Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-04-07
sEMI-MONTHLY MEETING OF TIE CITY
COUNCIL.
Arrangements for Andrew Johnson's
Reception ON a Cheap Scale
Monthly Reports OF the '
City Omcers.
The veIocipede still at Large and
Untaxed.
DOGS.
Jeems @. AlIagher Proposes the
Health of Grant.
some Graphic Reading.

A regular semi-monthly meeting o
the City Council was held yesterda,
afternoon, at the City Hall, in Exchang
Building.
Present: Hon. John W. Leftwich
Mayor; Messrs. Chairman Swayne
Clancy, Joyce, Marshall, Black, Duff
Cartwright. Dyer, Hoist, O'Dounell
Cicalla, Gallagher, Renner, Ogden
i Moffet, Wolcott, Vincent, Ellis and Will
liams, Aldermen.
In accordance with resolutions intro.
duced by Alderman O'Durff, contem.
plating the presence of ex-Presideni
Andrew johnson in this city, the Chair
man announced the following com
nittees:
| Committee of Observation-Disclosures
Durff, Ogden, Cartwright, Wolcott and
MARSHALL.
Committee of Reception. w. Left
wich, A. Il. Kerr, W. 7. Avery, I. o.
Smith, R. D. Baugh, George CAN'T, M.
C. Galloway, ]. M. Heating, J..J. Du-
Bose, F. Titus, L. ]. Dupre, John
League, P. 7. Scruggs, D: NJ Leather
man, B. NJ. Estes, c. Kortrecht, A.
Wright, A. 7. Lacy, M. L. Perkins, H.
G. Condo, l. Halsey, William Wallace,
e. M. Yerger, W. Y. c. Humes and R. S.
Saunders.
Committee of Arrangements-M. D.
L. Stewart, II. Loewenstien, M. j.
Wright, A. Hiizfeld, J. 81. Cash, D.
Cockrell, r. A. Thompson, Larry Harm
stad, F. Calvert, E. A. Levy, Martin
Kelly, s. P. Walker, N. Ford, j. D. Dan
bury, C. d. Mclean, j. Harvey Msthes,
s. Donovan, Phil. Nallon, C. B. Church,
W. B. Greenlaw, s. B. Robbins, c. B.
Galloway, John Ainslie, M. Walt and E.
Mageveney.
The report of R. D. Baugh, City Con-
troiler, for the month of March, showed
an excess of disbursements over receipts
of 81, oil "a.
]. &. Chandler, Tax Collector on Priv
ieges, reported the collections for March
at s.. COL.
John II. Bowen, City Tax Collector,
reported collections for March at $780,
lS9 II.
Robert Good, Wharfmaster. reported
collections for March to be 1886 AZ.
J. Z. Helm, Street Commissioner, re-
ported total expenditures for the month
in ditching, street clesHing, repairing,
patching, salary account, ETC., at
81, 820 so.
DR.. Alexander Erskine reported from
the City Dispensary, 224 regular patients
for March. Prescriptions issued, 285.
DR.. g. B. Thornton, physician in
charge of the City Hospital, reported sc
patients remaining at last report; ~ adj
mitted during the month; 1853 treated
during the month; II discharged during
the month; l6 died during the month,
and II remaining March 81.
Dr. Thornton reported from the Ma
rine Hospital, for March, as follows:
Patients remaining in Hospital on LIST of
March, II; Patients admitted, ls; Pa
tients discharged, 25; Patients remain
ing March 81, 8; deceased, /. ExPend-
itures--total. $492,50.
J. 81. Humphreys, City Engineer, re-
ported as follows:
81 herewith submit profles of the fol-
lowing streets, and recommend the grades |
laid down on the same for adoption:
Marshall avenue, from Madison street |
to Central street; Union avenue, from |
Manassas street to East street; DuBose |
avenue, from Marshall avenue to East
street; Spring street. from old corpora
ton line to East street; Linden street,
from Orleans to Middle street; Vance
street, from third bayou to East street;
Walnut street, from Union avenue to
Vance street; East street, from Union
avenue to Vance street; Carr avenue,
from East street to Dunlap street; Dun
lap street, from Carr avenue to Elmwood
Cemetery; Polk street, from Poplar
street to Alabama street.
~ respectfully suggest the advissbility
Of taking measures to prevent the decay
of the Nicolson pavement, and recon.
mend coating that part of it laid in 1867
with tar, which, think, will operate to
some extent as coat OF paint on struc-
lures exposed to the weather"
j. q. Cash, City Inspector, reported
collections for February at $l75 %; for
March, $3.50 40.
The Committee on Accounts reported
favorably upon various salary accounts
and others.
Various reports were made by COM
mittees on petitions and minor improve
ments.
Alderman Durf, Chairman of the
Ordinance Committee, reported favor.
ABLY on the ordinance assessing a tax of |
800 on every street railroad car run for
profit
Report adopted and the ordinance
passed on its second reading.
Alderman Cicalla, Chairman, reported
adversely TO granting the lsmp-pOsts to
R. NJ. McKie and ]. G. Lonsdale for
purposes. Adopted.
Alderman Moffet, Chairman Of the
Hospital Committee, reported that the
ward for smallpox patients had been
on the hospital grounds.
The Special Committee of Three on
'Tishomingo gravel" reported that they
could not find square where the prop
were willing to pay for such
Probably not, as this is
purely an experiment and people prefer a
Nevertheless, the committee
.ecommendedthst the city cause the pave
nent to be laid and make the property
holders pay for it. 1t is evident that
somebody has a monstrous large sized
and awful dull ak to grind, and, as usual,
he taxpayers are expected to furnish
he grindstone aud the oil, and turn the
crank. But we will see.
A report from Messrs Dyer, Moffst
and Williams, in favor Of numbering and
taxing veloeipedes, like drays or hacks,
e ~ I