The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-09-08


TTIE COssa1OS cogSciL.
The Common Council met yesterday after.
noon at O'clock. Preseat at roll call
Messrs. B. u. johnson fpresident In the
chairl, Babcoek. Bargamin, BraseIman,
Bright, Carter, Christian, Curtis. Davis 0i
Madison, Davis Of Marshall, English oil
Monroe, Foster, Jenkins, johnson OF Jack.
son, Klein, Lauer, Manson, Metzger, Newell,
Oliver, Purcell, and strans. Is
FINANCE
Mr.. M. L. Straus, from the Committee On
FiDance. reported that the official bonds oil
sundry city officers have been examined and
approved. The committee recommend that
299.53 be allowed and paid to james e. Rid
dick for his commission at ten per cent. on
9995.36 OF taxes on unreturned lots collected
from January 22d 10 July Goth, 1874. They
recommend an abatement of tax on 1850
assessed against William ID. jackson, on inn
progements that did not exist on lot on
Twenty-eighth street between . aud P
streets; and that j. 81. Biuford be released
from the tax Of s53.75 on his building on
Clay between Ninth and Teutb. the same
not having been completed when assessed.
They have approved the statements of The
Auditor and Treasurer for June. They re.
commend that the petitions OF DR.. William
F. Farrar, asking refund Of license tax as
agent for renting houses; Gerhard Negle-
man, for reduction Of. assessment on lot;
Mary Suter, asking refund of tax paid on
lot; D. O'Day. asking refund of tax on $500
assessment {1S73) on house onlLouisiana and
Fourth street, destroyed by tire in April.
1873 and N. F. Bowe, for remission ol
taxes, &C., be rejected.
The chairman of the committee calls the
attention of his associates to the necessity
for the greatest economy in future appro-
priations. We are now, says the chairman,
engaged in a public work OF great magni-
tude, the expenditure for which will un-
doubtedly exceed the estimate. Our present
rate of taxation is as high as the parnlyzed
industry of the city can bear. Already an
inquiry instituted by the Mayor discloses the
fact that hundreds of houses are vacant, and
every ones observation adds the important
fact that a large number of these are among
the most eligible OF f'Hour business stands.
Under the charter our bonded debt is
limited to an amount which we are closely
approaching. and to enhance it without con.
trolling necessity would be obviously i'm.
possible. presume no one would suggest
that our current erpenses should thus be
met; and yet, if present appropriations are
increased, no other recourse will be left US.
The committee recommend the adoption
of the following:
"Resolued, That the official bonds of Jobr
H. Knowles. W. II. Page, w. C. AdIms
II n T,,hn A
Tyree, J. E. Batkins, j. FL. Richardson, Will
liam g.. Ward, Denis Mccarthy, James l.
Davis, William E. Cutshaw, Charles P. Big
ger, Samuel Ellis, George Timberlake, anG
2. Snellings, be, and the same are hereby
approved and accepted.
RESOLVED, That the recommendations o
the Committee on Finance relative to th'
claim of James E. Riddick and the petitions
of William D. Jackson, J. Fl. Binford, Er
William F. Farrar, Gerhard Negeman, Mar!
Suter, D. O'Day, and N. +. BOwe, be, ant
the same are hereby approved and adopted
The report was adopted and the resolu
tions agreed to.
WATER.
Mr.. Bargamin, from the Committee OF
Water, presented joint resolution appro
priating $4,000 for the current expense &C
count of the City Water Works, the appro
priation to that department having been ex
hausted. .af-
The resolution was referred to the Com
mittee on Finance. =
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Mr.. Talbot, from the Committee on Fl
nance, reported that they have granted pei
mission to the following persons to erec
wooden buildings: J. A. Lewis, b. j. Mos
ley, w. Fl. Page, Goddin q Warren, ID.
Ward, Agnes Joyce, Charles Keen, A. Solin
Peter Jarvis, Joseph LaDge, j. Fannil
George Fose, on Hancock street, betwcel
Clay and Leigh streets Wellington Goddir
on creek between Goddin..and Cabell streets
John Laird, on Grace street; E. Lohmar
coal and wood house, corner Third and Pres
ton streets; John E. Bossieux, corne
Louisiana and Seventh streets, Port Mayo
Samuel H. Puliam, three tenements, on Ca
nal between Foushee and Adams street; f
Mahoney, corner Tenth and Byrd streets
Beverly Brooks, on Thirteenth street be
tween Clay and Leigh streets; James d
BsiIey, on Twenty-third street betweel
Leigh and NJ streets; A. Jennings, on Lau
rel street between Clay and Cumberlan
streets A. F. Jahnke, stable on Marsha
street and George Digger, addition to hi
house. near the corner OF Monroe an
Broad street. The report was adopted.
ORDERED TO BE PAID.
Bills approved by the Committees OF
Claims and Salaries, aud Accounts and Print
ing, amounting in the aggregate to about
81 1850, were ordered to be paid.
oRpiNANoEs.
The Committee on Ordinances reported
that Mr.. George l.. Christian had been elect
ed chairman, and that Mr.. PhilipF. Howar,
he'd been designated to collste the city or
dinances, &c., under the order Of the Cit,
Council. Adopted.
EXTENSION or FIRST MARKET.
Mr.. Carter, from the Committee on th
First Market, reported that the committee
have considered the petition of citizens fol
the extension of the First market, and re
commend the adoption of the following:
"Resolred, the Board Of Aldermen concur
curing, That the buildings on the squar
belonging to the city be removed and neV
scale-house be erected on the corner of Sey
enteenth and Grace streets, and new Fisl
market fifty feet long, Of the width OF th'
present First Market, be erected and httet
up on said square, at o cost not 10 exceed
S3,O0O." Referred to the Committee or Fl
nance.
FIRE ALARM.
The Committee on Fire Alarm and Polio,
Telegraph reported, announcing that Dir
T. Wiley Davis had been elected chairman
and recommending the payment of S621.S
for telegraph material, &c. Adopted.
FROM THE BOARD.
a communication from the Board of Al
dermen, announcing the business of tha
BODY at its last session (Which has alresd
appeared in the Dispatch, was read and re
ceived.