180 SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL: Austin, Texas, February 22, 1918. The Council was called to order by the Mayor: all members present. The Mayor read to the Council the annual report of the Austin Gas Light Company for 1917 made to the Secretary of State of Texas. A copy of which is supplied to the city. It was ordered received and filed. R. R. Commission: A communication from the Railroad Commission of Texas dated Feb. 13, 1918, and relating to the dismissal of the petition Sand Beach R. R. of the I. & G. N. Railway for authority to take up the track on the dismissed the "Sand Beach Reserve" in this city, was read. The City Attorney read to the Council an application to the State Board of Water Engineers for the appropriation of water from the Colorado river and its tributaries. Brundage Shows: A committee appeared before the Council on behalf of the use of streets S. W. Brundage Shows asking permission to use certain of the downtown streets. This was denied, but assurance was given that East Avenue, north and south of Sixth Street, might be used for the purposes of the carnival. The Council then adjourned. J. a. Warren City Clerk SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL: Austin, Texas, February 25, 1918. The meeting was called to order by the Mayor: all members present. The Mayor laid before the Council the matter of contagious Contagious diseases, referring to threatening conditions at the present time. diseases He declared that one cause of epidemics is the coming and going, at Mexican Families. will, of numerous Mexican families. These people, in addition to spreading disease, he said, often become objects of charity and a burden on the community. The Mayor discussed the question as to how the various funds of the city should be carried on the books of the Treasurer, but no action was taken. The Council then adjourned. J. a. Warren City Clerk SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL: Austin, Texas, February 26, 1918. The Council was called to order by the Mayor: all members present. The Mayor laid before the Council the question whether each department of the city government should bear the expense of the telephone service used by such department. No action taken. The Mayor then laid before the Council the following Resolution: --- Page break --- 186 (1) All funds going by assignment in the budget or otherwise by resolution of the City Council or by present practice of the city government shall be deposited to the credit of the department to which said funds belong. (m) All miscellaneous incomes of every character and description not otherwise appropriated by this resolution shall be deposited by the Assessor and Collector of Taxes to the credit of the General Fund. III. That the City Treasurer of the City of Austin be and he is hereby expressly exempted from every legal or other responsibility for the correct apportionment, assignment or deposit of funds in detail as set out in Section II of this resolution. The only requirement made of the City Treasurer in receiving municipal deposits is that he shall see that the gross deposits made to his credit as Treasurer of the City of Austin, Texas, shall be as shown on the several deposit slips or assignment sheets as made to his credit as Treasurer by either the Assessor and Collector of this city or the Cashier of the Water, Light and Power Department, and which deposits in detail, without responsibility as to the correctness of same, he shall direct to be entered upon his ledgers in the manner, form and amount as set out in the assignment sheets submitted by the Assessor and Collector of this city. IV. It is hereby resolved that it shall be optional with the City Treasurer to receive assignment sheets of the various funds to be distributed as set out in Section II of this resolution or to insist upon special deposits covering said distributed items. The Resolution was adopted by the following vote: YeasMayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Anthony, Bartholomew, Haynes, and Powell, 5; nays, none. APPROVED, February 26, 1918: A. P. Wooldridge, Mayor. The Council then adjourned. g. a. Marrow City Clk. SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL: Austin, Texas, February 27, 1918. The Council was called to order by the Mayor; all members present. Sand Beach. After discussion, the Council agreed that the Mayor Car 7 remove should issue a permit to the local agent of the I. & G. N. Railway machinery authorizing him to place a car on the spur track which traverses the "Sand Beach," now controlled by the city, for the purpose of loading and removing the machinery and equipment of the Austin Sand and Gravel Company. The Mayor then read to the Council a communication signed by himself as Mayor, in which he explained the transaction by which, in the fall of 1917, an automobile was purchased for the Chief of the Fire Department, at the cost of $800.00, the Street Department was --- Page break --- Street Dept. 2nd line date due Proceeds of School Bonds duly paid over Landing field for planes J. A. Warren City Clerk