Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-03-10
COUNTY AFFAIRS.

1he ADJOURNED quarterly meeting OF the
County Court of Davidson county opened
in the Criminal Court room yesterday
morning. at II o'clock A. NJ. The follow
ing members answered the roll Justices
Bush, Briley, Baker, Brien, Chandler, Cum
ningham, Cowan, Cullum, Campbell, Dodd,
Dolin, Dorich, Dunn, Davidson, Ellision,
Graves, Gray (Benajah), Gray (Michael),
Hagar, Holt, Haynie, Hallum, Kerrigan,
Mathews, Mcneil, Meacham, Maxey, Pat
terson, Pearcy, Rueker, Scales, Shankland,
Spain Il. K.), Spain Geo. w Stewart,
Sloan, Towns, Williams, Wilkinson, Willis.
Accounts amounting to $4,000 43 were
allowed
An account of Sl2O II for pest house ex-
penses was also allowed.
The following order, drawn up by JUS
tice Thomas, was unanimously adopted:
Whereas, By the 18th section of the act
of the General Assembly of the State of
Kentucky, passed on the 9th of January,
1852, entitled can act to amend an act en-
titled an act to charter the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company, approved
March 5, 1850, and the act amending the
same, approved March 20, 1851" it is pro-
vided that all dividends which shall be
received upon the stock held and owned
by any county under this act, shall be and
is hereby sacredly set apart as a sinking
fund, to be only used as above provided,
for the payment of the principal and in
terest of the bonds which shall be issued
by any county under this act"
And whereas, By the Sd section of the
act of the General Assembly of the State Of
Tennessee, passed on the 18th of December,
1855, and entitled Fan act to amend an act
entitled an act to charter the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company and the
several acts amending said acts passed by
the Legislatures of Kentucky and Tennes-
see" it is provided "that to create and Sc
cure fund for the final redemption of the
bonds authorized, etc, and the bonds of the
several counties which have been or may
be received in payment of capital stock
subscribed by the counties, sinking fund
shall be created by said company" by set
ting apart and passing to the credit of the
sinking fund, and holding sacred to the
purpose aforesaid, all dividends over
six and inclusive Of eight per cent, to-
gether with any other sum which may, By
order of the board, pass into the sinking
fund, the profit declared on the stock of
the respective counties, to he only held
subject to the order of the board by the
consent of the respective County Courts.
And whereas, The County Court Of Da-
wilson county, considering it right that all
dividends, whether of stock or money.
made upon the stock subscribed by the
county of Davidson in the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company, should be
set apart and held sacred for the payment
OF the principal and interest Of the bonds
OF the county Of Davidson, Issued in paw
ment OF Its subscription to the capital stock
OF said company, and that it ia the duty of
the court to see that this be done. 1t is
therefore ordered by the County Court of
Davidson county, that the dividends on
profit heretofore declared, or which may
hereafter be declared by the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad Company on the
stock OF the county of Davidson in said
company, either in money or stock, be and
the same are hereby irreVocably set apart
and pledged for the payment of the inter
eat and principal of the bonds of the
county of Davidson issued in payment
of its subscription to the capital stock
of said company, and the court hereby
consents to the setting apart and pass
ing to the credit of the sinking fund
Of said company, by the Board of Direc-
tors of that company, of all such dividends
for the purpose aforesaid, and the manage
ment and appropriation thereof under the
provisions of the charter of said company,
1t is further ordered, That the commits
sioners of the sinking fund of the county of
Davidson, now acting as such, be and they
are hereby authorized to carry the fore
going order into effect, in any more formal
mode which may be deemed advisable by
the Board OF Directors of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company, and for this
purpose to draw up and execute for and in
the name of the county of Davidson, any
deed mortgage, trust conveyance, transfer, or
other assurance Of title, and cause the same
to be substantiated in the States of Ten
nessee and Kentucky, and TO provide for
the appropriation of the stock dividends
for the purposes aforesaid, by sale at such
time and in such mode as the said Board
of Directors and the said Commissioners of
the sinking fund for the county of David
son may, in their discretion, determine.
Justices Mathews and Brien offered reso-
lutions in reference 10 the speech of Rep
resentatige w. f. Prosser, denouncing
Prosser's statements az unqualified false
hoods.
The resolutions were referred to a special
committee composed of Justices Meacham,
Maxey, Towns, Baker, and Shankland, who
submitted the following report:
Whereas, On the 9TH of March, 1868,
Hon. w. F. Prosser, member of the House
of Representatives of the State of Tennes-
see, from this county, is reported iu the
newspapers of this city as having INDUCED
in the gT0ssest abuse Of the County Court,
and aiterwsrd in a card published by said
Prosser on the 9TH instant, ne refers to the
report of his speech and does not deny that
the same is correctly reported, which is as
follows:
"Senate bill to establish Board Of
County Commissioners for Davidson county,
coming up on its second reading 10 the
House yesterday, Mr.. Prosser advocated it,
declaring that of the fifty two members of
the County Court of Davidson county, not
one was loyal man. They were as disloyal
now "a they were seven years ago, when
they desired JEFF. Davis to make Nashville
the capital of theSouthern Confederscy. Ii
was positive fact that many members of
that court expected to see slavery re-estsb-
lished in this State. There is not more
disloyal and currupt body on earth than
the County Court of Davidson county the
members of which will give the SidoWssnd
children of loyal men no attention what
ever The members Of that court are die
grace to the country; shielding each others
property from the payment OF taxes in the
most corrupt manner summoning corrupt
juries 10 attend the courts to carry out
their corrupt prosecutions Of loyal men
and who expect to retain power in David
son county BY the greatest frauds aDd cor
ruptions."
And Whereas, His position az mem
Der Of the Legislature Of the State, de-
mands at our hands such notice as will at
least disabuse the minds Of that honorable
body and the public in regard to his state
meuts, where this court may not be known,
we, therefore, the County Court of the
County Of Davidson, declare that there is
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