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Honorable October 25rd. tgB~. Motion to refer to the The following telegram Gity Manager to report for 1935 budget, ~Washingto% D.0. was adopted~ 00t.23,1934 Oity Oounoil, L.C. Brinson,Olerk, Portsmouth, Va. Absence from City prevents me appearing before ¥ou~ honorat~le body tonigSt to urge you to waive interest and oenalties on delinquent taxes provided delina~ent taxpayers pay all taxes due including !93~ before Deoe~oer first stop I consider this most construC- tive and progressive stop stco It will give relief to many unfortunate citizens and will incidentally increase the City~s treasury by many thousan~s~ ~ that will not be collected other- wise for some tiie to come stop I beseech you to zavoraoly consider this suggestion tonight because delay to subsequent meeting will not give sufficient time to acquire greatest results Frank D. Lawrence." was adopted. $25.00, Eotion of Mr. Stewart to refer to a oom~mittee of two to reoort at next meeting, Bill of Robert W. Nof~at for defending J.E.Himand as oer court appointment, for was read. Motion of ~r. Oast to appropriate $25.00 to pay same, was adopted. The following latter was read: ~At a rearing of the Board of Equalization the matter of the amount of work in- volved in the're~iews of assessments to be considered this year has been brought to oU~ at-- tention the fact that the work of the board will be practically as g~eat a~ it was before when a much larger sum was appropriated fo~ the use of the board. Having discussed the matter with the Oommissioner ~f Revenue as to the number of recuests for adjustments coming to his attention, as well as the number that have been pre- sente~ oersonally to the various members of the Board, we a~e of the opinion that an addition- al aoor~priation should be made by the 0aunoil in view of the large amount of work involved. ~' The previous b~rd~' approximatel~ reviewed 6000 oieoes of property and from ~ores- ent indications the present board will review as many assessments for adjustmentS. The appro- oria~on for the orevious board was $5000.O0 while for the present board it is only $i000.00. Th~ Board of Equalization passed the following resolution: ~hereas the s~ount of work of the board of equalization will be as great as that of the previous board, and whereas the ap- propriation for the work of the orevious board was $5,000.00 and the appropriation for the present board is only $1,000.00, therefore ' .BE IT ~So~VED that .the 0ity 0ounoil of the Oity o~ Portsmouth, V~g~nza be petz~oned by the Board of Equal~za~-on ~o increase the amount appropriated to oa~ry on the work of the pres- ent Board to the total s~ of $1~500.00, this entailiug an addition- al appropriation by the City Council o~ the s~m of $500.00. Very truly yours, BO~D OF EQUALIZATION, CITY OF PORTSEOUTH, VA, By T.B. Coker Motion of M~r. Moore to refer to the Oity Eanager,. was adopted. Bill of J. Shirley Hops, State Game Warden, in amount $142.50, for destroying 5~ tagtsss dogs at $2.50 ~aoh, was read. Motion of Mr. Fox to authorize the Treasure~ to ~y same from funds in her hands from collection of dog taxes, was adopted. The following letter was read: "port~outh, Va.~ Oct. 5, 1934. Portsmouth Oity 0ouncil, Portsmouth, Virginia. Gentlemen: For the past three or four years, the different organizations that are affili- ated with the Portsmouth Oentral Labor Union have been sponsoring a move to establish free school books.- There are six cities of Virginia that are now giving free school books; namely Riob~nond, Newport News, Winchester, Lynchburg, Norfolk and Roanoke. These cities report a cost of about fifty cents per child for the free books. In regards thereto, it has been RESOLVED: By the Portsmouth Central Labor Union, that the 0ity Oouncil of the Oity of Portsmouth be urged to consider making provisions in the next budget for the Oity of PortSmouth to furnish free text books to all stu- dents a~tending ~he City's ~nblic schools.