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City Council. --A called meeting of the City Council was held at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon — Present: Messrs. Saunders, Epps, Glazebrook, Scott, Hill, Talbott, Critchfield, Burr, Griffin, Wynne, Haskins, Greanor, Stokes, and Grattan. The Council being called to order, Mr. Grattan spoke of the necessity of having a sufficiency of funds to meet the present and prospective wants of the city, and in order to raise the same, submitted "an Ordinance for the issuing of notes by the city," which, being read the requisite number of times and amended, was put on its passage (the rule being suspended, on motion of Mr. Hill) and carried in the affirmative — all the members present voting therefore. The Ordinance is as follows: 1. Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Richmond. That there shall be issued, in the name of the city of Richmond, three hundred thousand dollars, in notes of one dollar, fifty cents and twenty-five cents, for the redemption of which the