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Ordered, That the amount provided in the Budget
for Reporters be paid

On motion the Council adjourned
M. Flanagan
City Clerk

J. Duncan Thompson
Mayor

Monday 8 OClock P.M

Kingston December 16th 1889
A Meeting of the Council of the Corporation of the City of
Kingston was held this day Present

His Worship the Mayor
Aldermen

Adams, Carson, Cruggan, Fenwick, Gaskin,
Harty, Hiscock, Minnes, Muckleston, McCammon
McIntyre, McLeod, Polson, Rees, W. Robinson
Shannon

The Clerk read the minutes of the two last meetings

A Communication from The Revd A.L. Macfadyen[McPhayden]
was read asking for remission of rent of City Hall

On motion of Ald. Polson seconded by Ald. Carson

Ordered That the communications of Messrs Cunningham
and Macfadyen [McPhayden] be granted on the usual conditions

Sunday Communications Re taxes were submitted
and referred to the Court of Revision

Petitions were presented as follows:-
From E.C. Hill [insert] et al [/insert] by Ald. Gaskin asking for a sewer
on St Catharine street from the Northern end of said
street to Pine street - Referred to the Committee on Streets

From Robert OConnor by Ald. W. Robinson re
reduction of Water Tax.- Referred to the Committee on
Streets.

From E.C. Hill et al.. Re Water Works. Referred
to the Committee on Water Works

The 31st Rule of Council as to the order of business
was suspended

The Council went into Committee of the whole
on second reading of the By Law to partially exempt
Joseph Carringtons Tannery from the payment of Municipal
taxes for a period of five years from the first day of January
1889

Ald. Polson in the chair

The Council resumed

The Committee rose and the chairman reported the
second reading of the By Law clause by clause - The Report
was received - Yeas Aldn Cruggan, Gaskin, Gildersleeve, Harty
Hiscock, Minnes, Muckleston, McCammon, McIntyre, McLeod, Rees, W. Robinson
Shannon, Swift, Wilson 15. Nays The Mayor, Ald. Adams, Carson
Fenwick, Polson & Robinson 6.