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A RESOLUTION APPOINTING VIEWERS FOR CLOSING A PORTION OF AN ALLEY LOCATED 112 FEET WEST OF THE INTERSECTION OF LECKIE STREET AND PElqIN SULk AVENUE. WHEREAS, Mrs. J. R. Austint Mrs. C. C. Williams and Mr. Frank B. Baker, Jr., have made application to vacate and close the hereinafter described portion of a certain street, and it appearing that notice of the application and request for the appointment of viewers was duly posted on the bulletin board of the Circuit Court of the City of Portsmouth and in two other public places in said City, at least 10 days prior to August-27, 1974. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, that Frank N. Bilisoly, R. C. Dempsey, Louis J. Leitner, James L~ Choate and Joseph C. Barber, be appointed viewers to view the hereinafter described portion of such street and report to this Council in writing whether in their opinion, any, and if any, what inconvenience would result from vacating and closing the following: All that certain piece or parcel of land~ being a part of a 26 foot alley shown on the Plat of Harry L. Alexander~ which plat is Of record in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, in Map Book 1~ page 33, and being bounded and des- cribed as followst to-wit: BEGINNING at a point 112 feet west ~f the southwest intersection of Leckie Street (for- merly Sale Street) and Peninsula Avenue (for- merly Wilson A~enue), as measured along the south line of Leckie Street, and from thence running 'south along the wes~ line of Lots 48, 49 and 50 on said plat and the east line of said 26 foot alley a distance of 120 feet to a point; thence west and parallel with Leckie Street a distance of 26 feet to a point; thence north along the east line of Lots 82, 83 and 84 on said plat and the west line of said 26 foot alley a distance of 120 feet to the south line of Leckie Street where it intersects with the west line of said 26 foot alley; thence east along the south line of Leckie Street ex- tended a distance of 26 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING.