The said Richmond and Rappahannock River Railway Company, successor in title to the Richmond, Urbanna and Peninsular Railway Company, shall establish and regurlarly maintain on said Seven Pines line a daily schedule of at least one car in each direction between Richmond and Seven Pines, as follows, to-wit: Every thirty minutes from 5:30 A. M. to 8:30 A. M. and every thirty minutes from 5 P. M. to 8 P. M., and every forty-five minutes from 8:30 A. M. to 5 P. M., and every forty-five minutes from 8 P. M. to 11:45 P. M., and said company shall render reasonable and adequate service; but the Administrative Board, or such body or committee of the City government as may succeed to its executive powers over the streets of the said City, may from time to time require or permit the said company to change said schedule.

2. This ordinance shall be in force from its passage.

To close to public use and travel an alley commencing at a point on the west side of Lombardy street, 131 feet from the intersection of Lombardy street and Park avenue.

Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Richmond

1. That the alley 10 feet in width commencing at a point on the western side of Lombardy street 131 feet from the intersection of Lombardy street and Park avenue, and extending in a westerly direction 160 feet to an alley 20 feet in width, be and the same is hereby closed to public use and travel, the exact metes and bounds of which alley fully appear on a plan on file in the City Engineer's office, entitled, "Plan of the west side of Lombardy street, between Monument and Park avenues, showing 10 foot alley, between 408-410 N. Lombardy street, proposed to be closed in compliance with the wishes of property owners abutting same," dated August 3, 1914, a blue print copy of which is attached to the draft of this ordinance.

2. The City of Richmond hereby expressly reserves the right to amend or repeal this ordinance and to order the reopening of said alley as a public alley without compensation to the abutting land owner or owners, their heirs or assigns, and ordains as an express condition thereof that no buildings shall be erected within the lines of said alley, but that the same shall be used for no other purpose than a grass plot.

3. That W. B. Saunders, T. T. Mayo, and E. A. Saunders, trustee for W. B. Saunders' children, the owners abutting said alley, and any subsesequent owners, shall indemnify and save harmless the City of Richmond from all damages of whatever nature arising or claimed by any person or persons to either property or person, resulting either directly or indirectly from the closing and abandonment of the said alley, and shall defend at their own costs and charges any suit or suits brought by any person to recover any such damages from the City.

4. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be liable to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, recoverable before the Police Justice of the City of Richmond, and each day's violation of any of the provisions thereof shall be a separate offense.

5. This ordinance shall be in force from its passage.

AN ORDINANCE

(Approved August 18, 1914).

To amend and reordain an ordinance approved May 20, 1911, entitled “An ordinance to require tenants, occupants or owners of any house, store, or other building used for mercantile or manufacturing purposes, or as a place of public amusement, on the front or side of which the sidewalk is paved, to sweep such sidewalk once in twenty-four hours."

Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Richmond

That an ordinance approved May 20, 1911, entitled, "An ordinance to require tenants, occupants or owners of any house, store, or other building used for mercantile or manufacturing purposes or as a place of public amusement, on the front or side of which the sidewalk is paved, to sweep such sidewalk once in twenty-four hours" be amended and reordained so as to read as follows:

1. That it shall be the duty of every tenant, occupant, owner, or other person having in charge any building used for mercantile or manufacturing purposes, or as a place of public amusement, adjacent to which there is a paved sidewalk on the front or side of such building, to sweep such sidewalk so as reasonably to free the same from dust and debris once in twenty-four hours, such sweeping to be done between the hours of seven o'clock P. M. and eight o'clock A. M. of the succeeding day, and no such person shall sweep any such sidewalk between the hours of eight o'clock A. M. and seven o'clock P. M. of any day, unless an emergency arising from some cause occuring after eight o'clock A. M. of such day shall so require. Any person failing to comply with, or violating the provisions of this ordinance, shall be liable to a fine of not less than two dollars nor more than ten dollars for each offense, recoverable before the Police Justice of the City of Richmond.

2. This ordinance shall be in force from its passage.

"A"

AN ORDINANCE

(Approved August 18, 1914).

To amend and reordain section 1, of an ordinance approved July 21, 1913, entitled "An ordinance to grant permission to the Virginia Railway and Power Company to construct and operate a street railway on, along and over the streets of the City of Richmond, under certain conditions," so as to extend the period within which the line from the intersection of Broad and Sheppard streets to the western City limits as now established on Broad street, shall be constructed and put into complete operation.

Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Richmond

(1) That section 1 of an ordinance approved July 21, 1913, entitled "An ordinance to grant permission to the Virginia Railway and Power Company to construct and operate a street railway on, along and over the streets of the City of Richmond, under certain conditions," be amended and reordained so as to read as follows:

"1. That the Virginia Railway and Power Company, hereinafter called the company, be and it is, hereby authorized to construct and operate an electric street railway in the City of Richmond on, along and over the following streets of the City of Richmond:

Beginning at the intersection of Broad and Robinson streets in said City, thence westwardly along Broad street to the western corporate limits of the said City on Broad street, as the same are now established, with all sidings, turnouts, cross-overs and switches necessary to the operation of the said line: provided, however, that the said line from the intersection of Broad and Robinson streets to the intersection of Broad and Sheppard streets shall be begun within three months after the approval of this ordinance and constructed and put into complete operation within nine months from the day of such approval, and that the said line from the intersection of Broad and Sheppard streets to the western City limits, as now established, on Broad street, shall be constructed and put into complete operation within twentythree months from July 21, 1913. And in the event of failure to begin work on said line from Sheppard street westwardly on Broad street to the corporation line, and to construct and put the same into complete operation within twenty-three months from July 21, 1913, all right to construct and operate said line on Broad street, from Sheppard street, to the said corporation line, shall cease and determine, and the bond provided for in section six of this ordinance shall thereupon become due and payable to the City of Richmond, but no other forfeiture or penalty under this ordinance shall be imposed for such failure.

And provided, further, that the said company shall operate its cars on the said lines between said terminal on a schedule of at least one car each way every fifteen minutes in the day between the hours of six o'clock A. M. and twelve o'clock midnight and until otherwise directed by the Committee on Streets, which shall have power to require a more frequent schedule when in its opinion the public convenience requires. That portion of the said lines between the intersection of Broad and Robinson streets and the intersection of Broad street and the Boulevard, shall be a double track street railway, and shall connect with the double track electric street railway running northwardly along the Boulevard to, near or beyond the grounds of the Virginia State Fair Association.

That portion of the said lines running westwardly on Broad street between the intersection of Broad street and the Boulevard and the western corporate limits shall be a single track electric street railway, and shall connect with the aforesaid double track line by proper and necessary switches or crossovers at or near the intersection of Broad street and the Boulevard.

But the said company shall have the right, with the consent of the City Council, at any time during the life of this franchise, to double track the said lines; and the said Council, whenever in its opinion the public convenience requires, shall have the power to require the said company to double track the said lines within a reasonable time after notice so to do. For any failure or refusal to comply with any requirement of this ordinance, or of the said committee, the company shall be liable to a fine, recoverable before the Police Justice of the City of Richmond of not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense, and each day of such failure or refusal shall be a separate offense.

The sidings of the said line shall be located on the south side of Broad street, between Tilden street and Roseneath road, or at such other locations as may be authorized or required by the Committee on Streets."

(2) None of the provisions of this ordinance shall become effective unless and until the Virginia Railway and Power Company shall, within thirty days from the date of the approval of this ordinance, file with the Clerk of the City of Richmond its acceptance in writing of each and every provision of this ordinance, said acceptance to be in form satisfactory to the City Attorney or his assistant; nor shall any of the provisions of this ordinance become effective unless and until the said Virginia Railway and Power Company, as principal, and the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland, as surety, on the bond dated June 2, 1913, in the sum of five thousand dollars and deposited with the City of Richmond, in accordance with the terms of the ordinance approved July 21, 1913, shall, within thirty days after the approval of this ordinance, file with the Auditor of the City of Richmond an agreement in writing, under seal, and in form satisfactory to the City Attorney, or his assistant, which agreement shall provide that the said bond heretofore

given shall remain in full force, effect and virtue for the protection of the City of Richmond against the failure of the Virginia Railway and Power Company to fulfill the conditions set out in the said ordinance approved July 21, 1913, as amended by this ordinance.

(3)

This ordinance shall be in force from its passage.

AN ORDINANCE

(Approved August 18, 1914).

To re-arrange the alleys in the northern part of the block bounded by Main street on the north, Randolph street on the west, alley 20 feet in width on the south and Short or Spruce street on the east.

Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Richmond

1. That upon the dedication for public use and travel for a nominal consideration by the abutting owners, by deed satisfactory to the City Attorney, of an alley 13 feet in width commencing on the west side of Short or Spruce street and extending in a westerly direction to an alley 16 feet in width, already dedicated to public use, and upon like dedication of another alley 10 feet in width commencing on the south side of the last above mentioned alley and extending in a southerly direction to an alley 20 feet in width; then that certain alley 16 feet in width commencing at a point 154 feet west of Short or Spruce street and extending along Randolph street between parallel lines in a northerly direction 67 feet 4 inches more or less to the aforesaid alley 16 feet in width, shall be closed to public use and travel, the exact metes and bounds of which alleys so to be dedicated for public use and the one so to be closed to public use and travel appear on a plan on file in the City Engineer's office entitled, "Plan of block bounded by Main st., and 20 foot alley south of Main st., Randolph and Spruce st., showing alleys proposed to be opened," dated August 3, 1914, a blue copy of which is attached to the draft of this ordinance.

2. That the said Maggie A. Kelly, Emvella Gaines, W. H. Eanes, John Lucchesi, and the Estate of Chas. E. Wingo, and any subsequent owners of said property, shall indemnify and save harmless the City of Richmond from all damages of whatever nature arising or claimed by any person or persons to either property or persons, resulting either directly or indirectly from the closing and abandonment of the said alley, and shall defend at their own costs and charges any suit or suits brought by any person to recover any such damages from the said City.

3. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be liable to a fine of fnot less than twenty-five dollars nof more than one hundred dollars, recoverable before the Police Justice of the City of Richmond, and each day's violation of any of the provisions thereof shall be a separate offense.

4. This ordinance shall be inforce from its passage.