Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-11-16
FROM THE LOWER BRANCH.

The Board concurred In the following
resolutions and ordinances. adopted by the
lower branch: Refunding various taxes
and assessments overpaid or paid in error;
authorizing the Committee on Relief of
the Poor TO appoint an additional driver
OF the city ambulance at a monthly sal
airy of si5; the ordinance 10 regulate the
printing and handling of the real estate
and personal tax bills of the city Of Rich
mond; granting permission to the Rich
mond Union Stock-Yards Company to use
city water at their stock-yards, under
certain conditions; granting permission to
the Chesapeake and Ohio railway 10 con-
struct and operate a spur track on Sixth
and Byrd streets; the grading Of alley on
Byrd and Arch streets, between Third
and Fourth; appropriating sl67.2O to grade
alley, Vine TO Walnut, between Hanover
street and Park avenue; appropria ting
S6S2 to construct sewer on Eleventh street,
from Cary street to alley on North. APP
propriating $3.50 to grade and pave alley,
Foushee and Adams, between Broad and
Grace; appropriating s2l1 20 to pave side
walk on the west side Of Reservoir street.
west OF Cary street; appropriatlng $292
10 pave sidewalk on the east side OF
Twenty-sixth street, from Broad TO Main;
appropriating s2366O TO pave sidewalk on
the north side OF Clay street, between
Twenty-fourth and Twenty-ifth; appro-
priating sS12 TO pave, with granolithic, the
east side of Ninth street, between Main
and Bank, and the north side of Main
street, between Ninth and Tenth; appro-
priating s3l2S0 to lay granite curb and
set granite gutter on south side Of Duyal
street, between Second and Third; appro-
priating $l2S50 to construct sewer basin
on the southwest side of Louisiana and
Broad streets; S23760 to lay granite curb
and gutter on north side Of Orleans
street. between Third and Fourth streets:
1915 TO lay granite curb and gutter on
the south side Of Nicholson street. be-
tween Third and Fourth; S115 for sewer
basin at the southwest side OF Louisiana
and Fifth streets; $40 to lay granite flag
ging on the north side Of Orleans street.
on Fourth, Fifth, Sixth. and Seventh
streets; N,O7s.76 TO pave roadbed on Les
ter street between Louisiana and Dem
mis-; $250.S0 to lay granite curb and gutter
on the west side OF Williamsburg avenue
from Nicholson to Dennis; Sll65 to con-
struct sewer on Graham street. from VIII
liamsburg avenue 10 tho corporate limits.
$3.50 70 pave alley from Plum to Lombardy
streets between Grove avenue and Han
over street; $500 TO pave sidewalk on the
west side of Plum street, between Main
and Cary: S115 10 construct a sewer basin
on Dennis street: 1856 to lay granite curb
and gutter on the west side of Twenty
sixth street between M and o: 1910 10 Law
granite curb and gutter on the east side
of Twenty-eighth between Leigh and NJ.
$500 to lay granite curb and gutter on the
south side of Clay street, between Twenty
fifth and Twenty-sixth streets; s90SsO 10
lay granite curb and gutter on the north
side OF Canal street between Beverly and
Pine streets; s296.20 10 Law granite curb
and gutter on the west Jde OF Morris
street between Grove and Park avenues:
SlOS.24 to lay granite tagging on the east
side OF Ryland street crossing Bread.
slOS.24 TO lay granite Tagging on the east
side OF Harrison street. crossing
Broad; 1876 TO construct branches
OF the Park-avenue sewer.
REFUSE TO SELL THE LOT
The Board refused to concur in the
resolution to sell the triangular lot adj
Joining Chlmborazo Park TO Mr. Allen G.
Collins for 1900 and laid IL on the table
until the next regular meeting.
A resolution appropriatlng N175 10
grade and pave the alley on Adams street
between Marshall and Clay was laid
upon the table until the next regular
meeting.
The Board referred the resolution
granting 1000 loads OF coke to the City
Mission 20 the Light Committee. upon
'hS p'iht iaiSeu Wy hf' ttdTuWiche tnat
the appropriation should be made in
money. to be used for coke. according to
custom. so that the Gas Department
might he properly credited.
The grant OF free gas TO Park-Place
Methodist church, adopted by the Coun-
ell was objected TO on the same ground
by Mr.. Seay. The gas supplied, he con-
tended. was as much an asset OF the
Gas Department as the coke was After
some discussion over this point. the reso-
luton was concurred In. A similar grant
was made 10 the Valentine Museum
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