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last number of your paper, in relation to
the "Wharf contract" &C., which will en-
deavor to answer, if you will allow HE the
use IF your columns for that purpose.
will premise, however, that in calling
tho attention of the public to the matter,
in a former number of your paper, had no
feelings of personal hostility towards the
"Trustee Contractors or any member of
the Board of Trustees, to crafty. But be-
ing sincerely convinced, with a large num-
Der of citizens of our town, if not indeed a
majority, that the time, manner, and place
of commencement of the Wharf, are high
" questionable; and that in the manner Of
letting out the Contract, especially, not on
" a dangerous precedent was set, but in
Justice lone to individuals, and feeling with
'.No. g." that the public acts of those,
whom, the good people of our town have
honored with their confidence, are, or
should be, open to the closest scrutiny, and
are legitimate subjects of animadverSion,
I therefore called public attention to the
subject.
Before proceeding to answer the inqui-
ries of "No. 2" | wish to correct a false
impression attempted to be created, by a
writer styling himself "Hands," in a for
mer number of your paper, which impress
sion, consisted in the evident intention to
fosten the authorship Of my former COM
munication, on a member of the Board of
Trustees. To this false impression, thus
attempted TO be created, have only to offer
the most unqualified contradiction, and to
add that TO member of the Board had any
iutimation Of the design to write that COM
munication, till it was in type.
1t is unnecessary for ne to consume time,
or to cumber your columns with a detailed
history of the first introduction of the
Wharf measure into the Board, as every
citizen can learn that matter from the
Records, which are open TO the inspection
of every one interested. 1t is altogether
sufficient for the present purpose, to state
that the Clerk Of the Board, advertised,
through the columns of the Banner, for
sealed proposals to be received until II o'-
clock NJ, on the Goth day of January, for
the building of a Wharf at the foot of
Georgia street, "according to plans and
specifications to be seen on application to
the Clerk of the Board"-and also that
proposals would be received for the build
ing of a Wharf opposite Georgia and South
Carolina streets and the intermediate space
between, being 36O feet, for the proceeds
Of the Wharf for term Of years.
Sometime in the afternoon of the Goth
day Of January the Board met, present
Messrs. Alexander, chairman pro tenn, En-
glish, Farber and johnson. Absent Mr..
Draper, sick. On opening the bids re-
celved, there was found only one bid for
the long whaG as it has been familiarly
termed, by Messrs. E. Draper & Brothers.
As this bid was first disposed of, / will state
its substance. They proposed to build a
wharf in every respect like that described
in the ordinance on the subject, except that
ltshould embrace Georgia and South Caro-
lima streets and the intermediate space, be-
ing $50 feet in length, and that there should
be two cutters of solid stone or wood as the
Board might require, and four blocks and
rings, and that the graveHGng or mcadamis-
ing should cease at the top of the grade for
the wharf M II fask from the fo,f ond tha
space from that point to the west line of
water street should only be graded, for
the whole proceeds Of the wharf, for a Pc
Rod Of eighteen years;-and if the whole
space from the top of the grade for the
wharf, to a point eight feet from the west
line Of Water street (the width Of q side
walk should be graveHsd to the depth Of
ak inches, then they were to receive the
whole proceeds Of the wharf, for twenty