The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-08-27

+ City Cosaca.-A called meeting OF tie
Council was held at the Council Chamber,
o'clock Present: Messrs. Haskins, Prcsi-
dent pro f9,a., Walker. Cratchiieid, Demopn,
Griffin, Ciopton, Hill, Randolph, and Scott.
The President, on taking the chair, stated
| the object which brought the Council fs,-
i .eihcr was TO consider Il petition from GER
Tain residents OF j particular square IN the
city asking TO have stopped the erection OF
| 4 bnilfing which Was about going up In the
vicinity oi their property.
| The reading of the minutes OF the last
meeting was, on motion, dispensed with.
| Mg Hill, OF Jefferson Ward, then arose
! and presented the petition referred to ty the
/! President He advocated its adoption by
! The Council nn the ground that the, building
objected to BY the petitioners twas very
| large wooden stable, and its completion aud
! occupancy would greatly endangcr the safety
/; of property surrounding it. He read the
/ :s5th section nf the Charter OF the city of
| Richmond to show that tWoihIrds ot the
! property. y.loliets in any unc square In the
city had the right to protest against the cree
tion of any house built of wood which. iu
their opinion, might dcpreclate the value at
their property, and appealed TO tue members:
/. present to grant the prohibition a-kets tor
| by the petitioners. The petition. he con.
| tended, had been properly gotten UP, and
| the subject was one in which the welfare oil
| IL respectable portion of the city was con
+! cerned
Mr.. Nance appeared as counsel for the
! owner Of the stable in process of erection,
/ and by permission of the Council addressed
| them in defence of his client. He contended
/: that, even il the stable objected to had Just
| been commnecea, the petition could not pre-
i vent its completion, as twothirdS of the
| property-holders had not signed it. Mr. Jas.
/, Al. Taylor being simply an agent for the own
oct
/ je endangered, had no right, under the char
| ter, to sign such an Instrument of the kind
/ presented. The reading Of said charter eX-
| pressiy defines that none but the owner shall
protest. The building was now nearly i'm
! ished, and therefore i! was not in the power
ui any directors to interfere with it, as the
| law only referred to those which had not
Pbcen commenced, and could not affect one
| which had already been pat up. lie asked
the rejection OF the petition, or 4 reference
of the matter TO proper committee.
SIR Hill rejoined and referred to the
record of the Council proceedings TO
prove the reverse OF MIR. Sancc's ar
@iimept. Taylor, he believed, had con-
suited with the owners of the property,
and the list embraced the names of more
than four-fiths of the whole square. Instead
o.. the building which was objected to being
small one, it had a front of at least 30 feet,
and depth of so feet. He had understood
tAt ONutE DotoSCAtt) htNuuCu ~ W uC-
commodatc II large number of horses, md
therefore the large loft attached would be
stored with hay to feed them. III By any ac-
cident it should take fire nothing could save
the whole square, and probably other pro-
perty adjacent would be destroyed.
MI Scott sustained the prayer Of the petit
TONERS, and hoped it would pass He con-
tended that the argument used by Mr.
NaEee, that because the building complained
OF was nearly finished ii was not in the pro-
vince of the Council TO have il removed, was
inadmissh!e--a house was not q house till
1t was finished He (Scottl thought the or
dinanee detective, ipasmuch is il only pro-
vided for protests from persons residing on
the same square where Objectionable build
ing were about being put up, whereas often
times property across the street was in more
danger than that ON the same side of the
street in case of lire. 1t was singular the
city had peyer pursued more stringent
measures to suppress these grieyous nni-
sances.
Mr.. Denoon followed Mr. Scott at some
length, during which he advanced some
iorciblc Illustrations 10 show why the Coun-
ell should adopt the petition. He ree0l-
iected some years since, when fires were so
frequent in this City that the Fire Depart
ment positively refused to insure a great
,nany houses which were located in the neigh
borhoOd Of stables. The further completion
of the building complained ofin the petition
should, in his opinion, be interdieted by the
Council
Mr. Nance desired to reply. A large num-
ber OF the houses in the square on which the
stable of Mr.. Boisseau was being erected was
OF wooden structure, and OF the most COM
hustible character. The property was located
ON the square embracing 18th and 18th and
FRANKLIN and Grace streets, where in all di-
rections were many stables, and old, intam-
mabc shanties. He still maintained that
complaint should have been made before the
erection Of the building vas commenced.
He doubted much whether the owners of
that portion of the property represented by
. Taylor would have signed the petition at all,
, and thought 1t great advantage to their
! property for Mr. Boissear to put up bis biild-
i ing there.
| Some further discussion took place be-
. tween Messrs. Scott, DenOon, and Hill, for
the petitioners aud Mr.. Nance, the counsel
!. for Boiaseau, after which the question was
pnt and the prayer the petitioners granted
! 4 resolution was then offered and adopted
authorizing the City Engineer fo notify Mr.
Boisseau to put stop to any further work
on the building begun by him.
Mr.. Scott offered the following resoiu-
ton:
Resolved, That committee Of - be ap-
pointed 10 report an ordnance To carry out
the provisions of the Both section of the
Charter of the city of Richmond, passed the
3Uth of March, 1852, concerning the erection
of buildings in the squares OF the city.
Mr.. Denoon raove,l suspension OF the
rules, to allow him TO offer resolution max
ing an appropriation OF $3.50 fer repairing ine
building known as Primary School house No.
! L. Granted
/. Mr. Scott presented a petition from Pea
(; chy Il. Gratian, Esq, asking the remission
! OF fne improperly imposed upon him.
/ GRATED.
After which the Council adjourned.
Ee1oxu.-John Albert, white man. was
I Yesterday arrlignesi to answer the charge nj
/ stealing two gold watches from David Ill.
| Roitnoit, a few days since. The officers Who
/ arrested Aibert found in his trunk the watch
/ rs alleged to have been st0len, and said that
| A. readily gave them up. The prisoner, in
| response 10 the question 0f the Mayor ii he
wished to say anything in his own defence,
| said that a man named Warner, who had been
| for loug time an inmate Of a hospital at
which Boitnott, the complainant, was ioea'
| ted, had gone in debt at an establishment
/ which he tA.} kept to the amount Of xi00
that he Nv. had determined TO leave ths
! city and insisted that The watches should ht
held by A. till the money was paid. AS sooi
as be found out they bad been stolen he dc
| terinined TO surrender them TO the owner
The ease was sent 10 the Hastings Court oi
Monday next, and the accused committed ii
default OF BAIL
| THE Forgery Gese--Alexansier ID. Cheat
wood. arrested on the charge of passias
forged checks signed by Lailiers, TollcsGs
DC Cattett, appeared before the Mayor yestes
day morning. Mr.. Gilmcr, counsel for ths