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OFFICIAL.
Report of Special Committee on New
Cemetery.
CITY of Savannah.

City of Savannah.
ONCE Clerk of Council, June l. 1900.
The following report OF the Special
Committee appointed by His Honor the
Mayer. to consider the matter OF new
cemetery is herewith published for in
formation, in accordance with action of
Council.
Savannah. Ca. May 80. 1s,O.-To the
Mayor and Aldermen of the CITY of Sa-
vannah:
The Special Committee to which was re
ferred the matter of new cemetery. and
the offers made by various parties OF land
for the same, begs leave to report
-Nirst, That the following pacels OF land
have been offerei, viz:
!. DR.. James B. Read offers "Bramp-
ton Plantation" on the Augusta Road
about two miles from the city, $40 acres
at 90 per acre. This land LIS on the Sa-
vannah river. Total price, $4,000
3 The heirs of DR.. James P. Screven
offer 1852 acres on Causton's Bluff Road
a part of "Bruton HIN Plantation" for
the sum of $4,000
3. The fremont Land Company. through
Mr. c. II. Dorset. offers 500 acres on
the Ogeechee Road, adjoining the Gar
rard land. and lying on both sides of
said road. between the Gsrrard tract and
the city. being about one mile from the
city limits, at $50 per acre Total price.
$500.
4. The Warheld land is offered by Mr.
C. H Dorsett 200 acres, at $50 per acre.
near the junction of Waters Road and
Montgomery Cross Road, about four
miles from the city limits. Total price,
5000
5. Battery Park tract IL offered by Mr..
C. H. Dorsett which tract adiolns Laurel
Grove Total price, $3.50.
6. Mr.. George w. Lamar offers 800
acres, located on the Savannah, Florida
and Western Railway. just beyond
Southover Junction. one mile and half
from the city limits, at $40 per acre.
Terms, one-third cash, balance on time,
Total price, $4,000.
T. Messrs Youmaus & Demmon offer
lands embracing 36s acres, adjacent to the
Ryals farm, and adjoining Laurel Grove
Cemetery, at 800 per acre. Total price,
SIC. 500.
8. Mr.. ]. Palmer Brown through
Messrs Youmans & Demmond, offers 1870
acres. at s1l5 per acre. lying between the
White Bluff Road and the Waters Road
also land of Mr.. c. T. Cooper adjoin-
Ing, 200 to 400 acres, at $40 per acre, max
ing a total of $50 acres. Total price,
S5s.o5O.
9. Evergreeu Cemetery Company offers
"Bonadventure." containing so acres,
more or less. on which 1t Is stated there
are over 400 lots held by residents OF
an agreement by the city to care for GER
lain lots in perpetuity, specified in the
offer
To this is attached an offer Of the Mer-
chants and Mechanics Land Company,
of IA adjoining acres at $3.50 per acre,
and about u acres more belonging to
various parties, making Al acres to be
added to "Bonsventure." or in all, l2i
acres, including "Boraventure,' at $3.50
an average of 1870 Der acre
TO- Mr. William Garrard offers his body
of land, fronting on the Ogeechee Road,
where the Florida Central ard Pennsu-
lar Railroad crosses The same. one and
seven-eighths miles from the city limits
and extending across to the Savannah
Florida and Western Railway. being
1000 acres, more or less, for the sum OF
81, 600, to he paid in ten years time, in
equal ntalments, with interest at 5 per
centum payable semi-annually interest
not to begin, however, until January /
1901
Second--In considering these offers, this
committee having in view that Laure
Grove Cemetery has been condemned by
the health officers for years past as q
menace to the public health" could MOI
entertain offers of lands adjacent to thu
| same such as offers numbered and 7.
| The offer of "Bonaventure" Cemetery
! and lands adjoining, could not be &C
| cepted by his committee, because thu
price was too high, not enough land wa
offered. and beyond all this, "Bonaven
| ture" is and has been. a cemetery sine
1870 and it would be bad policy for thu
| city TO acquire the remainder of the lanC
rot already used by graves for the pub
lie cemetery of the future
When Laurel Grove was laid out, les;
| than fifty years ago IL contained III )!
acres, when the population of Savannah
of hat 10 @.
that If a cemetery should be acquired t.
be laid out with narrow driveways anc
| small lots, as the present one is. and u
| last less than half a century, about go
acres would be required.
The cemetery of the future should be-
| modern and handsome with broad drive
ways, larger lots. and with land enough
| to supply he needs of our people fol
more than half century.
1t should also be so located as not Il
| be in the line OF probable city extension
and yet near enough; and its drainage
| should be in direction from. and no
towards the city, nor should it be int
the Savannah river.
Third-Aner careful consideration o
the lands offered. and of TIE necessar!
requisites of a new cemetery, the com
mittee has selected the Garrard tract.
This tract, as offe ed, embraces ,0sl !
acres, extending from the Ogeechee Roat
to the Savannah, Florida and Western
| Railway. but of which the owner ha
/ given to the county a public road through
same. and also a sufficient amount 0
| land for Buckhalter canal and its later
ais, leaving OF this tract $50 acres NOR
or less which is offered at $45 900. TO b.
| paid for in ten years. in equal install
ments, with interest at per ctntum, pay
able semi-snnually, interest not to begin
however, until Jan. /, 1901.
This tract Is a handsome one. well
wooded, in the right direction. southwes
from the city, to be accessible and We
not In the line OF the city's growth, ant
is on a watershed, the drainage of which
is carried off into The Ogeechee river.
Buckhalter canal is at the foot OF Thu
watershed, with laterals being dug b!
the county, and the committee has tn
statement OF The drainage engineer o
the county, that the lateras now beini
dug in this tract will lower the plane o
natural water level between four ans
seven feet.
The elevation OF This tract, a. and nea
the Ogeechee Road, Is higher than Lau
rel Grove, being about 81 feet as show
on the Typographical county map, with
gradual slope towards the Buckhalte
canal. near the Savannah, Florida an,
Western Railway.
| Fourth-The committee therefore rec
ommend, THAI the tract offered by Mr.
| William Garrard herelnbefore described
and for the price and upon the terms nam
ed, be accepted. and that upon the exam
ination OF titles by the city attorney, an,
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