Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-10
rTHB CITY.
MUNICIPAL.
Regular Meeting of the Common
Council,

II
Tribute eff Respect to DIR. Martin
deceased = Prompt Payment OI
| Iaxes-Rates of Wharfage-Nash
| vile and Northwestern Railroad
| Manufacturers-C Attorney.
| The Board of Common Council held
their regular meeting last night, Presi.
dent Craighead in the chair.
Inc minutes having been read and ap,
proved,
| Inc following communication from the
Mayor IN reference to the death of DR..
| Martin was laid before the Council:
DEoEAsE OF DIR. MARTIN.
MAYORS OFFICE, Nashville, Feb. 8,
l871.-To the Honorable Common Coun-
Gil of Nashville:
1t is my painful duty to announce the
decease of our esteemed friend and asso-
ciate in municipal affairs, DR.. r. @. K.
Martin. For more than year he was our
adviser in relation to our proper patients
for hospital treatment, and gave his atten-
ton to the sick at the wOrkhouse; and
very faithfully did he discharge his duties
In both branches of his office. These
labors were performed in the feebleness of
4,
had, through youth and middle age, been
benefactor to many citizens of Nashville
and the surrounding country. The in-
tiTmities Of age, superindnced II part, no
doubt, by his faithful effort to save the
lives of others, have borne him from
among us; but his good name and excel
lent deeds will remain a pleasing chapter
in the history of our bereaved citys It Is
for you, gentlemen of the Common Coun-
Gil, to consider the manner of paying Just
tribute to the eminent departed.
Z. j. MORRIS.
President Craighead suggested that it
would be in order to move the appoint
ment of q committee.
DR.. Harwell moved the appoint
ment of a committee of three to
draft suitable resolutions as a tribute of
respect to the late Physician of the Work
house. The motion was unanimously car
ried, and the President appointed on said
committee DR.. Howell ana Messrs. Wood
and Carter.
N. G. L. CLAIBORNE.
A report was then received from the Fl
nance Committee IN reference to a settle
ment with NJ. g. L. Claiborne, against
whom the city had claims of S4,O87. 10.
The report stated that Mr. Claiborne was
$4,000, and the committee recommended
said compromise.
The following resolution presented by
said committee IN reference to the above
was adopted:
Resolved, That the Finance Commit
tee be and are hereby empowered to settle
with NJ. G. L. Claiborne on the terms
proposed in the foregoing report.
PROMPT PAYMENT OF TAXES.
The Finance Committee further reported
in favor of the passage of the following
resolution:
"a resolution to encourage the prompt
payment of Taxes. Resolved by the City
Council Of Nashville, That all persons who
shall pay their current taxes on or
before the 18th of March proximo,
shall be exempt from paying any interest
thereon; and that all persons who have
paid interest since July, 1870, on the tax
es of the current year, may, by demanding
the same, obtain a credit for the amount
so paid on the next assessment"
This resolution was also adopted.
REGULAR REPORTS.
The regular monthly reports presented
to the Board Of Aldermen on Tuesday
night, and published in the UNION AND
AMERICAN on Wednesday, were read and
received, and the various amounts al
lowed.
PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS ON THE DEATH
OF DIR. MARTIN.
Dr. HarEell, from the committee sp-
pointed to consider the subject matter of
the Mayors communication, presented the
following preamble and resolutions:
NASHVILLE, Feb. ., 1871 Whereas, Il
has pleased Almighty God, In His wise
providence, to remove from our ruids, our
esteemed fsllow-citizen and co-laborer,
DR.. R c. IA. Martin, one of our most dis
tinguished physicians, who has been long
and intimately identified with our city and
her interests. and who commanded the re-
spect and confidence Of this body as well
as of the citizens Of Nashville at large;
whose life was beautiful exempiifcation
Of the principles of honor, justice and be-
neyolence, and who possessed, in an emil
Rent degree, al those virtues and qualities
that adorn the character Of a true man and
endsared his name to his fellow-citizens
therefore be it
Resolved, That the Common Council OF
Nashville has learned with deep regret and
sincere SORROW of the death of DR.. Martin.
Resolved, That we tender to his family
our heartfelt coincidence IN this their sad
dest bereavement.
Resolved. That, as a token Of respect
for the distinguished dead, we attend his
funeral in a body, together with other city
officials.
Resolved, That the foregoing preamble
and resolutions be spread on the minutes,
and copy furnished the family of the de-
ceased. J. r. HABwELL,
3. G. WooD,
A. c. CARTER.
The above resolutions were adopted
WHARFAGE.
A lengthy memorial was read from sew
eral steam boatnen, asking a reduction Of
the rates Of wharfage. They stated that
the rates charged in Nashville were ten
and twelve cents tonnage on the CUSTOM
house measurement of their respective
steamers, whilst other commercial cities,
such as Cincinnati and st. Louis, charged
the sum of three cents per ton, custom
house measurement, except certain spec1-
fed cases. The memorial was received.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS.
A bill instructing the Street Committee
to erect two trestle bridges over Lick
branch and Judges Spring branch, was
referred.
FROM THE OTHER BOARD.
A bill to increase the city patroimen to
thirty-six passed first reading.
A resolution directing the chairman Of
the Street Committee to have a small cul-
vert made, or the old one repaired, where
University street crosses the Murfreesboro
pike, was cOncUrred IN.
A resolution to repair the roof Of the
Hume school building was concurred In.
PETITIONS.
Several petitions to erect frame build
ings, etc, were read and appropriate &C
ton taken.
NEW BUsIgEss.
Mr.. Craighead introduced the following
bill:
An act to enforce the collection Of the
balance on the Nashville and Northwest
ern Railroad.
Be it enacted by the City Council Of
Nashville.
Section /. That the provisO contained in
the ordinance of this corporation, APPROX
ed Jan. 9, 1862, layying a tax for the third
installment Of the subscription of stock in
the Nashville and Northwestern railroad,
which proviso is in the following words:
'That no legal process shall be issued
against any citizen who Is unwilling to pay