The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-09-06
CErY COUNCIL.


The regular sen,i-monthly meeting Of the
Council was held yesterday afternoon.
Present: Messrs. j. J. English (president),
Laube, Fogarty, Wynne, Sloan, Prince,
Todd, Brannan, jenkins, scott. Greanor,
Harvey, SmitlF Davis, Montague, Flour
noy, Higgins, Euker, and Bodeker.
The minutes Of last meeting were read
and approved.
STREETS, &C.
The Committee on Streets generally re-
ported recommending that the Engineer be
required to ut once prepare map of the
street levels of the city with reference to
adopting some general plan in regard to the
city sewerage.
'fhe condition of the culvert on Sixth
street was noted to illustrate what is needed.
This map is also to embrace the location,
size, and depth, of each culvert now in use;
the Engineer to be authorized to employ
such assistants as may be deemed necessary.
Mr.. Wynnc moved that the report he re-
committed to ascertain the cost. and sug-
gested that by reference to q map now at
the gas works all the information in regard
to the levels Of the street might be OBJ
tanned. The motion was adopted.
The committee also recommended the
grading of Harvie between Main and Cary
streets at cost of $3.50. Adopted.
passage of an ordinance regarding the
weights to he carried on wagons and drays
and the width of tires.
Mr.. Wynne moved that it be committed
to the Committee on Ordinances. with In
situations to report what the maximum
gross weight of the vehicle, together with
its load, shall be. Lost.
Mr.. smith moved that it be amended so
as to increase the load on drays.
MIR. Wynne rose to point of order, and
read the rule of the Council requiring all
ordinances when introduced to be referred
to the Committee on Ordinances.
The Chair decided that the point was not
we'll taken, and Mr.. Wynne appealed from
the decision of the Chair.
The Council sustained the appeal by a
vote of II to I.
Mr.. Euker moved to suspend the thir-
teenth rule and take up the ordinance I;
which was carried.
We present an abstract as amended and
adopted:
A single dray load, $500 pounds; tire,
81 inches required.
\ double dray load, 5000 pounds tire,
| inches wide.
Three-horSe wagons, 5000 pounds tire,
| 8 inches wide; over 5000 pounds, 4.inch
tires.
Railroad engines on tires not less than 10
| inches wide.
Mr.. Wynne offered substitute that the
| Tredegar Company be confined to certain
streets, and allowed to January 1st, 1871, TO
| conform their wagons to this ordinance,
they paying all damages arising to streets
from violation of the ordinance. The SUBJ
stitute was adopted.
Portable engines exceeding in weight
10000 pounds may be moved on wheels with
siX-inch tires; locomotives and stationary
engines and heavy ordnance on wheels with
not less than ten-inch tires. All offences
| shall incur fine Of not less than $40 nor
more than $40. The ordinance shall 90 into
effect on the 1st of January, 1872, provided
| that all vehicles built prior to that time
| shall conform to these regulations.
All country vehicles are excluded from
these provisions of the ordinance.
The ordinance was adopted by vote of
ayes 10, noes none.
The same committee also enclosed a re-
port Of the estimated cost of Picket street
to Main, fixing the price at $4,000, besides
| the condemnation of the necessary ground
! on which to build it, and asking an appro-
pIsa''0" pIe: '0' 'n'' amount A"'u ." VIC '"'
| SUPERINTENDENT OF CITY HANDS.
The salary of Mr.. George P. Schonberger,
general superintendent Of city hands, was
fixed at $3.50 per month, dating from the
1st Of May last.
A message from the mayor as to the finan-
cial condition Of the city was presented and
read. This message appears in another
column.
CLAIMS AND SALARIES.
John A. Sloan. chairman, reported that
| the claim of Mr. l.. III Chandler, for 1892 3333
| for compensation rs city attorney, was re-
| iected, the committee stating that Mr..
Chandler did not hold the Office during the
| time for which he claims compensation.
| The claim Of MIR. +. NJ. Garnett, amount
| ing to S3,I10, for services in prosecuting
| the claim against the United States for rent,
ETC., for the Davis mansion, was adversely
| reported on, because the resolution under
which he acted stated in terms that
| he was to receive nothing unless he re-
covered all claims put into his hands. The
! committee speak Of the claim rs so absurd
| MS to be beneath notice. They also say that
even if he had been successful the amount
claimed by Mr.. Garnett would have been
exorbitant. The council agreed to the re.
port Of the committee.
| The same committee also reported ad.
versely to increasing the Board of Health
to five. Also, adversely to amending the
/ W
grain.
Mr.. Todd presented q series Of resolu.
tions adopted by the Corn and Flour Elk.
change on measurement of grain"
! The resolutions have been heretofore
published in the Dispatch.
/ STREET sPRINKLERs.
| An amendment to the ordinance regard
| ing the street-sprinklers-lim the per.
| forations of the tubes to One-twentieth ol
an inch and prohibiting the passing ovel
any street more frequently than three times
per day-was taken up, and, under sus.
sension of the 18th rule, passed unani.
mously.
CLAIM ALLOWED. -.....-
| The claim of the Exchange Hotel,
amounting to S1630, for entertaining com.
mittee from the city of Trenton to receive
! the bodies Of MesSrs. Cobb and -, who
| were killed by the recent accident on the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, was ordered
to be paid. ....
ALMsHoUsE AFFAIRS.
The Committee for the Relief of the Poor
reported, recommending the continuation
of the soup-house. They also state that the
number Of inmates in the almshouse on the
1st September was 1862; the expenses for
the month of August was 81 ,6S2.ol, being
an average of 81 cents per day for each in
mate.
Mr. Wynne moved to lay the report on
the table. Lost.
MIR. Wynne then said that the paper be-
fore them, though ingeniously -worded,
really stated that the committee have VIC.
lated the city ordinances, and ask the Coun-
cilto legalize it. That act ofthis committee
is an insult to the patriotic people OF Rich
mond, they having appointed man to q
clerkship who has taken the iron-clad oath.
He repeated that it was an insult to the pa