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R. C. p. December 16~ 191~. Mr. Langhorne moved torefer to Finance and Auditing committees Jointly to consider a vision of the manner in which bills against the City are handled. The motion was adopted. Mr. Williams stated that the amount of bond.require~ o~ the City Treasurer by the too large and should be reduced, and he moved that the matter of reducing the amount be to Finance COmmittee. The motion was adopted. Mr. Markham presented a petition from MrS. rain changes made in the tO Ordinance, Committee. City ie referred R. L. Stephenson and su~d_~y others to have cot- manner of governing the City Cemeteries, and the petition was referred On motion of Mr. Langhorne.the Street Committee was instructed to consider the advisability of opening streets southward to ~Wythe street and eatimate~ cos~of same~ Mr. Williams moved to refer to Street Committee the advisability of opening Hatton street, from London to High. The motion was adopted. ~ On motion, adjourned~ 1914. At a regular meeting of 'the Board of Aldermen January ~Oth there were present: Nessrs--C. W. Walker, .:~>~e~dent. W. Jones Williams, Vioe,President,~ M. M. Adams, ~. N. Mark}mm, L~ H. Davis, Nenr~ .Pile, ,' ~'. -~ ,- The minutes of the regular meeting December 16th were read and were approved. REPORTS OF CO~ITTEES. On call for reports of Committees~ it was found that 'there was not the legal quorum needed vote on the same, and on motion, they were passed by to await the coming in of other members. Firs~.'Nattars adopted by the dermen for concurrence. UNFINISHED BUSINESS. Commo~ Council January 13th and referred to the Board of Al- The body still lacked a legal quo:~..zm, and the ~!ymatter that was taken up under this head was the following: To adopt a resolution of the Council of Richmond requesting the Oity Cmancil of Portsmouth to co-operate with the commercial bodies of Richmond to secure the nomination of said City as the location for one of the Federal Reserve B~uks. On motion, the same was concurred At this point, Mr. Markham said he ~homght the Redistricting O~dinance should be taken up, as the time was at hand for acting on it; that a new CounCil was to be elected mn J~ne and that the Council would not be at all premature in settling at this time the number of members for the body. Mr. Davis, however, stated that action on the same could be deferred for the present and he. moved to recommit the ordimance. Nm. Narkham, on the ether hand, moved to take up t~e ordinance now and act on it, and he ~ed for a recorded vo~e on his motion. ~herempon, the motio~ was lost and by the following vote: A Yes-'Markham, 1. Nays--Lamghorne,. Walker, Adams,~ Williams, Davis,~ ~u~ry, Pile, ?. Then the motio~ ~¥~.M~; Da~fawae~ep~e~. On motion, the body adjourned to meet F~iday, January ~r~, at the usual hotly.