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Minutes of the Corporation [corner torn] the City of Nacogdoches

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MESSAGE OF THE MAYOR TO THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE CORPORATION OF NACOGDOCHES.

Gentlemen:

The good citizens of Nacogdoches hav been pleased to elect you Aldermen and Conservators, of its Corporation for the ensuing year and altho its population is small and orderly, yet it is necessary, that good and wholesome municipal regulations be enacted for the proper administration of its affairs and the well being of its society. Such enactments should be few and simple and adapted to its condition and being wisely framed, should be firmly enforced---- To which end I would recommend a revision of all past Ordinances of this Corporation and the adoption of such only as are really required and all will tend to its good government and that the same will be printed in pamphlet form for the use and information of its Citizens.

I would also recomned the adoption of a Code of by-laws, for the government of the present board, whereby the punctual attendance of its members will be secured.

The financial affaitrs of the Corporation will claim your immediate attention. It would be well to have and Exhibit of its Availibilities and Liabilities prepared and placed before you. Its financial matters should be conducted with prudence and strict and rigid accountability maintained in relation thereto and a yearly statement of its fiscal affairs submitted tot he pbulic. It is due to our fellow citizens, to relate them acquainted, with how, or in what manner the Taxes collected from them, are applied or expanded.

Nacogdoches, one of the oldest towns in Texas is, I regret to state, far behind many other towns of more recent creation, in population, improvement and enterprise. Originally built up in the Spanish fashion, its streets, are irregularly laid out and its whole plain is unseemly, and inconvinient, and which has contributed in a great degree to retard its progress.

It should be our duty to correct its irregularities whenever opportunity offers by abating obstacles to improvement, widening the streets, making strait our paths, and wresting from a condition of vandalism one of most fovored sites ever formed by Nature for an inland town by Americanizing it!

The streets of out town, the principal avenues leading thereto from the surrounding country, the condition of our Bridges, and the drainage of swamp land, within its limits requires, and will I trust call promp action.

I would call your attention to to the propriety of appointing a Corporation Survery or, to whom it should be intrusted, the surverying of all Lots, or Blocks of land within the limits of the Corporation, and the surverying of all disputed or conflicting claims within said limits and all other matters, pertaining to the duties of that office.

Sometime, during the past year, the Corporation of Nacogdoches, moved by wise considerations abated, and set apart, a tract of land on the North side of the town, and within its limits for educational purposes and a public square

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for the use and healthful recreation of its Citizens. A portion of the Ground such as may be required for Educational purposes was tendered to the Trustees of the Nacogdoches University and has been accepted by them as the site for their contemplated Collegiates Institution. The public square in connnection therewith bears the venerated name of the "Father of his Country".

I would redpectfully urge your earnest co-operation with the Treustees of the Nacogdoches University in carring out so praise worthy an under-- taking---which will tend so materially to the improvement and prosperity of the town. And future generations will hold in grateful recollection, the second and best founders of "time honored Nacogdoches".

Nacogdoches March 26th, 1851.

JOHN FORBES MAYOR

On motion adjourned subject to a case of the Mayor

H. H. Edwards Secretary

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004_April 1851

Board of Aldermen of the Coperation [Corporation] Nacogdoches, 1851.

James H Starr Major [Mayor] H. H. Edwards Secretary Henry Raguet Sir. Treasurer Thos [Thomas] J Jennings P.U. Ford Chas. [Charles] Chevallir Geo. [George] Clevenger James Hart

[Note of "member of Board" to the right of Jennings, Ford, Chevallir, Clevenger, Hart]

Constable Jno. [John] C. Morrison Collector John S. Roberts

Board were elected 7th April 1851. and organized 15th April same year.

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