The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-07
FINAL ACTION IS TAKEN ON BONDS The $200,000 Issue Will Be
 Delivered Soon
BOND ORDINANCE ADOPTED
City Council Held Regular Meeting Last Night and Transacted Good Deal of Routine Business
 Committees Report.

A. l.. Klcn company or Clnclnhdti 4ht s2OO.oO0 of public school bonds was adopt ed without dissenting vote.
 Mayor Drennen called the meeting tC order shortly after o'clock, but after the roll call he asked Alderman J. J. Alt. man of the Sixth ward to take the chair The following members of the body re- sponded to the roll call by City Clerk J. c. Murray:
 The mayor, Aldermen Greener, Ward Copeland D. R.; Barbour, Cooper, Gum, Altman, Forney. Copeland, J. R.; Heidt, Thach, Jones and Stockmar. There was not the least opposition to passing over the reading of the minutes of the last meeting Mayor Drennen's report for the month on fines and costs imposed in the criminal court of Birmingham was also dispensed with upon motion of Alderman Altman.
 The Pay Rolls.
 Alderman Harry Jones, acting as chair man of the finance committee, made a report for his committee. The pay roll of the police departent for the month of June amounted to $45467O. the fire de- partment $4004, the miscellaneous $1994 S9 and the street department $1235 12.
 Assessments were ascertained on ordi- nance No I'll which provided for the grading macadamizing and curbing of Elm street from Highland avenue to Magnolia avenue the cost of the same be- ing S7S31. .5S. Assessments were also made final on the ordinance No. 19O providing for the construction of sanitary sewers in the vicinity of Thirteenth avenue and Twenty-fourth street. at cost of $l206.S4, and for constructing sanitary sewers in the vicinity of Avenue K and St. Charles street, Richmond Place, at a cost of $4Ss.- 67. August was set as tho time for mak- ing the assessments final.
 Alderman Thach introduced an ordi- nance which provided for certain sani- tary regulations in the city of Birmng- ham. It was referred to the judiciary committee for a report thereon at the next regular meeting of the ctiy council An ordinance was also introduced by AL derman Thach looking towards the estab- lishment of a system of taking official weights and measures.
 
 cemetery committee, made a report which was adopted, instructing the city engineer to advertise for bids for repaintlng and repairing the office of the sexton of Oak Hill cemetery. The report also included instructions to the city engineer to ad- vertise for bids for erecting a stone wall around certain sections of the cemetery A report thereon is to be made at the next meeting of the council.
 Alderman Cooper introduced resolu- tion authorizing the city engineer to let the contract for repairing a certain por- ton of the sidewalks along Twenty-frst street between Fifth and Sixth avenues.
 Upon motion of Chairman Stockmar of the city hall committee the use of the assembly room In the city hall was ten- dered to the Alabama Poultry and Pet Stock association for holding its meet ings.
 The petition of the local organization of the Womans Christian Temperance Union to install a memorial fountain to the memory of the late Dr. w. F. B. Davis in the city hall was allowed.
 Street Committees Report.
 The report of the street committed which was adopted, reads as follows:
 The street committee beg leave to make the following report:
 The following bids were recived for sidewalk improvements, under improve ment ordinance number 162: Birmingham Paving company, $11155O; Dunn & Lal- lande Bros, $112O.0O Richard Blackburne. $1O665O; Crockett Paving company, $996SO B. T. Moore & Co., $s40.25
 We recommend that the bid of E. T. Moore x Go. be accepted the same being the lowest.
 We recommend that the petition of the Womans clubs for street signs be refer red to the mayor.
 We recommend that the city engineer be instructed to advertise for bids for the Improvements under Improvements ordi- nances Nos. POT, POS and 2ll, the bonds and funds for carrying on the work having been guaranteed by the Peoples Saving Bank and Trust company.
 We recommend that the petition of Rich ard Teague to the mayor, chairman of the Judiciary committee. chairman of the street committe and city engineer for a report.
 We recommend that the petition of George A. Ash be referred to the same committee.
 We recommend that the petition of A. J. Golding be referred to the city engineer for a report.
 We recommend that the city engineer be instructed to advertise for bids for r<a.f t.4, 4t. and Nineteenth streets.
 We recommend that the city engineer be instructed to advertise for bids for paving Second avenue between Twenty second and Twenty-seventh streets with both vitrifed brick and bituminous mac adam.
 We recommend that the city engineer be instructed to advertise for bids for paving under improvement ordinance No. 2l6
 We recommend that the petition of the Alabama saloon be disallowed.
 We recommend that the petition of cit- izens to have poles moved on the ave- nue between Twenty-fourth and Twenty sixth streets be referred to the city en- ginrer with power to act.
 We recommend that the city engineer ta instructed to have horse drinking troughs placed and repaired.
 We. recommend that the city engineer be instructed to have the nuisance in the storm sewer on Avenue C abated
 We recommend that the mayor be re- auested to have the dumping of offen- siye matter In the neighborhood' on Four teenth and Eighteenth streets south of Avenue A discontinued.
 We recommend that the matter of garbage dumping in the Sixth ward be referred to the mayor.
 That the city engineer be instructed to advertise for the improvements on Ave