Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-09
NEW CITY CHARTER.
Beauties of the Amendments 10
Take Effect from Passage, Etc.

The text of the amendments to the
City Charter of Memphis was published
Yesterday morning in the Avalanche.
Section provides that city scrip, cou-
mons and other evidences of indebtedness
will be taken for taxes that may fall due
hereafter. The legality of this point will
probably be tested in the courts, and the
decision of the United States Supreme
Court in regard to Tennessee money may
be used as precedent.
Section 2 amounts to the same.
Section nearly the same.
Section the same,
Section provides severe penalty
nothing less than making it felony to
violate Sections | and 2. Thisis making
felony BY special enactment, and is
therefore illegal
Section provides for making taxes
come due on the ffst Of July.
Section I exempts members Of the
General Council from service on juries.
Section gives the City Register and
Controller power to administer oaths.
Section provides for market houses
in the Ninth and Tenth Wards, and pro-
hints the sale of fresh meats in less
quantities than the quarter at any place
except the regular market houses and to
steamboats,. M an
Section 10. Everybody owning real
estate in Memphis can vote at all munic-
pal ELECTIONS whether they live here or
| 10 Arkansas OF Halifax. Under this law
an anxious candidate can make Q Joint
deed Of o ten-feet lot to three or four
hundred negroes In Mississippi, and
bring them here in body as legal voters
! This zill work beautifully.
4 Section u. fthe Mayor fails to veto
any measure Vi he General Council
seeking to divert from the hiaib sna
Tenth Wards two-thirds Of the revenue
collected from real estate instead of ex
pending the sa.ae in improving those
wards. he shall become subecs TO heavy
6re and removal. The General Conn
Gil Is Of 9 10 Importance as Mr. Tooti
said, and goes scett-fFee.
Section 10 so regulates the boundaries
of the city as to leave VIZ. John Cub
bins house just outside OF the corpora
ton line. OF course, be was not awar'
Of ;he fact when he voted for the bill
The Boundaries Of the city are now a
follows
Beginning at a point on the west hp'
Of the State Of Tennessee where the cen
ter Of Kerr street produced you'd strik
the Mississippi river; thence eastwan
on line with the center Of Kerr street
t If extended, wouId strike the town re
: serve; thence southwark along the sal
east line Of the town reserve TO the mid
., die ofiLe old Raleigh road on Johnson
! avenue; thence eastwasd along the mid
D die Of the old Raleigh road 70 poin
: where the center line Of Dunlap stree
, prodlcad norihward would intergect th
! same; thence soHiiward along said prs
Y duced line and the middle line of Dunla
2 sireel, 70 ,be middle Of Union avenue
I. thence westward along the middl
4 Of Union avenue 20 the middle {
: Walnut street; thence southwar
, along the middle Of Walnut stree
20 the middle Of the old Fort Pickerin
railroad, fnUace westward along u
e middle Of the old For Pickering raiiroa
e or Broadway :; ;:sss middle Of Bayo
4 GsEssa; fbenSstouthward mp said bayc
b and along the middle ~ Jackson stree
e thence along the middle Of Jackac
strecs aud the prolongation Of said sire
Y 10 the vert line Of the State Of Tenne
: see. thence norlhTard with the Sesi III
y Of The State 81 Tennsssss 70 the begi
o. ming
= n this does not please every bod
Z they vouid nct be pleased With the
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