The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-08
Kings "Greater Birmingham" Measure Will Be Backed
 Bya Big Delegation
MAKES CITY REACH FROM
 EAST LAKE TO PRATT CITY
Public schpoI, Fire Department and PO- lice District Will Be Formed for Every 1000 PeopIe-Provis-
 ions of Bill.

The fight for Greater Birmingham will be transferred to the legislature tomor- row morning, and the principal battlefield will be in the senate. Representative Jere c. King, with delegation number ing over 100 at his back, will present his bill and it is believed that 1t will go through the house on oiled wheels, and while the wheels in the senate may not run so smoothly it is believed they will turn easy enough to pass the bill.
 The Commercial club and board of trade will send big delegations in addition to the large number of other individuals who will go down to Montgomery to fight for the making of Greater Birmingham. The determination to have greater city is very strong among the members of the delegation and they one and all declare that this bill will be passed or "some- thing is going to pop"
 A brief outline of Kings bill is as fol- lows
 All the territory from East Lake to Pratt City, including North Birmingham, is to be brought into the city of Bir- mngham arbitrarily, taking effect Oct. 1, 1909. All of the territory outside of the present limits will be represented by twenty-two aldermen on the board of al- dermen of the Greater Birmingham, while that territory enclosed within the present limits will have eighteen aldermen. This will make a council of forty aldermen and will give the outside territory ma jority, thereby putting 1t up to the an- naxed territory as to whether or not they shall treat themselves fairly.
 There will be a public school in every district of 4OOO people. Ther will also be fire department and a police district to every 1000 people, The mayors of the towns annexed will become judges of the police court of their district and will serve as such for the balance of their terms. The city attorneys will become assistant city attorneys for the greater city, and will handle cases in the police courts of their respective districts.
 All of the small towns will be allowed to issue the necessary bonds for the cou- struction of school houses and sewers, these bonds to be assumed by the Great CT Birmingham corporation. Territory to be taken in which Is not yet incorporated will be allowed to incorporate and issue bonds for the construction of their pub lie utilities these bonds also to be as- stunned by the Greater Birmingham cor poration.
 Some of the most expert legal talent in Alabama in regard to municipal law has declared that the general and com panion bills drawn up by Representative King are perfect. The aim of all the work of drawing it up was to give the outside territory a "square deal' and in order to arrive at the desires of all of the different towns the city attorneys of each of these corporations were called into consultation, and such changes and additions as they deemed necessary were inserted in the bills.
 The bill also provides that intoxicants shall not be sold in any territory now forbidding the sale of it within its bor- ders. Under this ruling Pratt City and Birmingham will be the only two spots where whisky for drinking purposes can be secured.
 The making of a Greater Birmingham will give Birmingham a census popula- tion of at least 125,00O in 1910