The age-herald., 1898-09-08
LAID DOWN A PRECEDENT
Members of National Guard Must Pay
 Street Tax.
AN OLD GRIEVANCE RENEWED
On Motion of Hentschel and Harrington Electric Company Must Remove Some Obstruction-Ord to
 Remove all Dead Tracks.

The board of aldermen held one of their regular semi-monthly meetings last night and transacted nothing but routine busi- ness.
 Mayor Evans and Aldermen Lynaugh, Ashford, Rainbow, Kerr, Mcknight, Moore, Williams, Hamilton. Pearce Gray, Parker. Harrington, Hentschel were present.
 A number of petitions were read and re- ferred to the proper committees.
 A kick was made on the weeds that are growing on the sidewalks over on the Southside and the police department was instructed to that the property owners kept their sidewalks cleaned of as re- quired by city ordinance
 Chairman Moore, of the miscellaneous committee, recommended that the Perry Mason company's merchant tax be refund- ed. He asked that the matter of Mitchell Bros. license be left over until next meet ing. He recommended that the National Surety company be requested to pay only $50 for second agency, which they had in mingham, and which they operated only two months. They have one agency on which they pay full license. Petitions of the Broom Fish company, W. C. Odom. T. s. Simpson were also reported favorably and all were eoncurred in by the board.
 Wm. D. Brophy petitioned that his street and poll tax be refunded on the ground that he was a member of the Alabama National Guard. Accompanying the peti- tion was signed statement to that effect by the captain of his company. The peti- tion was unanimously disallowed.
 Tho nance Committee
 Chairman Gray, of the finance committee presented all the bills against the city for the past month, and recommended that they be paid. So ordered He also rec commended that s. H. Darby's poll tax be refunded, that Lester Bros. had been doubly taxed and that the proper amount be refunded, that Lane & White be per- mitted to redeem certain property which had been sold for taxes without paying costs. and that a warrant issued by the city in 1879 and now in possession of E. V. Gregory be redeemed. The board con- cured in all the recommendations.
 John L. Jenkins. an old soldier, was given permission to do small jobs of bricklaying and carpenter work without license.
 J. J. Gambill asked that he be not re- quired to pay beer tax for the last quar- ter of 1898 as he was going out of the bus mess. Referred to miscellaneous conn mittee
 J. B. Baker. of the fire department asked that he be allowed $s5 to pay doctors bill. He was severely injured while on duty and the city physician could not be found to care for him.
 Property to Be Assessed
 Alderman Pearce introduced an ordi- nance that the property which was bene- fited by the Eighth alley sanitary sewer be assessed to defray the expenses of building the sewer. about $S,5OO, passed. Alderman Pearce introduced another or dinance that a sanitary sewer be con- structed from Twenty-first street and Ninth avenue, Northside, in a northerly direction out to Huntsville avenue, the cost of it. s4.5oO to be borne by the property benefited. Passed.
 He introduced third ordinance that a storm sewer be built on the South High lands, one block long, in Thirteenth ave- nue, between Nineteenth and Twentieth streets It will cost s325. Passed. He offered a resolution that the city proceed to collect from the owners of prop erty adjoining Avenue F the amount due for the improvements that have been made on that avenue, as had been provided in an ordinance previously passed by the board.
 Alderman Rainbow, of the sanitary com mittee, introduced an ordinance providing several laws that were much needed. for preserving law and order in the cemetery. It went to the judiciary committee. After Electric Company | On motion of Alderman Hentschel and Alderman Harrington, the Birmingham Railway and Electric company was in- which they have in Twelfth street, be- tween Avenues B and c.
 Alderman Moore said the street car crossing at Twenty-fourth street and Ninth avenue needed repairs badly. The city en- gineer was instructed to see that these complaints were remedied
 Alderman Moore said that he would in- troduce an ordinance at the next meet ing of the board requiring that all dead street car tracks in the city be taken up.
 Alderman Rainbow asked whether the board of education had decided how much, if any, tuition should be charged in the public schools this year. Mayor Evans said that the board of education had not yet met to ask the city for an appropria- tion and that it would eventually depend entirely upon the board of aldermen whether any tuition was charged or not.
 The board then adjourned, went down on the sidewalk and discussed how mary of the aldermen present were going to run for mayor next May.