The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-21
No Report on Additional Po-
 lice Appropriation
ALDERMEN IN SESSION
Much Routine Work Disposed of Last Night-Actina Mayor Altman Pre- sides-Several Contracts for
 Improvements Awarded.

The petition to the mayor and board of aldermen for an appropriation to pay fifty | additional policemen was not reported on by the police committee at the meeting of the board last night and further time to consider the petition was granted the com- mittee.
 Mayor Drennen Is in Virginia this week and Acting Mayor Altman presided over the deliberations of the meeting.
 This was the first session since the ap- pointment of the new committees was made by Mayor Drennen and the new chairmen rendered their first reports for their respective committees.
 Clerk Murray read a report from the mayor showing the fines remtted last month and reasons for his actions. The mayor also recommended to the board that the chairmen of the finance and judiciary committees be added to the committee on a new city code of which he is the only member. The matter was not acted on last night.
 Petition for Inspector of Plumbing.
 It was recommended that the petition l Board of Trade, to have an inspector of plumbing appointed was referred to the sanitary committee. The judiciary committee reported favor ably on petition to have an electric light placed just west of the union depot, on Eighteenth street and the report was adopted.
 Improvement ordinance No. 166 was adopted. It provides for grading, macad- amizing and curblng and sidewalk paw ing on Sycamore street from Highland avenue to Maiden Lane.
 Ordinances authorizing the issuance of bonds to the amount of S29, 800 under im- provement ordinances 126, 32 34, 40, S4, S7, s2 s3, 96 1o4, 11O and 11S were adopted.
 The ordinance recently introduced to regulate dairies as regards the sale of milk was adopted. The ordinance speci- fles that owners of cows which are af- hicted with tuberculosis be notified that they must not sell milk obtained from them.
 A large number of bills against the city were ordered to be paid.
 The finance committee recommended that all of those who acted as managers and clerks in the last general municipal election be paid at the rate of g a day each. The payroll will amount to $90 as there were five officers in each ward.
 The city engineer was instructed to ad- vertise for bids for work under ordinance 151.
 Assessments on Improvements.
 
 provement ordinances 133 and Ill. Or dinance 133 provides for sanitary sewer in the vicinity of Tenth avenue and Sev- enteenth streets.
 Ordinance Ill provides for paving on the west side of Highland avenue from Syca- more to Elm street, and on Twenty fourth street from Fourth avenue to Fifth avenue.
 Assessments were confirmed on im- provement ordinance 11S, providing for grading, macadamizing, sidewalk paving and guttering on Avenue between Charles and Thirteenth streets and on Avenue K.
 Ordinances 157. 15s 16O, 161, 1S2 and 163 were confirmed.
 Alderman Gray reported that he held $2250 worth of coupons on refunded bonds and the coupons were burned during the meeting
 The street committee recommended that the mayor give orders for the removal of the obstruction on Third avenue and Twenty-frst street Also that the proper parties be given notice to repair streets and sidewalks at Secord avenue and Nineteenth street. Also that the city en- gineer be given authority to take the nec- essary steps to arrange the paving on Twenty street between Third and Fourth avenues to lessen the noise made by passing vehicles and cars.
 Electric Lights.
 Alderman Gray introduced a resolution that the clerk be asked to furnish the city auditor with a list of all electric lights that are paid for by the railroad companies, and that the auditor be in- structed to make out bills to the com panies for any amount that the city might have paid and which should have been paid by the railroads.
 The resolution was adopted
 The resolution was presented after AL derman Heidt made a statement that he knew of a number of lights which were being paid for by the city and the ex- penses of which were required to be borne by the railroad companies. The petition of the Southern Railway company to be allowed to put down four additional tracks on property recently purchased from the Moore & Handley Hardware company, the tracks to run under the Twenty-first street bridge was referred to the chairmen of the railroad and street committees and the judiciary committee.
 Alderman Gum introduced an ordi- nance providing that refuse matter from all hospitals and sanitariums in the city be ordered to be burned in the future. It was referred to the judiciary committee.
 An ordinance was introduced providing that 1t shall be unlawful for any one to place Instructions of any kind in any po- sition to endanger the lives of horses or calculated to result in injury to them in any way. It was properly referred.
 Extra FIagmen. A resolution was adopted providing that the mayor be requested to see that hagmen are placed at the railroad cross ing at Fifth avenue and Thirteenth street tha haraa ahou nexr week