The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1854-05-07

[pFF1CtAL.
PROC b y DINGS
OF THE
HOA RID OF Sell CTRaEN.
May 18th 1854
Al special meeting of the Board Of Sc
leetmen Of the Town of Baton Rouge. h4l'
this day--present
JoBN r. DuFRocQ, Mayor.
T J BurFiNGTon, Err BRooks.
| En-. HtRtARr, ED Wits,
Cnhs GUEpfY, II ToMLlNsoN.
The following memorial, nunerottslv
signed bl citizens Of the Town, was pre-,
MEM ORuAL.
To THE Hon Mayor AND SElEcrMEN
OF THE Cry OF Baron Roues
The undersigned, citizens OF the City o
Baton Rouge, and qualified voters therein
for the purpose contemplated by An Act
Of the Legislature of the State of Louisiana
approved 9Th March, 1852,
Respectfully request, That an Ordinance
be adopted by your Board without delay,
submitting to the consideration Of the good
people of our city, the expedieney, nay, the
necessity of asserting that provision be
made for assessing a Tax for the raising and
providing the sum of Tine Hundred Thou
sand Dollars for the purpose of aiding in
| the construction of Rail Road to connect
the City of Baton Rouge with the City of
New Orleans by a junction with the New
| Orleans, Jackson aud Great Northern Rail
Road.h
We have been induced to urge this meas
ure upon the following considerations
FiRsr.--We have received reliable as
surances from the New Orleans, Jackson
and Great Northern Rail Road Company.
that with the sum of One Hundred Thous-
and Dollars to be furnished by the citizens
OF the City of Baton Rouge. and their CON
tinued cooperation, the construction of
said Road will be forthwith put under cor
tract.
SEcuSp-We believe that if it he SO re-
solved by your Board and sanctioned by the
vote of the people, the One Hundred Thcus-
and Dollars can be readily obtained by the
Bonds of the Cooperation secured By a
pledge on the revenues on real estate of
the City, redeemable in forty years, on
payment Of the interest semi-annualy.
The interest Of six per cent can be provided
for, and will not be felt by the Tax pay
ers.
THlRp.-lf The Rail Road is constructed.
Baton Rouge cannot fail in few years to
be city Of Twenty Thousand Inhabitants,
with an increased value of property ten
fold at its present rates; and the ways and
means of a sinking fund to repay the loan
obtained in forty years will be OF easy sol,-
ton. Make the Read and Baton Rouge is
destined to be, what its position and ma
ture has marked out for it without the
Rail Road it will be deserted village.
FouRTH--We will be pardoned, we feel
assured, for urging that this is The auspi-
cious moment for action. Already we see
springing up. as by magic, throughout this
vast Republic, Rail Roads connecting every
city and village, and unless we be up and
doing putting forth our energies and zeal,
Baton Rouge will be solitary waste in
our happy land,
FtFrH.-True patriotism, true love of
country, the genius, spirit and principles of
progress, forbid that we should pause to
count in dollars and cents, the pecuniary
benefit to ourselves which is to result from
the contemplated enterprise. Respect for
the memory of our fathers forbid it. They
pledged "their lives, their fortunes and
their sacred honorso to secure the patri- !
mony we enjoy, and if we wish to be re-
spected and remembered in love, by our
sons and daug hters, we should, by inlprov-
ing that patrimony, transmit it to posteri-
ty, with the mark Of our energy, in con-
Meeting Baton Rouge by Rail Road with
New Orleans the East, the West, the North |
and the South; binding our happy country
together in traternal bonds of love.
After considering the foregoing memorial
the following Ordinance was unanimously
adopted
An Ordinance, providing for the sub
scription, on the part of the City
of Baton Rouge, to the. New Or
leans and Baton Rouge Rail Road
Company.
Be IL ordd3ned By The Mdpor and Board of
Of the city Of Baton Rouge IN Common
Council conpene'. That 1t shall be the duty of the
Mayor of the city of Baton Rouge, within ten days
after the ratification of this ordinance to subscribe
,n behalf Of the aforesaid city, for One Thousand
Shares, Of One Hundred dollars EACH of the Stock
IF the New Orleans and Baton Rouge Railroad
Company said subscription amounting. in the
aggregate to the sum of One Hundred Thousand
Dollars.
Be Hfuyther ordaiaed, That for the payment of
he subscription, hereinabove authorized, it shall
,e the duty of the Mayor, to issue Coupon Bonds
II the name of the city of Baton Rouge, to the
rider Of the New Orleans and Baton Rouge Rail
load Company, signed by the Mayor, and counter
igned by the Treasurer of the said city payable
10 years after the date thereof, and bearing in
crest, at the rate of six per cent. per annum,
'ayable semi annually the said bonds, shall be
n the following form; -
$1,000. u s. America No.
state of Louisiana.
KNOW all men by these presents that the city
4 Baton Rouge, State Of Louisiana, acknowled-