Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-03

WOfk 10 De assoc upon the properly, etc,
your Committee of Improvement report
referred for the consent of a majority OF
the property owners claiming this I'M
provement.
Adopted.
Upon a resolution that the Mayor and
City Engineer advertise for ten days for
bids to pave with stone the alley between
Court and Jefferson streets from Second
street to Bayou Gayoso, as prayed for by
prOperty-owners abutting on said alley,
your committee report favorable.
Adopted.
Upon the petition OF sundry property
holders, residents, etc, on Poplar street
extended, PRAYING that said street, from
the east end of the NicOlsOn pavement to
the corporation line east, be i~mmediately
McAdamized with tone or gravel to the
width Of at least twenty feet, and that
good plank or other sidewalks be ex-
tended on both sides of the street, etc, to-
gether with the proposition OF the Shelby
County Turnpike Company to do the
work ag=eeably to specifications set forth
in the proposition of the Company here
unto attached, your Committee report.
Adopted.
Upon the petition of Guilford Jones, in
behalf of the heirs and legal represents
tives of G. NJ. Horton, deceased, stating
briefly that about November 10, 1863. the
city of Memphis took without authority,
/ VI JIG hHDM ltuRt or CDLl5tuJ Vi but IAzlL-
full owners, a portion of the lot OF ground
on the corner of fernando and Linden
streets, belonging to the estate of said de-
cedant Horton, and appropriated the same
to the use of the public, for the purpose of
opening an alleywsy from Linden to Pom
tetoc street. The ground taken fronts
nine feet On Linden street, and is one
hundred feet deep; that said alleyway is
of no benefit to b property OF Horizons
heirs; therefore, they ask, through petit
TONERS, hat the city have the same ap-
praised and paid for as the law In such
cases provides.
Referred to the City Engineer and At
torney.
Upon the petition of Noble Bruce, A.
F.. Prescott and JnO.O verton(Tenth Ward
asking that Georgia street be made passa-
bic for vehicles from fernando street to
Main street, FOUR COMMITTEES report IA
vor~ble.
Adopted by the Board.
WHEREAS, Several accidents rave late
ly happened on North Second street, be-
tween Greenlaw and Saffarans, involving
both loss of life and propertyi therefore,
be it
ResoEUed, That the City Engineer have
said street put in a proper condition i'm
mediately.
Adopted by Council and referred to the
Improvement Committee by the Board Of
Aldermen.
Upon a resolution tha the City En-
giueer have North Second street put in
proper condition Immediately, your COM
mittee report favorable, and that anew
culvert be built.
Adopted by the Board.
Upon the petition Of ThOs. r. Smith,
Esq, President Of the Public School
Board, city of Memphis, stating that on
the 3lst of December, 1869, he addressed a
] gannnnunFan#TAn 70 tho nAn.1 81 lHn-n-
and Aldermen, requesting them to order
the City Comptroller to turn over to them
the School Board --S $500 of city
coupons, detached from school bonds, due
to the School Board. The matter was
fully explained in the communication
above alluded to. The Board of Alder
men promptly made the requested order,
but It turned out that the Comptroller
had already cancelled and destroyed said
coupons, consequently they could not be
delivered. Petitioner now prays that the
amount, say nine hundred dollars $4,000,
be placed at his credit rs President Gt0re-
sad, on the city books, subject to his or
der.
Your Finance Committee report that
the city ought to place to the credit of the
city schools the sum of nine hundred dol
lars, being the amour of said coupons.
o. F. PRESCOTT.
W. CHASE.
We, the Finance Committee Of the
Board of Aldermen, concur with the re-
port Of the Council.
Adopted by Board.
Upon a resolution that the Mayor be au-
thorized and instructed 20 proceed imme-
diately to employ ten good and discreet
p"hysicians-Say one from each ward of the
city-to Yaccinate Immediately all persons
in the city who may need the same; pro-
vided that not more than $50 be paid to
each physician, your committee report ad-
versely. The City Physician will vaccin-
ate, free of charge, all INDECENT persons,
thus saving to the city a useless eXpendi-
ture. The medical faculty, city physician
and the physician ut the Dispensary are
under: obligations to the city to perform
UGH services.
Adopted.
COMMITTEE OK CLAIMS.
MEMPHIS, March 2, 1870.
Honorable Board Mayor and Aldermen:
The Committee on Claims would re-
specially report as follows:
Claims allOwed-Dr. Rives, So; Jno. s.
TOOf, assessment, $1,000.
Claims rejected-Thomas English, L.
Rocco, J.. S. Chandler, F.. w. Robertson,
and GayosO Gas Company.
The claim OF E. H. Porter and A. ].
White was referred to the Mayor and Ia x
Collector.
Adopted by the Board.
REPORT or THE LANDING COMMITTEE.
Your committee, to whom was referred
the matter of the improvement Of the
landing, report as follows
In view Of the demangtOf the business
at the river, and the croN4ed state of the
landing. resulting from the limited space,
together with the greater cost of any inn
prOvement on the upper landing, your
committee recommend that a space sew
enty-hve feet wide, extending on the firm
ground from Beal to Union street, be
graded and paved, and that the City En-
gtneer report specifications for the sameto
the next meeting of the General Council,
and also an estimate OF the probable cost.
1t. CARTWRIGHT, Chm.
Adopted.
Bv Alderman Cartwright:
ResOEDed. That the President OF the
Board appoint a special committee of
three, whose duty it shall be to examine
and report as to whether any evidences of
debt against the city are ounded upon IL
legal considerations; if SO, the nature,
character and extent of the debt or
debts, and whether the city is bound to
provide for payment of the same.
Referred to Mayor and City Attorney.
Adopted by Council and Board.
To the Honorable Common Council of
the City OF Memphis:
Your petitioners, K. F. Alexander and
Martha A., his wife, respectfully repre-
sent that on the 2Sth of April, 1868, John
D. Armour sold and conveyed to said
Martha A., to her sole and separate use,
a lot of ground in the city known as the
west half of lot 60 of John ID. Armour's
subdivision of country lot 496; that said
Martha A. has recently sold said lot, and
on inquiry il has been found that for sew
eral years prior to her purchase from Ar
mour, the said Armour failed to pay the
city taxes on it. She now has to relieYe
the lot from these taxes in order to com
plete her sale. That on examination it
has been found that for the corporate year
embracing parts of lS58-59, it was as
sessed as part of IA acres; for the year pre-
ceding, as part of s acres; and for the six
years preceding, as part of . acres; 50
that the City Tax Collector cannot fix
upon the amount properly due On said
lot. There is filed herewith a statement
Of the Tax Collector, which shows that
the whole amount due on the Armour
property, of which this is a part, up to
July l, 1856, since which time the taxes
have been assessed on this lot separately,
is 1892 81. This lot is one-ninth of az
acre; and a calculation shows that if it is
properly ~chargeabIe with the full proper
tion according to its area, the amount due
on il is 500 35. But your petitioners state
that this lot is unimproyed, while there
are improvements on parts of the prop
erty; so that petitioners think fifty dol
lars would be the full amount for which
this lot should be held liable. The tax
assessed on it for the corporate year end
ing January l, 1870, is only IS 20.
Petitioners therefore pray yonr honora-
Bile BODY 10 order that said lot be relieved
from these back taxes on your petitioners
paving the sum of fifty dollars for the
taxes up to July l, 1866, and the taxes
charged on it separately from July l, 1866
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