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Mrd .- "In order that %he Oity Collector may be enabled to renew his bond,
<br />I recommend that'the attached resolution be adopted."
<br /> "Resolution
<br /> Whereas, the accounts and records of the~o£fice of A.E. Parker,
<br /> ~$ity ColleCtor, were audited by W.P. JordaM and Company~ Certified
<br /> public Accountants, as of December 31, i93~,- and according to the re-
<br /> port of said accountants were found correct as shown by the books of
<br /> the City; and
<br /> Nhereas, it appears that it is the duty o~ the 0ity 0ouncil to
<br /> have examined yearly the list of umcolleoted taxes and to credit the
<br /> Collector for such taxes, as in their opLuien, could not have been cci-
<br /> looted with due diligence; and
<br /> Whereas, it appears that A.E. Parker, Oity 0olleOto=, should be
<br /> credited with all taxes remaining uncollected on the 31st day cf Decem-
<br /> ber, 1934, the ~mount of which is shown in said report of W.P. Jordan
<br /> and Company;
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<br /> Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Council of the Oity of
<br /> p~tsmouth that ~A.E. Parker~ Oity 0olleotor be Credited with all mnoo!-
<br /> leered taxes remaining in hXs office on December 31, 1934, and that he
<br /> be relieved of responsibility for not having collected the same, but
<br /> nothing herein contained shall be construed as relieving the payment of
<br /> said taxes by the persons owing the ~ame, Or Lu relieving A.E. Parker,
<br /> Oity Oolleotor, from his remponsibility for any ~ums so collected."
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<br /> ~otion of Mr. Moore ~o refer back to the Oity Manager and 0ity Attorney, to
<br /> see if blanket bond can be obtained for city officers, and report back at next meeting, was
<br /> adopted.
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<br /> 4th - "I am at%aching hereto caption of ordinance entitled "AJ~ ORDINANOE
<br /> IMPOSING A LIOENSE TAX FOR THE OITY OF PORTBNOUTH, VIRGINIA, FOR THE YEAR BEGINNING MAY let,
<br /> 1935'.
<br /> Om motion of N~. Oast, said ordinance was~placed on first reading.
<br />
<br /> 5th - "On recommendation of Dr, L.J. R0per,~ Director o~ Public Welfare, I
<br /> have appointed Mr. Herbert L. A~exander, Assistant Food Inspector, effective April let, 1~35.
<br /> This posxtion and the salary were' provided for in the 1935 B~dget-~
<br />
<br />On motion filed.
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<br /> 6th - "Im lieu of the $67,500. of thirty ye~ ~e~umding Bonds, aut~c=ized
<br />under an ordinance adopted on Januar~ 22~d,~ 1935, I recommend that ~ ~erial registe~e~ bonds
<br />be issued and offered at par; that the bonds be issued i~ denominations of $500.; that $3,00D.
<br />be m~de Dayable on 'April 15th,1938 and $3,000. on the 15th cf April cf each year thereafter,
<br />for twenty-two years and that $1,500~, the last ofthe issue, be payable on May 15th of the
<br />23rd year, which will be the year 19~1.
<br /> I believe the entire issue may be sold locally.
<br /> I am attaching hereto an ordinance approved by the City Attorney, pro-
<br />viding for this issue, and I recommend that the ordinance be adopted.,
<br />
<br />On motion of Mr. Hutchins, ordinance w~s placed on ~Irst reading.
<br />
<br /> 7th - "The Virginia Electric & Power Oompany has accepted ~he 0ity's proposi-
<br />$i0n~in ~he matte= of street railway abandonment and bus substAtution, as is evidenced by a
<br />letter from president Holtzclaw, which reads as fcllows~
<br /> ~I have yo~r letter of Marok 13th and note that the
<br /> Council has adopted the original p~oposition which you
<br /> submitted and rejected the alternate.
<br /> Our Oompany is willing to accept Oity~s p~opoaition,
<br /> pgrtsmouth Street railway abandonment and bus sub~titu~
<br /> ~on including payment to C~y 0£' $95,990,~00,~ DrS~ided
<br /> the details are worked ou~ in ~ mutually satisfactory
<br /> manner, which we believe can b~ done with you and subjec~
<br /> to obtaining all.necessary authority from State Corpora
<br /> tion 0ommission~Signed) J.G ~oltzolaw, Pres.'
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<br /> All essential detail~, preparatory to an .y ~ummation of the plan,
<br />ha~e been ~orked out a~d mutually agreed upon, subject ~o ~our more important
<br />de~ails-bemng the typ? of bms,~ the rou~es and the sc~ed~le~, which I ~tempt to clarify
<br />~reinbelcw, a~d crdmnance~, newspaper advertisements and ~an agr betweem the City and
<br />the ~irgi$ia Electric & Power Oompany, which will be p~esented to you and handled thereafter
<br />bylGity Attorney Barclay.
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<br /> ~ The type cf bus will be twenty-one passenger, similar to those now in
<br />use here. ~ifteen ~ew buses will be ordered as early as practicable. TheOompany now has twen-
<br />ty four.
<br /> Routes and Schedules will be as follows:
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<br /> All b~ses will load and u~load passengers on the south side of High
<br />west bf Orawford St., and on leaving, will turn south on Crawford, to County, west on County to
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