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May 13th, 1952.
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<br /> At a regular meeting of the City Council, held on May 13th, 1952, therewere present:
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<br /> Fred A. Duke, George L. Grimes, Carl C. Hought*n,Jr., Jsmes N. Howard,
<br /> R. Irvine Smith, E.R. Sturtevant, C. E. t~arren, H~. Earl Weisem~n, Pe~rle J.
<br /> Wilson, I. G. Vass, City Manager, and R. C. Barclay,City Attorney.
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<br /> Minutes of regular meeting held on April 22nd, 1952 a~d called meeting of April 3Oth,
<br />1952, were read and approved.
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<br /> The Transportation Committee made the following recommendation:
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<br /> "The Committee recommends that for the present the Tunnel CommissiSn ~et be requested
<br />to operate its buses beyond the Bart ~and Clifford Street loading and unloading zones.
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<br /> H.E. Weiseman
<br /> j.N. Howard
<br /> R. Irvine Smith
<br /> Carl C. Houghton,Jr.
<br /> C. E. Warren."
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<br />Motion of Mr. Houghton to suspend the rules to h~ar from anyone interested in this
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<br />matter, was adopted.
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<br />No one spoke~in regard to the matter.
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<br />On motion of Mr. Neiseman, the recommendation of the Committee was adopted.
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<br /> Mr. Howard, reporting for the Gommittee on Salaries and Wages, recommended that the
<br />salaries of the Clerk of the Hustings Court and Circuit Court be $9,~07~.0~ a?ear~.effe~tive~pril 1st, 1952,
<br />and that the Clerk of the Circuit Court's salary be $855.42 for June gai~ thg Cle~ of b~ H~-~tings C6urt salary
<br />be $835.00 for the month of June.
<br /> G~ motion of Mr. Howard, the recommendation of the Committee was adopted, and an
<br />appropriation of $377.52 was placed on its firs% reading.
<br /> ~he following reports from the City Manager were read:
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<br /> 1st - hi submit the at%ached copy of the School Budget for the public schools of the
<br />City of Portsmouth for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1953 and recommend that the City Manager be authorized
<br />and directed to include the sum of $855,604.00 for school purposes in the genere! City budge~ for the fiscal
<br />year ending Jume 3Oth, 1953."
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<br /> Motion of Mr. Houghton to concur in the recommendation of the City Manager was adopte,
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<br /> 2md - "I recommend that thef011owingamendment to City of Port%mouth Virginia Li-
<br />cense Tax Ordinance dated May~st, 1950 be placed on its first reading:
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<br />'Each automobile, bus, taxicab, trailer, or semi-trailer, designed
<br /> for the transportation of passengers, and not operating as a motor
<br /> vehicle carrier under a certificate of the StateCorporation Commis-
<br /> sion, 35 cents per hundred pounds of weight or major fraction thereof'."
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<br />was adopted:
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<br />Motion of Mr. Howard that the following ordinance be placed on its first reading,
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<br />"AN ~RDINANCE TO AMEND AND RE-ORBAIN SUB-SECTION (a) OF SECTION 12
<br />OF CHAPTER 111 OF I~HE LICENSE TAX ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PORTSNOUTH,
<br />RELAT~G TO LICENSE TAXES ON ~'EHICLES DESIGNE~ FOR THE TRANSPORTATION
<br />OF PASSENGERS"
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<br /> 3rd - "I submit herewith an amendment to the City Code, making Bart and Clifford Sts~
<br />between Dinwiddie and Effingham Sts., one way streets, and recon~nd that it be placed ~u its first reading.
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<br />adopted:
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<br />Motion of Mr. Sturtevant to place the following ordinance on its first reading, was
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<br />,,AN ORDINANCE TO A~END THE CODE OF THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH BY ADDING
<br />THERETO T~O NEW SECTIONS TO BE KNOWN AS SECTION 3~-1~2.1 AND SECTION
<br />30-1~2.2, RELATING TO TRAFFIC ON BART AND CLIFFORD STREETS"
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<br /> 4th - "I recommend that the ~ity purchase from Mr. and Mrs. Ackerm=n that parcel or
<br />tract of land lying east of ~ashington Street, between the Elizabeth River PlaygrOund on the south and Harbor-
<br />view F~nor on the north, running back from ~ashing0on Street a distaD~ce of ninety feet and that the sum of
<br />$5,000.00 be placed on its first reading for the purpose of paying for ~the said land.
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<br /> Motion of Mr. Smith ~to place an approp~riation of $5,000.00 on its first reading was
<br />adopted.
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<br /> 5th - "I submit the attached amendment to the Zoning Ordinance and recoz~mend that i'
<br />be placed on its first reading."
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<br /> Motion of N~. Honghton to~ place the following ordin~uce on its first reading, was
<br />~dopted:
<br /> "AN ORDINANCE TO AM2~ID THE CODE OF THE CITY ~F PORTSMOUTH, 1951, BY ADDING
<br /> THERETO A NE~ SECTION TO BE KNOWN AS SECTION 32-54.1, RELATIRG TO ISSUING
<br /> T~4PORARY PERMITS UNDER THE ZONING ORDINANCE" -
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