The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-17
CREDITORS WANT MONEY
 -. Notice Served on the City !. Council. MUST PAY OR BE SUED MT. Hubbard Says He Sold
 City Three Lots.
MUST PAY OR BE SUED
Organized Charities Asks City for Annual Appropriation and Peo- pie of West End Desire Po-
 lice Protection.

While the question of the constitutions ality of the Greater Montgomery act is pending in the courts the holders of some of the obligations made last summer, under the provisions of that act, are be- coming insistent. In at least one in- stance the city is threatened with a law suit.
 w. H. Hubbard, who last summer en- tered into a contract with the city for the sale of three business lots in the southern part of the city, is urging the Council to pay him for these lots.
 At last nights meeting of the Council a communication from MT. Hubbard was read to the aldermen requesting that they see to the compliance of the contract en- tired into by the city with him. He re- cited the fact that the Council passed an ordinance purchasing from him three city lots for the site of a school building on the northeast corner of Finley Avenue and Lawrence Street. The Council, he said, instructed the mayor to have the clerk draw warrant for the purchase of the lots. The Mayor, he said, although several times requested. had refused to have the clerk draw the warrant. He asked that the City Council have him paid for the lots, which would save him the expense of employing a lawyer to force collection. The communication went to the Finance and Judiciary Committees.
 A Second Insistent Creditor.
 Of very similar purport was a eommu- nication submitted to the Council by Ausfeld & Chapman. The communica- tion stated that this firm had been regu- larly employed by the city to draw the plans for the proposed school houses in the annexed territory. This work had been satisfactorily accomplised and the plans had been accepted by the city 1t was said. The firm was to receive two and a half per cent of the total amount to be expended for the school houses paid $250 for the plans and they now asked that the remainder of their account be paid. The communication was referred to the Finance Committe.
 Later in the meeting Alderman Gunter introduced resolution appropriating the amount due Ausfeld 6 Chapman. This ordinance also went to the Finance Com mittee.
 The Board of Health of the city in a communication to the Council set forth that the room which the Board had been occupying on the third floor of the City Building was inconvenient inaccessible. and that the Board had rented quarters on Dexter Avenue. The lease on these rooms, 1t was stated, was for five years, the first of which called for the payment of $25 month and for each of the four subsequent years 80 a month. The Coun- ell was asked to pay half of this rent.
 Alderman Kohn later in the meeting ir1- troduced a resolution making the desired appropriation for rent. He asked that the rules be suspended and that the ordinance be placed upon its immediate passage, but Alderman Jackson objected and the ordinance went over. a54
 Charities Wants Money.
 The report of the Executive Committee of the Organized Charities of Montgom- cry was submitted to the Council by Chairman A. J. Messing, Jr. The com4 munication reviewed the work that had been accomplished by the organization ih six months, the money distributed and the persons helped.
 The communication stated that g. GOO was absolutely necessary to carry on the work of the organization each year, and to prevent cases of starvation in Montgom- cry The Council was asked to appropri- ate H,0O0 annually for the carrying on of the work, the remainder of the neces- sary fund to be raised by private sub scriptions. The communication was re- ferred to the Finance Committee.
 An earnest petition was addressed 10 the Council by the citizens of West End for police protection. It was declared that many new saloons had been opened in West End since it became A mart of the city and drunkards and gamblers stalked abroad in the day time; that prop- erty was not safe at night. The petition went to the Police Committee