City Council.
--A called meeting of the "City Fathers" was held in their hall at 11 o'clock yesterday morning: Messrs. Saunders, Epps, Glazebrook, Griffin, Scott, Crutchfield, Walker, Stokes, Clopton, Hill, Haskins, and Richardson, being present.The President stated that the meeting had been called at the request of the Committee on "Arms and Clothing," the chairman of which would make known its wishes.
Mr. Scott informed the Council that the committee needed more funds with which to supply the wants of the Richmond soldiers, and offered the following resolution, which was adopted:
Resolved, That the further sum of fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to the Committee on Arms and Clothing.
Mr. Scott, from the Committee on the Fire Department, offered the following resolution, which was adopted:
Resolved, That the Committee on the Fire Department be authorized to hire for the Fire Brigade one negro man to act as hostler, and one negro man to act as fireman for the steam fire engine.
Mr. Scott called the attention of the Council to the fact that Confederate agents had visited the First Market and there purchased for Government uses most of the slaughtered meat there on sale, thus cutting off our citizens from their usual supplies of meat, and offered the following resolution, which was adopted:
Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed to wait on the Secretary of War and ascertain from him whether or not it is to be the policy of the Government to allow their officers to impress the beef that is butchered and carried to the market houses for sale.
The President appointed as the committee Messrs. Glazebrook, Stokes, and Clopton.
The Council then adjourned.
