The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-05-22
LOCAL MATTERS.

PUBLIC MEETINs meeting Of the
citizens vi Monroe Ward. who are In iavor of re-
moving the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potos
mae Railroad from Broad Street, was held Mt Saun
ders temperance Hall on Saturday night last
Mr.. Thomas Barham called the assemblspe to or
der, and on his motion Mr.. FLEMfNe GRIFFIN was
called to the Chair. and Mr.. WV. TrmBERLAKE ap
pointed Secretary. p =
The Chairman. on taking his seat, briefly stated
the object of the meeting, and announce cd his read
ness to proceed to business.
Mr.. DAVID J. SAUNDERS, member of the City
Council from Monroe Ward, offered the following
resolutions, prefaeng them with remarks in which
he declared that he ielt no hostility to any one
nected with the company The resolutions read
thus
Resolved LIST. That Che streets OF the city OF Rich
mond are designed for the and benefit OF all the
citizens and cannot lawfully justly be appropriated
| individual
| 2 That nuisance ia a wrong aud grievance which
cannot be made lawful and neither the Legislature
nor the Council of tho city Of Richmond hasa right
to authorize any man, company or private corpora
s That whatever obstructs the free use OF
alike by all the people or renders the use OF
it dangerous 10 nuisance which u Is the duty OF the
| city authorities TO abate the same
q. That the use of steam engines on Broad
street by the R., +. 2. r. r. Company, is a nui-
sance to the lives and person Of the peo-
ple who use that street. and injurious to the proper
that and the eontisious streets as descrb. in
nexed, aud which we here repeat and reathrm
5. That the use of Broad street a depot, in
which its are left to stand for the purpose OF
loading and loading them, is illegal and nuisance
for VIII CHI no justification excuse be found in
the resolutions OF the Council authorizing the said
railroad company to enter Broad street. and ought
to be abated forthwith, as the Commissioners of
streets by resolution have declared.
1t has done, and thus render unfit for other use
large portion OF Broad street with its fixtures for
turning cars nor has it any right to extend its road
obstruct 1t otherwise, AZ they have done below 9th
street, and such acts are nusances which it Is the
duty OF this city authorities forthwith to abate.
Z. That the said Railroad Company have no claim
to any compensation for removal from Broad street,
as the Common Council have repeatedly declared;
but II IT has, 1t IS claim upon the whole city, and
not upon the people ON Broad street or in Monroe
Ware; and is unjust and Ubiquitous to enforce such
wrong and oppression upon those people, in order
protect the city coter; and cannot perceive why,
II the sad Company may use public street a de-
pot every merchant and mechanic in the city should
not be lowed to do SO. That they not and
not every one knows, and we protest against this
unequal unfair, unjust, and oppressive administra
Let the Railroad Company pay for its depots as
the banks, the merchants the manufacturers do, if
the city must elevate above all Others and furnish
with depot, we protest against imposition of the
whole burden upon the people of Monroe Ward, as
now it is.
be and they are hereby instructed, far
t'uct them, to lay these resolutions before the
City Council procure if they car, the passage of
such ordinap be necessary to relieve of
the wrong snd nuisance of which we complain.
o. Resolved, That in the opinion of this meeting,
is the duty of the Mayor of the city to enforce the
law rgidly until he abates the nuisance of which
complain, as far as may be in his power.
Mr. JAMES LYONS spoke at length in favor of the
resolutions and after giving full history of the
rights of the company, and the various points at
which they had been transcended, proceeded to
show the wrongs the people of Broad street were
now suffering from the passing of the locomotive
along it at all hours and the of the street as
depot for and weigh table Mr.. Lyons made
out very strong against the road and his re-
marks were warmly received.
The question was then put and the resolutions
were unanimously adopted.
On motion the meeting adjourned to be reassem-
bled at the call OF the Chairman, after the City
Council shall have taken action on the resolutions
above.