The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-03-02
CoFFIcIAL.)
REGULAR MEETING.

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Absent: Mayor Hopkins.
Minutes OF previous meeting were
read and confirmed.
Petitions and Communications.
From eighty citizens Of the
fourth ward, petition for change OF
The COW limits from o street TO
street. Referred to police, fire and
building permits committee.
From L. r. Atkins, petition to erect
on Old Town lot No. %, corner Of
George and Oglethorpe streets, just
inside FIRE limits, frame metal roof
cd cottage, to cost about $500. Re-
nit committee.
Alderman McGarvey appeared in ths
council chamber and occupied his
seat.
From thirteen shippers and wharf
owners, petition requesting that the
necessary arrangement be made by
which a barber master can be en-
ployed and paid sufficient salary to
guarantee efficient work. Received.
From G. w. Rudd, application for
position Of assistant sanitary inspee-
tor. Referred to sanitation, light and
water committee.
From Bay Iron Works, a petition for
a lease TO the foot of London street
for term OF twenty-five years. Re-
ferred to finance committee.
From City Attorney Whitfield, adj
yising of final disposition of cases vs..
Southern Electric Ry. Co., principal
and Aetna Indemnity Co. surety, OF
William Williams, and of Newman
Young Strachan Injunction, and the
liability of the city for its share Of
the proper costs. Received and or
dered lied.
A communication to the mayor from
G. d. Ogg was received calling at
tention to encroachment on Norwich
street OF the high school building as
proposed and the impairment of the
usefulness of the street and injury to
adjoining property, asking that the
street be preserved and that as owner
Of adjoining property he be protected
in his property right Referred to-
committee on public works. Suisse
quently reconsidered and referred to
public works committee, mayor and
city attorney with power to act.
From III. w. Gale & Co., agents
American Bonding Company, trans
hitting renewal bonds of city treas
urer and city clerk. On motion the
said bonds were approved.
From tax assessors reporting their
inability to submit the report usually
filed at the last me citing in February
for various reasons, principally the
lack Of map, but that the work is
now nearly completed and they ex-
pect to file the report by the date
required by law. Received and order
ed filed
From Alderman Taylor. viz:
brunswick. Ca, Feb. 25th. 1909.
To the Mayor and Council of the City
OF Brunswick
Gentlemen:--At meeting OF coun-
Gil, held on February nth, 1903, Aid
erman Ludwig, in offering his resigna-
ton as a member of the purchasing
committee of council, did attempt to
make it appear generally that my
conduct as chairman of the purchas-
ing committee for the year of 1905
of which committee Alderman Ludwig
was also member, had not been
straightforward, and did by insinu-
alton and inuendo impugn my con-
duct and my good faith in administer
ing me affairs OF that committee.
therefore take this opportunity
as any honorable man should, of Ge-
nying any such insinuation, inuendo
or other charge however made, and
call upon your honorable body TO APP,
point a special committee to invest-
gate my conduct, not only in view OF
an such insinuations and inuendoes Of
Alderman Ludwig, but generally IN
the conduct Of the affairs and mat
tiers pertaining to that chairmanshiI
by me, Respectfully,
chas. n. Taylor,
Received and ordered spread on the
minutes.
Reports Of Standing Committees.
Brunswick, Ga, Feb. 20, 1909.
Hon. Mayor and Council, Brunswick
Georgia:
Gentlemen: Your standing commit
tee on finance. to which was referred
by the mayor, a communication Il
him from the Gulf Refining company
subject being, change in the licens
ordinance so as to provide licens
for oil companies receiving their OF
in steel or wood barrels, of $50, be
To report, viz. after full considers
ton We recommend that the licens
at present charged for wholesale deal
ers in oil of 500. remain unchanged
Respectfully,
w. r. Cox, Chairman,
J. n. Leo,
c. McGarVey,
Finance COMMITTEES.
Adopted.