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~o be applied to the taxes. I therefore request that I be authorized to deliver the deed at
<br />this time to the City and that Seven Thousand dollars ($1,000.00) be appropriated for the
<br />above purposeo~
<br />
<br /> Motion of Mr. Fox
<br />by the following vote:
<br />
<br />Ayes - Leigh,
<br />NRys - None
<br />
<br />to appropriate $1,OOOOO0 for said purpose, was adopted, and
<br />Fox, Grimes, Hall, Howard, Lawrence, Warren, ~ilson
<br />
<br /> The request of the GityMa~ager for $3,000.00' additional appropriation to
<br />smooth-surface South St. from Crawford to E~finEh~m St., placed on its first reading, at last
<br />meeting, was taken up.
<br />
<br /> Notion of Mr. Fox to make an appropriation of $3,000.00, for said purpose,
<br />was adopted, and by the following vo~e:
<br />
<br />Ayes - Leigh, Fox, Grimes, Hall, Howard, Lawrence, Warren, Wilso~
<br />Nays None
<br />
<br />The following communication from the~ City Attorney was road:
<br />
<br /> ~InApril, 1940', there was sold in a chancery suit the..'proper~y n~aber ~05
<br />Et. Vernon Ave. The full purchase price of One .Thousand Dollars less the costs of the court
<br />was apolied to the payment of taxes. The remaining taxes were rel~ved by order of the court,
<br />and heRce I req~es~ that ~he City Collector be relieved from the collection of the following
<br />taxes: 1936 - $13o86, first half 1931 - $22-5O, second half 1931 - $22.50, first half 1938-
<br />$22.50, second half 1938 - $22.50, first hsLlf 1939 - $22.50, and second half 1~39 ~ $22o~O.
<br /> The property is assessed in the n~me of A.J. Phillips, Estate, as'E~5 ~6~9
<br />Mt. Vernon Aveo~
<br />
<br />Notion of Mr. ~ox ~o concur in the Attorney's recommendation, was adopted.
<br />
<br />The following communication from the City Attorney was read:
<br />
<br /> "In connection with the twenty-six lo, in the block with the Prentis Park
<br />School which the City desires to acquire9 the owners of fifteen of .the lots accepted the of-
<br />for of the City and deeds have been-obtained forths same. ~t will probably be necessary to
<br />condemn the remaining eleven lots.
<br /> Three of the o~mers had paid all of the taxes for 1940 and they should be
<br />refunded the foltowingamoun~s for the part of.the year which the City held the property,
<br />namely:
<br /> Theodore Schneider on lots 31, 38 and 1/2 of 36~ b~ock 36 $~75
<br /> Viola ~. (Schneider) Deitrich on lots 34, 35 and 1/2 36, bloom 36 $ 3.12
<br /> Jet E. Curling $ 1.25
<br />
<br />t~es
<br />
<br /> The City Collector should be relieved from t~he collection
<br />for the second half of the year 1940:
<br />
<br />Nfs. AcE. Curling on lot 33, block 36 $ 1.25
<br />Fred P. and Rebecca Ac Baldwin on lots 26 & 21, block 36 2°50
<br />Olaude Brooks and Ne~tie Marion Rollins, lots 30 and 3l,
<br /> block 3~ 2.50
<br />Richard Do Thurman lot lC, block 36 1.25
<br />R. W. Poe (assessed to Wm. A. Bain) lo~ 13 and 14,block 36 . 2.50
<br />
<br />of the following
<br />
<br />Motion of ~ Howard to concur~ in the Attorney's recommendation,-was adopted.
<br />
<br />The following letter from the City Clerk was read:
<br />
<br /> "The term of office for H.J. Kraemer, member, Civil Service Oomr~ssion, will
<br />expire November 30th~ 19~O."
<br />
<br /> Notion of Mr. Warren to go into the election of a civil service commissioner
<br />to succeed Mr. Kraemer, was adopted°
<br />
<br /> Mr. Warren nominated Mr. Virginius A. Butt. Er. Fox nominated Er. H.J. Krae-.
<br />
<br />met.
<br /> There being no other nominations, vote being taken,
<br />the following voZe:
<br />
<br />Butt
<br />
<br />For Er. Butt - Leigh, Howard, Lawrence, Warren, Wilson
<br />" Mr. Eraemer - Fox - I
<br />
<br />was elected, by I
<br />
<br />5
<br />
<br />Messrs. Grimes andHali not voting.
<br />
<br /> The following letter was read~ and on motion of Mr. ~ox, referred to the City
<br />Attorney: ~
<br /> "In making the assessmen~ agains~ the Portsmouth Gas Company, as made by the
<br />Corporation Commission, whic~ ~h~ad~c?mbined tw9 ~tems 9f ta~x~es ~ Deep Creek. an~ ~tfrn BFanch
<br />District; to the amount o* ~563,616.O0, tax $15,O90~O, when v~ue assessmen~ snou±a nave oeen
<br />$512,885.00, tax $12,822.12, making a difference which is properly charged to Norfolk County
<br />in the said Districts of $50,731.00, t~x $1,268°28o
<br /> I would ask that the City Auditor be* instructed to make the correction and
<br />the City Collector furnish the Portsmouth Gas Oompany with a corrected s~atement.~
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