The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-10-14

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Alarm and Police Telegraph, presented bills
for the extension CT fire'alarm telegraph, and
new engine-gons ut house at Brook avenue,
amounting to S425.45, which being approved
were ordered to be paid.
MEDICINE FOR THE POOR.
Mr.. Higgins, from the committee charged
with the duty of providing medicine for the
poor, reported that for the quarter ending
october 1st there we're put UP at the lower
diSpensary :S32 prescriptions, and at the up
per dispensary 500, making total OF ] ~:
prescriptions. The committee asked the
usual appropriation Of 1925. Referred tt
the Committee on Relief Of the Poor.
FIRST VIRGINIA REGIMENT.
On motion Of Mr.. Williams, so much o.
the unfinished business of previous meet
ing of the Council az relates 10 an appropri
alton to the First Virginia regiment was
taken up, and referred to the Finance Com.
mttee for report at next meeting.
NEW BUSINESS.
Mr.. Wynne presented an invitation to The
City Council, from Colonel Sloan, of tho
First Virginia regiment. inviting them to be
present at review and inspection Of the regi-
ment at their new armory on Monday next
Accepted.
Also, communication from Hollywood
Cemetery Complny in relation to purchase
Of nine acres Of land adjoining Hollywood.
Referred.
Also, the monthly report OF fines, &C., of
the Police Justice; which was filed.
Also, petition Of George ". Bowlsby, OF
Sagrian city, Mich, enclosing n counterfeit
note for one dollar. an imitation Of those
issued by the city April i9, 1861, being one
of those such rs were frequently founC
upon the persons Of Federal soldiers cap
tured during the late war, asking the city tc
redeem the same; also. another notc for fifty
cents, issued by the metropolitan Bank in
1861, asking that the city would lave it also
redeemed for him.
On motion OF Mr.. StrallS it was rejected
on the gronnd that the Supreme Court OF
the United States has decided that cities are
not liable, DC.
By Mr.. Barsamin 4 resolution proyid-
ing for the repair of sidewalks injured by
the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad in the con-
struction Of the Church Hill tunnel.
Adopted.
A resolution was also presented, and re-
ferred to the Finance Committee, providing
that the chairman of each of the following
committees receive as salary a like SUM n
the president of the Board Of Health: Com
mittee on Streets, Finance, Water, Light,
Poor, and Fire Department.
The usual number of petitions for wooden
houses, &C., were presented and appropriately
referred.
Mr. Davis presented the following resolu'
ton which was adopted:
Resolved, That the Committee on Public
Grounds and Buildings be instructed tC
build the house for the Use of the Richmond
Howitzers by the plans furnished by the
City Engineer, the same to be placed in the
City Spring lot, in the centre, the eastern
line fronting on Eighth street, at q total cos
not exceeding $4,000, provided the cost OF
the same be paid after the 1st OF February
next; the Engineer to furnish on the site O
the building the materials obtained from con
demned buildings on FRS. street. ..
BY Mr.. Scott Of Jefferson Ward: Re
solred, That the City Engineer be instructed
TO estimate the cost OF grading, opening,
aud improving the streets on Union Hill
Referred.
BY MIR. Gentry: Resolutions inguirins
into the cypedency Of guttering, paving
improving. &C.. Seventeenth street north o
CLAY, and Eenahlc street. Referred.
Bv Mr.. New berry \ resolution as to the
expediency OF curbing Nineteenth street be
tween Main and Cary. Referred.
sEIlNpLasrER CIRCULATION.
By Mr.. Ncwberry \ resolution request
ing the City Attorney TO inquire and report
the legal right Of the city to issue small
notes. or bonds Of small denominations.
Mr.. Whtlcck moved that it be rejected.
Mr.. Metzger moved to lay the resolution
on the table.
Mr.. Talbot favored conference on this
subject.
MIR. Straus said that he had an assurance
that the banks Of the city wouldn't touch a
dollar Of it even if the act was legal. Ht
had the promise Of bankers in the city Of q
plenty Of money at the first Of next month
with which to pay the employees and other
demands. To issue small notes would be to
put down the bonds to very low figure.
Mr.. Newberry said he didn't suppose the
banks would receive them for their full value,
but would at discount of ten per cent
There was necessity for such currency
among the people. He was surprised that
the chairman OF the Finance Committee was
here discussing the matter for bankers. He
claimed that it would not hurt the credit of
the city, and he believed that if half 4 million
dollars in this currency was thrust upon the
city it would be absorbed at once---and the
banks not asked TO touch dollar Of it. He
thought .ha. it would either be necessary to
issue these small notes or discharge shortly
q large number of the city employees.
Mr.. Jones said he desired to remind the
Council that it was 10 new question; that
the opinion Of the courts were familiar, and
that the law OH this subject had not been
changed. He claimed, in the course Of his
remarks, that it was not competent for the
city to issue such notes that the previous
issue was war necessity and a war measure,
and that that measure was invalid because
it was 4 war measure; that now we stand
upon the Code, and the Supreme Court has
already decided that the war issue was ille-
gal.
MIR. Talbot was satisfied with what Mr..
Jones had said, and thought that perhaps he
was as fully posted on the subject as the City
ATTORNEY, and be therefore hoped that Gen-
eral Newberry would withdraw the resolt-
ton. .,
General Newberry withdrew the resolu-
ton.
By Mr.. Straus: A resolution referring the
ordinance on bone-milis to committee COM
posed of Messrs. starke, Whitlock, Higgins,
Bargamin, and Talbot. Tabled. .a
By Mr.. Williams Petition of the Agri-
cultural Society asking to allow cars OF the
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
Railroad Company to stand on the track on
Broad street to receive and discharge pas
sengers from the 2Sth to the 31st Of Octo-
Der inclusive. Granted.
By Mr.. Whitlock: Sundry bills, which
were ordered to be paid.
By BIZ. Metzger: A resolution request
ing the clerk to report at the next meeting
The ordinance under which members may
he fined forabsence. Adopted. 't, @
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