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F~. O. P.
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<br />February 11, 1913.
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<br />Recommitted. An appropriation of $150.00 for a house for the auto-patrol wagon.
<br /> Progress as to same.
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<br /> Recom~itted. Ah appropriation of ~3,000.00 for police ~elephone service.
<br /> We have reconsidered this matter and again recommend that the appropriation be allowed.
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<br /> $100.00 for a. feed room for the Union Fire Company.
<br /> I-t is recommended that the appropriation be allowed after land necessary to build the
<br />room on shall have been acquired.
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<br /> An increase of salary of $100o00 a year for the Commonwealth Atto~ney.
<br /> It is recommended that the increase be not allowed, as the City is not in a position
<br />at this time to increase any more salaries.
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<br />..:Reports of the Auditor, Treasurer, and Sixth and Seventh ~ard Boards.for December~
<br /> Progress.
<br /> Referred by Board of Aldermen January 21st.
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<br />1912.
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<br /> Report of the Auditor of following bills held up by him. because of~laok of a~ro~
<br />~ r them o~ because they exaeeded 1/l~_of appropriation allowed for same:. Fire, $i0.50~ Public
<br />~roperty, $13.00, Repairs to Streets, $6~.~0; Seventh Ward Bond Account, $719.64.
<br /> It is recommended that these a~d ail other unpaid bills made by the several Gity De-
<br />partments before January 1, 1913 Shall be paid in the order in which they were contracted, and
<br />before any bills subsequent to said date; and that only 1/1E of the funds to credit of the sev-
<br />eral Departments sha~ be utilized in any one month for such puz~pose.
<br /> Moreover, tha2 the amount cf $1~.81 brought forward from the bulletin December 12,
<br />1912, as an unpaid bill contracted by the Almshouse Bepartment with J. W. Booth & Bro. be paid
<br />out of current funds to credit cf said Department for 1913. ~
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<br /> ~ request of the Treasurer to borrow $20,000.00 for general City expenses and $10,000.00
<br />for School Purposes for February~ 1913. '
<br /> It is recommended that the red, est be grante~, and that the Treasurer be authorized
<br />to borrow said~amounts from funds on hand from sale of bonds.
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<br /> A bill of Dr. Geo. H. Cart to amount of Sg,o0, paid in error for night soil tax and real
<br />estate tax for~ the year 1912. '.r
<br /> tt is recommended that said amount be refunded to Dr. Cart, Out of Seventh Ward funds.
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<br /> (With City Attorney), A communication from ~essrs. Watts & Hatton, attorneys for the Water
<br />Company, in regard to unsettled bills of the Company against the City~ Progress.
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<br /> Bills of he Portsmouth Insurance A~ency for insurance on Office Buildings and Park View
<br />Engine House, to amounts of $130.00 and $30.00; respectively,
<br /> It is recommended that said amounts be allowed, out of "Contingent."
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<br /> To make available the appropriation allowed in the "budget" for purchase of fire hose.
<br /> It is recommended that the Fire Committee be authorize~ to advertise for bids to pur-
<br />Chase said hose.
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<br /> Special appropriations to purchase two horses and an Eastman Hose Holder for the Fire De-
<br />partment. Progress.
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<br /> (With Fire Committee). To ascertain if some kind of fire apparatus~ean not be provided for
<br />the Fourth ~rd. Progress.
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<br />The Committee further recommends that in future.bills for Coroner and Juries shall re-
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<br />quire a certificate of the Clerk of Court only and bills of registrars and judges of elections
<br />shall require approval of Chairman of the Electoral Board only, before presentation to the Audi$-
<br />lng Committee.
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<br /> We report further that we have examined contracts of E. P. Wiikins to i~rnish the poor
<br />of the City with gratis prescriptions for the year 1913, I. C. Brinkley to supply the Almshouse
<br />with rations for the year 191~, and A. Wrenn & Sons to bui!d~a patrol wagon for the Police De-
<br />partment, find said contracts properly drawn and recommend that they be accepted.
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<br />(Signed).
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<br />Jno. Howard Hali,~
<br /> Chairman C. C.
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<br /> On suggestion of the Chair, it was ordered that the report be read as a ~hole, and then con-
<br />sidered and passed on by sections.
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<br /> In regard to the section recommending an appropriation of $5,000.00 to the King's Daughters
<br />Hoepita~ building, Mr. Hutchins objected that the number of beds allowed therein for the City
<br />was not en~Ggh and he thought at least ten b~ds should be allowed the City.
<br /> Mr. Tyler said moreover that the hospital ought ~o provide for street hands and other City
<br />laboring force, free of cost,
<br /> At this juncture, the Chair suggested that further discussion of the matter be suspended
<br />pending the coming of Mr. O. L. Williams, President of the Board of Directors, who could speak
<br />for the King's Daughters Hospital. The suggestion was accepted and Mr. Williams sent for. He
<br />appeared and the rules were su~ended to hear from him.
<br /> Mr. Williams stated that it was not the disposition of the Directors of the Hospital to
<br />limit the City to five beds, but that ten, or twelve, or ~ourteen beds could be provided if ne-
<br />cessary, and that the laboring force of the City would be provided for free.
<br /> Then the section referring to the hospital was~ on motion of Mr. Withy~ amended so as
<br />to provide for ten City beds therein and to include the suggestion of Mr. Tyler in regard to the
<br />hospital-providing for the City laboring for~e free of cost.
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<br /> The section recommending an appropriation of $7,500.00
<br />after some discussion, adopted.
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<br />for Grimes Battery Gun Room was~
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