The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-02-20
8icllmond 1ispattEr.
LOCAL MATTERS.

LOCAL M
To SUBscRIBERs.-The carrier on the route
south of Main and west of Thirteenth streets
being sick, the Dispatch was not delivered yes
terday to subscribers in that part of the city.
CfTI CoUNcIL.-A special meeting Of the
City Council was held ut the City Hall last
evening. Present-Messrs. Grattan, Scott,
Burr, Crutchfield, Eppes, Smith, Millspaugh,
Lee, Lancaster.
Mr.. Burr, from the Committee on Finance,
made q report, from which 1t appears that
during the ten months from April, 1865, to
February, 1866, the Gas Works cost S55, 473 more
than the receipts, and that the Water Works
realized profit of $6, 100. The interest on the
city debt, paid and funded, was $50, SIT and
The cost of the Fire Brigade was SO, 4S2.
The estimates of the Auditor for the present
fiscal year show an estimated expenditure of
S735, 900, and an estimated income of S267, 900,
leaving deficit of S4S5,000, to meet which
would require n tax of about two per cent
After omitting the charges for the payment Of
the past-due bonds aud back interest and
taking into account reduction in the cost Of
the police and fire brigade, and omitting an
estimated profit of $30, 900 from the Gas Works,
the account stands rs follows ReceiptS.-Taxes
of 1865 uncollected, $50, 900; income from mar
kets, fines, wagons, carriages, billiard tables,
&C., $4,000. While the expenditures are
Police, $4,000; fire brigade, $4,000; officers
of the city, $25, 900; aims house, &C., $4,000
hands, carts, and repairs, $27, 800; bills payable,
Sl5,322 other expenses, Sl7,30 Interest on
city debt, $ll7,323 Total expenditures, $685.
sos. Deficit 1914, 594-to be met by balance on
hand of SIS, ,564 and leaving to be provided
from taxes, $226,030.
The committee stated that they recon-
mended the adoption of the foregoing estimate
as aIbasis for taxation, and that the taxation
necessary would be about the same rs that OF
last year. At the conclusion of Mr.. Burrs
explanation, the report was received and
adopted.
The Finance Committee reported adversely
to the petition Of the York River Railroad
asking that taxes be RENTED on the com ly's
property. Adopted.
In the case of Messrs. Jones & Griswold,
and others, petitioners for reduction or the
tax on billiard tables. the committee reported
the following:
"Resolred, That the Committee on Finance
report to the Council an ordinance so amend
ing the ordinance concerning licenses granted
by the Mayor that the license on billiard
tables shall be fifty dollars on the first table,
and twenty dollars on each additional
table, Adopted
An ordinance in rela ton to the removal OF
dead animals from the city was passed. 1t
provides that any unauthorized person re-
moving any dead horse, mule cow, or other
cattle from the city, shall be fined for each
animal or carcase not less than five nor more
than thirty dollars; also, that it shall be the
duty OF the owner of any such dead animal
and of the owner or occupier OF the lot on
which such animal may be found, to give
notice of the death of such animal to the per-
son contracting with the city for the removal
of such animals and, failing to give notice for
six hours after such death shall be known, he
shall be fined not less than five nor more than
ten dollars.
The remaining sections prescribe rules for
the guidance of the person who shall contract
to remove all dead animals, and that he shall
be fined not less than five nor more than
twenty dollars if he fail to remove them
within six hours after due notification, and
also enumerates penalties for breach OF con-
tract on his part.
A resolution was passed authorizing the Com
mittee on Police TO contract with some person
for the removal of dead animals from the city,
the same to be done without expense to the
city, and the contractor to enter into BOND Tor
the performance of his duties.
The Committee on Claims reported in favor
of the remission of the fine of fifty dollars
imposed on Messrs. Corkery Millward,
and recommended the payment of some small
claims. Adopted.
An ordinance to amend section two of the
ordinance providing police was passed IL
provides that the police force of the clsy
shall consist of the chief of police, ten officers,
one hundred policemen, from whom shall be
appointed five sergeants. And the mayor
may, when, from peculiar circumstances, ne
shall deem it necessary, increase the pollce
require. The said officers of police and SER
geants shall, in criminal cases, have the same
powers, perform the same duties, receive the
same fees, and be subject to the same penalties,
as are prescribed by law for constables and
two of said officers of police shall reside in
each ward of the city.
The following was passed:
&" "Res0lred, That the Committee on the Fire
Department be authorized to purchase a.lot
for the purpose of erecting an engine house,
provided the Committee on Public Grounds
and Buildings deem it expedient to dispose OF
the lots owned by the city on the corner OF
Bank and Tenth streets, or elsewhere"
The existing ordinance concerning wagons,
carts, drays, hacks, &C., was repealed, and a
lengthy ordinance was passed in its stead. =
Under the new ordinance, the tax is as follows:
On four horse wagons, $50; on two horse
wagons, $40; on one-horse wagons, 81, and on
hacks, SIS. In the seventh section, the 1nspec-
tors fee is reduced from one dollar to fifty
cents, and his duties are confined TO the inspec-
tion of coal and wood carts. That portion OF
the fourth section which prohibited slaves and
free negroes from riding in public carriages
was repealed. The scale of charges adopted
for hacks is the same as that now in force,
except that in case of funeral professions no
charge shall exceed three dollars and half
The Council then adjourned.