The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-06-30
Tenants, Meeting.


An adjourned meeting of the tenants was
held last evening at s. o'clock, at the Corpor-
alton Court Room, City Hall. as.s4 All
The proceedings of the last meeting were
read and approved. The Committee on res
oluticns submitted the following resolutions
for the action of the meeting Il, r. .~a~g. p
To THE PRESIDENT vsgts d
l. Whereas, During the last three years of
the late war, this city being in the possess on
of the Federal forces, and was made the basis
of mi itary operations, &C., making it neces-
sary for the General Governments to distribute
large amounts of money, large portions of
Of which eventually reached the citizens of
this place, consequently business every kind
was prosperous, until about the time the
war closed, when the Government ceased to dis
tribute the large amountof money among u.s.
And when the time arrived for the tenants to
make contracts for renting for the present
year, everything indicated that business would
continue to be prosperous and profitable,
and under this belief, the tenants, or renters
agreed to pay the high and exorbitant rents
demanded by the owners of the property !;
but the tenants are charitable enough to be-
lieve that the landlords supposed at that
time that the business of the city would JUS
tify the increased price exacted; but as every
one must be aware that since the close of the
war, and distribution on the part of the gen.
eral Government Of the large amounts of
money among us, and the ruin brought upon
the people generally and more especially in
the country 5the class on whom we must de-
pend, more or less, to make the business Of the
city prosperousj, by the late war, has left a
large majority Of the people. in an impover-5
ished condition, and has reduced the capital
Of large number of business men and
Whereas, There is no immediate prospect
of business becoming better, or that money
will be more plenty among us, and believing
that the landlords, or property owners Of the
city, can and will appreciate our position,
upon the facts being made known to them.
Therefore, be it ~ g t5ry rS
Resolved, That tho landlords, or property
owners, are hereby most respectfully request
ed to reduce the rents for the balance of the
present year, say from the lst of July to the
LIST Of January, 1867, at the rate of at least
one-third of the amount agreed to be paid.
Resolved, That the chairman Of this meet
ing appoint committee, to consist of no less
than FIVE persons, to obtain list of the names
Of all the landlords in the city, and ascertain
who have, or are willing to reduce the rents,
in the newspapers of the city; also to pub
ish list of those who refuse or decline to
make the reduction requested said committee
to call upon the landlords as soon as possible,
and ascertain their intentions. haa ss4ie8
SAINT D. CAMPBELL,
a"@ a&4 .s7a~ GEO. D. GRAHAM
i.4ts s,r ws,.t. E. CAMPE, All gis-ev
~ ,ssis Committee.
On motion the report was received, and
the resolutions were unanimously adopted
The following gentlemen were appointed
under the resolutions to- wait upon the land
lords, namely, L. w. Webb, Rob't w. Santos,
NJ. w. ecobb,C. Schwartzkopf, J. D. Reed.
The President, after the passage of the reso-
lutions, stated that he had predicted this
crisis to his landlord, to whom he hadSbeen
tenant for 80 years, paying at least rent
enough in that time, to purchase the house
occupied several times, and asked that the
landlords would come forward and express
their views. The northern men had been
driven from the city in disgust At the close
of his remarks, a motion was carried to add
the President to the COMMITTEE of solicita-
tion."w ,sst as1a.G u1s1M - .ww
~. Biggs offered the following resolu-
tion.e.ar ssrs,, p . - - III
lhat THIS meeting recommend to all par
ties concerned -that henceforth the4 first Of
May be agreed upon as the commencement
OF an annual lease, instead of the first day of
January, as heretofore. az aaasa414 ,s5aau
G. A. Stevens, in a good common sense and
practical speech, set forth the great burdens
of merchants and tenants, and saw1no hope,
unless there was a radical change in the own
ers of real estate z aae23f = s2tfao
j. Biggs advocated the resolution, upon
the ground of practical nvenlences " 4
~. M. Freeman recommended and suggest
ed the, propriety Of making another portion
Of the city as q business mart, that no matter
where you locate, if yous promulgated your
business by proper advertisement and hand
bills, you would draw the trade. ls9s e1 ,,,tih
The resolution was unanimously carried.
noA fter,it was carried, one gentleman arose
ahd immedi .tely asked if "sthe present rents
were to go on until next May q re.1s4Hs
Y On motion, the meeting adjourned sane die.
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