Report of Edward C. Anderson, mayor of the city of Savannah for the year ending September 30, 1866 : to which is added the treasurer's report

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REPORT
EDWARD C. ANDERSON
MAYOR OF THE CITY OF SAVANNAH,
FOR THE m mm SEPTEMBER 30, isee,
TO WHICH IB AUDKD THE
TREASURER'S RERORT.
C. E. O'SULLIVAN, PRINTER, BAY STREET.
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KEPORT
El)WAIM) C. ANDERSON,
MAYOR OF THE CITY OF SAVANNAH,
FOR THE YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30,1866,
TO WHICH IS ADDED THE
TRE^LSTTRER'S RERORT.
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C, E, O'SULLIVAN, PRINTER, BAY STREET.
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MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
MAYOR'S OFFICE, )
SAVANNAH, October 1st, 1866. [
To the Citizens of Savannah :
I respectfully submit to you the Mayor's Report for the
past ten months, together with the receipts and expenditures
in the Treasurer's office for the same period.
The regular election for Mayor and Aldermen in October
last having gone by default in consequence of the occupancy
of the city by the military forces of the United States, the
present Board came into office under an Ordinance of the
Convention of the State of Georgia, ordering an election to be
held on the 6th of December last. At that time our city had
been set back in her progress by the vicissitudes of four years
of civil war. Her finances were disordered and her revenues
appropriated by the military tax-gatherers then domiciled in
our midst. There were but two thousand dollars in the Trea
sury, and the outstanding account for past due coupons alone
amounted to $371,570 00
Of this amount there has been funded
in new bonds to run for twenty
years $227,094 90
And redeemed for taxes and ground
rents 68,048 35-$295,143 25
Leaving yet outstanding $ 76,426 75
Many of which have doubtless been destroyed or lost in the
war and will probably never be presented.
Coupons falling due on old bonds in 1866 amount
to $127,000 00
Coupons falling due on new bonds in 1866 8,053 50
$135,053 50
Of this amount there was paid during this year, 59,364 90
$ 75,688 60
Add to this the above named sum of 76,426 75
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Laaves the sum total of coupons due to January
1st,1867 .'.SirAVl.o 35
The income of the city amounts to 396,000 00
The item of interest upon coupons .ilone, together
with $6,000 for bills contracted in 1864, stuns up 135,000 00
261,000 00
Deduct from the above, cash on hand $10,000
Deduct from the above, cash deposited
in New York to meet interest on cou
pons falling due 20,00030,000 00
Leaves to defray current expenses of the city. $231,000 00
As before stated, there were but two thousand dollars in the
Treasury at the time of the inauguration of the present Board
of Aldermen. It became, therefore, a matter of necessity, in
order to meet the current expenses of the city, to call in month
ly the tax upon sales, freights and passage money, all other
accounts being collected quarterly. The financial condition
of the Treasury being better now than at the commencement
of the year, the monthly collection of this tax may be dispensed
with,^and the revenue called in quarterly, as in other items.
POLICE.
The Police of Savannah consists of a Captain or Chief, one
First Lieutenant, one Second Lieutenant, six Sergeants and one
hundred men, ten of whom are classed as Supernumeraries.
There is also a Special Force of one Chief and six Assistant
Detectives, two of whom are employed on the rivermaking
in all one hundred and. sixteen- effective men, and maintained
at a cost to the city during the past year of $79,412 03. The
officers are elected by Council, and hold their positions for
three years from the date of election, unless sooner rem.oved
for inefficiency or improper conduct. The Privates are ap
pointed by the Mayor for the like term of three years, con
ditioned upon good conduct, fidelity and efficiency. The en
tire force during the past year has been thoroughly reorgan
ized, equipped and uniformed. The first cost of the uniforms,
amounting to $4,175 87, was advanced from the City Treasu
ry, to be refunded in monthly instalments, deducted from the
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pay of the men. Two thousand two hundred and ten dollars
($2,210) have already been returned, and it is contemplated
that by the first of January next the whole amount advanced
will be repaid. Both officers and men have been selected with
great care, and have performed their duties with fidelity and
manliness. Our citizens may look with just pride upon the o:-
ganization as being confessedly one of the very best in this
country. The pay of the Privates at the commencement ofthe
year was fifty dollars per month. It was then increased ti>
sixty dollars, and recently to seventy-five dollars per month.
When it is considered that these men are in the service of tincity day and night, and are debarred all other pursuit, it will
readily be conceded that the increased amount given them by
the City Council is just and proper. They are exposed to tinvicissitudes of heat and cold, storm nnd darkness, and in every
emergency have shown themselves worthy of the trust which
has been confided to them. The expense of their maintenance
has been heavy and must continue to be so, for in the changed
circumstances that surround us, with a vagabond freed element
in our midst, and constantly pouring into the city, together
with the influx of "roughs" coming by every steamer, it is a mat
ter of necessity to keep up at any cost an efficient Police Force
for our protection.
STREETS AND LANES.
The expenditures in this department have been necessarily
very heavy, rendered so mainly by the rebuilding of the stone
causeways leading down under the bluff, which, during the
war, were entirely destroyed, and the material carried away
and sunk in the obstructions. Two of these thoroughfares ha\ <
been put in complete repair. The grades have been cut down
and rendered easy of ascent, and the curb walls on either hand
underpinned and strengthened. Cesspools have been con
structed at the foot of each to check the flow of sand into ihe
river. The work has been carefully done, and will last many
years. The causeway and wall at the head of Fast ISroad
street is also in process of repair. There has been constructed
during the past summer an important sewer in Drayton street,
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connecting with that passing through Perry street lane. The
wants of commerce will necessitate the grading and paving of
River street during the winter, and I would also earnestly re
commend the paving of Drayton and Whitaker streets as far out
as Gwinnett. The work on West Broad street, as far as the
Central Railroad Depot, is now in progress. The expendi
tures on the streets and lanes to date amount to $22,173 44,
including in this sum the repairs and painting of the railings
around the squares and monuments in Bull street. One of the
noticeable features growing out of the changed condition of
affairs, has been the introduction, during the past year, of the
chain gang, as an institution upon our streets and public works.
This force is rapidly accumxdating in numbers, and is made up
of convicts iwitenced to labor by the Courts. It already ex
ceeds the wants of the city, and a portion of the excess has
been turned over to the U. S. Barracks for employment. Any
further increase will be assigned to the Railroad Depots, should
their labor there be deemed desirable.
SCAVENGER'S DEPARTMENT.
This department of the public service has been kept up dur
ing the past year at an expense to the city of $15,852 93, a sum
materially in excess of what has been usually expended in form
er years. An increased population may in part account for
this. The outlay has accrued mainly in bills of repair upon
harness and vehicles, the purchase of carts, mules and appli
ances, time of hands, etc. The Superintendent has been ener
getic and attentive in the discharge of his duties, and the streets
and lanes have been kept in an unusually clean condition. I
am convinced, however, that the present system is a defective
one, and that the same ends will be attained at a far less cost
to the city, by a return to the former plan of letting out the
work by contract, with approved security. The city owns, in
connection with this department, twenty-two carts and twenty
mules. The whole subject is commended to the prompt atten
tion of the incoming Board of Aldermen.
MARKET.
The present market house is totally inadequate to the wants
of the city, and should be pulled down and modernized when-
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ever the finances of the city will admit of it. The structure has
been patched and added to at different periods, without attain
ing material results, and has recently been enlarged by the ad
dition of a commodious shed on its eastern face. A suitable
building would unquestionably prove a source of revenue to
the city. Under the faithful administration of the Clerk ofthe
Market and his Assistant, there have been paid into the Trea
sury since 1st of January, fees to the amount of $6,152 15.
The gross returns from fees and the sale of stalls combined,
amounts to $12,785 59.
JAIL. /
The Jail was turned over to the civil authorities on the 19th
of December, 1865, in an insecure and dilapidated condition,
rendering many repairs necessary for the safe-keeping and
comfort of the prisoners. The building, at best, being poorly
adapted to the purposes for which it was erected, has been
over-crowded with prisoners, and it has been necessary to as
sign additional guards for their security. The care of these
people has been conducted with humanity and kindness by the
Jailor. The amount due the city by the county for the sup
port of the prisoners will be heavy.
MILITARY PARADE GROUND.
On the eleventh of August, 1853, the City Council, by ordi
nance, set apart nineteen acres of land, known as the "Old Can
tonment," as a parade ground for the volunteer companies of
Savannah, vesting the control, custody and management of the
same in the captains for the time being of the several volun
teer companies, who were to have exclusive charge thereof.
The aforesaid grant and dedication was made under the condi
tion that the several volunteer companies should have the said
parade ground properly cleared, and in case it should be used
for other purposes than that to which it was dedicated, the
same was to revert to the city and fall again into the common
public domain ; and all grants, privileges and advantages con
tained in the ordinance to become void and of none effect. Six
years later, on petition of a committee from the volunteer mili-
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tary companies of Savannah, Council resolved to exchange the
parade ground then in use for land south of and immediately
adjoining the Park, bounded on the east by Drayton street,
south by New Houston street, and west by Whitaker street.
The ground was thereafter enclosed with a neat, substantial
rail, and until the evacuation of the city by the Confederate
forces, was kept in order, in accordance with the terms stipu
lated. It is now an open waste, cut up and defaced by the
troops who have at various times been encamped upon it. In
the changed condition of our fortunes it is not probable that
for many years to come the volunteer organizations in whom
it was originally vested will be enabled again to enclose and
improve it, and I would recommend that an arrangement be
made with all parties in interest, under which the parade
ground may be merged into Forsyth Place, and by being beau
tified and improved, afford a public Park to our citizens of thir
ty acres instead often, as at present enclosed.
CITY EXCHANGE.
It may not be amiss, in connection with the Mayor's Report,
to replace upon record a brief history of this old landmark, as
derived from the minutes of Council. Many of its archives
have been lost in the occupancy of the city by the United
States forces. The records of Council commence in 1791, with
a hiatus from December 1796 to July 1800, and from the 20th
of January, 1850, to the 10th of March, 1853. The register of
deaths is complete from 1803 to the present time. " The ques
tion of the erection of an Exchange Building was first agitated
in 1798, and in the following year the foundation of the present
structure known as the Exchange was laid. It was built by a
Joint Stock Company, in which the city was a stockholder to
the amount of twenty-five shares. The ground was leased to
the company for ninety-nine years. The estimated cost of erec
tion was $20,000, the stock being divided into two hundred
shares, at one hundred dollars each. The subscription was
limited to the inhabitants of Chatham county. In the year 1806
a committee of Council was appointed to purchase stock for the
city, and they reported having bought eleven shares at onehun-
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dred and fifty-six dollars per share. The city continued to pur
chase at prices generally much above par until the year 1812,
when it secured the entire balance of the stock in private hands
at one hundred and fifty dollars per share. The purchase money
was raised by the issue of certificates of stock at eight per cent.,
redeemable in ten years. One year previous to this purchase
the subject of erecting a new City Hall was agitated in Coun
cil, and a committee was appointed as a preliminary step to as
certain on what terms the city shares in the Exchange could be
sold. At the time of the sale to the city the revenues of the
company were $3,000, and had been as high as $4,000. The
estimated revenue to accrue to the city was twenty-four hundred
dollars per annum. From this brief history of the Exchanoe,
it appears that it was originally the property in part of certain
citizens ; that in 1812 it became public property, and that the
building which was an Exchange became the City Hall. It
was a profitable property to the company which owned it, but
the merchants ceased to line it as an Exchange long before it
was sold to the city at the enormous profit of fifty per cent."
The annual revenue to the city from this building, at the
present time, amounts to $2,700, arising from the le-nse of the
four rooms on the first floor, used as Banking institutions.
These leases date respectively from June 15, 1865, and from
January5, 1866, and are for five years. The Council Chamber
and the apartments on the floor above, used as public offices,
need extensive repairs and should be attended to without de
lay as a matter of economy. The space in the basement of the
building, with a comparatively small outlay, could be convert
ed into stores or ware rooms, and yield a profitable return into
the Treasury.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The want of a Public School system, with a uniformity of
discipline and method, has long been felt in our community.
Realizing this, application was made in the early part of Feb
ruary last to the State Legislature, for a local act incorporating
a Board of Education for the city of Savannah. Under this act
Dr. R. D. Arnold, John Stoddard, Solomon Cohen, Edward C.
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Anderson, John C. Ferrill, John Williamson, John L. Villalonga, Henry Williams and Alexander M. Winn were appointed,
and James B. Read, Sylvanus Landrum and Bernard Mallon,
chosen, under Ordinance of Council, to represent, in connection
with the above named gentlemen, the interest of the city in the
Massie Common School. It will be gratifying to the public to
learn that this Board is now fully organized, and has made
every necessary arrangement for the inauguration of a complete
and thorough system of public instruction, under the direction
of experienced and competent teachers. Every preparation has
been made to render the system a thorough one, and to give to
our city a method of instruction second to no other, It is pro
posed by the Board to make these schools of free tuition, and
to appeal to the City Council for an annual appropriation of
five thousand dollars, which, in connection with the special
county tax awarded for this purpose by the Justices of the In
ferior Court, and the Educational fund from the State for the
county of Chatham, will fully meet the estimates made for the
inception of the project.
If this plan can be successfully carried out, it will afford gratuitou: instruction to between five and six hundred children,
many of whom would otherwise roam our streets in ignorance
and idleness. The subjoined statement will exhibit the annual
expenses of the proposed system, together with the amount
needed from the city to make up the sum total for carrying out
the same. I would respectfully recommend the appropriation
by Council of five thousand dollars per annum, payable in
monthly instalments, in furtherance of the plan.
State and County Educational fund $ 4,000
Special County Tax for Public Schools 5,000
City appropriation of $5,000 per annum 5,000
$14,000
The following is the estimate for salaries and expenses for
the current year :
Superintendent and Principal Girls' Grammar School.. $2,500
Principal Boys' Grammar School 2,000
First Assistant Girls' Grammar School 750
Second Assistant Girls' Grammar School 700
First Assistant Boys' Grammar School 750
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Principal Boys' Intermediate School 1,000
First Assistant Boys' Intermediate School 700
Principal Girls' Intermediate School 750
First Assistant Girls' Intermediate School 650
Second Assistant Girls' Intermediate School 600
Principal Primary Boys' and Girls' School 650
First Assistant Primary Boys' and Girls' School....... 500
Second Assistant Primary Boys' and Girls' School 500
Music Teacher 400
Janitor's wages 300
Stationery and Incidentals 300
Supernumerary Teacher 300
Apparatus, Insurance, &c 650
Total Expenditure #14,000
RIVER OBSTRUCTIONS.
It is to be regretted that the work for the removal of the ob
structions in Savannah river could not have been commenced in
the early Spring and been vigorously pushed forward during the
past Summer months. These obstructions are of three classes:
sunken vessels, piles and cribs. The first in order, blocking the
approach to the city from the sea, are the hulks of two large
ships, and a smaller vessel, sunk in the channel near Fort Pu
laski in 1861. They remain in the same position now as when
first put down, but are rapidly giving way to the assaults of
the terredo navalis, a worm abounding in our Southern waters.
The northernmost of these vessels should be removed, ^he chan
nel being very narrow at that point, and a short turn has to be
made around the wreck, which is difficult for a sailing vessel.
Next in order come the impediments at Four-Mile Point, con
sisting of cribs, piles and sunken vessels. These obstructions
stretch across the river from the Elba Island side to the Caro
lina shore, and to Mackay's Point, across South Channel, com
posed mainly of cribs built of yellow pine timber, forty feet
square, filled in with paving stones, live oak and brick. Each
crib has two floors, with ballast on each. Sixteen vessels were
sunk in the North Channel, contiguous to and below the cribs.
On the capture of Savannah by the United States forces, three
cribs and one sunken vessel were removed by the Quartermas-
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ter's Department, at a cost to the Government of thirty thousand
dollars, and an expenditure of four weeks in time. The open
ing is insufficient for the purposes of commerce, and should be
enlarged so as to give a space of at least five hundred feet in
width. The gap in the South Channel is not so wide as that
opened in the main river. It was made by the Navy, at the
cost and labor of two vessels. By comparing the soundings at
these points on the Coast Survey Charts, recently completed,
with those published before the war, it will be seen that the
changes in this neighborhood are for the better, and that the
depths have been materially increased. Following up the ship
channel in its course toward the city, we come next to the ob
structions in the immediate vicinity of Fort Jackson. These
consist of an irregular line of nine cribs, sunk between Fort
Lee and the marsh island opposite. Two others were sunk a
short distance above, as moorings for the floating battery
Georgia. This vessel was scuttled on the night of the evacua
tion, and now lies with her armament, machinery and all her
appointments precisely as when she went down, a most danger
ous obstacle in the navigation of the river. There are said to
be about five hundred tons of railroad iron covering her shield.
The jiile work and other impediments in the side channels put
down during the war are not commented upon in this report,
as they do not immediately affect the direct approaches to the
city. The changes in the channel near Fig Island, occasioned
by the sinking of the obstructions below, offer at this time the
most serious hindrance to the commerce of the port. Previous
to the commencement of the war, vessels drawing seventeen and
a half feet passed easily to and from the city, whilst at the pre
sent time the best water reported by the pilots is only thirteen
and a half feet at mean high tide, the lines upon which this
depth can be found being very much narrowed in comparison
with those which formerly prevailed. It is proposed to dredge
out this shoal immediately, and to this end the Commissioners
of Pilotage entered into contract on the 30th of June last with
the Charleston Dredging and Wharf Building Company, to ex
cavate at this point twenty-five thousand cubic yards of sand,
at a cost of thirty cents per cubic yard, proposing to increase
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the depth of water to eighteen feet at full tide. This contract,
owing to delays on the part of the company, has not as yet
been commenced, and from present indications is not likely to
be. It will be the interest of the city to rely upon her own
enterprise, and to build for herself a dredging machine which
will meet the necessities of the present occasion, and thereafter
be employed in deepening the river along the entire wharf
front. The cost of such an apparatus, with all its appliances of
machinery, scows, &c., will not exceed eighteen thousand dol
lars, and the investment will pay for itself in three years. Our
river is the artery of wealth and prosperity to Savannah, and
its improvement should take precedence over every other pro'
ject.
Following up the channel from Fig Island shoals, we come
next to the wreck of the ram Ogeechee, near Willink's ship
yard, and above her again an old hulk imbedded in the stream,
in the immediate vicinity of the Ferry wharf. Both of these
are awash at low water, and form serious impediments in the
navigation of the river. A shoal is forming around each. The
space above, as far as the mouth of the Ogeechee canal, is un
impeded with obstacles.
In May last the Treasury Department at Washington, re
voking the authority which it had conceded to the city to en
ter into engagements for clearing out the impediments to
navigation in the Savannah river, entered into contract with
" Henry S. Welles, of New York, representing the Brunswick
and Florida Railroad, to raise and transport to the city of Sa
vannah such jwtions as may be valuable of the following
wrecks, viz: The Savannah, the Ogeechee, the Georgia, the
wrecks of vessels sunk below the obstructions, the Dry Dock
sunk in St. Augustine creek, the wrecks sunk near Fort Pulas
ki, and such other vessels as may be discovered in and near said
river and harbor." " The said Henry S. Welles agreeing to
execute a bond in the penal sum of $30,000 for the performance
of this contract."
This agreement, so manifestly unjust to the commercial in
terests of Savannah, as involving only the removal from the
channel of "such portions" of the wrecks as might prove valua-
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ble to the contractor, was promptly brought to the notice of
the City Council, and at once acted upon by the Board, by the
appointment of a committee to proceed to Washington, with a
memorial to the President of the United States, asking his in
tervention in the action of the Treasury Department, and pray
ing that the city might be allowed to perfect its own arrange
ments, then in process of completion with another party. To
this ajrpeal the President responded by issuing instructions to
the Secretary of the Treasury, directing the amplification of
Welles' contract, so as to include the removal of " all cribs,
piles, boats, scows, vessels and other property obstructing the
channel of Savannah river, at his own expense and risk ;" thus
virtually adopting an agreement of substantially the same tenor
and effect as that which had been prepared by the city with
Mr. Andy Hartshorn. Mr. Welles further stipulates to pay
over the sum of five thousand dollars from the proceeds of said
property, to be used for the purpose of dredging the channel,
and enters into bond in the sum of fifty thousand dollars, con
ditioned for the faithful performance of the provisions of his
contract.
Serious delays have occurred uj) to this time in the prosecu
tion of the enterprise ; but the work is now fairly under way,
and, under the ausjnees of our energetic fellow-townsman, Mr.
Henry F. Willink, Jr., will be pushed forward without any fur
ther loss of time. The dangerous wreck in the channel near
Ferry wharf, has been lifted from its bed and removed, and
workmen are now engaged upon the sunken ram Ogeechee.
The gunboats Isondiga and Firefly have been raised and
brought to the city from Back river. The contractor has al
ready expended thirty thousand dollars in the purchase of ma
chinery, material and appliances now here, and has ordered out
from New York a powerful steam tug, with pumps, cranes, <fcc.,
to be used expressly in the removal of the obstructions.
Respectfully submitted.
EDW. C. ANDERSON, Mayor,
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CITY TEEASUEEE'S ANNUAL EEPOET.
Statement of Cash Received and Paid through the Treasury
from December 1st, 1865, to October 1st, 1866.
DR.
To balance as per last statement $ 2,096 40
To BADGES
Received from Clerk of Council 8,361 80
To BILLS RECEIVABLE
Received from A. N. Miller $ 374 00
Received from Savannah National
Bank 63 00
Received from Win. Duncan 4,000 00
" " T. Holcombe 494 00
" " D. A. O'Byrne... 297 24
" " L. J. B. Fairchild, 122 20 5,350 44
To BOARD OF HEALTH
Received from City Marshal, collected for
abating nuisances 15 00
To BONDS
Received for fractional differences in funding
coupons 714 88
To CITY COUET
Received from Clerk for fees collected 495 00
To CITY LOTS
Received 20 per cent, on Lots sold
in Charlton Ward $ 300 00
Received 20 per cent, on Lots sold
in Crawford Ward 1,543 00
Received 20 per cent, on Lots ssold
in Calhoun Ward 2,560 00
Received 20 per cent, on Lots sold
in Springfield Plantation 376 00 4,779 00
To CITY STORE No. 2
Received from J. L. Villalonga, late Chair
man, for Provisions sold 10,340 95
To DIVIDENDS
Received for 331 shares Southwest
ern R. R. Stock $ 1,324 00
Received for 639 shares Augusta
and Savannah R. R. Stock 8,520 00 9,844 00
To Amount Carried Forward, $41,997 47
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City Treasurer's Annual EeportContinued. DR.
Amount Brought Forward, $4i,997 47
To FEES
Received from Harbor Master. . . .$ 5,125 00
Received from Clerk of Council.. 3,085 75
Received from City Marshal, for
executions 25 00
Received from City Marshal, for
pound fees 64 00
Received for Executions, Re-Entries and Transfers collected at
Treasurer's Office 1,130 00 9,429 75
To FINES
Received from Clerk of Council 3,267 50
To GROUND RENTS
Received for City Lots 34,672 55
INCIDENTAL
Received for sale of Desk in Mar
shal's office $ 75 00
Received forsale ofRevenue Stainps 18 25 93 25
To INTEREST
Received Interest on Bills Receiv
able $ 180 55
Received Interest on Ground Rent, 2 73
Received Interest on U. S. Treasu
ry Notes 36 50
Received Interest on new Bonds issued, 189 29
Received Premium on Moneys sent
to New York to redeem Cou
pons 75 00 484 07
To JAIL
Received from Jailer for fees 517 00
To LAUREL GROVE CEMETERY
Received from Keeper for Burial
fees $ 825 50
Received from Sale of Lots 280 00 1,105 50
To LICENSE
Received from Clerk of Council 71,090 25
To MARKET
Received for rent of Stalls $ 6,406 69
Received from E.Shcftall,late Clerk 226 75
Received from I. Brunner, Clerk.. 6,152 15 12,785 59
To POLICE
Received from Policemen for L^nif'orms 2,210 00
Amount Carried Forward, $177,652 93
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City Treasurer's Annual ReportContinued. DR,
Amount Brought Forward, $177,652 93
To POOR HOUSE AND HOSPITAL
Received for State Tax on Auction Sales 984 07
To RENTS
Received for two lower rooms in
Exchange $ 1,950 00
Received for three tenements in
Tombs 153 00
Received for Iron Safe 63 00
Received for Wharf Lot foot of
West Broad street 300 00
Received for Lot on Canal 31 25
Received for Lot on Springfield
Plantation 30 00 2,527 25
To RICE
Received from late Alderman J. L.Villalonga 31,196 14
SCAVENC.ER DEPARTMENT
Received for sale of one Horse and one Mule
at pound 35 00
STREETS AND LANES
Received from City Marshal for repairinopavement 22 37
To TAXES, 1859
Received from City Marshal for executions.. 31 00
To TAXES, #860
Received from City Marshal for Executions.. 98 00
To TAXES, 1861
Received from City Marshal for Executions. . 103 50
To TAXES, 1862
Received from City Marshal for Executions.. 287 68
ToTvcm, 133 5
Received from City Marshal for Executions.. 270 70
To TAXES, 1864
Received from City Marshal for Executions. . 271 60
To TAXES, 1865
Received for Real Estate $15,975 16
Received for Sales and Income. ... 17,0r-4 (14 33,029 80
To TAXES, 18(')fi
Received for Real Estate $G0,844 00
Received for Sales, Income, &c.. . 74,478 49
Received for Capitation 655 00 135,977 49
To WATER WORKS
Received from Secretary for Water Rates. . . 14,150 89
$396,644 42
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18 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
City Treasurer's Annual ReportContinued. CfB,.
BY BADGES
Paid for New Badges $ 215 00
BY BILLS PAYAI LE
Paid note of Dr. R. D. Arnold,
late Mavor, due to C. R. R.
Bank.. " $ 1,974 66
Paid note of Dr. R. D. Arnold,
late Mayor, due to Bank of Sa
vannah 740 00 2,714 66
BY BILLS RECEIVABLE-
Paid Ground Rent and Taxes for
J. F. Tucker, Trustee, T. Hol
combe and Mary S. Patot $ 913 44
Paid Win. Duncan for Poor House
and Hospital 4,000 00 4,913 44
BY BOARD OF HEALTH
Paid Salary to City Apothecary. ..$ 833 30
Paid for Medicine for Dispensary. 426 48
Paid Lincoln Hospital for Paupers
sent there 345 55
Paid for removing dead bodies and
cleaning privies 62 50
Pd. for Coffins and burying Paupers 316 00
Paid for printing Rules of Board
of Health, etc 210 00
Paid for Lime and Copperas 535 00
Paid appropriation for Surveying. 250 00 2,978 83
BY CITY CLOCKS
Paid salary to Keeper $ 180 00
Pd. for repairs and cleaning Clocks 300 00
Paid for repairs to Presbyterian
Church, damaged by falling of
Clock weights 265 00
Paid for repairs on wood-work
around Exchange Clock 14 65 759 65
BY CITY COURT
Paid salary to Judge $ 1,350 00
Paid for Books, Blanks and Sta
tionery 187 55
Paid for'Wood and Gas 41 80
Paid for Chairs 18 00 1,597 35
BY CITY EXCHANGE
Paid for sundry repairs, glazing,
Amount Carried Forward, $13,178 93
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 19
City Treasurer's _A.nnual Repox-tContinned CR.
Amount Brought Forward $\3,178 93
roofing and painting $ 754 3o
Paid for Gas and Burners 127 90
Paid for scouring, lightwood, sand,
coal hods, table, etc 83 95
Paid for Insurance 75 00 1,04120
BY CITY LAMPS
Paid Gas Company for lighting
Street Lamps ". '.....'$ 10,132 3l
Paid for Repairs and Labor 1,984 39
Paid for 100 New Lamps, etc 1,227 05
Paid for new Pipes 606 1 9 13,949 94
BY CITY PUMPS
Paid salary to Contractor $ 1,500 00
Paid for new Pumps and Platforms 1,484 50
P'd for digging and brickingWells 162 00 ?., 146 50
BY CITY STORE
Paid Pay Roll of Superintendent
and Ilands $ 1,106 00
Paid for Corn, Bacon, Flour, Grist,
Meal and Bread 5,535 4s
Paid for Rent of Store and Drayage 280 2s
Paid for grinding Corn in 1804. . . 210 00 7,131 TO
BY DOCKS AND WII UIVKS
Paid for repairing three Docks 1,0T5 00
BY DRY CULTUKE
Paid A. S. Jones for services in
1 863 and 1804 $ 200 00
Paid for work on Fig Island 350 00
Paid for work on Bilbo's Canal... 110 00
Paid salary to Inspector 100 00 TOO 00
BY FEES
Paid salary to Harbor Master and
Assistant $1,265 00
Paid J. Stoddard, Chairman Com
missioners of Pilotage 1,782 25 3,047 25
BY FIRE DEPARTMENT
Paid passed bills for Fire Comp's.$ 2,019 95
Paid for Hose and Freight to Me
tropolitan Fire Co 954 96
Pd Donation to Metropolitan Fire Co 500 00
Paid two annual contributions to
Germania Fire Co :
^0 00
Amount Carried Forward $43,336 58
20 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
City Trpafurer's -A.nniial ReportContinued. CR.
Amount Brought Forward $ 43,336 58
Paid two annual contributions and
gas to Washington Fire Co... . 330 00
Paid J. W. Anderson for damages
to Steps 86 00
Paid Dubbing and Freight 38 75
" salary to Clerk Savannah
Fire Co 220 00 4,449 66
BY FORSYTH PLACE
Paid salary to Keeper $ 794 98
Paid for Oyster Shells 267 50
Paid for Painting Railings, Gates
and Fountain 732 00
Paid for repairing Gates, Railing
and Pavements 145 30
Paid for Clover Seed, Flowers, etc. 51 18
Paid for making and painting new
Benches 426 24 2,417 20
BY INCIDENTAL
Paid for old City Scrip $ 53 75
Paid for Revenue Stamps 146 77
Paid for keeping List of Voters and
Tally Sheets, and Refreshments
at last Municipal Election 137 50
Paid for legal advice, professional
services in cases of Dr. Willis,
Tow, and others; costs in same
oases, and for extra services to
City Attorney 1,315 13
Paid three Assessors and Clerk... 1,350 00
Paid for engraving and signing
Bonds "". 750 00
Paid expenses to E. C. Anderson,
Mayor, and Hon. Solomon Cohen
to Augusta and Washington,D.C. 1,024 00
Paid fbrraising flat and removing
wreck, funeral expenses of two
Policemen, brooms, buckets,
water coolers, dispatches, coal,
lightwood, scrubbing offices, re
pairing safes, new ballot box,
and sundries , 733 41 5,5l0 56
Amount Carried Forward, $ 55,714 00
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 21
City Treasurer's Annual ReportContinued. CR.
Amount Brought Forward $ 55,714 00
BY INTEREST
Paid interest on two notes of Dr.
R. D. Arnold, late Mayor $ 278 77
Paid old Coupons (taken for taxes
and ground rents) 68,888 35
Paid Coupons due in 1&66 53,369 40
Paid Coupons due on new Bonds.. 0,240 50128,777 02
BY JAIL
Paid for building sewer and privy. 854 85
Paid for repairs, roofing, plumbing,
plastering, painting and glazing. 1,042 37
Paid for hard and Tinware^ &c.... 191 55
Paid for Blankets, Chairs, Window
Blinds, Candles, Blank Books
and Stationery 332 95
Paid for Medical Attendance, Med
icine and Copperas 149 91
Paid for Wood, Bread and Beef.. . 6,293 62
" for Bacoi,, Oil, Grist and Gro
ceries 524 99
Pd for salary to Jailer and Deputy 1,744 42 11,134 66
LAUREL GROVE 'CEMETERY
Paid salary to Keeper 1,385 00
" time of hands 2,288 00
" for Spades, Rakes, Shovels,
Pump and Stationery 86 35
Paid for repairs, glazing and open
ing Vault 162 25 3,921 60
LICENSE
Paid by order of Council 50 00
MARKET
Paid salary to Clerk and Assistant 1,408 32
" time of hands 753 00
" for new and repairing Stalls,
plastering, brick-work, Hose,
Pavement, Roof, cleaning Gaspipe, painting and glazing
Lamps, &c '1,652 19
Paid for lighting Lamps 1,200 60
" to G. O. Quint for rent of Stall
(twice paid) 166 66
Paid for building, painting and
Amount Carried Forward, $199,597 28
22 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
City Treasurer's .A-iinual ReportContinued. CR,
Amount Brought Forward $ 199 597 28
glazing Clerk's office 321 33
Paid for whitewashing 251 00
" for building cesspool and clean
ing sewer 170 80
Paid for building eastern addition
to Market and painting 1,441 90
Paid for Scales, Measures and
Wheelbarrows 79 50 7,445 30
OLD CEMETERY
Paid Keeper's salary 100 00
POLICE
Paid Pay Roll $68,747 87
Paid for Forage. 1,712 85
Paid for removing Bell from old
Guard House building belfry,
Iron Ventilator, repairs, plumb
ing, painting 783 64
Paid tor printing Rules, Blanks,
and Stationery 222 85
Paid for Wood, Window Shades,
Benches, &c 276 30
Paid for four Horses 725 00
" for Shoeing Horses 67 50
" for Gas 642 00
" for Uniforms 4,175 87
" for Pistols, Badges, Clubs and
Saddles 2,058 15 79,412 03
POOR HOUSE AND HOSPITAL
Paid Wm. Duncan, president 405 98
PRINTING AND STATIONERY
Paid City Printer, per contract.. .$ 700 00
" for Blanks and Books for the
different offices 1,066 10
Paid for Stationery for the different
offices ,. 240 35
Paid for advertising 301 72 2,308 17
PROFIT AND Loss
Counterfeit money received 11 00
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Paid salary to Teachers $ 1,237 50
" appropriation for books and
apparatus 500 00
Amount Carried Forward $ 289'279 76
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 23
City Treasurer's Annual ReportContinued. CR.
Amount Brought Forward $289,279 76
Paid for Furniture, Pepairs and
Insurance 527 77 2,265 27
QUARANTINE
Paid salary to Health Officer 728 25
" salary to Keeper Pest House 396 08
" for building new Pest House
and materials 1,775 30
Paid for conveying small pox cases
to Pest House and nursing 475 00
Paid for one Boat, Couches and
Mattresses 189 00
Paid for Coffins and Burials 98 00
" " cleaning well and build
ing privies 65 00
Paid for hard and tinware, stove
pipe, oil, &c 130 80
Paid for groceries, bread, beef and
medicine 203 28 4,066 71
BY RELIEF COMMITTEEPaid salary 1,528 50
BY RICE
Paid balance due to Z. N. Winkler, Wm.
Law, J. M. Middleton and Geo. S. Owen, 6,429 16
BY SALARYPaid to City Officers 12,879 96
BY SCAVENGER DEPARTMKNT
Paid time of hands S 7,454 75
" salary to Superintendent. ... 1,180 00
" for hay, corn, oats and bran. 3,793 71
" " five mules and three carts, 1,420 00
" " harness and repairs 275 50
" " shoeing mules and repairs
to carts and tools 1,309 27
Paid for repairs on pound, shovels,
forks, lanterns, rope, salt, crackino; corn, grease and oil 342 70
Refunded for 1 horse,sold at pound 17 00 15,852 93
BY STREETS AND LANES
Paid time of hands $ 7,174 00
" for paving Abercorn-st. Bluff', 2,027 55
" " " Lincoln-st, Bluff.. 2,564 58
" " West Broad-st.Bluff, 263 88
" " wall across foot of Mont
gomery street 406 00
Amount Carried Forward $332,302 29
24 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
City Treasurer's A.nnual ReportContinued. CR.
Amount Brought Forward $332,302 29
Paid for ballast and hauling 3,513 35
" " repairing bridges over Sa
vannah and Ogeechee and La
mar's canals 571 57
Paid for building sewer and cess
pools 1,473 73
Paid salary to Keeper of Crossings 600 00
" for planks,repairing and paint
ing railings around different
squares, and new benches 1,590 08
Paid assessed damage to property
by opening New street 400 00
Paid for tools,implements and hard
ware 640 48
Paid for chains, rings and black
smith work 523 57
Paid for three flats, two carts, lime,
stationery, &c 424 65 22,173 44
BY TAXES, 1862
Refunded by resolution of Council 84 00
BY TAXES, 1863
Refunded by resolution of Council 3760
BY TAXES, 1865
Refunded by resolution of Council 14 99
BYT>XES, 1866
Refunded by resolution of Council 148 18
BY WATER WORKS
Paid pay roll $ 6,742 75
" passed bills, including wood. 5,855 91 12,598 66
BY BALANCE 29,285 26
___^ $396,644 42
" JOHN WILLIAMSOi^it7"Trea7iire7
The undersigned, Committee on Finance, have examined
the Accounts of the City Treasurer from the 1st December,
1805, to the 30th September, 1800, inclusive, and find the same
correctly stated as per vouchers produced, showing a balance
in his hands of twenty-nine thousand two hundred and eightyfive dollars and twenty-six cents ($29,285 26.)
H. A. CRANE,
GEO. C. FREEMAN,
SAVANNAH, October 1st, 1866. Committee on Finance.
MAYOR'S ANTSTUAL REPORT. 25
RESOURCES OF THE CITY OF SAVANNAH, OCTOBER 1,1866.
12,383 shares Atlantic & Gulf R. R Co. - $1,238,300 00
1,307 shares Mont. & West Point R. R. Co., 130,700 00
639 shaies Augusta & Savannah R. R. Co., 63,900 00
331 shf res Southwestern E. R. Co. - 33,100 00
3 Promissory Notes of N". B. Clinch, secur
ed by mortgage on lands sold to him, 6,843 75
$1,472,843 75
CITY DOMAIN.
622 Lots in 22 Wards, under lease
and valued at $465,286 32
73 Lots in Springfield, under lease, 35,038 00
Lots laid off and valued, not leased, 68,000 00568,324 32
APPROXIMATE VALUE OF LANDS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
33 Lots South and East of Hospital,20,000 00
61 Lots in Lloyd Ward, South of
the Jail, - 90,000 00
Eemainder of Springfield Plantat'n, 40,000 00
City Barracks, - - - 20,000 00
City Exchange, - - - 30,000 00
Water Works, - - - 200,000 00
Site purccased for Water Works, 22,000 00
Firemen's Hall, - - - 8,000 00430,000 00
$2,471,168 07
The above does not include Wharf Lot at the foot of West
Broad street, rented for one year from July 1,1866, at $810
per annum ; Slip on the Canal, rented for one year from
October, 18C6, at $75 per annum ; a small encroachment
on Lot No. 3, Decker Ward, rented at $10 per annum ; Line
of Wharf Head between Hutchinson's and Fig Islands,
Wharf Slip at the foot of Reynolds street, east end of the
city, known as the Ferry Wharf, ; Lot No. 90 Spring
field Plantation, rented for two years from February 1,
1866, at $60 per annum; 22 Carts and 20 Mules, for use of
streets and lanes and Scavenger's Department; also 6
Horses for use of City Police.
The following shares, owned by the city, are supposed to
be valueless:
50 shajes Ogeechee Plank Road Company, $ 5.000 00
500 shares Monroe II. It. and Banking Co., 50,000 CO
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