The age-herald., 1898-11-17
CITY COUNCIL ON RECORD
 FAVOR|NC ANNEXATION
Resolution for
 Greater Birmingham

so as to include adjacent population
 and territory which it Is thought by many
 should naturally be included in one munich
 pal corporation for better police protection,
 educational facilities and improved sanitary
 conditions of the whole, has of late been
 discussed by the press and public; and
 Whereas, The present session of the gen.
 eral assembly of the state is the last ses-
 sion to be held before the census enumera-
 tion of 1900 is to be made; and
 Whereas, It is greatly desired by the peo-
 pie of Birmingham that the said census
 report of 1900 should give to the city the
 benefit of a full enumeration of all the pop
 ulation which naturally belongs thereto,
 therefore,
 Be it resolved That special committee
 of three, to wit: the mayor and two alder
 men, be appointed and instructed to pre-
 pare a bill to be introduced at the present
 session of the general assembly of Ala bama, the provisions of which shall be
 about as follows:
 First. That the present corporate limits
 of the city of Birmingham shall be so ex- tended as to embrace that part of West End on the west south of Valley creek, ex- tending eastward along the First avenue Macadamized road and two hundred feet on each side thereof to the old town of Elyton. embracing said town of Elyton to the north of the right of way of the Ala bama Great Southern railroad, and south of the Birmingham and Bessemer dummy line right of way thence to the present corporate limits of Birmingham embracing the whole of the said corporate limits and including also to the top of Red mountain | on the south, to line opposite Thirty fourth street; thence northward along Thirty-fourth street to Avenue H; thence eastward along Avenue H to the present | corporate limits of Avondale on the south and on the north side along the Fifth avenue turnpike, extending two hundred feet north thereof, and on
 the south along the Georgia road, extended 200 feet thereof, so as to include all that territory between, including the towns of Avondale and Woodlawn, to the present eastern corporate limits of Woodlawn. g. The bill to provide that the newly-ac- quired territory shall become part of Bir- mingham on the 31st day of December, 1899.
 B. That the newly acquired territory shall be divided into wards, and these wards shall elect members of the board of alder men of Birmirp ham, to represent tn pe> pie in proportion to population. f. That an election shall be held for such aldermen by the people of the respective wards, on the first Monday in December, 1899.
 D. That the board of education of Birmingham shall provide a free white
 and free colored school in each of the towns of Avondale and Woodlawn, ot n0int for the joint use of all the white and and colored children of the communities of West End and Elyton, and that said schools shall form part of the present sys- tenn of public schools in Birmingham, and be under the same management and con- trol.
 6. That the present police force of the city of Birmingham shall be so increased and reorganized as to give adequate pro- lection to the people and property of the newly acquired territory. T. That sanitary regulations as of force in the present city limits shall from time to time be so extended as to give full and equal benefits to the newly acquired terri tory.
 8. That the newly acquired territory shall have full and equal benefits with the pres ent city of Birmingham in all contracts that may now exist, or that may hereafter exist, and shall be lighted at once in an equal way with the present city of Bir- mingham.
 g. That the tax collector and treasurer shall keep a separate account of all funds received from taxation or otherwise in the newly acquired territory, severally, and these funds shall be applied exclusively to the use and benefit of the newly acquired territory, and for paying interest on their bonded indebtedness severally, for term of five (5) years from date of incorpora- tion.
 10. The city of Birmingham to assume all liabilities of the present incorporated towns of Avondale and Woodlawn. Il. Police court precincts shall be estab- lished one at Avondale and one at Wood- lawn, for trial of misdemeanor cases, and trial officer be appointed in each of said precincts.
 12-That no spirltuous, vinous malt liq- uors shall ever be sold in the newly acquired territory.
 Resolved, That the said committee may confer with representative citizens of the respective communities sought to be incor- porated and present to them the plans pro- posed, asking their concurrence therein. s