Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-03

Principals of the colored schools, 20 per cent for five months .......s.... 1so % Hieh school teachers, 20 per cent for Secrerary's office abolished ........... 240 0o | Cutting of salaries one month of ses- sion .....''s.,..'.... ....,..'...'..,.. 4ooo oo
 Total reduction ... ...............sl l424 se Mir. Ullman took the ground that the minority report of Mir. A. c. Lowery at- tached 10 the report had nothing to do with the city council aud 1t would be consuming time to read it.
 On motion of Mir. McCartin the report of the board of education was accepted with out reading MT. Lowery' 8 minority report. Mir. Kettig said it would require from twenty to twenty five days for two men to investigate the accounts, and asked the | board to allow the committee to employ what help they need to make the investi | gation.
 MT. McCartin embodied Mir. Kettig's re- l quest into a motion, which prevailed. The regular order was suspended to hear 1 the reading of an amendment to the bill | creating the board of education of Bir- ming gham, which had the approval of the | board of education.
 Mr. Ullman said the bill as read by him was adopted at meeting of the board of | education.
 Mir. F. P. O'Bren, representative in the legislature, said if this bill became law it would reouce the city's appropriation to S11 ,00o, and if another proposed law was l enac,ed the citys appropriation will be still lowered. The city's appro priation for the public schools for the present year is s2S, ,0OO.
 The bill referred to by Mir. O'Brien is | one introduced by MT. Coleman of Mar shall county requiring all property holders and merchants to give in their stocks and l proreity for taxation under sworn state- | menis at the ir value on the 1st of January. | MT. McCartin said last summer the city was called on to appropriate a budget of l Sc8, 900 for the schools for this year. This, 1.a.1 xtnta fr,ara ment in the schools. With this bill not over SIG, COO could be raised; that would leave u deficit oi S11 ,000. Four new build ings are needed, one on the North High lands, one at the East Fad and one at the West End certainly. He said here was a way $50, 900 could be raised for the schools. MT. O'Brien, he thought. was | wrong in the statement that the people of | Jeffe rson county had defeated the Hundley school amendment. The schools are, he believed, as sacred as the church. He wanted the senator and represen tatives from this county to be requested to work for the assessment of 20 cents on tbe Sl0o.
 MT. Kettig read the following resolution and Mir. Ward moved its adoption:
 Whereas. The condition Of the city of Birmin gLnm is such that at the present rate s,oo oi T., taxation, oo it will be impossible to meet the interest on our bonded indebtedness as the same falls due, and at the same time, to maintain the several departments or the city so as to se- cure efficient service; and,
 Whereas, The board of education will reques the general assembly of Alabama to levy on the property in the city spe- cial tax for the maintenance Of the public | schools of the city; be it
 Resolved, That the board of mayor and aldermen of Birmingham does hereby re- quest and petition the general assembly 10 levy for school purposes tax of 2-l0 Of l percent, or 20 cents on every $10o worth of | y,ro ri int tho ifu of nuh | securing to the city the maintenance of her public schools and assisting herto meet her just obligations.
 Resolved, That, with the above recom- mendation and request, we hereby indorse the bill presented by Representative | O'Brieu, and respectfully ask our senator and representatives to secure it's passage.
 MT. O'Brion said he could not work for | l mill tax.
 MT. Gillespie was in accord with MT. O'Brien ,and aid the school bill had been lost in tue city of Birmingham in the cleo O'Brien supported the 9 mills rate he would go counter to the expressed will of the vot- | CTS of the city.
 Mir. AIcCartin said the Hundey school amendment had lost on account of the tax ing power being left with the township trustees.
 MT. Gillespie wanted to follow the action of the board of education.
 MT. Kettig thought this mill rate the best thing for maintaining the schools. The city is in hard straits financially, but cannot afford to default on her bonds. We must have free schools, said he, and with this s30, ,000 raised by the 2 mill rate free schools can be maintained.
 Mayor VanHoose said he practically agreed with Mir. Kettig. He couldn t see why the asking for mills would jeopardize the 1 mill rate If mills could could not be | secured. He wanted free schoolsj they | friends. the mill rate.
 The motion to adopt the resolutions pre- vailed, Messrs. Enslen and Gillespie voting no.
 MT. UIlmau wanted to know if each life insurance company had to pay S100 license or s100 for each agent. The ordnance re- quires S100 for each agent, so the board held.
 The sexton's report, submitted by Chair man Harrington of the cemetery commit tee, showed seventeen buriaIs in Oak Hill cemetery and $1l3 collected for the month of Decem Der.
 Chairman Ulman of the miscellane eous committee reported unfavorably on the pe- ttion of the retail druggists for reduction in licenses; also on a similar petition of | grocery merchants. Ire report was con- cured in on motion of Mir. McCartin.
 An ordinance repeating the $1 tax on bicycles.
 lie also recommended reduction in the license on guarantee companies; l aISO a IGuuCtlOu IIOm SZO tO TlO Ou slot machines, where person has more than one machine in use. All these rec | omme ndations were concurred in. Chairman Jackson, of the committee on markets, recommended that meat and veg etable stalls at the Northside market house be separated; the discontinuance Of the market on the sidewalk on Fourth avenue; that vegeta bic stalls be rented for Sl5 and meat stalls for SIS per month. Recommen- | dations concurred in.
 At the suggestion of MT. McCartin the mayor requested the judiciary committee | to secure record book in which to copy | all city contracts.
 Chairman McCartin of the police and sanitation committee recommended that | the claim of Gus Eiiard for court costs be | allowed, also that J. H. Whaley be allowed | eleven and half days lost time and Po- liceman Cunningham four and a half weeks | for same.
 All petitions went over until the next | meeting on account of the lateness of the