The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-18
YOUNG OFFENDERS
WILL HAVE HOME
New Law Authorizes Mayor 10
Lease Building for Juvc-
nile Dclinquents.
TO LITIGATE DOCK ISSUE
City Attorney Directed to Fight
Effort to Close Dock as
Public Waterway.

Mayor Ainslie affixed his signature
yesterday to n score of new laws au-
thorizing extensive improvements. pro-
viding several salary raises giving
the police department an appropriation
for new Headquarters. amending the
electrical code to provide relief to T.
j. Willis, OF South Richmond. and MAX
ing important changes in the housing
provisions for juvenile Offenders
| Under the new law tho Mayor Is
given the power to select and lease.
for term OF five years If necessary,
a suitable home to care for Juvenile
delinquents pending their assignment
to State institution. They have
/ heretofore been cared for with diff
Guilty In the Associated Charities build
ing, on East Fourteenth Street. 1t au-
thorizes tho Mayor also to employ a
matron and to make other provisions
Iitignte Dock Issue.
a new resolution that became law
with the Mayors signature directs the
! City Attorney to institute proceedings
before the State Corporation Commits
sion and in the courts OF the Com
monwcalth to restrain the present own
ers of the dock between Fourteenth
and Seventeenth Streets from clos
ing the dock between these two points
as public water highway. The liti-
cation grows out of the recent CON
domination proceedings instituted by tho
the dock property In tho interest OF
Il wide approach to the new Mayo
! Bridge from Main Street.
The owners Of the dock. in the opin
! ion of the City Attorney. placed an
unreasonably high valuation upon the
property. The estimate. 1t is stated
was based in part upon the assumption
of absolute control Of tho dock by the
owners. According 10 the City At
torney, the city can establish it's right
TO compel the keeping open of the dock
as public water highway.
Amends Electrical Code.
The electrical code is amended by 4
new ordinance to exempt certain
classes OF electrical testing shops from
restrictive provisions. and gives re-
lief. In particular, to the Richmond
! Electric Company, of South Richmond
| Other measures which become law
under the Mayors signature follow:
Authorizing the City Aattorney to
| employ an additional clerk and stcno-
graphcr at a salary of s75 month.
| Increasing the salary of three clerks
in the Office of the City Treasurer tc
| sl,50O q year.
Directing the City Attorney to ac-
, quire land to widen Moore street be-
| tween Brook Avenue and Cilmer street
sion of rhc concrete retaining wall or
the south line OF Main treet. fron
| Thirtieth to Thirty-irst Street
Granting a permit to III. G. heather
land to build Il stable at Taylor and
Mulberry Streets.
For Police Headquarters.
Appropriating $500 for the rental
for one year OF the Florence property
on East Broad street for police head
quarters, and authorizing the Board
OF Police commissioners to enter into
a lease Of tho property for period of
three years. with the privilege of five
AppropTiating 500 for the city s
membership in the Atlantic Deeper
Waterways Association; and $500 to
defray the expenses of the Mayor and
one member OF The Dock, River and
national convention of the association
to be held in Jacksonville in November
Directing the city Attorney TO ac-
quire land to widen Cary street be-
tween Temple and Addison Streets
The cost OF this land as assessed by
the commissioners Is SS,106.Ol
Diminishing The condemnation pro-
ceedings Instituted by the city in an
effort to obtain land for opening ur
an cighty-foot tkoroughtare to the
Mayo Bridge through Fifteenth street
the dock. and Fourteenth Street The
resolution provides that the dismissal
of proceedings shall not apply to
Fourteenth Street