The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-10-05
Ia resolution to pay sundry claims for keep
ing up the city fre-alarm telegraph line.

Agreed to.
From the Committee on Police, Mr.. HIg
gins submitted report recommending tha
the city ordinances be so amended as &
license frun-stands, but they shall not b.
placed on the sidewalk. Adopted. III
also recommended that the Finance Com
mittee refund 10 parties owning fruit
stands who were stopped from selling the
amount Of their license that should be
abated for The time they we're deprived oi
such privilege by the police authorities.
Adopted.
| The report also contained protest against
the action OF the Committee on Grounds
and Buildings directing the Committee on
Police TO purchase out OF the police contin-
gent fund the winters supply OF coal for
the police department, and requested the
! Council 10 adopt resolution instructing
the Committee on Grounds and Buildings
to fnraish the coal, and it was referred 10
the Finance Committee.
| Hr. Edwards, from the Committee on
Claims and Salaries, recommended payment
| OF certain clums, and that the money paid
| by Company during their late fair for gas
be remitted. The report was adopted.
FUEL FOR EHGTSE-HoUaEs.
| Mr.. King, chsirman OF the Committee on
Fire Department, sent up 10 the Clerks
desk and had read paper from the Com
mittee on Grounds and Buildings declaring
their inability to provide means for payiug
for fuel for the engine.houses, &c. He also
| sent up resolution requesting the Finance
Committee TO provide sufficient sum for
The Fire Committee 10 buy the fuel neces-
| sary. Referred.
NEW BUSINESS.
By Mr.. PiZZlni: A resolution as to eYpe-
diency OF having Main and Broad streets
| swept and cleaned from 1st OF October TO
1st Of May after p. d., and from 1st OF
Nav to 1st Of October after Z. M. Re-
ferred.
Mr. Higgins presented petition OF ciii-
zens OF Jefferson Ward, asking that ShockOe
creek be Strengthened and deepened, &c,
TO prevent damage TO property during high
water, &c.
| Mr.. Higgins also presented, In this cOu-
nectlon, a resolution instructing the FL
nance Committee 10 issue S92 900, in pef
cent. bonds, to be applied TO the improve
ment OF Sbockoe creek, as per estimate and
plans Of the City Engineer. Referred.
BY Mr. EllysOn: A petition OF Mr.. James
&. Smith praying 10 be reimbursed in the
sum OF s5,133.S4 for damage done to hIs
| property by fire at the corner OF Ninth and
Cary streets, said fire having been caused
| by sparks from the steamer Of the Fire De-
partment while at work pumping water
| into the street mains.
Mr.. Davis Of Madison Ward said that the
| Committee on Water knew nothing about il.
Mr.. King explained that he knew moth
ing about the matter, but understood that
| il had been done at the request OF the Su-
perintendtnt OF the City Water Works and
the chief OF the Fire Department; that he
had directed the engines TO be taken away,
&c.
Mr. Warren presented the following,
which was agreed to:
RESOLVED 1.-THE Board OF Aldermen con-
curring). That a committee OF three OF this
| body and tW o from the Board OF Aldermen
be appointed to inquire into the cause OF
the late fire on the Basin bank by which the
establishment OF }. G. Smith, Esq, was de-
stroyed; and, also, TO inquire by whose au-
| thority the steamH fire engines were put to
work pumping the filthy contents OF the
Basic into the wster-mains for the use OF
the lower part OF the city. Agreed TO.
Mr.. Curtis presented resolution direct
ing the Finance Committee to place S3,70O
10 account Of construction OF gas-works
and to credit expense account Sl.S00. MIR.
Curtis moved to suspend the rules so as 20
consider the resolution this day. Lost. Re-
ierred.
BY Mr. King: A resolution TO enlarge
Monroe cuvert. Referred.
BY same: A resolution for the improve
ment OF Marshall street near Jefferson. Re-
| ferred.
BY Mr. Cole: Several resolutions for the
Improvement OF streets in bis ward Mar
shslD. Referred.
By Dir. Warren: A resolution for paving
the wakway 10 IFS proper width on Broad
street (sonth side, from Chesapeake and
| Ohio railroad 10 Mayo street. Referred.
Also, by same: A resolution for railing;
or fencing on Shockoe creek, &c. Referred.
BY Mr.. Higgins Petition OF the Leigh.
Street Baptist church against reduction OF
grade, &C., at Twenty-fiith street, in front
OF the Baptist church located at the corner
OF Twenty-tifGh and Leigh streets. he
ferred.
Adjourned.