The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-21
Referred to Mayor and Clerk.

The power to contract for the construc-
 tion of new City Hall and engine house
 passed this afternoon fro mthe Municipal
 Council to the Mayor and the City Clerk
 and until the papers already prepared for
 the signatures of contractor k. F. Manly
 and the city have been altered to the
 satisfaction of these officers the corpor-
 ate seal of Selma will not be affixed to
 any agreement on the matter
 Three contracts were read Mayor Me-
 Leod pointed out that therewere defects in
 them and resolution was passed that the question should be referred to Mayor
 Mcleod and City Clerk Stewart with power to act.
 The Council met in adjourned session at 5 o'clock. with President Atkins in the
 chair, and City Clerk Stewart as Secre- tary. Mayor Mcleod, Councilman Phil lips. Peacock, Meyer, Loughlin and Null len, City Attorney Shafer and John Nor ris, who will represent the city during the construction of the buildings, were pres ent.
 The contracts which mad been prepared were read. They set forth the plans and specifications of the structures and the kinds and qualities of materials to be | used in building, showing that there were to be constructed a City Hall, including | market offices and auditorium, and a l fire engine house, and provided that R. P. Manly was to construct them for the | sum of s25.000, payable in bonds in that sum bearing 4 per cent interest and lia- ble to retirement after six years at the
 rate of $l,OO0 a year; that the payment to the contractor would be made in five installments as follows: First, when all | the first story window frames were in the walls; second. when all the third story | joIsts were in the walls thi:d, when both roofs are on; fourth. when all the plas- | t.: ing had been completed; that the con | tractors bond of $S,000 must De approved | by the city before any pay ment is made; | that in consideration of $500 the contrac- | tor should be relieved of paying a con tractors license during the work on the buildings and should have the use of the | city prisoners to clear the premises, and | should have the use of the abuttlng | streets except a driveway of twenty-five | feet on the far sides of the said streets. Councilman Meyer offered a resolution | that the report of the speclal Committee | on the Buildings should be received and | concurred in, but Mayor Mcleod remark | ed that that was poor contract" and | MT. Meyers resolution was altered so as | to read that virtually the Mayor and the | City Clerk should carry on the rest of the business and that if they could make | the proper arrangements they could con clude the contracts on behalf of the city. Mayor McLeods objections were based on the clauses providing payments when certain portions of the work should have | been completed, because, he said, the plac- | ing of the windows for example was not | sufficient evidence that 5000 worth of work had been done.
 MT. Meyer also introduced resolution that Chamberlain and So., the architects of the building, should be paid $500 for the plans, of which am punt Mir. Manly is to pay half and this resolution was passed like the other with the proviso
 that it be altered if deemed advisable by
 the Mayor and the City Clerk.
 A resolution was passed making pro- vision for the issuance of the coupon bonds
 as allowed by the Legislature and the | Council then a0inurnad