Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-04-25

COMPANY.

tigate fully the affairs and accounts Off, Ves
pany, and especially your right to vote s"c G. oon-
rectors, of which most of you were inour lor III.
deprived last year, ask your careful at. opetly
to the notice given for next Monday Wet Tihlon
9Th May. For yourinformation now " sto, the
proceedings regarding the two last ANNA '1e The
ings: the differences arising out of the JiFi leet
courses of those proceedings, leave 0,nefen
make. The I'd May, 1882, an advertySou to
called meeting on Monday, the 9TH Ma' eileh
receive statement of the affairs of tbay to
@pany; to appoint Committee to eyan o oon-
accounts: and to elect President and 'i me- The
tors" That meeting took place III DLfec:
verbal if truly, recoect, being made; t ibvpolt
counts were referred to Committee s NE &C.
Company adjourned to Monday, 18th Nav u he 0
that day no meeting or report appear bv "a IN
Gazette. On Thursday, 18th Nav. Wy W The
and election took place. By all which h il meeting
appears to have been then well understood .eddfy
| Committee of Accounts ought, upon srcS uata
sions, to have reasonable time to perforn, occa
duty before the election of Drectors~inaas.uI eF
is impossible otherwise to judge at all be
ofthose who have conducted the affairs r as
Company. Compare this course with tbO Tie
ceedngs Of the next meeting. The 22d , pr
| 1888, an advertisement called for a meet pm
Monday, the 9th May, in exactly the same vs.. IN
as that of the year preceding That me @oi0S
took place on the day appointed 1t was nrang
ously known that Captain Brockett and bipn ae.F
pany, with many other stockholders wonI S'u "
that day, be absent attending, with the pIo vi
dent of the United States, a serious public no ust
mony at Fredericksburg; and that, from S' ~,
known course Of proceeding Of May mepi0 MY
1882, they could not have expected an eec,iasa
| to be held before their return; otherwise Hou
might have left their proxies. Nor Could 6s
stockholders then in town have any eXpectaior
except such as were purposely informed Of i
of an election on that day. | was at that meet
ing; heard not although a member of the e,is,
| ing Board, one word of such intention until mas,
one o'clock-far EDWARDS to two, if my recOl'
| lection does not err-and certainly after mos,
! of the stockholders had retired. motion was
| then made to appoint Committee 10 report On
| the accounts, and to hold an election at FIVE
O'Clock on that day. The Committee to be i.
mited to three hours, dinner hour included, to
examine and report on the accounts then Ia
begin, after five o'clock in the evening, to take
votes in number more than double. believe the
total amount of votes for Council, for which a
whole day is allowed. opposed that motion,
because it would Illustrate the proper examina.
ton of the accounts, and because it was not
known to, nor could be, from former proceed.
ings, understood by the stockholders generally,
that an election would be held on that day; that
such proceeding would, by surprise, deprive all
those absent of their right to vote. Mr.. Bernard
Hooe said that notice was given to all, and thai.
those absent had no cause to complain con
sidered his opinion very incorrect; unless he
was uniformed, or had forgotten, that the pro.
ceedings at the preceding annual meeting as
well as the general custom in such cases, (gfM
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company especial
lu) must have satisfied the stockholders genera.
ly, as well as myself, that no election would that
| day take place. The motion being perseveTed
| in, | requested the decision by yeas and nays
| that you might know whom it was, of the few
members present, that took upon them to decide
! for you, in so very important matter, a pro.
ceedng in direct contrariety to common prac-
| tice and your own usage. Mr.. HOoe again IN.
dertook to be my instructor. He arose and
said had no right to call for the yeas andnayS
NV only answer to which was repetition ofmy
request to the Chairman, who took the votes &C
cordngly T'wenty uotes only lrere taken-oi
| the seventeen yeas, six were candidates, oil
course prepared to profit by this unexpectedp pro-
ceeding-most of the rest were, to my recOleC.
ton, their personal friends. On the report Of
| the accounts, make no observation. The cleo
| ton was held at five O'Clock. Two new men,
bers, Mr. Fowle and Mr.. Hooe. were elected III
place of Mr.. BroCkett and myself Upon lne
whole Of this extraordinary business, wherein
your rights we're evidently considered asnonne
in comparison with other interests SHALL q!
present. only express my belief that the spun
which dictated 1t has been, now IS, ana VIII W.
injurious to the welfare to the town. sEale !"
you facts, undeniable believe as 10 heT gene
raj truth. Judge of them and OF those "Aoau,
vocated them as you see proper. acIeP'.s
your election of me with the intention SO Ia a.
in me laid, to press forward our nenoeu Can o1,
with all possible vigour and dispatch 10 Lep@I5
so far as practicable the disadvantage suSIal4fa a
by its not being ready to open by the I'd! Js
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal should De comp ~
ted to Harper's Ferry; and as measure y, n
tai Importance to the proprietors ana uaue. aoIr
this town. acted upon that intention llOir n5s.
while member Of that Board. was VoO Sa% hon
pendent to follow the dictates OF DINERS S."s
the consent Of my own reason For !llas come
in part, and for presuming to dissent lOn dor an
proceedings, of which purpose 10 Ie nu com.
account to you, | was not surprlseddt '"{
binations to exclude me at the last ele.sU oaton
shall give you, as promised, some hlo Oanev al
regarding the expenditure of your nun, niyen
the -Four Mile Creek-of the preleielVSS ,51d he
bv the late Board, to Mr.. Martineau 10 ouDS
Aqueduct-of an offer for that WORK, TU'' GOOD
ed by half that Board to be suDstanIla,}m Mr. Ma
one, rejected by the vote ofthe PreSIoeiIf Baroa
son; and of another offer of William L osfrbich
and Michael Burke, the conslderall!Ii or il four