The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-10-10

JOHn n. [heTSultn III the C1alr. fTeSenC Ut
roll-call: Messrs. Bass, Beall, Cannon,
Crump, Forester. Kellam, Lipscomb,
Manly, Pickrell, Scott, Spangenburg,
FROM THE COMMITTEE on STREETS.
Mr.. Todd, from the Committee on Streets,
presented joint resolutions appropriating
the following amounts from the street fund
viz: $3.50 additional for paving the Basin
bank; $50 to place granite tagging across
Twelfth street at Clay street; $3.50 to place
granite gutter on the west side of Twenty
fifth street between Marshall and Clay
streets. The resolutions We're agreed to.
THE ALMSHoUSE-HELP FOR THE POOR.
Mr.. Wagner, from the Committee for the
Relief Of the Poor, presented his usual
monthly report, showing the number Of in
mates admitted, discharged, and died ut the
almShouse during the months OF June,
July, August, and September. Also, the
quantity of meal, cotfns, and burials fur
nished the INDECENT outside of the aims
house, together with the number OF ambu-
lance calls for the same period and the num-
Der OF prescriptions compounded at the city
dispcnSaries during the same time.
The report was received.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Mr.. Todd, from the Committee on Fire
Department, presented report calling at
tention to deficiency in the appropriation
to the Fire Department pay-rolls, which re-
suits from the fact that the steam fire-engine
on Twenty-fiith street was equipped and
put into service after the appropriation Or
dinance for the present fiscal year passed !;
ard also from recruiting some OF the other
companies to the full complement Of men
required by the present ordinance. In Or
der to meet this inSutticiency the committee
presented joint resolution transferring
5000 from the contingent fund to the
credit of the Fire Department pay-rolls.
Agreed to-ayes, Is: noes, none.
The same committee presented q Joint
resolution granting permission to the fol-
lowing persons to erect framed buildings in
the city: j. l.. Taliaferro, dwelling two
stories high. with wing, on TWenty-ninth
street near Broad; W. j. Mcdowell, sheds
near corner Broad and First and Seventh
and Main streets, both to be removed at the
pleasure OF Council or Committee on Fire
Department; z. P. Hord, addition Of one
story to framed building No. 1S49; Ann
Brockett, dwelling, &C., on n street between
Thirtieth and Thirty-irst streets; Mrs. j. r.
Dowel, addition to dwelling on Main street
between Cherry and Laurel streets. Agreed
to.
The committee also presented resolu-
ton rejecting the petition OF Mary A.
Priddy for removal Of her building. Agreed
to.
ADVERTISING.
The Committee on Accounts a2d Print
ing presented Joint resolution paying
S44.25 to DAILY German Advertiser for ad-
vertising from May to September; which
was agreed to.
BUSINESS FROM THE COMMON COUNCIL.
Common Council Joint resolutions to carry
out recommendations Of the Committee on
Claims and Salaries were taken up and con-
Cured in.
Common Council joint resolutions from
the Committee on Finance were taken up.
Mir. Bass moved to recommit SO much OF
the report as reduces the percentage to the
late Collector, Mr.. John F. Regnault, from
ten to one per cent. on the delinquent land
taxes. Agreed to. The other resolutions
were concurred in.
Common Council joint resolution for the
renewal of lost bond of the city Of Frede-
ricksburg was taken up and concurred IN.
Common Council ordinance concerning 4
record Of births, DC, was taken up, and, ON
motion Of Mr.. Bass, laid on the table.
Common Council ordinance amending the
ordinance concerning the Fire Department
was taken up and concurred in.
NEW BUSINESS PRESENTED.
Bv Mr.. Scott: Reports Of Auditor and
Treasurer for August and September. Re
ferred.
BY Mr.. Manly: Resolution as to expe-
diency Of gravelling streets newly made on
Navy Hill. Referred.
By same: a resolution requesting the
City Engineer to report as to cost OF put
ting a neat but inexpensive fence around
the old City Hall lot and removing present
fence, and furjher improving the lot by
grading, sowing grass-seed, and planting
shrubbery. Referred to Committee on
Grounds and Buildings.
BY Mr.. Crump: A resolution paying MT.
John Wren 500 forferreting out and arrest,
ing William Jackson, Thomas Holmes, and
John Adams, three notorious burglars. Re
ferred to the Committee on Claims and Sal
aries.
By Dir. Pickrell: A proposition from Mr.
SNYDER to rent the hall formerly used by
the First Virginia regiment, for an armory,
for one wear at an annual rental OF $500
also. q resolution authorizing the Commit.
tee on Grounds and Buildings to rent the
hall for the period specified. Agreed to.
Mr.. Kellam presented the following:
Resolued, That the City Auditor is here
by instructed to report to this body as soon
as practical all amounts OF money that nave
been paid from the city treasury since the
1st day OF July, 1874, under the following
circumstances
!. All and every amount that has been
Maid for hack hire for the use Of any COM
mittee, the date, the name OF the party tc
whom paid, and upon whose order PAID.
3. All and every amount that has been
paid for refreshments; If any has oeen palo,
the date, when paid, and to whom pald:
8. Ali and every amount that has peen
paid on account Of the travelling expenses
of any member of the Council. or OF any
city ofhcer travelling on business for the city.
Agreed to.
By Mir. thinner: A resolution for curb
stones on east side of Eighteenth street from
Broad to Venable. Referred,
By same: A resolution for iron grating
across the gutter on Franklin street between
the meat and vegetable market, &c. Ke1er-
red. ),
By same: A resolution for grading and
paving alley between Main and Cary ana
Twelfth and Thirteenth streets. Referred.
VACANCY FILLED.
Mr.. Bass moved to 60 into an election to
fill the vacancy occasioned by the election
of Mr.. Carrington as Mayor. Agreed TO.
MIR, Bass nominated Mr.. James L. Gray,
and he was duly elected.
CLAY MARKET-uoUsE.
Mr. Todd nooyad to take I'D his resolu-