The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-13
ANNEX LAND FOR
NEGRO TERRITORY
Race Segregation Ordinance Re
garded Unfair Without Ac-
conpanyins Resolution,
ALDERMEN WILL CoNCI
Plan 10 Take in Territory
Around Virginia Union
University.

University.
BN Tar the most interesting and i'm :
tportant proposition to come before the
| Board Of Aldermen for concurrence
! Tomorrow night is tho Nondcrlchr race
| segregation ordinance. which was
ladopted last week by the Common
| Council 1t is believed that it will be
concnrred in without amendment The
measure yves drawn by City Attorney
| Pollard, who has furnished 10 tho
/ patron an exhaustive legal opinion.
quoting many court decisions, hotl, OF
/ state and United states courts. TO
show that If there Is no discriminate
| ton between the races. and the provi-
sions are made to apply equally 70
white and colorcd people. the act Will
stand the test Of the courts
Like tho Jim Crow law on railroads
and street cars, il aims to provide that
negroes and white people shall keep
apart the complete separation being
! believed to be for the peace and good
order of the community ana for tile
real bcttormcnt Of both races. The
tcAt OF the ordinance follows in full:
| Text Of Ordinance.
| BE II ordained by the Council of
| the city of Richmond
y. That it Shall be unlawful for
| any white person to occupy as a resi-
dcncc, or to establish and maintain
as q place OF public assembly. any
| house upon any street or alley be-
tween two adjacent streets on which
| a greater number Of houses arc ocu-
! pied as residences by colored people
than arc occupied as residences BY
"2 THAT it shall he unlawful for
| any colorcd person to occupy as resi-
q place Of public assembly any house
upon any street Or alley between two
adjacent streets on which greater
number OF houses arc occupied as resi-
dcnccs by white people than are occu-
pied by colorcd people.
3, That no person shall construct
OF, locate on any Mock or SQUARE on
dence any house or other building in
| tended to be used as a residence with
| out declaring in his application for a
building so TO be constructed Is de-
| signed TO be occupied by white or col
! ored people, and the Building Inspector
| Of the city OF Richmond shall not issue
| application complies with the provi-
sions Of this section.
| =. That nothing In this ordinance
shall affect the location OF residences
(, made previous to the approval Of this
/ ordinance, and nothing herein shall
| be so construed as TO prevent the oc-
ored servants or employees on the
/ square or block Oh which they are so
employed
80 Every. person. either BY himself
agent for another violating, any one
| or moro Of the provisions OF this ordi
nance, shall be liable to a nno OF not
| recoverable before tho Policc Justice
| OF the city OF Richmond, and, In the
discretion Of tho Police Justice such
person may in addition thereto, be
| confined in the City Jail not less than
thirty nor moro than ninety days.
| e. This ordinance shall be In force
| from Its massage"
| Council COMMITTEES on Ordinance. Char
! ter and Reform that the bone Of con
/ tention Is Clay street heretofore an
| entirely white street but on which
| OF property. including a church. a
bank and a number " residences have
been ACQUIRED BY coloredd rcoplcc;. II
had unsettled vulues, caused rents 10
deprcciate, and led TO breaches OF the
| peace.
| the present section Of the city by com
| mon consent allotted TO colorcd people
Is too congested: that large additions
have been made by annexation. and
| White people, but that the colorcd sec
tion IS no larger than it was many
years ago. although the colored popu-
| lauon has greatly Increased.
Will tnncx Territory.
| To meet this complaint, Mr.. vcndor-
lahr. the patron OF tho ordinance. Of
fcred a companion resolution. which
also comes M tomorrow night for
4 concurrence. providing for the appoint
| ment Of a spccial committee to look
4 into the ,advsability Of. opening nr
new territory for dwellings of The
oolored race. Broadly speaking. Tho
Ischcme proposes the annexation to tn
o*ty and the opening Of streets through
the territory surrounding the hand
some granite buildings OF the Virginia
Union University. making availabl,
FLOR dwellings with ordinary city con
Nonicnccs. such as sewers. water am
light, large area lying between Yves,
Leigh street al tho IIartShorn Memo
rial College and The Brook Turnpike
on which the Virginia Union Univcrsity
faces
Several members Of tile Council have
pledged themselves TO "a liberal an
neNation and g STRAIGHTFORWARD policS
% improvements for tho proposed OK
tension Of tho negro section in sooc
! faith. arguing that without such /;
sicn thc race segregation prdinanc,
might work q hardship and Injustice
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