The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1921-07-01
COUNCIL NAMES
TRUSTEES FOR
HANDLING BONDS
Meets i'm Adjourned Session Friday
Afternoon To Complete. Pre-
ilminary Details.
FOUR NEW ORDINANCES
PASSED FIRST READING
Finance Committee Reports $25,O00
May Be Borrowed Locally
For Expenses.

Friday afternoon the city council
met in session, adjourned from the
previous meeting of Tuesday night.
The ordinance providing for the
issuance OF the bonds was passed
final reading, one section having
been amended to read that the bonds
would be dated August LIST, 1921,
instead of July LIST, 1921, and run
30 years from the former date.
The ordinance covering the health
department was passed on first
reading, and is published elsewhere
in this ISSUE An importanA provis,
ion of this ordinance is that the
scavenger department will run on n
regular schedule, the garbage to be
picked up on certain streets on GER
mated by the chairman of the board
of health, who is DR.. A. H. Miller.
It will then, also, be against the
law to put the garbage containers
on the streets on any other days.
When emptied on such days they
must be Immediately removed to the
rear. The ordinance gives the health
department more extensive police
lowers than heretofore, and is other
wise down to date. The three addi-
tional members of this board have
not yet been selected. 1t is possible
there will be two women members
OIL this board.
The revenue ordinance was intro
duced and passed first reading.
This ordinance is predicated upon
the state revenue act. The tax rate
established hereunder is so cents
on the hundred, the same as last
year. This, however, may have to
be changed to an increased rate to
whatever extent the aggregate valua-
ton is lowered. so as to get the
same amount of taxes this year as
last. This will mott though, mean
individual property owners paying in
any more money in taxes
Another ordinance of Importance
that passed first reading Is one pro-
vIding for a penalty of $50, for re-
icsal or delay in putting down any
sidewalk that might be ordered,
within the 80 days period from the
date notice is served on the property
owner.
A fourth ordinance which passed
first reading requires pool rooms to
close at eleven o'clock in the even
ing, and provides a penalty of $50
fer violation thereof
The finance committee reported
preliminary negotiations with local
banks for the loan of $4,000 with
which to complete the negro school
building, and finance the city the
remainder of the fiscal year, the
treasury now being about depleted,
although the recorder has been able
to collect from 81 firms, corpora
lions and individuals that had not
previously been paying advalorem
and privilege taxes. He. has also
collected considerable money in
back taxes from those who had
failed to pay and were delinquent,
this list aggregating Sc.
This money has been a consider
able help tiding the city treasury
over, and will partially offset the
reduced revenues by reason of the
reduction of electric rates which was
effective on the payment of May LIST
after the new administration went
into office. The report of the water
and light plant, which will be rem
dered at the next meeting of the
city council, will show that con-
sumers of electricity in Paris bought
the Juice for some $1,000 less
than the previous quarter, even
though the quarter just ending had
the advantage of additional Juice"
used by electric fans.
There will not be another meeting
OF the council until the regular July
meeting, Tuesday the 18th. Imme-
diately thereafter, as soon as the
thirty days Tor publication of the
bond issue ordinance expires, the
committee appointed as trustees for
the bond sale will enter negotiations
This committee is composed of w
T. Warren, Jr., chairman. and 7. e.
Leach, C. b. Alden, and Geo. l..
Fryer.