The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-07
COUNCIL WORKS AMID BRILLIANCY Orders $l2,lOO Paid For Improvements. MUCH ROUTINE BUSINESS Portion of Wharf Completed and
 Treasurer Must Pay. Paving Work on Various Streets and sidewalks Ordered BeEus-City
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Meeting under the brilliancy of new ly installed Tungsten lights hanging from polished brass fixtures and with richly colored wall paper and other improvements lately made In the cham Der the City Council Monday night dis posed of an unusually large mass of routine matters and several of greater importance. Orders were made on the City Treasurer for s12.1o0 for various Improvements
 A communication from the City Treasurer was read which stated that the vaults of the clerks office are overcrowded with mass Of old bonds, some of which have been executed, and the Council was requested to make some disposal of them. It was ordered that the old bonds be destroyed.
 That portion of Hall Street which extends through Oak Park, was order ed widened by the moving of the fences on the west side of the street twenty-five feet further back than they are at present. A communication was read in this connection from private parties who agreed to transplant the hedges along the street without charge to the city.
 The Treasurer was instructed by an ordinance to pay $1.5oo for the work done on installation of plumbing on oOuiu La aWNChSt otAGSt PtOPes6seeS N~ the laying of the pavement on that thoroughfare.
 The Treasurer was instructed by or dlnance to return to the Montgomery Traction Company $90o formerly de- posted by it for the guarantee of the construction of tracks along Jefferson Davis Avenue.
 An ordinance making 1t unlawful for electric wiring or installation to be f,-ny Electrician was passed The ordinance carries with 1t a scale of fees for the permits.
 The Treasurer was instructed by or dinance to pay to the Metropolitan Construction Company $90o as the con tract price for the maintenance of the paving along South Perry Street. The contract price for the work was cents per square foot.
 Acting under recommendation from Mayor Gunter, the Council passed a resolution empowering him to have the Recorders court room renovated and improved as he sees it.
 communication from the City En- gineer showing the sewer on Chandler Street to be completed was read and a resolution was passed empowering the Treasurer to pay out the contract pricc. $1.S00, for the work.
 On recommendation or tne Cfty En- gifieer. resolution empowering the Treasurer to pay $7.00o from the spe- cial wharf fund for the payment on that part of the work completed. was adopted. The communication from the Engineer stated that the work was seven-tenths complete. the final esti- mate on total cost being $10.c00.
 The West -Steagall Grain Company was awarded the contract for furnish ing the city with provisions during the month of December. their bid being the lowest of several submitted.
 Paving work on sections of the fol- lowing streets andt avenues was or- dered begun: Clitheral Avenue. Jefter- son Davis Avenue. sidewalks on South Union Street. Clayton Street, Bibb Street, Mobile Street, McDonough Street, Columbus Street, sidewalks of Union Street and part of the roadway of Madison Avenue at the end of the present pavement.
 A resolution empowering the Treas- urer to pay all city employees half of their December salaries at Christmas time was adopted under a suspension of the rules.