The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-06-03

| PoRT-FIEANCE MATTERS EXTENSION
OF WATER-PTPE-A QUESTION on PAY''r
| A FIREsfAN-THE LATE ELECTION
| cLATMs-CHIsrBoRhZo PARK AND GAci
BLE's HILL--ANoTHEg SESSION THIS AF
TERNooN.
TIE Common Council met Yesterday after.
noon-Dr. o. F. Manson (PTesident) in the
chair. Present ut roll-cal: Hessrs. Adams,
Baker, Christian, CrPnsbaw. Curtis, Charles
r. Davis, T. Wiley DAVIS. Edwards, Elicit.
.ElIysou. Gregory, Gum, HargroYc, Hayes,
Higgins, Irwin, King, Mcdowell, Pierce,
Phillips, Pollock, Rankin, Skinker. Straus.
Taylor, aud Wood.
PERSONAL.
Mr.. L. D. Christian rose to personal ex-
planatlon, and withdrew his resignation,
presented at the last meeting. ia Difference
!; to the action of the Council in respect there
to. The reasons which induced him to re-
sign still prevail, but he could not well
withdraw from the Council after so flatter-
ing vote.
Mr.. Taylor, OF Madison Ward, also rose
10 q personal explanation, and asked TO be
relieved from further service on the Com
mittee on Streets; that his-other duties
would not permit him to serve there longer.
Several members asked Mr.. Taylor not TO
insist upon his request. .z.
Dir. Higgins moved to lay the request on
the. table. .,t. -
MIR. Wood, who said he did not often tres
pass upon the Council, thought the request
ought to be granted. He was OF opinion
that il the number Of the committee is re-
duced to about slX-ane from each ward-it
would be better for the city. .,..
MIR. Higsins's motion was agreed to.
FROM TIRE COMMITTEE on STREETS.
Mr.. Elicit, from the Committee on Streets,
offered q resolution appropriating the fol-
lowing sums from the street fund for the
purposes named: S26.50 in full 2m1ensa-
ton 10 S. Z. Dove for 106 cubic yards OF
earth saved IN city spring lot, &C.; Sl45
from the sewer fund to extend the sewer on
Ninth street, north OF Abigail street. for 100
feet beyond the brow OF the hill. in order TO
abate nuisance complained Of; 1910 20 from
contingent fund to grade, gravel, and pave
4 granite gutter in the alley between Third
and Fourth and Duval and Baker streets,
the cost II same to be charged TO property
owners along said alley.
The committee also reported that the cost
Of the opening and extension OF Harrison
street would be 1880.
The resolutions were all agreed 10.
FINANCE MATTERS.
Mr. Skinker, from the Finance Commit
tee presented resolutions rcfunding 7.95 to
Mrs. S. w. RasIand, penalty on taxes OF
1878, against Gideon RAG land. &c. ; refund
ing 81 TO {. Z. Walter & Co. on erroneous
" reported capital; rejecting petitions OF
Mrs. L. Delarue for exemption OF tax pen
atty, and Dr.. y. G. Wol!ard, asking an
abatement OF liccnSe-taX, DC.
The committee also presented q commu-
nication from Judge George L. Christian
and Mr.. George d. Wise, concerning allow
ance to Commonwealtli'S Attorney prosccu-
ting in the Hastings Court, and for which
no other compensation is allowed by law,
as provided By section OF chapter 1GI ol
the Code OF Virginia OF 1873. in pursrl-
ance OF which the city OF Richmond is re.
quired to pay to the said attorney the sum
Of $1,000 per annum from and after 10th oil
May, 1879. in monthly payments.
The resolutions were all agreed to.
49, EXTENSION OF wATER-PIPE.
Mr.. Davis (Charles ~, from the Commit
tee on Water, presented resolution appr0
priating 81 800 from construction account
OF water-works to lay a six-inch pipe from
Shocks alley to, -Baker-Street free school
Adopted.
QUESTION OF 4 FIREMAN'S PAT.
Dir. Charles T. Taylor, chairman OF tht
Committee on the Fire Department, sub
mitted the following report:
RICHMOND, June ., 1879.
TO the city Council:
Gentlemen,-A case has arisen in th'
Fire Department which your committee re
specfully refers to your honorable bodie
to decide. They feel that it is but prope
that such matters should always be left will
| the Council, and have therefore unanimous,
agreed to relinquiSh whatever aulhorit.
| fheY may have unGcr your ordinance, ant
let the Council dispose OF the subject.
About Il month ago the helper OF Steam
Fire Engine Company No. 5 was takel
sick, and has since been quite Ill, but IS nov
nearly well. One OF the hnsemcn in tba
company was appointed to fill the vacancy
ms it was absolutely necessary there shoult
be driver for the company's hose-carringe
In making out the pay-lolls for May you
committee omitted the names Of bot
the regular helper and the temporar
substitute. not feeling authorized t
pay both without your sanction. The
hesitated, too, to deprive thelr reSuEt
helper Of his promised compensation
and yet the substitute, oil the othe
hand, has performed the duty OF the regu
lar. helper. We now respectfully ask In
Council whether we shall pay both men
OF. il not both, which one Of tile two:
Respectfully submitted.
CHARLES F. TAYLOR, Chairman.
| ~ FRAMED HOUSES.
The committee also presented rcsolr
tiou giving permission to the following pei
sons to erect framed houses:
Richmond, York River and CheSapeak
Railroad Company, TO erect she'd on theI
property between Twenty-second an
Twenty-third streets; also, to erect Cal
shed on their property east of Pear street
William S. Sumner, coal-house. Ne. corne
Leigh and Fifteenth streets; 0. GaSsci
shed on corner Baker and Duval streets
Richard Gibson, dwelling 1t No. Chaii
street: Z. Dickinson, shed, &c., on Twer
ty-tifth street between o and Z streets; .
Z. Batkins. wood-shed at 30. 204 Twellt
street s. G. McGhee. shed in rear OF prem
ises on corner OF Marshal! and Sever
teenth streets; y. Neurohr. shed, 10 b
covered with tin, in rear OF his bar.roonl o
Main between Seventeenth and EIghteent
streets: Mrs. Ann Stacc, to remove she
from one part OF lot No. 1016 west Cla
street to another part same lot; II.
Jones, store and dwelling and carpcntel
shop corner Twenty-siXth and . streets
.ha1 at M r0 Saver