The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-02-14
BUDGET IS SIGNED
BY MAYOR A|NSL|E
Appropriation Ordinance Carries
a Total of $3,548,365.5O
for Current Year.
BOND ISSUE IS APPROVED
Provides for Shockoe Creek I'm
provcments and Public
School Work.
BOND ISSUE is APPROVED

Mayor Ainslie yesterday signed the
appropriation ordinance for 1914. car
rying an appropriation of $3,54S,3 6550.
and tho ordinance authorizing the is
sue and redemption of s1,5o0.000 per
cent registered or COUPON convertible
bonds, to run thrty-four years. The
bond issue is for permanent public i'm
provements, including the covering In
of Shockoe Creek. purchase. of public
school sites and other important work.
The Mayor also signed the joint reso-
luton instructing the City Attorney to
procure from the General Assembly
certain amendments 10 the city charter,
upon which both branches of the City
Council are agreed. He also approved
the joint resolution inStructinE the
City Attorney and requesting the Rich
mond delegation in the General As
scmbly TO oppose the adoption OF SEN
ate bill 263. which would permit the
Chesapeake and Ohio hallway Com
pany TO sell certain of its water rights
TO the James River and Kanawha
Power Company. He also approved OF
the increase In the salary OF the Chief
Health Officer to $4,000 year, and In
contributing from the clty's funds $3.50
to Mrs. Matilda Fittz, whose husband
was killed In March, 1912, by Assist
ant Fire Chief Wiscs automobile.
other New Laws Signed.
Among other ordinances and rcsolu-
tions returned by the Mayor with his
approval to City Clerk Ben T. August
are:
Ordinance requiring the lettering or
marking of all vehicles, automobiles
and machinery of any board or de-
partment OF the city.
Ordinance to amend an ordinance
regulating the work of the Street
Cleaning Department., requiring that
dpn1r wpCklv from
business houses seventy-two gallons OF
garbage
Ordinance 10 allow the Virginia
Bonded Warehouse Corporation to build
a wooden platform near Eighteenth
and Cary Streets.
Ordinance granting permission to j.
II. Staples 20 use the sewer in Cary
street to the western limits Of the
city.
Ordinance authorizing tho Board OF
Fire Commissioners to create tho po-
sition of an additional lineman and fix :
Ing his salary Ut 5000
Resolution authorizing the American
Locomotive Company to enlarge the
water main at Hospital Street, between
Fifth and Seventh Streets. at the ex-
pcnse of the company.
Ordinance granting years extern
sion OF time to the Richmond Urban
ma and Peninsula Railway Company
for the constructioH OF its road.
Ordinance Anything an ordinance.
increasing the load which may be
carted over smooth paved streets from
1000 to 1000 pounds.
Resolution authorizing the City At
torney to acquire land on cambridge
Street, between Fifteenth Street and
Cowardin Avenue. to be used as a sito
for cambridge Street School and for
Widening and Strengthening cambridge
Street.
Resolution granting the free use OF
the City Auditorium February 232S TO
the Department of superintendent of
the National Education Association.
Pinns for New School.
Resolution instructing the City
School Board to have prepared plans
and specifications and TO secure com :
petitive bids for the erection OF Oak
wood Public School, to cost not more
than $4,000, and for the erection OF
Floyd Avenue Public School. to cost
not more than $4,000. each amount TO
include the architects fees.
Resolution authorizing allegations to
be made for paving the sidewalks on
the west side Of Robinson Street, be-
tween Main and Beverly Streets.
Resolution authorizing the construc-
tion OF granite paving on the side
walk on the north side OF Ross Street,
between Thirteenth and Fourteenth.
Resolution approving the official
bonds OF the City Treasurer, the City
Collector, the Commissioners of Reeve
nue. and the High Constable.
Resolution allowing s29S to Bessie
p. and Oscar A. Johnson for DANA es
to their property at 2l13 East Marshall
Street.
Resolution authorizing tho City At
torncy and requesting the Richmond
representatives In the General Assem-
bly, to procure the passage of Senate
bill No. 1872, which permits any city
having a population in excess OF l0o
600 10 change Its form OF government
by popular vote.