Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-02-18
CITY BOUNDARIES.
Action Of tine General Councfi-Ma
jorfty and Minority Reports.

Both branches of the City Government
asso m bled last evening from an sdjourned
meeting. After the transaction of some
unim portant business, the Boards met in
joint session to receive the report OF a
joint committee, appointed at the last
regular meeting, on city boundaries In
the Board of Aldermen the following
we're present: His Honor John Johnson,
Mayor; rMessrs. Chairman Nornient,
Dryer, Msllon, Durff. Cartwright, Reach,
Hoist, Moffet, Prescottland Rounds, AZ
dermen also the following CouncilrneR:
Messrs. Kelly. Chase, Graves, o. F.
Prescott, Duncan, Pepper, Smith, Cohen,
Parker, Twohig, Doyle and Miller.
The following reports we're received:
General Council Of the City Of Memphis;
GEsrLExRH-Your committee,t to whom
was referred the matter of memoralizing
the Legislature on the subject of chang
ing the boundaries of the city, recon-
mend the following: "a
Beginning at point in the west line
of the State OF Tennessee, where line
drawn from the west end Of Bickford
avenue, parallel to the north boundary of
the John Rice grant, intersects the anne
thence along said line parallel to the
north line of the John Rice five thousand
acres, the middle of Bckford avenue,
and the middle line of Bickford avenue
produced eastward to the middle of the
new Raleigh road; thence along the mid
die of the new Raleigh road to the east
line of the town reserve; thence south.
ward along the said east line of the town
reserve to the middle of the old Raleigh
road, on Johnson's avenue; thence
eastward along the middle of the
old Raleigh road to point where
the center line of Dunlap avenue pro-
duced northward would intersect the
same thence southwark along said
produced line and the middle line of
Dunlap avenue to the middle of Union
avenue; thence westward along the mid
die of Union avenue to the middle OF
Walnut street; thence southwark along
the middle of Walnut street to the mid
die of the old Fort Pickering railroad
thence westward along the middle of the
old Fort Pickering railroad or Broadway
to the middle of Bayou Gsyoso; thence
southwark up said bayou and along the
middle of Jackson street; thence along
the middle of Jackson street and the pro-
longation of said street to the west line
of the State of Tennessee; thence north
ward.with the west line of the State Of
Tennessee to the beginning.
Phi. j. MALLoN,
Chm'n Imp't Com. Board of Aldermen.
JIM GRAVES,
* or the Council.
Alderman Prescott presented q minor
ity report on boundaries:
To the Honorable the General Council of the
City OF Memphis;
The undersigned, minority of your
Improvement Committee, to whom was
referred the question of designating new
boundary lines for the city, begs leave to
dissent from the majority report, which
proposes boundary that will then en-
brace within the city limits territority
outside of the limits of 1865, without
asking the consent of the citizens of that
territory. All admit, we believe, that
when the Legislature in 1867 annexed
the Ninth and Tenth Wards, without the
consent Of their citizens, q great injus-
tice was committed toward the people OF
those wards, as we'll as to the city. There
fore, if the Legislature now in session,
shall, upon your petitions, compel any
part of either or both of said wards to re-
main, or continue as portion of the cor
poration of Memphis, without the ex-
pressed consent of their qualified voters
Tor at least majority of them), then q
similar injustice is committed. ~
We would therefore respectfully ask
your honorable body, that In your pro-
posed memorial to the Legislature, ask
ing it to change your present city bound
airy lines, that if you design to place
those lines outside Of those which existed
in 1865, that the people residing in the
territory outside of said limits of 1865,
and within the newly proposed line, be
allowed to vote on the question, as to
whether they desire to be part Of the
corporation of the city of Memphis or
not, under the conditions of the present
city charter, and that the people of the
Ninth and Tenth Wards Chose parts that
are to be included) be allowed to vote
separately upon the question.
Respectfully, J. p. PREsooTT.
WHEN the General Council adjourned
n,,;, ,o.dav At three o'clock pm.