REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL: Austin, Texas, July 18, 1918. The Council was called to order by the Mayor. Roll call showed the following present: Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Anthony, Bartholomew, Haynes, and Powell, 5; absent none. The minutes of July 11 and subsequent recessed meetings were read and adopted by a vote of 5 yeas, no nays. The Mayor laid before the Council "An Ordinance ordinance authorizing the Sewage issuance of bonds for the purpose of constructing and installing a sewPlant Land. age disposal plant for the City of Austin, and providing for the levy and collection of a tax sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds and to create a sinking fund of at least two per cent of the principal of said bonds and sufficient to redeem them at maturity, and repealing an ordinance passed June 21, 1918," said ordinance having been read the first time at a previous meeting of the Council. The Mayor moved the suspension of the rule and the placing of said ordinance on its second reading. The motion prevailed by the following vote: Yeas, Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Anthony, Bartholomew, Haynes, and Powell, 5; nays none. The ordinance was then read the second time and the Mayor moved a further suspension of the rule and the placing of the ordinance on its third reading, which motion carried by the following vote: Yeas, Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Anthony, Bartholomew, Haynes, and Powell, 5; nays none. When the ordinance had been read the third time the Mayor moved its final passage, the motion prevailing by the following vote: Yeas, Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Anthony, Bartholomew, Haynes, and Powell, 5; nays none. (Said ordinance is recorded in Ordinance Book G, pages 15-16). The Mayor laid before the Council the following resolution: RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS: South Congress That the sum of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) be and the same is avenue Ravine transferred from the General Contingent Fund of the City of Austin, appropriation. Texas, and appropriated to the expense for material and labor of filling the ravine on South Congress avenue from James to Nellie streets. This appropriation is to be disbursed by the Superintendent of Receipts, Disbursements and Accounts under the head of Sanitary Expenditures. The resolution was passed by a vote of 5 yeas, no nays. APPROVED, July 18, 1918: A. P. Wooldridge, Mayor. H. Carlstrom Mr. Carlstrom appeared before the Council to ask the remission of a fine assessed against him for assault. Action was deferred pending fuller information. Mr. Loyd. Mr. Loyd, a contractor on the State office building at Eleventh Ornamental and Brazos streets, and W. R. Hendrickson, State Inspector of Masonry, light poles. were before the Council relative to the city's taking off of the contractor's hands certain ornamental light poles. A committee composed of Mrs. W. D. Hart, Miss Willie Haines, and John H. Cabaniss came before the Council to ask that a bandstand be --- Page break --- Bandstand D. A. R. gift Public Service car licenses J. E. McNamara fine Mrs. Chas. W. Gardner Garbage & debris F. G. Vaughan Petition - Chickens running at large Report Assessor & Coll. E. M. Kells