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Additional Appropriation to yum
mer Institute.
SUPPLEMENTS PAY OF ASSESSORS
Uniforms for Firemen- Committee to
Report on Creating Office of Street
Commissioner.

Report on Creatlhg ohee vi "'''N'
Commissioner.
The CITY Council met in its regular
July session Thursday night with Pres,
ident Bradley, Clerk Eastburn, and
Councilmen Lane, Melville, Rowe,
Goldsmith, Garner. Embrey, Young,
Masters Warden and Green present.
MIR. Lane, of Finance, asked that
Judge Embrey be heard in reference to
the ordinance extending the time OF
building the power house, etc. After
Judge Embrey finished speaking Mr..
Young offered resolution that the
ordinance be published in The Daily
Star and Evening Journal for ten days
and that the Council act on said ordl-
nance on Aug. 8, 1910, at O'Clock.
Adopted. e..
Mayor Wallace's report was submit
ted reporting fines collected and turned
over to treasurer $S270; that officers
had performed their duty and recon-
mendinp the creation of office of street
commissioner, and that the president
anpoint a committee to consider the
snbiect. On motion of Mr.. Rowe the
report was received and ordered filed
and the officers salaries ordered paid.
A bill of r. A. Kishpaugh for $500
was ordered paid.
A communication from Conductor A.
B. Chandler, of the Summer Normal
School. asked that an additional sum
of $50 be appropriated to the school IN
order to help pay expenses of the late
excursion to Mount Vernon. On motion
of Mr.. Rowe the sum was appropriated.
Application was made by Misses
Annie II. and Kate Copenhaver to have
refunded to them tax paid on piece
of property for a period of ii years,
amounting to $40, for the reason that
another party, through erroneous asses
sing, had been paying on SAID property.
On motion of Mr.. Goldsmith the amount
was ordered refunded
The communication of the assessors
of real estate of the city of Frederlcks-
burg, Messrs. A. NJ. Garner, f. d.
Cole and Alvin 7. Rowe, asking that
the pay of the State, $40 each, be
supplemented by the city and which
communication was referred to the
Finance committee at the last meeting
of the Council, caused a majority and
minority report from the Finance COM
mittee as follows:
Fredericksburg. Va, July q, 1910.
To the City Council,
Fredericksburg, Va.
Conference.-The question of supple
menting out of the city treasury the
amount of $240 paid each of the assess
ors of real estate of Fredericksburg by
the State of Virginia, having been sub
mitted to US for consideration and rec
concentration by the City Council, we
recommend that each of the three as
SCISSORS be paid 500 by this Council.
We realize and appreciate that never
before has this city been called on to
bear any expense of said assessment,
the State bearing all of same, but in
view of the increased work and the
manner in which it has been done, we
make this recommendation.
This will give to each assessor the
sum of $40 For the Council TO pay
larger sum we believe would be an in
Justice to the taxpayers.
Respectfully,
John c. Melville,
w. f. Bradley,
Finance Committee.
In the three communications submit
ted to the Council and referred to the
Finance Committee | find that two
, cities :. The State paid their assessors
more than the States allowance. IN
view of this fact, do not see why our
assessors should not at least receive
compensation equal 20 that paid by the
State of 81 per day, especially as their
labors must have been onerous, when
we consider the largely increased as
sessnent they made, afters having eX-
amined every piece Of property. Hence
| recommend that the Council supple
ment what the State allows these gen
tlemen with an equal amount from the
city, making a total of S24O each, feel
ing satisfied that no competent assess
or would have assumed this response
bic and thankless job for less.
Respectfully,
II. b. Lane,
Chairman Finance Committee.
July 81, 1910.
Mr.. Goldsmith advocated the adop-
ton of the minority report and said he
thought the sum of $3.50 each for the
assessors was fair compensation for the
work. The vote being taken resulted IN
the adoption of the minority report,
Messrs. Melville and Bradley being the
only members voting against 1t.
Mr.. Bradley, of Public Property Com
mittee, asked authority TO lay grano-
lithic pavement across strip OF pave
ment on Sophia street owned by indi-
viduals who were unable TO pay for
same, which, when completed, will make
a continuous granolthic sidewalk from
Main down Lewis ard up Sophia to the
Mary Washington Hospital. He stated
the Hospital Association was willing to
nav half of the cost and moved the
work be done on this basis. Mr.. Rowe
moved that the whole work be done by
the city. Messrs. Bradley and Young
thought this would be bad precedent
to establish, as other people who wanted
granoIithic pavements and feel they
were unable to pay for same could just
w ask that one be put down at city
expense; this was a special case con-
Meeting the city's property with the
Mary Washington Hospital, a charitable
institution. Mr.. Rowe's motion was lost
by a vote of 8 to 2, and Mr.. Bradley's
motion adopted.
| Mr.. EmDrey, Ol OIISets, otaISu Nho'
four bridges in the Lower Ward were
in bad shape; th0t it would take at
least 5000 to renew same. He asked
special appropriation of 5000 to do the
work. Mr.. Garner moved to appropr-
ate said amount and after some discus
sion it was so ordered.
Mr.. Green, Of Fire Department. pre-
sented a petition from the volunteer
fire department. of the city, asking that
they be given $500 for uniforms. On
motion of Mr.. Embrey it was approprl-
ated.
A communication was read from
Southern Aid Society of Virginia, ask
ing that their license tax be refunded,
amounting to SIS, which was paid on
May /, for period of one year. Their
claim is that under a late act of the
Legislature the company is exempt.
The matter was referred to Finance
Committee for investigation.
Mr.. Rowe brought up the recommen-
dation of Mayor Wallace in regard to a
street commissioner. On his motion
President Bradley appointed a commit