264 Ayes, Mayor Yett, Councilmen Avery, Haynes, Nolen and Searight, 5; nayes, none, The Mayor laid before the Council the budget of the City of Austin for the year 1924 and same was laid over for final adoption until the next regular meeting. AFTERNOON SESSION: The following bids for auditing the books of the Water and Light Department were opened and read: Morgan, Pickett & Hill of Dallas and Austin; T. B. Trotter Company of Houston, Texas; E. J. Archinard of Fort Worth, Техве; Ernst & Ernst of Houston, Texas; Alamo Auditing Company of San Antonio, Texав; Huddleston & Smith of Austin, Техав. After hearing statements from several representatives of the bidders, awarding of contract was postponed for investigation and consideration of each bid. The Council then recessed, SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL: Austin, Texas, March 28th, 1924. The Council was called to order by the Mayor. Roll call showed the following members present: Mayor Yett, Councilmen Avery, Haynes, Nolen and Searight, 5; absent, none. After a careful consideration of all bids for the auditing of the book of the Water and Light Department, Councilman Searight moved that the bid of T. B. Trotter & Company of Houston for an audit of the books for a period of one year be accepted as the lowest and best bid. Motion prevailed by the following vote: Ayes, Mayor Yett, Councilmen Avery, Haynes, Nolen and Searight, 5; nayes, none. The Council then recessed, SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL: Austin, Texas, March 31, 1924, The Council was called to order by the Mayor. Roll coll showed the following members present: Mayor Yett, Councilmen Avery, Haynes, Nolen and Searight, 5; absent, none, Councilman Haynes introduced the following resolution: WHEREAS, it is ofter impossible for members of the Fire Department, the Police Department and the City Hospital to be relieved from duty to collect their salary warrants in person, Therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN: That Clarence L. Woodward, Chief of the Fire Department, C. M. Browne, Police Clerk, and A. P. Campbell, Bookkeeper of the City Hospital, he and they are hereby authorized and instructed to receive from the City Clerk warrants for the total monthly pay rolls of their respective departments and to disburse the amount due each employee on said pay roll in cash or city warrants only, and to take receipt on said roll for the amount paid and to return said pay roll, so receipted, to the City Clerk. The above resolution was adopted by the following vote: Ayes, Mayor Yett, Councilmen Avery, Haynes, Nolen and Searight, 5; nayes, none. The Council then recessed. SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL: Austin, Texas, April 1st, 1924, The Council was called to order by the Mayor. Roll call showed the following members present: Mayor Yett, Councilmen Avery, Haynes, and Bearight, 4; absent, Councilmen Nolen. The Mayor introduced the following resolution: WHEREAS, the City of Austin has disposed of its issue of bonds, entitled City of Austin School Bonds Series 1924, and dated January 1st, 1924, and has received therefor the sum of $500,000.00 for the principal amount of said bonds and the sum of $5,972.00 as accrued interest on said bonds from their date to March 27th, 1924, when said bonds were delivered to the purchaser thereof; and said total amount of $505,972.00 has been deposited with the City Treasurer of the City of Austin; and WHEREAS, it is deemed advisable and expedient by the City Council that said funds be placed at the disposal of the Board of Trustees of the Public Free Schools of the City of Austin, for the uses expressed in the purposes for which said bonds were authorized; therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN: FIRST: That the City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to draw and to attest and seal one or more warrants on the City Treasurer of the City of Austin payable to the Treasurer of the Board of Trustees of the Public Free Schools of the City of Austin for the full sum of money, to wit: $505,972.00, now in the possession of said City Treasurer received by him from the sale of said City of Austin School Bonds, series of 1924, issued by the City of Austin on January 1, 1924; and the Mayor of the City of Austin is hereby authorized and directed to sign said warrant or warrants and to deliver same to said Treasurer of said Board of Trustees, and the City Treasurer of the City of Austin is hereby authorized and directed to pay said warrant or warrants upon presentation to nim for payment by said Treasurer of said Board of Trustees. SECOND: That the Board of Trustees of the Public Free Schools of the City of Austin is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into contracts for the expenditure of said money, and to expend same for the purposes stated in the certain Ordinance of the City of Austin autrorizing the issuance and sale of said bonds, 265