The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1908-07-25
MINUTES
Of COUNCIL
MEETING
NUMBER OF IMPORTANT MAT
TIERS WERE DISPOSED OF BY
TIE sOLoNs-WHY MUTUAL
MATTER Ci6N'T COME UP.
COUNCIL MINUTES.
(Oficial.)
Regular Meeting.


Regular Meeting.
Brunswick Ca, July %, 1908.
Present, Hon R. R. Hopkins, mayor
Aldermen Cox, Ludwig, Calnan, Dart
McGaryey, Mann, Robinson and Tay-
lor
Minutes Of previous meeting were
lead and confirmed.
Petitions and Communications
From 80 taxpayers and citizens, re-
quest chat the pending ordinance re-
lating to motorboats. be not passed
Received and ordered >Ntaohad to the
ordinance.
From - wharf cwnevs and exporters
requesting that said ordinance be pass
ed. Received and ordered Attached
to the ordinance.
From Joseph Matthews, to aNd q
fiye-foot front extension. covered NTH
sheet iron to Kitchen back of his buil&l
ing on Bay street.
Referred to committee on Fire and
Building permits.
From Mrs Elizabeth Nance, ad-
IministratriX, rendering check for
$53.23 and asking that New Town lot
No. 779, acquired by city at tax sales,
be quitclaimed to Wesley II. Green.
field, alleging that said lot at the time
Of purchase by city was the property
of w B. Nance now deceased, and
that on Nov. %, 1906, the Tax and
Revenues Committee recommended
that said lot be quitclaimed to her
On payment of the taxes, interest and
costs, said report having been adopted
nd appearing on the minutes for that
ear, page $50, and that since that
ime said lot mas been sold to Wesley
H. Greenfield. Referred to Taxes and
Revenues committee.
From % citizens and tax payers in
VICINITY, a petition for fire hydrant
land drinking fountain for stock to be
installed at the corner of johnson
street and Ocean avenue. Referred to
Sanitation, Light and Water commit
tee.
Report of Special Committee.
Chairman Cox Of the special com
mittee handling the water rate ordi-
nance and negotiations with the Mu-
tual Light and Water company, repor-
ted verbally that the revised report
of the city's auditor on examination
of the company's books had just been
received this morning, and that as he
had net had time to call meeting of
the committee to consider it, request
ed further time. Granted
Re9orts of Standing Committees.
From Public Work Committee, rec
|ommending that petition of NJ G.
.Buggs to remove pine tree on Stone
wall street, north of J, be granted; the
city engineer to see that the ordi-
nance regulating the removal of trees
is carried out. Adopted
From Ordinance committee report
ingo that there are no charter proyis-
ions or ordinances covering the sub
ject matter CT the proposed ordinance
elating to motOrboats.
Received and ordered attached to-
|ordinance. 4
Reports of Officers. 4
From w. b. Fain, treasurer, tran$
.cript from his books of receipts aIH
disbursements for the month of Jure,
1908, examined and approved by *
aminers fer the finance committee.
Ordered published and filed.
From J A. Butts, city physician snd
health officer, report for month"; Of
June, 1908 Ordered filed
From S. A. Burney, marshal, report
for the month Of June, 1908. Ofder-
ed filed.
From Col c. ?. GOODYEAR regard
ing the visit Of the committee 10 At
lanta IN July Oil, in behalf Of the
proposed extension Of the state road
to the sea. Ordered fled
A report from the city clerk IN con
nection with the second quarterly
statement of the condition Of the
departmental expenditures under the
budget, was read as information, and
ION motion was ordered published as
part Of the official minutes.
The report is as follows:
Hon Mayor and Council Brunswick,
Georgia,
Gentlemen:
The records. and approved bills
show, for the end Of the second guar
ter, June 30. 1903 that while some
departments as slieat1y overdrawn,
the Others arc inside, but q. whole
ithe departmental expenses have kent
reasonably close to their budget ap-
,propriation; the indication being that
on total appropriation for this pur-
ipcse Of $75,50000 the excess for the
year will not exceed $4,000 a trine
lover one per cent. at the present ratio.
The uncollected taxes Of s22 ,27070
on the digest Of 1907 brought forward
(Gonfinued on Fifth Dage)