Council Proceedings: August 7, 1903

JOHN B. HAWLEY, CONSULTING ENGINEER, MEMBER AMERICAN SOCIETY CIVIL ENGINEERS. MEMBER ENGINEERING ASSOCIATION OF THE SOUTH. CITY ENGINEER, FORT WORTH.

FORT WORTH, TEXAS, 1903

above.

If Moore & Ledford shall fail to execute bond & contract as aforesaid within two weeks from this date then the bid of Heck & Ulander is hereby accepted and they shall execute bond and contract as is herein required of the other bidders.

M. M. Lydon

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FILED AUG 7 1903 Jno T. Montgomery City Secretary

Auditor's Office

Fort Worth, Texas, Aug 7 1903

To the Hon. City Council

Gentlemen:-

We your committee on Finance recommend That a warrant be issued on water wks Gen. Fund in favor of the Farmers Mechanics Nat'l Bank in payment of a note isssued by the City in favor of the Eureka Fire Hose Co. Aug. 1, 1901 for the sum of $666.66 to bcome due two years after date, with interest at 4% per annum from date, same being held by said bank for collection.

Wm. G. Newby J. F. Henderson Finance Committee

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FILED AUG 7 1903 Jno T. Montgomery City Secretary.

Fort Worth, Texas, July 3rd, 1903.

To the City Council of Fort Worth, Texas:

Comes now your petitioners representative of labor agencies, located in and doing business with said city, and would represent unto said Council that the Labor Agencies of said city who are doing and who wish to do a legitimate business, are subjected to a series of abuses and exposed to numerous wrongs by those agencies that are also located in said city of Fort Worth which do an unfair, fraudulent, and illegitimate business, thereby creating in the minds of all laboring people a distrust and deepseated prejudice against all agencies, including those that are doing a fair and legitimate business, which thereby results in serious, and material injury to the legitimate pursuers of that occupation. Among these grievances might be mentioned numerous parties who have recently come to said city for the purpose of conducting Labor Agencies, and after conducting a filching, swindling, skin game for a few days, they hold the cash for their fraudulent operation and move on to other quarters.

Wherefore premises considered your petitioners pray said Council that proper ordinances be enacted requiring every person who engages in the business of conducting Labor Agencies, in the City of Fort Worth, Texas, to furnish good and sufficient bond for an amount of not less than One Thousand Dollars, and to pay an annual tax of not less than Fifty Dollars, or for such other and further relief as they may be entitled to under the law and the charter of said city.

R. M. Owens A. Hardy Plumlee & Blair Jack Schropp