The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-05
MAYORS CO-OPERATE WITH ONE AAOTH HER Municipal Heads in District Want County Quarantine UP 10 gOARD OF REVENUE They Will Decide Today Whether Or Not They VIII Quarantine Jef-
 ferson county-Mayors En-
 dorse Movement.
UP 10 BOARD OF REVENUE

"Be it resolved, That 1t is the sense of this meeting that, as representatives of the taxpayers in our several mu- nicipalities and also taxpayers of the county of Jefferson and the state of Alabama, the board of revenue be herewith requested to establish and maintain a strict county quarantine against all infected districts until noti- fled to raise same by the county board of health.
 "Be 1t resolved, That we will CO., operate with the county board Of rev enue in their efforts to put all inter- mediate territory in good sanitary con dtion by reporting to them all un- healthful places adjacent to our diff ferent corporate limits.
 "Be it resolved by the representa- tives of municipalities present at this meeting, That we are herewith obli- qated and promise to either drain or oil all ponds of stasnant water and low places that can breed mosquitoes that may exist within our several cor porate limits"
 The foregoing resolutions were adopted at a meeting held yesterday afternoon by the mayors of municipalities in this com munity
 The meeting was attended by Mayor Ward of Birmingham. who proposed the conference; Mayor N. w. Scott of Ems ,f NNa .rin V- or P. J. Hudnall of Pratt City, Mayor J. E. Nolan of Wylam. Mayor T. H. Friel of North Birmingham. Mayor w. R. Starbuck of Avondale and Mayor Per ryman of Woodlawn.
 Mayor Ward, in opening the meeting, stated that its object was to enable the mayors of municipalities in the Birming- ham district to consider the subjects or quarantine and sanitation and resolve upon some concerted action
 Mayor Hagler of Warrior was elected chairman of the meeting and B. A. Pep perman secretary.
 After the situation was thoroughly dis cussed the foregoing resolution, embody- ing the sense of the meeting, was adopt ed.
 The meeting also organized the League ~of Mayors of Municipalities in the county of Jefferson.
 A motion that anyone coming from yellow rever infected district into Jeffer- son county be fined s25 was adopted.
 Mayor Hagler was elected permanent president and B. A. Pepperman perma- nent secretary of the Mayors League. If was decided that the League will hold weekly meetings, the next meeting be- ing set for Friday at noon in the city hall at Birmingham.
 A feature of yesterdays meeting was well developed and emphatically express ed feeling favoring a movement toward municipal consolidation, or Greater Bir- mingham" Mayor Scott of Ensley ar dently advocated the proposition
 At o'clock in the afternoon the reso- lution adopted by the mayors was re- ferred to the Board of Revenue. and that body. after listening to the presentation of the subject, took the question under advisement and went into executive ses- sion. When the doors were reopened to the public the Board of Revenue an- nounced that it desired more information before it would act and requested the Jefferson County medical society to ap- point a committee to meet the Board of Revenue at 10 o'clock this morning.