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his brave command, in a signal feat of arms, reflecting lustre on both themselves and the State, which proudly claims them as gallant defenders, the City Council of Richmond cheerfully accept the tender of a flag of the enemy, captured by them from the "Flora Temple," a Federal gunboat; and they hereby direct that this trophy, won by the valor of Virginians, shall, as a memorial and an incentive, at once, of patriotic devotion, hold an appropriate place within this Council chamber. Mr. Clopton, by request of Mr. Walker, who was necessarily called away, presented the following resolution: "Resolved, That the Mayor be requested to report to the Council what disposition is made of goods, wares, moneys, or merchandise taken by the police from negroes or other persons, believed to have been stolen, and have not been called for by lawful owners, as well as a list of the articles so taken and not called for during the year 1864." Mr. Crutchfield, from the Committee on Mark