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V~e, of course, understand that in addition to your consent we must comply with the regulations of the Virginia Stats Milk Con, lesion. We are inclosing copies of the U.S. Public Health SerVice and District of Columbia Health Department regulations for your info~mation. Th~uk you for yo~ courtesy in tb~s matter. Very truly yours, Chestnut Far, ns-Chevy Chase Dairy b~ Raymond F. Sullivan." 0n motion ordered filed. L ' ~ ~ ~ 1 ' ~ 5th - ether from the Retail ~oa_ ~erchants, C.C. Hal_, Vice Preszden~: ~e were disappointed to learn that the license tax ordinance which you recently passed did r~t include the exemption from gross receipts of freight ine xcess of ~% of the ~products pu~cb~se price, particularly since we had understood that this provision would be included. no~eve~, we now understand that ~his ormnzss~on ~ a~s au oversight: There fore, we should like to request that you reconsider this matter aud amend the Tax Ordinance at your next meeting, in order to have it confo~ to the Virginia law as follows: ~If the freight paid by a retail merchant on any article sold by him shall exceed ~S percentumo~ the purchase price of the article shall be eliminated from consideration~in ascer - raining the amount of sales of such fetal merchant as part of the gross receipts of the business.' ' Motmon to refer to the open meeting on Aprm_ 19th, was adopted. 6th - The following ordinance: "AN ORDINANCE TO A~D SECTION 2 0P THE ORDINANCE RELATING ~.T0 TRAFFIC AND THE IHSTALLATION AND REGULATION OF PARKING EETERS BT ADDING THERETO THE EAST SIDE OF ~IDDLE STRUT, ~ET~EEN HIGH A~h~D COU~Yt~Z STRW~TS." On motion of ~r. Howard, the said ordinance was placed on its first reading. ~ ' ±er~ and~Auditor was read and or The fo_lowzng letter from the City C~ ~ ~ ' dered filed: "T~ne C~y has not received any money from the NorfoLk County Ferries for 19~, although tne_r monthly reports ~-ndzcate that we have been paid. Also, we have not received a monthly audit report for 19~9. ~ The monthly report of the City Clerk and Auditor for the month of ~arch was received and ordered filed. The follow~ug letter from the Tidewater Automobile Association, was read and ordered filed: "At a meeting of our Norfolk-Portsmouth Directors Thursday night, I was t - directed to write the Council to con~nend them for the p±aczng of modern street signs in some~ sections of Portsmouth and to request that theybe placed throughout th~ C~vy as soon as pos ~ sible. ~r Board realizes thi~ is no doubt in your ~plan but we did want to bring to your attention the very favorable impression the signs had made upon strangers as well as local ~itizens.? The following letter from R.N. Youell, Director, Division of Corrections Department of Welfare, was read~ and ordered filed. ~'The lock~up of the City of Portsmouth was inspected by this Division on i~arch 23, 1949. A report on this inspection is submitted herewith. The courtesies and co- operation extended~ at the time of the inspection are appreciated. Assuring you of the continued interest of this Division Mud our will- ingness to be of assistance to you in any way we car~, concerning your lockup problems, i am, Yours very ~ruly, R.M.Youe!l." The following communication from R.M. Youe!t, Director,Division of Cor- rections, Dept. of Welfare, was read and on motion referred to the City ~arager: "The jail of the City of Portsmouth was inspected by t~is Division on ~tarch 2~th, 1~9. A report on this inspec~tion is submitted herewith. Yo~ attention i s invited to the recommendations contained in this report; a nd it is hoped that they ~ll be put into effect. Assurln~ you of the continued i~terest of thls51vlslon aud our ~111n~ ness to be of assistance to you in any way we can concerning yo.~ jail problem~, I ~, Yours truly, R.~.~ouell."