Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-26
 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Of the Commercial Club Hold an
 Interesting Meeting. RATES FROM COLLINSVILLE Will Be AdjuSted-The O'Brien Boundary Bill-Encouraging
 Reports Made.
RATES FROM COLLINSVILLE

The secretary read the following letter from MT. T. F. Steele, division freight
 agent of the Queeu and Crescent: RATES FOR CoLLINsvILLE, ALA. QUEEN AND CRESCENT ROUTE, ALABAMA GREAT SOUTHERN k. R. Co-, BIRMINGHAM, Jan. 24, 1895. MT. N. F. Thompson, Secretary Commercial Club, Birmingham, Ala.-
 DEAR SIR: Referring to a conversation on this subject, l am just in receipt of letter from our general freight agent ad- vising that he will issue the rate of 10 cents per 1C0 pounds on corn from all stations
 between Fort Payne and Reeseyille. Col linsville IS included in this district. l have written our Collinsvlle friends advising them of this rate. Yours truly, F. F. STEELE, b. F. A. Mir. Snnige read letters from several Bir- mingha merchants relative to the delay
 in shipments of produce from Uniontown, Demopois, Greensboro, Marion and other southeast Alabama towns. The matter was referred 10 the committee on trans-
 portation to investigate and seek remedy. On motion of MT. Sinnige the secretary was instructed to purchase a blackboard
 and place thereupon the names of the new
 members coming into the club, and also to
 procure map of Birmingham for the use of the club
 Tue secretary stated to the directors that MT. $. E. Conner desired a mass meeting of the citizens of Birmingham 10 be held
 at an early day to consider the cotto mill
 matter.
 On motion of Mai F. Y. Anderson the board of directors instructed the secretary
 to issue call for such meeting, to be
 held next Tuesday afternoon at o'clock, and that general meeting of citizens be urged upon this occasion.
 Some of the members of the board of di- rectors made inquiries concerning the | great number of licenses charged the mer- chants of Birmingham under the new schedule of city licenses. In reply to these inquiries Alderman Kettig stated that the | mayor had been authorized to adjust such matters on an equitable basis, as II was not intended to burden merchants who kept different lines of stock in trade.
 Mai. F. Y. Anderson stated to the dI- rectors that he was in correspondence with | party who could locate certain industries in this city, among which was clock and watch factory. The letter was referred 10 the secretary, with instructions to reply | to the same.
 | On motion of MT. Kettig Secretary | Thompson was instructed to ascertain the | cost of card containing an advertisement | of the Commercial club in the Manufactur- | ers' Record, and to report the same at the next meeting.
 l The secretary stated that several letters | had been received from parties with whom Mir. M. V. Joseph, who represented the | AGE HERALD on the Cuban trip of the 1 Alabama Press association, had talked | concerning the great advantages Birming- | ham offered to manufacturers. vote of | l services be rendered the club while on the | trip.
 MT. McGowan, in a short talk, referred | to the growing reputation of the Com mer- | cial club, expressed to him by travelling men, saying that he thought the work was | being appreciated away from home as well | as at home.
 | A report of the committee sent to Mont | gomery to urge certain legislation was made by Secretary Thompson and Major 1 Anderson.
 The secretary then read the following | rolling mill bill:
 | HOUSE BILL 1s9-ENaEossEp. | A bill to be entitled act to define the corporate limits of the city of Birm1ng- l ham, in the state of Alabama. Section 1. Be 1t enacted by the general
 assembly of Alabama, That the corporate
 limits of the city of Birmingham shall be l and the same are hereby fixed so as to ln- | clude, from and after the passage of this | act, the following described territory now | included in or adjacent to the present. cor
 porate limits of said city, being in the | county of Jefferson, in the State of Ala
 bana, to-wit: Beginning at point at which Thirty second street extended n orth- l westerly would intersect with Seventeenth avenue, north, extended northeasteriy, l running thence in a southwesteriy direc-
 tion along and parallel with Seventeenth tn | avenue, north, extended sonthwesterly, | to a point at which said Seventeenth avenue extended southwesterly would in
 tersect Walker street extended north 1; | thence south along and parallel with | Walker street extended to point at which 1 Seventh street intersects Walker street;
 thence south along the east side of Seventh | street to a point where said street II ex. l tended would intersect the south side of | the Alabama Great Southern Railroad com- l pany's main track; thence easterly along l the south side of said main track to the | east side of Thirteenth street; thence south | along the east side of Thirteenth street | to the north side of Avenue B; thence | west along the north side of Avenue B to | the east side of Seventh street; thence in 8 | southeasterly direction along and parallel
 with Seventh street, extended southeast | extended would intersect Fifteenth avenue, south, extended southwesteriy from
 Fourteenth street; thence northeasterly
 with and parallel to said Fifteenth avenue, | south, extended southwesterly from Four
 teenth street; thence northeasterly with l and parallel to said Fifteenth avenue,
 south, to the corner of Fourteenth street
 and said Fifteenth avenue, south, being a
 of Highlands; thence, with said south
 boundary of the town of Highlands,
 northeastward to the corner of said Fifth l avenue, south, and Madison lane; thence
 northwest corner of Mountain avenue and l Pink streetj thence northward With the
 west line of Pink street extended to the
 west line of Highland avenue; thence | nOrCnWarQ Wltn tne west line OI uigulAuu
 avenue to the west line oi Thirty. second
 street; thence northward along the west
 line of said Thirty second street to the in- ] tersection of said west line of Thirty-second
 street with the northwestern boundary line l of the general railroad right of way; thence
 southwestward along said northwestern | boundary line to the intersection of said 1 north western boundary line with the north-
 eastern boundary line of the right of way ot
 the Georgia Pacific railway, near Twenty
 eighth street; thence northwestwardly
 along said northeastern boundary line 10
 the intersection of said northeastern ! boundary line with the eastern boundary \ line of the right of way of the South \ and North Alabama railroad; thence northeastwardly along said eastern boundary line to the intersection of said
 eastern boundary line with the above men, 4 tioned west line of Thirty -second street, lthsnce northwestwardly along the said 4 west line of Thirty -secopd street to the | point of beginning. The limitA herein be.