Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-07
TIED CITY
DAVIDSON COUNTY COURT
Proceedings of the AdJOurne
Session.
First Day.

courthouse at 10t o'clock yesterday
Judge Turner in the chair.
ms meeting is an appointment from
the regular January term, and therefore
all business which regularly belongs tc
this court is admissible at the present ses
sion.
The Judge commanded the court to
come to order, and proceed to the dispatch
OF business, and accompanied the COM
mand with an earnest admonition that far
better order should be preserved than at
the last term, and he hoped he would have
the cooperation of the members in pre-
serving good order, that the business of
the county night be proceeded with un-
derstandingly, and the dignity of the body
be preserved.
i The clerk called the roll, when the fol-
lowing members were found present:
Il. L. Alternately, P r. Albert, Jno. H.
Baskette, Joseph w. Bigley, Lee Bigley,
jerry Bowen, Jno. W. Bush, W. NJ. Butler,
q. L. Claiborne, T. D. Cassetty, ". j.
Chandler, Chas. B. Chickering, E. b. Chill
dress, NJ. l. Couch, VIM. Curtis, Harvey
Campbell, r. D. Campbell, Jno. S. @.
Davidson, James s. Dillshunty. Nat F
Dortch, James Everett, VIM. B. Ewing.
J. 81. Galbreath, d. s. Graves, Benaiah
Gray, b. F. Gleaves, Thos. K. Griegs.
James HayDie, Thos. G.. Hardy, G.. j.
Hooper, John Hows, Barney Hynes.
d. L. Lapsley, John G. Marshall. P. W.
Maxey, VIM. F. Meacham, G. W. McCar-
ley, P. McTigus, Oswald Newly, D. N.
Neylan, Jas. I. Patterson, Isaac Paul, A.
Pebbles, D. A. Phelan, Jno. W. Rucker.
James S Reid, T. I. Saunders, 81. G,
Scales, Geo. " Spain, W. A. Sizemore,
J. NJ. Simpkins, J. NJ. Shivers, James A.
Steele, W. A. Sumner, f. P. Sullivan.
Jno. Taylor, F. A. Treppard, W. J. Wade,
Benz. E. Wallace, Pat. Walsh, ]. @.
Wands, W. A. Wherry, W. H. Wilkinson,
JAS. 5. Williams, James Wyatt.
Mr.. Claiborne, (for the Committee on
Finance) offered the following resolution,
| relative to taxes on real and personal
property:
Be it ordered by the court, That on all
real and personal property, there be levied
| for school purposes, two mills on the dol
lar; county purposes one and half mills
on the dollar; railroad purposes ons and
half mills on the dollar; on all dogs that
are taxable, one dollar each.
Here the court voted permission TO Mr.
John Frizzell to explain the request of the
county school board in asking the court to
impose tax of 81 on dogs for school pur-
poses. He stated that it would cost 4 100
900 to run the county schools for fen |
months, and as present resources would |
not raise school fund to exceed $50 900 |
the board asked the favorable considera-
ton of this request to tax dogs, (trans-
mitted to the court through the Finance |
Committed for the purpose of making I'D
the deficit, orelse the schools for the ed1ca- |
ton of the poor children could not be kent |
up during the ten months. 1t had been |
estimated that a dog tax of 81 would |
amount in gross, to from $4,000 to |
$50, 900.
After his remarks were concluded, a |
considerable debate ensued on the subject |
Of dogs, their taxation, etc, which wan |
dered about On the sea of debate from
gravity TO laughaoIe, and occupied a
couple of hours
One gentleman stated that the dogs
must be preserved in order to keep off |
the ''varment. He asserted that a few
nights since one of the officers of this
very court heard panther scream in the
wood, and his head actually turned white |
the next day from the fright-by all means |
the dogs mist be spared to keep of the |
panthers, or no telling what the psnthers |
might do next Laughter
A vote was fl ally taken on q motion |
to strike out the tax on dogs from the re-
port of the Finance Committee, which was |
lest.
On motion the recommendations CON-
tanned in the report of the Finance Com
mittee, relative to the levying of taxes.
as given above, were adopted by the fol- |
lowing vote:
Ayes-Bigley Lee, Bush, Childress,
Curtis, Campbell R. D., Couch, Davidson,
DOrtch, Ewing Galbraith, Gray, Haynie,
Hynes, Lapsley, Maxey, Neylan, Patter-
son, Paul, Rucker. Spain, Sizemore, Simp-
kins, Sbiyers, Taylor, Treppard, Walsh,
Wands, Wherry.
Noes-Bigley Jos. W, Dillahunty,
Graves, Gleaves, Griggs, Hardy, Hooper,
Marshall, Meacham, McCarley, McTigue,
Newly, PEBBLES, Phelan, Reed, Sanders,
Steele, Wade, Wilkinson, Williams.
Squire Ewing presented report, as q
member OF the committee appointed to
present memorial to the Legislature in
behalf of this court requesting that section
80 of an act to incorporate the East Ten
nessee Mining and Quarrying Company,
and also section ], 279 of the Code Of Ten
nessee be repealed, stating that bill in
PRODUCED for that purpose was rejected by
the Senate after passing in the House of
Representatives.
Section SO of the act incorporating the
East Tennessee Mining and Quarrying |
Company provides that the Whites Creek |
Turnpike charter shall be so amended as
to reduce the grade Of said road to twenty
feet, and to be McAdamized or graveled
fifteen feet wide. Section 1919 of the
Code authorizes that the County Court Of
the County in which the greatest portion
of the road is situated shall appoint the
superintendent of roads.
A batch of accounts, or bills, were pre-
scented by the Finance Committee which
were adopted by the Court, amounting in
the total to S472. so.
The following report from the Board of
Railroad Commissioners was presented and
read to the Court, as follows:
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF RAILROAD COM
MIssIoNERs.
To the Honorable County Court Of Davidson
County:
GENTLEMEN the undersigned Rail-
road Commissioners, do respectfully sub
nit the following for your consideration:
We have examined our account in the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad at Louis
vile, and find that the records have been
kept correctly. A plan of settlement was
proposed by the road, which will require
further time to examine into. We find in
acts of 1869-7O, on pages 12S and 129,
special law has been passed as to the inter
ests of holders Of railroad tax receipts of
that road; also a plan of settlement to
which we call the attention of the Court
We have also examined into our account
at Lebanon with the Tennessee and Pacific
Railroad. D. Cook, jr., Secretary and
Treasurer, exhibited his books and re-
cords We found our account kept in reg
ular order as a stakeholder in the road.
We present herewith an abstract of the re-
port of the Secretary, this report has
heretofore been published in the UNION
AND AMERICAN, and also of the report of
the Superintendent. We find that the &C
count between the road and State is kept
by the President, on account of whose
sickness we were unable to get his report
in time to annex it to this, and, therefore,
cannot report fully as to the assets and
liabilities Of this road
Your committee would state that the
short time intervening between its organi-
cation and the present sitting of your
honorable body has not enabled us to