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A~ril 25th, 1950 I therefore recommend that an ordinance be placed on its first reading providing for the apppimtment of a committee with authority to cremate the said bonds after a pr6per record has been made and filed in lieu of the bonds.,, Motion of Mr. ~eiseman that the City Attorney be instructed to pre- Dare proper ordinance~ was adopted. ll~h - "I-submit herewith a report on audit of the Clerk of the Hustings Court of the City of Portsmouth, Va.~ as submitted by the ~uditor of Public Acconnt~ Commonwealth of Virginia and also a report from the Compensation Board on the Clerk of the Circuit Court and the Clerk of the Hustings Court dated April 20, On motion filed. 12th - "I submit herewith a report of the Utilities Committee of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company Rate case, made by Morton L. Wallerstein~Counsel and also a report of the Utilities Committee of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company Rate Case in Richmond April l~, 1950. I recommend that the City of Portsmouth participate in th appeal in an amount not to exceed the sum of $621.6G." On motion of Mr. Weiseman~ an appropriation of $621.60 for the above purpose, was placed on its first reading. 13th - ~The George T. McLean Company has erected eighty houses west of Trt~xton, in Maplewood Park, and has provided all of the sanitary sewers including trunk lines and connections~ at his own expense, and requests that the City relieve him of ~he ~25.00 per connection fee. I recommend that since the entire exoense has been borne by the property owner~ that he be relieved of paying this connection fee~" Manager was adopted. Motion of Mr. Grimes th concur in the recommendation of the City l~th - "I am submitting herewith an estimate of the cost of relo- cating certain wires over and~ross the property recently purchased from the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad for the purpose of a site for the proposed new colored High School. The cost of relocating the wires is coneiderably more than we had anticipated and the original appropriation in the sum of $7~00.OO is insufficient to pay the entire cost and I recommend that an additional sum in the amount of $15~O.00 from the Utility Tax Fund be placed on its first reading~ for the purpose of supplementing the appro- priation in payment of the entire cbst of acquiring the property and relocatimg the wires." Motion of Mr. Warren t~hat an ~d~itional appropriation of $1.,500o00 from Utility Tax fund for the above purpose, be placed on mts first reading~ Was adopted. · 5~ ,~ ~I s~omit herewith a letter from R. C. Barolay~ City Attor- ney~ concerning the purpose of a lot in block thirty-six on the p~at of Pre,tis Park from Dr. F.S. Nolan. I recommend that the s~n of $250.00 be placed on mts first reading for the pu~ pose of purchasing this let." pose be placed on its I' ~ risen." Motion of Mr. Grimes that an appropriation of $250.00 for said put- first reading~ was adopted. 16th "I am submitting herewith a letter from Judge Lawrence W. Attached- "I wish to call attenti°n to the crowded condition of theClerk's office and to the lack ~f facilities therein for individuals who are compelled to resert ther~ to in reference to titles to property, information as to marriages~ probate of wills and grin lng of administrations and suits, b otb civil and criminal. The present office does not afford room for expansion to accommo- date many necessary filing cases which are required to properly house the record books~ wills~ marriage license~ deeds~ suits~ and other papers. All records are required to be kept and filed in the offmce permanently. Sometime ago, it became necessary for the Clerk to request the closing in of a certain portion of the hall in order to place the records for which there was no room in the office proper. Many books which ere in current use are piled on top of tables and cabinets frequently without reach except by.using a s top ladder. The table space upon whieh the la~yers may work is practieally nil on account of this condition and there is no way to remedy it except by securing additional table space, and there ~ ne space available in the present office. A very serious condition is being created by reasen of the manner in which these books have to be handled becamse of lack of space and the placing of them on top of e~e another. This leads to ~pid deterioration, and tmless the records are properly taken care of~ they will eventually entail a sermous expense on the City in having them re - paired. Many of them need repairing at the present timer and the longer this condition exist~ the more rapidly others will deteriorate. I am greatly concerned about the security of the records and am now formally requesting that theOouncil immediately take such a~tion as is necessary to ¢or- rec~ the conditions outlined above." Motion ~f Mr. Bilisoly that the City Manager be instructed to try to secure additional space for the C~erk of the Court~ was ad°Pred. 17th - ~The question of opening t~e ditch at Deep Creek B~zle-