'A show of hands having been called, there appeared to be a small majority The. Canren aske division.
st the amendment.
The result of the division proved to bo—for the amendment 143, against, 105.
was to consider a irom the agents Of the Soochow Give Bridge Company in CHAIRMAN ad next busines connection with the purchase of the material of the iron bridge at the mouth of the Soochow Creek, and to come to some decision thereon.
Dext said, before they proceeded to discuss this, he might observe that the Bunding Scheme would be carried through with a little reserve. They would not want all the money at once, and, therefore, they need not issue the whole of the debentures simultaneously. With regard. to the proposal of the Bridge Company, he had very few remarks to make, because the Council, in approving it as they did, considered that they were doing the best for the public.. They thought that, in accepting the proposal of the Bridge Company they found a solution of the difficulty and the only solution, 'The Council had. documents in their possession showing that on a former occasion an agreement had been entered into for the commutation' of foreign tolls for ten years, and the purchase of the iron bridge at the end of that time. If that agreement had been completed by the building of the bridge, the community would have been bound to it for ten years, and he thought the proposal now before them was a much more favourable one than. that. signed sealed and delivered, and which fell through only because. of the accident to the bridge. He therefore proposed That the Municipal Council be authorized to purchase the iron bridge as it now stands
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