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Soon, other scouts arrived and presently an automobile rolled up to the door and four of the town's councilmen climbed out. The party was composed of Mr. Bassett, Mr. Bates, Mr. Adams and Mr. Franklin, all members of the Mayor's committee of judges. The lads were disappointed not to see Mr. Ford among them, but they felt confident that he would appear in time for the official test.
In the time of Heureaux the lists of new councilmen were often arranged in the capital and a few days before election remitted to the various towns, even with a designation of the person whom the council was later to choose as its president. The results of such a method of selection of councilmen has not been as unfavorable as might be expected.
Councilmen 1st Ward Nelson Hayward, Herrick Childs, George B. Tibbets. 2d Ward Moses Kelly, W. J. Warner, M. C. Younglove. 3d Ward Philo Scovill, Benj. Harrington, Miller M. Spangler. Mayor Joshua Mills. President of the Council Benjamin Harrington. Aldermen Nelson Hayward, William Smyth, Benjamin Harrington.
Then for each of these secondary assertions reasons in support are adduced; thus for B. "Advantageous contracts cannot be made," the reasons are I. "Contracts must be passed on separately by aldermen, common councilmen, and the mayor," and 2. "Bargains are made between the aldermen representing different wards."
Then he shook hands with the mayor and with all the city councilmen and left Jeffersonville forever, going back to New York where landscape gardeners grow, and the doors were opened and the committee of the whole became once more the regular meeting of the City Council.
The before-named elected elders and church councilmen hereby promise, before the most Holy God and the Christian congregation, by their own signature, by the help of God, faithfully to observe and execute the following Articles and Duties, to the best of their ability, so long as they remain in office, to wit: "1.
Some form of local government giving the residents a right to regulate their civil affairs was favored by the Commander, who had not even a code under which to act. A meeting was called, ordinances were drafted, a magistrate and councilmen elected for a town government. But all were not agreed upon these acts and opposition arose against it from the very inception of the movement.
There is nothing about which Councilmen need feel so little anxiety as a deficiency in the supply of regimental colors. When, at last, these extravagant banners voted by the Corporation are presented to the regiments, a new scene of plunder is exhibited.
It was in the town-hall, after a council meeting, that he first became aware of Farfrae's coup for establishing himself independently in the town; and his voice might have been heard as far as the town-pump expressing his feelings to his fellow councilmen.
So many of his bookkeepers, superintendents, time-keepers had graduated into councilmen and state legislators. His nominees suggested to political conferences were so often known to make good. First he came to have influence in his councilman's ward, then in his legislative district, then in the city councils of his party Whig, of course and then he was supposed to have an organization.
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