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¸56 Councilmen voting aye V, nay none. The Ordinance was declared passed and numb er ed #1-]56. Difficulties 'encountered by the Fire & Water Committee in the matter of installing new tkydrants on accmmt of expense and defective hydrants was presented by Councilman Peterson, and upon his suggestion the matter of install- ing tkvdrants was placed in the hands of Street Commissioner Farmer, the work to be done at different times by his force when not otherwise engaged. An invitation extended to the Mayor and Council to participate in the Fourth of July parade was on motion accepted. Councilman Peterson's agreement for the Fire Dept. to take part in the parade received an endorsement of the Council. At this time Councilman Devereaux was excused from Council. Two Resolutions directing the t~ayor and Recorder to issue warrants for the payment of de~ages over benefits to parties entitled thereto in the matter of the opening and extension of Nineteenth Avenue from Willamette Street to Driverton Addition, and of Seventeenth Avenue from Oak Street to Willamette Street were presented, and a motion was made and seconded that said Resolutions be adopted, ~nd the ayes and nays were called. Councilmen voting aye Parks, Polders,' Peterson, Nosher, Goodpasture and Quimby, nay none, absent Deve~eaux. The motion was declared carried and so ordered. °l~e offer of the 0reg~n Power Co.~ to turn over the use of its Pulmotor to the City was on motion referred to the h'ire & Water Committee. The request of ~r. Sumner and wife fo~ a Satisfactory statement from the City as to the location oF a sewer across their lot in Fair~o~nt near the Southern Pacific Right-of-Way to relieve an alleged cloud upon the title to their property was referred to the City Attorney, Mayor and Recorder with authority to execute the prope~ papers. A quit-claim deed from William C. Hazelton and wife to the City for a strip of land V feet wide and 180 feet long ~long the alley between yth and Otb Avenues West of Blair Bou. was read, and a motion was ~ade, seconded and carried to accept the deed and have the same recorded. A copy of the request and plat of the Oregon & 9alifornia Railroad Co. to construct a spur track across Pearl Street, same to be considered by the Railroad Commission of Oregon at 'an early date, was ordered filed.