Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-08-30
REGULAR MEETING OF COUNCIL
Business Disposed of at Monday Night
Session.

Council hamber-regular meeting,
August 9th. 1900. Present Mayor
Hixon, presiding; Aldermen Oliver,
Watts, Sherlock, Bolton and Query,
Minutes of last regular and called
meeting read and confirmed.
Chairman Query read report on
screens as follows:
In the matter of the city's taking &C.
ton by means of an ordinance on the
screen question, referred to the ordin-
ance committee, this committee asks
to make the following report;
After investigating the matter in
question, your committee is of the
opinion that if the law is being violated
in the storehouses protected by the
screens, then an ordinance ought to be
passed to cause their removal. If,
however, the law is not violated then
this committee sees no improperly in
keeping them up.
Your committee is informed that the
estate court has undertaken to investi-
gate this question, and the prOprietors
of these establishments have been
bound oyer to await the action of the
grand jury, and your committee there
fore recommends that the council await
the action of the state courts as wheth-
er or not the law is being violated.
Respectfully submitted.
j. w. QUERY, Chm'n.
Motion made to accept report, Yeas
and nays called for. Yeas Mitchell,
Sherlock and Query. Nays, Watts,
Bolton, Oliver and Mayor Hixon.
Motion was declared lost.
Aid. Watts moved that the matter be
referred to committee to draw up or
dinance. Carried.
Boat ordinance offered by Aid.
Query and seconded by Aid. Oliver,
passed, rules suspended, read by Sec
tions, passed and then adopted.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and
City Council of Americus, and it is
hereby ordained by authority of the
same.
Sec. 1. That itshall be unlawful on
and after the passage of this ordinance
for any person or persons to go or stop,
or prOpel a boat or bateaux within
sixty yards of the bridge crossing
Muckalee creek at the foot of Church
and Spring streets, when q vehicle is
in sight of said bridge.
Sec. 2. All persons convicted of VIC
lation of this ordinance be punished as
prescribed in Section 10 of the charter
Sec. 3. All ordinances in conflict with
this ordinance are hereby repeal.
The Heptasophs grantedprivileges of
water and stand at Dell for picnic, and
mayor invited to make address.
Daughters OF Confederacy donation
of 800 ordered paid by chairman
finance committee.
Petition of George Fields, concern
ing opera house license, read and
license duly transferred to Furlow &
Jones.
Petition of A s. Staley, chairman
committee of Colored Orphanage, re-
questing water free, referred to water
committee.
Resign alton of 7. M. Minis, as fire
man, accepted. Applications of E. B.
Thayer, e. O. Gum and M. M. Query
read and after considering same, E, @.
Gum receiving the majority of votes,
was declared elected.
Aid. Mitchell moved, seconded by
Aid. Oliver to put water trough in
shed. Aid. Watts offered substitute,
seconded by Aid. Bolton to put it back
where it was. Vote stood tie and laid
over.
Following bills ordered paid Cen
trail Railroad, freight $54 90, $51 81,
1886 80, $52 O6; Seaboard Air Line,
freight, Sal IS, 500 80, $32 95, 1920 55,
$34 90, $43 O6, $35 SO, 500 SO, $48 II; J.
W. Grossly & Go. 1852, 50; A. j. HamiI,
So IS; Johnson & Harold, $40 80; Bond
Fund No. 3; Pay Roll, $17.70; Geo.
Turpin, SOC; Joe Fletcher, SOC; Sam
Jones, SOC; Sheffield Huntington Co.
90c; Waterworks pay roll, $16.75;
Swansea Coal Co, 1858 81, $92 81; BESSIE
mer Land and Improvement 90, $44 81,
$41 81; Elk River Coal 90. $40 so;
Henry r. Worthington, $104.41.
FL. S. DAVIS, ca T.