The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-07-23
TEE CITY COUNCIL.

! Ss VI
Forester, Hall, Higgins, Isaacs, Kerse, Lips
comb, Manly. MetZger, Newberry, starke
Scott Of Jefferson Ward, Stokes, Stlaus, Tai
bott, Thornton, Wagner, Wexford. and
Whitlock.
STREETS GENERALLY..
Mr.. Ncwhcrry, from the Committee on
Streets Generally, submitted a report from
that committee. The report recommends
as follows: That the petition Of E. vi. Dun.
navant, asking to be allowed to erect sign
post at 10S Seventh street, be rejected; thnt
the following resolution in relation to the
petition of the Richmond Paper Manufac-
turing Company as to the occupancy OF
Eighth street from Byrd to the river by the
Petersburg Railroad Company, and asking
that the order OF the Council passed July
9th, 1866 to allow said rallroad company to
occupy temporarily said Eighth street, be
revoked and withdrawn:
"Whcras the Council Of the city of Rich.
mond on the 9th of July, 1866, did grant the
Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Com.
pany the right to obstruct temporarily Eighth
street; and whereas the Richmond Paper
Mill Company petition the Council to revoke
the said permission; and whereas the said
paper-mlI company have expressed their
willingness that the said permission hereto
fore granted the railroad company may in
part continue for the period of ninety days,
provided the railroad company will afford
them ingrcss and egrcss during this period
therefore
"Rcgoirca. That the said permission be,
and is hereby, revoked, as asked for by the
said Paper-MiII Company" That the petition
of ). S. Baughan and others, asking to be re-
licvcu from the payment OF the culvert tax
on their property, situated on stevenson
street (Gamblc's HID between Byrd anu
Arch and Second and Third streets, there
being no water facilities on that street, be
granted. That petition of Ella Robinson,
cxecrtriN of w. II. Robinson, deceased, ask.
ur that the culyert tax Of S6.S3 be deducted
from the assessment made on the part OF the
estate located on northwest corner OF Mar
shall and Tenth streets, it being taxed as n
vacant lot. be rejected.
The report was adopted,
At the conclusion of the reading of the
minutes of the last meeting Mr.. Hall an.
nounccd that he thought there was an error
in the record. He had voted under mis-
apprrheuSion when the names Of the com
mandcrs of the fire companies were pre-
srrird. He thought that the President had
been authorized by the Council 10 cast the
vote of the body, and that the old officers
were bciLy voted for. \ debate was about
10 be the result of Mr.. Hall's suggestion
when the chairman (Mr. Wynne) declared
that il WIS out OF order to change the pro
! ccedin"s at that time, and the subject wa.
! dropped. ~..
| ACCOUNTS AND PRINTING.
The Committee on Accounts and Printing
reported approved the following bills: Rich
| mond DiSuutth. 50: Richmond Dispatch
50: Richmond D;<pnich, $40; Randolph ant
English, $3.50. Adopted.
RELIEF or rooR.
| Mr.. ChcStcrman, from the Committee fol
the Relief Of the Poor, reported that they had
! appointed the following officers at the aims
ho.lsu J. :. y. Culcn, VI. d., physician; w
j. Epp>, assistant superintendent, and Mrs
j. b. PuOTc. matron,
IN accordance with resolution adopted
| by the Council, the committee reported that
there are ~ names on the rrSisIrr and ~
| inmates in the an'sloll9r>
The committee have carefully considered
the application OF DR.. Trent, former deputy
coroner, asking permission To obtain coffin.
from the ;smsMu;!>c az heretofore, and rccom
mend thai il he rejected.
The committee report the names of i've
pcrsons treated at tn" College lhiirlnary du
ring the month Of June, 1T city expense.
Adepicd.
REruRT OF COMMITTEE oS FINANCE. -
! The Committee on Finance reported re
commenting the election OF the petitions o
~ K. Brooks and Henry Watkins, for Il re-
fund of taxes: also OF \. y. thockiv for !;
reduction OF class tax. They recommended
Il refund Of Il tax to y. W. Nelson for tn,
wear 1872 on one foot of his lot on the north
side OF Main street between Thirteenth anC
| Fourteenth, and that the Commissioner o.
the Revcnuc he instructed to correct his anC
! book making the front twenty-five feet in
stead cf twcnty-tl!rec feet, and reduce tht
assessment in prop0rtion; also, that the
Auditor refund to 5. Alexander the sum o
S3l "a for onc-half taxes paid on stock il
three Schooners plying between the port o
New York and foreign ports, and that th
| Assessor correct the assessment list Dya dCuuc
ton of the principal of 5000, the rendered
value of said stock; also, that the Commis
| sioncr of the Revenue he instructed to rcduc,
| the capital of Herman Morris from the sun
| of s., 900 TO 81 900; the petition of James NJ
| Taylor, Thomas Il. Price d Co., and hume
rous other citizens and taxpayers Of the city
to appropriate 5000 to sundry Judges Of tn,
| >tatc courts, has been duly considered. The
committee say they arc alive to the impor
lance of Il pure. intelligent, and upright judi
ci:ry, and ;s the Circuit Court, CHANGER,
| Court, and Hastings Court of the city, ar,
now presided over by gentlemen WHO adorl
their various and laborious positions, ant
| whose salaries are totally inadequate to the
support of themselves and families, the com
mittce recommend the adoption of the fol
lowing resolution:
"ReSOiced, That the gum Of one thousand
dollars, payable quarterly, commencing with
the list day Of July instant, he and is hereby
appropriated to Judges Wexford, FitZhugh
and Guigon, each, to be paid to them rcspcc.
lively, so long us they shall continue to occu'
py their present positions as judges of the
Circuit Court, Chunccry Court, and Husting,
Court of this city.
"ReSolrcd, That the senator's and delegates
from this city be instructed to procure from
the Legislature of the State the passage OF an
act reitinding to the city so much OF the above
appropriation as the city may be called upon
to pay aud also an act increasing the saa'
ries Of the said judges to ~ amount at least
Of $500 per ;muun, and when an increase
in salaries shall have been made by the LeSis
laturc then the appropriation hereby made
shall cease"
The report says further: Your commit
tee have also had under consideration the hi
of J. c.. Fischer as Commissioner OF tho
Revenue, amounting to S4,420.t4 but as
your committee hear many complaints OF the
inefficient ,nannerin which the duties of the
office have been discharged, and as it IS mol
The province Of your committee TO eSamlns
into the complaints thus made, they Wouiu
,,,,,.,, -, ,l,,, ra.nmnep6 that the SGQln be re