Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-10-25


Heber Ker, A. 4. H Stuart, P. B. Hoge, ]. L
Guy, W. H. johnson, R. W. Burke and Benz
7. Bagby.
OPENING A NEW STREET.
The Committee on Streets were instructed tt
report what the cost will be to open New Cour
House Street to Market. This is an importan
improvement, but the report of the Committee
with regard to it doesn't think it can be com
menced until next Spring.
| THE WATER WORKS.
The offer of Mr. Ben Crawford to sell foul
acres of land known as the "Garber property, y
to the city, and the water right thereon was &C
cepted aud the papers directed to be prepared
This property is the site of an old foundry on
the suburbs of the city, and is purchased by TIE
corporation for the sum of 81, 900.
FIRE DEPARTMENT-wooDEN BUILDINGS.
An appropriation of $3.50 was made, to be
used by Mr. VIM. J. Nelson in paying for the
Hook and Ladder apparatus ordered by him as
chairman of the Committee on the Fire Depart
| ment.
| A resolution offered by Mr.. Kerr was adopted
instructing the Committee on the Fire Depart
ment to report an ordinance carrying out the
66th section of the city charter, regu lating the
erection of wooden buildings and prohibiting
| them in certain cases.
| M'cADAMIzING THE STREETS AND PUBLIC ROADS.
| A resolut ton offered by Mr.. Stuart was adopt
| eJ, appointing a Committee of three with in
| structions to report the cost of McAdamizng the
g., rri4
gusta Street to the City limits, the Middlebrook
| road from point near Baker Bros Warehouse
to the city. limits and the Waynesboro road
from the Virginia Hotel to the city limits; and
further, to confer with the Supervisors of the
several Townships of the County as to whether.
if the City does this the townships will extend
the improvements with the ultimate view of a
system of roads from Stanton to the remote
parts of the County also directing the City At
torney to report VIII .ther the Chesapeake and
Ohio R. R. or the City Of Staunton are bound
to replace the stone-wall along the northern line
of the Middlebrook road, west of A. II. H. Stu
arts Warehouses and further, that the Com
mittee of Streets report the cost of Matchmaking
Lewis Street fl ON Beverly Street southwark, to
it's intersection with the Middlebrook road
THE TRINITY CHURCH TRouBLE-oPIN1oN OF THE CITY
ATTORNEY
City Attorney White reported in favor of the
validity of the contract between the corporation
and the Vestry of Trinity Church, regarding the
fencing in of the graveyard attached to that
Church On motion of Mr.. Hoge, the further
consideration of the matter was postponed until
the next meeting of the Council. The matter in
dispute is this: The Vestry of Trinity Church
gave the City the right to run Lewis Street
through their graveyard, GU condition that the
City should always keep up the fen cling on the
three sides of the yard the Church itself keeping
up the handsome iron railing in front. Since
.he con tract was completed by both parties, the
Vestry have erected parsonage on one corner
of the lot, hicb Messrs. Bickle and Nelson con-
tend diverts the ground from its original pur-
pose of "a Cemetery, and invalidates the contract,
releasing the City from the obligation to keep
up The fencing. The Vestry contend that the
ground is still used for the purposes of the
Church, and that the contract is still valid and
binding. Mr.. Nelson strongly opposed any APP
preparation to continue the fencing. He thou ght
the Council had no right to appropriate the pub.
lie money for the benefit of any Church lie
was in favor of taking the matter to the Court
of Appeals rather than submit to it.
Mr.. Bickle also opposed the City appropriating
the City's money for the benefit of any Church,
but was willing to have the lot fenced in this
time but never again.
Mr.. Ker said he wanted what was right and
only that. If the City was bound by this con-
tract, it should execute its obligations fully and
in good faith if it was not, he was not in favor
of the City compromising tall, and did not want
the City to do once what it would not do again.
What he would have it do was justice
MISCELLANEOUS.
A communication was received from the
Treasurer of the Valley Railroad Company, ask
ing for check for So, 700, being the interest for
IL months on $45, 900 of City bonds issued to
road. Referred to the Committee on Finance
A petition of Berkeley & Fontaine and JAS
Kerr asking permission to erect sign on the
curbing, was referred to the Committee of
Streets.
The account of DR.. B. NJ Atkinson for obste-
trical services rendered to one of the paupers
was rejected.
requested to re-organize the Committee of Safe
ty, inspection of public buildings, &c., so as
to have it consist of two Councilmen and one
private citizen.