Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-09-24
GEORGETOWN.
Affairs In GeaYRetaWn,


the Common Cornell adopting the contract
with the Alexandria Canal, Railroad ami
Bridge Company 10 aid in the construction of
q travel bridge across the Potomac over the
Alexandra a9ueduct, reported by the special
committee. Tue report of the COMMITTEES will
be found in the proceedings OF the Board of
Common Council Mr.. Davis offered as q SUBJ
stitute the following resolution:
ResOlred, That the special committee to con-
fer with the Georgetown and Alexandria AQue-
duct Bridge Company be instructed to adhere
10 the ordinances already adopted by the Cor
poration OF Georgetown in regard 70 the loan
asked or by the Georgetown and Alexandra
Aqueduc Bridge Company.
Agreed TO. Ayes-Messrs. Mathews, Davis
and Hill. Noes-Messrs. Bronaugh and New
man. Joint resolution to pay James Mc(iarity
for work done on Congress street was passed.
A message was received from the Common
Courcil that they stll adhered to the report of
the Committee on the Georgetown and Alex
ardria Aqueduct Bridge Company. Mr.. New
man moved that the board recede from their
substitute resolution; not agreed TO. Ayes
Nessrs. Bronaugh and Newman. Noes
!Asssrs. Mathews. Davis and Hill. Messrs.
hill and Newman were appointed a committee
OF conference on the disagreement of the two
boards. The committee of conference having
met and consulted, recommended that the
Board of Aldermen recede from their resolu-
lion, and agree TO the resolution as passed by
the Common Council, with an amendment 10
he contract which will be found in the Coun-
Gil proceedings below. The board adopted a
resolution for q meeting on Friday evening of
next week, anu every Friday evening there
after. Adjourned.
COMMON COUNCIL.-A special meeting of the
Board was held last night; DIR. q. IL. CragIn
(President) in the chair, ana all the members
present except Mr.. English. The call of the
Mayor for the special meeting having been
read, the usual messages passed tween the
Boards. The meeting was called for the pur-
pose Of perfectIng a contract with the Alex
andria Canal, Bridge and Railroad Company
TO construct a travel bridge upon the present
structure over the AQueduct.
Mr.. Peck, of the special committee having
the proposition Of the Bridge Company, sub.
United report; which, on motion, was referred
to the Board of Aldermen.
The report is as follows:
To the HOnOrdtte Board Of Aldermen and Board
Of Common Council Of the COrpordtioa Of George
tOrn:-Gentlemen: Your committee, duly APP
pointed under an ordinance entitled an "Ordi-
nance TO aid in the construction of a travel
bridge over the Alexandria Aqueduct,'' ap.
proved September IL, 1868, beg leave TO report
that they have this day had a conference with
a committee of the gentlemen composing the
Alexandria Canal, Aqueduct and Bridge Com
pany.
In pursuance Of the authority reposed in
said committee by the above-named ordinance,
as amended by that body, approved September
10, 1865, an offer was made to said company by
said Committe, that the corporation would
loan to the said company the sum of S25W Cd in
stock, payable in ten years, with interest paw.
able quarterly, said loan to be secured by a
pledge of the tolls to be derived from the use of
the bridge, and with demand tor security that
the bridge would be completed on or before the
first day Of February, 1859.
This offer was refused by the Bridge Com
pany.
They made the following offer as substitute
therefor, and requested your committee 10
bring the same to the attention Of your honor.
able bodies They will agree to receive from
the corporation of Georgetown loan of ssS,OOl,
payable In ten (10) years; tor this sum they will
not pay interest until the expiration of three
years from the time OF the completion of the
mr.. dua NrEi Nh hYnd will
plete on or before March LIST, 1869. They agree
TO deposit IN the hands of party to be named
by this corporation the sum OF S25,0OO in United
States securities as a security-first. that the
bridge will be completed as agreed upon, and
at or before the designated time; second, as
security for the maintenance and proper tray
cling condition of the bridge; third, as a secu-
rity for the repay ment of the sum of Sd go,
with all interest acCruing thereon on and after
the expiration OF three years from the time of
the completion of the bridge.
In default of the acceptance by the corDora-
ton of this substitute proposition, the bridge
company recurs TO its first offer. viz: TO borrow
S25.OOO tor ten (lO) years, with interest payable
quarterly, and pledge the tolls from the bridge
tor It's repayment.
CHARLES u. WEIGH, WM. LAIRD,
CHAs. II. MATTHEWS, CT. PECK.
Nh. Peck, from said Committee, then sub
mitted draft Of a contract with the Aiexan-
dria Company, made out in accordance with
their last proposition embodied in the above re-
port, in which they offer 10 deposit Govern
the bridge by March 1st. 1867, and for the amount
advanced by Georgetown. The contract with
the Bridge Company as presented by the com.
mi,tee, names Messrs Sweeny and Laird, of
the Farmers and Mechanics Bank, AS trustees:
and il the event Of the death Of one OF these
gentlemen, the trust TO continue in the survI-
vor. Mr.. Ramsburg introduced a resolution
authorizing the Special Committee TO enter into
a contract with the Alexandria Company a.
cordng to the agreement submitted by the
Committee, and after the contract had been
slightly amended the resolution was adopted by
an imam imous vote. Mr.. Newman, from the
Streets Committee, reported resolution to paw
James Garrety for work on Congress street:
adopted. Mr.. Darby offered a resolution for a
meeting OF the Board on Friday evening of next
week and every Friday evening there
after, at half.past seven O'Clock: adopted.
The Boards of Aldermen having rejected
the resolution passed by this Board, author
ny, and passed substitute therefor author
iZing the Committee to make contract with
the Company, strictly in accordance with the
ordinances passed by the Corporation: Mr.
Peck SAID he would like TO hear the ordinances
read, as the Aldermen's resolution seemed to
intimate that the Committee had not reported
contract in accordance with the ordinances in
question, and he would like to see how far the
contract had departed from the ordinances, if
at all, which he did not think they had done,
the matter being left to the direction of the
Committee. 1t seemed to him that the Alder.
men We're merely evaGing the issue, and would
keep the committee going back and forth for
the next six months. The ORDINANCES having
been read, MIR. Peck COMMENDED that the Com.
mittee had acted in accordance with the discre-
ton vested in them, and that under this new
resolution Of the Board, the COMMITTEES
had no definite instructions. He was
notwillng to be thus stultified, and wonld offer
a resolution making the instructions definite
He then offered a resolution instructing the
committee 10 renew the proposition made TO
the company to loan them S25,C0O, and take
security for the building of the bridge, and if
the Alexandria Company rejects the PROPOSE
ton 10 terminate the negotiations. Mr.. Shoe
maker said the Alexandria Company would re-
fuse that proposition, and moved as substitute
for Mr.. Peck's proposition that this board ad-
here 10 its resolution as passed this evening
and then let the responsibility rest where II
belongs Mr.. Ramsburg, Mr.. Collins, and MI
proposition 10 adhere 10 the resolution ana con-
tract adopted by this board. Mr. Peck said
that the committee could draw a hundred con-
tracts under the Corporation ordinances, as
they were very indefinite, any one
Of which contracts would be in accord
ance with the ordinances. He reviewed
the history Of the NJ gotiations, and hoped that
his amendatory resolution would be passed so
that if the Boards did not agree to the action of
the committee the matter would come TO an end.
and the talk stop. The Board then rejected the
substitute of the Aldermen. The Aldermen
adhered and requested a committee OF confe-.
ence, having appointed Nessrs. Hill and New.
man on behalf of their Board. On motion of
Mr.. Peck, a committee Of conference on behalf
Of this Board was appointed. and the Chair
named Messrs. Peck, Collins, and Ramsburg.
The committee Of conference, after meeting