The age-herald., 1901-04-18
ROUTINE MEETING
 IF CITY COUNCIL Mayor Authorized to Borrow
 Money for Streets IMPORTANT ORDINANCES New Milk ordinanee-New Garbage Lsw-Bids Received for South Highlands Fire Department.
 $5ooo for School Teachers.
IMPORTANT ORDINANCES

The C1ty council held a meeting last night. As always happens one or two members came on time. and as always happens more of them came late, and as usual some did not come at all.
 Those who were on time began to grow restless while waiting for quorum. They kept pulling out their watches every now and then Just to see the wheels go round You had better be careful. gentlemen" said the Mayor. how you pull out those watches. We have got the numbers of most of those which were stolen from us the other night
 'I bought mine," said Alderman Moore. They are dollar dozen. You get them at Drennen's department store"
 "Arn't they giving them away now?" asked a member of the Mayor "They seemed to have done so the other night" said the Mayor. We really give them away, all the time. they are so cheap"
 Who sat on Alderman Moore's hat?" asked member, holding up felt hat which had been badly squashed.
 ''I sat on something just now" said an- other. Tt felt soft-was 1t a soft felt?'
 That's my hat" said the Alderman reaching for 1t, you fellows must think it's a soft snap for me to get new soft felts
 Come to order, gentlemen" said the Mayor. rapplng three times on the table for good luck.
 The clerk called the roll. which was answered by the Mayor and Aldermen 
 Altman. Hedt. Thach and Gray.
 report was read from the Inferior Criminal Court showing the collections for the month past to be $1S60.
 Finance Committee Report.
 Alderman Kerr, chairman of the finance committed, then read list of bills paid for the past month amounting to s7432.s1. The committee reported in favor of col iecting taxes from the Birmingham Cot ton Manufacturing Company for 1900, as it has been exempt from. taxes for the past five years 1
 A resolution reported by the finance committee in reference to the public | bond improvement fund was adopted. | This resolution authorized the mayor to make arrangements with some local bank offering the best terms to have all future estimates for work carried for such a length of time as the city may require in | order to make collections of such assess ments as are to be paid in cash. and to issue bonds for the balance. The esti- mates are to be paid out of the proceeds of the bonds and are to operate as a | lien on the property benefited until l paid. The arrangement with the bank is to extend to the end of the year only.
 Another resolution reported by the fi- nance committee was adopted which pro- vided for the burning of $2,S50 in coupons which were received in exchange for new bonds issued in taking up past due and unpaid coupons which were continued during the VanHoose administration un- der the Steiner plan, they having had the coupons extended five years
 Improvement ordinance No. 43. provid- ing for the grading. macadamizing and curbing of Eighth avenue between Thir- teenth and Fourteenth streets, and Thir- teenth street between Eighth and Kirk land avenue, was confirmed.
 Improvement ordinance No. 80, which provided for a sanitary sewer on Ave- nue H. was amended and adopted.
 Improvement ordinance No. S1 for curb ing Ware avenue from Joy to Allen streets was confirmed.
 Improvement ordinance No. S2. for the grading and macadamzing of Sixteenth street from Eighth avenue to Tenth ave- nue. was confirmed.
 Improvement ordinance No. s3, provid- inn fnr haC ot Ara street and Tenth avenue and running east, was confirmed.
 The Milk Question. Alderman Altman, chairman of the ju- dietary committee, reported two ord- nances, one relating to the sale of milk and the other to meat. They were re- | ferred back to the meat and milk com- mittee Subsequently MT. Altman intro- duced an amended milk ordinance re- | quiring all dairies to pay an annual it. cense of s for ten cows and under. slO | for over ten cows. The ordinance. how ever, did not apply to families which did not keep exceeding two cows for family | use and who sold their surplus milk to their immediate neighbors. The ordinance also provided that skinned milk must contain 9 per cent of milk solids. This or dinance was passed.
 An ordinance was read by Alderman Altman and subsequently passed amend ing section 356 of the city code so as to | require that all persons hauling garbage or trash over the streets of the city should be fined from Sl to s100 for allow ing any of 1t to drop on the streets.
 Alderman Thach reported that he has cemetery committee. -.l.
 Alderman Rainbow, chairman of the fire committee. said that the committee had had an important meeting during the morning, but tht Alderman Jones had the report and he was not present. Later in the evening the report was sent in aad adopted. It stated that two bids had been opened for the North Highlands fire de partment. One was from Ed Mann, 1887 O. and the other from w. s. Davis, s1025 That there was only about $30 difference | between the bids and the lowest would probably get it. The report also recom- mended that the chief be authorized to purchase two sets of harness for the ie- pertinent, that the chiefs buggy be over. hauled and that repairs be made on the | East End fire station.
 Alderman Moore. chairman of the mis. cellaneous committee, reported several | petitions allowed and disallQwed. A pc. tition was read from property owners of Fifth avenue asking that the work of