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AN ORDINANCE TO CLOSE A PORTION OF A SIXTEEN FOOT ALLEY LOCATED BETWEEN VILLAGE AND SECOND STREETS. WHEREAS, Tidewater Funeral Home, Inc., T/A Loving & Gay F~neral Home has made application to vacate and close the hereinafter described portion of a 16 foot alley; and WHEREAS, by resolution of this Council adopted July 25, 1972, viewers were appointed pursuant to Section 15.~-364 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended to view the herein- after dsscribed portion of the said alley and to report in wrzting!whether in their opinion, any, and if any, what in- conve~ignce would result from the discontinuing of the below descrlbed alley; and WHEREAS, the said viewers have reported in writing that in their opinion, no inconvenience would result from clos- ing and discontinuing said alley; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, that that portion of a 16 foot alley described as follows be and the same is hereby closed and vacated as a public alley; All that certain (16) foot strip of land situate in the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, described as follows, to-wit: ginia, at BEGINNING at a point 142 feet, more or less, north from the northeast intersection of Academy Avenue and Second Street; thence north and parallel with Academy Avenue, a distance of 16 feet, more or less, to a point; thence east and parallel with Village Street, a distance of 215 feet, more or less; thence south and parallel with Academy Avenue, a dis- tance of 16 feet, more or less; thence west and parallel with Second Avenue, a distance of 215 feet, more or less, to the point of beginning, as shown on that certain plat duly recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of the City of Chesapeake, Vir- ginia in Map Book 18 at page 85. Adopted by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Vit- a meeting held August 22, 1972. Teste: City Clerk