The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-05-28

/ The body was called to order by Mr.. w.
Fl. Scott, OF Jefferson Ward. On his mo-
tion Dir. Lloyd j. Beall, Of Madison Ward,
was invited to preside.
Upon assuming the chair Alderman Todd
presented the president pro tenn. with a
bouquet OF flowers, which was gracefully
accepted.
The Chair announced that the meeting
was called to consider the report OF the
Committee on Streets, report OF the Com
mittee on Police, and the report OF the Com.
mittee on Markets.
! Mr.. Scott moved to dispense with the
business ordered to be considered in order
that be might present resolution for the
payment OF election expenses. &c. Agreed
| to.
Mr.. Scott then presented a resolution Tor
the payment Of the judges and other officers
Of election, amounting to S754.50. Agreed
| to. g
| THE STREET REPORT.
The Board next took up the report OF
the Committee on Streets, laid on the table
at the last regular meeting OF the Board and
| ordered to be considered at this meeting.
/ The resolutions of the committee appropri-
atiu2 various amounts for street improve
ments from the street fund were adopted as
| follows:
i've hundred and twenty-five dollars to
place grarit curbing on the east side of
| Twenty-fifth street from Broad to Marshall
street; 1928 to place four fiaggings on the
south side Of Venable street from Pickett
to Twenty-fiith. street; S57 to place a
granite tagging across Ycnable street,
east side of Twenty. fifth street S57 from
the street fund to place granite tagging
on the east side Of Twenty-fourth street
4 fn w.
new granite spallS the road-bed on
Franklin street from Fourteenth street
to the tagging on the eastern line OF
New street (or Exchange alley; 1915
to relay the cutters on Franklin street
from Fifteenth street to the western line OF
Seventeenth street; $500 to grade Twenty
eighth street from its intersection with
| leigh street to its terminus at 7 street;
1882 to pave granite-gutter on the west
! side OF Twenty-eighth street from Main to
Dock street; $3.50 to relay the crossing on
Grace street at the intersection OF Twenty
third street; also to grade Twenty-third
street between Franklin and Grace streets !;
S577 from the sewer fund to construct a
! culvert on Twenty-tbird street from Main
| to Franklin street; $1I0 from the sewer
fund to construct street inlet at Main and
Twentieth streets; S319 from the street fund
for repaying the cutters on Fourteenth street
from Main to Cary street.
On motion Of Mr.. Todd the following
resolution was recommitted to The Commit
| tee on Streets:
ResoIued 1.-THE Board of Aldermen con-
curringl, That the sum OF 81, ,1S6 be and IS
hereby appropriated from the sewer fund to
extend the, culyert on Marshall street from
| Twenty-fourth to Twenty-sixth streets.
| The following resolutions from the Street
Committees report were also agreed to !:
| $500 from the contingent fund to pave the
| alley between Main and Cary and Eighth
and Ninth streets, the cost OF same to be
charged to the owners OF property a5uttlng
| on SAID ley-(three-fourths vote reguired);
$3.50 from the street fund to pave gutter
on First street from Federal to Coutts
street: 800 to pave q gutter (cobb!e stones)
on south side Of Baker street between ST..
Paul and St. John streets; that Cave street,
extending from Second to half way between
Fourth and Fifth streets, be closed as
street, the city reserving the right TO have
access to the sewer in said street at all times;
S29G from the street fund to pave a gutter
| with cobble stones) on the north side OF
| Goddin street from Hickory street to Brook
avenue: S191 to pave cutters with cobble
| stoncs) on both sides OF Judah street from
Leigh to Duyal street; that the City Attor-
ney is hereby directed to take the necessary
stems to widen the eastern line OF First street
between Marshall and Clay streets Ito cor
respond with the width OF WalkWay on
said street from Clay to Leigh street, by
arrangement with the owners OF property
on that square, or by purchase or condem-
nation; 500 from the street fund to place
granite curbing on the east side OF Elgh-
teenth street from the point where 1t now
stops to north Of Clay street to the gas-amp
beyond; granting permission to George w i.
Warren to put up front enclosure (Dut not
buiding) on line with the iron renee
lnoW standing on Broad street, north side,
| between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets,
said enclosure to be removed at the pleasure
OF the Council or OF the Committee on
Streets; $l4S from the: contingent fund 10
| grade the alley between Madison and Mon
roe and Franklin and Main streets, the cost
OF same 10 be charged to the owners OF
property abutting on said alley; S2O7 from
| the street fund to place granite curbins on
the east side Of Twenty-ninth street be-
Tween Franklin and Grace streets; $139 to
pave a gutter with cobble stones) on the
east line OF Henry street from Clay to Leigh
| street; S626 to extend the granite curbing
| on the south side OF Clay street from smith
| to Graham street Qhree squares).
The following resolution was, on motion
of Mr.. Cannon, recommitted TO the Com
mittee on Streets:
Resolued (the Board Of Aldermen concur
Iiins), That the sum OF .$3,03l be, and IS
hereby, appropriated from the sewer fund
to construct sewer on Gilmer street from
Marshall street to Brook avenue. ;,
| The following resolution was rejected,
not receiving the three-fourths vote re-
quired:
ripe) That the sum OF S51S be and is here
by appropriated from the contingent fund
! to grade and pave the alley between Clay
and Catharine and Smith and Gilmer streets,
the cost OF same to be charged to the owners
of property abutting on said alley.
Ihe following resolutions were consider
/ ed and adopted:
Nine hundred and twenty.one dollars
from the street fund to extend the granite
1 curbing on Broad street half way between
Brook avenue and Hancock street, begin
4 ming at Brook avenue; $430 from the sewer
| fund to extend the culyert on Grove ave-
| nue. from it's present terminus to front OF
| property Of G.. j. HaWes, the said cuivert
4 to be constructed whenever the city water
| is run to that point, application for which
4 has been made to the appropriate commit
tee: 81 900 from the street fund to grade
/ Grace, Broad, and franklin streets west.
wardly to the corporation line, to.
i eethef, with !, the intersecting cross.
Streets, in accordance with the profile
4 OF grades Of the City Engineer herewith
1 submitted. the balance OF the work be
i done by the city hands and carts that the
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