Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-06-25
THE TRAMP ORDINANCE SIGNED.
This and "a Number of other Mea-
sures Approved Yesterday.

The tramp ordinance is now law. II
was signed by the Mayor yesterday
morning and will go into effect as soon
| as it has been advertised In the public
| print Ave times. There is the assurance
OF the Chief Of Police and the Police JUS
tce that its provisions will be rigidly en-
! forced. and it Is believed that Richmond
will soon enjoy immunity from these
troublesome knights OF the road.
MANY OTHERS ARE SIGNED.
/ The Mayor returned TO the City Clerk
yesterday a very large batch Of ordi-
nances and resolutions, with his ap-
prevail. among them seventeen resolutions
providing for important street inn
provemants throughout the city; refund
ing tax to j. T. Montgomery; appropriate
ing $3.50 for the relief Of Percy G..
Minor, who was shot while dschargng
ris duty as a policeman; appropriating
$3.50 for the repair Of the James-river
bridge, contingent upon Manchester max
ing a like appropriation; ordering City
Bond No S47 for 5000, with 81. 200 interest
checks thereon, to be cancelled; autho-
rizing taxes in the name Of ]. w. Fergus
son, trustee for Julia ID. Craddock, 10 be
marked satisfied; resolution granting a
large number of frame building permits;
resolutions ordering payment OF num-
Der OF claims; preamble and resolution
opposing the establishment of mail routes |
over electrician lines in this city at
present and requesting Hon. John Lamb, |
member Of Congress, to use his influence
in opposing #; resolution requesting fer
tilizing companies around this city not |
TO mix chemicals when the wind is blow
ing in certain directions; resolution to en-
granolithic paving by requiring
on Water and Light to fur
nish to all persons who put down grano-
lithic paving the necessary labor to en-
case the gas and water pipes.
NEW ORDINANCES THAT ARE LAW.
Ordinances granting permits to James
r. Gordon TO erect awnings in front OF
market space, and Charles Howard, at
Webster and Tyler streets; ordinance au-
-horiZing Board Of Fire Commissioners TO
purchase q lot elsewhere than on Broad
street for the use and accommodation of
the Brook-Avenue Engine Company, No.
J; authorizing record and index buildings
10 be furnished to the city Jail; amending
md reordaining the ordinance concerning
at railroad stations, so as
o allow hackmen to solicit custom at
hotels from their carriage seats; as to
he erection Of wooden buildings, con-
erring upon Board Of Fire Commission
RS and Chief of Fire Department au-
hority to grant permission for the erec-
ion of frame buildings, comforting GER
ain powers on the Committee on I'm
,rovement of James River, as to the
larbor and port Of Richmond. and de-
ming the powers of the Harbormaster;
authorizing the Committee on Accounts
nd Printing to elect clerk at salary
f $40 per annum; imposing a license tax
pom certain pedlers; 10 prohibit the use
( barbed-wire for fencing within three
eet OF an alley or street, unless upon
vail five feet high; as to the punishment ,
{ vagrancy, commonly called the tramp
rdinance.
The majority of these ordinances Will
OF be in force until next Saturday. :