Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-08
COUNTY COURT.
Second Days Proceedings.

second Days ~PrOceeuings.
Various and Sundry R~ePorfs-A Ffefe
Day with Railroad Enterprises
Propositions to Lease the Tennessee
and Pacific Road.
The County Court met at 10 o'clock A.
NJ. yesterday, Judge Ferris in the chair,
and all the Justices present, with the ex-
ception of Justices Griggs, McCarley, Pee
bles, Scales, Spain and Wyatt.
THE LATE JUSTICE CURTIS.
Justice Maxey moved that a committee
be appointed to draft resolutions of respect
relative to the death of the late Justice Cur
tbs. Agreed to, and Justices Maxey, Abb
ernathy and j. NJ. Simpkins, ST., appointed
said committee.
NASHVILLE AND GAINESVILLE.
On permission of the court, Gen. Qnarles
presented the following:
NASHVILLE, Tenn, April 3, 1S74.-At
q regular meeting of the commissioner APP
pointed by a decree of the Chancery Court
at GAINESVILLE for Davidson county, to open
books and solicit stock in the railroad pro-
posed to be constructed from GAINESVILLE,
Tenn, to Nashville, Tenn, held at the Of
| fee of Pennebaker & Sweny, in the city OF
Nashville, a quorum being present, MIR.
Barnes was appointed chairman, and SAM
uei Watson was appointed secretary, when
it was
Resolved, That Jas. NJ. Quarles and w.
W. Vaughn, be, and they are hereby au-
thOriZed, empowered, and requested n
submit to the Honorable the County Court
of Davidson county at its next quarterly
meeting, on behalf of and as the request OF
the GAINESVILLE and Waynesboro railroad
! Company, a proposition to submit to a vote
of the legal voters of Davidson county, &C
cording to law, to transfer S150,000 of the
stock which said county of Davidson now
holds in the Louisville and Nashville rail-
road company, as an investment in the
capital stock of that portion of said Clarks-
vile and Waynesboro railroad company, to
be built and constructed between Clarks-
vile, Tenn, and Nashville or Edgefield,
Tenn. via Ashland City, in Cheatham
county, Tenn.
". BARNES,
S. WATSON, Chairman.
Secretary.
He then presented the following petition,
explaining that he wished no action taken
upon the matter now, but desired the mem
bers of the Court to think over the PROPOSE
ton and be prepared to act thereon at the
July session of the County Court:
To the Honorable County Court of David
son:
The petition of the GAINESVILLE and
Waynesboro Railroad Company, which, by
its agents would respectfully represent that
it is a regularly and legally chartered rail-
road company in the State of Tennessee,
and proposes to build, construct; equip and
run a narrow gauge railroad from the city
of GAINESVILLE, Montgomery county, Ten
nessee, via Ashland City, i'll Cheatham
county, Tennessee, to the city of Edgeteld,
Davidson county, Tennessee, near the city
of Nashville.
That the company was originally char
tered by the General Assembly of the State
Of Tennessee in the year IS, and its
charter was afterwards amended by a decree
of the Honorable Chancery Court for
Montgomery county pronounced and enter
ed at GAINESVILLE ON the 10th day Of March,
1872, a copy of which, said decree is here
with filed az a part of this petition.
That said road will run through a por-
ton of Davidson county, through Cheat
ham county via Ashland City TO Clarks-
vile, and when completed will connect at
GAINESVILLE with the Memphis branch of
the Louisville and Nashville road, and at
Nashville or Edgefield with the various
roads now eentering at and conyerging
from that city.
That its present organization is a board
of commissioners for Davidson county, ON
posed of the following persOIs'
Jno. Quarles, Samuel Watson, ID. War
ner, NJ. Burns and John POrterfield, so
named, empowered and constituted by a
term of the .Chancery Court at Chrkes-
vile, pronounced and entered on the 14th
day of March, 1872, a copy of which term
is also filed as a part of this petition, whose
duty 1t is to open books and otherwise Sc
cure and obtain subscriptions in aid to the
capital stock of said road in Davidson
county.
The petitioners would further show that
the commissioners have had the intention
of said proposed read carefully surveyed,
indicating the line Of construction and
upon which only such minor changes will
be made as NAV be rendered necessary by a
locating survey; but that the said prelimi-
nary survey, has been such as to enable its
surveyor to make a close approximate esti-
mate of the total costs, n which said in
struments have been sworn to by said
surveyor as law requires; and which said
instruments, survey proposals, maps and re-
port of said survey, are herewith filed as a
part of this petition. Petitions would also
show that said road will be about forty
five miles in length, the estimated cost Of
construction being S514,000. That the
commissioners for Cheatham county have
received subscriptions to the capital stock
in said road of $4,000, which il is con-
fidently expected to be increased to $4,000,
and the Commissioners for Montgomery
county have subscribed S12S,000; and in
order to insure the construction of said
road at an early day, the petitioners re-
s~pectfully pray the honorable court that it
will, by the proper order, and at such time
as it may think best, submit a vote TO the
legal voters of Davidson county the follow
ing proposition, viz:
To assign and transfer S150,000 of the
stock which said county of Davidson now
owns in the Louisville and Nashville Rail-
road Company to an investment in the
capital stock ofthe GAINESVILLE and Waynes-
borough Railroad Company, to be con-
structed and run from GAINESVILLE, Mont
gOmery county, Tenn, to Edgefield or
Nashville, Davidson county, Tenn, and as
in duty bound will ever pray.
j. NJ. QUARLEs,
w. w. VAUGHAN,
Agents for GAINESVILLE and Waynesborough
Railroad Company.
The petition was received and filed.
COUNT EXPENDITURES.
Judge Ferris presented a report Of the
following as his disbursements during the
past quarter:
Supreme Court costs, S43.25; Criminal
Court, $5,346.Tg; Law Court, S1,210.lO;
Chancery Court, s204; courthouse account, |
S1,630.60; pesthouse, $3.50; Jail, 81, 1922;
wOrkhouse, S1,096; per diem, S762; miscel-
laneous, S2,545.25; School Committee,
$50; Railroad Committee, 500; Railroad
Tax Collector, 1925; Coroner, S219, pau
per account, 1924; pauper allowance,
$1,000; County Asylum, S1,307; Lunatic
Asylum, S 1,522.25; roads and bridges, sg15;
salary, SS33.35. Total, $21, 919.S1.
The accounts were allowed.
TENNESSEE AND PACIFIC ROAD.
The annual report of the Tennessee and
Pacific railroad showing the business trans
acted by that road during the year ending
Jan. 1, 1874 was read, showing that
$4,000 had been expended for a tract of
land near Nashville, and that the net earn
ings of the road over all expenses, during
1873, was $1,000.
Justice .Meachem protested against rail
road companies presenting brief, written
reports to the County Court, claiming that