The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-25
MARSHALL HOUSE
TO Be PRESERVED
Finance Committee Rccommcnds
It's Transfer to
A. p. V. A.
WHARF PROJECT IS TABLED
Fees Of City Collector and Com
missioner Of Revenue 10
Be Reduced.
PROJECT is TABLED

Transfer of the John Marshall house,
at the northwest corner of Ninth and
MMarshaii Streets, TO the custody Of the
SNsssoclrtfon for the Preservation of
last night by the Council Committee
on on Finance over the protest of the
City school Board which is now using
the tn s, !. building as Kindergarten. and
Whtch plans to remodel IL into an
administration building for the public
Schooi system Of the city. The Finance
or resolution instructing the City
Attorney TO prepare suitable papers
tSraa,nnSsferring the perpetual care of the
the same manner as tho Confederate
Museum. at Twelfth and Clay streets.
once tho home of President Jefferson
transferred to the custody Of the Con-
federate Memorial Literary Society al
though the title to the property re-
mains with the city.
mouse and TO make it as far as praC-
iicablc dreproof throughout, and
place OF interest to visitors
Reduces Fec Omccrs.
The Finance Committee also recon-
mended for adoption an ordinance
prepared by the Council Committee on
Ordinance, Charter and Reform, re-
ducing the commissions allowed by the
CITY to the City Collector Of Taxes from
five eighths to one -half Of per cent,
and Of the Commissioners Of the Reve-
l per cent. to apply to collections and
assessment for 1911.
Collector Cunningham had indicated
that he would not oppose the ordi-
nance IL amended SO not to apply
70 this year. 1t was shown. however
that even after the reduction the col
,ector Of taxes will still receive on the
basis Of the 1910 assessment. an income
larger than that Of the Mayor OF the
city, and that the Commits on"r Of the
Revenue will net from state and city
1, u
an income larger than that of tho
Governor of Virginia.
Wharf Papers Tabled.
The Finance Committee tabled all
ipforced concrete wharf on James
River. The committee recommended
nc nc project enrly, in the winter. and the
considered and recommitted it to the
Committee on James River Improve
Hent, where It was again recommend
been made up.. and as the Council had
rejected the plan. no funds were pro-
v, wa, for a wharf The Finance Com
mt m'ttee therefore tabled all the pa
The application Of the Virginia State
fair Association for a refund OF s2.S0D
paid by the association as excess cost
or the administration building at tho
Fair Grounds over and above tho city
appropriation Of $4,000, was also la
Cost OF Map Excessive.
- resolution instructinC the CITY At
torney to institute proceedings to ac-
qufre by condemnation the new via
quot OF the Richmond and Henrice
hallway. Company over Marsha /
Street. from Fourteenth to twenty
/ FIRST Street. was also tabled, as was a
resolution appropriatinR $4,000 for l
new city survey and map the price
IN this instance being held to be excess
sivc. in view OF the fact that much nc
the work would be OF simple char
setter. merely checking existing data
The committee recommended 70
adoption a resolution appropriatin.-
| $1,000 toward the support OF the chill
crens ward in the Memorial Hospital