Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-03-10
BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
REGULAR MONTHLY SESSION.

and the following members: Messrs.
Adams. Barksdale, Stokes, Cabell. Chat
I'm, Crump, Dickerson, Glasgow, Gum.
Page. Powers, Robinson, Taylor, Rose,
and Williams.
The Clerk read the minutes and they
were duly signed by the president.
MESSAGE FROM THE MAYOR.
The Clerk read the following from
the Mayor:
| ! return without my approval your
resolution declaring it inexpedient to
grant applications for increase of pay
or for appropriations for other pur-
poses. l am honest in my conviction
that some officers and employees Of the
city suffer great hardship and injustice
from their present insufficient compcn-
sation, and / cannot therefore con-
scientiously declare it inexpedient to do
that which ! believe justice demands,
and which will impose no hardship on
taxpayers. Even if the tax-rate had
to be increased to furnish the necessary
means to pay those not now
properly paid, the increase would
be so slight as not to be burdensome,
While an increase Of tax-rate is to be
deplored. yet if necessity or justice de-
mands it. then such increase is in ac-
cordance with reason. and should create
no complaint. ] trust. however. You
can find it consistent with justice to
provide for an increase of compensa-
tion to those now paid too little with
out an increase of the tax-rate by de-
ductions or savings from other appro-
prlations. where bread and meat of
officers and employees do not demand
all that is allowed. know that your
action is based OH equally conscientious
convictions as my own. and hope you
can accord me similar basis of action.
though our judgments differ. Yours
most respectfully,
W. {. CARRINGTON, Mayor.
The question was put. - Shall the
joint resolution pass notwithstanding
the Mayors veto - and the vote re-
sulted-ayes. 10; noes, l-Mr. Rose
only voting No"
EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY.
The Mayor also vetoed the appropri-
alton Of s400 for the Eye and Ear In
Urinary. His reasons were the same
as given heretofore. and he cited the
fact that ne was sustained in his opin-
ion by the City Attorney. Hon. A. VI.
Kelley. The Board oyerrode the veto
unanimously.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
OydRdnces.-Report submitting for
adoption an ordinance concerning the
JameS-Rivcr Bridge Commissioners.
which ordinance provides for the annual
election Of five commissioners and the
filling Of vacancies when any shall oc-
cur in the Board of Commissioners, the
term Of office being one year. The
ordinance was adopted.
An ordinance requiring contractors
and builders to place lights at night
over treet-obstructions was adopted.
Also. an ordinance reducing water
rates as follows: On bricks laid in a
building. 3 cents for each thousand; .
cents for each cubic yard Of stone
work. and : cents for every hundred
yards of plastering. Adopted.
REGISTERING DEEDS.
The resolution asking the opinion of
the City Attorney concerning the adj
visibility OF redistricting the city in
order to facilitate the registering of
deeds was read. together with mega
tive opinion from Mr. Kelley. and a
vote being taken, the Board agreed with
Mr.. Kelley that it was inadvisable to
redistrict the city.
FROM THE OTHER BRANCH.
The Board concurred in the following
acts of the Common Council Granting
building permits to certain parties
paying claims on account Of schools
amounting to s9.S7j.sl; paying claims
of Z. C. Garrison and others refunding
licensc-tax to W. l.. Terrell. and paying
claims Of clerks of Hastings and Chance
ry Courts appropriating 81, 200 to the
credit of the Mechanics Institute.
The question of donating $500 bush
els Of coke to the poor of the city was
not concurred in, and was, on motion
of Mr.. Glasgow, referred to the Com
mittec on the Relief of the Poor.
The resolution ordering a joint ses-
sion of the Council to elect two Police
Commissioners was amended so as TO |
fix the day on the first Monday in April.
FILTHY STREETS.
When the Board reached the con-
SideratiOn of the amendment to the /
ordinance concerning the placing of the |
disbursement Of money for cleaning the |
streets in the hands Of the Committee
on Health instead of the Board of |
Health, Mr.. Chafiin arose to say that
Richmond was one of the filthlest cities |
that ne had ever seen. lie said his
business necessarily took him all over
the city, and he could to-day show in
hundreds Of alleys and streets quanti-
ties of garbage that was simply dis
graceful. He wanted the cleansing of
the streets put out by contract. He
offered a resolution to this effect, and
it was referred to the Committee on
Streets.
The amendment TO the ordinance was
then agreed to.
MARKET HALL.
The following was agreed to-
Whereas the Rev. Moses ID. Hoge Is
holding religious services on the night
of each Sabbath at the First-Market
Hall. and said services are largely at
tended by citizens in that neighborhood,
and the present condition of the hall
demands improvement and ought to be
made more comfortable and cleanly
therefore be it
ResOired. That the attention of the
Committee on the First Market be
called to the condition of the hall, and
that they be requested to put the same
in a condition suitable for the purposes
for which it is used on Sunday nights.
CLARKE-sPRING PROPERTY.
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