Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-01-05
COMMON COUNCIL.
REGULAR MONTH"; Y MEETING.
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The Common Council met in regular
monthly session on yesterday evening
at 5 o'clock. Present Mr.. Andrew
Pizzini, Jr., (president.) and Messrs.
Ammons, Archer, Bahen, Bowie, BryA
an, Cabell, Campbell. Catlin, Curtis,
Cutchins. Frischkorn. Griffith, Gum,
Guy, Hughes, Jones, King, Lewis, Nc
Dowell, Psrater, Pearman, Phillips,
Rankin, Redford, Riddell, Straus, and
Turpin.
A resolution reported by the Commit
tee on Streets through the chairman, Mr..
Campbell, to increase the pay Of the
ward managers to s75, was referred to
the Committee on Finance.
A series Of resolutions providing for
the removal of all street distractions
on Ninth street between Broad and
Main were adopted.
The following resolutions from the
same committee were also adopted ::
Apprepriating ESQ to repair alley be-
tween Broad and Grace and Nineteenth
and Twentienth streets; empowering
the Committee on Streets to use the
hand ind carts Of the Street Depart
mentior charitable purposes; ordering
the alley between Main and Cary and
| Twelfth and Fourteenth streets to be
repaired, the cost to be borne by the
city and net the property-ogners as
heretofore ordered.
FINANCIAL.
Resolutions were presented from the
| Committee on Finance, through Mr..
Jones. sub chairman, as follows APP
propriating 81 500 to the First Virginia
reeiment-adopted refunding culvert
taxes 10 a number Of citizens--adopted !;
ordering tax bill Of W. B. Powers
(standing delinquent) to be marked paid,
he having receipt for same-adopted ;
placing SIS to the credit of the Board OF
Health-adopted.
An ordinance reOrdaining the ordi-
nance governing the markets and an
ordnance amending the ordinance con-
cernipg streets were laid on the table
and ordered to be printed-both re-
ported from the Committee on Ordi-
nances.
FRAMED BUILDINGS.
From the Committee on Fire Depart
ment Mr.. King submitted a resolution
granting permission to number ofper-
sons to erect framed structures.
Adopted.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Mr.. Cabell presented a resolution for
payment Of the current expenses OF the
public schools for the month ending
January -, 1856, which was adopted.
The committee also asked permission
to have the recent address of the Com
mittee on Public Schools, which was
published in the Dispatch concerning
the amendment proposed by Nlr. Starke
in the Legislature to the school laws,
printed in pamphlet form for the use OF
the members Of the Legislature, with
the resolution of the City Council au-
thorizing the Committee on Schools to
ask for additional legislation.
Alderman J. &. Dickerson, the chair
man of the Committee on Schools, was
invited and addressed the body in be-
half of the proposition.
~. Catlin embodied most Of the fea.
lures of the Starke bill in a Joint resO
luton requesting the Legislature to
amend the school laws in accordance
Herewith. and offered this as a substi.
tute for the recommendation Of the
committee.
Mr.. Catlin's resolution prevailed.
The City School Board, through the
Committee on Schools, asked for an ap
preparation for three additional schoo
buildings. Cost of same, $4,000; anC
for $4,000 for the schools for the
fiscal year 1856. Both requests were
referred to the Committee on Finance
The Board of Directors of the Me
chanics' Institute requested, through
the Committee on Schools, an apprO
priation of $1,000 for the fiscal yea
1856. Referred to the Committee OF
Finance.
FIRE-ALARM.
From the Committee on Fire Alarm
Mr.. Bowie presented a resolution, whicl
was adopted, instructing the committee
to have a fre-alarm box placed a
Seventh and Franklin streets.
FROM THE BOARD.
Resolutions adopted by the Board o
Aldermen were cOncurred in, as fol
lows Appropriating $50 to repair tn
alley between Broad and Grace street
and Nineteenth and Twentieth at cos
of property owners instructing tn
City Engineer to prepare plans and spe
cfcations for new city Jail allowing
the use of the hall over the First mar
ket for religious purposes; approving
the award OF the contracts recently
made by the Committee on Account
and Printing for stationery, printing
and advertising for the year 1856 IN
structing the City Attorney to prepar
bills to be submitted to the Legislature
concerning taxing railroad realty in tn
city and empowering the Council to ap
point collector of delinquent taxes.
ORDINANCES.