The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-09-13
COUNCIL MINUTES
Official
REGULAR MEETING.


Present: Hon. E, C. Butts, mayor;
Aldermen Calnan, McKinnon, Boyle,
Cook, Hopkins, Leo, Ludwig and
Nicholson.
Minutes of previous meeting were
read and confirmed
Petitions and Communications.
From International Municipal Con-
gress and Exposition, invitation to
send delegates to congress at Chicago
September 1880, 1911, and from the
League of American Municipalities, to
convention at Atlanta October 4, .
and 6. Ordered fled
From Lang & Orr, patition for as
sistance in securing sidings connect
ing their sash. door and blind factory
with the Southern and A, B. & A.
R. R. Referred to railroad and har-
Dor committee with power to act.
From Sol Walberg, petition for re-
endorsement in sum of $3.50 for horse
that strayed from his premises and
was injured in falling through bridge
at Gordon and \ streets to such an
| extent as to cause said animal to be
shot to put it out of pain. Referred
to city attorney.
An invitation. conveyed by Mayor
/ Butts. from Mrs. Nj. c. Rowe to in
spect the comfort bags intendad for
the sailors on the battleship Georgia,
was on motion accepted with thanks.
| A claim by the Southern Bell Tele-
phone Co. for $17457 for repairing
underground cables and manhole
| damaged by the break in the Rich
mond street sewer last fall. was re-
| ferred TO the public works commit
tee and the city attorney with power
to act.
Reports of Standing Committees.
From taxes and revenues commit
tee on petition Of W. A. Bruand for
release Of taxes assessed against per-
sonal property in 1911. alleging err
| ror by assessors, viz: Such claim of
error should have been made during
the period allowed for objections to
assessments, and while the board of
equalizers We're in session to adjust
it, and as your committee is opposed
to the reopening of valuations and
assessments, we beg to report ad-
versely on the petition.
| Respectfully,
L. Ludwig, Chairman,
A. j. Nicholson,
George H. Cook.
Adopted
From standing committee on finance
! g
l. o, O. F., its subject being to as
sist this Canton in defraying the ex-
penses of the trip to Indianapolis viz:
Owing to the financial condition of the
city, we do not think that we should
appropriate anything to help defray
the expenses Of this trip We have
already appropriated 100000 for adj
vertising and bringing factories to the
city. Respectfully,
M. 3. McKinnon, Chrm,
J. H. Leo,
c. T. CaInan,
Adopted on aye and nay vote, viz.
Ayes Aldermen Calnan, McKinnon,
Cook, Leo and Nicholson; nays, AID
ermen Boyle, Hopkins and Ludwig.
Reports of Officers.
From w. b. Fain, treasurer, tran
script from his books of receipts and
disbursements for May and June,
checked and verified by examiners for
the finance committee. Ordered pub
lished and filed.
From Marshal A. L. Owens, report
for month of August, 1911. Ordered
filed. rFFNTWEw
Resolutions.
BY the Finance Committee:
Be 1t, and it is hereby resolved by
the mayor and aldermen Of the City
OF Brunswick, Ga, in council assem-
bled, that the mayor be and he is
hereby authorized to borrow on be-
half of the mayor and council the
sum of $4,000 for the purpose of pay
ing note for like sum maturing
on the 18th instant, and to execute
a note or notes to the lender or lend
ers Of such money; such note or notes
to be payable within six months from
date or shorter period, and to bear
interest at a rate not greater than 8
percentum per annum.
Further resolved, that the mayor be
authorized to renew said note or notes
for the whole or any part of said sum.
if the original be made for a shorter
period than six months from the date
of the original note or notes. Adopted.
By the Finance Committee:
Be it. and it is hereby resolved by
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