Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-26
when stores are open for business thre'
feet of the sidewalk.
Official.
BoARD OF ALDERMEN.

At a regular meeting of the Board of Alder.
men of the city of Alexandria, Va, held
| April %, 1905, there were present
j. 7. Sweeney, esq, President, and Messrs.
Burke, Marbury, Ballenger, Fisher. Curtin
aud w, II. Sweeney.
Mr.. Fisher introduced the following which
Was referred to the Committees on General
Laws and Streets:
Resolved that the Corporation Attorney be
instructed to prepare an ordinance permitting
| the owners or occupants Of stores TO use during
the time the store is open for business the
snace outside of the front thereof to the extent
az three feet from the building line, for the
| d;snlav in show cases or otherwise Of goods,
wares and merchandise directly connected
| with the business transacted within their
| stores, and permitting the owners or ocen-
pants Of stores, except ON King street, 10 use
| the space outside of the front thereof TO the
extent of three feet from the building line for
merchandise in original packages upon OBJ
tanning permission from the Committee on
Streets.
The following were received from the Com
mon Council and laid over:
A report of the Finance Committee on a
communication from 4. +. Price, Auditor,
announcing the exhaustion Of certain appro-
priations.
An ordiaance to provide for the grading,
paving and curbing of Royal street from the
south side of King street 10 the north crossing
of Prince street under certain conditions.
An ordinance to provide for the grading,
curbing and paving of Royal street from the
north crossing Of King street to the south
crossing Of Cameron street under certain con-
ditions.
An ordinance directing the Washington,
Alexandria and Mount Vernon Railway Com.
pany to take up its rails ON Royal street, be-
tween King and Prince. and TO lay grooyed
rails, and to pave the space between said
rails and two feet on each side with vitrified
brick on a six-inch concrete base.
The following were received from the Com
nom Council and their action concurred in
by unanimous votes:
Report Of the joint Committees on Light
and Finance on q petition of w. NJ. Glasgow
for one months pay, he having become i'll
while at work at the electric light works.
Report of the Committee on Streets on a res.
oluti0n to ascertain the cost Of extending the
Royal street sewer from Franklin to Church
street.
Report es the Committee on Claims or a
petition of W. A. Lyons for compensation for
injuries received from a horse of the Reliance
Company.
Report of the Committee on Streets reeom-
mending an appropriation of $3.50 to extend
the W. in the alley bounded by Cameron.
Queen, Royal and Prince streets.
Petition Off. f. knight to use tin or slate
on building 623 King street.
Resolution appropriating $3.50 to repair
cutters ON the west side Of Lee street from
Wilkes to Franklin.
Resolution appropriating $50 to repair alley
bounded by King, Cameron, Washington and
st. Asaph streets.
Resolution requesting the Corporation At
/ fOruQV IN nrqnQrp an ordinance rQIuiFlnU thar
all poles hereafter erected by the Washing
ton, Alexandria and Mount Vernon Railway
Company be of iron.
Resolution appropriating $3.50 10 build e
brick kitchen ut the city jail.
The board then adjourned.
J. I. SWEENEY, President
Teste: LUTHER.H THOMPSON. CissE.