The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-01-16

CITY GOVERN MENT.
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF CoUN-
GIL.

Savannah, Ga, Jan. IA, 1902. ,
Council met this day at 4:30 p. m.
pursuant to the call of the Mayor Pres
ent the Hon. Herman Myers, Mayor,
presiding, and Aldermen Thomas, Cold
ing, Jones, Schroeder, Garfunkel, Wat
son and Canty.
PETITIONS AND APPLICATIONS.
Petition of Moses Blumberg for per-
mission to construct hay window over
front porch on lot No. l, Jackson Ward
(106 RNll street. wesD, was read and
referred to the Committee on Streets
and Lanes.
Petition of the Georgia and Alabama
Terminal Company in the matter of
bridge across the Savannah river be-
tween city and HutchinSon's Island, was
read and referred to special commit
tee of four and the Mayor to report
back to Council
ORDINANCES.
On its first reading.
BY Alderman Watson
An ordinance to permit James Suli-
van, trustee, to repair, remodel and
improve frame houses on lot No. s,
Castor Ward, and also to erect stoops.
Section l. Be it ordained by the
Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Sa-
vannah. in Council assembled, That per-
mission is hereby given to James Sulli-
van, trustee, to repair remodel and i'm
prove and erect stoops to frame houses
| on lot No. 6 CASTOR Ward No. 506 to
| 514 Montgomery street.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained That
all ordinances and parts of ordinances
in conflict with this ordinance be re-
| pcaled in so far as they apply to this
special case.
On it's first reading.
| By Alderman Thomas.
An Ordinance to provide for the sale
| nf ha ctyir Of In nd
| Section l. Be it ordained by the
Mayor and aldermen of the city of Sa-
vannah in Council assembled, that the
| Committee on Opening Streets and
City Lots be and it is hereby author
lied to bargain and sell at private sale,
for such sum as may seem to the said
commttee reasonable and proper, the
following strips of land in the city of
Savannah. towit: One thousand six
hundred and fifty-four and three
tenths 1654.3) square feet of land,
part of Lot forty-two (42) Southville
ward; three hundred and twenty-four
1920 square feet of land, a part of
Lots T and ] Solomons ward; one
| thousand two hundred and forty-four
and nine-tenths Q244.9) square feet of
| land, a part of Lots one % and two
CD Law ward and Garden lot seven
teen 90; one thousand two hundred
and seventy-three and two-tenths
| 1273.2) square feet of land, part of Lot
One "a Law ward and Garden Lot
nineteen G9), and one thousand two
hundred and seventy-three and two
tenths (12732) square feet of land, a
part of Lot Four 20 Law ward and
| Garden Lot nineteen C9).
And the Mayor of the city of Savan-
nah is authorized and empowered to
complete the said sales by deeds in
| the name of the said municipal cor
poration and attested by it's clerk of
Council to the purchaser or purchasers
of the strips of land herein mentioned.
Sec .. Be 1t Further Ordained
That all ordinances and parts of or
| dinance in conflict with this ordinance
are hereby repealed
The following ordinance read the
| first time, jan IA, 1902, by unanimous
consent, read the second time, Jan.
IA, 1902, placed upon its passage and
| passed.
An ordinance to amend the general
tax ordinance for 1902, adopted Dec.
20, 1901.
Section l. Be it ordained by the
Mayor and Aldermen of the city of
Savannah, in Council assembled, That
| the para graph of section five of the
general tax ordinance for 1902, adopted
Dec. 20, 1901, which requires a tax of
seventy-five dollars from agents, at
torneys-at-law. or brokers. negotiating
loans on real estate. be and the same
is hereby so amended that the said
| paragraph shall hereafter read as fol-
| lows:
Agents. attorneys at-law, or brokers
| negotiating loans on real estate, lex
| cept real estate brokers negotiating
loans in immediate connection with
sales, or purchases made by them),
| and money lenders, their agents, or at
| IN iK,r-
out security, except banks and bank
ers, pawn brokers and persons other
| than pawnbroker engaged in the
business of lending money on personal
| property hereinbefore provided for,
seventyfive dollars.
Sec. 2. That all ordinances and parts
| of ordinances in conflict with this or
| dinance be and they are hereby
| repealed.
RESOLUTIONS.
| BY Committee in City Lots and
| Opening Streets
Resolved by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah in Council as
| sembled, That the Committee on Open-
ing Streets and City Lots be and it is
hereby authorized to bargain for and
| purchase from the Savannah Invest
| ment Company, the grantee under the
! deed from the executors of Jacob
Waldburg, dated August s, 1890 at and
| for the sum of five hundred (500) dol
| lars, to be covered by notes of the city
at one % and two CD years with in
| terest at five go per cent. per annum,
the claim of the said Savannah In
vestment Company, as to the said
! grantee, to any lot in Owens Ward
| which may have been covered by the
| deed of the City of Savannah to the
| said executors, and, particularly, to
part of lot seventy-three (73) in the
| said ward.
Adopted.
BY the Committe on Finance
The Clerk of Council is hereby in
structed to advertise for bids for print
ing eight hundred copies of the Mayors
Report for 1901; 800 bound in cloth and
500 in paper
Adopted.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Communication from Col George A.
Mercer chairman and president of the
Georgia Historical Society," relative to
public library. was read and referred to
Committee of the Whole.
His Honor Mayor Myers. submitted
his annual report for the year 1901, the
report being read by the clerk. was
very complete and dwelt fully upon all
the departments of the city govern
ment, taking i'm finances, the executive
labors of Council. extended limits
street paving for 1902. public health,
new cemetery new public building,
free public library depnpr water ma.