Regular meeting of the City Council: Austin, Texas, August 24, 1911. The Council was called to order by the mayor: Roll called: Present Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Bartholomew, Lockridge & Powell Absent excused Councilman Hart The minutes of the last regular and subsequent recessed meeting were read and adopted. Councilman Powell presented a petition from Citizens of Austin, asking that the pound ordinance be amended, which was read and laid over until the return of Councilman Hart. The mayor laid before the Council a petition from G.F. Hamilton, asking remission of a pound fee assessed against him, which was endorsed by the City Marshall, recommending that the petition be NOT allowed. The recommendation of the Marshal was adopted by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Bartholomew, Lockridge & Powell Absent Councilman Hart The Mayor laid before the Council a petition from J.O.Polhemus asking that a pound fee paid by him be refunded, with the recommendation of the City Marshall that the petition be NOT granted. The recommendation of the Marshall was adopted by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Bartholomew, Lockridge & Powell Absent Councilman Hart The Mayor laid before the Council a petition from J.P. Schneider asking the Council to remit pound fees on two horses impounded, Aug. 23rd 1911, on motion the petition was granted by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Bartholomew, Lockridge & Powell Absent Councilman Hart The Mayor laid before the Council a petition from Frank Heierman, asking to be released from a judgement against him for taxes, which he claimed were illegally assessed. The mayor laid before the Council the following resolution: Be it resolved by the City Council of the City of Austin: --- Page break --- That the petition of Frank Heierman, asking for the remission of the taxes erroneously assessed against him in the year 1897, by reason of the alleged ownership of a twelve hundred dollar note given by S. Balletti to him the said Frank Heierman without consideration, as set out in his petition to the City Council, under date of August 24th 1911, he and the same is hereby granted; and Be it further resolved: That the erroneous judgement taken against the said Frank Heierman in tax suit No. 4468, of the City of Austin vs Frank Heierman, in Justice M.M. Johnson's court Precinct No. 3, Travis County, Texas, on January 26th 1901, be and the same is hereby cancelled and annulled; and, Be it further resolved: That the mayor of the City of Austin be and he is hereby authorized, upon the payment of the cost secured in this cause, to execute a release of said erroneous judgement. The resolution was adopted by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Bartholomew, Lockridge & Powell Absent Councilman Hart On motion of Councilman Bartholomew, the claim of R.B. Matthews, for services as Keeper of the market square, during the absence of D.J. O'Kane, amounting to $16.65, was allowed and ordered paid by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Bartholomew, Lockridge & Powell Absent Councilman Hart On motion of Mayor Wooldridge, all bids received by the City for Curbing and Gutters on East Avenue Park were rejected and the Clerk directed to return to bidders their certified checks by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Bartholomew, Lockridge & Powell Absent Councilman Hart Councilman Lockridge presented bids received for furnishing woos to the Hospital and for Charity, as follows, to wit: Austin Coal & Wood Co, hard Wood $4.00 per cord, Cedar Wood $5.75 per cord --- Page break --- J.C. McKeo, Hard Wood $4.35 per cord, Cedar Wood $5.00 per cord J.C. Brodie, Hard Wood $4.25 per cord, Cedar Wood $4.25 per cord On motion of Councilman Lockridge the contract was awarded to Mr. J.C. Brodie act his bid, by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Woldridge, Councilmen Bartholomew, Lockridge & Powell Absent Councilman Hart Thursday Aug. 24th 1911 P.M. The Council was called to order by the Mayor, with Councilmen Hart & Lockridge absent. Mayor Wooldridge offered the following resolution: Be it resolved by the City Council of the City of Austin: That the City Attorney of this City be and he is hereby instructed to institute the necessary legal proceedings to enforce a lien and determine the assessed values for street paving in front of the planing mill of J.L. Hume at the Hume Lumber Co., abutting upon block 180, fronting Congress Avenue. The resolution was adopted by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Bartholomew & Powell Absent Councilmen Hart & Lockridge The mayor laid before the Council an account of N.A. Rector, Esq., for Attorney's fees attorney for the City, in an application for injunction against F.H. Jones, which was allowed and ordered paid by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Bartholomew, Lockridge & Powell Absent Councilman Hart The Council then adjourned.