Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-10-10

read and adopted.
The Committee on Finance reported ac-
counts to the amount of $3.50 95, and re-
commended taeir payment. Adopted.
Az. RUTLAND, Revenue Collector, re-
ported total collections since last report Of
sIS,5l9 80.
The Recorders report for the month Of
September, showed receipts for Licenses,
zines, fees, etc, $3.50 80.
The Treasurer reported receipts from Dc
tober !, 1865 to October 9, 1866 of Sl06
7s9 70. Expenditures, 7,6lS 60.
The report of the Chief Engineer Of the
Fire Department was read and received.
The Water-tax Collector reported re-
ceipts for the two weeks ending October 9,
1856, 81 1858 O5.
p. NJ. MARLIS, Sexton Of the Nashville
Cemetery, reported the following burials for
the month Of September:
Number of whites buried, 16S.
Number Of colored buried, 274.
Total, 442.
The keeper of the Workhouse reported
l59 committals for September, and three
deaths.
The following report from the joint COM
mittee on salaries Of officers to be elected,
and other matters, was read and adopted:
CRY HALL, NASHVILLE, Oct. 8, 1866
10 the Honorable Board Of Aldermen and City
Council; Your Joint Committee, to whom
was referred the subject Of the salaries Of the
officers to be elected during the present
month, and other matters pertaining thereto,
respectfully report as follows:
Your Committee is impressed with the i'm
pOrtance Of adopting some measures of re-
trenchmenb whereby the expenses Of the
Municipal Government may be reduced.
The number Of officers and employees is
unnecessarily large and the condition of the
city is now such as to justify material re-
duction. BY the former law, as laid down
in the City Digest of 1865, it was made the
duty of the Deputy Marshals to act as Health
Inspectors, while by an act passed during
the last municipal year, the Mayor is au-
thOrized to appoint other Inspectors with
similar duties.
Your Committee recommend that these
additional Health Inspectors be discharged,
and that it be made the duty of the Mayor
10 appoint Health Inspectors in rotation
from the list Of the Deputy Marshals, and
none Others. Ut
Your Committee recommend, with perfect
unanimity, that the law creatinga Detective
Police be repealed, and that establishment be
abolished. We believe that the will of the
people requires this change, and the saving
to the city would be considerable. The
Detective Police has cost the city 81, l55, for
pay alone, for the last two months or at the
rate Of about $1,000 per annun,, besides
room rent fuel, lights, and any other charges
which may be allowed, and we believe this
amount may be saved 70 the city without
detriment TO the public service
Your Committee, on the suppositiOn that
our recommendation in these respects shall
be adopted, recommend that the Deputy
Narshals Discontinued as last year, but with
a difference in the manner Of their compen-
sation, as well as that Of the Marshal, as
will appear BY the bills herewith submitted.
Your Committee find that the city has at
present thirty-nine regular patrolmen, hold
ing their places BY virtue OF an election by
the City Council. This number is exclusive
Of officers, and is, your Committee think,
force amply large forthe service. There are,
besides these, as we learn, % patrolmen who
hold their places by appointment, and whose
services may now be safely dispensed with.
The energy and general good conduct Of the
police force have reduced the city to a state
Of quiet and order, and the men who have
done themselves this honor, will cheerlully
retire TO the walks Of private industry, and
relieve the city Of burden no longer neces-
sary. 1t is provided for these reasons, in the
accompanying bill, that all patrolmen not
holding their places by election be retired,
and the payroll reduced strictly to the num-
Der so holding.
Werecommend that the salary Of the City
Treasurer be 81 500 per annum. That the
salaries of the Recorder, Clerks of Market,
and officers and attaches of the fire depart
ment Ne continued the same as last year, as
\ provided in the Bill aforesaid.
Your Committee, after careful considera-
| ton and full and free conference, earnestly
urge the adoption Of these recommended
tons
All Of which is respectfully submitted.
G. A. BRODE
A. d. CREIGHTON,
Com. Of Board of Aldermen =
JOHN LELLYETT,
| PHINEAs GARRETT,
~ JAS. AMBROSE
. lll- Com. Of Common Council.
The following bill, referred to in the
above report was taken up and passed on
its first reading. The rules were sus-
pended, and the bill passed its second and
third reading.
An Act TO Regulate the Compensation Of City
| Officers. and for other purposes.
/ Be Il enacted 6y de Ofy Council Of Nash.
vile: SECTION /. The Day Police shall
consist, until otherwise provided by law, OF
| a City Marshal and ten Deputy Marshals,
whose compensation shall be the same as
provided for in chapters Y and II OF the
Digest Of the City Laws of 1866 and the
duties Of the Marshal and his deputies shall
be a. therein and elsewhere provided by law
SIC. > No Health Inspectors, OF Supe.
intendents of Scavenger forces, shall be ap.
pointed or retained after the passage of this
act, other than the Marshal and the Deputy
| Marshais but sneh number Of deputies al
the Mayor may find necessary, from time
to time shall be detailed for that service in
regular rotation, and in such manner as e
impose the service equally uponall the depu
ties. And this rule shall not be deyiated
from, except by common consent Of all
the officers invested an the approval
Of the Mayor. II shaw be the duty o
the City Marshal, with the advice anC
consent OF the Mayor, TO diyid,
the city into patrol beats, aud tC
assign TO each beat a Deputy Mar
shall, whose duty it shall be to remain
upon his own proper beat during his hour
Of duty, except when called away by specia
service, or by order of his superior officers
and he shall, in all cases, promptly. return
TO his beat when his presence is no longe
needed elsewhere. But the Marshal ma,
assign two beats TO any one officer at am
time when the exigencies of the service ma,
require.
SEC. s. The City Marshal and the Cap
tain and First Lieutenant Of the nigh
police shall constitute a board Of DETECTIVE
police, q which the Mayor shall have over
sight and direction. The Board Of Detect
i've Police 50 constituted. shall beauthorize,
TO expend, for thepay ofspies and informers
aud for other secret service, not exceeding
one hundred dollars a month, TO be paid on
Of the city treasury. And the detectiv'
police establishment now in existence
hereby abolished; and all unfinished bust
ness thereof shall he transferred to the Boar
Of Detective Police hereby established
SEC g. The Mayor shall forthwith dis