The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-04
ROUTINE BUSINESS
 :. OF CITY COMMISSION

The matter of public Improvements. paving and filling in of ditches consumed much time when the commission met yes- terday morning. The following is a sum mary of the action taken Approved vouchers. pay rolls and con- tractors estimates.
 Adopted resolution assentng to the va cation of portion of Sixteenth street near Tenth avenue, north Adopted grade ordinance No. 273-C, m ordinance fixing and establishing grade of Fifth avenue, south, from Thirty eighth street to Forty fifth street
 Adopted improvement ordinance No. 94s-C an ordinance providing for certain improvements on Fifth avenue, south. from Thirty y-eighth street to Forty-fifth street
 Accepted bid of ". M Cosby Flour and Grain company of 80 cents per bushel for eight cars of No. 2 white oats. Accepted bid of the Birmingham Grain company for $22 per ton for one car of alfalfa hay. Instructed the city engineer to draw an ordinance for paving Twenty first street | from Highland avenue to Fifteenth ave-
  Adopted resolution assenting to the va cation of a portion of Fifth or Mont gomery street at Tuscaloosa avenue. | Adopted resolution authorizing the pres | ident to reconvey to A. Doggrell part of 1 lots 17 and 1S block 2sS l Adopted resolution indorsing action Of | President Wilson in addressing Congress with reference to war between the United States and the German government. ~l,rA,< .~s .,..l action in the construction of the $500, | 600 municipal electric light plant. | Adopted resolution correcting certain errors in assessment under improv ement ordinance No. 673-C.
 l Confirmed action of Commissioner Bar Der in releasing certain prisoners from the | city jail on probation.
 l Adopted resolution authorizing the presi- 6tnt to transfer to J. F. Leary lieas of the 1 cjty of Birmingham under Improvement
 ordinance No. 922-C, upon payment of the amount of the assessments levied agains1
 the property in question. 1 The following matters were referred: l To President Ward: Communication
 fl om the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce | with reference to the appointment oI delegates to attend meeting of the pnb 1 lie safety committee in Atlanta. 1 Communication from the city engir with reference to the refusal of certain property holders on Eleventh avenue south, to correctly number their premises 1 To Commissioner Barber: Communica ] ton from the city engineer with refer ence to the construction of sanitary sew CTS to serve the property located oetweef l Eighteenth and Twenty-first streets anC rhirty-second and Thirty-fifth avenues north.
 l Petition of A. IT. Mcdonald for dislnis- sal cf case in the recorders count witf power to act.
 l The matter of building additional shcG. l for storing machinery at the SouthslG' jail.
 | To the city attorney; Recommendations l frcin the chief of the fire department l with reference to the installation or Ger. tain fire hydrants.
 | The matter of sprinkling the east an6 west and the north and south highways 1 for investigation and report as to the
 city's legality for sprinkling these streets l To Commissioner Truss: Resolutions
 adopted by the Woodlawn Civic clubs with reference to storm sewer condition. and street conditions in Woodlawn. 1 To building department: Communica l ton from First Avenue Coal and Lumber | company with reference to the characte l of wood shingles sSid in the city o l Bir mingham.