Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-01-08

to Martha Boyce and Harriet Wright, also
pauPer pensioners. @5tb
An appropriation Of so was asked to en-
able Catharine Myers to get out of the
! county. Granted.
Twenty dollars was allowed TO Eliza
Morgan, an old pensioner.
The usual appropriations were allowed
to the Protestant Orphan Asylum and the
House Of Refuge
Twenty dollars was allowed Mary
Wright.
The above applications and allowances
we're from the first district
Benjamin Stennett, Of the third district,
was allowed $40 to aid in his support
Twenty dollars was allowed to Mrs.
Melville of the fourth district, and the
same amount 10 her daughter, upon the
proper affidavits.
Ten dollars each was allowed 10 Belsey
and Sarah Pickett Of the seventh district.
Twenty dollars was allowed to Cut
Pritchett cripple from the eighth dis
trict.
Forty dollars was allowed to Mary Pack
ct and her two daughters INDECENT cripples
Of the twenty-second district.
Twenty dollars was allowed to Elizabeth
Littleton, disabled psuper of the twenty
third district.
The same amount was allowed to Mrs.
Burgess of the same district if on investi-
CATION found TO be deserving it. fsS
Twenty dollars was allowed on proper
affidavit to james Stanley of the twenty
fourth district, also disabled pauper.
Under the head of new business Justice
a..
ton with reference to the Tennessee and
Pacific railroad.
Justice Maxey moved that Justice
Towns motion TO take up be laid on the
table
After some confusion, the Judge decided
that Justice Maxey's motion was out of
order.
Maxey appealed from the decision of
the chair, and called for the ayes and noes.
The vote stood, ayes so, noes 2. The
chair was sustained.
Msxey moved reconsideration, and
again called for the ayes and noes.
The chair stated that those who voted
"aye" would be counted as sustaining the
chair; those voting may" as against sus-
tanning it.
The second vote stood, ayes As, noes 5,
the chair being again sustained.
Justice Maxey moved that the court ad~
iourn, and called for the ayes and noes.
The vote stood, ayes 10, noes AZ. and the
motion to adjourn was lost.
The communication of the Tennessee
and Pacific railroad was taken up.
Justice Towns stated that since the action
of the morning he had an interview with
the President of that road, who had ad-
vised him that it was absolutely the law
that the proposition TO subscribe the stock,
as proposed, should be submitted to the
people He declared himself opposed to
the proposition, but asked if we should
come in conflict with higher court? He
wanted us to hold sacred the railroad in
terest we have at Louisville. If the PEG.
pie voted for the proposition their voices
were sovereign. If they did not vote for
ii, he was in favor of meeting it squarely.
He wanted the obligation met at once,
without being fettered with bonds, interest
bearing, for thirty years. Let us meet it
if it was the law, and look to the road for
reimbursement.
Justice Maxey wanted TO set himself
right before the court and the court right |
before the people. 1t was not his aim to
refuse the proposition of the board, but to |
lay it on the table for the present, because |
we were not prepared at this time to de- !
eide upon the matter. He wanted time to |
consider. He again moved to lay the COM
munication on the table. This motion was |
carried by vote of 80 to Is.
The following communication was read |
from Gen. j. T. Boyle, (who was present
in the court room,) asking subscription |
of $4,000 to the Evansville, Henderson
and Nashville railroad, the same to be of /
stock owned by Davidson county in the |
Louisville and Nashville railroad:
TO ds Honorable, the County Court of |
DaUidsoH County, Tennessee 2. / have the |
honor, on behalf of the Evansville, Hen
derson and Nashville Railroad Company, /
10 solicit and ask your honorable body TO |
make subscription TO the capital of said
railroad company of one hundred and fifty |
thousand dollars, to be paid in the stock of |
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad /
Company, owned by tie county of David |
son, and received, TO be issued as stock
dividend on the original stock subscribed
by your county to the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company.
This subscription to be made on eondi-
the said railroad shall be located and i
established in or near the city of Nashville,
on the north or south side of the Cumber-
land river, and that one third OF the
amount subscribed shall be expended in
the erection Of the SAID machine shops,
purchase of machinery, etc, within six
months from the time the same is received,
and the said Evansville, Henderson and
Nashville road, through the Board Of Di-
rectors thereof, shall establish the said
machine shops at or near Nashville, and
this may be done in connection with the
Edgefeld and Kentucky railroad
The county of Davidson originally SUBJ
scribed 100000 to the Louisville and
Nashville railroad, and now hold the stock
of said Company of 100000, and on this
stock there was declared a stock dividend,
in 1862, of ten per cent, increasing their
stock $50, 900, and recently another stock
dividend of forty per cent has been de- |
clared, making $l20, 900 of stock dividends,
which added to the other stock dividends, /
makes fifty per cent. of stock dividends,
or $l50,000 of stock dividends in addition |
to the original 100000 Of stock subscribed |
by the county. The last dividend of forty |
per cent has been declared and the stock |
will issne to Davidson county in February /
next.
Now respectfully ask your honorable |
court 10 subscribe $3.50, 900 to the capital |
stock of the Evansville, Henderson and |
Nashville railroad company, to be paid in
the said stock of the Louisville and Nash |
vile railroad company, Issued and to be |
issued. ] believe your court has the power
TO make the subscription in this way, and
if it has not feel every confidence that the
Legislature Of the State will ratify it and
make the act legal and valid. 1 feel sure
that any apparent difficulty can and will be
removed by the proper legislation The |
( Evansville, Henderson aud Nashville COM
pany will issue their stock to your county |
M they receive the transfer of the stock of
the Louisville and Nashville railroad
The stock of the Louisville and Nash
willie railroad has a saleable, convertible,
value, being a successfully
eompl ,ted railroad. / feel every confidence
that so soon as the Evansville, Henderson
and Nashville railroad is completed, that
this stock will be quite as valuable and
worth quite as much as the stock of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad. The
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