The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-01-24
COUNCIL MINUTES
Official
REGULAR MEETING.

Brunswick, Ga, Jan. %, 1917.
Present: Hon. E. C. Butts, mayor;
Alderman Ludwig, Cook, Calnan, Hop
kins, Leo, McKinnon, Nicholson ana
Nash.
Minutes of previous meeting were
read and confirmed.
Unfinished Business.
The election of a sexton for the
white cemetery, deferred at last meet
ing, was on motion again deferred.
Petitions and Communications.
From G.. M. Tilton, resignation from
board of tax assessors on account of
sickness. Accepted.
From B. Borchardt Co., for refund
of $500 fee paid for impounded stock.
Referred to police committee.
From w. F. Parker, secretary and
treasurer board of trustees Brunswick
Hospital, transmitting annual report
for wear 1912. Ordered published with
annual reports of officers for 1912.
Also, rendering his resignation as sec
rotary and as member Of board of
trustees. Accepted with regret.
Alderman Cook appeared in council
chamber and occupied his chair.
Bids for care of city clock were
received from K. Mott at $500 per
month and from N. E. Chilean at
$500 per month. Referred to com
mlttee on public works and building
with power to act.
A bid from J. Sydney Roberts for
furnishing drugs and medicines for
the hospital and charity department
at $40 per month was received and
referred to the hospital and charity
committee with power to act.
A bid for furnishing 100 cords OF
wood to the crematory at $3.50 per
cord from H. S. McCrary, was re-
ceived and referred to the commit
tee on sanitation, public works and
buildings, with power to act.
A communication from N. S. Beaver
relating to claim against r. w. Elan
ders, city employee, on account of
unsettled execution held by the city
against city property conveyed by
Flanders to Beaver, was referred to
the finance committee and the city
attorney.
Mayor Butts appeared in the coun-
Gil chamber and occupied the chair,
relieving Alderman Ludwig, chairman
of council, then presiding.
Reports of Standing Committees.
From standing committee on finance
on communication from H. F. Dun.
woody and D. w. Krauss, attorneys FOR
Mrs. Mary F, Gill, with reference
to the judgment in favor of Mrs Gill,
viz: Having been empowered to act,
your committee directed that voucr-
er be issued for the amount due, which
was, on the 9Th day of January, 1912,
principal, interest and costs, $2,224.62,
and the same. has been paid.
Respectfully,
M. 3. McKinnon, Chrn,
c. T. CaInan,
J. n. Leo.
Ordered filed.
From standing committee OH taxes
and revenues on petition of Albert
Houston, for relief from taxes as
sessed on buildings located on Town
Commons lot 105, between Cochran
and Stcnewall street by assessors in
1911, but burned before March / and
previous to his purchase of the lot
in April, 1911, viz: 1t appears by the
assessors return, that they mace the
assessment during their rounds in
1911, at $500 for the buildings, filing
their return on February %, 1911. 1t
appears by the records at the fire de-
partment that the buildings were
borned on February 20, 1911, but no
change appearing on the assessors
return, it was entered and taxed as
the property of the party returning
the lot in 1911, the petitioner. There
being no improvements on the OF, on
March 1, date for city valuations, the
petitioner is entitled to the relief ask
ed for, and We recommend that the
amount of the tax be written off the
tax execution.
Respectfully,
l.. Ludwig, Chairman.
r. S. Nash,
Geo. n. Cook.
Adopted.
Resolutions.
By Alderman Hopkins:
Be it, and it is hereby resolved, by
the Mayor and Aldermen of the City
of Brunswick, in Council assembled,
That,
Resolved, BY the mayor and alder
men of the city of Brunswick, in coun-
Gil assembled, that,
Whereas, the present mail service
afforded the people of this city IS
working a serious hardship upon her
business interests and upon the whole
people of the city and,
Whereas, this condition has exist
ed for months, without any signs Of
Improvement: be it resolved, that The
mayor be requested to call a special
meeting Of council for Wednesday
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