The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-03
TO Be A NEW ASSESSMENT.
The City Amends The Liberty Street
Paving Ordinance.

Upon Property Owners The Goat
Ordinance Finally Tinkered Into
Shape - The Mayors Police ordi-
nance Tabled.
The city has amended its Liberty street
| paving ordinance, passed May 80, 1883, 50
1 as 10 conform to the recent decision of
the supreme court in the street paving
! cases.
Alderman Cam introduced and had
passed an ordinance for this purpose at
! the session of council yesterday after
noon. Under the decision of the supreme
| court the city is required to assess against
| itself as property owner for the inter-
/ section Of streets abutting upon Liberty
! street, just as other abutting property
! owners are assessed. BY the terms of tn e
| ordinance Improperly owners on Liberty
| street are assessed according to the
| amount of abutting real estate, including
! grass plats.
| Alderman Cam said yesterday that
| the effect of this amendment in ac-
! cordance with the supreme courts de-
| cIsiOn would be to slightly increase the
| assessments upon property owners, in
! stead Of decreasing them.
! For the purpose of the assess
] llltub A1UCGbA SLfecJ Is QlVlQGQ
! into two sections from Tattnall
! street east and west, the assessments for
the two sections being calculated sepa.
rately.
! TIE GOAT LAW FIXED.
The city has at last got its goat ana
/ cattle ordinances into satisfactory shape
| The following ordinance introduced by
! Alderman Mcmillan and passed by coun-
! Gil, it is believed will fill the bill:
An ordinance to prevent the running at
! large of animals within the city of Sa-
vannah and to fix the penalty upon the
! owners of said animals so running at
| large, and to provide for the impounding
of said animals and for other purposes.
! Sec. l. Be it ordained by the mayor
| and aldermen of the city of Savannah in
! council and it is hereby ordained by au-
| thority Of the same, That from and after
| the passage of this ordinance no horse,
mare, gelding, colt, flly, mule,
! jackass, COW, heifer, bull, stear,
! calf, goat or any other cattle shall at any
! time be permitted to run at large within
the corporate limits of the city of Savan-
! nah and for the violation of this Ordi-
| nance the owner or owners of such ami
mails shall be fined for each and every Of
| Tense, and for each and every such animal
running or going at large. in a sum not ex-
! ceeding So, or to be imprisoned not
! exceeding ten days, either or both at the
! discretion Of the officer presiding in the
! police court.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That it
| shall be the duty of the members Of the
! police force TO take up such animals
so going at large and impound the same,
and if the said animal DO
not claimed III ten days it
shall be tue duty of the city
marshal to sell the same at the pound
giving at least five days notice ia the Off
cial gazette of the city of a description of
the animal and time and place of sale; he
! shall pay the net proceeds of the sale of
said animal after deducting the expense.
for poundage, into the treasury of the
city, subject to the order of the council,
who may and shall cause II TO be paid to
the person or persons owning such ami
NAL at the time of impounding of the
| same
A POINTER FOR THE POLICE.
! 1t will be seen that the ordinance par
ticularizes each particular class, kind and
sex of the animal that will not be allowed
to run at large, and for which offeuse
the owner may be docketed, The
question whether goats are cattle will no
| longer cut any figure in the police court,
and the policemen will not have to exert
| themselves to chase down stray goats
and other animals any more, If they can
ascertain the owners name to place him
upon the docket.
A petition was received from j. T.
| Cam, attorney for John Williams asking
| council 10 reconsider the action of the
committee on finance, which awarded
their client S25 for damages suffered by
compulsory vaccination several months
ago. Mir. Cam made a statement of the
case. He said that Williams was vaccnat-
ed in the police court, where he was as
witness one morning, by order of the
mayor, much against his win. The vac
cnation had a very bad effect upon VIII
liams, cOnhning him TO his bed and 50
affecting him that he has been I'M
able TO do any work since.
He was at one time left for dead. The
physicians who had been treating Will
Jams said that his condition was the re-
suit of blood poisoning, and shat he
would probably lose his eyesight as re
suit of the vaccination. Williams had
been employed for Eve years at the Cen
tral railroad, and had not los, a day from
his work IN that time. He had about 500
saved up, which has been expended, and
he Is now in a destitute state
MIR Cam said that while the city was
not technically and legally liable for the
results, il was morally liable, and it was
but Justice that they should make Will-
Jams some adequate compensation. The
matter was referred back to the health
and cemetery committee for further con
sideratiou.
THE MAYORS POLICE ORDINANCE.
Mayor NicDonough's police ordinance
came up on its second reading. Mayor
McDonough called attention to the fact
that the ordinance had been read for the
second time but the aldermen did not
seem inclined to discuss it. On motion OF
! Alderman Dixon the ordinance was laid on
the table until the next meeting.
Council RENTED the fine Of $50 placed
by the recorder upon the Electric Rail
! way Company for not watering its tracks
but sustained the recorder. President
Collins and Superintendent Mcfarland
showed that the railway track was wa
tered twice daily, early in the Morning
ana In the middle of the afternoon.
The opinion was expressed by some
of the aldermen, however, that as far as
the effectiveness of the work was ION
cerned the company might as well have
used a match box.
The appealed cases Of the colOred long
shoremen who were placed on the docket
by Deputy Marshal Kelly for doing a
regular stevedore business without
license, We're heard. VIM. Pease Esq,
represented the defendants Thomas
| Williams. William Green. William Chest
nut and Tom Oldham.
1t appeared that the complaint was
brought because these men were working
for less than the union scale of wages