Min 12/07/1916 Page 101. Wichita xalls, Texas, Dec 7th 1916.
The 'Board of Aldermen of the City of "ichita calls, Texas, met
in regular session an above date for the transaction of the
business of the City and in the absence of a quorum the-meeting
adjourned to convene againTt 7.30 p m Dec 8th 1916.
Read and approved this /4t day of December 1916.
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City Clerk. Mayor.
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Wichita Falls, Texas, Dec 8th 1916.
The Board of Aldermen of the City of Wichita Falls, Texas, met •
in regular session on above date,adjourned from Dec 7th, for the
transaction of the regular business of the city with Mayor
A H Britain presiding and with the following _lamed aldermen
present.
J G Bradley, J L Lea, Jr., M J Gardner and J F Reed.
Alderman J A Richolt being absent.
City atty Nutt, City Clerk Skeen, City Engineer Hinckley
and City Marshall Humphris in attendance.
Minutes of last regular meeting were read and approved.
Mayor Britain resorted that the issue of "40,000.00 Street
Improvement Bonds had been deliveoted to tee purcahsers, the
Internatioal Trust Co, of Denver, and that he had received the
par value of the bonds, $40,000.00, a premium of $644.00
together wits interest on the honds from June let 1,�16 to Dec 6th
1816 of $1027.78 ampunting in all to $41671.78 lees exchange
of $41.67 leaving a net balance of $41630.11, which he had
placed in the National Bank of Commerce, the City Depository,
to the credit of City Treasurer J M Walkup; that the city was
due the International Trust Co $8.00 insurance charges and the
National Bank of Commerce $1.78 for stamps, whereup motion was
made by J W Bradley and seconded by M J Gardner that the report
of the Mayor be accepted and approved, that a warrant for $8.00
be drawn in favor of the International Trust Co and forwarded
to them together with the Cahheirs Check deposited with th&Lr
bid for the bonds and that a warrant for $1.78 be drawn and
deliveoted to the National Bank of Commerce. Motinn'carried.
Mayor Britain reported that he had effected with the Ocean-
Accident & Guaranty Corperation, Limited, Employers Liability
Policy No .N' C 139931 and Public Liability Policy No 132622,
whereupon motion was made by J Ci Bradley and seconded by J L
Lea, Jr, teat the action of mayor Britain in securing said
insurance be approved and report spread upon the minutes.
Motion carried.
Dr need, for himself and Mayor Britain reported that a contract
had been entered into and signed with Mr C i' Hughes, as per order
of the Board, for services as Labdscape Architect in the improve-
ment Of Riverside Cemetery; whereupon motion was made by J P
Bradley, seconded by J L Lea, Jr,. and which carried, that the
report be accepted and approved.
ORDINANCE No 232.
An Ordinace granting the Missouri, Kansas & Texas :`y Co, of Texas,
its successors, lessees, assigns and receivers, the right to
construct a standard guage railway track in, along and across
•.'ark street between blocks "A" & "B" of the ^ranger and Bellew
Addition to the City of Wichita Falls, Texas, as is shown by
map or plat thereof of record in the Deed Records of Wichita
County Texas, the loaction of the track being shown by map attached
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hereto and made a part of tries Ordinance, on motion made by J F
Reed and seconded by M J Gardner, was pat on its third and last
read and apesed by the following yea and nay vote;
J P Bradley, Yea, J F Reed, Yea, M J Gardner, Yea,
J L Lea, Jr., Yea.
Mayor Britain then dedlared Ordinance No 232, granting the M K & T •
Ry Co, of Texas, the right to construct a certain railway thack
along and over dark Street of the Garnger and Bellew addition to
the City of Wichita Falls , Texas, passed on its third and last
reading by the unanimous ♦ote of all the Aldermen of the City
present voting "Yea".
Ordinance of record in Book 2 Pages 141, 142 and 143.