The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1854-05-09

l Se'SSSAs 4 r.
loysIcIAL.l
! PROCEEDINGS
BOARD OF Sell ECT MEN,
| May 4th 1854.
At special meeting of the Board Of Sc.
lectmen Of the Town Of Baton Rouge, h,lt
this day-present:
JOIN r. DuFRoco, Mayor.
!. ;. BURLINGTON, Err BRooKs.
Ed. HIRIART, Ed. Willis,
CHAs. GUEDRY, H. ToMLINsoN.
| The following memorial, numerously
signed BY citizens of the Town, was pre-.
sented:
MEM o II IAL.
To THE Hon. Mayor AND SELEcrMENl
| OF THE CRY OF Baron RouGs.
The undersigned, citizens OF the City Of
Baton Rouge, and qualified voters therein,
for the purpose contemplated by An Act
of the Legislature Of the State of Louisiana,
approved 18th 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 expediency, nay, the
necessity of asserting that provision be
made for assessing Tax for the raising and
providing the sum of One 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 ssNew
Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Rail
Road"
We have been induced to urge this meas
ure upon the following considerations
FlRsT.-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 con-
tract.
SEcoNp.-We believe that if it be 90 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 Corporation secured BY a
pledge on the revenues on real estate of
the City, redeemable in folty years, on
payment of the interest semi.annually.
The interest Of six per cent can be provided
for, and will not be felt by the Tax pay
ers.
THlRD.-If the Rail Road is constructed.
Baton Rouge canno. fail in few years to
be a city of Twenty Thousand Inhabitants.
with an increased value of property ten
told at Its present rates; and the ways and
meansof sinking fund to repay the loan
obtained IN forty years will be Of easy solu-
ton. Make the Road 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
'pringlng up, as by magic, throughout this
vast Republic, Rail Roads connecting everv
:lty and village, and unless we be up and
toing-putting forth our energies and zeal.
Baton Rouge will be solitary waste in
'ur happy land,
F1FTH.-True patriotism, true love of
country, the genius, spirit and principles of
progress, forbid that we should pause to
'ount in dollars and cents, the pecuniary
,enefit to ourselves which is to result from
ne contemplated enterprise. Respect for
ne memory Of our fathers forbid it. They
pledged ''their lives, their fortunes and
heir sacred honors" to secure the patri-
nony we enjoy, and if we wish to be re-
pected and remembered in love, by our
ons and daughters, we should, by improv-
ng that patrimony, transmit it to posteri-
y, with the mark of our energy, in con-
Getting Baton Rouge by Rail Road with
Jew Orleans, the East, the West, the North
nd the South; binding our happy country
ogether in fraternal bonds of love.
After considering the foregoing memorial
ne following Ordinance was unanimously
dopted
IN 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. j
Be 1t Ordained by the Mayor and Board Of
becsnen, ofNte city OF Baton Row1e, In Common
'uncW concerned, That it shall be the duty Of the
ayor OF the city Of Baton Rouge, within ten DAYS y
ter the ratification Of this ordinance to subscribe
! behalf Of the aforesaid city, for One Thousand
ares, OF One Hundred dollars each. Of the Stock
the New Orleans and Baton Rouge Railroad ! =
'mpany said subscription amounting, in the