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AN ORDIbD2q~ CLOSIN~G THE FOLLOWING ST~'S: A 15 FOOT AI~EY ON UIHE SOL~i~H SIDE OF C(~{5~RCE STREET; A 15 FOOT ALLEY BE?~NP~ CC~.~CE S~ ~2~ID MEANDER ROAD; A PORTION OF MARYI2kND AVENUE: A PORTION OF SPP~A COURT. WHERFD~S, the Portsmouth Port and /_ndustrial Cormnission has made app/ication to vacate and close and discontinue the hereinafter-described portior~ of certain streets; and ~rH~qEA~S, by a Resolution of this Council adopted October 23, 1979, viewers were appointed pursuan~ to ~15.1-364, Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, to view the hereinafter-described portions of said stlreets and to report in %.~iting whether in their opinion anlz, and if any, what inconvenience would result from discontinuing the herein-described streets; and tFrIEREAS, said viewers have reported in w~iting that in ~heir opinion no inconvenience would result from the closing and disconfinuing of said streets. Arid, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAIIYED by the Council of the City of P_orts- ~ouhb, Virginia~ that those portions of the said streets hereinafter described are to be closed and vacated as public streets. PARCEL I That certain 15 foot alley %~hich is de. scribed as follows: BEGI~qlNG on the sou~da right of way line of Commerce Street 140 feet west of its interse~ion wi~/q C~hautauqn~a Avenue; ~hence runnin~ south 662 feet, ~ore or less, to a point; thence rmnnim_g sou~i~esterly 15 feet, more or less, to a pint; thenee running northerly 665 feet, more or less, to a t~Lnt on the southern right of way line of Coranerce Street; ~/lence running eastwardly along the said right of way line 15 feet, more or less, to the said point of beginning. Also, %-hat portion of a said alley which is described as begirkning on the northern right of way line of Co~eerce Street 140 feet west of its intersection with S Avenue~ thence running northerly 254 feet, more or less, %o the termination of said alley; thence rumm~ng wes% 15 feet, ~ore or less, to a point; thence ~ming so=~h z~4.5 feet to a point on the nos+la- ern right of v~ay line Of Cormerce Street; and thence r~aning east along the said right of %~y line 15 feet to the said point of beginning.