From the Richmond Dispatch, 7/15/1862, p. 1, c. 6

City Council. – Monthly Meeting, July 11th; present a quorum, - A petition was presented by Mr. Harvey, President of the Danville Railroad, asking that the road should be extended up Virginia street, Also, a remonstrance against the same by J. Johns, Medical Purveyor, and other Government officials. Referred to the Commissioner of Streets. A petition from J. G. Griswold, former Captain of Company D, 1st Va. Regiment, asking to be relieved from liability for $375, contracted for his company, was presented and referred to the Committee on Arms. Mr. Crutchfield, by leave, introduced a bill concerning the weighing of long forage in the Second Market. Referred to the Committee on Markets. Adjourned.

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