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Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Vlx~inia, that it is necessar2 for the City to acquire fee simple title in and to the following described tracts of land situate in the City of PortSmOUth, Virginia, for use as the site of a sanitary landfill~ the record title to said property being in the name of Reuben Drew: Those certain ] ets or tracts of land known, numbered and designated as lots eight (8), ten (t0), eleven (ll) and twelve (12) on the plat of the property of Hedges and Grice near Smokeytown, filed in the chancery cause of Hedges' Executors vs. Grice'S Executors, in the Court of Hustings for the City of Portsmouth, a copy of said plat being duly recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of Norfolk County, Virginia, in Deed Book 1114, page SlO, less that p~rt of lots eleven (ll) and twelve (12) the title to which has been or will be acquired by the StaTe of Virginia in emznen~ domain proceedings now pending in the Court of Hustings for the City of Portsmouth, Virginia. in Chancery Docket No. 5S45; it being a portion of the property conveyed to the said Reuben Drew by deed of F. E. C. Rach and wife, dated August 23, 1599, and duly recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of Norfolk County, Virginia, in Deed Book 22?, at p~ge 580. Be it further resolved that the City Attorney is authorized and in- structed to institute condemnation proceedings to acquire the aforesaid pro- perty for the ~urposes of the City. This is to certiiy that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of a resolution adopted by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, at a meeting held M~reh 27, 1962. City Clerk.