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A RESOLUTION APPOINTING VIEWERS FOR CLOSING OF A PORTION OF CHESTNUT STREET. WHEREAS, Robert L. Turner, Ltd., by attorney L. Cleaves Manning, has made application to vacate, close and discontinue the hereinafter described portion of Chestnut Street, and it appearing that notice of application and request for the appointment of viewers has been duly advertised as required by law. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, that Richard D. Ottavio, Albert J. Carr, Howard L. Davis, George N. Powers, Sr., and C.L. Knight be appointed viewers and that William Choate and Charles R. Hudgins be appointed alternate viewers in the event one of the preceding viewers fails to participate, said viewers to view the hereinafter described portion of such street and to report to this Council in writing whether in their opinion any, and if any what, inconvenience would result in vacating and closing the following: Chestnut Street That certain strip or portion of Chestnut Street as the same is shown upon the plat of Brighton, duly of record, which said strip is bounded as follows: Beginning at the southwest intersection of Chestnut Street and Portsmouth Boulevard (formerly Gosport Road) as the same are presently constituted and from thence running along Portsmouth Boulevard N 78° 08' W a distance of 36.17 feet to an iron pin at the intersection of Chestnut Street and Gosport Road as the same are shown in the Plat of Brighton; thence N 2° 50' 50" W along Chestnut Street (as the same is shown in the Plat of Brighton) a distance of 147.43 feet to an iron pin at the northeast corner of Lot 15 in Block 59 as shown on said plat of Brighton; thence S 87° 04' 07" E a distance of 34.65 feet to a point in the westerly line of the right-of-way of Chestnut Steet as the same is presently constituted and thence S 2° 26' 35" w a distance of 153.06 feet to the point of beginning.