Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1890 — Town Board Doings. [ARTICLE]

Town Board Doings.

The Town Board, at their regular monthly meeting Monday night, received an extensively signed petition asking for the appointment of a night watch, and recommending W. C. Shead for the position. The action was taken, and Mr. Shead appointed, at a salary of 840 per month. He is to go on duty at 3 o’clock P. M. and remain until daylight. He

has police powers, as a deputy sheriff, and is required to maintain peace and good order, and to arrest all offenders. He must be at the depot, on the arrival of every train, and watch all suspicious characters, who get off of the said trains. He is also to watch the electric lights and make a memorandum of the number of lights he finds not burning, etc. A good sewer was ordered constructed along the north side of Washington street, beginning midway between Division and Weston streets and extending thence to the Iroquois river. The owners of the property are, to pay for the pipe in front of their lots, and the town does the work and furnishes the pipe for the street crossings. The sewer is to be constructed at once.

The bill for the electric lights was laid on the table until the next meeting, or until the light company gets ready to comply with the request of the Board, for a proposition from the Company for a new contract for the ensuing year. The street committee was ordered to examine certain side-walks, complained of as defective.

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