Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-01-27
PURLIC SCHOOLS.
The City Council and the Board OF
Education IA Concord

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The meeting of the Board Of Education
on Tuesday conformity with the members
of the School Committee on the part OF
the City Council, and the action of the
Board of Alderman on the same night,
are Of deep and interesting significance.
1t is saying, on the part of both bodies, that
they will work together in ell the interests
pertaining to the schools and the rising
generation. Under the resolution Of the
Board OF Education, and as concurred in
and unanimously adopted by the Board of
Aldermen, the people and the city are
pledged with their funds, credit and good
will to support, keep up and continue these
schools. With public spirit, commenda-
BILE to the highest degree, the City Council
has gone as far as it can go in the premises,
and with duty on their hands of the most
delicate and responsible character, the
Board of Education has net them. The
two bodies have agreed to do all that they
can do; and this is all that the city can
expect. The resolutions are earnest, ex-
plicit and are emphatic ones. 1t means
nothing more nor less than Just what it
says. There is no ambiguity about it or
its meaning II is now for the PEOPLE to
say whether the schools shall continue and
be sustained. The City Council and the
Board of Education have amicably agreed
land really there has been no disagree
ment) to work together in the matter, both
expressing willingness and readiness to
promote the interests of the schools. In
order that there can be no mistake In re-
gard to the matter, we subioin the resolu-
tons as mutually agreed upon by both the
Board of Education and the Board OF
Aldermen, which passed their last meeting
unanimously:
Resolved by the City Council of the city
of Nashville, That upon the completion of
the assessment of taxes for the current year
a sufficient tax shall be levied to meet the
expenses of the city schools, and to enable
the Board of Educationto meet all econom-
ical demands for that purpose.
Resolved further, That any taxpayer
who viii come forward and pay to the
! Revenue Collector two mills on the dollar
on the amount assessed against him for the
year 1867, shsll, upon presenting his re-
ceipt to the Revenue Collector for 1870,
have credit for the amount upon the
general tax assessed against him for the
| year 1870 with six per cent. interest on the
same from the date of such advance pay
ment until the LIST of July, 1870.
Be it further resolved, That the Revenue
Collector is hereby instructed to receive
and receipt for all taxes offered to be paid
under or in virtue of the foregoing resolu-
ton. And il shall be his duty to pay ovel
the same, as collected, to the Treasurer o.
the Board of Education, to be applied to
the purposes contemplated by these reso.
lutions.
Aid. Smith explained the resolutions,
stating that under their operation, persons
paying the two mill tax would be perfectly
safe in doing So as the receipts for the same
would be good for any city taxes, etc.
Under the operation of these resolutions
the faith of the city and the solicitude Of
the working and jealous Board of Educa,
ton. the resolutions need no ex
PLANTATION. Now it IS for the citizens to say
whether the schools shall go on. Both the
City Council and the Board of Education
have acquitted themselves of the blame o.
censure in regard to the matter. If the
schools are not continued the fault will lie
at the doors of the citizens themselves
Now come forward. The two mills on the
dollar is smaller in consideration of value
received, than Hotspurs ninth frac
ton of a half The tax brings in
terest TO the purse at the rate
of six per cent. from the day of pay.
ment, and it brings interest tC
the immortal minds of those who
are of the generation yet to be
Those who pay this little two mill tai
will be furnished receipts for the same
which receipts will be good in payment O
any and all taxes of city nature. This is
only needed to run the schools till July
next, when, under the regular assessment,
they will be on a safe and firm footing.
Now let the people come forward and pay
this two mill tax Let them pay this five
hundredth part of dollar each, and re-
ceive their receipts and keep. up the
schools, and relieve the anxiety of botl
the Mayor, and the City Council and the
Board of Education; and let them do this
at once, or forever after hold the officials
blameless.