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opposing members, and a resolution was finally passed, authorizing the sale of the property for manufacturing purposes, for the sum of five thousand dollars in Confederate States paper, and a deed so executed. (see exhibit "A" hereto attached) The City Council at the time was composed of a Mayor and eight aldermen, of where it was there and is now believed that the Mayor and one of the Aldermen were disqualified for want of the necessary property qualification. The vote on the resolution was a tie as between the Aldermen four voting for it ( among whom was the disqualified Alderman), and four against it. The pretended Mayor gave the casting vote, favoring the resolution and so the resolution passed.
The condition of establishing manufacturers was never complied with by the so called C.S. Government, although some steps were taken. Matters stood thus, until the establishment of a new City Government, after the war was ended and under the appointment and administration of governor Hamilton, where the City Council by an ordinance (a copy of which is hereto attached, and marked, "exhibit "B") repudiated the acts of the City Government, from the 1st of April A.D. 1861, to the 9th of October A.D. 1865, and particularly where sales of land had been made, and thus avoided the effects of the sale under consideration, and your petitioners believed