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.