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Ensey, May 2O.-(Special. 1.-The City
 Council of Ensley will meet Thursday night in regular session, and the proposed
 consolidation of Ensley and Vivian will
 be acted upon. The following amended
 articles of an agreement as prepared by
 the city attorneys of the two cities will
 be presented for adoption or rejection: Section 1. The town of Wylam shall be
 divided into two CD wards with the city of Ensley for the next two @ years after the merger, and during such period shall be represented on the Board of
 Education of Ensley by one Q) or more members.
 Sec 2 The salaries paid in the Wylam
 public schools which school shall be re-
 tained and maintained the number of
 teachers employed in the proportion to pupils enrolled, the equipment of the school. shall be on an equal basis with any elementary public school in Ensley; and the principal of the Vivian public school shall reside in one of the Wylam wards, within the next two @ years after the merger with the city of Ems ley.
 Sec. 3. The territory now comprising the town of Wylam shall be provided with a sanitary sewerage system as soon
 
 be voted for and the bonds, if authorized, can be sold, and no sewers shall be built within the present cohporate limits of Ensley, nor any sewerage system now existing within the corporate limits of the city extended from the funds of said bond issue except that already provided for, unless at the same time such sani- tary sewerage system shall be built with in the present corporate limits of the ff1x1-r, faf I-xylur i1ar1 ipty nf sanitary sewerage system in the city of Ensley as now contemplated for the Fifth ward of said city of Ensley shall be construed to be the beginning of a sani- tary sewerage system for the town of Wylam, and said sanitary sewerage sys- tenn for the town of Wylam shall be commenced and completed upon the is- sue and sale of bonds as above set forth.
 Sec f. Within the two CD years next after the merger of the town of Wylam into the city of Ensley, the Wylam wards shall have at least one lieutena mt of police and one or more patrolmen, who shall reside in said Vivian wards. Sec 5. The territory now comprising the town of Wylam shall be allowed at , least five hundred (500) feet of fire hose additional to what said town of Wylam now has, a hose wagon, two hre horses and two paid firemen.
 Sec. G. A boulevard shall be constructs ed of slag and chart or other suitable material at least 30 feet wide, where width of street permits, from Avenue E | and Twenty-second street in the city of
 Ensley, through Wylam to the Warrior l road. the work to confluence not latter l than three months from the merger, and | be completed not later than 12 months l thereafter.
 Sec. r. The number of arc lights in the territory of the present town of Wylam shall bear the same proportion of the
 number of arc lights in the present city of Ensley as the area of the present town of Wylam bears to the area of the city of Ensley in addition to the free lights the town of Wylam already has. Sec 8. The number of water plugs in the territory of the present town of Wylam shall bear the same proportion 10 the number of water plugs in the pres ent city of Ensley as the area of the territory of the present town of Wylam bears to the area of the territory of the present city of Ensley
 Sec. g. The street improvements of the Wylam territory shall bear the same proportion to the street improvements of the Ensley territory as the street mile age of the Wylam territory bears to the street mileage of the Ensey terri tory.