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." \ 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. l-ifJ!. ((IGO 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 5 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. 10 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. 11 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) I Rail Road & Bank- V ( 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.) < stamps cancelled, E. C ( A., 28th Dec, 18fi8. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 13 ftwffl oHHw - W <^ tfwh 3 ftO Q ?; ;. ^ biD Q Qj Q fj rt P K < CD rs ^ r TJ s 5 0^ S S 5 -s '? l-j ^ f=H 0) +J J +^ +J +^ r j. o: cr. M a T-H T-H Ti 11 h-l a5^P X Oi o 00 00 CD t~ oo O0 00 00 ^H T-f ,1 1-1 OS CO ^^ oo lO 4 rt iP=i O 0) cc ~ ^X ^ n3 0> 10 CM IS ' x o o o <-> o o t- ^H lO 11 1^ CO r-1 il rH -- C3 ^H r/i O a> . -M TS 'S S3 rr! PH :/f > p rfl ^^ W C O ^5 CH 14 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 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 -3 c H3 c October... 59 77 November 54 73 December. 61 50 January.. 53 72 February . March.... 32 18 37 37 April.... May June 30 62 47 42 49 60 July August.... September 44 36 74 58 37 47 FROM 1868 TO 1869 -1 3^ O c H3 c CI 136 59 127i 62 111'! 49 125 i 33 69:; 27 55. 48 72! ill! 107i 102 73 121 1209; 41 40 36 45 48 40 528 57 116 48 110 44 93 38 71 27 54 34 82 43 84 41 81 44 80 28 73 36 84 33 73 oCD 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." 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O 0 '53'oi CD 01 a; g c PMC eceiv eceiv* eceiv eceiv MAYORS ANNUAL REPORT. 59 tea o: ^H f- WJ H* ^K O A 53 b 11i? ^ O 3 ^ C3 etf ci /-, CM CU&H 1 Cs S > ci -a 4 1 t- CO 1 oa aT oa T-I CS CO 35 o3 -^ H CS lO t- e8 ^ Ol OJ t- cT** < j= o 01 rd a HH> -- 1 +H ad Jj 00 J 3i -H ft4 03 O a3 'cc O J? TJ o ^ 1^ 4) r" ., c *^S 13 1a OJ u 01 w c a + a 0 " +H cs o en ^ BSTS IK'S ^ 'CD '53 P p ^ o til) MAYOR S ANNUAL RKPORT. R-ESOXJPLOES 01' TIIK 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 8,000 00 40,000 00 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 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 ON HAND. 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. n-z MAYORS ANNUAL REPORT. b W H p p P "to 4 iSs owooccoooc C:>-tC3:OiHO^DO>-i iHtNcodOSOO'^SH* r-t O iH O O C 30 O C 'O lO IO --D L- i-t O O ISS-s so MS - . ci 'is Ql-d 4S-- 9 a .2 3- - S o 3 M .2 "cS a, ci Sag's aS' a g 8 e ?.2 ecw co m m -a a < s 3 2 .-3 o c^ : a B : 3^ :* :| ai o --H 300 :S g 'S t. ai f- .Od, < SS-^^-S-g-S 3 a a o -5 a c^K 5 ai-^ccOa:^iOcBcQ[H aB'E cu a, . 1 eg" d a; C t- ~ ^ C3 CO ^ Ac fHco i a :>4 2 a a a Sw 3a|0 "S3 3-s.a o -^ Sill :3g :SS o , U-o S 2 5? a ^ ^ * E 1 * |?isg'aM s 1 h-o 2 3^ ?> = - a - ^5 a " c* PH '-S P5 f - ^ j -3 fill* ^i>- M CO CO C asaaaa a a C3 W CC 3 ^ CC S-. >v t>. >>>>>-. >, >-. a c a a a q a a sScSricasee* it ~s >-* is is i-s >-b is -> 1-5 38 O OJ ^5 XOOXCOCOXXOOODCC -C -O IC ;o ^) e x oo a oo oo oc 00 ao ao 00 ao 00 at) a a -* m ic t> o w 1^ n 10 so occoocooooooxxxco soooooooo 300-*00000 000000 000000 o eo o 00 o o ? ws o in -HT OC X cc oc CO 06 00-t* o 05 5 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 63 i~ oc ,' c 1 . 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So >, ' aa^ a a a -S'S'S'S'S'S aaSa a a a a a a a a a a a a a a >s ^a "-s t-D >-a >^ i s I -g * o Oi 00 00 seas 'N-i'OSOCOMMa t-t-t-t-t-oooox XCOX0000XXX it; m \!i o ws cs o OC^O00t-OCX)^0 2 ^co-& lo'aicZ'iSuavSt?- T^CCco co "3 CM 03 T-I 5 i.-r co ; iietocccsasocsooao-^sDo* kD^00Q000T-ct>OTtH?Drtct^CD [COW-^OOC^-^THOlO^HOOJOi IH, CD Ji - O T-C O 03 5 OC -H QO ^H O CXI 00 O -* O ttoco 00 r-^ 00 COr-i w OS 0 S g oH !U -a ,5 S "^ ^5 '-s o m^ a cc g rf ' ' a ^ '"^ a s oaooj ^c t~ o to -* C-J M g a c rf cs -a r ^ " ET a - ^ 33 jS S N;,UOJI asiAiisvoo W< MAYORS ANNUAL RKPORT. TOTAL TONNAGE, MrUcrmi and Ckared at the Port of Savannah, Ga.. during the Quarter ending September 301]i. 1869. Vessels. No. Ton'go. 1001 hs. Crew. (Amer.) from Foreign Ports. . 1 350 49 J) (For'n) ' u " LO 8,642 55 V.vi (Amor) to ' " . . .... . . ... (Kor'n) ' ' " 5 3,292 8(i 7(; fn coastwise trade, entered... L60 91,831 25 .'>,24() In coastwise trade, elea red ... 140 87,744 66 3.YM\ I'otal 316 191,861 81 6.653 MAYORS ANNUAL RKPORT. 67 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,-, 69- 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 t _ J 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 , 0 $soo.a ^ a (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 . 0 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 sue. 6 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 A 1 v u 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. _ a ' 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, u J 1 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. ? 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 ] 1 ""1 " 3 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 1 ' 658 Was 0 " s - 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 orotiSw^.1 " 11 not a resident of the city, one hundred dollars ; every Lottery offices lottery office or agenoy, three hundred dollars; every barB r arbern 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 i 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 ' 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 10 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 ty.rclla" 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 tion Tax City Registry 11 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 ' 0 ' 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. Officers. 12 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 13 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 - 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