The Administrative Board yesterday awarded to Hancock & Jones, lowest bidder, the contract to complete work on section 5, plan A. Bacon's Quarter Branch channelway. The original contractors failed to live up to their agreement, and the board found it necessary to transfer the contract. Hancock & Jones will finish the work on this big sewer for $119,133.29.

Ordinance Aimed at Labor Bureaus
Adams Would Tax of $5,000 Per Year on Those Exporting Workmen From City.
If an ordinance prepared by William H. Adams, president of the Board of Aldermen, becomes a law, there will be a severe check put upon the exemption of labor from this city, about which there has recently been a great amount of complaint. Mr. Adams's measure is designed to requite all labor agencies in the city which secure men for work outside the city to pay a license tax of $5,000. As this would be prohibitive, it would have the effect of putting such agencies out of business.

To have the ordinance passed as early as possible, Mr. Adams yesterday instructed City Clerk Ken T. August to issue a call for a special meeting of the Board of Aldermen to be held at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow night.

It is thought that an effort will be made to put the ordinance on its passage under a suspension of the rules instead of referring it to committee for recommendation. Should it be adopted it can be reported to the Common Council on Monday night, a special session on that date having  been ordered by President R. Lee Peters. 