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136 .......... JANU_~ 31_, 1916. Council Chambers, Eugene, Oregon, January 31, 1916, Council met pursuant to adjournment of January 2Wtl~, and was called to order by Mayor Bell. Present Councilmen Parks, Polders, Koppe, Peterson, I~tosher, Goodpasture and Quimby; absent Devereaux. The recommendation of the Finance Committee to reject the proposition submitted by the City Treasurer to bond the City for $50,000 for delinquent street and sewer warrants, leaving the matter to be cared for under tile Bancroft Act was read and on motion adopted. Report of the Sewer Committee recommending the cancellation of assess- ments against lots l, 2, 3 and ~ in Block 23, on account of High Street sewer, and recommending the cancellation o~ assessment against hot i in Block 2, Ells- worth's Addition against George W. Kinsey was on motion adopted. Request of John M. Pipes, former City Attorney, to be ~llowed to collect cost fees amounting to about $120 from Defendant in ornamental lamp post case and retain same was referred to the Judiciary Committee and City Attorney. An affidavit of Dora E. Vtallaee presented as ~ claim to the City for the sum of $7,500 on account of the d~ath of her husband, an employee at the City Park, was referred to the Judiciary gow~ittee and City Attorney. The recommendation of the Street Committee that the petition for ornamen- tal lights on Seventh Avenue from Olive Street ~to High Stre'et be Wr~nted was re~d ~nd on motion adopted, and an 0rdin~nce providing for the construction and erect- ion of an orno~aental street lighting system on both sides of Seventh Avenue from Olive Street to Hi~h Street and to assess the cost thereof against property ~butting said Street between s~id points was re~d ~nd laid over; and a Resolution instructing the Recorder to publish a notice that s~id Ordinance will be 'consid- ered for passage on the 1Wth day of February, 1916, at ~:30 o'clock P. N. and that objections will be heard at said time was read and .on motion adopted. The recommendation of the Street Committee that the petition fop ornamen- tal street lights on Eighth Avenue from Willamette Street to Pearl. Street be granted was on motion adopted, and an Ordinance providing for the construction and erection of an ornamental street lighting system on both sides of Eighth Avenue East from Willamette ~street to PearI Street and to assess the Cost thereof against property abutting said street between said points was read 'and laid over; and a Resolution directing the Recorder to publish ~ notice that on the 1Wth day of February, 1916 ~t ~:30 o'clock P. M. said Ordinance will be considered by the Council and that objections of property owners will be heard at that time was on motion adopted.