The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-06-13

Total appropriations for Madison
ward. ...................... 2,O25 90
Total appropriations for Monroe
Ward .................... $40 w
Amount of appropriations for the
present year. ..'..... S1,60O w
The recommendation were adopted, and
the appropriations ordered.
FUEL FOR THE POOR.
The Committee on Fuel for the Poor
submitted the following:
"Thc committee appointed to provide
and distribute fuel beg leave to report that
the appropriations heretofore made by the
Council at the disposal of the Committee
on Fuel have amounted to 300 cords Of
wood and ! 200 bushels of coal, which have
been distributed to more than 1900 tami-
lies, of which many were refugees. The
object of your committee has been to dis
tribute these appropriations in such man
ner as to meet, as far as possible, the wants
of the needy, and in order to prevent i'm
position they have required the certificates
of the clergy or physician, or one OF the
Richmond Relief Associations, before giving
an order for coal or wood.
In the beginning of the operations it
was apparent to your committee that there
was much restitution, not only among
those who have generally been considered
as the poor, but also among many who were
heretofore in comfortable circumstances
and in some cases those living outside of
the city limits, unprovided for by the
county of Henrico, were so destitute as TO
require the exercise of this charity on the
part of the city. To meet the wants of so
many, and make division according To
their necessities, your committee have
been obliged to use more than ordinary
caution in issuing orders, and it became
absolutely necessary to employ'an agent,
IN addition to the labors of the committee,
to attend to the daily distribution. Your
committee believe that every case of ac-
tual want has been met, and the amount
appropriated has answered the purpose
intended. The coal has been exhausted,
but there remains of the appropriation of
the wood two hundred and thirteen cords.
The approach of the summer season has, to
large extent, done away with the neces-
sity for this aid from the city.
your committee believe that the action
of the Council has been of great benefit to
the recipients Of these appropriations, and
has prevented much distress through the
winter season, and that very few, if any,
received aid who did not require and desire
it; and your committee will take occasion
here to say that the Richmond, Fredericks-
burg, and Potomac Railroad Company, and
the Virginia Central Railroad Company,
rendered good service in transporting the
wood at such time and upon such terms as
satisfied the committee of their interest
in the work.
"Some appropriation would seem proper
to compensate the services of the agent
employed by your committee, who has re-
ceived and examined all applications for
wood, and given orders for the amount to
which each applicant was entitled, and
they therefore recommend that the sum OF
s. be appropriated and allowed for that
purpose, to be under the control of the
committee"
The blank IN the last paragraph was
filled by the insertion of $3.50.
LANCAsTERIAN SCHOOL.
The trustees of the Lancasterian School
submitted the following memorial:
To the Trustees Of the Lancasterian School ::
conference.-the undersigned, a CON-
mittee appointed at our last monthly meet
ing, respectfully represent that they are
deeply impressed with the Importance OF
introducing at once into the school under
YOUR care certain improvements and modi-
fications, involving an expenditure con-
siderably in advance of the sum now ap-
propriated by the Common Council.
These improvements will promote the
order and discipline of the school, and
render its instruction far more thorough
than 1t can be under the present arrange
ment with the utmost diligence and fidelity
ON the part of the teachers.
The changes which we desire to intro
duce are ali involved in the classification
which is indispensable, where SO large a
number of children is collected as are 10
be found in the two departments.
In the female department we have an
average daily attendance OF one hundred
scholars and two teachers. f.
In the male department there 10 on
average daily attendance OF one hundred