Minutes of a called meeting · Roll call Present- absent- motion to assist city clerk Mayors call Marshals return Ord to pay Int- on bonds Motion to suspend rules Minutes of a called meeting of the City Council Austin Tex Dec 21, 1893 Hon John Mc Donald mayor presiding Roll call Present---15 Alderman Anderson. Powell. Assmann. Roberdeau Fischer Schneider Glass. Shelley Hancock Taylor Lawless Townsend Nitschke Warmuth Platt Absent-7 Aldermen Dawson North Blume Raymond Jackson - Redd Linn Alderman Taylor moved that Mr Neil McCashin be requested to act as City Clerk tonight for the council in place of the city clerk who is sick. The motion prevailed and was complied with. The following was read Mayor's Office Austin Tex Dec 21, 1893 To the members of the Board of Aldermen of the City of Austin, Gentlemen - I hereby call a special meeting of the City Council of the City of Austin to assemble in the council chamber at the City Hall at 8 oclock P.M. this evening, Thursday Dec 21, 1893 for the purpose of making an appropriation to pay interest on the bonds of the City of Austin issued prior to may 1, 1890 and to make an appropriation to pay aldermen John Mc Donald Mayor Austin Tex Dec 21, 1893 - 7 P.M. I hereby certify that the following aldermen have each been served with the above call by having it read to them in person Towit Anderson, Assmann, Dawson, Fischer, Glass Hancock, Jackson, Lawless, Linn Nitschke, North, Platt, Purnell, Raymond Redd, Roberdeau, Schneider, Shelley, Taylor, Townsend and Warmuth. And that alderman Blume has been served by an official copy being left at his place of business, he being out of the city James C Lucy City Marshal Alderman Taylor introduced an ordinance entitled "an Ordina nce appropriating the sum of $52 00 for the purpose of paying interest on the bonds of the city of Austin issued prior to may 1, 1890" It was read after which a motion was made to suspend the rules and place the ordinance on its second reading which was adopted by the following vote Yeas-15 Aldermen Anderson Platt --- Page break --- 630 Assmann Powell Fischer Roberdeau Glass Schneider Hancock Shelley Lawless Taylor Nitschke Townsend Warmath Motion to place ord on 3rd read The ordinance was accordingly read after which a motion was made to suspend the rules and place it carried on its third reading which was adopted by the following vote yeas Yeas-15 Aldermen Anderson Powell Assmann Roberdeau Fischer Schneider Glass Shelley Hancock Taylor Lawless Townsend Nitschke Warmath Platt ord. adopted The ordinance was accordingly read after which a motion was made that the ordinance do now pass which was adopted by the following vote Yeas-15 Aldermen Anderson Powell Assmann Roberdeau Fischer Schneider Glass Shelley Hancock Taylor Lawless Townsend Nitschke Warmath Platt Ord to pay aldermen Alderman Taylor presented an ordinance appropriating the sum of $2650 for the purpose of paying aldermen for attending regular meetings of the city council of the city of Austin from Jan 1893 to Nov 30, 1894. Alderman North entered the council and answered to his name carried The Ordinance was passed under suspension of the rules by the following vote Yeas-16 Aldermen Anderson Platt Assmann Powell Fischer Roberdeau Glass Schneider Hancock Shelley Lawless Taylor Nitschke Townsend North Warmath council adjourned The council then adjourned Milton Morris, City Clerk.