Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-10-04
Corporation Affairs.

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Att meeting of tue citizens OF South Nashville,
held on Monday night last, Goth ut., The sutjOned
Report was received and unanimously adopted
There was also a resolution adopted requesting the
city papers to publish the same
To the Citizens of tie IN and Sh Wa,ds Of the
! City Of NashUiLle:-In July, 1854, union between
the two Corporations Of Nashville and South Nash
vile was cousummated upon the basis Of an agree
ment entered into by the proper authorities and
ratified by vote Of the citizens OF both Corpora
tons. That agreement, among other things, cons
tanned stipulation that supplies Of water should
be e1tended "alOng Cherry and Market streets to
Franklin street, and along the Lebanon Turnpike
to SHADES, within the years 554, 1856, and 1856"
Something over two years having elapsed, aud see
! ing no indications Of a compliance with that part
of the agreement and the burdens of increased
taxation resting heavily upon them, a portion of
the people Of the 7th and 9Th Wards formerly
South Nashvilie) held a meeting about the middle
OF August last, and through committee addressed
the City Council a letter of enquiry, asking when
that stipulation 10 the contract would be fulfilled
In reply to this the Board, through special com
mittee, reported that contract had been entered
into on the 9Th of May, 1856, for pipe enough 20
extend along Cherry street to Oak street, to be
delivered within the months of July, August and
September following, which had failed on account
of low water and lack of navigalon-but that it
was the intention of the Board to complete the
work as agreed upon, at the earliest practicable
day.
In this condition of affairs the undersigned were
appointed Committee, by meeting OF the citi-
gems of the eth and Sth Wards, held on the 9th
inst, to report to this meeting some plan
Of action proper to be pursued in the premises.
Your Committee have consulted together upon
the subject, and find it not altogether free from diff
6culty and embarrassment One of the principal
objects sought by the people of South Nashville in
voting for the union Of the two Corporations to
obtain the water,--they we're not TO be materially
benefited in any other way. The cold and abso-
Lutte neglect with which the City Council treated
that stipulation, after the union was consummated,
from July 1854 till May 1856, WAS certainly IN"
jusdfAble upon any and every principle of good
faith. 1t has operated to the injury and depreca-
ton Of your property-you subjected to in.
creased taxation without corresponding benefit
and GU still labor under the same Inconvenience
to avoid which you consented to the union. How,
ever, these facts may be palated, if at all by the
pecuniary em5arrassments of the city or other cir.
cumstances, the truth still remains the same.
But your Committee believe the relations of the
several portions Of the city have been changed in
some very material respects, since the union, and
that causes now operate for continuance Of the
union which could not have been considered when
the same effected. They are, in addition to
this Of opinion that the engagement OF the city in
reference to the supply of water has not been
wholly broken, having yet till the first of January
next to complete their contract. They think that
the justice of your demands is so palpabe, that it
can no longer be withheld from yOu-tbat at least,
your rights cannot be preudiced by deferring fur
Their action til the expiration Of the present year,
and that in the meantime such assurances may
be made with which you may be content to wait
Ion gen
Wv, the Committee, therefore consider it incon
sistent with sound policy considering the best in
terests Of both the present ard future, that the
people OF the 9Th and Sth Wards, as a people
should take any step that would excite improper
feelings tend to prejudice hazard their rights
in any contest that may possibly arise hereafter.
We therefore recommend and advise at the laws
and euactions Of the present City Government in
relation to these matters, should be respected aud
quietly complied With-rhat we look to our Repre-
sentatves in the City Council and the justice of our
claims for the protection of our interests, until it
may be deemed that further action is necessary
aud that we take no step now which would likely
embarAss any course OF action which good policy
aud SQUAD discretion may hereafter dictate.
C. X. WINSTON,
j ii. l. WEAVER,