The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-07-20

directs the City Auditor in selling real estate for
city taxes to sell only the leasehod interest and
when the Ieasehold interest fails to satisfy the
claim for taxes, then the fee simple can be sold
moved to adjourn; lost.-The bill was passed by
a vote of Is yeas to nays.-Adjourned.
SECOND BRANcH.-Present-W WiLLIAM MoPHA1L
Esq, President, and all the members Mr. ELI
corr presented the memorial of Messrs. Jos. Boury
Sons, complaining that by the passage of an or
dinance in relation to the exhibition of fireworks
in the city their trade is interered with they be-
ing largely engaged in the Importation of fire
works, and paying large duties into the treasury o
the United States; fthe ordinance referred to-, in
granting the privilege of exhibiting fireworks re
quires that they shall be Of American manufacture
MIR. McCoMAs called up the ordinance to con
denim and open Sterrett street, from McHenry tc
Ramsay street; which was read second time by
special order and paSsed.-Mr. Cook offered the
following preamble and resolution, which read
a second time:
WHEREAS, 1t is represented that the legal counseor
engaged the part Of the city, in the pending be
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, in the form of
injunction issued out of the City Circuit Court the
stance of the city restrain the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company from declaring dividend commonly
known the extra dividend of thirty per upon
final settlement of the whole case without first having
the official consent of the Mayor and City Coun
Gil of Baltimore; and o.
Whereas The said suit was instituted by authority
the coporaton to protect the great interests of the city
which recognized being involved in the action
said Railroad Company; and
Whereas, An abandonment of the suit ought not Il
have been made unless required by the most weighy
reasons; and
time when the whole matter before the Council |
yet in adv of any action by which the will of the
Council could be indicated; ,--.--.-
Therefore-Resolred by the Second Branch of the Cit,
Council That the counseors employed and engaged by
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore in restraining
by injunction and otherwise the Baltimore Ohio Rail
road Company from paying the extra dividend declared
by said Company, be and they hereby required tc
communicate to this Branch by what authority and fol
what they have withdrawn the injunction laid
against the aforesaid Railroad Company and made
ement thereof and what the conditions of said set
tlement.
Before the question was taken on the adoption oil
the resolution, Mr.. ELLIcoTT said that the whole
proceedings in regard to this matter were irregu
lar, and were done in a way which denied to those
of the members who were opposed to it an oppor-
tunity to be heard on the question. An informal
meeting of the members of the Council was
drummed up on Monday evening, only two repre-
sentatives of the Second Branch being present. he,
himself, from some cause, not being invited to the
meeting. Then the resolution passed on Tues.
day was got up and passed by the First
Branch ignorantly, the members hardly knowing
what they were voting for. This act consumma-
ted, steam was got up and special party went to
Annapolis, and there procured the consent of the
Governor in regard to suit of the State against
the Railroad Company. The whole thing W as
trick got up to enrich two or three men, who came
into possession of hundreds of thousands in an
hour. Mr. Ellicott denounced the whole pro-
ceedings irregular and informal, but the designs
of those who were benefited by them had been
consummated and the city was helpless. .-Messrs.
CoLToN and MCPHAI (President) also expressed
their disapprobaton of the acts of the counsel in
dismissing the suits against the Railroad Com
pany. They considered it an indignity offered to
this Branch-an attempt to override the authority
of the City Council.-The question was then
taken and the resolution adopted by the following
vote-Mr. Sewall not being in his seat Yeas
Messrs. President, Van Nostrand, Cathcart, Cook,
Cotton, Taylor, Elicott, Musselman and Nc
Comas-9. Nays-None.-Mr. CATHcART called
up the ordinance to provide for a public park
or parks, which was read the first, and by
special order the second time.---Mr. McPHAII
(Mr. Van Nostrand in the Chair) offered sub
sttute to the eighth section, providing that after
the boundary lines of the park shall have been
established the Commissioners shall not have the
power to dispose of any ground inside said boun-
dairy. The substitute was rejected by yeas 3-nays
6.-Mr. Cotton moved to strike out the 10th
section, which makes Thomas Swami, Mayor, after
his term of office expires, commissioner in his in
dividual capacity; the motion was rejected. -
Mr.. COTTON moved then to amend the 10th section,
by adding ''that hereafter each person elected to
the office of Mayor shall be commissioner in his
individual capacity, after the expiration of his
term of office; the amendment was rejected by yeas
3-nays 6. The ordinance was then passed.
Mr.. CATHcART called up the ordinance to endorse
the bonds of the Western Maryland Railroad Com
pany, which had been recommitted to the Commit
tee, and another section added.-Mr. Cotton
rose to point of order. He said that the Mayor
had returned the ordinance without his signature,
which was virtually veto, and that the ordinance
should have been reconsdered in both Branches
before it was recommitteed to the COMMITTEES
The CHAIR sustained the point of order made by
Mr.. Cotton. Mr.. Cook appealed from the deci-
sion of the Chair, and upon taking the ques-
tion the Chair overruled, by yeas 2;
nays 6.-The ordinance was then read
a first and second time. Messrs. Cotton, Ellicott
and McPhail (President) opposed it's passage. max
ing long speeches against it. While Mr.. McPhail
was speaking the Branch was left without a quo
rum, when Mr.. CoLToN moved to adjourn. Before
the question put the absent members in
and the motion was withdrawn.-Mr' Cotton
moved to strike out the last section; rejected
The ordinance then passed by the following
vote: Yeas-Messrs. Van Nostrand, Cathcart, Cook,
Taylor and Musselman-5. Nays-Messrs. Presi-
dent, Cotton Ellcott and McComas-4.-Ad-