Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-01


BOVINE JUICE.
1t was ordered by the court that the chair.
man be authorized to purchase a sufhciency
of vaccine matter" and that he distribute
it TO magistrates in each district.
Messrs. Estes and Ellet submitted a COM
munication on the assessment of the Louis
vile and Nashville Railroad Company for
taxes, asking that the county attorney ascer-
tain what civil district, and what ward OF the
city the assessments are to be made, in and
then arrange to have all the assessors to meet
to arrange proceedings.
POOR AND INSANE.
George r. Duncan, superintendent and
physician for the asylum for the poor and
insane of Shelby county, made an amended
report for the year commencing January LIST
and ending December 81, 1881. Number of
patients remaining from the previous year,
ia; under treatment during the year, 276;
admitted in the year, 162, of whom 80 were
insane; dismissed, ZIG, of whom 81 were in
sane; died during the year, 45, of whom 8
were insane; total dismissed and died, 16l ;
total remaining, lis, of whom 81, are insane
NO PAY.
An order was entered by the court that
when an assessor assesses poll-tax separate
and apart from the property of said person,
they shall not be allowed any compensation
IOr SAID pOll-LaX. II was also ordered by the
court that the clerk of this court send copy
of this order to each assessor in the county.
RAILROAD ASSESSMENT WITHHELD.
The court ordered that the tax assessors
for 1882 be directed to withhold any assess
ment on the Louisville and Nashville rail-
road or its property for the present, and until
authorized to assess the same by the chair
man, for the reason that a bill for Injunction
is now pending in the Federal Court to re-
strain such assessment, and there is also
pending proposition of compromise.
BRIDGE PETITIONS
A petition for lumber sufficient to repair
the bridge on Raleigh avenue and Pigeon
roost road was granted.
A petition for money TO repair the bridge
on Noncounsh creek, on the road leading
from Forest Hill to Center Hill, was granted
SOLDIERS HOME.
VIM. NJ. Smith filed petition setting forth
the following facts: In 1879 he became the
purchaser of lot of land known as the
Home of the Homeless, or Soldiers Home,
which belonged to the city of Memphis, and
some time prior to 1860 was dedicated by the
city for the use of INDECENT widows and
and became known as the Home for
the Homeless. This use of it continued till
about the close of the late war, when the city
permitted it to be used as a home for
wounded and destitute Confederate soldiers,
when it was known the Soldiers Home.
This use was continued until about the year
1879, the city never receiving any income
from it. The property was never assessed
for taxes until 1875, being exempt by reason
of the charitable use to which it was put In
1875 the assessor supposed that he was to re-
turn all property, whether exempt or not.
this lot was returned in the
name of "The Home for the Homeless" and
valued, but in the original tax book the
word exempt" on the margin was written.
The same thing was done in 1876 and in
1877, but for these three ye ars the taxes were
carried out on the tax-books. The petitioner
wants the property declared exempt. The
matter was referred to the chairman and
county attorney, with power to act.
The court adjourned until to-day.