad Com-
pany twenty-five dollars and eighty-four cents, for amount
over-paid for water-pipe in front of their premises, north-west
corner of Forty-first and Haverford streets, in the Twenty-
fourth Ward.
4. To pay John H. Pilley, seven dollars and twenty-eight
cents, for amount over-paid for water-pipe in front of his
premises, south side of Green street, west of Twenty-fourth
street, in the Fifteenth Ward.
Section 2. Warrants shall be drawn for the foregoing by
the Chief Engineer of the Water Works, in conformity with
existing Ordinances.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leisenring,
Clerk of Select Council.
THEO. CUYLER,
President pro. tern, of Select Council.
Approved December 29, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phiia.
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CHAPTER 342.
To transfer certain items of appropriation to the Board of Control-
lers of Public Schools.
Resolved, By the ^Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the City Controller be and he is hereby
authorized to transfer the balances of the appropriations made
to the Board of Controllers of Public Schools of the First
School District of Pennsylvania, for the support of the Public
Schools for the year 1858, as follows:
From item " rents," Fii-st Section, seventy-four dollars and
seventeen cents ; from item '• furnaces," First Section, eleven
dollars and fifty-four cents ; for item " cleaning," Second Sec-
tion, eighteen dollars and eleven cents ; from item " inci-
dentals," Second Section, eight dollars and twenty-two cents ;
from item " night schools," Second Section, one hundred and
sixty-seven dollars and eighty-seven cents; from item " furna-
ces," Third Section, eighty-one dollars and forty-three cents :
from item " incidentals," Third Section, fifty-eight dollars and
thirty-eight cents ; from item '• repairs," Fourth Section, fifty
dollars and fifty-six cents ; from item " furnaces," Fourth
Section, forty-four dollars and seventy-five cents ; from item
" rents," Fifth Section, one hundred and ninety-four dollars ;
from item " repairs," Fifth Section, three hundred and twen-
ty-six dollars and eighty-one cents ; fj'om item " furnaces,"
Fifth Section, twenty-nine dollars and twenty-seven cents ;
from item " cleaning," Fifth Section, seventy-nine dollars •
from item " furniture," Fifth Section, eighty-seven dollars and
twenty cents ; from item " cleaning," Sixth Section, three dol-
lars and fifty cents — in all, twelve hundred and thirty-four
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dollars and eis'lity-one cents — to item " salaries of teachers"
in the First Section.
From item " furniture," Sixth Section, one hundred and
seventy-three dollais and scvcnty-tliree cents ; from item
<' night schools," Sixth Section, one hundred and eleven dol-
lars and eighty-four cents ; from item " cleaning," Ninth Sec-
tion, one hundred and one dollars and seventy-five cents;
from item " furnaces," Ninth Section, fifty-two dollais and
forty-eight cents — in all four hundred and thirty-nine dollars
and eighty cents — to item " salaries of teachers," in the Sec-
ond Section.
From item "rents," Third Section, two hundred and seven-
teen dollars and fifty cents ; from item " repairs," Third Sec-
tion, one hundred and seventy-two dollars and forty-seven
cents — in all three hundred and eighty-nine dollars and nine-
ty-seven cents — to item " salaries of teachers," in the same
Section.
From item " furnaces," Sixth Section, thirty-six dollars and
thirty two cents; from item "furniture," Fourth Section,
thirty-six cents — in all thirty-six dollars and sixty-eight
cents — to item " salaries of teachers," in the Sixth Section.
Prom item " repairs," Sixth Section, sixty-two dollars ; from
item " furnaces," Seventh Section, twenty-six dollars and
ninety-seven cents ; from item " cleaning," Seventh Section,
fifty-nine dollars ; from item " furniture," Seventh Section,
one hundred and ninety-five dollars and sixty-nine cents ; from
item " rents," Eighth Section, sixty dollars ; from item " fur-
naces," Eighth Section, forty-two dollars — in all four hundred
and forty-five dollars and sixty-six cents — to item " salaries
of teachers," in the Seventh Section.
From item " night schools," Eight Section, two hundred
and thirteen dollars and thirty-three cents, to item " salaries
of teachers," in the same Section.
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From item " furniture/' Ninth Section, one dollar and fifty-
eight cents; from item "incidentals," Ninth Section, thirty-
eight dollars and seventy-five cents; from item " incidentals,"
Eleventh Section, seventy cents — in all forty-one dollars and
three cents — to item " salaries of teachers," in the Ninth
Section.
From item " night schools," Ninth Section, two hundred
and thirty-three dollars and ninety-nine cents; from item
" rents," Tenth Section, one hundred and seventy-six dollars
and ninety-five cents ; from item " furnaces," Tenth Section,
two hundred and two dollars and sixty-six cents — in all six
hundred and thirteen dollars and sixty cents — to item " sala-
ries of teachers," in the Tenth Section.
From item " cleaning," Fourteenth Section, twenty dollars,
to item " salaries of teachers," in the same Section.
From item " rents," Fifteenth Section, three hundred and
sixty-two dollars and fifty cents ; from item " repairs," Fif-
teenth Section, two hundred and one dollars and forty-three
cents ; from item " salaries of teachers," Sixteenth Section,
one hundred and twenty-eight dollars and thirty-six cents;
from item " rents," Sixteenth Section, one hundred and twen-
ty-two dollars and fifty cents ; from item " Furnaces," Six-
teenth Section, one hundred and seventy dollars and thirty-
eight cents — in all nine hundred and eighty-five dollars'and
seventeen cents — to item " salaries of teachers," in the Fif-
teenth Section.
From item " rents," Seventeenth Section, two hundred and
forty dollars, to item "salaries of teachers," in the same
Section.
From item " rents," Seventeenth Section, one hundred and
twenty-two dollars and fifty cents ; from item " furnaces,"
Seventeenth Section, twenty-six dollars and forty-nine cents ;
from item " cleaning," Seventeenth Section, eleven dollars ;
from item " furniture," Seventeenth Section, thirteen dollars
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and uin6teeu cents; from item "night schools," Sixteenth
Section, forty -one dollars and ninety-seven cents ; from item
" furniture," Eighteenth iSection, seventeen dollars and fifty-
seven cents ; from item " furnaces," Nineteenth Section,
twenty-two dollars and eighty-eight cents ; from item " inci-
dentals," Nineteenth Section, sixty-three dollars and fifty-
nine cents; from item "furniture," Eleventh Section, thirty
dollars and forty-five cents ; from item " night schools," Elev-
enth Section, fifty-six dollars — in all four hundred and five
dollars and sixty-four cents — to item " salaries of teachers,"
in the Eighteenth Section.
From item "additional teachers," one thousand five hun-
dred aird fifty dollars; from item "fuel," one hundred and
thirty-five dollars; in all sixteen hundred and eighty-five dol-
lars, to item "salaries of teachers," in the Nineteenth Section.
From item " furnaces," Twentieth Section, one hundred
and fifty-two dollars and seven cents ; from item " incidentals,"
Twentieth Section, fifty-five dollars and twenty-five cents;
from item "furnaces," Sixteerrth Section, forty-three dollar's
and twenty-five cents; from item "cleaning," Sixteenth Sec-
tion, seventeen dollars ; from item " furniture," Sixteenth Sec-
tion, thirteen dollars and sixty-three cents ; from item " night
schools," Fourteenth Section, sixty-three dollars and twenty-
seven cents ; from item " furnaces," Fourteenth Section, fifty-
two dollars and thirteen cents ; from item " r-ents." Fourteenth
Section, one hundi-ed and thirty-one dollars and ninety-six
cents ; from item " night schools," Thirteenth Section, sixty-
one dollars and sixty-eight cents;, from item "furniture,"
Thirteenth Section, eleven dollars and sixty-two cents : from
item " cleaning," Thii-teenth Section, twenty-seven dollars.:
from item " furnaces," Thirteenth Section, twenty-seven dol-
lars and eighty-eight cents ; from item " salaries of teachers,"
Thirteenth Section, twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents ; from
item "furnaces," Eleventh Section, seventy-five dollars ; in a^l
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seven hundred and fifty-nine dollars and twenty-four cents, to
item " salaries of teachers," in the Twentieth Section.
From item " rents," Twenty-iirst Section, one hundred and
thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents ; from item " furnaces,"
Twenty-first Section, one hundred and forty-seven dollars and
eighty-one cents; from item "night schools," Twenty -first
Section, one hundred and fifteen dollars ; in all four hundred
dollars and thirty-one cents, to item " salaries of teachers," in
the same Section.
From item " rents," Twenty-second Section, one hundred
and six dollars ; from itosn " repairs," Twenty-second Section,
forty-nine dollars and fifty-four cents ; from item " cleaning,"
Twenty-second Section, twenty dollars and fifty-cents ; from
item '' furniture," in tlie Twenty-second Section, thirty-six dol-
lars and ninety-nine cents ; from item " incidentals," Twenty-
second Section, thirty-three dollars and twenty-five cents;
from item " night schools," in the Twenty-second Section,
fourteen dollars and thirty-six cents ; from item " night
schools," Twenty-first Section, ninety-four dollars — in all three
hundred and fifty-four dollars and sixty-four cents — to item
" salaries of teachers," in the Twenty-second Section.
From item " night schools," Twenty-first Section, thirty-
four dollars and fifty cents ; fi-om item " furniture," Twenty-
first Section, four dollars and sixty cents; from item "sala-
ries of teachers," Twelfth Section, one hundred and twenty-
nine dollars ; from item " night schools," Eleventh Section,
seven dollars ; from item " cleaning," Eleventh Section, forty-
five dollars and twenty.-two cents ; from item " furnaces,"
Eleventh Section, three dollars and thirty-five cents; from item
" repairs," Eleventh Section, twenty-three dollars ; from item
" night schools," Tenth Section, seventy-five dollars and sixty-
six cents ; from item " furnaces," Tenth Section, forty-three
dollars and fifty cents ; from item " night schools," Eighth
Section, one hundred and ten dollars and ninety-six cents ;
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from item " cleaning," Eighth Section, ninety-eight dollars ;
from item " furnaces," Eighth Section, six dollars and fift}'-
four cents ; from item " incidentals," Seventh Section, four
dollars and thirty-five cents; from item "cleaning," in the
Sixth Section, fourteen dollars and fifty cents ; from item
"repairs," Third Section, forty-five dollars and fifty-cents;
from item " fuel" in Miscellaneous Expenses, three hundred and
forty-eight dollars — in all nine hundred and ninety-three dol-
lars and sixty-eight cents — to item " salaries of teachers," in
Twenty-third Section.
From item " furnaces," Twenty-fourth Section, four dollars
and seventy-seven cents ; from item " furniture," Twenty-
fourth Section, twenty-nine dollars and twenty-seven cents ;
from item " incidentals," Twenty-fourth Section, seven dollars
and eighty cents ; from item " cleaning," Fourteenth Section,
eighteen dollars ; from item " furniture," Twelfth Section,
seventy-eight dollars ; from item " furnaces," Twelfth Section,
seventy-two dollars; from item "repairs," Twelfth Section,
four dollars and ninety-nine cents ; from item " rents," Twelfth
Section, one hundred and fifty dollars and fifty cents ; from
item " salaries of teachers," Twelfth Section, fifty-one dol-
lars — in all four hundred and sixteen dollars and thirty-three
eents — to item " salaries of teachers," in the Twenty-fourth
Section.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — H. G. Leiseneing,
Clerk of Select Council.
THEO. CUYLER,
President pro tem. of Select Council.
Approved December 29, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 343.
RESOLUTION
To authorize a transfer of appropriation to the Department of
Wharves a)id Landings.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the City Controller be, and he is here-
by authorized to transfer the sum of iifty-three dollars and
nineteen cents, of the appropriation made to the Department
of Wharves and Landings, for the expense of that Depart-
ment for the year 1858, from item 1, for cleaning docks, to
item 5, for advertising and incidentals.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
THEO. CUYLER,
President pro tem. of Select Council.
Approved December 29, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 344.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation to pay the interest on the Funded Debt of
the City of Fhiladelphia, falling due on the first day of January,
one thousand eight hundred and fifty -nine.
Section 1. The Select and Common Comicil^/of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain. That the sunJ^^yifve hundred and
517
sixty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated
to pay the interest of the Funded Debt of the City of Phila-
delphia, falling due on the first day of January, A. D. 1859.
Section 2. Warrants for the payment of said interest shall
be drawn as follows : — The City Treasurer shall present to
the Mayor a list of the Loan holders to be paid as aforesaid,
the amount of the principal of the debt owned by them re-
spectively, the rate and amount of interest accrued, the amount
of State Tax to be deducted and retained, and the net sum
due for interest ; and at the foot of such list the Mayor shall
add the following warrant : —
Mayor's Office,
(date.)
To the City Treasurer,
Pay to the Persons and Corporations above named, the
amounts respectively due to them, as above set forth, for inter-
est on City Debt due.
(Name.) Mayor.
The said lists and warrants shall then be presented to the
Controller to be countersigned.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council,
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
THEO. CUYLER,
President pro tern, of Select Council.
Approved December 29, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
P 518
CHAPTER 345.
RESOLUTION
To authorize the City Solicitor to enter satisfaction on certain bonds
and Judgments of Officers in the Highway Department.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the City Solicitor be authorized and
directed to enter satisfaction on the bonds of the following
persons, late Supervisors of Highways: — John Layer, John
Hassan, Thomas Farley, P. McDonough, John Kelsh, George
Snyder, James Elliott, Wm. Boileau, Wm. H. Boyce, Thomas
Laney, George L. Derr, Joseph M. Ritterson, P. O'Rourke,
Charles Justus, P. McEntee, P. Burns, Michael Righter, John
Felton, P. B. Hinkle, Jacob Rigler, William Yonker, James
M. Urian, Silas Suplee, Wilson J. Hansell, and Thomas Mc
Cullough, late Commissioner of Highways ; William Thomp-
son, Charles O'Neil, John Matz, James Callan, Michael Car-
Ian, Gotleib Berg, Henry Mather, Dennis Heenan, late Con-
tractors for cleaning the streets ; and also, Robert P. Bender,
late Permit and License Clerk in the Highway Department,
provided, the Chief Commissioner of Highways shall certify
that their accounts are correct with the Highway Department.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 29, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila,
519
CHAPTER 346.
AN ORDINANCE
Authorizing the construction of a certain Culvert in the Eighth
Ifard.
"Whereas, great inconvenience and injury to our citizens
has resulted from the existence of ol)jectionablc cross-gutters
at the intersection of Thirteenth street and Wahiut street,
owing to the want of inlet facilities, for the proper drainage
of that locality — and
Whereas, the general public necessity for such improve-
ment prevents the subject being brought under the Ordinance
of November 11, 1858, relative to the construction of branch
culverts or drains ; therefore.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelphia do ordain. That the Department of Highways
be, and is herel)y authorized and directed, to construct an ex-
tension of the culvert now terminating in Thirteenth street,
at a point about 180 feet south of Walnut street — and that
the same be extended on the line of Thirteenth street north-
ward about 230 feet, or to the north line of Walnut street —
to be in form and proportions the same as that now construct-
ed. That two inlets of sufiicient capacity shall be inserted at
said intersection, one on the north-west and one on the south-
west corner thereof, the said work to be performed in con-
formity with plans and specifications to be prepared by the
Department of Surveys.
Section 2. The Chief Commissioner of Highways shall
advertise in two daily newspapers, for one week, announcing
that proposals will be received for the construction of the said
520
drain, and he shall allot the work to the lowest bidder, and
it shall be a condition of such contract tliat the contractor
shall accept the sums assessed upon and charged to the pro-
perties lying upon the line of said culvert, as authorized by
section 8, of a supplement to Act of Consolidation, approved
April 21, 1855, and in manner and form provided in sections
3 and 4 of Ordinance entitled " An Ordinance to provide for
the construction of branch Culverts," approved November
11, 1858, the balance, for the street intersection and con-
struction of inlets, to be paid out of items for that purpose
designated in appropriation to be made to the Department of
Highways, &c., for the year 1859.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 30, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Pliila.
CHAPTER 347.
RESOLUTION
To change one item of Appropriation to the Receiver of Taxes.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the
City of Philadelphia, That the City Controller be, and he is
hereby, instructed to change from item 4 to item 8 of the ap-
521
propriation to the Receiver of Taxes for 1858, forty-two
dollars.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm- F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 30, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 348.
RESOLUTION
Transferring certain items of appropriation to the Guardians of
the Poor.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the City Controller be, and he is here-
by authorized to transfer the sum of four hundred and fifty-
five dollars and sixty- three cents of the appropriation approved
April 30, 1858, made to the Department of Poor, to pay bills
contracted in the year 1857, as follows, viz : — to item 11, one
dollar and eight cents; to item 18, two dollars and thirty-two
cents; to item 26, one hundred and seventy-nine dollars and
twenty-four cents; to item 27, eighty-eight dollars and eighty-
one cents; to item 31, one hundred and three dollars and
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522
tliirty-seveu cents ; to item 50, twenty-two dollars and thirty-
nine cents; and to item 58, fifty-eight dollars and forty-two
cents.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — J. Barclay Harding,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 30, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
CHAPTER 349.
RESOLUTION
To transfer an item of appropriation to the Law Department.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the
City of Philadelphia, That the City Controller be, and he is
hereby authorized to transfer from item 4 '• Sheriff's costs" to
item 3, the sum of four hundred dollars, and to " item 5," the
sum of one hundred dollars, and to item 10, the sum of one
hundred dollars, from the appropriation contained in the Or-
dinance, approved December 31, 1857, entitled "An Ordi-
nance to make an appropriation for the expenses of the Law
Department, for the year 1858."
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest— Wm. E. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 24, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Maijor of Phila.
523
CHAPTER 350.
AN ORDSNANCE
To rMthorize the sale of City Loans to pay the funded debt of the
City if Philuddphia falling due on January 1, 1859, and to
make an appropriation for the payment of the same.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia do ordain, That the Commissioners of the
sinking fund, are hereby authorised and directed to sell at
fair market rates so much of the six-per cent loans of the City
of Pliiladelphia, now forming part of the sinking fund of the
City, as will with any portion of said sinking fund, now un.
invested, produce the sum of ninety-five thousand eight hun-
dred and ninety-four dollars and twenty cents, which said sum
is hereby appropriated, when realized hj such sales to the
payment of the principal of the funded debt of said City, fall-
ing due on the first day of January, 1859.
Section 2. Warrants for the payment of the said appro-
priation shall be drawn by the Commissioners of the sinking
fund, in the manner and form and with the requisites pre-
scribed in existing Ordinances respecting the drawing of war-
rants for the payment of money from the City Treasur)\
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Couvcil.
Attest— Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
THEO, CUYLER,
President pro tern, of Select Council.
Approved December 29, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
524
CHAPTER 351.
RESOLUTION
Transferring certain itans of appropriation to the Guardians of
the Poor.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the City Controller be and he is hereby
authorized to make the following transfers from the appropri-
ation to the Guardians of the Poor : —
From appropriation to pay bills of 1857 not required, one
hundred and seventy-eight dollars and seventy-six cents.
From item 12, potatoes and beans, thirteen hundred dollars.
From item 67, oats and middlings, &c., three hundred and
eight dollars and twenty-five cents.
From item 54, roasting coffee apparatus, two hundred dol-
lars.
From item 69, construction of bake oven, seven hundred
and sixty-one dollars and twenty cents.
From item 78, State taxes, two hundred and sixty-three
dollars and five cents.
From item 3, codfish, three hundred and nine dollars and
twenty-three cents.
From item 7, butter and lard, three hundred dollars.
From item 65, brushes and brooms, three hundred dollars.
To item 20, boots and shoes, five hundred and twenty dol-
lars and twenty-two cents.
To item 23, hats, twenty three dollars and eighty-seven
cents.
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To item 27, white and brown sugar, three hundred and
fifty dollars and fifty-seven cents.
To item 30, brandy for sick, seven dollars and fifty cents.
To item 31, wine for the sick, three hundred and seven dol-
lars.
To item 40, muslins and tickings, six hundred and nine dol-
lars and sixty-nine cents.
To item 56, plumbing, fifteen hundred and seventy-two dol-
lars and ten cents.
To item 58, hardware and crockery, one hundred and eighty-
eight dollars and forty-nine cents.
To item 6-1, oil, two hundred dollars.
To item 100, stationery, printing, <fec., forty dollars and five
cents.
To item 110, groceries First District, one hundred and one
dollars.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 29, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 352.
RESOLUTIOgSS
Authorizing the Commissioner of Markets to draw certain war-
rants.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That the Commissioner of Markets be, and
he is hereby authorized to draw warrants on the City Treas-
urer, on item JNo. 5, in favor of the following persons, in pay-
ment of their bills.
Charles F. Cope, for building a shed at the south end of
Wharton Market, one hundred and eighty-five dollars.
William P. Prickett, for repairs to Market Houses, fifty-six
dollars and ninety-five cents.
James Cannon, for repairs to Market Houses, fifty dollars.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Coimcll.
THEO. CUYLER,
President pro tem. of Select Council.
Approved December 29, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mai/or of Phila.
527
CHAPTER 353.
AN ORDINANCE
To transfer certain Trust Funds now in the City Treasury.
Whereas, Sundry collections have from time to time, dur-
ing the year, been made from the income of certain legacies,
and the said collections have been paid to the City Treasurer,
as City funds, and been therefore passed to the account of the
general expenditures of the City, now therefore
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of
Philadelpliia do ordain, That the City Treasurer be, and he is
hereby authorized and directed to transfer the sum of four
hundred and seventy-nine dollars and ninety-six cents, from
the general account to the following legacy accounts : viz :
To Archibald Thompson's legacy, two hundred dollars and
one cent, ($200 01.)
To William Carter's legacy, thirty-six dollars and sixty-two
cents, ($36 62-100.)
To James Button's legacy, two hundred and forty-three
dollars and thirty-three cents, ($ 243 33-100.)
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 31, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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CHAPTER 354.
RESOLUTION
Transferring an item of appropriation to the Department of
Markets.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
of Philadelphia, That one hundred dollars be hereby trans-
ferred from item 5, to item 3, in the appropriation to the De-
partment of Market Houses, for the year 1858.
CHAS. B. TREGO,
President of Common Council.
Attest — Wm. F. Small,
Clerk of Common Council.
G. M. WHARTON,
President of Select Council.
Approved December 31, A. D. 1858.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Mayor of Phila.
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