[4] Proceedings of the Board of Aldermen, Vol. XLVIII, pp. 530-37.
[5] Ibid., p. 532.
[6] For violating this injunction one Alderman—Oscar W. Sturtevant (a Whig)—was sentenced to a nominal fifteen days in prison and to pay a fine of $350, and the other offending Aldermen were merely fined. The courts afterward annulled the Sharp franchise.
[7] Document No. 55, p. 1219.
[8] Ibid. p. 1310.
[9] Ibid. p. 1403.
[10] Ibid. pp. 1426-28.
[11] Document No. 55, pp. 1575-76.
[12] Ibid., p. 1282.
[13] Ibid. p. 1445. In 1862 the Council resolved to buy back this same property for $533,437.50 and repassed the resolution over Mayor Opdyke’s veto on January 3, 1863, thus, as the Mayor pointed out, entailing a new loss to the city of over $499,000, though the property had not increased in value. Proceedings of the Board of Councilmen, Vol. LXXXVIII, pp. 723-25.