The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-04-04
pRrsr1ye AND ADVERTISING.


ton for the pay ment of claims, &C.. amount.
ing to SST3.15, which was agreed to.
PRINTING AND ADVERTISING.
Y Mr.. Powers, from the Committee on Ac.
counts and Printing, presented joint reso.
luton for the payment of s341. SO for print.
ing and advertising. Agreed to.
NEW PrRE.ALARM STATION.
Mr.. T. W. Davis, from the Committee on
Fire. Alsrm and Police Telegraph, presented
a joint resolution for the payment of 1896. 20
for the erection of Fire.Alarm Station SO,
corner of Lester and Nicholson streets.
& RICHMOND ACADEMY OF MUSIC.
On motion OF Mr.. Purcell. Mr.. Leo p.
Wheat was allowed to address the Council
and set forth plan for building q grand
Academy of Music on the old City Hall lot,
&c. #
~. -as. SINKING FUND.
A communication from the president of
tue Board Of Commissioners of the Sinking
Fuad vas read and received.
FROM TaE BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
Board ordinance concerning injury to per.
sonal property, &c, was taken up and the
amendment agreedSto.
Board joint resolutions (publishei last
Tuesday, to carry out the recommendations
of the Committee on Streets were taken up
and agreed to, with amendments.
Board joint resolution for the issuing OF
$4,000 in six per cent. bonds for culYerts,
&C., was recommitted.
Board joint resolution granting permits
for wooden buildings was taken up and con.
Cured in.
Board joint resolution for the erection of
street.lamp on Byrd street, &C., was taken
up and passed.
Board joint resolution condemnlng land
for Chimborazo Park was taken up and laid
on the table, on motion of Mfr. Davis-ayes,
13; noes, Z.
Board Joint resolution to pay the claim of
j, R, Mounteastle was taken up and passed.
PRESENTED AND REFERRED. E,
By Mr.. R. 81. Whitlock: A resolution re.
uuesting the Committee on Streets to report
on petition of ciliZens on TWenty.fourth
street between Marshall and M streets as to
grading and gutterDg said street, DE-.
BY same: a resolution inquiring as to the
cost of grading and guttering Marshall street
from Ninteenth to Twenty.third streets, &C.
By Mr. Metzger: A resolution as to gradiDg
alley between Clay and Leigh streets and
Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth streets.
By same: A resolution as to repaving
gutter on north side of Cary between Ninth
and Tenth streets, &c.
By same: A resolution for gutter op
Twenty sixth street between Marshall and
Clay streets. =.
By MIR. Lauer: a resolution to provide
for travelling sidewalk on south side of Main
from Morris to Lombard street.
By same: A resolution for macadamlztng
Cary street from BelVidere to Cherry street.
By same: A resolution for graVelling Plum
street from Main to Cary street.
By Mr.. T. Wiley Davis: A resolution re.
ferring the proposition of Mr.. Leo. T. Wheat
| to purchase the City Hall lot to the Commit
tees on Finance and Grounds and Buildings
By MIR. Babcock: A resolution for the
printing of one hundred extra copies OF the
report Of the Chief of Police. Agreed to-.
By Mr.. II. Wiley Davis: A resolution ln
relation to the erection of bridge over Gill
lies creek.
By same: A resolution appropriatine
| 81 $685. .33 from the appropriation to roll Il
and crusher for grading and gravelling N
for Mason) street from Twenty.seventh te
Tbirtieth.
By Mr.. Tower: A resolution as to cost oi
turing old City Hall lot, placing fountain
| in said lot, and enclosing the same.
By Mr.. Whi.lock: A resolution as to
whether the appropriation of $4,000 IN
| bonds to buy Chimb borazo Park, &C., was
| legally passed by the two branches OF the
Council, &c.
> SICK.
Mr.. T. Wiley Davis announced that Mr.
| Carter was still detained from his seat by
! sickness. . re..,.s
| Adjourned.