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study this ordinance before its passage. SECOND: The virginia Electric and Power Company is now operating under an al- leged thirty-year franchise which expires in 1940, under which the said Company, or its pre- decessors, agreed to pay to ~he City of Portsmouth, as a franchise ta~, the sum of two and one half per cent on its gross revenue. Since 1919, the Company has refused to pay the two and one-half per cent franchise tax but instead has paid one half of one per cent. THIRD: We desire time in which to investigate the advisability and possibility of erect, lng a municipal power plant and if-this ordinance should go into effect, there would be no chance of the City erecting a municipal plant. _ FOURTH: The Power Company has heretofore claimed to hold a perpetual franchise in the City or. Portsmouth, and the proposed contract leaves this claim to be settled at some future date. (Signed) Bayard E. Jewetl, 1705 McDaniel St., and sundry others.,~ Approved - On motion of Mr. Weiseman, On motion adjourned. same was 'referred to the City Attorney. Clerk. Portsmouth, Va.~ July 13th, 1937. At a regular meeting of the City Council, held on July 13th, 1937, at ~:00 there were presgnt: John p. Leigh, Leslie T. Fox, George L. chins, Frar~ D. Lawrence~ C. E. Wari~en, City Manager. Grimes, James N. Howard, W.R. Hut- H. Earl Weiseman, PearIe J. Wilson] Minutes of regular meeting held June 22nd, 1937, were read and approved. The following communications from the City Manage~ were read: 1st - ~$ometime ago, the Austin R. Davis Camp #4, United Spanish War Veterans applied to the City for a donation to erect a monument at the City Park. Upon investigation b~ the City Attorney, it was found that the State law did not permit the City to make the donation. Mr. Thomas C. Parker, Assistant Director, Federal Arts Project, Washington, D.C. states: "If the proposed monument is to be of a public nature and will be sponsored by the City of Portsmouth, it may be possible to secure anproval through W.P.A.~, I recommend that the~City go on record as sponsoring the project, as I believe we all feel that this is a Fe~y worthy cause." Motion of Mr. Wilson. to concur in the Manager's recommendation was adopted. 2nd - "The recently organized Industrial 0ommission, of which Mr. Weiseman is Chairman, will need some funds to pay some small bills which ~he Commission w~ll create from time to time. I recommend that we appropriate $300.00, for the present, to meet these bills." On motion of Mr: Weiseman, the Manager,s recommendation was concurred in~ and the said appropria~on of $300.00 was made, and by the following vote: