Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-10
Board Of county Commissioners

speaking will take place on the Esat side
of the Public Square.
Board of County Commissioners.
The Board of County Commissioners
met again yesterday morning.
The petition of DIR. T. NJ. Aston, asking
for additional compensation as Penthouse
Physician, was received and filed, and
upon vote the proposition TO incre ase the
salary was rejected, Austin voting for an
increase and Brown and Grant against.
The following communication was pre-.
scented from the County Trustee:
APRIL 5, lS69.-To the Board of County
Commissioners To view of the fact that
the coupons of the Tennessee and Alabama
and the Edgefeld and Kentucky roads fell
due the first OF this month, sggregatiDg
$1,000, and no money on the railroad
fund to meet the payment, would suggest
to your honorable body that you give me
permission to borrow from the ordinary
fund, on which you have a large surplus
TO an amount not exceeding $4,000 till
such time as there may be money on the
railroad fund TO replace it, which j think
year 1869. Respectfully,
TRAVIS WINHAM, County Trustee.
The request was granted.
State Is. Doc Malone, bastardy. De-
PENDANT called out and bond forfeited.
The following accounts were allowed,
to-wit:
Ri Gronmes & Co., $lO2 so; Mcclure,
Buck & Co, $40 rs; A Tyler & Co, $73.
| &c; Robertson & Lsnier $54 60; NJ II
Wilkinson sos; Isaac Lanier $88 81;
Alfred Menefee 1920 Sc; Samuel Borden
So; H D Kent $2S 90; II w Mathews
$78 90; VIM Stockell & Son $l3 so;
Robert Iowery So Is; Granville Lewis
| SIS 40; H H Hammer & Co., $l38 40; Carney
Freeman $26 80; Henry Harding $l2 40;
Whites Creek pike Co, $l3 90; Granville
Lewis $83 40; Richard Z Wright SOL SO;
H w Mathews S24 90; Hurt & Co., 80 90:
w Bush 1897 SO; Thomas j Bell $267 IL
VIM Little S37 so; Rodon Thompson So 90
F G Earthman 500 20, James McGinnis
$50 &C, G Rice & Co., $S3 SIS, Eliza Harris
1923 25, E II Tomlison 500 IS, Charles s
Baker & Co., 1893 20, John Taylor $780,
90, TreppaId & Co, $40 SIS, A Menefee
1868 62, Treppard 4 Co., Sc 4S, L A Har-
ris $500, Bolivar H Cooke & Co., $72 so,
Winstead Bros. $27, Gas Light Co., 1929
so, T G Miller $40 II, Abram Smith $ll7
so, Arthur Turner 500 90, w Freeman
& Co., $26 90, Jas Polk $25 90, r Krafie
$780, H N Cramer $849 rs; Paul, Tavel
l q Z, n ManahalI COX,
J s Cottrell 81 rs; r u Treanor STA
Ned Martin $ll4; st Vincents Hospital
$246 40; Marshall & Bruce $40; Madison
Stratton $l13 Al; Granville Lewis, 50 40
Fl D Kent $lSS 40; F Pentecost So; L
D HoIys sos; II Townes $37 SO; II W
Haslock Sc 10; A MeHefee $37 so; II II
Hammer 500; NJ B Kockee SIS; B L
Nichol $207; Stephen Pasket Sl1; Will
liam Austin SIS; John Schimler SIS
Lunatis Asylum $3,313 ~; james II
Jenkins $65 Sc; James Polk $25; CorpoI.
alton of Nashville, $l02 so; Mcclure,
Buck & Co SO 80; w H LeickhardI
$24 80; B p Mason & Co SIG; knight
Brothers $25; Buck, Barnes & Co $4S 20;
Weakley 4 Warren $50; Paul, TaVel &
Hammer $50; John Ruhm SIS; John
Cooper 81 rs; Squire Fain $75; Arthur
Turner $80-making total of SIS, l47.
The account of.M. Walsh amounting to
1908 SO for advertising and Office rent
was rejected.
Vim. Austin, G. S. Flsgler and John
Schimber We're allowed each So per day
for eighteen days service as Road Super
intendents.
John Ogden, President Board of Trus-
tees Fisk University, presented a petition
asking that the lots in which said property
is situated be removed from the list of tax
able property. Granted.
The allowances to Assessors in the vsri-
GUS districts was made the same as last
year.
A communication was presented from a
committee appointed by the City Council
to act in conjunction with the County
cattle of Davidson county for the purpose
an estimate of the cost of sup
1t was & the poor and INDECENT residing
within the limits Of the city of Nashville,
and 10 ascertain as near as may be the
amount of money necessary to support
them, in accordance with an act passed by
the Legislature. The com munication goes
on to say that this class of poor are not the
legitimate citizens of the city, but are from
all parts of the county of Davidson, and
from other counties, who have sought to
make the city Of Nashville refuge from
the storm of imagined or real persecution
that seemed to follow them. The COM
mittee in this communication ask that the
sum of So, 500 be appropriated for the year
1869.
The communication was received and
filed.