Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-06-01
CITY COUNCIL.

At called meeting, held Wednesday, May 29th-Pre-
sent : G. A. Myers, President; j. M. Darlington, H
Exall, w C. Allen, S. Cullen, B. TAFT, L. w. Cham.
berlayne, C. Robinson j. M. Talbot and S. D. De-
room.
DR. Chamberlayne submitted the following report
from the Committee on Light:
At meeting of the Committee on Light at their Of
flee, on Tuesday, May 2sth, il was
ResoIred That the offer OF K. and 5. H. Jones, OF
Philadelphia be adopted, for furnishing and delivering
in the city of Richmond all the necessary castings and
wrought iron work for eight benches OF retorts each
finished ready for putting up at the price OF $685. and
that also, for erecting set OF puryers with every
thing necessary for the complete purhcaton OF gas
except lime and copperas tubs tor the sum OF ooo II
they should not exceed twenty hive tons 10 weight or
if they should exceed that weight, the said H. q S. H.
Jones to be paid four cents per pound for all cast iron
work and eight per pound for all wrought iron
work, exceeding twenty-five tons
The report was approved, and contract with the
said r. & S. H. Jones authorized, accordingly.
The following report of the select committee, to
whom was referred the annual report from the Trustees
of the Lancasterian School, was taken up:
The committee, to whom the annual report OF the
Trustees of the Lancaserian School REFERRED with
instructions enquire whether any further provision
should be made, on the subject OF education within the
city, have proceeded to make such enquiry, and now
submitan ordinance, the passage OF which they recon-
mend They also present the following report:
By the will of Whitaker Shadtonh, bearing date the
18th of August 1902, and admitted 20 record in the
Court OF HenrlcO county the Oul OIL DecelDeT OOS Lc
devised to John Buchanan, John D. Blair, Edmund
Randolph, James Lownes, John w arden and John Eli
lis and the survivor OF them, house In the city OF
Richmond with the lot thereto belonging, containing
one acre and quarter wherein John Wicks then lved
one other lot mentioned belonging to Samuel Cole
man. which rents for five dollars year four halt
lots in the city, purchased by him from John Courtney
and four acres of land in Henrco county purchased by
him from John Russell and Samuel Couch, and men
toned as conveyed to him by VIM. Duval, In trust Tor
the use maintenance and support OF the poor school,
then lately instituted by the corporation or OF any other
school which might afterwards be instituted by tnat DO
DIV for poor children or as free school, TO be disposed
of and appropriated to their use, as the corporation
should direct The trust created by this testator Tor
the benevolent object which ne had IN view, seems not
yet to have been executed An ordinance on the sub,
ect, was passed by the Common Council on the 22d
November 1877 and the surviving trustees appointed by
the will consenug the course pointed out by that or
dinance The General Assembly, on the 9Th OF Feb,
1878 passed an act authorizing the surviving trustees to
sell at public auction the real estate so devised and to
nav over the amount of such saes to the Chamberlain
OF the city, who was to invest the proceeds slock me
dividend Of which to be applied, two thirds to the
Lancasteran institution, for the purpose OF educating
the poor boys of the city, and third to the female
Humane Association, for the purpose OF educating the
poor girls thereof
The fall in the price of real estate. which commenced
in the wear wherein this act passed. and the deaths OF
the surviving trustees, which occurred within few
years afterwards probably prevented any sale under this
act The house and lot whereon John Wicks lived,
stood entered for many years on the books OF the Com
mssiouers of the Revenue as corporation ground, by
w Shadforth, and are described in some OF the years
as improved lot No s. and afterwards, from 1922 to
1926, as 1870 feet Brook road. committee appoint
ed to enquire into the situation OF this property on the
Brook road made report to the Council on the lUth
October, 1924 The property still continued on the
Commissioners books for years afterwards, in the
name OF the corporation, and on those OF 1879 and
1880, is estimated at $4 foot.
The property in connection with which Samuel Cole
man is named was by deed Of the LIST April l79S, re-
in Court of HuStinUS the Richmond
on the 9th of that month"; conveyed to Shadtorth, IN
consideration of the annual payment OF s. as golnd
rent. 1t appears by entry on the Chamberlains
books, by the former Chamberlain, that on application
to Maj DIVA, in relation to four acres OF land IN lien
rico county, he told the Chamberlain that he had some
recollection of making the Decd and that it was ior
square of lois in his village, next to James browns
square, and the side of the street. ana imme
diatey to the east OF it, James Browns being opposie
TO what was then Samuel Henry's. cL,
The four half lots in the city, purchased y
TO Shadforth by deed Of the 9Th September, $780, ad-
mtted to record in the Court of Henrco county on the