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, 265 266 which purposes are the following, to-wit: To construct and improve public free school buildings within the City of Austin and to purchase the sites and equipment for said schools; and said Board of Trustees shall not have and they are not hereby given any power or authority to expend any of said money for any purpose other than that herein set forth. The above resolution was adopted by the following vote: Ayes, Mayor Yett, Councilmen Avery, Haynes, and Searight, 4; absent, Councilman Nolen. The Council then adjourned. Jarskomely REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL: Austin. Texas. April 3rd, 1924. The Council was called to order by the Mayor. Roll call showed the following members present: Mayor Yett, Councilmen Avery, Haynes, Nolen and Sea- right, 5; absent, none. The Mayor moved that the reading of the Minutes be suspended. Motion prevailed by the following vote: Ayes, Mayor Yett, Councilmen Avery, Haynes, Nolen and Searight, 5; nayes, none. The communication of J. H. Rogers, City Marshal, answering the criticism of his department was read and ordered filed, The application of the Executive Committee of the Texas Memorial Stadium, Inc., asking permission to place streamers across Congress Avenue, was read and Councilman Haynes moved that the request be granted. Motion prevailed by the following vote: Ayes, Mayor Yett, Councilmen Avery, Haynes, Nolen and Searight, 5 nayes, none. The monthly reports of J. H. Rogers, City Marshal, C. N. Avery, Superintendent Water, Light and Power Department, W. R. Davis, Bookkeeper Sewer Depart- ment, A. S. Anderson, Public Weigher, and Miss Nellie M. Hall, Secretary of the United Charities Association, were read and ordered filed. The petition of B. J. Rupert and others, asking that the ordinance with reference to trot line fishing within 300 feet of the Dam be enforced, was read and Councilman Avery moved that the petition be referred to Councilman Nolen. Motion prevailed by the following vote: Ayes, Mayor Yett, Councilmen Avery, Haynes, Nolen and Searight, 5; nayes, none. The following budget for the City of Austin for the year 1924, after having been laid over for one week, was finally adopted by the following vote: Ayes, Mayor Yett, Councilmen Avery, Haynes, Nolen and Searight, 5; nayes, none. The budget follows: