The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1905-10-14
REGULAR MEETING OF
BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
STATE OF LOUISIANA, I
Hancock County, :
Cifv 0f Ray St. Louis.

Hancock County,
/ City Of Bay St. Louis.
| A regular meeting of the Board OF
Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Bay
St. Louis was held at the temporary
quarters of the Board at the Commercial
Club rooms on Saturday, Oct. Z, '05, at
$50 a. m. There were present Hon. E.
E. O'Brien, mayor; L. H. VonGohren,
Jos. L. Favre and R. F. O'Brien, alder
men; r. j. Murtagh, marshal; Rich'd
Mendes, secretary. Absent, Alderman
| Engman.
The following ordinance was intro
duced by Alderman O'Brien, seconded
by Alderman Favre and unanimously
adopted by the Board.
No. 9-NEw SERIES.
Be it ordained by the Board of Mayor
and Aldermen Of the City of Bay ST..
Louis, that the city hall and all meet
ing8 of the said Board shall be at the
Commercial Club Building, on Front
street, until the completion of the city
hall.
Approved in open board Oct. I, 1905.
Attest: Il. E. O'BRIEN, Mayor.
RICH'D MENDES, Sec'y.
The report Of the city tax collector of
back taxes collected for the years 1888 to
1914 and ordered assessed by State rev.
euue agent and filed Sept. 8, 1905, with
the city secretary was received and
accepted. The various other reports
we're ordered fled.
PR0PozFn ANcEDNENT TO THE CHAR
TER Or THE CITY OF BAY ST. LOUIS.
Boi5le-olyaa by the Board of Mayor
and Aldermen II the City of Bay ST.
Louis. Mississippi, shat an amendment
to section 4 of the charter Of said city be
proposed under the provisions of section
303o Annotated Code Of Mississippi of
1892, in words rs follows, to-wit: Said
aldermen shall be elected, one from each
ward, by tho electors thereof only, and
not by general ticket.
A true copy from the minutes adopted
at a regular meeting of the Board of
Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Bay
St. Louis, on October !, 1905.
Il. E. O'BRIEN, Mayor.
RICHARD MENDES, Secretary.
Contractor C. C. Gardebled presented
a personal bona in the sum of $4,000,
made in favor OF the Board of Mayor
and Aldermen Of the City of Bay ST.
Louis, said bond being offered pending
a reasonable time, when said Contract tor
Gardebled VIII furnish a bond-full
amount required by law. On motion of
Alderman O'Brien, seconded by Alder
man FaYre, same was received and
accepted as temporary compliance
of the contrao..
Motion Of Alderman VonGohren, sec
onded by Alderman Favre, that COM
mittee OF two De appointed to inYesti-
gate ]. NJ. Tyler's personal assessment
and report at next meeting.
1t appearing to the Board that there
being a surplus in the school fund, and
that there being outstanding warrants
in the school building fund; and that
further, there being no levy for the
school building fund; and whereas, it
being absolutely necessary to settle out
standing warrants in said school build
ing fund, and there being a greater
need for the future maintenance of that
Iund to meet expenses Of this year;
therefore it is ordered by the Board that
the sum OF S503.00 be transferred from
said school fund and placed to the credit
Of school building fund.
1t is also ordered by the Board that
the sum OF $65S, being now to the credit
OF Judgment iuld, be transferred to the
general or the city fund, said judgment
fund being extinct,
Moved by Alderman VonGohren, Sec
ondel br Alderman Fayre, that COM
mittee of three be appointed, said COM
mittee to be Known as the City Hall
Building Committee, Jos. L. Favre,
Chairman, L. H. Won Gohren, and r.
T. O'BEen,
Mogan by Alderman Favre, second
ed oyAIdeIman vonGohren, that the con =
trace between the city OF Bay ST. Louis
and Nj. 9 G. Gardebled, dated Oct. 7,
'05, be, and the same is, hereby adopted,
in Two copies, the original to be filed in
. the secrctary's Office.
The following ordinance was intro
jucod BIZ Alderman O'Brien, seconded
| by Alderman VonGohren, and unani-
mo0sly adopted by the Board:
/ AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING THE SALE OF
MEAT, AT RETAIL, WITHIN CERTAIN
PRESCRIBED LIMITS OF TIE CRY OF
! BAI 81. LoUIs.-No. 10 NEW SERIES.
I BE It ordained by the Board of Mayor
and Aldermen o. the City of Bay st,
/ Louis, that It shall he unlawful fer any
! person OF persons 10 carry on or operate
or to engage himself as a butcher to
carry On or operate butcher business
on Front, between Main and Washing
ton streets, OF the said city of Bay ST.
Louis, and the conducting OF carrying