The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-07-15
McCann offering to give weekly concerts at
the Park during the summer for $780,, Ta-

McCann Offering to give weekly concerts q
the Park during the summer for $500. ia
bled. Il + I.i5 + :, =, Il
BY Mr.. ,Whitlock: sundry bills, amount.
Ing to about $500, which were ordered to be
paid. f,; 49, 81 81, 5 i.
BY Mr.. vandervan. Resolution calling
attention OF City Engineer to Seventeenth
and Eighteenth streets where the railroad
crosses them Adopted. I
My Mr.. Straus: Petition of the officers
captains and sergeants) of the police force,
asking for Increase of pay.
On motion Of Mr.. Bargamin the pay of
captains was put at 81 zoo, and, sergeants at
$l ,0Oo-ayes, 90; noes. 2.
by MIR. Straus: Bill of Judge John A.
Meredith for $500 as fee in the case of The
Lawyers rs. The City of Richmond. Re
BY same: Resolution instructing the City
Attorney to move to dissolve the Injunction
restraining the City Collector from collect
ing the city license tax. Adopted.
by Mr. Scott, of Jefferson Ward: Re-
sosceo, That the city attorney be instructed
70 furnish to this body his opinion as to the
power of this Council requiring all manu-
hcturlng establishments supplying them
serves with wster power from the james
hlVer and hanawha Canal Company to in
troduce double set Of gates to their fobays.
Referred.
BY same: Resolced, That the Committee
on Streets be requested to consider the pro.
pTiety Of paving and improving the roadway
on Broad street between TWenty-third and
TWenty-fifth streets. Referred.
by same: Semi-annual report Of the Coro-
ner. Filed.
BY Mr.. starke: Petition of the hollywood
Cemetery Company asking the city to donate
10 the company about nine acres of the Clarke
spring property for enlarging the cemetery.
Referred.
BY same: Petition of Richmond College
asking for gas and water-pipes to be laid
near college grounds. Referred.
BY same: Resolution requiring the Com
mittee on Ordinances to prescribe the rate of
speed at which vehicles shall be driven across
the free bridge. "a. -
BY same: Resolution looking to the ex-
clusion Of bone-mils, paper.mills, and soap
factories from the limits of the city. Re-
ferred. t ~.
By Mr. Jones: A resolution looking to the
condemnation of land on the north side of
Dock street between Eighteenth and Twen.
tieth streets 30 rs to make the street 70 feet
wide. one-fourth to be paid by the city. Re-
ferred.
BY Mr.. English, of Marshall A resolution
providing for an increase of the pay of the
Janitor OF the Police Court to $3.50 per day.
BY Mr. Higgins A resolution granting
permission to the Fredericksburg railroad to
run special trains TO the Fair Grounds on
Monday next, to enable persons to attend a
picnic there, said trains to stand on Broad
street in order to receive and discharge pas
sengers.
! By same: Petition of Sister Rosalie, ssk-
ing that an addition be allowed to be put to
st. Patrick's school on Twenty-tifth Street.
Referred. r.
{ BY Mr.. Whitlock Resolution increasing
the nav Of assistant engineer to Sl,75O per
annum. Tablea. t
BY Mr.. FORESTER: Resolrrv.. GIVING gas
house lime to the poor who are not abb. ~ ~
buy it, the lime TO be Used for disln[egthg
their premises. Adopted.
By Mr. Davis: A resolution appropriatiug
$4,000 for the purchase of fifty feet of ground
y Broad street, adjoining Seabrook's ware
BS Mt, Braselrnui:.; A resolution empow.
srfHe the Committee or the FnG Department
70 SrdIft certain petitions to erect ToSaen
buildings, In view N, the fact that the Cotirl-
,if had decided to take recess thtil the Sc
,nHd Monday in September. Adopted.
On motfo1 Of Mr.. Bargamin, the Coune'i
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