The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-03-14
PROCEEDINGS OF COUNCIL.
TENTH REGULAR MEETING.
MAYoR's OFF1oE. MARCH 13. 18es.

MAYORS OFFICE, March 49, 1866.
Present-His Honor the Mayor; Aldermen
Ravenel, Marshall, Macbeth, Whilden, Trenholm,
Steinmeyer, Honour, Enston, Cameron, Gerdts,
Small, Oakes, Ryan, Butler, and Earle.
The minutes Of the last meeting were read and
approved.
Applications were read from 9. Cordes, C. F.
Huneken, and ]. G. q. Clanssen, for Licenses to
keep and sell Gunpowder.
Applications received from Moses Brothers, @. D.
Owens, ]. E. Hertz Co., for Auctioneers' License.
Application was read from q. Badenhop, for
License to keep four Billiard Tables.
Application was read from N. O'Connor, to havo
John Touhey's Junk Shop License transferred to
him. Referred to Committee on Licenses.
Petition Of Jacob Barrett, asking to be relieved
from the payment ofta1es on store on East Bay.
Referred to Committee on Relief.
Petition of the non-commissioned officers and
privates Of the City Police, praying advance in
pay. Referred to the Mayor.
Petition of c. N: Loyejoy, praying to be relieved
from the payment Of taxes on his Patent Cotton
Press. Referred to the Mayor.
Application of s. N. Hart Sr., for renewals of
certificates of City Stock. Lay over till expiration
of legal notice.
Return of the Harbor Master, for February,
1866, showing an amount Of 5000 paid into the City
Treasury. Received as information.
Bills of the Charleston Gas Light Company,
amounting to $685. Referred to Committee on
Accounts.
Bill OF J. E. Tobin, amounting to s16250. Re-
ferred to same Committee.
The Mayor read communication of J. F. orr
Upon motion of Alderman Ravenel, Mr. orr was
permitted to address Council. Mr.. O. then made
some remarks, touching the merits of the peti-
tion. Postponed; to be taken up at a later hour
OF the evening.
Report of Board of Health, respecting a nuis-
ance reported at previous meeting, and opinion
Of City Attorney, was read. Received as informa-
tion.
AIdo,n,or DovonaI roo 4 tI,o foI,our;,.. ...I
The Committee Of Ways and Means respectfully
report to Council that, upon examination, they
find there is an arrear Of city taxes, amounting to
not less than 100000, extending over series of
years, from 1859 to 1865, both inclusive
In the opinion of the Committee it is but justice
have enjoyed a long forbearanoe should be re-
quired to take their share of the public burden,
at the same time they are desirUus Of making as
equitable an adjustment as the urgent necessities
of the city will allow.
The taxes due for the years 1852 1860 and 1861,
the Committee Think should be paid in full. There
was no sensible depreciation Of the currency dur
ing three years, and the parties in arrear have
certainly had long indulgence. For the years
1862 63, ga and '65, the Committee think, that as
the amounts due were levied in deprecated cur
rency, they should be reduced to tho average Of
the standard of gold during the month of May in
each of the said years respectively. The parties
would then be required to pay only the equivalent
Of what was paid by those who settled promptly.
The Committee, therefore, recommend that the
City Sheriff be authorized to settle the taxes in
arrear in his office upon the basis just stated,
until the first day of July next. and that afsef-
that time e1cctuai measures be taken for the en-
forcemcnt OF the execution.
Alderman Steinmeyer reported from the Com
mittee on Wooden Buildings, in reference to i'm
of the house on the corner of Meet
ing and Calhoun streets, that they recommend
that the petitioner be allowed to mako the i'm
provided q brick wall is built around
the building the entire height.
Alderman Trenholm, from the Committee on
Accounts, reported favorably on the following ac-
counts: Charleston Gas Light Company, s195717;
Orphan House, s3250.S3; for City Police, D. H.
Sicox's bill, S451 Castens & Jacobs, 1862; Fire
Department. S3lS.56 Department Streets, s312.50;
DAILY News, advertising, &C., s397.S4.
Total, s7339.90
Alderman Oakcs from Committee on Licenses,
reported that they have examined the several ap-
pcations for retail and tavern licenses referred
to them by the Clerk of Council, and recommend
that licenses be granted to those persons whose
names have already been advertised in the papers,
they having complied with the requirements OF
the law; the same to take date from January 1,
1866.
Alderman Oakcs from the same Committee, re-
ported the applications referred to them at the
last regular meeting of Council, and recommend
that licenses be granted to the following per-
sons:
Auctioneers Licenses: z. B. Oakes, F. Backus,
and Philip J. Porcher.
- Junk n: Shop Licenses: Margaret Basgett and
Licenses to keep and sell Gunpowder: G. Grave
ley and A. Lindstedt.
License to pack Loose Cotton: c. N. Lovejoy,
Union Wharf.
The Mayor read the Report OF the City Regis
cal Tables for the year 1865 Total number of
deaths during 1865, 20G4. Of these 284 were male
whites 278 female whites male blacks and colored,
724 female blacks and colored, 78U.
On motion Of Alderman Trenholm, it was or
dered that this Report with statistics, be printed
in pamphlet form.
Alderman Marshall moved that the Mayor ap-
point Committee of five Aldermen, Of which he
shall be Chairman, to confer with Mr.. Orr, and to
aff rd him such opportunities as may be in their
power, to bring his proposed measures to the
notice Of the commercial portion OF the COM
munity.
[Mr. Orr proposes to establish agencies in Eu-
rope, by which to encourage immigration to
Charleston, s. C.1 The Mayor appointed on this
Committee Aldermen Marshall, Macbeth, Small,
Alderman Trenholm offered the following reso-
utions:
l. That his Honor the Mayor be requested to
,all in all existing proxies to represent railroad
stock owned by the city.
RESOLVED 2. That it is the duty of the Commit
tee Railroads to vest the proxies Of the city in
one or more members OF that Committee; and
that, in the absence OF specific resolves OF the
Council, it is the duty of the Committee on Rail-
roads to decide how the vote OF the city shall be
cast in any contested election for officers OF any
Railroad Company in which the city owns stock.
First resolution agreed to; second lost.
Alderman Gerdts, from Committee on Streets,
offered the following resolution:
Whereas, many OF the lot holders in the burnt
district on the west side of King-street, between
Clifford and Broad-streets, have offered to cede
the portion required to the city for the considera-
ion that they be exempted from city tax on that
property this year, and from the assessment of
sny expenses arising from widening of said streets:
B. it, tAsgeSare,
Resolued That Council will accept the forego-
ing. provided the same can be carried out gene
rally in the course OF the next thirty days.
Adopted.