The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-16
OFFICIAL.


report adversely. Herman Myers
Adopted.
The Committee on Finance, TO which was
referred the petition of Mrs. Charles
Neither asking to be relieved from dou-
bic tax on personal property, beg 10 report
unfavorably thereto
George w. Tiedeman.
Chairman Committee on Finance,
Adopted
The Committee on Finance. to which
was referred the petition of e. w Car
den asking the usual discount Of 10 per
cent. TO make the east two-thirds of lot
No 3d. Ebert ward, fee simple, beg to
report favorably to same.
George w. Tiedeman.
Chairman Committee on Finance.
Adopted.
The Committee on Finance. to which was
referred the petition of Percy Sugden
architect. asking that he be refunded the
SPECIFIC tax of 81 paid into the city treas
ury for doing business. the collection of
said tax being Illegal and in violation Of
an act of the general assembly passed Dec.
y, '9S, and known as the state tax act
beg TO report favorably 10 same, provided
petitioner present to the city treasurer ev-
idence of his having paid the state tax as
required by the act.
George w. Tiedeman.
Chairman Committee on Finance.
Adopted.
The Committee on Public Health. to
which the petition of j. ]. Halligan was
recommitted. beg to report unfavorably to
the same. for the reason that employees
are responsible to the substitutes who are
put in their places when absent on vaca-
ton or otherwise and not the city, and
also for the reason that the Board OF
Plumbing Examiners have no authority to
authorize any expenditures without con-
sent of Council. j. G. FARRELL
Chairman Committee on Public Health
Adopted
The Committee on City Lots and Open
ening Streets, to which was referred the
petition of Agnes Crotty agreeing to accept
the city's offer of IS cents per square foot
for lots 107 and 1Os. Owens ward, beg TO
report favorably thereon.
J. P. Williams.
Chairman Committee on City Lots and
Opening Streets.
Adopted.
The Committee on City Lots and Open
ening Streets, TO which was referred the
petition of James Fleming Offering to the
city 1877 square feet of his lot. neeSed fo-
the opening of First street, at the rate
of thirty cents per square foot, petitioner
agreeing to remove the hui dlngs now on
the land required for the further sum of
three hundred dollars. beg to report favor
ably thereon, TO be paid for by notes Of
the city. j. +. Williams
Chairman Committee on City Lots and
Opening Streets.
The special committee appointed to re-
port as to the fitness and capacity of Lau-
rel Grove Cemetery reg to submit tie
following: The rerort of the city engineer
shows that there are six hundred new lots
in the southwest po.ti0n, Of wild h. at
least five hundred are suitable for burial
purposes now; the system of subsol dra n
age Of that section has been so thorough
ly successful, that graves IN be dug here
TO the usual depth Of five or six feet with
out encoun tering water. These lots are II
feet wide ard % feet long-capable of TAX
ing eight or nine graves each. SO that FIVE
hundred Tots would supply four thousand
to four thousand five hundred graves. The
engineer also expresses the opinion that
another portion can be made TO furnish
about two hundred lots suitable for burial
purposes, by using the same system of SUD
soil drainage that has produced such good
results in the new portion, first referred
TO.
shows that the old portion of IL, exclu-
sive of the colored sect on, contains about
two thousand three hundred and ninety
lots. of which none are for sale. AS the
available space for graves In these two
thousand three hundred and ninety lots
already sold to different families Your
committee is unable to give figures with
any degree of accuracy. but 1t is reason-
able TO assume that each lot has sufficient
space for the immediate members of the
family owning il, SO that the de-
mand for new lots must be mostly from
families not already supplied. The sale
of new lots averages three to four each
month, and the average number of burials
is one each day.
The cemetery keeDer also renorfS that
the subsoil drainage has been successful.
From the information obtalnable, your
committee believes the colored section Is
pretty wen occupied and that some new
space must be allotted them which can be
secured by subsoil drainage of the ada
cent section.
We find that there are only two or three
lots unsold in the section set apart for the
Hebrews, and that therefore some addi-
tional space should be allotted for them.
We find, from the report of the health
officer that the death rate in the neigh
borhood of the cemetery Is greater than
any other section of the city, and IL is his
opinion that the cemetery is responsible,
to some degree, for these health condi-
tons. 1t is also the opinion of the health
officer that the Springfield plantation con-
tributes to the poor health conditions of
that section. but II would be in a less de-
gree Than the cemetery If the drainage of
The health officer thinks that It would
be well that no more burials take place
there in order to abate any IN effects on
health. that may exist by reason of the
cemetery. but expresses the opinion that
he does not think il equitable to close It,
for such prohibition would be a hardship
to lot owners.
A personal inspection shows that the
new portion, recently drained, is farther
removed from habltation than any other
portion, being in the southwestern sec
ton.
If the FIVE hundred new lots are disposed
Of, al the present rate OF demand for them,
viz, three or four each month, 1t would
take one hundred and twenty-five to one
hundred and sixty months TO sell them,
and If all the burials hereafter are made In
this new portion, which furnishes space
for four thousand to four thousand five
hundred graves 1t would take. at the rate
OF one burial daily, from eleven to twelve
and one-haif years to occupy 1t, no al
lowance being made for any burials in the
old portion now in daily use; or for any
additional space which may be rec afned