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MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
MAYOR'S OFFICE, \
SAVANNAH, NOVEMBER 26, 185G. j
To //te Citizens of Savannah:
The Mayor's Report, together with a statement of the
receipts and disbursements of the City Treasurer, from No
vember 1st, 1855, to the 31st of October, 185G, inclusive, is
herewith submitted to you. Under the head of payments
made for medicines for the sick poor, appears the sum of
$2,715 07. This item of expenditure, laudably benevolent
in its intent, seems extravagant as applied under the unex
ampled state of health which has prevailed in the City during
I he past year, and is referred to the consideration of (lie
incoming Board of Aldermen.
CENTRAL RAIL ROAD STOCK AND BONDS.
Since the date of my last annual report, there have been
sold two hundred and thirty shares of Central Rail Road and
Banking Company's Stock, at a nett premium to the City
of $2,274. The proceeds have been applied to the redemp
tion of twenty-one Bonds of the City loan for Internal
Improvement for the year 1839leaving yet outstanding nnd
due on the 1st of February, 1857, bonds to the extent of
#198,000. Amount of Central Rail Road stock remaining
unsold 2,322 shares, par value $232,200.
STREETS AND LANES.
In this account is embraced the cost of paving Whitaker
street and the causeway leading to the Exchange Dock,
amounting to $3,738 93. Construction of stone walls, etc.,
at the head of Barnard, Lincoln, and East Broad streets,
110,416 37. Repairs on Plank Road and crossings, $2,643 94.
Squares, Streets and Lanes, $4,710 90-in all $21,510 14.
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SCAVENGER'S DEPARTMENT.
This Department was reorganized on the 29th December,
1853, by ordinance, and the present system of keeping the
streets, squares, and lanes in order, let by contract for a period
of three years, at a cost to the City of 25,000. The work
is accomplished by the employment of 16 carts and drivers,
with a few extra hands and mules in reserve, together with j
the addition of two carts and mules, the property of the
Corporation, furnished by resolution of Council on the 7th of
February last. The general cleanliness of the City for the
past year has been satisfactory. I am convinced, however,
that the same results can be obtained at a much less rate of
expenditure than at present, by a return to the old system of
cleaning the streets, viz : the ownership by the City ot all
apparatus connected with the Scavenger's Department, and
the employment of the Deputy Marshal as Superintendent
over the same. The present cost as has been shown, averages
by contract annually - - - $8,333 33
Add to the above the expense of two carts, mules
. and drivers, - "
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Total, - - - - ^
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Old SystemCost of keeping 20 mules per
year, allowing 8 quarts of corn and 14
lbs. of hay per day,each mule, - $2480
Hire of 18 negroes, $228 each per annum, 4104
Wear and tear of apparatus per annum, . 100 6684 oo
$2353 33
MASSIE FUND.
^'I'his fund, the charitable bequest of the late Peter Massie,
ceases to appear in the statement of " Resources" for the
past year. It was paid over to the City in 1849, and since
llien by judicious investment lias been largely accumulated,
It was devised for educalional purposes. In compliance with
the applicalion of Messrs. A. Porter, lolm Stoddard, et. al..
School Commissioners for the County of Chatham, Council,
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by resolution on the 5th of April, 1855, decreed that nine
thousand dollars of the above should be expended in the
erection of a building to be known as the Massie School
House. The work was commenced in December last. To
meet the cost of construction there have been sold and paid
over to Mr. John Stoddard, Treasurer of Commissioners,
twenty-one shares of Central Rail Road Stock, $2,248 50;
two thousand shares of Savannah Gas Light Stock, $5,397
88 ; twelve hundred and ninety-two dollars and twenty-five
cents, accumulated dividends on the above, and one coupon
South-Western Rail Road Bond for $35in all $8,973 63.
There remained one hundred and eighty-eight shares Savan
nah Gas Light Stock, and one Bond of the South-Western
Rail Road Company, which balance has been transferred to
the School Commissioners by resolution of Council, for edu
cational and other purposes connected with the establishment
The edifice was completed on the 1st of October last, and the
School organized on the 15th of the same month, with about
one hundred and fifty pupils in attendance. The number
now is two hundred and twenty-five. Forty-five of these
pay tuition, the rest are received without charge. The instiluiion is calculated to accommodate two hundred and eighty
scholars, one hundred and fifty in each department, and when
in full operation will be presided over by six teachers.
GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS, SAVANNAH
RIVSR.
Through the courtesy of Capt. Gilmer, I am enabled to lay
before you a statement of the. operations of the past year for
the improvement of Savannah River, under the appropriation
of $ 161,000, approved March 3d, 1855. The work of dredgin<>- at the wrecks has been so far advanced as to give a chan
nel way over these obstructions, about two hundred and fifty
feet wide, and eleven feet deep at low water, or seventeen feet at
high tide. Recent soundings have been made throughoiil
tin; extent of the excavated channel, and it was found that
the depth remained about (In- same as when the divdyiiii-
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was completed. I am pleased to inform you that since the
date of my last annual report, the Act of Congress of the 3d
March, 1855, appropriating one hundred and sixty-one thous
and dollars has been so far amended as to make the unex
pended balance applicable to the removal of the bars, shoals,
banks and other impediments caused by the hulks at the
wrecks. Since the passage of this amendment, four cuts
have been completed through the upper part of Garden
Bank, with the view to give the same depth at that locality
as had been previously gained over the obstructions below,
and the result has been a channel at this point of about one
hundred and ten feet in width, with a depth of over seven
teen feet at high tide. In the further prosecution of the im
provements undertaken by the Government, Captain Gilmer
proposes, in order to give permanence to the channel way
which has been opened through the wrecks, to turn a part of
the water from the Back to the Front River, by means of a
deflecting work placed just above King's Island, and to give
greater width to the channel along the Southern edge of Gar
den Bank and at other points of the River, by dredging as
originally proposed. In accordance with the same plan the
dredging machines will be worked at the wrecks until the
channel is increased to the width of three hundred feet. If
necessary the deflecting work at the lower end of Fig Island
will be built also, to turn a portion of the tide from the Back
to the Front River.
RANGE LIGHTBAY STREET.
On the 19th August, 1855, a communication was addressed
to the Light House Board at Washington, asking the estab
lishment of a Beacon at the head of Bay street, as a range
light for vessels coming up the river after night-fall. In
compliance with the above, an appropriation of two thous
and dollars was made at the last session of Congress for the
erection of this structure. The work will be put up in the
course of the coming winter. It is proposed to erect a cast
iron shaft about thirty feet in height, ornamental in design,
wil.li a Frcsnel light on the summit; the whole to be enclosed
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with a suitable iron railing. An area of land twenty feet
square has been ceded to the United States by Act of the
General Assembly, for its site. This grant has also been
confirmed by Ordinance of Council.
THE KNOLL.
Two and a half miles above Tybee Light in ascending
the Savannah river from the sea, is an impediment of sand,
mud and shells, stretching away across the entrance from
Cockspur Island and known among seafaring men as the
"Knoll. " At low water it is a serious hindrance to vessels
of heavy draft bound in, affording as it does, only the insecure
anchorage of an open roadstead. To remove this obstacle to
the commerce of the port, application was made in January
last through our delegation in the Legislature for State aid to
the extent of $25,000, to dredge a channel way through this
troublesome shoal. A bill introduced to that effect was lost
by six votes in the House of Representatives. Deeming the
work of vital consequence to the commerce of the State al
large, and especially to the interests of this city, the following
communications were submitted on the 6th of March last, to
the members of the Board of Aldermen :
Gentlemen:Your attention is invited lo the following
considerations relative to the proposed improvement of the
Savannah river, at the Knoll, opposite Cockspur Island. As
the subject is one of much importance to the commerce of
Georgia, as well as to the success of work now in progress
under the appropriation from the Federal Treasury for the re
moval of obstructions at the wrecks, I deem it advisable to
bring the matter to your notice, particularly at this time.
The subject was discussed and the improvement strongly
recommended in the report of the Commissioners, invited by
the Chamber of Commerce of this City, to prepare a plan for
the improvement of Savannah river. The Knoll is the only
serious obstruction which cannot be removed with the funds
of the Government appropriation, when the Act shall have
been amended, as now proposed to the War Department, so
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as to be applicable to I he taking up of all impediments con
sequent upon the sinking of the wrecks, and as the General
Assembly of the State has tailed to grant the sum of $25,000
solicited for this object, it becomes a question of serious im
port to the interests of Savannah, whether the necessary
funds for removing it should not be advanced from the City
Treasury. By virtue of an ordinance passed on the 2d of
June, 1853, authorising the issue of bonds to the amount of
one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, to be advanced to
pay for the improving of the navigation of the river and
harbor of Savannah, provision is made that the proceeds of,
or the moneys arising from the sale of said bonds, shall be
xpended in such sums, and at the times, and in such manner
as the Mayor shall deem most expedient for the purpose of
carrying on the proposed improvement. By dredging over the
Knoll there would at once be obtained a channel deep enough
to admit vessels drawing 21 to 22 feet, from the mouth of the
river to Venus Point anchorage, or within six and a half miles
of the city, thus coming within the scope of the Government
appropriation for the removal of impediments, &c. The depth
over the Knoll, therefore, should be increased at an early
riay. In fact there is every reason to believe that this part
of the general plan of improvement would have been re
commended by the Commissioners as the FIRST operation to
be undertaken, had it not been so important to the commerce
of the port to have an increase of depth over the wrecks at
the earliest possible period. Much difficulty has been expe
rienced by the pilots recently in bringing the larger vessels
that enter this port over the Knoll. Within the past few
days, the ship Kertch, with a draft of IS feet 3 inches, has
been detained on her outward voyage by grounding on this
troublesome obstruction. .By eating a channel way a trifle
over one third of a mile in length, by three hundred feet in
width, with an additional depth of three feet, increased
facilities will be afforded to all branches of the Savannah
trade, as there would be consequently less restriction as to
the tonnage and draft that could engage in it. Large quanti-
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ties oi sawed lumber and heavy ranging timber are
shipped annually from this porl, and as most of the
ranging timber exported is taken from rafts in the river, it
could be shipped from the anchorage at Venus' Point with
nearly the same economy and convenience as abreast
of the city, with the additional advantage of leaving the
river in front of the wharves clear for vessels of lighter draft.
I learn from Capt. J. F. Gilmer, U. S. Engineers, that he has
received authority from the Department at Washington, to
contract for a dredging machine of greater power and work
ing capacity than the one now employed daily on the wrecks.
He has already taken measures to have the larger machine
built, and there is every reason to believe il will be in complete
working order by the 1st of June next. At that time or soon
thereafter arrangements might be made to employ this dredge,
the expenses to be defrayed from the City Treasury, in accor
dance with the provisions of the ordinance already alluded to.
The summer months afford favorable opportunity for perform
ing the work, on account of the calm weather which usually
prevails at that season, and also from the fact that operations
would be less liable to interruption by the frequent passage
of vessels in and out of harbor. Feeling assured that the
dredging of the Knoll cannot fail to advance the commercial
interests of Savannah, by the admission of a larger class of
vessels into her port, and that the prosecution of this work
will have a favorable bearing upon the efforts now making
to deepen the channel over the shoals above, by the increased
volume of flood tide which will be free to ascend the river
and scour off its bottom when returning to the ocean. I de
sire earnestly to solicit for the subject, that careful attention
and consideration which its importance demands. Accom
panying this paper is a tracing of the locality of the proposed
improvement, together with a communication from Captain
J. F. Gilmer, containing estimates of cost, &c. All which is
respectfully submitted.
EDWARD C. ANDERSON, Mayor.
SAVANNAH, March 5th, 1856.
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10 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REXORT.
SAVANNAH, January 3d, 1856.
Hon. li. C. Anderson, Mayor of Savannah:
SIR:Herewith I have the pleasure to transmit a sketch
ol the Mouth of Savannah River, showing the depth V>f
water over the Knoll, and the extent of that obstruction. The
soundings placed in the map show the depth of water al
mean low tide, and the rise of tide is nearly eight feet (7 feet
11 inches.) By examination of the soundings, it will be
perceived that the average depth of water over the Knoll at
low tide is about 11 feet. It should be made three feet
deeper, so as to furnish a more uniform channel, and the
width of this point should not be less than 300 feet.
To cut such a channel through the Knoll will require the
excavation of about 66,000 cubic yards of broken oyster
shells, mud, and sand. The cost of dredging, in a position
so much exposed, ought not to be estimated at less than 372
cents per cubic yard. To do the work, therefore, would re
quire $24,975, or in round numbers $25,000.
If this obstruction be once removed, a moderate expendi
ture will serve afterwards to preserve the desired depth ol
channel. With the expenditure of the above sum, the
Knoll can be so far removed as to make the Savannah River
a suitable outlet for the products of Georgia. Vessels draw
ing 21 feet can then be brought up the channel to an
anchorage and harbor, commodious in extent and perfectly
secure from storm and danger.
I am Sir, with high regard,
Your obedient servant,
J. F. GILMER, Captain of Engineers.
The Committee to whom the foregoing commnications
were referred, reported in favor of the project and recom
mended the adoption of the following resolutions:
"Resolved, Thatthc City of Savannah will undertake the cost
of removing the obstruction in the River known as the Knoll.
"Resolved, That the Mayor address a communication to
the Secretary of War, requesting that the officer in charge of
River improvements may be instructed to cut away the
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Knoll as early as he can, and that the city will pay the ex
pense of working the dredging machine,and all the necessary
boats and flats."
In compliance with the foregoing resolutions, application
was made to the proper authority, and the work of dredging
through the Knoll begun on the 16th of August, under the
supervision of Captain J. F. Gilmer, and Lieut. G. W. Custis
Lee, the officers in charge of the Government operations.
The dredging for the City was continued for about six weeks,
when, in consequence of the boisterous weather prevailing in
the month of September at that exposed point, it was suspen
ded for the season, and the dredges removed to Garden Bank,
in the regular prosecution of the improvement undertaken
by the General Government. The result has fully realized
the expectation of the Engineer. Six thousand seven hundred
and fifty-five cubic yards of sand, mud, and shell, have been
removed, and a channel way forty feet wide, fourteen feet
deep at low tide (or full 21 feet at mean high water,) and
about one-third of a mile in length has been excavated. To
render this channel serviceable to vessels entering and leaving
port, this winter, I would recommend to the Commissioners
of Pilotage, to place a few spar buoys along one edge of the
cut with a view to mark with the nicest accuracy its position
and direction. It can be done at a trifling outlay.
The expenses of the work at the Knoll, viz : hire ofCaptains,
engineers, seamen, and laborers, the cost of fuel, repairs, and
all other current expenses incidental to the undertaking, have
been paid out of the city treasury.
Cash Statement of City funds in the hands of Mr. R. Dun
ning, disbursing agent:
November 1st, 1855, - - - $667 02
Received by him from City Treasurer
since ----- 3000 00$3,667 02
Expenditures for the year 2,407 98
$1,259 04
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I cannot too earnestly recommend the early resumption of
this important work in the ensuing summer, or as soon
thereafter as arrangements can be made with the War De
partment, for the use of machinery, boats, and flats, under
the management of the officer in charge of the Government
operations, as was effected during the past season. A ship
channel over the Knoll is ofvital importance to the commercial /
interests to Savannah, and taken in connection with the
works now going on in the river above, under the appropria
tion of the United States, should be urged forward Avith all
practicable dispatch. It cannot be prosecuted during the fall,
winter or early spring months on account of the great expo
sure to heavy seas and storms, but must be done in the sum
mer time, and should be continued until a channel way into
our waters, of sufficient depth and width to admit the heaviest
class of merchant vessels now built, is obtained. You will
thus widen the range of competition for charter by bringing
within its scope a class of ships which, from their great draft,
have been hitherto excluded from our port, and instead
of being confined in contract to vessels drawing a limited f
number of feet, there will be opened up to your enterprise
the tonnage of the country to select from. In a national point
of view it is equally important, as affording to our first class
frigates and steamers, an Atlantic port of access South of
Cape Hatteras, where in the event of war or stress, they will
find safe anchorage under the guns of a fortress already
completed, to protect ihem from affront by a superior force in
the offing.
There is every reason to believe that upon a proper repre
sentation of these advantages at Washington, the outlay to
be made by Savannah, in affording such great facilities to i
the Navy of our country, will be reimbursed to us from the
Tedercil Treasury, and if not thence, the claim should be laid
before the legislature of our own State. I doubt nol it will
be favorably acted upon.
MAYORS ANNUAL REPORT. 13
COMMERCE OF SAVANNAH.
Statement of Exportu from the Port of Savannah from the 1st September, 1854,
to Zlst Aniftmt, 1855, inclusive.
COTTON. Bales.
Upland ",73,908
Sea-Island 14,467
Weight,
lbs.
168,258,600
4,701,77.-)
Foreign.
Bales.
178,194
6,993
Coastwise. Value.
Bales.
195,714 $16,825,860
7,474 940,355
Total... ...388,375
RICK Casks.
Total. .. ... 8,220
DUMBER...... Feet.
172,960,375 185,187
Weight. Foreign,
lbs. Casks.
5,344,950 5,149
Foreign.
Feet.
19,004,308
WHEAT.New Exports, coastwise principally, 423,375 bushels; ex
ported since 1st January, to 1st November, 1855,. ...
COPPER ORE.31,632 boxes, new exports, coastwise principally ;
exported since 1st Jan. tolstNov. weight 7,060 tons
SUNDRIES.Flour, Wool, Manufactures, Hides. Peltries, Tallow,
Beeswax, Drugs, &c., valued at
203,188 $17,760,215
Coastwise.
Casks.
3,071 213,798
Coastwise.
Feet.
6,495.692 255,000
719,737
474,4 80
700,000
Total value of Exports for 1854-5 $20,129,'23O
TONNAGE.Cleared and Entered in 1855.
Foreign 151,136
Coastwise 359,339
Total 510,475
Statement of Exportsfrom the Port of Savannah from, the l*t September, 1855,
to 31 st of August, 1856, inclusive.
COTTON. Bales.
Upland 377,608
Sea-Island... 15,484
Total 393,092
RICE. Casks.
Total 29,907
LUMBER. Feet.
34,887,500
Weight,
lbs.
169,923,600
5,032,300
174,955,900
Weight.
lbs. ,
19,500,000
Foreign.
Bales.
177,182
8,138
185,320
Foreign.
Casks.
7,880
Feet.
Coastwise.
Bales.
200,426
7,346
Value.
$17,850,000
1,250,000
207,772 $19,100,000
Coastwise.
Casks.
22,027
Feet.
21,500,000 13,387,500
WHEAT325,000 bushels, principally coastwise
COPPER ORE.23,500 boxes, 5,160 tons
SUNDRIES.Flour, Tobacco, Wool, Hides, Pelts, Drugs, Manufac
tures, &c., valued at
780,000
350,000
445,000
352,500
1.000,000
Tot"! value of Exports for 1855-6 22,027,500
TONNAGE.Cleared and Entered in 1856.
Foreign 157,088
Coastwise 291,692
Total 448,780
14 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
REMARKS.
COTTON.The exports of Cotton from this port for the
season just closed, exceed those of 1855 by 4,717 bales.
RICE.The exports of Rice for 1856, exceed those of 1855
by 21,687 casks, and in value $566,202.
WHEAT.The table above will show that both the quan
tity and value of this article of export are materially /
less than in 1855. This may be accounted for, in part at
least, from the fact that the depreciation in price may not
have warranted the transportation to market from a distance.
COPPER ORE.The receipts and exports of this article are
also materially less than last season. Whether the mines
are less productive, or it has found new outlets to market,
are points yet undetermined.
SUNDRIES.The items which are comprehended under this
head have increased over any previous season, and are not
over estimated at $1,000,000.
The total value of our exports show an increase of this
over the last season of about 10 per cent, which is exceed
ingly gratifying, and with increased facilities for the trans- I
portation of produce, together with the greater accumulation
of banking capital, we may reasonably hope for the continued
advancement of our commerce over all competition.
Very Respectfully,
EDWARD C. ANDERSON. Mayor.
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STATEMENT
(tj the Resources ofthe City of Savannah, f)clober 31,1856,
STOCKS AT PAR VALUE.
2,322 sluires Central Rail Road & Banking Co $232,21)0 no
10,000 shares Savannah & Gulf Railroad60 per cent, paid in .... 600,000 00
2,517 shares Augusta & Waynesboro' Railroad Co 251,700 00
2,500 shares South-Westurn Railroad Co 250,000 00
1,058 shares Montgomery & West Point Railroad 105,800 00
50 sTiares Ogeechec Plank Road Stock 5,000 00
13 shares Bank of the State of Georgia 1.3( 10 00
2 bonds of John J. Kelly, for payment of Lot letter E, Heathcote Ward, payable in 2 and 3 years, each for $1,300^ bear
ing interest 2,Duo on
$1,448,600 00
CITY DOMAIN.
614 lots in 22 Wards, underlease, valued at $489,902 2ii
36 lots in Springfield Plantation 19,234 8it
$509,137 00
Lots laid oil'and valued, not under lease 70,200 On
APPROXIMATE VALUE OF LAND NOT LAID OEK
NOR VALUED.
28 lots south of Hospital 18,000 01 >
20 lots east of " 20,000 On
9 acres of land of the old Cantonment., reserved for
City lots 2'i,(IOo 00
Remainder of the Springtieli! Plaiita.tio:i 80,000' 00
Site purchased for Water Works 22,000 on 739,337 on
Water Works valued at 200,000 00
Total value of Stock and Domain, as above |>2,387,y37 00
This statement does not include the public buildings, five lots in possession of
the Academy and Union Society, under lease, which expires on 6th of June,
1862 ; Wharf lot at the foot of West Broad street, 46-i feet, vacant; slip on the
canal, one-half of Fig Island, and a small encroachment by lot No. 3, Decker
Ward; also, 27 horses and other property purchased for the Police. Also, two
carts and two mules, purchased for the Scavenger's Department this year.
GROUND RENTS PAYABLE TO THE CITY OP SAVANNAH.
Lots in the Wards of the City $28,002 09
Springfield Plantation M*? 10
$29,349 79
TAXABLE VALUE
Of Fee Simple Lots and Improvements for 1856, on City and Fee Simple Lots, as
sessed for 1856 $8,999,015 00
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COMPAKISON OE THE TAX DIGESTS.
. I sst sstiieuts or Value of Landx and imjiroeemcnts. '
1836Taxable Value $2,357,250
1853 " " 5,483,159
1854 " " 8,133,270
1855 " " 8,746,621
1856 ' " 8,999,015
FUNDED DEBT.
Statement of the Funded Debt of the City of Savannah, '
including all the Bonds issued and outstanding, 31*/
October, 1856.
Amount of
Bonds issued. For what. Interest. Total
$199,000 00 Central R. R. & Banking Co $13,930 00
150,000 00 South Western R. Road 10,500 00
200,00'.i .i Augusta & Waynesboro'Railroad. . 14,000 00
27,840 00 Springfield Plantation 1,948 00
100,000 (HI Muscogee Bianeh Railroad 7,000 00
5,000 00 Ogeechee Plank Road 350 00
22,000 00 Purchase land Water Works 1,540 00
5,000 00 Savannah Gas Light Co 350 00
100,000 00 Montgomery & West Point Railroad 7,000 00
200,000 00 Construction Water Works 14,000 00
63,000 00 Improvements Savannah Road. ... 4,410 00
600,000 00 Savannah & Gulf Railroad 42,000 00 Sm.'^S 80 '
1,957 50 Corporation Notes probably destroyed.
1,327 00 City Scrip, outstanding.
1,675,124 50 $117,028 80
BONOS TO BE ISSUED.
400,000 00 Savannah & Gulf Railroad $28,000 00
25,000 00 Improvement Savannah River 1,750 On
200,000 00 Main Trunk 14,000 00
2,300,124 50 $160,778 80
Amount of Mayor's Notes now running in the Banks of Savannah $13,000 00
Amount of Bonds, 1839, now outstanding and unredeenied $198,000 0o
Savannah, Nov. 20, 1856.
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INCIDENTAL EXPENSES FOR 1856.
Paid John Dillon, storage of Lime,
Post Office, box rent and postal stamps,
Lloyd & Owens, Attorneys for Professional services,
Ward & Owens, do, do. do.
George A. Gordon, Professional services,
Jos. W. Robaits, signing, &c., bonds and coupons,
D. L. Cohen, balance of repairs to Exchange,
Sundry small bills,
Coal for the Exchange,
Michael Feely, in part for Painting Hydranls,
George M. Conn, frame for Mayor's Office,
Kenneily & Beach, spittons for Council Chamber,
Treasurer, for making Tax Digest
Wm P. Bowen, Surveyor, services of laborers,
Marshall House, dinners for the City Court Jury,
Lovell & Lattimore, repairs to safe,
J. T. Jones, " "
Thomas Smith, boat and hands to Tybee
John F. O'Byrne, Lumber,
Capt. Gilmer, dredging foot of West Broad Street,
David R. Dillon, building foot West Broad street
and one year's rent of same, 639 86
Martin Duggan, repairs to stoop injured by Fire
Engine, 6 00
J. B. Hogg, making copy Map of Savannah River
and Brunswick,
R. D. Waker, bill of sundries.
J. E. Falligant, moving, &c., fence on lot No. 10,
Washington Ward,
P. Snider, hauling dead horse.
Phoenix Office, for insuring Barracks,
Expenses of delegates to Thomasville Convention,
City Marshal, work on Major Starke's land,
S.N. Papot, boat hire for Starke's place,
Geo. M. Willett, negro hire during epidemic,
Lovell & Lattimore, for sundries,
Dr. J. B. Read and others, services at Norfolk, du
ring epidemic, 3,000 00
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Keepers of tally sheets and list of voters at electionn,
Messenger of Council and other's bills of sundries,
Coal for Exchange,
City Marshal, boat hire to Hutchinson's Island,
J. Broughton, dinner for Superintendents of election,
Clerk of Council, for sundries,
Griffin & Gordon, professional services,
J. G, Falligant's bill for Mayor's office,
City Surveyor, establishing lines at Pest House,
City Surveyor, for services of laborers,
W. H Bulloch, for copy of records,
Certified Copy of City Amended Charter,
C. C. Casey, building dry-well at canal,
Ann E. Morrell, hauling dead horse,
Clerk of City Assessors, for services.
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