ERRATA IN MAYOR'S REPORT.
Tho following typographical errors occurred in the publication of the
Mayor's Eeport:
On page 18Bills Payable3d line from bottom of page for "Leaving
not paid 342,212 50," read "Leaving not paid *12,212 50."
On page 20Market Reportin footing of column devoted to Stalls,
for ' $93,145 23," read '$38,145 23."

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REPORT
OF
EDWARD C. ANDERSON,
MAYOR OF THE CITY OF SAVANNAH,
For the Year Ending September 30,
TO WHICH IS ADDED THE
T1JEASU1JEM?8 1JBFOMT.
Savannah, (fta.
CHA!*. E. O'^ULLIVAN. PRIXTEK.
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RULES OF COUNCIL.
RULE I.
The style of the Corporation shall be "THE MAYOR AND AL
DERMEN OF THE CITY OF SAVANNAH."
RULE II.
A quorum for business shall consist of seven Aldermen and
the Mayor, or presiding Chairman, except in the months of
July, Angust, September and October, when a majority of the
Aldermen in the city shall suffice.
RULE III.
All accounts against the Corporation, except the Pay Roll
of the City Police (which shall be paid by the Treasurer upon
the order of the Mayor,) shall be left with the Clerk of Coun
cil at least two days before the regular meeting, and shall be
registered by him. And it shall be the duty of the COMMITTEE
ON ACCOUNTS to examine every account so registered, at any
time before a regular meeting, and to report upon each, to be
approved or rejected by Council; and no account or claim
shall be laid before the board, that has not previously been
audited and examined by the Committee, nor paid until ap
proved by Council, except the Pay Roll aforesaid ; and the
Treasurer shall keep a correct record, in a book appropriated
to that purpose, of all accounts so passed, distinguishing in
separate columns those paid and those unpaid.
RULE IV.
No member shall address the Chair sitting or shall speak
more than twice on the same subject without permission from
the Chair ; nor shall any member be allowed to speak more
than ten minutes at any one time or on any account when
another member has not delivered his sentiments and wishes
to be heard.
RULE V.
All motions shall be made in writing, and seconded before
debate, and every bill shall be read twice, that is, once at two
distinct regular meetings of Council, before it passes into an
Ordinance, unless in case of emergency, when a bill may be
read twice by unanimous consent at the same session and
passed ; and after the passage of an Ordinance, the same shall
be signed by the Mayor or presiding Chairman as soon as
fairly copied, and be immediately thereafter published, and no
reconsideration of the minutes at the next meeting of Council
tall operate to suspend, affect or alter the provisions of said
'rdinance; and on the first reading of the bill, the question
hall be, "shall the bill be read the second time ?" All Ordi
nances, when passed, shall be fairly and correctly transcribed
by the Clerk of Council in a Book of Ordinances, and when
examined by the Mayor and found correct, shall be signed by
him or the officer presiding at the time of its passing, and
countersigned by the Clerk, with the seal of the city affixed.
RULE VI.
The Mayor (in his absence the Chairman) shall appoint all
committees, except where a ballot is demanded by two mem
bers of Council, and shall have a vote only when the mem
bers of Council are equally divided, unless in case of balloting
for officers or committees of this Board, when he shall vote as
other members.
RULE VII.
The Council shall meet at their chamber on Wednesday, in
every alternate week. From April 1st to September 30th, at 8
o'clock P. M., and from October 1st to March 31st, at 7%
o'clock P. M. ; and having met, no member shall absent himhimself without leave from the Chair; and any member ab
senting himself without such permission, or who shall be ab
sent at any meeting, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding
two dollars, unless excused by the Board. Any member ab
senting himself without leave for more than three months at
one time from the city, his seat shall be declared vacant, and
a new election ordered.
RULE VIII.
The Messenger shall summon the members personally, or
by leaving written notices at their usual places of abode, for
every meeting, regular or extra, notifying precisely the hour
of meeting, and every such summons shall be served by 12
o'clock M., of the day of meeting.
RULE IX.
The Clerk shall read over the minutes of the preceding
Council, at the subsequent regular meeting, in order that any
clerical mistake or omission may be corrected or supplied ;
but no alteration and amendments as to the substance shall be
made or entered, unless on motion for reconsideration.
RULE X.
The Mayor, or in case of his absence or sickness, the Chair
man, or in case of the sickness or absence of both of these of
ficers, any three Aldermen shall have the power to call extra
meetings, and any member summoned shall be subject to the
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same fine in case of default, as for non-attendance on regul,
meetings, unless excused by the Board. And it shall be tli
duty of the Mayor or Chairman, as the case may be, to cal
extra meetings whenever three Aldermen shall require him
in writing, so to do ; but no appropriation of money shall be
made except at a regular meeting of the Board.
RULE XI.
It shall be in the power of this Board to expel any of its
members for indecent or ungentlemanly conduct, whether be
fore Council as a member, or in his capacity as an Alderman,
and two-thirds of the members present may expel such mem
ber or members from Council.
RULE XII.
Whenever any member shall require it, the yeas and nays
of the members present shall be entered on the minutes on any
question taken.
""RULE XIII.
In all cases when committees are ordered to contract for
public repairs and improvements, they shall give notice in one
or more ofthe public gaeettes of the city, for a period not less
than twenty days ; and when proposals shall have been re
ceived by the committee, they shall be reported to Council for
approbation or rejection. Each Standing Committee may,
however, order any necessary and urgent repairs to any extent
not exceeding one hundred dollars, and the same shall be re
ported to Council at its next regular meeting; provided, how
ever, that Council may give general and standing directions
to the Street and Lane Committee to provide such lumber,
gravel, sand, oyster-shells, or other materials as may be
needed in repairing, grading or ornamenting the streets and
public squares. The same to be audited and accounted for at
stated intervals like all other accounts of the Board.
RULE XIV.
It shall be necessary, in all elections by Council, that a ma.
jority of the votes of the members present shall be obtained
before a candidate can be elected.
RULE XV.
Every Council shall, on the day of its organization, elect a
Chairman, on whom shall devolve all the duties of the Mayor
during the sickness or absence of that officer, and who shall
act accordingly until the Mayor shall resume his functions.
RULE XVL
No member of this Board shall be directly or indirectly inerested in any contract, office or appointment, to be made
ivith or derived from the Board, and which shall have annexed
to it any pecuniary advantage or emolument.
RULE XVII.
The only officers whose regular attendance will be required
during the sittings ofCouncil, are the Treasurer, Marshal, Cor
poration Attorney, Clerk and Messenger ; but all or any other
officers of the city shall be bound to attend any meeting upon
the requisition of the Mayor in writing, or by special resolu
tion of Council to that effect.
RULE XVIII.
The doors of the Council Chamber shall, on all occasions,
during the sittings of Council, be kept open, nor shall any cit
izen be excluded therefrom, nor.shall the doors on any occa
sion be closed but upon a vote of a laajority of the members
present. ,
RULE XIX.
The Messenger and all other officer*, except the City Sheriff,
are required to keep their offices in the Exchange, and desks
and apparatus shall be provided for them, and the said offices
shall be attended to from 9 o'clock A. M., to 2 o'clock P. M.;
daily, Sundays excepted.
RULE XX.
No Ordinance shall contain any subject matter which is not
immediately and necessarily connected with the subject and
title of the Ordinance.
RULE XXI.
The summons for all extra meetings of Council shall express
the cause thereof, and no business shall be brought before the
Board at any extra meeting which is not set forth in the sum
mons.
RULE XXII.
The Clerk of Council shall furnish each committee with
copies of all resolutions relating to the concerns of said com
mittees, which copies shall be personally served or left at the
dwelling of the chairman of such committee, within forty-eight
hours after the passage of any resolution, or immediately
thereafter in cases of emergency.
RULE XXIII.
No member of this Board shall be accepted as security i
the bond of an officer appointed by its authority, noi for th
fulfillment of any contracts made with Council, nor shall anj
officer of Council be accepted as security on the bond of any
officer appointed under it.
RULE XXIV.
The operation of any of the Rules of this Board, (except
Rules II, XV and XVI,) may be dispensed with by the unan
imous consent of the members present.
RULE XXV.
Any proposition to alter any of the established rules for the
government of this Board, or to make new ones, shall be of
fered one meeting at least previous to its discussion, and can
only thereafter be adopted by two-thirds of the members
present agreeing to the same.
RULE XXVI.
The Mayor shall possess a superintending power over all
the salaried officers of this Board, and upon any complaint
against, or for neglect of duty by said officers, he shall inves
tigate the same, and, if he thinks it necessary, report the de
linquent and the charges to this Board. The Mayor shall also
have power to suspend any officer holding an appointment un
der Council for any flagrant violation of duty, rendering it ne
cessary to take such step, which suspension he shall report to
Council within forty-eight hours afterwards, by whom the
said alleged offence may be inquired into.

RULES OF ORDER.
1. Every question of order shall be decided by the Chair
without debate, subject to an appeal to the Hoard, and the
Chair may call for the sense of the Board on any question of
order. If repeated calls do not produce order, the member is
to be called by name.
2. Where the private interests of a member are concerned
in a bill or question, he is to withdraw, and when such an in
terest has appeared, his voice has been disallowed, even after
a division.
3. No motion shall be debated or put, until the same shall
be seconded. It is then, and not till then, in possession of the
Board, and cannot be withdrawn but by leave of the Board.
4. No motion for adjournment can be made by one member
while another is speaking.
5. No one speaking directly against the body of a bill or
measnre, ought to be one of its committee, (if referred).
6. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be re
ceived, but to adjourn to lie on the table for the pirevious ques
tion, to postpone to a day certain, to commit, to amend, to
postpone indefinitely ; which several motions shall have pre
cedence in the order they stand arranged, and the motion for
adjournment shall always be in order, and be decided without
debate.
1. When a proposition is moved, which is useless or inex
pedient, the previous question is introduced for suppressing for
that time the motion and its discussion, in which case the
main question is to be put immediately without any further
debate, and in the form in which it then exists. But as the
previous question gets rid of it only for that day, and it may
recur again, if it is desired to suppress entirely, the motion
should be to p>ostp>one indefinitely.
8. When a proper motion is made, but information wanted,
the motion is to postpone to a day.
9. When matter claiming present attention, but which it is
desired to reserve for a more suitable occasion, the order is to
" lie on the table.'1
'' It may then be called for at any time. If
the proposition or matter need further consideration, " Refer
to a Committee" but if it need but a few and simple amend
ments, proceed to consider and amend at once.
10. On motion to amend a Bill, any one may move to com
mit it, and the question for commitment shall be first put. An
amendment to an amendment is admitted, but to amend an
amendment to an amendment, not.
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1. On an amendment being moved, a member who has
jken to the main question, may speak again to the amendent.
12. The question is to be put, first on the affirmative, and
hen on the negative side. After the affirmative part of the
(uestion has been put, any member who has not spokenbefore
to the question, may rise and speak before the negative be
put ; because it is no full question till the negative part be
put.
13. But in small matters, the Chair most commonly supposes
the consent to be given, when no objection is expressed, and
does not give the trouble of putting the question formally.
14. When a question has been moved and seconded, and
been put by the Chair in the affirmative and negative, it be
comes a full question, and cannot be debated afterwards, un
less under motion for reconsideration.
15. When a question has been once made and carried in the
affirmative or negative, it shall be in order for any member of
the majority to move for the reconsideration thereof, but no '
motion for the reconsideration of any vote shall be in order
after a bill, resolution, report, amendment or motion upon
which the vote was taken, shall have gone out of the posses
sion of the Board.
16. A member having spoken as often as the rules allow,
may be permitted to speak again to clear a matter of fact, or
merely to explain himself in some material part of his speech,
or to the manner or words of the question, keeping himself to
that only, and not going into the merits of it, and not falling
into the matter itself.
1V. The consequences of a measure may be reprobated in
strong terms, but to arraign the motives of those who propose
to advocate it, is a personality and against order.
18. In filling blanks, the largest sum and longest time shall
be first put.
Adopted in Council October 27th, 1869.
Attest:
JAMES STEWART, Clerk of Council.
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ADDITIONAL MILES ADOPTED BY COUNCIL
SPECIAL MEETING OF OCTOBER 29, 1869.
1 All Bills or Resolutions should originate in, and be re
ported to Council, as from an appropriate Standing Commit
tee. Before being reported they must be endorsed as legal
under the hand of the City Attorney, and must also be en
dorsed by the Chairman or acting Chairman of the Commit
tee in the following form :
"The Committee on beg leave to report this orig
inal Bill (or Resolution), and recommend that the same do
pass."
2. All Bills or Resolutions referred to a Committee
(whether Standing or Special) must be reported back to Coun
cil, endorsed by the Chairman or acting Chairman, in the fol
lowing form :
"The Committee on (or the Special Committee),
to whom this Bill (or Resolution) was referred, beg leave to
report, that having had the same under consideration, they re
commend that the same do (or do not) pass."
3. In all instances the Chairman of the Committee, or a
member delegated to represent the Committee, will introduce
the Bill or Resolution in person, and will then hand the paper
to the Clerk for reading.
Additional rules adopted in Council, October 29th, 1869.
Attest :
JAMES STEWART, Clerk of Council.

NAMES OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN,
FOR 1860 AKD 1870.
M AY OK:
JOHN SCREVEN.
CHAIRMMAN OF COUNCIL :
ALFRED HA.Y^^()OID.
ALDERMEN:
1. ALFRED HAYWOOD, 7. ANDREW M. SLOAN,
2. DAN'L T. SCRANTON, 8. WM. H. TISON,
3. JOHN O. FERRILL, 9. MICHAEL LAVIN,
4. R. J. DAVANT, Jr., 10. GEORGE N. NICHOLS,
5. JOHN SCHWARZ, 11, JAMES O'BYRNE,
6. MOSES J. SOLOMONS, 12. WM. M. DAVIDSON.
STANDING COMMITTEES OF COUNCIL, 1869-70.
AccountsAldermen Solomons, Davant, Sloan, Scranton.
Docks and WharvesAldermen O'Byrne, Tison, Scranton.
Dry CultureAldermen Davant, Davidson, Nichols.
EducationAldermen Davant, Ferrill, Nichols, tlie Mayor.
FinanceAldermen Tison, Sloan, Solomons, Davant,
Scranton, Haywood, Davidson.
FireAldermen Scranton, Davidson, Schwarz.
GasAldermen Davidson, Tison, Schwarz.
Health and CemeteryAldermen Schwarz, Ferrill, Solo
mons.
JailAldermen Ferrill, Scranton, O'Byrne.
Market^Aldermen Haywood, O'Byrne, Lavin.
Public Bni'/dinr/sAldermen- Nichols, Scranton, Solo
mons.
Public Sales and City LotsAldermen Solomons. Tison.
Davidson.
PumpsAldermen Lavin, O'Byrne, Haywood.
Streets and LanesAldermen Haywood, Scranton, Nichols,
Lavin, Ferrill.
Water WorksAldermen Sloan, Tison, Solomons.

<&%>*
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
MAYORS OFFICE,
SAVANNAH. October 1st, 1869.
To the Citizens of Savannah:
The Mayor's Report for the past fiscal year, with a state
ment of receipts and disbursements in the Treasurer's office,
is respectfully submitted :
INTEREST AND FUNDED DEBT.
The statement of outstanding coupons due prior to 1866
on funded debt, made in report of 1866, was based upon the
previous report of 1865, which again seems to have been
based upon previous reports. By reference to the report of
1861, the outstanding coupons amounted to. . . . $5,285 0(1
Add to this interest due on funded debt for 1862. 131,098 80
Total $136,383 80
Of this amount there was paid in 1862 104,603 80
Leaving unpaid $31,780 00
and not as stated in the report of 1862 24:,867 00
Thus increasing the amount stated in 1866 bv . . $6,913 00
The total amount, therefore, in 1866 should have
been $378,483 00
Of this there was funded and received for taxes
inl866 $295,143 25
Funded and received for taxes in
1867 62,885 62
Funded and received for taxes in
1868 5,460 00
Funded and received for taxes in
1869 9.677 50373.166 37
Leaving still outstanding of those
duepriorto 1866 $5,316 63
4 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
STATEMENT OF INTEREST ACCOUNT ON FUNDED
DEBT SINCE JANUARY 1st, 1866.
Amount due in 1866 $134,882 30
" 1867 142,935 80
1868 147,800 80
1869 $143,539 20
which includes interest on one bond
for $3,640 issued May 17th,
1869, (for past due coupons), to
Mr. Jas. Welsman, of Charles
ton, S. C, less amount due in
November and December,1869.$47,284 30 96,254 90
$521,873 80
Of this amount there was redeemed
in 1866 $59,609 90
Kedeemed in 1867 140,429 80
" 1868 153,028 45
" 1869 144,895 80497,963 95
Leaving unredeemed October 1st, 1869 $23,909 85
Add to this, amount still outstanding of coupons
due prior to 1866, as above 5,316 63
Total $29,226 48
The Annual Report of 1868 shows the funded
debt of the City to have been . .$2,048,740 00
Since that time, and previous to the transfer
of stock above alluded to, one bond for
$500 issued for subscription to Augusta
and Savannah Rail Road was redeemed
for five shares ofcorresponding stock, thus
reducing the funded debt to 2,048,240 00
To which, however, has to be added one manu
script bond, dated May 17th, 1869, and
payable January 1st, 1886, issued to Jas.
Welsman, of Charleston, S. C, for coupons on city bonds due prior to 1866,
amounting to 3,640 00
Thus making the total amount of funded debt
on October 1st, 1869 $2,051,880 00
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 5
The stock in the Augusta and Savannah Rail Road is as
per above statement reduced to 419 shares. A dividend on
these shares of three and one-half per cent, has been declared,
which has not been available to the city under the injunc
tion now pending.
SALE AND TRANSFER OF CITY STOCKS.
In accordance with preliminary negotiations between the
Mayor and Aldermen and Mr. Wm. B. Hodgson for himself
and others, the following matter touching the purchase of
certain Stocks owned by the City, was submitted to Council
at its Regular Meeting on the 23d December, last, as follows:
12,383 shares in the Atlantic & Gulf Rail Road Company.
307 shares in the Montgomery and West Point Rail Road
Company.
424 shares in the Augusta and Savannah Rail Road
Company.
1 share in the South-Western Rail Road Company, tor
which bonds had been issued by the City.
The South-Western Rail Road Company, with the guar
antee of the Central Rail Road Company, offering to take
these stocks and pay the bonds of the City at maturity, and
the semi-annual interest on the same, as follows:
Bonds of Atlantic & Gulf Rail Road Company, (due in
twenty years,) $944,000 00.
Bonds of South-Western Rail Road Company, (due in one
year,) $117,000.
Bonds of Augusta and Savannah Rail Road Company,
(due in two years,) $174,500 00.
A. R. Lawton, Esq., representing the joint corporations
above named, submitted to Council the following papers,
signifying the acceptance of said Company, with the guar
antee of the Central Rail Road Company, for the perform
ance of the contract, which were, on motion, ordered to be
spread on the Minutes of Council.
6 MAYORS ANNUA!, RKPOKT.
SOUTH-WKSTERN RAIL ROAD COMPAMY, )
OFFICE MACON, GA., Dec. 18, 1868. f
At a called meeting of the Board of Directors, held this
day, the following Preamble and Resolutions were intro
duced and unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS, Certain propositions made to Wm. B. Hodg
son, Esq., by the City Council of Savannah, for the transfer
of its stock in the Atlantic and Gulf, Montgomery and
West Point, Augusta and Savannah and South-Western
Rail Road Companies, upon terms and conditions therein
named, has been submitted for the consideration of this
Board; and, whereas, the consummation of those propositions
contemplate an amicable and just settlement of the present
unhappy and ruinous competition on the part of the Atlantic
and Gulf Rail Road for business legitimate!)" belonging to
the South-Western and Central Rail Roads:
Now, therefore, relying upon the good faith of the City
of Savannah to protect as far as possible the investments
already made in the great channels of commerce terminating
at the Port of Savannah, by refraining from fostering other
competing lines, and for the purpose of rendering the lines
now in existence not only self-sustaining but profitabledis
claiming all antagonistic feeling, and desiring to contribute,
as far as possible, to the commercial wealth and prosperitv
of Savannah, be it
Resolved, That this Company will undertake to give the
guarantee required by the propositions from the City Council
of Savannah and accepted on the part of Wm. B. Hodgson.
Esq., for himself and others.
Resolved, That the President of this Company be and he
is hereby fully authorized and empowered to execute the
necessary papers to cany out the propositions made to Wm.
B. Hodgson, Esq., by the City Council of Savannah, for the
transfer of its stocks referred to in the foregoing preamble
MAYORS ANNUAL REPORT. 7
and resolution, either as those propositions now stand or as
they may be modified and agreed to by him. i
Resolved, That inasmuch as the City Council of Savannah
requires the endorsement of this Company's guarantee, by
some other corporation acceptable to the City Council, for
the payment of the interest and principal of the City Bonds,
in consideration for the stocks to be transferred, and in view
of the greater interest of the Central Rail Road and Banking
Company of Georgia, in the settlement of conflicting Rail
Road interests terminating at Savannah, a Committee, con
sisting of the President of this Company, Gen. A. R. Lawton
and Virgil Powers, are hereby appointed to confer with the
Board of Directors of the Central Rail Road and Banking
Company of Georgia, and invite that Company to join with
the South-Western Rail Road Company, upon just and
equitable terms in the guarantee to the City of Savannah
for the payment of the interest and principal at maturity of
the bonds, in consideration for the stocks proposed to be
transferred.
True extract from the Minutes.
[Signed] JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET,
Secretary and Treasurer.
[B]
OFFICE OF THE CENTRAL RAIL ROAD AND )
BANKING COMPANY OF GEORGIA, V
Savannah, December 22, 1868. )
At the Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors of this
Company, the following Resolutions were passed:
Resolved, That William B. Hodgson, Esq., and Gen. A.
R. Lawton, are hereby authorized and requested to notify
the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah the readi
ness of this Company to join the South-Western Rail Road
Company in the guarantee of payment of the interest and
principal, at maturity, of certain bonds of the City of Savan
nah as indicated in the proposition made by said Mayor and
Aldermen to Wm. B. Hodgson, Esq., December 16, 1868.
b MAYORS ANNUAL REPORT.
Resol ved, Thatthe President of this Company is authorized
to execute all the necessary papers to consummate this ar
rangement with the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah and with the South-Western Rail Road Company.
* * * * * *
1 certify the above to be a true extract from the minutes
of the Central Rail Road and Banking Company of Georgia.
[Signed] T. M. CUNNINGHAM, Cashier.
[C]
MEMORANDUM.
At the conclusion of this important negotiation, relieving
the Citv of Savannah of more than a million of debt, I am
instructed by my associates to present to members of the
Council, in their individual capacity, some remarks expres
sive of our views and wishes.
As private citizens, we ma}' congratulate each other that
a fortunate concurrence of events has given us the power of
securing inestimable advantages to our town. Corroding
debt is the only serpent which the infant Hercules of Savan
nah could not have strangled but for this concurrence.
Our municipal authorities will now be relieved from de
pressing anxieties, and recover the faculty of promoting the
material and moral improvement of our City.
The nerve and moral courage displayed bv members of
the City Council, under the trying circumstances of the last
few years, command and receive the gratitude of us all.
The obligations which we assume by this negotiation ar
heavy. It is assumed by Georgia men and Georgia capital.
We rely for the performance of our contract on the peace
ful development of our State resources. This enterprise is
conceived in opposition to none, but in good will to all.
Especially do we intend that it shall promote the interests
of Savannah.
With this candid expression of our views and intentions,
we consider this a fitting occasion to say to the citizens of
MAYORS ANNUAL REPORT. 9
Savannah, that we rely on their good will and support in
carrying out our present engagement. We do hope and
expect that, pending the fulfillment of our obligations, the
City of Savannah will not contribute new aid to any Rail
Roads which shall have the effect of injuring the present
established system of Rail Roads now in beneficial and suc
cessful operation. Our guarantor being a Rail Road Com
pany, it is proper, just and legitimate that we should ask
this support for it.
We now respectfully ask that this statement may be at
tached to the papers of the negotiation.
[Signed] WM. B. HODGSON,
For himself and others.
Savannah, December 16, 1868.
After the reading of the foregoing papers the following
Resolution was offered and unanimously adopted by Council:
Resolved, That the proposition now submitted for the
transfer of certain stocks on conditions named be accepted
and hereby confirmed, and that the Finance Committee be
authorized to have the necessary legal papers drawn and the
Mayor be hereby instructed to sign the same and perfect the
transfer.
But it is now distinctly understood that the City is not
bound by its action to refrain from aiding any other lines of
Rail Road that it may deem worthy of such support.
In compliance with the above Resolution the Finance
Committee met on the 28th day of December, and perfected
the sale and transfer of City Stocks, as shown in the follow
ing memorandum of agreement, which differs with the
previous statement submitted to Council on December 23d,
1868, in so far as to reduce the number of shares in the
Augusta and Savannah Rail Road to 419 instead of 424,
and the amount of Bonds issued for subscription to the Sa
vannah and Augusta Rail Road to $174,000 instead of
$174,500, said five shares of stock having been exchanged
by the City Treasurer during the interval between the 23d
2
10 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
and 28tli December, 1868, for one five hundred dollar bond
of corresponding issue in accordance with Resolution of
Council, adopted April 1st, 1869.
MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT.
State of Georgia Chatham County :
This Memorandum of Agreement made and entered into
this twenty-eighth day of December, in the year of our
Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight; between
the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah of the
first'part, and the South-Western Rail Road Company and
the Central Rail Road and Banking Company of Georgia of
the second part, all of said parties being incorporated under
the laws of the State of Georgia, witnesseth as follows:
First. The said party of the first part, for and in consid
eration of the agreements and covenants of the parties of the
second part, to be by them kept as hereinafter recited, does
herein and hereby agree and bind itself, to sell, convey and
transfer to said parties of the second part, the following
shares of the capital stock of the Rail Road Companies
hereinafter named, that is to say, twelve thousand three
hundred and eighty-three (12,383) shares of the capital stock
of the Atlantic and Gulf Rail Road of the par value of one
hundred dollars each.
Three hundred and seven (307) shares of the capital stock
of the Montgomery and West Point Rail Road, of the par
value of one hundred dollars each.
Four hundred and nineteen (419) shares of the capital
stock of the Augusta and Savannah Rail Road of the par
value of one hundred dollars each, and one share of the
South-Western Rail Road of the par value of one hundred
dollars; and the said party of the first part does actually
transfer said shares on the proper books of the respective
Rail Road Companies at the same time with the execution
of these presents to Wm. M. Wadley, President, and William
S. Holt, President, in accordance with the expressed wishes
of the said parties of the second part.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL EEPORT. 11
Second. The said the Central Rail Road and Banking
Company of Georgia and the South-Western Rail Road
Company, parties of the second part, in consideration of the
premises and of the ^transfer of said shares of Rail Road
Stock as aforesaid, do hereby agree to guarantee the pay
ment of and actually to pay the principal and the interest
to accrue, and become payable from and after the date of
these presents, on certain bonds issued and used by the
said the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah for
the subscription of the City of Savannah to said Rail Road
Companies; that is to say, bonds issued for the Savannah,
Albany and Gulf Rail Road, now Atlantic and Gulf Rail
Road, amounting to nine hundred and forty-four thousand
dollars, ($944,000,) bonds issued for the South-Western Rail
Road Company amounting to one hundred and seventeen
thousand dollars ($117,000,) bonds issued for the Augusta
and Waynesboro' Rail Road, now Augusta and Savannah
Rail Road, amounting to one hundred and seventy-four
thousand dollars ($174,000,) or any bonds properly to be
issued in lieu of any of the foregoing bonds lost, mutilated
or destroyed, said bonds to be paid, the principal sums at or
before the maturity of the same, and the interest at the re
spective dates, when the coupons thereto attached shall fall
due, a schedule of which said bonds, with the dates of their
issue, times of maturity, and of the falling due of coupons is
for greater certainty hereto attached, marked schedule A,
some of said bonds having already been issued in lieu of
bonds lost or mutilated.
Third. It is mutually covenanted and agreed by and
between the parties of these presents: that the said parties
of the second part will deposit in the Central Rail Road
Bank in Savannah, or at such other suitable place as may be
agreed upon, subject to the control of the City Treasurer of
Savannah, or other proper officer on the day before each
class of coupons for interest shall fall due, the precise sum
necessary to pay off said coupons, and such fund shall be
12 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
used for and applied to no other purpose whatever, and at
the maturity of any one of the classes of said bonds herein
enumerated, the said parties of the second part shall, in like
manner, deposit an amount of money sufficient for the pay
ment of the principal and any unpaid interest due on the
same, said money to be used for the purpose of such pay
ment, and for no other purpose whatever. In witness whereof,
and by authority of resolutions passed respectively by the
Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah in Council
assembled, and the Board of Directors of the Central Rail
Road and Banking Company of Georgia, and the SouthWestern Rail Road Company, the Mayor of said City of
Savannah, the President of the Central Rail Road and Bank
ing Company of Georgia, and the President of the SouthWestern Rail Road Company, have hereunto respectively set
their hands, and caused to be affixed the Seals of the said
respective corporations,on the day and year first above written.
As a part of the foregoing agreement it is hereby under
stood that the City of Savannah is to pay any accrued or
accruing interest on bonds up to the first day of January, in
the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine.
(Signed) EDWARD C. ANDERSON, Mayor.
Attest:
(Signed) JAMES STEWART, Clerk of Council.
( Seal of the City 1
( of Savannah. /
(Signed) WM. S. HOLT,
President South-Western Rail Road Company.
i Seal of the South-)
^Western Rail Road >-
( and Banking Co. j
Attest: (Signed) JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET,
Secretary and Treasurer.
(Signed) WM. M. WADLEY,
President of the Central R. R. & Banking Co. of Georgia.
( Seal of the Central)
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( ing Co of Georgia. )
Attest: (Signed) T. M. CUNNINGHAM, Cashier.
Memorandum made on margin before execution.
Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of
(Signed) HENRY R. JACKSON,
(Signed) THOMAS E. LLOYD,
Not. Pub. C. C.
(Two five cent. I. R.)
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STOCKS TO BK TRANSFKRRBD.
12,383 shares Atlantic and Gulf Rail Road Stocks.
419 shares Savannah and Augusta Rail Road Stocks.
307 shares Montgomery and West Point Rail Road
Stocks.
1 share South-Western Rail Road Stock.
13,110 shares.
-p n ( State of Georgia, ( Clerk's Office,
) Chatham County, j Superior Court.
I do hereby certify the within agreement and schedule
has been recorded in County Records, book 4 Bs, folios 365
and 367.
This January 8th, 1869.
(Signed) GEORGE WASHINGTON WILSON,
Deputy Clerk S. C. C. C.
Very soon after the date of the transaction thus completed,
and which promised so much of relief to the people of Sa
vannah, struggling under the heavy load of a funded debt
and other burdens, aggravated by the late war between the
States, it was ascertained that an injunction had been issued
out of the Superior Court of Bibb County, by which all the
parties interested in the said sale and transfer, namely, the
Central and South-Western Rail Road Companies and the
City of Savannah, were, amongst other things, and under a
penalty of fifty thousand dollars, "commanded to abstain
and desist from all further steps to purchase and consummate
their purchase and pay for the same.'' This injunction bears
date the 5th day of January, 1869, and was served on the
Corporation of Savannah on the 11th of the same month.
It was founded on a bill filed by Stephen Collins and others,
claiming to be stockholders in the South-Western and the
Atlantic and Gulf Rail Road Companies and citizens of the
State of Georgia and of the City of Macon. The more
particular ground on which the complainants found their
claim for relief and the setting aside of the said sale, is the
MAYORS ANNUAL REPORT. 15
alleged want of authority in the vendees to purchase said
stockssuch alleged want of authority being averred to be
that the Legislature had conferred no such power, and that
the assumed right to do so was contrary to public policy.
It became at once apparent that whatever may have been
the intention of the complainants in the bill, and of others
seeking to set aside this sale, it was the immediate duty of
the City of Savannah to use all lawful means in her power to
uphold the transaction which had been begun and consumma
ted in the utmost good faith by her City Council and the
Rail Road Companies, which had become the purchasers.
The answer of the City of Savannah was, in due time, filed,
a,nd a day set down for hearing the motion to dissolve the
injunction. Owing to causes beyond our control, the argu
ment on this notice was postponed. In addition to her
official legal representative, other and eminent counsel have
been employed by the City, and, after various continuances,
the motion to dissolve has been set down for an early day in
October, when, it is hoped, the decision of the Court will be
had.
It may not be out of place to annex hereto the report o^
the Finance Committee of the present Council, as showing
succinctly the advantages derivable from the above named
sale of stock, and the great injury which must ensue upon
its being set aside.
REPORT OF FINANCE COMMITTEE, ADOPTED BY
COUNCIL, SEPTEMBER I5th, 1869.
The retiring Board of Mayor and Aldermen, at the close
of a term of service extending through a period of three
years, desire to present to their fellow-citizens the position
occupied by them in the recent important financial transac
tion of the transfer of certain stocks under a BONA FIDE sale
to the Central and South-Western Rail Roads. The injunc
tion, so prejudicial to the interest of the City and the tax
payers thereof, laid upon this transaction, with a view of
16 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
defeating the sale, has deprived this Council of the funds to
pay the interest on the bonds of the City involved in this
transfer, and has thrown against us, the present year, an
amount over and above our estimates of income by ta.xation,
of some $50,000. This deficiency we have had to ar
range for partially with City bonds as collateral. We
here submit our record of this transaction. In good faith,
in connection with 419 shares Savannah and Augusta Rail
Road, 307 shares Montgomery and West Point Rail Road, 1
share South-Western Rail Road stocks, we sold 12,383 shares
of the Atlantic and Gulf Rail Road stock at about $94 per
share, the par value being $100. The object of the subscrip
tion having been accomplished, the Atlantic and Gulf Road
having been builtv there certainly was no longer any neces
sity for the City to hold an unproductive stock at an annual
cost to her of an interest of $86,450. Another important
object was to be accomplished by this sale, which was fully
digested by the Board, at the time of the sale, viz: it removed
forever from the Councils of the City all connection with
politics and political patronage, as connected with this great
work of internal improvement. Under all these circum
stances, we could not hesitate to consummate this transac
tion, when it was in our power to make such advantageous
terms for the City and for the relief of the tax-payers. The
evidence of the appreciation by the public of the wisdom of
the transaction was clearly evinced by the enhanced value
of the Atlantic and Gulf Rail Road stock upon the market
immediately upon the sale of the City stock becoming
known, the price of the same advancing from $40 per share
to $50. At the time we sold, she same stock would no*
bring over $40 per share, and if report be true, stock held
by the Atlantic and Gulf Rail Road was sold at same time
at $40 per share.
By our sale of this stock, we relieved the tax payers of an
annual interest of $86,450, and reduced the bonded debt of the
City from $2,050,000 to $817,000 in round numbers. Or,
MAYORS ANNUAL REPORT. 17
under another proposition, in twenty years, when the bonds
issued for this stock would mature, we would have saved to
the City, in interest and bonds, for the redemption of which
the faith and property of the City were pledged, $3,000,000.
Imagine our gratification at being the instruments of re
moving such a load from our beloved City, particularly
when the sale was made to parties knowing no other interest
but Savannah and her prosperity. The injunction laid upon
us very soon after the execution of the contract of sale has
hung over us for many months, notwithstanding the urgent
exertions of this Council and their legal advisers to bring
the matter to an issue. For these delays this Board feels
itself or its agents in no way responsible. The best legal
talent in the State has been employed in our cause, but the
fates have been against us. The last appointment for the
trial before the Superior Court of Bibb County, after two
previous postponements, was the seventh day of the present
month (September,) yet we have the report from our lawyers
that the trial is again postponed to October. By that time
the labors of this Board will have ceased, and it will rest
with our successors to press the matter to a higher Court in
the event of the decision being unfavorable to the City. It
should be remarked in this connection that $291,000 of the
bonded debt, to be cared for by the purchasing of the stock,
matures in November, 1869, and February, 1870. Another
very importantfeature in this sale, so far as the credit of the
City is concerned.
Under, therefore, the immense importance of this matter
to the tax payers and real estate owners of this City, and
feeling, as we do so closely identified with the welfare of our
City, it will not, we trust, be construed as officious for this
Council to entertain the hope that our successors in office
will see the great advantage to accrue to the City by the
non-reversion of this stock.
If this injunction is dissolved, and we cannot but sincerely
trust it will be, for the credit of our City and the lightening
18 MAYORS ANNUAL REPORT.
of taxation, a bonded debt of only $817,000 will exist in a
City of forty thousand inhabitants, the second Cotton port
in the country, with a taxable property of $12,000,000. With
such a light bonded debt, with an opportune time to increase
that debt half a million of dollars, and add immensely to
the comfort and health of the City by paving, sewering and
draining it thoroughly.
Under these views, be it therefore
Resolved, That the Board expresses the strong hope that
our successors will do all in their power to perpetuate our
action in the sale and transfer of this stock, and prevent
such a financial calamity as a reversion of the same to the
City.
We subjoin a statement from the Treasurer's office, which
is submitted as a recapitulation of the foregoing:
Amount of bonded debt irrevious to sale and
transfer $2,048,740
Amount of bonded debt after sale and transfer. . 816,880
Annual interest saved by transfer 86,450
Bonds due November 1,1869, which
were to be cared for by purchasers.$117,000
Bonds due February 1,1870, which were
also to be cared for by purchasers. 174,000 291,000
*See appendix for additional correspondence.
BILLS PAYABLE.
Under this head the Treasurer's Report shows discounts
from the Merchants' National Bank and the Central Rail
Road and Banking Company for Mayor's Notes.$217,712 50
and the floating debt on October 1st. 1868 46,321 16
Total $264,033 66
Of which there was paid during this year 251,821 16
Leaving not paid $42,212 50
Owing to the stringency of the money market, and the
scarcity of currency in the City Banks, it became necessary,
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 19
in August last, in order to meet interest on the funded debt,
to negotiate a loan in New York for $35,000, which, with
the above $12,212 50, leaves a floating debt of $47,212 50,
occasioned only by the injunction placed upon the sale of
City stocks. Bonds to the extent of $63,600 have been
placed as collaterals for the same, embracing the following
numbers:
From No. 183 to 254 inclusive, 72 bonds at $100 $ 7,200
From No. 65 to 188, ) 1QQ , , ^ .. _ ,A/i
From No. 56 A to 119 A, \
188 bonds at S
300 56'
400
$63,600
It is due to the Merchants' National Bank, and the Central
Rail Road and Banking Company, thatIshould acknowledge,
in behalf of the City, their enlightened liberality in affording
loans at times when the treasury was depleted, and interest
and other current expenses had to be met
MARKET.
The net revenue to the City for the past fiscal year amounts
to $12,797 98, as follows:
By cash received from rents of stalls $ 8,926 00
" " " " fees 8,488 50
Gross $17,414 50
Expenses for salaries, lighting, repairs, etc 4,616 52
Net $12,797 98
It was the earnest desire of the Market Committee to re
place the present unsightly structure with a new building
better adapted to the public wants. Unlooked-for obstacles,
however, have prevented the accomplishment of this project,
and as the finances of the City in the course of the coming
year will not, probably, warrant the expenditure involved fti
the erection of a new Market house, I would suggest that
the matter be turned over to private enterprise, under a lease
of ten or twelve years, for a nominal consideration; the
20 MAYORS ANNUAL REPORT.
building and its appurtenances to revert to the City at the
expiration of said lease.
The gross receipts of the Market for the past four years
are as follows:
Year. Fees. Stalls. Total
1866 $6,406 69 $6,378 90 $12,785 59
1867 7,869 75 9,092 95 16,962 70
1868 8,560 50 8,747 38 17,307 88
1869 8,488 50 8,926 00 17,414 50
$31,325 44 $93,145 23 $64,470 67
SURVEY OR'S REPORT.
Springfield Plantation.
At a Meeting of Council March 31st, 1869, the sum of
five thousand two hundred and fifty dollars was"appropriated
for draining the low swamp lands connected with the Spring
field Plantation. About one hundred and forty-eight acres
are comprised in these lands, and previous to the dry culture
contract were planted in rice.
The work was begun by opening at intervals of fifty to
seventy-five feet the wooden sewer passing through the lands
of Messrs. Giles & Bradley, and built in 1860. It was found
to be filled with mud and sand near the Rail Road and at
points where it had been broken in and cut during the war.
The whole line has been thoroughly cleaned out and the
damage repaired.
The outlet into the mouth of the Savannah and Ogeechee
Canal, below the river trunk, a distance of eighty-five feet,
has been re-opened, piled and planked on the sides and
bottom, and otherwise put in complete repair.
It was hoped that the repairs or removal of the portion of
the drain under the Central Rail Road embankments would
have been completed before commencing the construction of
the syphon under the Savannah and Ogeechee Canal, so as
to have obtained an outlet for the water during the progress
of the work. But unavoidable delays in obtaining the
MAYORS ANNUAL REPORT. . 21
promised aid of the Rail Road Company, and a notification
from the Canal Company that they would run off the water
on the lower level of the Canal on the 15th of May, rendered
it important to complete this portion of the work, so as not
to interfere with the navigation of the Canal by voiding the
water a second time. The lower lock-gates were just at this
time being renewed, so that the advantage of keeping out
the tide by bracing the gates while digging out the bed of
the Canal, could not be obtained in this way, and embank
ments had to be built on both sides of the cut of sufficient
height to accomplish this object. The labor and expense
was in this way much enhanced. A perfectly water-tight
box three feet by six feet six inches in the clear, and one
hundred and ten feet long has been put down, and connecting
with it at each end are open flumes built by driving piles,
and planking the sides and bottom. The drainage water
passes into these conduits by trunks leading through the
embankments enclosing the whole. Any danger resulting
from overflow by neglect in properly closing the river trunkgate at low water, or the giving way of the river banks, is
avoided by this arrangement. This addition to the syphon
has added to the cost, but is believed to be an important and
valuable improvement for the reasons above stated, and for
the facility afforded in removing any deposit or obstruction
in the syphon itself.
The Central Rail Road having agreed to remove so much
of the embankment over the sewer as was necessary to expose
it to view, and having complied with agreement, it was as
certained that only that portion under the North track was
injured. This was found to have gone down about three
feet, and was broken in several places. It is very desirable
that a permanent roadway should be left over the sewer, as
well to prevent the great pressure of earth and consequent
liability to settle, as to furnish an easy and convenient outlet
to the lands of Messrs. Giles & Bradley.
The cost of throwing a brick arch over the opening would,
22 MAYORS ANNUAL REPORT.
however, be very great, and the Rail Road Company being
unwilling to keep the cut open except on this condition, it
was thought best to construct a very heavy and substantial
trunk of wood in lieu of the previous brick sewer, or so much
of it as had given way. This has been done, and the opera
tion of the drain proven all that could be desired.
The City is indebted to Alderman C. C. Millar for valua
ble assistance in working up the lumber used in the section
connected with the Canal and Rail Road.
The long period that the lands to be drained had been
under water, rendered it improbable that the ditches could
be at once sunk to the required depth, and it was contem
plated simply to clean out and deepen them as far as practi
cable. For this purpose the sum of thirteen hundred dollars
only was appropriated; but owing to the peculiarly dry and
favorable season, after the removal of the weeds with which
the ditches were filled, and the drainage afforded by the
sewer, it was found practicable to sink them to their full depth.
The following dimensions were adopted: 8 feet top, 4 feet
bottom and 4 feet deep, and 6 feet top, 3 feet bottom and 4
feet deep.
The lands require about seven miles of main ditches of
these sizes, amounting to 25,000 cubic yards, which at the
estimated cost of 20 cents per yard, would amount to $5,000.
Eighteen thousand one hundred yards have been let to
Messrs. Strate & McCrohan at the above price, (twenty cents)
and are nearly completed.
The repair and enlargement of the back dam to prevent
the overflow of the lands from the back water of the swamp
has been done in the most substantial manner. An average
height of five feet above the general level of the land, with
a base of twenty-feet, and six feet top has been given to the
dam.
The entire western dam, next to Musgrove Creek, has been
repaired. The further enlargement whenever the Creek is
cleaned and deepened, is, however, necessary.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 23
The Report of the City Treasurer will show the expendi
tures on the work to date. The thorough completion of the
drainage, by removing the obstructions in the sewer on the
east of the Savannah and Ogeechee Canal, cleaning out,
deepening, and embanking Musgrove Creek through its
entire length, repairing and enlarging the dam on the east
side for the purpose of cutting off the flow of water from the
hill side next the City, is earnestly recommended.
.The drainage of the Springfield Plantation has proved an
entire success, and has been accomplished under the intelli
gent management of Mr. John B. Hogg, City Surveyor,
coupled with the earnest support of Alderman A. N. Miller,
Chairman of the Committee on Dry Culture.
Sewers.
The sewer in Drayton street has been extended from Con
gress street lane to Bay street, making the line complete
from this point to the main sewer in Perry lane.
A small sewer has been built in "Canal street, connectin-
with the main West Broad street sewer, of the length of two
hundred feet, and diameter two feet, three inches in the clear.
This street had become almost impassable, and the accumu
lated mud and water very offensive.
The plan of constructing the cess pools or catch basins in
the centre of streets, without traps, having been found ob
jectionable since the introduction of water closet deposits
into the sewers, the location has been changed to the angle
of the sidewalks with proper trap connections. Twelve and
fifteen inch vitrified clay pipe has been used for this purpose,
and most of the openings in the Barnard, Whitaker, Dray
ton and Perry lane sewers, have been supplied with catch
basins of this description.
A pipe drain has been placed in River street hear the
Ferry Wharf, receiving the spring water from the hillside,
and thereb}^ rendering a long standing mud hole dry.
Proposals for building the following main sewers have
24 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
been received: Broughton street sewer, from Lamar's Canal
to Houston street, with branch in Houston from Bay. Total
length, 2,205 feet, and located with a view to its future ex
tension to Jefferson street, and designed to drain all that
portion of the City between Bay and South Broad streets.
Huntingdon street sewer, from Jefferson to Roberts street,
with branches in Jefferson and West Broad. Total length,
1,975 feet, and designed to drain all the Southwestern por
tion of the City.
. Abercorn and Bolton street sewer, connecting with that
poition already built in Drayton street, at the lower termi
nus, and the open wooden drain in Duffey street, at the
upper terminus. Length, 2,050 feet, and designed to extend
to Montgomery street, replacing the present wooden drain in
Duffey street. These main sewers, owing to the elevation of
the City, can be placed at such depth as to allow side con
nections for any required distance.
The above valuable and important proposed improvements
were to have been put under contract during the present
year, but have been postponed, the present Board deeming
it inexpedient to incur obligations which might embarrass
the succeeding administration.
I would respectfully urge in this connection the introduc
tion of flushing gates to the Drayton and Whitaker street
sewers.
Paving.
The Street Railroad commenced January 9th, 1869, run
ning on Whitaker street, presenting a serious obstacle to ve
hicles ; crossing it in the unpaved portion of this street, it
became necessary to continue the paving from Liberty to
Gaston street, the Railroad Company paying about one-third
the expense. Length, 1,617 feet.
The approaches to the depot of the Atlantic and Gulf
Railroad have also been paved from South Broad street, along
the Thunderbolt road and Reynolds street. The McAdamized
MAYORS ANNUAL REPORT. 20
portion of South Broad street, from South Broad to the Bay,
is in bad condition, and I would respectfully suggest the
substitution of cobble stone, as cheaper, along this portion,
as soon as practicable.
Price street, at its intersection with Perry lane, having
been badly washed has been paved, and a part of the usual
flow of water during heavy rains, diverted down South
Broad and.Perry streets. It is believed no future difficulty
is to h&apprehended at this point.
The President of the Skidaway Shell Road Company
having agreed to cover with shell that portion of the Thun
derbolt road between Liberty street and the brick culvert, if
the City would grade and prepare the surface, the work has
been done and the shells applied, There is still a small por
tion to be graded and shelled from Liberty street, north, to
Reynolds, to make complete the connection with the paved
portion from the depot.
Several thousand tons of stone ballast have been used on
the above work and in constructing street crossings. The
plan of paying across streets which are liable to wash, instead
of using logs, has been resorted to with good effect. These
paved crossings are placed at suitable intervals, a greater or
less number being required, according to the inclination of
the street, and from ten to fifteen feet in width, and present
no obstacle to the passage of vehicles.
The paved portion of Bay and West Broad streets having
become very uneven, have been surfaced over, and the Mc
Adamized portion of Bay street is being thoroughly re
newed.
Street Grading.
The establishment and preservation of proper and fixed
grades for the streets is urgently needed, as well in the old
as in those more recently laid out. A small force ofmen and
teams should be set apart exclusively for this work, in order
to preserve at all times a uniform surface, and avoiding the
injurious and unsightly mud holes which so quickly form in
26 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
wet weather, when the travel is considerable. This work of
grading should always be done in advance of building and
[laving the sidewalks. Much injury has resulted to build
ings from undermining, or having to fill up a street to a point
not anticipated at the time of the erection of the building.
Squares.
The following squares have been enclosed with substantial
cedar posts. Elbert, Franklin, Greene, Washingftm and
Troup. The Park extension has also been enclosed with
heavy posts and rails, to remain only until the finances
of the city will warrant the continuation of the iron fence en
closing the present park. The area is somewhat over nine
teen acres, making nearly thirty acres in both.
Trees.
About three hundred and fifty trees have been planted in
and ai'ound the park extension and squares, and along South
Broad street and the Bay. Seven hundred boxes have been
put up around those planted during the present and previous
years, and the whole whitewashed.
These trees have been obtained at points along the Cen
tral Railroad, and brought down free of charge, through the
kindness of the Rail Road Company.
Docks and Wliarves.
The public docks at the foot of Whitaker and Drayton
streets have been wharfed in at an expense ofseven hundred
and fifty dollars each, and rented to Messrs. Claghom & Cun
ningham and J. B. West & Co. The retaining wall at the
head of the slip on Lincoln street has been finished, making
complete the entire line along the Bay.
Public Buildings.
Contracts have been made for the erection of a commo
dious aud substantial building for the Police force ofthe city,
to be located on the South Broad street front of the lot now
MAYORS ANNUAL REPORT. 27
occupied. This structure is to be one hundred feet in length,
and thirty-eight feet six inches in depth, and arranged for a
court room, offices and sleeping accommodations for the men.
Dry Culture.
A considerable amount of work has been done in widening
Bilbo's Canal and elevating and strengthening the banks.
The capacity of the canal has been much increased, as also
that of the branch canals extending from the bridge on the
Thunderbolt road. The latter have been deepened to the
required extent, and the excavation used in enlarging and
strengthening the banks. A facing of plank for the protection
of the angles and exposed portions has been put up. There
is still much to be done to render this important outlet to the
drainage of so large a portion of the city completely effective
and secure against any possible contingency; heavy and sub
stantial banks six feet above the general level of the land:
the canals deepened to the extent of one foot below low water
mark, a strong fence enclosing the whole, and the employ,
inent of a suitable person by the year to remove the con
stantly increasing accumulating obstructions, and keep down
the growth of the weeds from the banksI would suggest
as necessary to obtain the above result.
Earth Batteries.
The entire line of earth-works enclosing the cityexcept
a small portion near Laurel Grove Cemetery, and on the east,
near the low landshas been leveled during the past sum
mer, filling up the stagnant pools collected in the moats and
thus obliterating a fruitful source of disease on the outskirts.
JOHN B. HOGG, City Surveyor.
POLICE.
The strength of the Police force in point of numbers re
mains about the same as when last reported on in October,
1868. In efficiency it is all that the city can wish. There
are ninety-six Privates, six Sergeants, two Lieutenants and
28 MAYORS ANNUAL REPORT.
one Chief, to which must be added one Lieutenant of De
tectives and two Assistants.
The whole City is uow thoroughly guarded, that portion
of the town from Gaston street south, to Anderson street, as
far as the corporate limits extend, being patroled by mounted
men, for which purpose four additional horses have been re
cently purchased. In addition to the regular duties per
formed by the force, they have been required during the
past summer to inspect and report upon the sanitary condi
tion of the city, thus taking the place of the Board of
Health of former years. The admirable working of this ar
rangement under the fidelity of the officers to whom this
vexatious duty was entrusted, is evidenced in the cleanli
ness of the city in all its parts, in the remarkable exemp
tion from disease during the past season, and in the deserved
recognition by the City Council as manifested in the passage
of an ordinance to perpetuate the system. Mr. Stewart, the
Clerk of Council, is entitled to great credit for his systematic
compilation of the weekly reports.
Four men of the force have died in the past year, two of
whom were killed in the discharge of their duty whilst sup
pressing a riotous demonstration at the polls in November
last, and two others wounded on the same occasion. The
conduct of the officers and men throughout has been most
praiseworthy, and has won the cordial approval of their
fellow-citizens.
The force employed on Detective service under Lieutenant
Wray, in consequence of the small number of men assigned
to him, is inadequate to the public wants, especially in the
business season, and should be increased during the winter
months.
MAYOR S ANNUAL REPORT. 29
MORTUARY REPORT.
A Comparative Statement of Deaths in the City of Savannah
from October 1st, 1867, to September 30th, 1868, and from
October 1st, 1868, to September 30th, 1869.
MONTHS.
FROM 1867 TO 1868
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October... 59 77
November 54 73
December. 61 50
January.. 53 72
February .
March....
32
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37
37
April....
May
June
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62
47
42
49
60
July
August....
September
44
36
74
58
37
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127i 62
111'! 49
125 i 33
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48 110
44 93
38 71
27 54
34 82
43 84
41 81
44 80
28 73
36 84
33 73
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208
Brought dead to the citj- dm-ing the past year 51
Still born infants 34
Deaths within the city limits 916
Total 1,001
Summary of Deaths.
Deaths in the city from October 1st, 1867, to Septem
ber 30th,1868'. 1,124
Deaths in the city from October 1st, 1868, to Septem
ber 30th,1869 916
From the foregoing Mortuary Report, it will be seen that
the city has been favored with unusual health during the
past season, even when compared with that of the preceding
30 MAYORS ANNUAL REPORT.
year, itself remarkable for exemption from disease. No ep
idemic has prevailed and serious forms of sickness have not
appeared. In consideration of these facts, I cannot too
highly recommend to the people of Savannah, a strict ob
servance of every proper sanitary regulation, and the most
devout thankfulness to Almighty God for His merciful deal
ings with us as a people.
SAVANNAH RIVER IMPROVEMENT.
The expenditures under this head, as shown by the Treas
urer's report, amount to $20,238.41, including $5,835.53 paid
out for repairs on the Steam Tender, which the wear and
tear of the past three years' work rendered indispensable.
The operations have been conducted as heretofore under the
auspices of Capt, J. S. Kennard and_tlie Commissioners of
Pilotage, and until very recently, have been confined to the
completion of the work upon the Wrecks, mentioned in the
close of last years' report: the dredging out of several of the
wharves and slips abreast of the city, and the opening of a
passage way to the ballast-wharf on the other side of the
river. In compliance with application from the steamship
owners in New York, endorsed by the United States Coast
Survey Office at Washington, it was determined, in the month
of July last, to open up the channel north of the oyster beds,
which was represented by the charts sent out from Wash
ington to be more direct and easy of access, if dredged out,
than the one heretofore used on the south side of the island,
and if the weather permitted to take up in advance the deep
ening of the cut through the knoll. In consequence, how
ever, of the stormy weather which prevailed at the time, and
the exposed character of the work in an open and dangerous
road-stead, it was found impossible to conduct operations at
the knoll at that season of the year, and the vessels were re
moved to the western entrance of the north channel, and at
once employed in opening a passage through the shoal at
this point. This shoal is three hundred yards across, with a
MAYOR S ANNUAL REPORT. 31
mean depth of water upon it, at low tide, of nine and a
half feet. The dredging was commenced on the 24th of
July, and by the 31st of August the Superintendent reports
that he had completed to within a few feet on the east cut a
channel one hundred feet wide, by thirteen feet in depth, at
mean low water. At this stage of the work the dredge
was compelled to come up to the city, in consequence of the
heavy northeast weather setting in, and which has continued
to prevail since then. It is importantto resume and to complete, as soon as possible, the dredging at the oyster beds, so
that the north channel may be used for the winter's com
merce. I have the assurance from the government that
buoys will be put down forthwith. Captain Kennard com
ments as follows upon the benefits of this work : " When
this dredging is completed the advantages of the north over
the south charjnel cannot be too strongly advocated. These
advantages are as follows : There will be more water ; ves
sels from sea in passing through it will have to make but
one deviation from a nearly straight line; whereas in the
south channel they are forced' to make three. In the third
place, the strength of the tide, both on the flood and ebb,
flows directly through it; whereas the flood tide east of the
oyster beds sets across the south channel at an angle of at
least 45 degrees ; and lastly, in the case of vessels coming
in or going out, desiring to anchor, there is ample space be
tween the oyster beds and the sand shoal to the northward
for them to swing and get under way, with water enough at
low tide to float the largest ships."
Should the tax derivable from freights and passage money,
which has been specially set apart for River Improvements,
be sufficient to carry on the dredging, I would recommend
the widening of the channel at the Wrecks to sixty feet
more than it now is.
I have reason to believe, from encouraging letters received
from official sources, that the expenditure made by the city
in the past three years in improving the navigation of the
32 MAYORS ANNUAL REPORT.
river, and bringing our port up to its present standard of ex
eellence, will be paid back by the government on a prope
representation of the results attained.
Respectfully submitted,
EDWARD C. ANDERSON, Mayor.
APPENDIX TO MAYOR'S REPORT.
ADDITIONAL CORRESPONDENCE.
The following resolution adopted by the Committee on
Finance on the 27th September last, with accompanying
correspondence, was laid before Council, and, on motion, the
same was directed to be spread on the minutes:
[A.]
RESOLUTION.
The South-Western Railroad Company having heretofore
indorsed certain bonds of the City of Savannah, being the
city's subscription to said railroad, and there being outstand
ing of these bonds the amount of $117,000, which bdnds will
mature on the first day of November next, and the payment
of which was provided for in the recent sale of certain stocks
to said South-Western Railroad and Central Railroad Com
panies, and which sale was guaranteed by both said Compa
nies, irrespective of any further action on the part of said
city ; be it, therefore,
Resolved, That in view of the circumstances aforesaid, the
Mayor be authorized and requested to address a communica
tion to the President of the South-Western and Central
Railroad Companies, and request an early answer from them.
MAYORS ANNUAL REPORT. 33
whether they will assume the payment of said bonds at ma
turity. In the event of their not doing so, to make further
inquiry of said South-Western Railroad, whether, if the
holders of these bonds are willing to renew them, said Rail
road Company will indorse renewal bonds for the said
amount of $117,000, and on the same terms as heretofore.
[B.]
MAYORALTY OF SAVANNAH, /
September 28th, 1869. \
WM. S. HOLT. Esq.,
President South-Western R. R. Co., Macon, Ga:
DEAR SIR : I have the honor to forward the.enclosed reso
lution of the Finance Committee of the City Council, passed
at their meeting last evening, and to request an early answer
to the same. A similar communication with the enclosure
accompanying, has been addressed to the President of the
Central Railroad and Banking Company.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
EDWARD C. ANDERSON, Mayor.
(One enclosure.)
[C]
MAYORALTY OF SAVANNAH, /
September 28th, 1869. )"
WM. M. WADLEY, Esq.,
President Central Railroad Company :
DEAR SIR: I have the honor to forward the enclosed
resolution of the Finance Committee of the City Council,
passed at their meeting last evening, and to request an early
answer to the same. A copy of this communication, with
the enclosure accompanying, has been addressed to the Pres
ident of the South-Western Railroad Company.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
EDWARD C. ANDERSON, Mayor.
'.One enclosure.)
34 MA volt's ANNUAL REPORT.
[D.]
SOUTH-WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY. )
Office. Macon, Ga., September 29th, 1869. \
Hon. EDWARD C. ANDERSON, Mayor, Savannah:
DEAR SIR: I have your favor of the 28th inst, with en
closure.
So far as assuming the payment of the bonds men
tioned, due 1st November next (to-wit: $117,000), you are
aware that the Bill of Injunction granted by the Court has
not been dismissed, consequently no provision has been
made by this Company. With regard to this Company's
endorsement of a renewal of said Bonds, I will bring the
matter before our Board of Directors at their meeting in Oc
tober, and give the result of their action in the premises. In
the meantime 1 will remark, according to one of the articles
embraced in the Lease between this Company and the Cen
tral Railroad and Banking Company, our future action must
have the concurrence of the latter Company.
Very Respectfully,
Your obedient servant.
WM. S. HOLT, President.
IE.]
CENTRAL RAILROAD AND BANKING Co. OF GA., [
Savannah, 29th September, 1869. t
Hon. EDWARD C. ANDKRSON. Mayor of Savannah :
DEAR SIR: In answer to your favor of the 28th inst., I
beg to say that this Company cannot assume the payment of
the bonds referred to in the resolution of your Finance
Committee, so long as the injunction restraining this Com
pany from carrying out its engagements for the transfer of
stocks from this City stands. The question of a renewal of
said bonds can only be determined by our Board, and to
them 1 will submit your communication at their next meet
ing.
I am. very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
WM. M. WADLEY, President.
MAYORS ANNUAL REPORT. 35
[R]
CENTRAL RAILROAD AND BANKING CO. OF GA., I
Savannah, oth October, 1869. \
Hon. EDWARD C. ANDERSON, Mayor of Savannah :
DEAR SIR : I have the honor to enclose an extract from
the minutes of this Company of this day, in reply to your
communication of the 28th ult, enclosing a copy of resolu
tion of Finance Committee of the Citv Council, addressed
to this Company.
Very Respeetfully,
Your obedient servant,
T. M. CUNNINGHAM. Cashier.
CENTRAL RAILROAD AND BANKING CO. OF GA., |
Savannah, 5th October, 1869. f
A communication from Hon. Edward C. Anderson, Mayor
of Savannah, enclosing a resolution of the Finance Commit
tee of the City Council, asking if this Company would as
sume the payment of$117,000 of bonds of the city, endorsed
by the South-Western Railroad Company, as provided in the
recent sale of stock, to this and South-Western Railroad
Company, and asking in case of refusal, to pay said bonds,
if the South-Western Railroad Company would renew the
endorsement, was laid before the Board ; whereupon the fol
lowing resolution was passed :
Resolved, That the payment of the bonds be declined, as
the injunction placed on the purchase of this stock forbids
this Company from carrying out the terms of the purchase.
The Council are respectfully referred for answer to the ques
tion of endorsement to the South-Western Railroad Com
pany, as it is a question to that Company only.
* # * * # -x- * * *
A true extract from the minutes of this Company of this
date.
T. M. CUNNINGHAM, Cashier.
\
36 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
MAYOR'S OFFICE, SAVANNAH, '/
October lOth, 1869. |
WM. S. HOLT, Esq.,
President South-Western Railroad :
DEAR SIR : Our City Council meets on Wednesday
evening next, 13th inst, and I am anxious before going out
of office to place before that body the action of your Board
of Directors in reference to the communication of the Fi
nance Committee of Savannah, forwarded to you on the
28th ult.
I shall esteem it a favor if you will forward rue, without
delay, the proceedings of your Company in the matter re
ferred to them.
Very Respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
EDWARD C. ANDERSON, Mayor.
SOUTH-WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY, )
Office Macon, Ga., October 11th, 1869. )'
Hon. EDWARD C. ANDERSON, Mayor of Savannah :
DEAR SIR : I have your favor of the 10th instant.
There has been no meeting of our Board of Directors since
the reception of your letter of the 28th ult. Our regular
meeting will convene on Thursday, the 14th.
Very Respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
WM. S. HOLT, President.
SOUTH-WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY, '(_
Office Macon, Ga., October 14th, 1869. )
Hon. EDWARD C. ANDERSON, Mayor. Savannah :
DEAR SIR : The resolutions of the Finance Committee of
the City of Savannah were presented to the Board of Direc
tors of this Company this day, and the enclosed Resolution
gives you the result of its action. As remarked in one of
mv letters of a previous date, that the Lease of this Road to
MAYORS ANNUAL REPORT. 37
the Central Railroad and Banking Company (executed the
24tli June last) requires the concurrence of that Company in
all of our future transactions, I presume there will be no ob
jection on the part of that Company to this Compaiy's en
dorsement of the renewal, in accordance with the enclosed
resolution:
Very Respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
WM. S. HOLT, President.
P. S. 1 will send a similar resolution to the Board of Di
rectors of the Central Railroad and Banking Company for
their approval.
W. S. II., President.
SOUTH-WESTEITN RAILROAD COMPANY, j
Office Macon, Ga., October 14th, 1869. j"
# -X- -X- * * -XResolved, That this Company will agree to the renewal of
said Bonds by endorsing other Bonds for the same amount,
provided the Central Railroad and Banking Company of
Georgia agrees (as provided in the Lease of this Road to that
Company) to such renewal.
-X- -X- -X- -X- * -XA true extract from the minutes of this Company of this
date.
JNO. T. BOIFEUILLET,
Secretary and Treasure!'.
CENTRAL RAIL ROAD BANK, \
Savannah, Ga., 19th October, 1869. \
Hon. ED. C. ANDERSON, Savannah, Ga.:
DEAR SIR : I have the honor to enclose you an extract
from the minutes of this Company of this date, refering to
the endorsement of City Bonds by the South-Western Rail
Road Company.
Very Respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
T. M. CUNNINGHAM, Cashier.
iib MAYORS ANNUAL UKI'OKT.
CKNTUM. KAIL ROAD AND BANKING CO. OF GEORGIA, /
Sa\annah, 19th October, 1869. \
* * * -x- * -xThe ibllowing extract from the minutes of the SouthWestern Rail Road Company of 14th October, 1869. was
laid before the Board :
"The President having read a communication from His
Honor E. C. Anderson, Mayor of Savannah, in reference to
assuming the payment of $117,000 of the Bonds of the City
of Savannah, endorsed by this Company, or in the event of
not assuming said payment, then enquiring as to the willing
ness of this Company to endorse other Bonds in renewal of
said Bonds ; it was
Resolved, That this Company will agree to the renewal of
said Bonds by endorsing Bonds for the same amount, pro
vided the Central Rail Road and Banking Co. of Georgia
agrees (as provided in the lease of this Road to that Com
pany), to such renewal."
Whereupon, it was resolved as follows :
Resolved, That this Company assents to the endorsement
by the South-Western Rail Road Co. of renewal Bonds of
the City of Savannah, to run for ten years, on condition that
the new Bonds, are only delivered to the City as those to
mature
******
November 1st, 1869, are taken up and cancelled.
A true extract from the minutes of this Company.
T. M. CUNNINGHAM, Cashier.
Jm'mtt Treasurer's Report.
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CITY OF B^V^ISTjSri^H,
October 1st, 1869.
12,383 Shares Atlantic & Gulf Rail Road Stock 1,238,300 00
1,307 Shares Montgomery aud West Point Rail Road Stock.. 130,700 flO
419 Shares Augusta and Savannah Rail Road Stock 41,900 00
1 Share South-Western Rail Road Stock 100 00
1 Promissory Note of Heirs of D. O'Byrne, secured by
Mortgage 6,502 17
$1,417,502 17
057 Lots in 27 Wards under lease and valued at 663,440 70
41 Lots in Springfield Plantation valued at. .. 25,555 00
73 Lots in Calhoun, Crawford, Crawford East,
Forsyth, Lloyd, Stephens, Troup and
Wesley Wards 135,800 00
Remainder of Springfield Plantation 40,000 00
Land on Hutchinson's Island* 10,000 00
City Barracks
City Exchange
Water Works and Site
Fireman's Hall
Dredge Machine, Scows and Boat..
20,000 00
30,000 00
222,000 00
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Steamer 0. M. Pettit 15,000 001,209,795 70
82,627,297 87
Wharf Lot foot of West Broad street rented at. .. . 1,000 00 per annum.
Wharf Lot foot of Whitaker street rented at 500 00 "
Wharf Lot foot of Drayton street rented at 500 00 ''
Wharf Lot foot of Abercorn street, rented at 850 00 "
Slip on Canal rented at 75 00 "
4 Tenements in Tombs rented at 316 00 '
Line of Wharf Head between Hutchinson and Fig Islands.
Wharf Slip, foot of Reynolds street.
Seven Carts and seven Mules for Streets and Lanes.
Ten Horses and one Mule for Police.
Amount of Taxable Real Estate for the Year 1869, 812,219,140.00
Repurchased at Sheriff's Sale by Foreclosure of Mortgage'to secure payment, of
NotesofN. B. C'liiu-h. which appeurod in the Assets ol the City as per Mavor't* Re
port of 1808.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 61
CITY BONDS.
Under an Ordinance passed by Council January 24th, 1866, authorizing
the Mayor to issue Bonds, wherewith to take up certain Coupons and
for other purposes, the following Bonds were issued and placed in the
hands of the City Treasurer :
fi<W Bonds, numbering from No. 1 to 003 inclusive, at 500 301,500 00
188 " " " No. 1 to 1S8 " at300 56,400 00
1)5 " " " No. 55 A to 119 A inclusive at300 19,500 00
-'54 " " No. 1 to 254 " at100 25,400 00
1-110 $402,800 00
THE ABOVE BONUS HAVE BEEN ISSUED AS FOLLOWS, FOR PAST DUE COUPONS.
342 Bonds, numbering from No. 1 to 342 inclusive at 500 171,000
55 " " ' No.349to403 " at 500 27,500
4 " " " No. 414 to 417 " at500 2,000
VS " " ' No. 1 to 56 " at300 16,800
180 ' " ' No. ItolSO " atlOO 18,000235,300 00
FOR BONDS ISSUED FOR SUBSCRIPTION TO OGEECHEE PLANK ROAD DUE IN 1862.
Ii Bonds numbering from No. 343 to 348 inclusive at 500 3.000 00
FOR LOST AND DESTROYED BONDS.
s Bonds numbering from No. 502 to 509 inclusive at500
2 " ' ' r.l!)to520 " at500
20 522 to 541 " atoOO
2 - - ' " 59 and 55 A at300
1 ' " ' 181 and 182 at100 15,800 00
FOR STfcAMER '-O. M. PETTIT," USED FOR DREDGF, MACHINE.
30 Bonds numbering from No. 434 to 463 iuclusive at500 13.000 00
FOR DREDGE MACHINE AND SCOW.
16 Bonds numbering from No. 418 to 433 inclusive at 500 8,000
4 " " " 464 to 467 " at 500 2,000
4 498 to 501 at 500 2,000
1 " " " 57 " at 300 300 12,3,K> Oil
FOR LAND TO WIDEN SIDE-WALK ON BARNARD AND SOUTH BROAD STREETS.
7 Bunds numbering from No. 542 to 548 inclusive at500 3,500 00
FOR SAVANNAH RIVER IMPROVEMENTS SOLD AT PAR TO CENTRAL RAIL ROAD COMPANY AND
GARRISON i. ALLEN.
10 Bonds numbering from No. 404 to 413 inclusive at500 5,000
*30 ' 468to497 " atOOO 15,00020,000 00
FOR COLLATERALS TO CENTRAL RAIL ROAD BANK FOR MAYOR'S NOTES FOR $12,212 50.
4 Bonds numberiuK from No. 185 to 188 inclusive at300 1,200
2H " " 65 to 92 " at 300 8,400
70 " 185to254 " atlOO 7,00016,600 00
FOR COLLATERALS TO NEW YORK GUARANTY AND INDEMNITY COMPANY FOR MAYOR'S
NOTE FOR $35,000 00.
'.12 Bonds numbering from No. 93 to 184 inclusive at 300 27,600
64 ' " ""SOAtollOA " atSOO 19,200
> " " 183 and 184 " at100 20047,000 00
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0 Bonds numbering from No. 510 to 518 inclusive at500 4,500
1 - - 521 " atoOO 500
.-,.-, - ' 549 to 003 ' atSOO 27,500
1 58 at300 300
.-, - (iOto 64 at300 1,50034,300 00
1.110 $402,800 00
* Of which 2,800 are in excess of the amount authorized by Ordinance and are in the
hands of the City Treasurer.
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COMMERCE OF SAVANNAH.
Statement of Exports from the Port of Savannah, Ga., for
the Fiscal Year commencing July 1st, 1868, and ending
June SQth, 1869.
EXPORTS, FOREIGN.
FOKEION VESSELS.
Value.
Upland Cotton bales ll;S,:i54 $13,866,9ftfl
Sea Island Cotton bales 2,371 594,0-1!)
Pitch Pine Timber ....feet 16,893,151 307,527
Lumber ...feet 4.063,769 89,213
Rice tierces 300 17.773
Cotton Seed tons 197J-2' 5,690
Miscellaneous , 7,0,'MI
Total value in Foreign vessels $14,888,851
EXPORTS, FOREIGN.
AMERICAN VESSELS.
Value.
Upland Cotton bales 55,909 *61740,73'i
Sea Island Cotton bales 816 203.491'.
Pitch Pine Timber feet 576,614 12.651
Lumber feet 7,400,161 164,222
Rice tierces 60 3,302
Miscellaneous 12.240
Total value in American vessels .$7,142,647
Total value of exports, Foreign 822,031,49<
EXPORTS COASTWISE.
Value.
Upland Cotton bales 189,416 $23,273,955
Sea Island Cotton bales 4.2J8 948,075
Domestics bales 9,260 926,300
Wool bales 1,214 87,490
Lumber feet 15,763,301 311,270
Hides w 78,125 180.350
Rice tierces 6,697 353,651)
Flour bbls 12,963 116,667
Naval. Stores bbls 7,077 39.197
Wheat bags 5,053 18,346
Cotton Seed bags 2,036 5,3Wi
Miscellaneous 34,300
Total Value of Exports Coastwise $26,304,996
Foreign 22,031,498
Total $48,336,494
Value of Imports $816,145
TONNAOK FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1869.
Tonnage. No. of Men.
Foreign 142,321.31 3,307
American 987,513.53 18,794
Total 1,129,834.84 22,101
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Vessels. No. Ton'go. 1001 hs. Crew.
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NAMES OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN,
FOR 1868 AND 1869.
M A Y O R :
EDWARD C. ANDERSON
CHAIHMAN OF COUNCIL :
JOHN L. VILLA LONGA.
ALDERMEN:
1. JOIINL. VILLALONGA, 7. WM. H. BTTRJiOlKlIIS,
2. HENRY BRIGHAM,
8. WILLIAM HUNTER.
4. FRANCIS L. GUE,
5. ALVIN N. MILLER,
6. GEORGK W. WYLLY,
8. JAMES J. WAKING,
9. MATHIAS H. MEYER,
10. CHARLES 0. MILLAR,
11. FREDERICK W. SIMS,
12. E. A. SOULLARD.
68 MAYORS ANNL'Ali RKPORT.
CITY OF,P"IOE:PtS-1868,-,
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CLKRK OF COUNCIL.,James Stewart.
CITY TREASURER.John "Williamson.
ASSISTANT CITY TREASURER.Magnus Loewenthal.
CITY MARSHAL.Thomas S. Wayne.
CITY SURVEYOR.John B. Hogg.
CORPORATION ATTORNEY.Edward J. Harden.
JUDGE OF CITY COURT.Walter S. Cliisliolm.
CITY SHERIFF.Charles J. White.
CLERK OF CITY COURT.Philip M. Russell.
HEALTH OFFICER.J. T. McFarland, M. D.
KEEPER CITY DISPENSARY.James Stoney.
HARBOR MASTER.Thomas H. Laird.
J AI LOR.Waring Russell.
PUMP CONTRACTOR.Alfred Kent.
KEEPER OF LAUREL GROVE CEMETERY.A. F. Torlay.
KEEPER OF CITY CLOCKS.F. Brown.
KEEPER OF POWDER MAGAZINE.H. L. Davis.
KEERER OF PEST HOUSE.J. J. Stokes.
CITY PRINTKR.J. H. Estill.
CITY SCAVKNGER, (CONTRACTOR).William Swoll.
MESSENGER OF COUNCIL.Francis J. Cercopuly.
KEEPER OF FORSYTH PLACE.Patrick Scanlan.
PORT WARDENS.R. D. Walker, R. T. Turner, Wm, H.
Patterson. W. W. Wash, Wm. R. Symons; Clerk: T.J.
Bulloch.
CITY ASSESSORS.Robert D. Walker, John M. Cooper,
John C. Taylor.
CHIMNEY CONTRACTORS. Eastern Division Michael
Naughton.Western DivisionTheodore Meves.
POLICE.Robt. H. Anderson, Chief; Wm. Wray, 1st
Lieut, and Chief of Detective Force; J. T. Howard, 1st
Lieut., C. H. Bell, 2d Lieut.
SERGEANTS.James Foley, Martin Houlihan, John Green.
James Leonard, Wm. M. Moran, Id. Lingg.
AN ORDINANCE
TO
ASSESS AND LEVY TAXES
AND
RAISE REVENUE
CITY OF SAVANNAH
TO AMEND THE VARIOUS TAX AND REVENUE ORDINANCES OF
SAID CITY ; TO FIX THE SALARIES AND COMTENSATION OF
CERTAIN OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF SAID CITY; AND TO
REDUCE THE EXPENSES OF THE CITY; AND FOR THE
REGULATION OF CERTAIN KINDS OF BUSINESS IN
SAID CITY",
For 1869.
Published by order of the City Comtcil of Savannah.
SAVANNAH:
MORNING NEWS STEAM TOWER PRESS.
1869.

AN ORDINANCE
To Assess and Levy Taxes, and Raise Revenue for the
City of Savannah ; to amend the various Tax and
Revenue Ordinances of said city; to fix the salaries
and compensation of certain officers and employees of
said city, and to reduce the expenses of the city, and
for the regulation of certain kinds of business in said
city.
Section 1. The Mayor and Aldermen of the city of
Savannah, in Council assembled, do hereby ordain, That
on and after the first day of January next, 1869, taxes
and revenue for the support of the government of the
city of Savannah, and for the advantage and benefit of
the inhabitants thereof, shall be assessed, levied and
raised at and after the following rates, that is to say :
1. At the rate of one and one half per centum per
annum on real estate in said city, accorling to the valu
ation for the year 1869, and such subsequent valuation
for improvements as may be made in the year 1870 or
thereafter.
[Amended by ordinance, January 20th, 1869. Re
duced from one and three fourths per centum to one and
one half per centum.]
2. On all gross sales of every kind of goods, wares and T
^les
on Gross
merchandise, including all sales by brokers and auction
eers, including lumber, timber, shingles and staves, one
half of one per centum; sales of real estate, one-half of Krai Estate.
one per centum; stocks and bonds, one-quarter of one stocks & Bonds.
j)er centum.
3. On all gross 0
sales of cotton and rice, one-tenth of Tax on Sales
Cotton and
one per centum. Kice.
4. One per centum on all commissions or profits de- Tax on Com-
. . , missions or Prorived from any business transactions by any mcrcliant, tits.
factor, auctioneer, broker, forwarding, shipping or com
mission merchant, and one per centum on the value of
Tax cm value of all furniture, jewelry and plate worth over three hundred
erty over $300. tl ollars, including pianos and all other musical instru-
, , , ments; and one-fourth of one per centum on the value 1 ax on value of ' *
ail Evidences of 0
f ap solvent bonds, mortgages, judgments, notes, and
other evidences of debt owned or controlled in the city
of Savannah, except bonds of the city of Savannah.
ftom'aiisourcis 5. One per centum per annum on all incomes derived
Keal Estate" ^
rom salaries and the pursuit of any profession, faculty,
trade or calling whatsoever, except income from real
estate.
Employers or And it is hereby declared and ordained to be the duty Corporations J
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bound to make of every person, natural or artificial, standing in the relaproper Returns ^ ^ . , how made, tion of employer to another resident person, receiving a
fixed salary or compensation, to make a return of the tax
hereby declared payable by or on account of such em
ployee, and, after deducting said tax from such salary or
compensation, to pay said tax into the City Treasury.
In the case of a Corporation, the return must be made
by the President, Cashier or Treasurer of the Corpora
tion, and the tax must be paid by the Corporation and
Amount reiiev- deducted as aforesaid. The amount of eight hundred
ationr
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(800) dollars per annum on all salaries is hereby relieved
from taxation.
Tax on Gross G. One per centum on gross receipts of any business
eluded in the transaction not included in the above and foregoing, and
above and fore- ..,.-..-. going sections, including all local insurance companies, gas companies,
express companies, cotton presses; of all hotels and res
taurants; and on all gross earnings of every bank, bank
agency, banker, bill and exchange broker, one per centum;
but on the gross receipts of all agencies of other than
such local companies or banks, two per centum.
Tax on Gross Also, one per centum on all gross receipts of all comRecefpts of oth- ' -,.., , , ,
erAgencies,oth- mercial, stcamsnip, steamboat, vessel or other agencies
er than those .
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taxed^ as Com- other than those taxed as commission merchants. Also,
chants. for the improvement of the Savannah river, one-half of
Jrovem r
t "of 0Ile P
er centum on all freight and passage money resavammh nver. ceiveti or collected by the agent, purser, clerk or other
officer of any steamboat or vessel arriving at or depart
ing from the port of Savannah, it being hereby made in
cumbent on the agents of said boats and vessels doing
business in Savannah to make returns under oath Returns to be
m HOC under
monthly to the City Treasurer and pay the tax. oath.
7. On every horse and mule, except those actually Tax ^m <>'<*
used in wagons, drays, trucks or other vehicles for which
badges may have been taken out, one dollar per month.
8. On all Dgross sales of horses and mules, one per Tax on Gross
. . Sales of Horses
centum; it being understood that every person bringing and Mules.
in horses or mule? for sale, shall not offer them for sale
except through a taxed livery-stable keeper, auctioneer
or merchant, or other person properly taxed, and all re
turns of such sales shall be made separately from other Returns,
returns of gross sales.
It shall be the duty of every keeper of a livery stable How made,
or stable for the sale of stock, to report in writing to the
Clerk of Council on the first day of every month, or within
ten (10) days thereafter, the amount of stock sold from
his or their stable or stables during the preceding month,
and pay the one per cent, tax on said gross sales of stock
to the City Treasurer; and for every default in such re
turn there shall be a fine of not more than one hundred
dollars imposed.
9. On every dog, the annual tax of one dollar and fifty Dog Tax.
cents, including the price of a badge for each. And all Penalty,
dogs found running at large without such badge shall be
impounded, and if not reclaimed in forty-eight hours
shall be disposed of. And it shall be the duty of the Duty of TreasTreasurer to put every person on oath as to the number
of dogs on his or her premises.
Section 2. And it is'further ordained by the authority Tax Returns,
aforesaid, That whenever, under this or any other ordi
nance of said city, any return may be required or any
tax be assessed or due, by or from any non-resident com
pany or corporation, the return shftll be made and the How made,
tax be payable by the agent or other manager or director
of such company or corporation, and for every default
execution shall issue accordingly; and that in the case of Penalty for faiievery person or persons liable or subject to make a return
under this or any other ordinance, and where default
may be made, execution shall issue for a double tax on
the immediately previous return, and if no return shall
Execution to is
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have been made, then the party in default shall be liable
to a penalty of not more than one hundred dollars on
conviction before the Police Court for every day's default,
for which penalty the City Treasurer shall forthwith
issue execution; and in all cases of default in making re
turns or payment of taxes, executions shall issue, and the
taxe,s and penalties collected in the manner now pointed
Penalty for fail, out by existing ordinances; and that the same rule shall ing or retusing 1
to take out ii- apply to the cases of persons failing or refusing to take
censes or badg- lL J
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out badges or licenses. And m any case where such
person or party shall have no property to be found, out
No property to of which to collect such penalties, such person or party
commitment to may be committed to jail for a period not longer than
Penalty. thirty days.
Section 3. And it is further ordained by the authority
aforesaid, that the following annual specific taxes shall be
levied and collected :
Auctioneers. On every auctioneer, two hundred dollars ; on every
Wholesale and wholesale and retail dealer in goods, wares and merchan- Ketail Dealers. _
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dise, exclusive of liquor license, fifty dollars ; every reitetaii Dealers, tail dealer, exclusive of liquor license, twenty-five dollars ;
Banks, Bankers, on every bank, banker or bank agent engaged in buying
gen s. oi, ggj^g exchange, one hundred dollars ; every person
Dealers in Ex- or house dealing in exchange, and every broker of any
Brokers Real kind, including real estate brokers, money brokers and
or PawnMo"
ey' pawn brokers, one hundred dollars ; every local insurance
insuranceagon- company or agency, one hundred dollars ; the same for cies, local and 1.^0.' >
foreign. each and every agency ; every foreign insurance company
or agency, one hundred and fifty dollars ; every the
Hotel Keepers, keeper or keepers of a hotel, one hundred dollars ;
sailor Boarding every the keeper or keepers of a sailor boarding
Houses. a
house, one hundred dollars ; every the owner or owners,
Cotton Presses, lessee or lessees of a cotton press establishment, two
hundred dollars ; every the owner or owners, lessee'or
Junk Shops. lessees of a junk shop, three hundred dollars; a cotton
Cotton Picker- pickery, two hundred dollars, to be confined exclusively
to the sale of cotton ; every the owner or owners, lessee
or lessees of a public stable, one hundred dollars ; every C'om'nMerch'ts ... 'J
and Factors. commission merchant or factor, fifty dollars ; every shioShip'g Masters. . l11nn,
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stevedores, res- pmg-master, one hundred dollars ; every stevedore other
resident. than non-resident, fifty dollars ; non-residents, one him-
oi-'Woml Yards.
Waivhuusi-.--.
liilli:inlT;ibK-s.
Pool Tables.
Ten-pin AIh
Kactorie
SI earn Kngines.
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dred dollars ; every the owner or owners of a coal, him- ('ai, i.n
ber or wood yard, fifty dollars ; every the keeper or
keepers of a warehouse for the storage of cotton, mer
chandise, goods, kc, for each warehouse, fifty dollars ;
every the owner or owners of a billiard table used for
hire, seventy-five dollars for each table, and for every
pool table, one Imndred and fifty dollars ; every the
owner or owners of a ten pin alley, fifty dollars for each
alley ; every the owner or owners of a saw mill or plan- Saw and rian
,. ,;ii ,i r. -i..n.... ... -i i ,,,.-, ing Mills.
Blind
factory, fifty dollars ; on the owner or owners of every
steam engine used for hoisting purposes, ginning pur
poses, or any other purpose, or business not regularly
taxed, as hereinbefore stated or enumerated, seventy-five
dollars ; on every engine used for driving a grist mill, o.-ist Mills,
twenty-five dollars ; a flour mill, fifty dollars ; every the Flour Mills,
owner or owners of a job printing office, twenty-five dol- JobPrintingOflars ; every master builder, mason or mechanic, includ- Master Meciianing shoemakers and tailors, taking contracts for work, Contractors,
architects, contractors other than builders, real estate TaMo'rs.'kers'
collectors and agents; ticket agents, twenty-five dol- Kif&tgenti.'
lars; every the owner or owners of an intelligence intelligence ofoffice, twenty dollars ; every manufacturer of soda water surtSa-Water Maselling0
from founts, twenty-five J dollars, and manufactur- ""'acturers. ' Soda-water, seling and bottling soda water, fifty dollars ; every soap yoffB ]
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boiler, tanner, and founder, for each establishment, fifty Tanners.
I'oundcrs.
dollars ; and for selling soda water from founts, ten dol
lars for each fount; every gas fitter, twenty-five dollars Gasfitters
one tax for each firm or two or more persons ; every Onetaxforeach i- ? J firm of two or
practicing attorney at law, physician, dentist, daguerrean i.1"^^',"'^
artist, photographer and ambrotyper, twenty-five dollars; ' "<_
every steamship, steamboat, vessel or other agency car- Physicians.
ried on by any other than taxed commission merchants, Photographers.
the sum of fifty dollars for each agency ; on every ice steamship and
house, fifty dollars ; on each and every museum, twenty- ice iiouses.
five dollars ; on every express company, two hundred Kxpl.ess comand fifty dollars ; on every baggage express wagon drawn ^^ge Ex.
bj one horse, twenty-five dollars ; if drawn by two P
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horses, forty dollars; on every gas company, two hun- a as Companies.
dred and fifty dollars ; on every restaurant where liquor Restaurants,
license is not taken out, twenty-five dollars ; on every
Rice Mills. rice mill, one hundred dollars ; on every person selling,
itinerant ven- or offering to sell, by sample, or otherwise, and who is
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11 not a resident of the city, one hundred dollars ; every
Lottery offices lottery office or agenoy, three hundred dollars; every barB
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sheops. ber shop, the annual tax of twenty-five dollars; every priTrbieseBi"
iard vate billiard table, the annual tax of twenty-five dollars.
Money Brokers. Every person shall, under this ordinance, be deemed a
money broker who buys or sells stocks, bonds, or money
other than his own; and shall be bound to make returns
and pay taxes, under the penalty prescribed by ordinance.
Taxes,whendue ij^g taxes provided for in this section shall be due and pay
able on the first day of January in each and every year,
Returns, when and returns therefor shall be made on said first day of Janmade' uary or within ten (10) days thereafter: Provided, always.
Tax Reduced That any person who may begin business after the first
after July 1st. J L
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day of July shall, immediately after so beginning busi
ness, make the proper returns, and shall be liable for and
pay one-half the said tax. And provided further, that in
ProftssionaiCo- the case of co-partnership between practising attorneyspartnerships. ... ,. , -, i-i. at-law, or physicians, or dentists, or daguerrean artists,
Each Member or photographers, or ambrotypers, each member of such
partnership shall pay said tax of twenty-five dollars.
Junk Shops and And it is further declared and ordained, That no junk
Cotton Pickeries. shop or cotton pickery shall, after the tenth day of JanConditions, uary next, be used or kept open, unless the owner or
owners of such junk shop or cotton pickery shall have
previously paid into the city treasury the said tax there
on for the year, and shall have taken out a license from
the office of the Clerk of Council, in which license it shall
be distinctly expressed that such junk shop or cotton
pickery shall always be subject to the visitation of the
police of the city ; a duplicate of which license, signed
by such owner or owners, and expressive of his, her or
their assent to such condition, shall be retained by the
Clerk of Council; on refusal of such owner or owners,
at any time, to submit to such visitation, such junk shop
Penalty. or cotton pickery shall immediately be closed by the
Mayor. And it is hereby declared and ordained that
every such junk shop license shall be subject to the fur-
ther condition that the same shall be subject to revoca
tion by the Mayor, if, on examination before him, in the
Police Court, he shall be satisfied and shall so pronounce,
that any city property or any part of any machinery, or
any appliance of any railroad company, is found in any
such junk shop ; and such condition shall be expressed
in the license of every such junk shop dealer. And it is
hereby declared to be the meaning of this ordinance,
that the license granted to an auctioneer shall not
authorize such auctioneer to sell for any transient dealer
or other person, where the sale or sales may not pass
regularly through the books of a regularly licensed auc
tioneer ; but every such transient dealer or other person
shall be compelled to take out a license as an auctioneer,
under a penalty of one hundred dollars for every unau
thorized sale or offer to sell. Every licensed auctioneer Crjerg allowed,
shall have the privilege of appointing one assistant crier, Stipulations.
whose name shall be recorded in. the Treasurer's office,
and entered on the license issued.
And be it further ordained, That any drummer, run- Drummers.
ner or person who solicits trade for any merchant or solicitors of
persons, either on the streets, cotton warehouses, wagon
yards, or passenger depot, shall pay a license of twentyfive dollars per annum, in advance; and any runner, renaity.
drummer, or persons soliciting trade without such
license, on conviction before the Police Court, shall pay
a fine of twenty dollars for the first offence, or ten days
imprisonment; fifty dollars for the second offence, or im
prisonment for twenty days; and one hundred dollars, or
thirty days imprisonment, for the third offence.
Section 4. And it is further ordained by the authority sales from vcs
aforesaid, That the license for the sale of goods, pro- ^xmisan"1
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visions, wares or other articles from any vessel or wharf,
shall be one hundred dollars, instead of fifty dollars, as
fixed by the Ordinance of thirty-first December, eighteen
hundred and forty; and any shipmaster, captain or officer collection
, , ,,. ,. , ,. , ., Freight Money. of any vessel selling articles or collecting Ins or tneir renaity
own freight money, shall be subject to a penalty not ex
ceeding one hundred dollars. Provided, always, that scale of Licens
any person required by this Ordinance to take out a
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license, and who may begin business after the first day
of July, in any year, shall, for that year, pay only oneBadges, half the price of such license; and the following persons
shall be compelled to take out badges on the first day of
January, annually, or within ten days thereafter, at the
Hucksters and prices herein designated, that is to say: Every vender of
Keel>ersofCook small wares, and every huckster and hawker, and keeper
stoves or shops of & c00t Btove Q^ cook shop, an annual badge at the
price of ten dollars, which may be reduced one-half if
not required to be taken out until after the first day of
Licenses and July; and any person subject or liable to take out any
" " such license or badge, or any other license or badge re
quired by this Ordinance to be taken out, and failing to
do so for ten days after the said first day of January in
each year, shall be liable to a fine of not more than thirty
dollars for every day's default, on conviction before the
How issued. Police Court. Such licenses and badges shall be issued
by the Clerk of Council, and the licenses shall be signed
by the Mayor, attested by the Clerk, and have impressed
Cargoes. on them the Seal of the City. And it is hereby declared
PenaiI
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ed ancl ordained, That any shipmaster, captain, supercargo,
agent, or other officer of any ship or vessel, who shall
purchase a cargo or part of a cargo of timber, lumber,
cotton or any other produce, except through a regularly
taxed commission merchant or broker, shall be liable to
a penalty of one hundred dollars.
Poll or Capita- Section 5. And it is further ordained by the authority
aforesaid, Thaf every male resident of said city, between
the ages of twenty-one and sixty years, shall be liable to
a poll or capitation tax of one dollar annually, except
only such of said persons as may be entitled to registry
and to vote at city elections, and who shall register their
names and pay for the same.
Liquor Licenses Section G. And it is further ordained by the authority
Comi'i'tions aforesaid, That on and after the first day of January
next, the price of a license to retail spiritous liquors for
one year shall be one hundred and fifty dollars, and the
applicant shall be required to submit as securities two
responsible freeholders of the neighborhood as a pre
requisite to the issue of said license; and for a wholesale
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liquor license the price shall be one hundred and twenty- wholesale,
five dollars, and no sales to be made under a half gallon, :N',(> sales under '
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' a half gallon.
by any wholesale dealer. And no bar-room shall be Barrooms, En
licensed which has not an entrance to it separate and
distinct from the entrance to the dwelling, and the
license shall be forfeited for a second violation of any
State law or cityJ ordinance; and in case of forfeiture the Forfeiture ofLicense.
license shall not be renewed for the space of two years.
And it shall be the duty of the Clerk of Council to pub- Duty of the
^ . * Clerk of Council
lish, monthly, an alphabetical list of all persons licensed
to sell spirituous liquors. And any person failing or re- ^g'or^efliffng
fusing to take out a license to sell spirituous liquors, ^^ out Li"
shall be liable to a penalty of not more than one hundred
dollars for every day any such person may sell without a
license.
Section 7. And be it hereby ordained by the authority Judges for Veof the same, That hereafter the following shall be the
prices for licenses or badges for the vehicles and animals
hereinafter mentioned:
For each one-horse dray or truck $1600
For each two-horse dray or truck 2-1 00
For each three-horse dray or truck 31 00
For each four-horse dray or truck 46 00 \
For each one-horse cart or wagon 12 00
For each two-horse cart or wagon 24 00
For each one-horse cab, hack or buggy 20 00
For each two-horse cab, hack or pleasure carriage... 40 00
For each two-horse omnibus 40 00
For each four-horse omnibus 60 00
For any break wagon used for exhibiting horses for
sale 40 00
For each horse er mule used for loading or unload
ing vessels 31 00
The license fee for cabs, hacks, and buggies, to be paid License Fee.
to the City Treasurer, and not to the Clerk of Council, ow p
and in the case of all other vehicles where badges are
exacted, the badges shall be taken out at the office of the
Clerk of Council, and the fees paid to him.
Section 8. And be it further ordained by the authority Tax Returns.
aforesaid, That all returns required by this ordinance
for real estate, income and commissions, shall be made , , How and when
quarterly, that is to say: On the first day of April, the made.
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first day of July, the first day of October, and the first
day of January, of each year, or within ten days there
after, respectively, for the three months immediately pre
ceding such respective days, and that for gross sales, in
cluding freight and passage money, and gross receipts of
all commercial agencies, and gross receipts of all steam
ship, steamboat and vessel agencies carried on by other
than taxed commissioned merchants or brokers, returns
shall be made between the first and tenth day of each
month for the preceding month, beginning with the
month of February next, eighteen hundred and sixtynine.
Salaries oi City Section '.). And it is further ordained by the authority
aforesaid, That the following shall be the annual com
pensation, and no more, allowed the following city
officers and employees from and after the first regular
meeting of Council in January next, that is to say:
The Mayor 13,000
Clerk of Council 1,600
City Treasurer 1,600
Assistant City Treasurer 1,600
City Marshal 1,500
City Printer (by contract) 800
Clerk of the Market 1,200
Assistant Clerk of the Market 360
City Surveyor I,ri00
Messenger of Council 720
Keeper of the Pest House 4.10
Jailer, including Deputy 2,000
Keeper of Forsyth Place 800
Pump Contractor 1,200
Corporation Attorney 1,200
Harbor Master l,20o
Chief of Police 2,000
First Lieutenant of Police 1,400
Second Lieutenant of Police 1,400
Chief Detective of Police l,40o
Six Sergeants of the Police, each 1,000
Privates of Police, each 840
Jail Guards, each 720
Health Officer 600
Keeper of Laurel Grove Cemetery 1,200
City Dispensary 1,000
Superintendent and Engineer of Water Works 1,500
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Assistant Superintendent and Engineer of Water
Works # 1,200
Second Assistant Engineer of Water Works 000
Secretary and Treasurer of Water Works 1,200
Turncock of Water Works 000
Section 10. And it is hereby ordained by the authority Board of Health
aforesaid, That hereafter the Clerk of Council, the City tain City ofti
Marshal, and the Messenger of Council shall, without c"m p c nsao'
compensation therefor, perform for the Board of Health aUowed
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the duties heretofore respectively performed by said
officers for said Board.
Section 11. And it is further ordained by the authority
aforesaid, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances,
so far as they militate with this ordinance, be and they
are hereby repealed.
Ordinance passed in Council December 23d, 1868.
EDWARD C. ANDERSON, Mayor.
Attest:
JAMES STEWART, Clerk of Council.
A-PPENDIX.
SCHEDULE OF TAXES, LICENSES, AND BADGES
FOR 18G9.
Apothecaries, wholesale $50 00
Apothecaries, retail 25 00
Ambrotypists (for each member of a firm) 25 00
Architects 25 00
Auctioneers 200 00
Artists, Daguerrean (for each) 25 00
Agencies carried on by other than regularly licensed com
mission merchants (for each agency) 50 00
Banks 100 00
Bankers 100 00
Bank Agents 100 oo
Badges for Vehicles, etc. (see Ordinance).
BarberShops 25 00
Billiard Tables, private 25 00
Billiard Saloons (each table) 75 00
Boarding House, Sailor 100 00
Bowling Alleys (each alley) 50 00
Brokers 100 00
Brokers, Money, or Dealers in Exchange 100 00
Brokers, Pawn 100 00
Brokers, Ileal Estate 100 00
Builders and Contractors 25 00
Coal Yards 50 00
Contractors other than Builders 25 00
Cook Shops or Stoves (badge) 10 00
Cotton Presses (each establishment) 200 00
Cotton Pickery 200 00
Collectors Real Estate, and Agents 25 00
Dealers, retail 25 00
Dealers, wholesale 50 00
Dealers in Liquor (retail), and charges 150 00
Dealers in Liquor (wholesale) and charges 125 00
Dentists (each) 25 00
Dogs, and price of badge 1 50
Engines, Steam (see Ordinance) 75 00
Express Companies 250 00