The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-05-21
Letter from StauntOn.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.1
PROCEEDINGS OF The CITY COUNCIL.

1 CORRESPONDENCE OF Tile hlcHuoHu DlSpttCpJ
| PROCEEDINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL.
STANTON, May 90, 1874.
| The Committee on Finance, to which wa:
| referred the question Of taxing school
church, and other property located in thi:
| CITY. reported that in view Of the State law
| eytmpting that kind of property the tax fol
| 1873 be RENTED on the following institu'
tiOus: Virginia Female Institute, Augusta
Fenale Seminary, Wesleyan Female Insti'
tu.e, and the Staunton Lutheran) Female
| Seminary.
| They also recommended that the city col
lector be directed to return uncollecteo the
FIX tickets in his possession against all pro-
| nerty belonging to the Orders OF Free Ma
| pns. Odd. Fellows, temperance organlzations
and churches, and such other benevolent
institutions as are exempted by the STATE
law. The report was adopted.
To the same committee was referred the
oninion of the City Attorney on the SUBJ
scription of the city to the Valley railroad.
| They reported that they had "nothing to
| q did to the facts and information contained
in said opinion which would enable the
! Council to act understandingly in the pre-.
misses" and the report was laid on the table
| till next meeting.
| Accounts to the amount OF 81, 181.46 were
allowed. This includes the free school &C.
count for the month of April of $452.13, and
the account of the committee who visited
northern cities to inspect water works,
amounting to $222.So.
John Nj. Carroll, treasurer, presented his
report for the month of April, showing
amount of receipts S5,782.O9, and disburse-
ments for the same period, S3,S20.59, leaving
a balance in the treasury May l, 1874, Of
$1,961.50.
The Council being informed that the note
of the Committee on Finance, in the Ma
tional Valley Bank, for So, 132.S7, fell due on
the 9th of May, it was ordered that the sun
of S232.S7 be appropriated to John NJ. Car
roll, city treasurer, for the purpose of paying
discount on said note, and that the Commit
tee on Finance be authorized to renew sale
note for 116 days.
4 The City Engineer presented list of per
sons who are indebted to the city for two
, fifths of paving done In front OF their pro
, perty, aggregating 81, 230.14.
. A communication was received from tn
, first commander ofthe Fire Company, Stain!
that the hose was in very rotten condition
and that not more than fifty feet could be de
pended on in case OF fire. The Chief of tn
F ire Department recommends the purchas
OF 1,OUU teeC OF gum nose. Lbs Is very I'LL
portant matter, and should receive the earl.
{ attention of our Council.
The practical workings of the recent legis
; lation making seduction under promise Q
marriage felony, and that the marriage Q
the parties might be plead in bar, was ex
/ empified this morning. A colored cir
named Mary Taylor made complaint befor
the Mayor this morning Of one Lewis Mat
, thews. He was at once taken in charge b.
Deputy Sergeant Kurtz, and upon havin
. the dilemma explained to him at once sign
, fed his preference Of the matrimonial bond
to those likely to be placed upon him BY th
State. Under the guidance of Mr.. Kurt
] he visited two friends, collected enoug
money to pay his license, and was conducte
, in company with the aggrieyed lady before
preacher, who pronounced them man an
| wife, 60 i.-1 -, MAX.