Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-06-10

DIVER, Davis, Dent, Cicalla, Doyle anu
Calligan answered to roll-call.
COMMUNICATIONS.
The following from the mayor,
in reference 20 the city attorney
asking assistance in his official duties,
accompanied with a recommendation
by the finance committee, and other pa
pers, was read;
To the Honorable General Council:
GENTLEMEN respectfully submit
the following matter for your coHsldera-
ton:
40 Hon. John League, Mayor:
"SIR-In view of the magnitude.oi the
sums involved in the bond suits now
pending in the United States court, l
am constrained TO suggest to you and
the general council that it would be
well to employ counsel TO assist me.
There is at least one million five hun
dred thousand q pillars involved. No pru-
dent individual would trust so import
ant matter to any one attorney, and 1
think the city would not act wisely in
entrusting their cases to me alone, nor
would act wisely in accepting such q
trust without expressing the opinion
that additional counsel should be en-
ployed. The matter is already attract
ing attention from all sections Of the
/ country, the questions involved being
entirely new and Of vast importance to
all the large cities OF the country. The
/ CITY cases IN the other courts occupy my
I time so constantly that am doubtful
1 Of being able TO give these cases as
much attention as their importance de-
msnds / therefore submit TO you and
I the general council that two able attOT-
neys should he employed upon such
! terms as you and they may think
proper. Respectfully,
&C. A. HANSON, City Attorney"
The finance committee recommend
! that the following resolution be adopted :
"RCSOlUed, That the mayor and city
attorney be and are hereby authorized to
confer with attorneys in relation to the
/ suits now pending, and that may be
! hereafter commenced, touching the liza
/ bility Of the city for the bonded debt, to-
/ gether with the coupons belonging to the
/ bonded debt; and that we further re-
commend that two attorneys be imme-
diately employed"
The CITY attorney, on the above re-
/ cOmmendatiOn, hello q conference with
Howell +. Jackson and Judge Elicit, OF
/ this city, and As a result of said cOnfe-
renee, 1 have received the following dis
/ patch:
jackson and Elicit are in accord
/ with our views. They will expect from
one thousand five huRdred to three thou
sand five hundred dollars each, cOntin-
gent upon the result, the lower figure
being certain, the higher on success; il
is reasonable. G.. A. HANSON"
With the hope that the city's liability
may be speedily determined, aud there
by have its credit placed alongside o
the Snost prosperous cities Of the land,
respectfully ask that the city attorney:
recommendation be adopted, and thai
the gentlemen named be employed by
/ the general council. Respectfully,
JOHN LOAGUE, Mayor.
The communication was received and
filed, aud the resolution of recommend
alton by the finance committee ELECTED
sharp debate.
Alderman Davis offered a resolution
amendatOry, authorizing the employ
ment of Attorneys George CAN'T, VIM
NJ. Randolph, h. Z. Jackson and Judg'
Elliott TO advise the general council il
regard to the pending suit alluded to il
the city attorneys communication
which was afterward amended so as t
authorize the employment of Attorney
Wm. NJ. Randolph and H. +. jackson
and the resolution, as amsnded, wa
adopted.
HAPPY HOLLOW.
The following communication was re
eeiyed from the president OF the board c
health:
MEMPHIS BOARD OF Il EALra,
June 5, lS7L
] faFt
OF Memphis;
GRNTLEMEN-I am requested by th
bosrd of health to call your attentiO
again 10 that portion of your city know
as Happy Hollow. The commissioner
appointed to appraise the houses in ths
locality, in the performance of that du
ty, recommended q plan not cOntem
plated in the ordinance passed by you
honorable body, and which entirel.
thWarts the object of the board of healtl
in bringing this subject forward for you
action. The board of health is OF tn
opinion that the plan proposed by th
appraisers, and adopted by the council
cannot be safely putin execution for twt
prominent reasons; first, the dilapida
ted, filthy and decayed condition Of thl
houses in Happy Hollow make them
as well as the ground on which theI
stand, y source Of disease; and secondly
the time required for the change pro
posed would necessarily consume tn
hot months, when it would be unsafe L
remove and deposit so large quantit,
Of fresh earth. l would call your atten
tion to one other fact: As the matte
now stands, all supervision Of that par
of your city is removed from the contrO
Of the board Of health, and your healtl
officer has no power to send his sanitar.
1 force there. For these considerations, i
is respectfully asked that the genera
: council take such further action in tn
matter as may result in justice to all
and at the same time free the city frOn
one OF its most prominent and dan
gerous nuisances. Respectfully sui
mitted, b W. AVENT, NJ D.,
President Board Of Healtl
! Considerable discussion followed ID
reading Of the document.
Alderman Hillsman offered resOlJ
ton that ain ad Ipting the report of Il
: appraisers on property 10 Happy Hollo
: IL is hereby declared that il was not th
: intention Of the general council TO inva
) idate or nuilify the ordinance condemn
4 ing the buildings, etc, but we adopte
4 the report of the appraisers with the di
: tinet understanding that the ordinan
was still to be enforced" Adopted.
REMOVING DEAD ANIMALS.
n John Kane's bid-ffty dollars p
month for remc wing dead animals W
adopted by the card.
- PRIvTLEGE TAXES.
II Alderman Malatesta offered the Il
loving ordnance:
WHeREAs Peragraph Is. section 2l