The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-03-12
LOCAL MATTERS.

CITY CoUNCIL.-At the regular meet.
ing of the City Council last night the Com
mittee on Streets submitted report re-
commenting that the petition of j. b.
Crenshaw, president of the Street Railway
company, relative to the new route of the
city railway company, be granted; also,
that said company be required to pave with
broken stone between their tracks only on
the graded streets, and be further required to
restore the paving where the track is taken
from the street. Also, that Cherry street
be graded, with reference to the proposed
change Of route-cost, about $3.50.
The committee recommended that the
proposition of Lyme & Bro. be accepted,
with the view of making Franklin street a
uniform width between Henry and Monroe
streets the purchase of culvert on Broad,
between Twentieth and Twenty-frst
streets, at a cost of s742.50; that cutters
be constructed on Catherine street, at a
cost not greater than $500; that sidewalk
be laid on west side of Ninth street, be-
tween Cary street and the alley known as
Bosher's alley, cost $50; that Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad company be permitted to
occupy portion of Mill street and Will
liamsburg avenue, necessary for the erec-
tion of their trestle-w ork, upon con-
dition that said company shall pay any ex-
pense connected with opening street in
Mill street while occupied by their trestle
work or track; that an ordinance be pre-
pared requiring every house in the city to
be numbered, and attaching penalty of
fifty cents per day, after ten days notice,
if the party fails to keep the number on
the house, and also authorizing the con-
tractor for numbering to collect the
amounts due for such numbers from
agents who have charge of the property,
where the owners of said property are un-
known; that the matter of construction of
culvert and paving Brooke avenue from
Broad street to Bacon's Quarter Branch
be suspended for the present.
The report was adopted.
Upon the subject Of removing the track
of the Richmond, Potomac and Fredericks-
burg railroad from Broad street, the COM
mittee report having received letter from
p. V. Daniel, Jr., counsel for the company,
stating that he had just received an opinion
from Conway Robinson, Esq.,, confirming
the doubt expressed by him in his letter Of
the 9th October last as to the legality Of
changing the terminus in the city Of the
railroad, even by concurrent consent, with
out authority from the Legislature, and ad-
vising the Council to procure the necessary
action on the part of the Legislature. The
committee suggest that the company, and
not the city, ought to procure this legisla-
ton. The whole report was concurred in.
The committee on the James river inn
proyements presented an answer to the
charges preferred against it by Mr.. Bos-
sieux, who, after hearing it read, reiterated
the charges, and stated that the engineer
fully substantiated his allegations. On
motion committee of five was appointed
to inquire and report whether the charges
were sustained. I"
The question concerning the annexation
of Manchester was then taken up, and after
considerable discussion vote was taken.
resulting in the re-adoption of the resolu-
ton declaring annexation ineXpedient.
The following are the yeas and nays
AyeS-Messrs.- Chesterman, Hooper, Straus,
Bargamin, English, Stokes, Wagner, Higgins,
Scott of Jefferson ward Whitlock, Metzger,
Kerse, Bossieux, Allen, Forester, Brasseman,
Manly and Starke-lS
Mys-Messrs Anderson, Palmer, Wynne,
Wexford, Isaacs, Davis and Freeman-7