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I00 Notion of Mr. Hutchins to refer to the .0ity ~Nanager ~'or recommendation at meeting at which License Tax Ordinance is presented, was adopted. The following letter was read: ,,Portsmouth, Va., Jan. 22nd, 1934. Portsmouth City aounoil, Gentlemen: I respectfully request reimbursement of $10.13, with interest $7.29, total $1y.42 for taxes collected from me in erro~ ~or 1919, 1920 and 1921, and relief from charges made erroneously to the amount of $106.26 from 19~2 to 1933, inclusive. These collections and charges were made by including one lot and house adjoining mine in the southwestern cornsr of the City, but which the county still carries on the booke in the n~me of Little Hinton. A pending application to the Home: Owners' Loan Corporation for money to pay taxes, etc., neces- sitates my requestir~ expeditious adjustment of this matter. Will the water and sewer systems be extended to this section while G.~.A. work is in progress? For years I have tried to be patient under high ta~es and city restrictions without the necessities and conveniences which the ~ity is expected to supply. To me the most serious of these restrictions is the one which forbids the keep- ing of mots than two cows by an individual. This put me out of the dairy business and forced me to gry to make a living and pay exoenses by truck farming under very unfavorable conditions. The pump water here is ~nfit for drinking or cooking, too hard for wash water, and hardly fit for stock to d_rink. We are obliged to catch and keep rain water and use water from melted ice. The sacrifice o~ health and comfort is too great. Several times I have made efforts to get water run up here 'out without success. Hoping for better conditions, i am, Very respectfully, Geo.-W. Brandono" Notion o~ ~. Hutchins to refer to the Oity Nanager and City Attorney, was adopted. Report of Frederick F. Ames and 0ompany £or audliting £er~w records and accounts for month of December, 1933, was received and ordered filed. Nr. Brooks stated that while O.W.A. money was available for labor, he would move that the ~y Eanager secure estimate of cost for the following ~tems and report back to the Council at next.meeting: l~l' Terra ootta drain in the open drain back of W.$. Ps~rker's property. Terra cotta drain in the open drain along Washington Bt. between Lincoln and Harrison Sis. l~l Pot prcteotion of residents on North Dinwiddie St., from tidal overflow~ General extension of s.ewer system where needed. Said motion was adopted. Mr. Fox made motion that the matter of connecting.the Douglas Ave. School to the sewer system be referred to the Oity Nanager. Notion was adopted. Mr. Brooks stated that skating on the streets as at present was dangerous and on motion by him, the Gi~y Nanager was given power to act in working out a plan of roping off sections of streets at certain hours for skating purposes. Nr. Nayo asked that the question of bicycles without lights be taken up by the Manager. On motion adjourned. 0 ITY GLEEK Pre side nt.