75 The Council then adjourned. V.E. Martin City Clerk (appco. fee of Jno. H. Gregory for plans + spec ifications) SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL: Austin, Tex. Oct. 7, 1918. The Council met with all members present. The Mayor offered the following resolution: RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS: That the sum of One Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($1,500.00) be and the same is hereby appropriated out of the $100,000.00 credited in the Sewer Fund of this city to the expense of building a sewage disposal plant and set apart for the payment of the bill of John H. Gregory for professional services covering the preparation of plans and specifications for said sewage disposal works. The resolution was adopted by a vote of 5 yeas, no nays. APPROVED, October 7, 1918: A. P. Wooldridge, Mayor. Councilman Haynes offered the following resolution: RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN: R.M. Gage auto cancelled That the assessment in error of an automobile against R. M. Gage for taxes of the year 1917, at the value of $125.00, be and the same is hereby cancelled and annulled. See attached affidavit of the said R. M. Gage as the basis for this resolution. The resolution was passed by a vote of 5 yeas, no nays. Wooldridge cloth sign APPROVED, October 7, 1918: A. P. Wooldridge, Mayor. The written request of Billy Ebner to be allowed to put up a cloth sign for a period of ten days in front of the Woolworth store, corner Congress avenue and Eighth street, was presented and granted by a vote of 5 yeas, no nays. The Council then adjourned. V.E. Martin City Clerk SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL: Austin, Texas, Oct. 8, 1918. The Council met with all members present. A number of medical men and heads of Austin schools and military Ordinance Closing School, Churches, etc. (or for 30 days) institutions/met with the Council/and discussed the prevailing epidemic of influenza. The Mayor then laid before the Council "An ordinance closing the State University, all public and private schools and colleges of the City of Austin, all churches and lodges and all other places of assemblage where people gather for religious, social, fraternal, political, business or other purposes for the period of thirty days from the date of the enactment of this ordinance, unless sooner repealed by the City Council, and prescrib- --- Page break --- 76 ing a penalty for the violation of the provisions of this ordinance." The ordinance was read the first time. The Mayor then moved that the rule be suspended and the ordinance be placed on its second reading. The motion carried by a vote of 5 yeas, no nays. The ordinance was then read the second time, and the Mayor moved a further suspension of the rule and the placing of it on its third reading. This motion prevailed by a vote of 5 yeas, no nays. The ordinance was read the third time, and the Mayor's motion that it be finally passed was adopted by the following vote: Yeas: Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Anthony, Bartholomew, Haynes, and Powell, 5; nays none. The Council then adjourned. V. E. Martin City Clerk SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL: Austin, Texas, Oct. 9, 1918. The Council met with all members present. Councilman Bartholomew offered the following resolution: Whereas, in view of the distressed financial condition in which death frequently finds the families of the employees of the city, and as an act of humanity, justice and appreciation of the faithful services generally rendered by the employees of the city, Therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN: That as a municipal policy, the full salary of any regular employee of the City of Austin who may die shall be paid to his family for the current month of his death. Salary of em- ployees who die The resolution was passed by a vote of 5 yeas, no nays. APPROVED, October 9, 1918: A. P. Wooldridge, Mayor. The Council then adjourned. V. E. Martin City Clerk