The Daily Dispatch: November 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], City Council

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City Council

--This body held its regular monthly meeting at 4 o'clock yesterday, at the City Hall. Present: Messrs. D. J. Saunders, N. B. Hill, P. R. Grattan. S. D. Denoon, Wm. Holt Richardson, D. J. Burr. Thomas C. Epps, George K. Crutchfield, L. W. Glazebrook, E. H. Stokes, and Flem. Griffin.

The following additional appropriations were made for the support of certain of the public schools, viz: Lancastrian school, $1,200; Jefferson Ward school, $150; schools in Monroe Ward. --.

The sum of $3,500 was appropriated for enlarging and repairing the City Jail by building six new cells in the Work-House.

One thousand dollars was appropriated for the relief of the Female Orphan Asylum.

Caleb Crone, a lieutenant in the Night. Watch, was elected a day police officer in the place of Jno. R. Blankinship, dec'd, on the suggestion of the Mayor.

A recommendation of M. L. Stration, of certain young men for the position of clerk in his office, was referred to a committee. The nomination elicited much discussion.

A resolution was adopted, that each of the committee for obtaining fuel for the poor be authorized to give orders on the Gas Works for coke.

A resolution was adopted for inquiring into the expediency of still further raising the salaries of all the officers of the city, the committee to report at the next meeting of the Council.

T. W. Hœnniger, proprietor of the Spotswood House, having tendered to the Council for the use of the poor 100 cords of wood from his farm below Richmond, it was accepted, and the thanks of the Council ordered to be returned to him.

The Daily Dispatch: November 11, 1862. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. November 11, 1862. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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