Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-09-08
COUNCIL DOlNGS.
soxE OF THE xEAsuREs OF MONDAY
NIGHTS SESSION.
Ordinance Concerning the Removal Of Dead
Animals-Commission Drummsrs-
ehockoe Creek Colored Armory.

Ordinance Concerning the Removal Of Dead
Animals-Commission Drummsrs-
ehockoe Creek -Colored Armory.
The session of tho Common Council
Monday night was the first regular one
held since the hour Of meeting was
changed from s to I o'clock. The
change made no perceptible difference
In the promptness in the attendance OF
members, as they struggled in one by
one until near s o'clock. Many OF
them doubtless wanted to get supper, aud
others were detained until late at their
plsces Of business, so that the attendance
at 7 o'clock was no better than it used
to be at S. Monday nights session
was an unusually long one--the body
not having adjourned until after mid
night (instead Of at lilo, as was made
to appear by mistake in yesterdays
Dispatch. Even at that late hour there
were several important messures-in-
cluding the matter of extending the line
Of the City Railway Company--which
were not acted upon. Below will be
found the mostimportant measures acted
upon or presented, which, for want OF
time and space, were not given in the
report published yesterday.
REMOVING DEAD ANIMALS.
The following ordinance, presented
at former meeting Of the Council aud
favorably reported Monday night from
the Committee on Health, was unani-
mously adopted:
BE It ordained by the Council of the
city Of Richmond, That section l Of
chapter 33 be amended and reordaned
so as to read as follows The president
of the Board of Health, with the ap-
proval of the Committee on Health, shall
within the month Of September contract
for the term Of two years for the re-
moval from the city Of all dead horses,
mules, cows, and other cattle, or the
carcasses thereof, and the said contrac-
tor shall only use q covered vehicle for
the removal of such dead animals, and
under no circumstances shall he expose
the dead animal or carcass thereof
within the city limits during its re-
moval. Hereafter if any person not
authorized so to do by contract with the
city Of Richmond shall remove from the
city any dead horse, &C., he shall be
fined not less than IS nor more than
$50.
TAX COMMISSION DRUMNERs.
Mr.. Kaufman presented resolution
requiring the Committee on Ordinances
to frame and report at the next meet
iDg of the Council an ordinance to pro-
tect storekeepers and others against
| system Of drumming and soliciting Gus.
toners from warehouses and other pub
lie places by parties not regularly en-
ployed by said storekeepers, but who
depend upon their pay from a percent
age on sales TO such customers A.; and to
frame the ordinance so as to impose
license upon any person carrying on the
style Of drumming set forth above, and
making it misdemeanor to carry on
the same without first having procured
a license to do so. Referred to the
Committee on Ordinances.
TO IMPROVE sHOCKoE CREEK.
Mr.. Molloy offered the following,
which was referred to the Committee on
Finance:
BE ii resOlred by the Council Of the
city of Richmond (the Board of Alder
men concurriDg), That the Committee
on Finance be, and they are hereby, in
structed to include in the list Of appro
prations for the fiscal year of 1887 the
sum of $4,000 to be placed to the
credit of the sewer fund for the pur-
pose Of improving Shockoe creek from
Union street to its entrance into the
river, and so much OF the sum as is not |
used to improve the creek from Union
street to the river to be expended on
its improvement north Of Broad street |
towards Marshall.
THE COLORED ARMORY.
Mr.. Hayes presented preamble and
joint resolution setting forth the fact
that the militia desire the Committee
on Grounds and Buildings not to con-
fine themselves to Jackson Ward in Sc
lectiDg site for the armory proposed
to be erected for the colored militia Of
the city, and requesting the sub-com
mittee which has the matter in hand
not to confine their selection to Jackson
Ward, but to the city at large.
Referred to the Committee on Grounds
and Buildings.
KEEP OUT MINORS.
Mr.. Lange offered an ordinance which
says:
Any minor who shall enter bar-room
or place where intoxicating liquor is
sold and receive any Intoxicating liquor
therein without the consent of his or
her parents OF guardian shall be fined
not less than five nor more than twenty
dollars and, upon failure to pay such
fine, shall be imprisoned in the city jail
not less than five nor moro than thirty |
days.
Referred to the Committee on 0rdi.
nances.
OPENING STREETS.
Mr.. Pizzini presented a petition of
the property.ow on Twenty-second
street asking to have said street |
widened to its full width from Broad |
street to Cburch-Hill avenue; also, g
petition of Colonel Joseph R. Ander-
son, president Of the Tredegar Com
pany, asking that Seventh street be ex
tended from its present southern termi-
nus along the bank Of the river to the
upper boundary Of their property,
which he claims is the only way by
which q wagon or cart can reach
the property above that of the
Tredegar Company, including the
old City Water-Works, from any
other part Of the city. He
says: These properties are entirely
cut off from the city except by passing
through the ground Of the Tredegar
Company. The Tredegar Company are
ready and willing to transfer to the city
v;thont cost the Dernetual right of way |