Austin Council Meeting July 1891
• Low Attendance: Only 9 of 22 aldermen showed up to the meeting, with 13 absent—raising questions about quorum and council participation in the late 1800s.
• Quick Adjournment: The council immediately moved to adjourn with no substantive business conducted, suggesting either a routine procedural meeting or lack of agenda items.
• Close Vote on Adjournment: The motion to adjourn passed narrowly (5-4), indicating some disagreement among present members about whether to end the session.
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The minutes of a Regular Meeting of the City Council Austin, Texas, July 20, 1891. Han. Henry H. Linn, President of the Board of Aldermen, Presiding. Roll C. [Roll Called. Present: Aldermen Assmann, Carleton, Glass, Ketchum, Linn, Morris, Schuler, Wingfield, Ziller 9. Absent- Aldermen Anderson, Graham, Hume, Jackson, Nuston, Nitschke, North, Phillips, Platt, Schneider, Suter, Townsend, Weyerman - 13.
adjourned. Alderman Carleton moved that the Council stand adjourned, and the motion prevailed by the following vote: Yeas- Aldermen Assmann, Carleton, Linn, Schuler, Ziller5. Nays- Aldermen Glass, Ketchum, Morris Wingfield- 4. Milton Morris, City Clerk.