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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: December 10, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Griffin or search for Griffin in all documents.
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City Council.
--The monthly meeting of the City Council was held last evening.
The following members were in attendance; Messrs. Saunders, Grattan, Denoon, Haskins, Crutchfield, Wynne, Epps, Griffin, Hill, and Glazebrook.
Sundry petitions were presented and referred to the appropriate committees.
A communication from Col. Charles Dimmock to Mr. Thos. H. Wynne, urging the necessity of arming the batteries, was referred to the Committee on Defences.
A letter from Thomas Lawson, Esq. Clerk and Chamberlain of the Council for six years past, tendering his resignation, in consequence of declining health, was read.
Mr. Lawson says:
"When an officer knows that he is physically unable to discharge the duties of his office, and when he believes, as I do in my case, that he will never again be able to do so satisfactorily to himself, I think that it is his duty to resign at once, and accordingly I do now resign said office, the resignation to take effect from this da