Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-11-01
MUNICIPAL.

MUNICIPAL
BOARD OF ALDERMEN.-At the called
meeting last night the following members
answered to their names:
Aldermen Kinney, Sloan, Brodie, Chiffon,
Creighton, Thompson, Kircher, NOlen and
/ Cheatham.
The bill authorizing the Recorder to issue
checks for the payment of the pay rolls of
the laboring forces Of the city was taken up,
and under suspension Of the rules was
passed three readings.
The Finance Committee reported several
accounts that we're read and ordered to be
paid.
Petitions from the following persons, to
erect frame buildings we're read and granted !:
Thomas Kavanagh, William Starkey,
Richard Warner, r. H. Groomes, Brown q
Cooper, John Miller, John G. Glenn, w.
H. B. Koontz Mr.. Moore, and John Healy.
The bill granting the right Of way to the
Church and Spruce Street Railway was taken
up, and under a suspension Of the rules,
passed three readings.
A bill from the Common Council, order
ing the Chairman of the Street Committee
TO open the alley between Cherry and Col
lege, from Ash to Mulberry, passed two read
ings, and was referred TO the Street Com
mittee
A bill was introduced to Macadamize
Union street from Cherry to Spruce street.
Referred to the Street Committee.
A resolution directing the Finance Com
mittee to examine the law regulating the is
suance of checks was indefinitely referred.
The resolution from the Board of Common
Council, authorizing the hypothecating of
bonds of the city, was read and adopted.
The resolution from the Common Coun-
Gil authorizing the Wharf Master, under
direction ofthe Wharf Committee, to place
ringbolts wherever needed, was read and
adopted.
A resolution was presented instructing
the Street Committee to remove all houses
or shanlies off the streets and alleys in the
10Th Ward Referred to the Committee on
Public Property.
The Finance Committee, through their
Chairman, presented the following report,
which was read and ordered to be placed on
file:
To THE CITY COUNCIL OF NASHVILLE:
GENTLEMEN: Notwithstanding the regular
annual report which you have had before
you at the commencement of the term, your
Finance Committee, owing to our present
embarrassed condition, deem it necessary to
again remind you that some action should
be at once adopted that will reduce, if not
altogether put a stop TO the continued drafts
on our already depleted treasury. While
your Committee are aware of the feeling las
expressed by nearly every member Of the
City CounciD to cut down our expenditures,
they think that too much time is passing
without any comparative action.
II is not difficult to see how much more
reputable it is 10 retrench than go on
making contracts when we have no means
TO meet their payment. We believe that all
that has been done during the last year was
fully required to meet the wants of the city,
and in this we especially refer to the street
department, which has been managed by
the untiring exertions Of its excellent Chair
man, doing credit equally to himself and to
the body he represented, and so clearly in
dorsed by the late election.
Your committee, however, are now of the
opinion, and recommend that ali street la
Dor be at once put a stop to Except by the
Workhouse hands, until the commencement
Of spring.
VfL;, e,,o,;o., ,c 10 ,, tbo,, tb;rly Mill not
only keep up repairs, but under the superin-
tendence of Mr.. Petit, will do good deal, if
not all new work that may be necessary du-
ring the winter months.
And here, also, your committee would
recommend that the Chairman of the Street
Committee be vested with authority TO, at
once, sell the steamboat Mamie, las she
will bring as much now as at any other
time,) and to make contracts hereafter for
such materials of any kind, as she may
now be engaged in delivering.
Finally, to meet the desired ends, your
committee would respectfully urge upon
the chairman Of the different committees,
whose departments are an expense to the
corporation, the necessity of having them
Immediately called together, in separate
bodies, and examining into and looping off
where possible, in every department, SEEING
also, that no expenditure be entered upon
unless by due form oflaw.
This done and your committee can prom
Use YOU a much better condition Of affairs.
Your bonds will then be sought after,
whereas now, we cannot beg them off without
a sacrifice, which cannot be done with our
approval.
Your committee deem it unnecessary TO
recapitulate the finance report made early
this month, but would simply state, that
among the payments now due and maturing
in a few DAYS, may be mentioned: Dis
counted notes. $50, 600; and from the Treasu-
rers report we find checks issued up TO DC
tober lst, Sl02 900, all Of which being cash
demands, should be met now.
Respectfully,
RoRERT THOMPSON,
Chairm'n Finance Committee.
The petition Of Lucretia Dibbrel, praying
damage to property on the corner of Church
and McLemore Streets was referred to the
Committee on Public Property.
J. Edward Stacy petitioned for privilege
to erect frame buildings in South Nashville.
| Granted.
On motion, the Board then adjourned.
As you go from breakfast this morning,
stop at the polls and vote for JOHN LELL-
YETI, the Conservative candidate.
GRAND ENCAMPMENT, l. o. o. FAT
the annual meeting of the Grand Encamp-