The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-07-26
COUNCIL MINUTES
Official 10 ..[.5.
REGULAR MEETING.

Minutes of previous meetings were
read and confirmed.
Unfinished Business.
The report of the special commit
tee on advisa bility of converting Town
Commons into fee, was brought ur
under the head. The report as amend
ed and as shown in the first six sec
tons of the bill to amend the city
charter contained in these minutes
was adopted, and the clerk directed
to certify to the bill, and the mayor
requested to send it to our represen-
tative and senator from this district
with request to have it passed at the
present session of the Legislature.
An amendment to section 3, chang
ing the ratio of payment for the fee,
viz, leases expiring within Is years
80 per cent: over Is to 30 years, %
per cent. over 30 to 65 years, 3 per
cent; over SIS to SO years, 3 per cent
of their assessed values. was offered
by Alderman Cook and failed of adop-
ton, Alderman Cook desiring to have
the motion go on record. The bill is
, as follows; >,L-
AN ACT to amend an Act entitled
IAN Act to consolidate and amend the
several acts incorporating the City of
Brunswick, and for other purposes
therein mentioned approved August
27, 1872, and the several acts amend
atory thereof, and for other purposes.
Section l. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly Of the State of Geor-
gia, and it is hereby enacted by au-
| tftority OF the SAME, that the charter
of the City of Brunswick be amend
ed by giving to the mayor and coun-
ell of said city authority to sell, con
yey and dispose Of all right, title
equity, estate, interest, remainder and
reversion of said mayor and council
in and to all that property in the cor
porate limits of said city known as
the Town Commons, upon such terms
and for such considerations as the
said mayor and council may deem ex
pedient as herein set out
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the
authority aforesaid that said mayor
and council shall have full right and
authority to eXpend and appropriate
all monies received from such sale
or disposition of said Town Com
mons for any purposes or object for
which said municipality has lawful
right or authority to expenG and ap.
propriate money.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the
authority aforesaid that in making
such sale and conveyance of said Town
| Commons, said mayor and council
shall have authority to cancel and null
| lify any existing ease contracts
to any or all portions of said Town
| Commons in all instances where such
| sales and conveyances are made to the
| holder of said leases. To the holder
of such lease the city shall exact and
collect for such fee simple title, the
following amounts, and not less, on
leases expiring within fifteen years
from July l, 1911. the sum of 10 per
cent; leases expiring from over fiji
teen to thirty years 10 per cent
leases expiring from over thirty to
sixty-five years 2 per cent. and leases
expiring from sixty-five to ninety nine
years l IL per cent, said percentage
to be based upon the city assessment
OF the value of said real estate for
the year 1911; the expense of making
said deeds shall be borne by the
mayor and council; provided the hold
ers of said leases shall avail them
selves of the right to purchase said
fee by the first day of January, 1913;
after the said first day of January,
1918, then said mayor and council
shall have the right to sell and con-
vey said Town Commons lots, either
to the holder OF said leases, or the
fee in reversion, at public outcry, to
the highest bidder for cash, subject
to the right to reject any and all bids
at such public sales, upon such terms
and conditions as said mayor and
council shall by ordinance from time
to time provide.
Sec. 4. Be 1t further enacted by the
authority aforesaid that said mayor
and council shall have full authority
and 1t shall be the duty of said mayor
and council, beginning with the year
1912, to levy and collect a tax of not
less than one-tenth of one per GEN.
tum and not more than three-tenths
OF one per centum annually, the
amount OF said, tax levy as herein linn
tied, shall be fixed by majority of
he city members of the Board of
Education of Glynn county, on all of
the taxable property within said city
for the smuport of the public schools
of said city.
Said taxes shall be levied and the
collection therec. ehforced in the
same ~; ner as = provided for the
levy and ollecfiGl % taxes generally
~ said mayor All council. All mon.
;cs aris' from he levy OF such TAX
sh,I le paid over by said mayor and
council to the board OF education OF
Glynn county. Georgia. II be by said
board used in the support Of The pnp-.
lie schools of said city. It shall be
the duty of the treSsrrer NJ aid