Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-05-14
APPROPRIATIONS MADE FOR THE I'M
PRovRMENT OF STREETS.
Clsrk's Spring Property 10 be Disposed OF
Old Gas-Bills-Police Commits
sioner Election.


Carter, Chappell, and Snead.
no GAs-LAMP.
The Committee on Light returned the petit
tion Of L. A. Saunders and others Tor gas.
lamp on Franklin street between shhIer ana
Laurel with a resolution that the same De
rejected.
The report Of the committee was adopted
BUILDING PERMITS.
The Committee on Fire Department re-
ported favorably upon the application OF
number Of persons to erect frame buildings
I'm different portions Of the city.
The report was adopted
PRox THE OTHER BRANCH.
The following were coneurre1 in from the
Common Council:
Grapting permission TO a number OF PER
sons to put up awnings in different parts oil
the city.
Relieving Leigh.Street Baptist church
from the payment OF paving bills.
Resolution providing that the city Attor>
ney acquire land for widening the wsikWay
on First street between Dnyal and Baker.
Resolution directing the City Attorney 10
acquire land for widening Duyal street from
Sixth to Eighth street.
Resolution directing the City Attorney to
atIulit lulu loi bHttihS N"tH~@'iAN $500
from Gilmer to Hancock.
Resolution directing the City Attorney 10
procure land for widening Park avenue
from Boyd to Birch street.
Resolution directing the City Attorney to
acquire land for opening West avenue from
Harrison to Lombardy street.
SIDE TRACK.
The ordinance from the Common Council
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ricksburg and Potomac Railroad Company
TO construct and operate a side track from Us
present line into the coal-yard Of Charles II.
Page, in the lot between Kinney, Merton,
Clay, and Marshall streets, was concurred In.
STREET IMPROVEMENTS.
The Clerk began the reading OF the report
OF the Street Committee adopted by the
Common Council published in the Dispatch
last week. providing for number OF street
improvements.
Mr. TAYLOR moved to dispense with the
reading and 10 adopt the report as whole.
Agreed to.
no FREE GAS.
The resolution from the Common Council
providing that all private parties using gas
in the public buildings pay for the same at
regular rates was adopted.
DEllNpA LNI bAS~blLl.Ss
The Clerk read the resolution from the
Common Council providing that all parties
having delinquent gas-bils in the hands OF
the collector of delinquent taxes prior to
January !, 1889. De allowed to paw the same
in sixty days after the adoption OF the reso-
luton at 80 per cent. discount Lost--Ayes,
q; noes, 10.
CITY LAND AT AUCTION.
The resolution from the Common Council
authorizing the Committees on Grounds and
Buildings and streets 10 sell ST public auc-
ton A piece OF land belonging 10 the city at
the corner Of Reservoir and Ashland streets
was read.
Mr. HGgrove moved TO recoDmit to the
committees lost.
Dir. Murphy offered an amendment that
the proceeds from the sale go into the sinking
fund. Adopted.
The vote was then taken upon the resolu-
zion as amended and ii was adopted.
THE HARBOR
The resolution adopted by the Common
Council directing the Committee on James
River Improvement TO report what contract
exists, IL any, between the United States
Government and the engineer in charge OF
the work OF improving James river in re.
gard to the tug-boat, scows. &C., in use, was
referred TO the Committee on James River
improvement.
TELEPHONE DISCONTINUED.
The resolution from the Common Council
directing that the telephone in the Twenty
filth street engine-house be discontinued was
cOncurred in.
PROPOSED EXCHANGE or CLARK s'sPRING PRO-
PERTY.
The Committee on Grounds spd Buildings
presented preamble and resolution OF which
the following is a synopsis:
The city owns certain lDnd emtrseing the
Clark.Spring property, and certain portion
OF the land forming part OF the rear
ground Of the Old reservoir, and James II.
Dooey owns four certain pieces or parcels OF
ground lying in the county OF Henrico, ad-
Joining the lands OF the New-Reseryolr
Park, and the said Dooley is willing TO ex-
change his four pieces Of land for the land
owened by the city. and the acquisition by the
CITY OF the said land belonging 10 sand Doaiey
would be OF great benefit TO the city in en-
largiug and putting into better shape the
New reservoir, and 1t is provided that the
Committee on Grounds and Buildings be
authorized 10 effect an exchange OF said
lands subject 10 the following conditions
The City Attorney when so INSTRUCTED shall
prepare proper deed for the said lands OF
the city, aud the Mayor is authorized TO sign
and deliver said deed 10 the said James II.
Dooiey upon the receipt OF proper deed
from the said Dooley TO the city; that there
shall be reserved to the city the right TO keep
and continue in said land OF the city each and
every one Of the water-mains or pipes Of the
city now in said land; that the said land OF
the city shall not be hereafter used by the
said Dooley or his heirs ia any manner so as
to lniure or destroy the said water.mains
and pipes, or the use OF the same;
that there shall be reserved TO the city
the right to have and enjoy at oil times
free and uninterrupted access 10 said
water.maius or pipes. and without any
charge or expense upon the city, except TO
restore the earth removed whenever in the
opinion OF the Committee on Water or the
City Council such access may be necessary
for the repair or the preservation OF said
mains or for putting them into proper
condition 10 make their use satisfactory to
the city. II the city shall abandon for one
year the use OF the pipes, Its right
to use the same shall forever cease;
that there shall be reserved TO the city
the right 10 keep the present valye-house
OF the Old reservoir IN Its present
location so long IS the city may deem II ad-
yisable, and the city shall at all times have
free and ready access 10 the said valve
house, but II the city shall cease for one
year to use the SAID vslve-house the land on
which IL stands shall belong 10 SAID Dooiey;
that the land shall be conveyed 10 the ssid
Dooley with the express understanding that
he (Dooley) shall remove within two
years all the bodies OF smallpox patients
buried there and shall give the same pro-
per burial in some cemetery or on some land
OF the city; that In case Dooley shall refuse
TO do this within two years the Committee on
Health shall have the bodies removed at the
expense OF the said DeoIey; that the ex-
pense OF opening Blair street extended aud
Of removing the southern line OF fence OF the
resefvoir-grOunds shall be borne bY the said
Dooley.
Colonel Cutsbaw. the City Engineer. being
present. was invited to address the Council
and explain the exchange. The Colonel
stated that the Committee on Grounds and
Buildings had been considering the mstter
for some time, and Rad at last decided to re-
commend the exchange OF the property.
The land OF Major Dooley, be said, embraces
about forty-seyen acres, and that OF the city