Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-06-10
REFUSED TO DIVIDE.
Board of Aldermen Decides That Clay
Ward Shall Not Be Changed.
aeREEp TO PAY FOR THE HACKS.
Question Raised nv TO Whether
Committee on Relief of the Poor
should Hidc-Strcct Resolutions
Adopted.

An important session or the Board OF
Aldermen was held in the Council cham
Der last night, II being the last regular
meeting that the retiring members OF
this body will attend. Those present
were: President Turpin, and Messrs.
Allen, Bahen. Blake Burton. HarGwicke.
King. Mitchell. Moore, Mountcastle,
Noble. Reeve. Snead, Tanner, Vaughan,
and Carter. Under suspension OF the
rules, the Board concurred In the ordi-
nance already adopted by the Common
Council. giving tho Chesapeake and Ohio
Railway Company perpetual right OF
way through the gas-works property or
the city, In order that the railroad may
carry out it's grand viaduct and new de-
pot scheme.
A large number Of frame-building per-
mits were granted.
From the Committee on Finance came
the recommendation that Sl2o be appro-
priated 10 pay rents already due on the
old Armory OF the First Battalion. Viz
ginia Volunteers (coiored. resolution
10 this effect was adopted.
The Board cOncurred in large num-
Der Of resolutions providing for street
improvements. which had already been
adopted by the Common Council, and
were referred TO in last Tuesdays issue
of the Dispatch.
Concurrent action was taken upon Ire
ordinance extending the time of the
Richmond Traction Company in which to
complete its tracks on Broad street
The Board agreed to the ordinance al
lowing the Richmond Railway and Elec-
tric Company 10 use the tracks OF the
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son street to the Exposition-Grounds
during the Confederate reunion.
Resolutions adopted from the Common
Council providing for the payment Of
$40 TO Captain Thomas Elicit as secre-
tary Of the Electoral Board, and pay
ing the secretary OF the Electoral Board
the sum OF 500 annually, were adopted.
PARAMOUNT ORDINANCE ADOPTED.
The ordinance of the Fairmount Trac-
tion Company was concurred in, and
work upon the proposed new street rail-
WAY on the north side is to be commenced
within ten days after the approval of
this measure by the Mayor, and is TO be
completed within ninety days.
a recorded vote was taken upon the
resolution instructing the Committee on
IAght to place two electric lights around
the Confederate Museum, and the mea-
sure was adopted.
The resolution discharging the Commit
Zee on Recapitulation was adopted.
DIVISION or CLAY WARD.
When the proposition to divide Clay
Ward into two wards arose. Mr.. Carter
the new member OF the Board, moved to
lay the matter upon tine table. He said
be did this at the earnest solicitation
OF large number Of citizens of that
wal.
Mr. Allen said he could see no reason
Tor tabling the resolution. which had been
recommended after a great deal Of study
md labor on the part Of the special com
mittce appointed for this purpose. He
declared that he had rather the question
of dividing the ward should be voted upon
by the Board upon its merits. Mr.. Car
ter's motion was lost and the Board re-
fused to concur in the resolution by the
following vote:
Ayes-Messrs Allen. Blake. Burton.
Hardwicke, Reeve, Tanner. and Vau-
ehaD--7.
Noes-Messrs. Bahen. Carter. King.
Mitchell, Moore, Noble Snead, and Tur-
pins.
The Auditor Of the city was authorized
10 pay certain parties residing on Fifth
street GNultom the sums due them by
the city under condemnation proceedings
in the Hastings Court.
WHY THEY USE HACKS.
There was great deal of discussion
over the proposition TO pay bill amount
ing TO SO for hacks used by the Com
mittee on Relief Of the Poor in trans
porting members Of that body TO the city
almshouse upon the occasions of regular
meetings.
Mr.. Hardwicke. chairman of the Com
fnittee on Finance, said that he saw no
more reason for supplying the Committee
on Relief of the Poor with carriages than
90 supply hacks to the members OF the
Board Of Aldermen to attend meetings
Mr. Noble said that he was a member OF
the Committee on Relief of the Poor ana
regarded the carriages as luxury
Messrs Reeve and Snead, members of the
same committee. argued that the city
should provide the hacks to this commit
tee for the reasons that the almshouse
was far out of the way and that the meet
ings frequently lasted until after the
street-cars had stopped running. The
Board ordered the payment of the bill.
The Board also discussed at some length
the advisabiity of passing the recently
prepared ordinance allowing country peo-
Pile TO sell their products around the
market-houses upon the payment OF III
cents each per day TO pay for cleaning up
around the markets after the regular
market hours. The measure, after a great
deal OF wrangling, was adopted.
ON the final roll-call Mr.. Reeve had
taken from the table the ordinance add
ing certain amendments to the present
plumbing ordinance. After much argu-
ment touching the expediency of chang
ing the present law ihe ordinance was
adopted.
Alderman Mitchell offered a series OF
resolutions expressing the thanks of the
body TO Hon. William NJ. Turpn, its re-
firing President, for his courtesy and kind
ness 10 all it's members and for the able
and impartial manner in which he has
welded the gavel over the body during
the past two years. The resolutions were
unanimously adopted, and the Board ad-
journed.
THEY EypE(r no RE SEATED