The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-07-09
SUBCOMMITTEE
REPORT TO Be HOT
Will Be a Warm Arrangement Of
the City Engineer and His
Actions.
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will READ PAPER TONIGHT Q .('
Messrs. Mills, Satterfield and
Cannon Sat Behind Closed
Doors.
WILL READ PAPER TONIGHT

The subcommittee from the Commit
tee on Apportionment OF Funds for
the Annexed Territory held meeting
YESTERDAY afternoon to formulate ats
final report on the cost OF surveying
and plating the newly annexed terri
tory Of Greater Richmond.
The meeting was held behind closed
doors tn the private office sof the
CITY Attorney, and 1t was strictly eA-
ecutive. no reporters or even commit
tee clerks being allowed to know what
was going on. "The report Will be
q sealed book until II is read before
the Board Of Aldermen tomorrow
might" said member or the COM
mittee.
There are only three members Of
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Mills, chair
man; SGtterfield and Cannon-all Of
whom were present The meeting was
very quiet one. the work to be done
having been practically agreed upon
beforehand, but 1t took nearly two
hours for the members. with the as
sistance OF the City Attorney. to get
all the details o. the. long drawn-ou
Redd- Cutshaw affair In proper shape.
The report which will first see the
hight at the meeting of the Board Of
Aldermen tonight. will. with the ac-
companying papers, be a very volumin-
Gus document, and thu reading OF It
will take up much of the time Of tho
Hoard and pretty much all of the voice
OF Clerk August.
All Of the correspondence between
the committee and Colonel Cutahaw.
| the City Engineer, anr', between the
committee and Messrs. r. Crawford
published. will be made part of the
report. There will also be filed and
incorporated In the body OF the re-
port the final letter which Colonel
| Cutshaw addressed to the subcomn1it-
tee yesterday. This last letter re-
cites again the position taken by the
City Engineer, and he also gives rea-
cannot be held responsible for work
done by another who Is In no way
connected with the Office.
VIII Tell Whole Story.
The report will further recitcp In
detail all that happened at the va
rious meetings of the subcommittee
and all of the conferences held with
the City Engineer; also tho method
adopted by the committee in tho eff
/ fort to have the work done as cheaply
i as possible; of the matter Of adver-
Using for bids. and will give list
of the bids received. showing that
Redd & Brothers was not only the
| lowest, but was something over. S10,-
/ 900 less than the City Engineer had
estimated that his office could do the
/ same work. The committee Will then
tell about their investigation OF the
ability and the responsibility of Redd
& Brother, and how after being salts
fled that they were in as good. even
better, position to do tho surveying
and plating OF the new part OF Rich
mond than any other bidder, and even
In a better position than the City En-
gineer's Office could in the nature OF
the case be.
"A The report Will also show by the
(. proceedings of Its various meetings
and by the result of It's conferences
and correspondence with the City At
4 tory that they kept within the strict
letter of law in making tho CONTRACT
! with Redd & Brother, and that TIL,
City Engineer In refusing to supervise
Z the work OF The contractors. as thu
Il agreement provided for. had not com
81 piled with the charter and the law
OF the city, which the committee vii
claim require him to supervise all sucl
work when let to contract.
K The committee. Will strongly defen
F|its.right to put the work OF surveyln
land plating ont to contract ana tn
right to require the supervision OF Ri
q Engineer.
Accept EnRineer'n Estimate.
The report will recommend. becaus
E 1t will say there is now nothing els
u to do, that the estimate OF the CIT
Engineer of s2o,794.26 be accepted, an
that amount apportioned out of I'll
funds set aside for the annexed terri