The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-03
COUNCIL DISPOSES
 OF ROUTINE WORK Alderman Harry Jones 0ccu-
 pied Mayors Chair ORDINANCES REFERRED Fire Chief Mullen Is Allowed vaca- ton to Attend Chiefs Convention.
 Several Important Petitions
 Were Presented.
ORDINANCES REFE RRtD

The city council met in regular session last night and considered number of minor questions. Acting Mayor Harry Jones occupied the chair, as Mayor Drcn- nen is in Montgomery looking after the | interests of the city in some of the pend ing municipal legislation.
 The aldermen present last night were | Greener, O'Neill, Copeland, J. R., Cope land. D. R., Wheeler. Barbour, Cooper. Gum, Sims, Jones, Heidt Stockmar and Jones'
 Among the more important matters which came up was the presentation of several ordinances drawn up by City Att torney E. D. Smith, and their reference to the judiciary committee.
 High School Building. l Chief among these ordinances was that providing for the holding of special eec- tion to vote on the question as to whether the city shall issue bonds to the amount of s10OoOO for the purpose of building new high school No date for such cleo ton was specified in the ordinance. but 1t will be added by the committee. There Is so much interest in this proposition that it will probably be taken up by the ] judiciary committee at once and brought before the council for final action. | Other ordinances presented and referred l to the judiciary committee provided that | ice wagons should carry scales officially approved in order that consumers may see that they get full weight when buying ice; prohibits the building of iron or , stone fences around private lots in the cemetery; prohibits the planting of honey suclzle vines in the cemetery and requires pawnbrokers to furnish weekly list or articles pawned with them to the chief of police.
 Chief Mullen to Take Trip. Upon recommendation of the fire com mittee it was voted to sell the old wagon of the chief for s,o, and IL was also voted that Chief Mulin be allowed a vacation to attend the annual convention of fire chiefs, and that he also be allowed s1O0 for this purpose.
 The finance committee recommended that the regular monthly payrolls be al- lowed and 1t was so voted.
 Assessments were made final under im- provement ordinances sS, 119 and 1s5. A petition for the opening of Twenty fifth street between Avenues l and J was referred to the city attorney for report. and the petition of lunch vendors for license was referred to the mayor with pow CT to act.
 Important Ordinance.
 Contracts for the work provided for by improvement ordinances 14S and 159 were awarded to the Birmingham Contracting company, the bid on the former being s6722 and on the latter, s6392. 50. The city engineer was instructed to advertise for bids for improvements under ordinance 174
 The estimated assessments having been ascertained under improvement ordi- nances 153, 1S4 and 16O they were placed on their third reading and final passage and were adopted.
 A petition from the Frisco system asking the council to have 18th. 16th and 17th streets opened up between Powell avenue and Avenue A was referred to the Judiciary committee as was also a peti- ton from the coored citizens who live near West End park asking that they be informed as to whether the law allows them the privilege of using the park as recreation ground the same as white citi- zens
 Privilege Granted to Southern.
 Privilege of laying track for a short distanceon Powell avenue near Twen- ty-fifth street was granted to the South ern railway
 The invitation from the Italian society of The city to take part in the annual eel ebration of their holiday which takes place this month was accepted by the council.
 Upon the petition of those in charge 1t was voted to allow ten extra policemen at the fair grounds on Labor Day to pre- serve order on the occasion of the colli- sion of the two engines which will be a feature of this labor day entertainment.
 Regarding Bond Issue.
 Tn regard to the ordinance for holding an election for voting on a bond issue for the purpose of erecting a high school building 1t is understood that the amount of $100,000 is only nominal 1t Is expected that if the committee reports the ordi-