The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-05-29

held Yesterday fternoon-President Mere
Gith, In the chair. Present at roll-calt: {:
Messrs. Bass, BealI, Crump, Gray, Lips
comb. Manly, Pickrell, Pitt, Scott, Smith,
Spangenburg, Todd, Wagner, and Will
liams.
PROPOSED BRIDGE OVER THE BASIN.
Mr.. Todd, from the Committee on Streets,
submitted the following report:
-. ..RlcHEoND, May 2s, 1877.
I" To the Honorable President and Members
Of The Board Of aldermen:
"Gentlemen, The Committee on Streets
Generally respectfully report that they have
considered the petition Of citizens. in rela-
ton to a bridge over the basin at Ninth
street, and have agreed to submit for the
information Of the Council the approximate
cost (as estimated by the City Engineer) OF
three different styles Of bridges, each to be
thirty feet six inches wide in the clear, and
to span the basin from bank to bank, to
wit:
"1st. A stone-arch bridge, 10000.
"2d. An iron bridge on stone abutments,
$40, 900 to $4,000.
M3d. A wooden-trcstle bridge, $4,000 to
$500.
nYour committee have decided to make
time, preferring to have the primary qlles-
tion as to the propriety OF building Drldse
first decided by the Council.
"For the purpose Of placing before the
Council all the information within the pos
session OF your committee, we append a
bona .fde bid and specifications from re-
liable and responsible contractor for the
construction OF wooden trestle-hridgc on
piles, the superstructure to be similar in
construction to the Free bridge, at cost
between $4,000 and $4,000 I've do not state
the exact bid, as it would be obviously rn-
fair to the contractor, who has taken the
pains and labor to furnish us with the eSti-
mate). ,.y...
"Your committee will take pleasure in
ascertaininq all other information the Coun-
Gil NAV desire on the subject, il it so orders;
but in advance OF any action on your part
we deem it unnecessary to 60 further at
this time. Very respectfully,
"CuARLEs l.. ToDD, Chairman
On motion OF Mr.. Todd the report and
accompanying papers were laid on the table.
RELIEF OF THE POOR.
Mfr. Wagner submitted the usual report
from the Committee for Relief OF the Poor,
showing the number OF inmates received,
DISCHARGED, and died at the almshouse du-
ring the past month, &C., together with
statement OF services rendered by the accl-
dent-ambulance. The report was received.
FINANCE REPORT.
Mr.. Scott, from the Committee on Finance,
submitted the following:
"RICHMOSD, May 2S, 1871 g.
" To the Board of Aldermen: .
Conference.-The Committee on Finance
hn nom nj IL
ton adopted by the Common Council on
the 5th Of March, 1877, directing this COM
mittee to provide for the payment OF i
claim OF William L. Smith, Keeper OF Oak
wood Cemetery, amounting to s4e0.i1, and
which was referred by your body for con-
sjderation. It is recommended that the
resolution be concurred in, and that the Au-
ditor pay said claim and charge it to the
contingent fund. fiaa'.. -.
sTheg also recommend as sfollows: 4.
"iReS0Lrcd, That the petition OF George
S. Palmer, asking a refund and dlscontln:
uance Of cuvert-taXes, be rejected.
"Your committee submit, as proper in
formation for your body, that the total de-
cline in receipts from taxes and licenses, as
compared with 1876, will aggregate S4S,-
los. .56, as follows: Real estate, S2I, 1917 !;
personal, S1S,130.99; licenses, S2,8lS.5O.
This decline is produced as follows: Differ
ence in taX-rate at S1.40 instead OF S1.5O,
about $4,000; decline in personal taxes
and licenses, Sc, 1926; total, S4S, 109.2G.
"Respectfully submitted.
rS1cnedl "M. L. SrRAUs, Chairman"
The resolution to pay Mr. Smith, OF Oak
wood, S4G0.11, was concurred in.
On motion OF Mr.. Todd so much Of the
report and resolution in relation to Mr..
George S. Palmer (culvert-tax) was laid on
the table.
GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS.
Mr.. Pickrell, from the Committee on
Grounds and Buildings. presented Joint re-
solutions instructing the President OF the
| Board OF Health to inquire as to the mum.
Der of patients from this city in the Central
| Lunatic Asylum, and urging that the city's
patients in Pinel Hospital be removed to the
| Central Lunatic Asylum as rapldiy as posi-
ble. also, q resolution conferring police
mowers upon all keepers OF public grounds
The resolutions were agreed to.
FROM THE COMMON COUNCIL.
Common Council joint resolution to pay
claims OF DIR. w. 81. Taylor, Coroner, anc
others, was taken up and concurred in.
| Common Council joint resolution grant
ing building permits to Joseph Mayo anc
others was taken up and concurred in.
Common Council joint resolution to pay
David Clark for sentry-hosse at new reser:
yoir (sl74) was taken up and concurred in
Common Council joint resolution to pay
claim of n. V. Randolph-error in former
settlement-was taken up and concurred In
Common Council joint resolution Tor Q
| Joint session of the two branches OF the
Council on the first Monday in July neX'
| was concurred in.
NEW BUSINESS.
By Mr. Lipscomb: A resolution for stone
cutters on the north and south sides OF Clay
street between Twenty-seventh and TWen'
ty-eiebth, and on the west side OF Twenty.
eighth between Clay and Marshall streets
Referred.
Rv MIR. Manly: A resolution for the clerk
OF the Board to furnish the names OF par
ties exempted from culvert-tax, dc. Agreed
nv Mr.. Todd: A resolution requesting
tho City Attorney to examine the 9th sec
tion OF chapter 10 OF the City ordinances
and report whether the Auditor has author
ity to nav any money from the treasury un
iii the appropriation ordinance is passed
Referred to the City Attorney.
Adjourned.
Two CoLoRED- PRISONERS PADoNED 81
THE GoyERNoR.-T Governor yesteroa!
granted the following pardons -
Mary l.. Gatewood (colored), OF Calonat !'
county, who was sentenced to two montns II !.
the county jail for petit larceny; was par
doned on application OF the .1uoge, Sollr
monwealth's attorney, and others, ana upoi
medical testimony showing that the prlsone,
Is badly diseased, and further lmprlsonHiesn i.sl
will greatly imperil, II not destroy, nef aae ale