The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-19
MAYOR APPROVES
new SPEED LIMIT
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Signs Ordinance Which Makes
Fifteen Miles Motor Car
Maximum.
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vEToEs EXCHANGE OF LOTS
West End Measure Sent to
Council Without Executives
Approval.
vEToEs EXCHANGE OF LOTS

Mayor Richardson yesterday vetoed
an ordinance providing for the eX-
change OF certain lots in the West End
for the purpose of Strengthening the
lines of a public alley. The reasons
for the veto were not made public, be-
ing communicated In a sealed message
to the City Council, which is now In
the hands of City Clerk Ben 7. August.
The reasons are believed to be of a.
technical character and to relate 10
the form OF the ordinance.
The paper proposed or authorized an
exchange of certain lots belonging 10
W. u. Purcell and Mary a. philips,
fronting on the west side of HarYie
Street, in return for certain alley space
now belonging to the city and fronting
on Grove Avenue. In other words. 1t
was desired by the city. with the con-
sent of the property owners, to turn
the alley around and make 1t run east
and west instead of north and south.
There was no money involved In the
transaction. which was intended as D
mere exchange.
The Mayor returned to the city clerk
with his approval yesterday the follow.
ing papers. which are now in effect:
h|esOlltlou autIoiILlib tic SaiiN ~
allegations for street Improvements
throughout the city and for the paving
OF certain sidewalks and alleys at the
expense of AUDITING property owners.
Open Lester street.
~Instructing the City Attorney to ac-
quire land by gift, purchase or con
dcmnation to open a new street from,
the intersection of Main. Lester and
Poplar Streets, to the intersection OF
Lester and Nicholson Streets, Fulton.
a part of the plan proposed by the
City Engineer for a through boulevard
above high water to Fulton.
Approving the award Of contract to
!. j. Smith & Co, Inc, for paving with
asphalt blocks the roadbed of Mar
| shall, Clay, Eighth and Ninth Streets.
around the John Marshall High School
Building, at an estimated cost of s1a.-
900.
Approving contract to Maynard *
Ford for construction of a main trunk
sewer from the intersection of Bacon's
Quarter Branch and the Boulevard, ex-
tended, in Henrico ounty. along the
boulevard to Broad Street, thcnce TO
Shepherd Street, to Grace Street; es-
timated cost, s26,000.
Resolution permitting certain en-
croachments of granolithic coping in
front of houses on Hanover Street. be-
tween Strawberry and Elm Streets,
1901 TO 2319 Hanover Street. to re-
main. subject TO revocation OF the
Council: also allowing encroachnent
of building at southwest corner of
Hanover and strawberry Streets 10
remain: also allowing ~snerNachnent
of building at the northeast corner
of Main and Nineteenth Streets tc
remain. subject to revocation by the
Council.
I~nstructing the City Engineer to
assess damages 10 be incurred by rea-
son of change in grade of Eleventh
street, between Clay and Leigh Streets.
Dismiss Proceedings.
I%nstructing the City Attorney to
apply to the Hastings Court for dis
missal OF the condemnation proceed.
ings for the triangular lot bounded by
Monument Avenue, Cleveland and
Franklin Streets. offered BY the city
as a site for the Confederate Battle
Abbey,
%Instructing the Auditor to issue a
warrant for sl,106.Tl for refund. at
taxes to the Home for Needy Con-
fcderate Women.
I~nstructing the Commissioner OF the
Revenue to place r. +. Lee Camp Con-
federate Veterans. on the non-assess-
ment list. as exempt from the payment
of city taxes.
Ordering the payment OF judgments
obtained against the city in the Law
and Equity Court by r. NJ. Beadles
for s1,o1S.53; by r. B. Bowe for %s1Sa.e4;
and by the Cooperative Investment
Association for s141.69.
Authorizing the payment of the ex-
penses of the special accountant In at
tending a convention of comptrollers
and accountants TO be held in New
York City In June
Authorizing the Committee or
light to enter into monthly contract:
from month to month with the yir-
ginia Railway and Power Company
Il for lighting the streets OF the city
at the present rate until the municipal
plant is completed.
For Poles and Wires.
Approving award OF contract made
by the Committee on Electricity I,
i Storms & Company, of Newark, n. j.
for construction of the overhead dis
!. tributins system in connection Will
the new electric plant; estimated cost
s5i.53S.
authorizing the free use OF cit,
water for the swimming pool at TIL
, building OF the Associated Charities
, corner OF Fourteenth aud FRANKLIN
!, Streets.