Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-11-15

and 40, be n Is hereby rejected LOT Tue
following reasons, to-wit: aD
The Committee on Assessment beg
leave to report that they find on com
plant OF w. r. Duncan hat his property
Is assessed in the I4th Civil District for
the present year at much higher rates
than in previous years. ahey find this
also 10 be the case in regard to the prop
erty Of A. Seesel. Your Committee find
that these assessments correspond with
the city assessments, and that very many
other persons have had their property
assessed in a similar manner, from fifty
to seventy-Ave per cent. above the assess
ments Of former years. It will be seen
at once that il the Commissioner yield
to the application now before them, that
they will probably have an almost eud-
less list Of similar applications. The
change of assessments your Committee
think extremely injudicious, unless it can
appear that serious injustice has been
done. Il is probably well known that
the city assessment vas very carefully
made.
Your committee see no good reason why
a county assessment should be less than
. city assessment for the property,
and as the assessment has been regularly
made by the proper parties, your com
mittee caunot, with the lights before
them, recommend a compliance with
the petition of Mr.. Duncan to have his
Front OF Shelby street property fixed at
q lower assessment, nor with the petition
Of A. Seeael TO have his assessment re-
duced. Your committee think that the
property Of Mr.. Duncan, lying on Her
nando street, should be reduced from
$4,000 80 $1,000, and his lands IN the 18th
Civil District should be valued NJ $1,000
instead of $500, which your committee
find to be excessive. Your committee
End these lands to be assessed in the 4th
District, which Mr.. Duncan says IL an
! error. He insists his lands are In the
18th Civil District. They certainly
should not be assessed twice. In the 4th
| District they are valued at $1,000, and in
the 18th at $4,000. The assessment Of
$1,000 is in conformity with other asses
ments of lanes contiguous, and your
committee recommend the cancelling Of
the assessment Of Mr.. DuDcan's property,
as listed in the 4th Civil District, and
the correction Of its assessment in the
18th Civil District, according to the fig
ures given above.
Ordered by the Board Of Commission
ers Of Shelby county, That the assess
ments Of w. r. Duncau's property be
and they are hereby reduced for the year
| 1867, as recommendation of the Com
mittee on Assessment, as set forth in the
accompanying report.
Ordered by the Board of Commission
ers of Shelby county, Tenn, That the re-
port OIL. l. Battle, Chairman of Com
missioners, to let out bridge across LOosa-
hstchie river, on the road leading from
Wytbe Depot to the Battle settlement,
be referred back for more information
concerning said bridge; said Commits
sioners u report II the bridge is compile
ted satisfactorily, and submit papers rel
alive to the contract, order of Court, etc.
Ordered, Thai J. +. Holloway be in
structed to submit his contract with the
county for building a bridge over the
L~oosahatehie, on the C~ovington road,
together with the approval Of the County
Engineer for the completion Of the work
according to said contract.
Ordered, That the sum of S23 40 be
and hereby is appropriated to o. G,
Jones, IS payment in full for his services
to Shelby county said sum to be paid by
Mr.. Merriman out of the contingent
fund.
Ordered by the Board of Commissions
ers of Shelby county, Tenn, That the
Z" old Winchester State Line Roadn bs
and the same is hereby declared q second
class road from the corner OF james
Meacham's plantation to the entrance K
DR.. Stoatis lane, snd that WE Siee he
and hereby is appointed oVersser on SAID
road, with power to call out the hands o
J. L. KiDcannon and his own to Worb
said road.
An account in favor OF George johnson
for thirty-siX dollars, for services rem,
dered as cook at County Poor House, wa
on motion allowed.
An account in favor Of J. s. Bailey
Special Deputy Sheriff, for one hundred
and ffCy-nine dollars, for ffty-three day
attendance at the Chancery Court, wa!
on motion allowed.
Ordered, That the account Of JOhI
Burke, for removing dead carcasses, b
referred back for proof.
Ordered, That the resignation Of T. r
Mcknight, as Constable of the Sixth
Civil District, be accepted, aud that w
P. Day be appointed in his stead to seTV,
for the uneXpired portion of his term, Of
till sn election is held for the same.
Ordered by the Court, That the orde
OF the County Court, at It's January term
1867, ordering the Attorney General o
the Criminal Court to collect amount
due the county by execution on ti'
docket of said Court, be and the same /!
hereby renewed, so as to include eXecU.
lions up to the lst Of July, 1867 no exc
cution to be Issued in any case wher.
there is not reasonable ground TO believe
that the money ear be made.
Ordered by the Board of Commission
ers of Shelby county, Tenn That thr
Cowan Ford road, leading from the Stat
{ Line road to the Mississippi line, be ant
the same is hereby declared a secont
1, class road through the whole extent o
the same.
Be it also ordered, That Columbu
? Stewart be and he hereby is appOintet
overseer of said road from the corner G
Harrison's land to the State line, will
: power to work all the hands on the rOal
subject to road duty
. The petition OF w. z. Milton, W. 7
S Williamson and T. w. ButtiHghaus, t
have ar appropriation Of $500 each
( equal to cash, made for their services q
= an investigatinC committee, was on mo
ton referred to the Finance Committee
Ordered by the Board of Commission
ers Of Shelby county, Tenn, That a.
appropriation Of SlO0 be and the same
hereby made to jeremiah H. Grant, I
make good to him the obligation OF tn
county to pay him S473 for a bridge Of
Valentine avenue
Be it ordered, That the County Truste
deliver Immediately to this Board o.
warrants now in his office which hav
been paid and heretofore accounted 70
il settlement made by the former truste
and the present trustee up to his las
regular annual settlement. That sal
warrants be carefully examined by an
in the presence of this Board, the sun
called for by each to be noted, far th
Y purpose OF a~scertainiug whether tn
s whOleamounts correspond to the amount
receipted for in the settlements made b,
: said trustees, and whether any warrant
t have been wrOngfully issued a secOn.
time. That, after said examination, ssi'
warrants be burned or 10 some name
D be cancelled; that 10 the future, ate
+ any annual settlement, they be 1t enc
destroyed 10 like manner,
e Ordered, That the sum Of one hundreu
and twenty-nine dollars and finy-hv
cents 1879 So be and the same Is hereb,
s appropriated to J. NJ. Thompson, Esq,
as payment in full for two old certificate
. or warrants, tO-wit One warrant No
1907 January term, 1867, issued by Johl
!, League. Clerk, for MAC dollars aud fifty
Eve cents, 90 So, Cor holding inquests
and the other. warrant No 1927, issue
u I UN gbAu A1baEAts NA1Ah a@Aa1 a.
1857, for one hundred sud twenty dollars
iSI26}, payment for attendsnee on Count
Court twelve days, ct ten dollars pc
day also, that said two old warrants b
nov, in presence Of the Board, eGnoelle
} and sttacbed 70 this order.
Ordered, That the st. Andrews Soc.
ety oe allowed to hold its lEauthly meet
g ings, to-wlt on ths evening Of the mrs
: Wednesday In each month, uHGi frrthe
, ordered, in the Municipal Court room
d and that the st. Patrick's Society be a
Z lowed the same room once a month, o
) the first Sunday of each month.
. Ordered by the Board of Commission
ers Of Shelby county, Tenn. That In az
> cordRnce with the suggestion and recon
! mendations submitted by the Commits
: on Poor House, that additional quartet
be provided for the paupers of the count!
: under the direction Of Commissioner
;, w. Louis, whenever he shall deem theI
= necessary, at a cost not exceeding or
thousand dollars; also, that he be at
thorized' to have the roof of one Of Ii
!, Poor House buildings repaired 10 as ee'
nemical a as possible. Also, thi
be be and he hereby is authorized to pu
chase a horse and wagon for the use
: the Poor House, at an expense not e,
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