The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-02-13
THE CITY COUNCIL.

GufSuanI 10 alJOuTDIeDt, meeelDS Oh
the City Council was held in the Council
chamber yesterday afternoon President
Wynne In the chair. The folio wing coun-
cilmen responded to their names: Messrs.
Bargamin. Bossieux, Chesterman, Cottrell,
Davis, English Of Marshall Ward, Hall,
Jones, Lipscomb, Metzger, Newberry,
Starke, Scott of Jefferson Ward, Straus, Tai
bott, Todd, Wagner, and Whitlock.
THE ASSESSMENT ORDINANCE.
The President said that the meeting had
been called to hear the report oil the FINANCE
Committee on the assessment ordinance.
On motion of Mr.. Talbot the ordinance
was read By the clerk By sections.
On motion of'Mr. Newberry the eighth
section, which is as follows, was stricken
from the ordinance:
When from natural decay or other cause
any building which may have been assessed
Shall be either wholly destroyed or reduced
IN value below one hundred dollars, the
commissioner shall omit any charge for such
building"
Section 10, which is somewhat different
from the old assessment ordinance, is as
follows:
Each person, of full age and sound mind,
not married woman, shall list the personal
property in bis possession or care, subject to
taxation, situate i'll the city, and the subjects
aud persons on account Of which he Is
chargeable. The property of minor shall
be listed by his guardian, father, mother, or
any other person having charge of the pro-
perty; of a wife, by her trustee, husband, or
by herself: of deceased person, idiot or lu-
natic, by the personal representative or COM
mittee; of q person for whom property is
held in trust by the trustee, if in the city,
if not, by the cestui que trust. or bis or her
father or husband of a corporation whose
assets are in the hands OF agents, receivers, or
factors, by such agents, receivers, or factors F.;
every company, firm, body polite or corpo-
rate, by the principal accounting officer,
partner, or agent thereof"
The ordinance, in the 2Sth section, pro-
vides that if the commissioner shall fall 10
enter correctly and fully all of his own
property and all taxes with which he is
chargable he shall be subject to double
tax and fine of not less than $50 nor
more than $780, Section 81 provides as fol-
lows:
"No payment shall be made to the COM
missioner on account Of his services until
certified by the Finance Committee to have
been satisfactorily performed. After such
certificate the Auditor shall, on the order
of the chairman Of the committee, pay to
the commissioner three-fourths of one per-
centum upon the amount Of tax Levied
upon the property assessed and returned
upon his real and personal property books,
and upon licenses assessed on merchants,
manufal turers, &c. He shall forfeit, unless
specially. excused by the Committee on
Finance, ten dollars per day for each day
beycnd the first day of June, during which
he may fail to deliver the copies of the books
to the Auditor, and the Auditor shall deduct
the same from his compensation"
The ordinance was fully discussed and
finally adopted as wh0le-ayes, 20; noes.
none.
THE CITY HALL.
Mr.. Davis, chairman of the Committee on
Public Grounds and Buildings, laid before
the Council the following correspondence
CRY ENGrNEER's OFFICE,
RICHMOND, VA, February 10, 1874. J
Judge 4. 3. Guigon:
Dear Sir,-The Council having adopted a
resolution to fix up the hall over the First
Market for your courtroom, am Instructed
by the chairman of the Committee on Pub
lie Grounds and Buildings to remove the
fixtures of your courtroom to that place,
and to ask YOUR wishes in the arrangement
of it.
Very respectfully, W. E. CuTsuAw,
City Engineer.