Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-06

Mr. tampDcIl moved 10 rcicr 70 tne
Finance Committee, and this was done.
ReIief Of the Poor.--Mr. w. 5.
Gum, chairman Of the Committee on
Relief Of the Poor, submitted joint
resolution requesting the appointment Of
a special committee to inquire ints .
statement made by DR.. w. w. Parker
that there are one hundred men in the
almshouse able to earn living. The
report was adopted unanimously.
Schools.---Mr. Cabell, from the Com
mittee on Schools, submitted report
containing joint resolution for the pay
ment Of number Of claims against the
Department Of Public Schools.
Claims and Salaries. Curtis,
from the Committee on Claims and Sal
aries, submitted joint resolution for
the payment Of number Of unimpor-
tant claims; also resolution rejecting
the petition Of Thomas p. Turner for
the refund Of fine Of $3.50 imposed
upon him by the Police Justice.
Adopted.
The Committee on Claims and Sala-
rics also submitted resolution provid-
ing for the appointment of b. /.
August as secretary Of some fourteen
standing committees of the Council and
all special committees, and making the
salary s37 so per month instead Of
1880. The resolution prevailed.
Healtk.--Mr. Ammons, from the
Committee on Health, submitted a rcso-
luton instructing the Committee on
Streets to have the premises Of Mrs.
Mary L. Faudree, 7l3 Catherine street,
and Mrs. G. +. Scott and Miss NJ. G.
Farrar, No. 3l2 Twenty-fifth street,
connected with the city sewer in accord
ance with the provisions Of section 81
of chapter "a Of the City Ordinances.
Adopted.
Cemeteries.-Mr. Mcdowell, from the
Committee on Cemeteries, submitted a
resolution for the transfer of the sum Of
s33.l1 from Shockoe-IIill cemetery ex-
pense account to the account Of Oak
wood cemetery. Adopted.
Ordinanees.--Mr. Guy submitted a
report from the Committee on Ordi-
nances, containing the following amend
ments to the City Ordinances
Providing for the election of the ply
sician to the City Almshouse by the
Council instead of by the Committee on
Relief of the Poor. Referred to the
Committee for Relief Of the Poor.
Providing for the election Of the sur
geon of police by the Council instead Of
by the Board of Police Commissioners.
Messrs. Turpin, Straus, and Cutchins
opposed the ordinance, and it was re-
jected.
Granting authority to the Committee
on Health to issue permits to keep hogs
in the following wards Of the city
Marshall, Jefferson, Monroe, Clay, and
jackson. Agreed to.
Abolishing the per cent. penalty fol
non-payment of waterfalls within five
days after presentation, and providing
that the water shall be shut off if the
bill is not paid within five days after
presentation instead of ten, as at pre-.
sent. Agreed to.
To prevent conflict in the different de
partments in the matter of constructing
sewers and laying gas and water-malns
The ordinances provides that it shall b'
the duty of the City Engineer to furnish
the Committees on Light and Water will
all necessary profiles. grades, locations
specifications, and dimensions Of ant
for all gas and water-mains laid or tC
be laid in the city when required so 4
do. And it shall be the duty of tn
Engineer to see that the work as don
conforms to the requirements estab
lished by him. Adopted.
Reducing the sewer. tax from l.
per cent. to 10 per cent. pc
front foot. and providing that the Com
mittee on Water shall extend water
main where it has not already bee
done to make the culvert available
Agreed to.
The committee also requested tina
the different departments shall submi
: such amendments as they propose t
offer to the City Ordinances to the CON
mittee by the Friday previous to tn
last Friday in January, as they wi
commence the recodifying of the ord
nances at that time.
n Second Mdrket.-Mr. Jones, froI
A the Committee on Second Market, n
: ported resolution providing that tn
g sum now placed to the credit OF I'll
o clerk of the Second Market for cleanln
: and whitewashing the market be IL
: creased to $1,000 and placed to I'll
credit of the committee. Referred
| Finance Committee.
. He also submitted a joint resolutio
C providing for an appropriation of SO
900 for the construction OF a new ma
. ket. Referred to Finance COMMITTEE
4 First Market.-Mr. Turpin, from Il
{. Committee on First Market submittc
resolution providing that the SUI
@ now placed to the credit of the clerk
the First Market for cleaning, &C..
g increased to 81 900, and placed to Il
4 credit of the committee. Adopted.
IT ELECTRIC LIGHT.
r. The special committee on electr
y light reported that the cost OF lightlr
G the city suitably with electric ligh
l. would amount to in all s55,465. III
cost of annual maintenance for pla
D of this price would be $4,000. Tb
&c was the medium estimate furnshe
Other estimates, some costing more al
l. some less, were submitted. The repo
[. made no recommendation in the prel
lie jses. Mr.. Jones said the city could
ID lighted with electricity at the same co
j, that was paid for gas, and he bellev'
Id it could be successfully done for le
than is now paid for gas, but SAID
T. was not prepared to advocate so lar
re an expenditure of money, yet he thoug
to some of the principal streets ought
lie and could be lighted with electricity
IN a small outlay.
N A resolution referring all the pape
r in the case to the Finance Commit
ch and Committee on Light was adopte
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