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Council Chambers, Eugene, Oregon, January 2~, 1916. Council met ptt~suant to adjournment of January 10th, and was called .to order by Mayor Bell. Present Councilmen Parks, Polders, Peterson, Mosher and Quimby; absent Councilmen Koppe, Devereaux and Goodpasture. Petition of Dora E. Wallace by W. C. Barbour, Attorney, for a reasonable amount of damages~on account of the killing of her husband by a deer at the City Park was referred to the Judiciary Committee and City .Attorney. Petitions for ornamental light post street lighti~ng system on Seventh Avenue From Olive Street to High Street and on East Eighth Avenue from Willamette Street to Pearl Street were read and referred to the Street Committee. At this time Councilm~n Goodpasture appeared in Council. Attention of the Council was called to hearing by the Public Service Commission of Oregon of application of the Southern Pacific Company for grade crossings on Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, VanBuren Streets and River Road, set For February 2nd at 1:30 o'clock P. M. Communication of City Treasurer Stickels recommending a Charter amend- ment at the next City Election for the sale of $~0,000 Refunding Bonds to take care of miscellaneous street and sewer construction warrants was referred to the Finance Committee. Report of the Judiciary Committee recommending that the petition filed by Donald W. McKinnon for the submission at the April Election of a proposed Charte~ amendment providing for the establishment of a Department of Municipal Industry be rejected and not put on the official ballot, the same not being in compliance with the law in such case m~de ~nd provided, was on motion seconded and carried adopted. Due notice having been given of the hearing of objections to the pro- posed assessment of the cost of ornamental street lights on Willamette Street from the Depot to Eleventh Avenue and from Eleventh Avenue to Thirteenth Avenue, objections wer~ called for at this time and no objections being heard and no objections having been Filed, a motion was made, seconded and carried instructing the City Attorney to prepare Ordinances for the assessment of these two lighting systems in accordance with the Cha~ter. At this time Councilman ~oppe appea~ed in Council. A Resolution providing for the submission to the electors of the'City of Eugene at the regular City Election to be held April 3, 1916, a proposed act attached to said Wesolution, being an act to amend Section lk2 of the Charter of the City of Eugene providing for the creation of drainage districts and ~he