The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-19
LET BIC CONTRACT FOR IMPROVEMENTS City Council Provides for Addi-
 tional Paving MUCH ROUTINE BUSINESS In Future Separate Contracts will be Made With Contractors for Diff
 ferent Parts of Street Im-
 provement Work.

The Mayor and aldermen at the seni-
 monthly meeting last night let the con
 tract for paving and improving several
 streets on the northside to the Southern
 Bitulithic company for ssS.92o.
 The streets to be paved are Twenty
 eighth street from Fifth avenue to Elev-
 enth avenue: Eleventh avenue from Twen-
 ty-eighth street to Thirtleth street; Twen
 ty-ninth street from Tenth avenue to
 Thirteenth alley, and Thirteenth street
 street from Tenth avenue to Fourteenth
 avenue. Bitnminous macadam will be used.
 The contract calls for grading. curbing and paving. E. J. Dunn of Dunn K
 Lallande Brothers protested against let ting all this work to one firm. He said that no other firm had been given the privilege to bid on the grading. He thought that as matter of principle it
 should be different.
 Future Contracts. Alderman Gray moved that in the future
 the contracts for grading. paving, siding and curbing be advertised separately and
 all contractors be allowed to bid on each
 one separately. The motion was second- l ed by Alderman Forney and carried A petition from Birmingham dam No. l. i Independent Order of Beavers, seeking
 privilege of giving a street fair for the benefit of the Orphans Home at East
 Lake and to give an outing for the child ren of the city this summer, was granted. LA. Ellis was granted permission to open a saloon at the corner of Avenue A
 and Twenty-second street. Alderman Barbour moved that the city engineer be instructed to draw up an
 ordinance to pave Seventeenth street
 from Ninth avenue to Fifteenth avenue, north. and O'Brien street from Sixteenth
 street to Seventeenth street. This was
 carried
 Alderman Sims moved that a committee
 of three be appointed to see If the South eastern Tariff association had fulfilled it's part of the contract with the city, plac- ing a part of the city on a first-class in- surance basis when the city made certain | improvements In the fire department. | These improvements, he said, had been | Finance Committee. We recommend the adoption of the fol- l lowing resolution:
 l Be 1t resolved by the Mayor and Alder men of Birmingham, That the city clerk be, and is hereby. authorized and instruct ed to publish in the Birmingham News,
 daily newspaper published in Birmng- 1 ham. Ala, on the following days: April 2l 1906; April 2S, 1906, and May 5, 1906, the | following notice:
 Notice is hereby given by the Mayor | and Aldermen of Birmingham as pro- l vided in section 61 of the charter of the city of Birmingham, that it is their in- tention to redeem bonds Nos 1 and 7, series s4; bonds Nos l to of series 92; bonds Nos. and 4 of series 93; bonds Nos. and of series 96; bonds Nos. 2 to 4, inc. of series 104; bond No6 of series 109; bonds Nos. and 6 of series 1O; bonds Nos. and of series 113; bond No. 1 of
 series go; bond No. 1 of series 121; bond No. of series 127, and bond No. 1 of series 166, at the June l. 19o6 interest period by paying off the same in full at
 the Hanover National bank in the city of New York and by paying as bonus to
 the holders thereof sum equal to one half of the annual interest thereon for one year.
 By order of the board
 J. c. MURRAY, City Clerk That bond ordinances Nos 165 1S9, 194,
 2O5 21O 217. 2ls. 220, 224 225. 235, 251, 256 and 266 be adopted
 The petition of the Church of the Advent for a reduction of assessments against their church property be allowed
 upon payment of all interest and cost and | 50 per cent of said assessment. That the petition of the board of man. agers of the Mercy Home be granted and that the assessments for street improve
 ment against said property be ordered charged off the books.
 That the recommendation of Dr. Hayes be concurred in and Jim Thomas be re- | leased from jail.
 Street Committee. 1 Alderman Stockmar reported for the street committee as follows: | That the resolution instructing the city | engineer to draw an ordinance for paving | First avenue from Seventh to Sixteenth streets and Third avenue from Thirteenth | to Eighteenth streets. with brick be re- | ferred to the city engineer for report That the petition of citizens asking for