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The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], City Council. (search)
f the City Council was held yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of considering two ordinances previously reported from the Committee on Police, Messrs. Saunders, Grattan, Denoon, Glazebrook, Wynne, Crutchfield, Epps, Scott, Griffin, Hill, and Burr were in attendance. The ordinance providing for increasing the number of the da be with the view of informing himself upon the subject. None of the facts yet mentioned by the friends of the measure had satisfied him of its necessity. Mr. Grattan argued that if the object of a police was to keep order in a city and to prevent offences, the proposed increase was absolutely indispensable. Mr. Epps rennt spirits in the Theatre and other places of amusement. Mr. Epps opposed the taking up of the ordinance at present, and Mr. Hill withdrew his motion. Mr. Grattan offered the following resolution, which was adopted: Resolved, That the Committee on Finance be authorized to attend to the indictments made against the ci