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November 14th. 19~3.
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<br />,Portsmouth, Virginia,
<br />November 5th, 1933.
<br />
<br />Honorable O~y Oouncil of
<br /> portsmouth, Virginia.
<br />
<br /> Your Honor~
<br /> The Portsmouth Central Labor Union want on record for the past sev-
<br /> eral years for F~ee School Books, and have had Committees to talk with the City Manager and
<br /> members of the City Council to have this move put into effect.
<br /> At our last meeting, held last Friday November 3rd, we again discus-
<br />.-sed the feasibility of Free School Books, and again went on record in this respect.
<br /> We are unanimous ~ the opinion that this feature could easily be ac-
<br /> complished, if we could get the co-operation of the-city officials, and we earnestly hope
<br /> that there will be some provision made in the next budget to cover this partly if not wholly.
<br /> Trusting that each andevery member of the Council will see the good
<br /> features in furnishing these Free School Books, and that the budget shall be arranged accord-
<br /> ingly, I beg to remain
<br /> Very respectfully,
<br />
<br />E.V. SmitH, Secretary,
<br /> 915 North Street, Oity."
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<br />budget
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<br /> Motion of Mr. Fox to refer to
<br />conference, was adopted.
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<br /> The following letter was read:
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<br />Hon. City Oounoil,
<br /> Portsmguth, Virginia.
<br />
<br />Oity Manager for recommendation at the
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<br />,Portsmouth, Virginia,
<br /> October aY, 1933.
<br />
<br />Dear Sirs:
<br />
<br /> I find that the assessors
<br />side of Oolumbia Street as follows:
<br />
<br />of 1930 assessed four lots on the south
<br />
<br />Lot 41-~1219 Columbia St. te Mamie Wright & Martin Wright
<br />Lot 42 S.S. " " to T.B. Lee
<br />Lot 43 S.S. " " to T.B. Lee
<br />Lot~d~ S.S. " " to Fred E.C. Rach Estate.
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<br /> The assessment was in ~rro~ as I own lots. 43 andw44", acquired under
<br />a deed dated July 25, 1~22, an~ .recorded ~n Deea Boo~ 88-A page 1(~, and mamie Wright and
<br />Martin Wright own lots ~l And ~2, ac~ired by their ~other, Emma~iwright, under a d~ed dated
<br />August 26, 1903, and recorded in~Dee~ Book 2~1 page ~50~ The lots, ther6fore, should be as-
<br />
<br />Lot 41-1219 Columbia St.
<br />Lot ~2- S.S. Columbia St
<br />Lot ~-1223 Columbia St.
<br />Lot ~-S.S. Ootumbia St.
<br />
<br />to Eamis W~ight & Martin Wright
<br />.to Mamie ~right & Martin Wright
<br />to T.B Lee
<br />to T.B. Lee
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<br />sessed as follows:
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<br /> I .paid the zaxes for the year 1931 on lots 42 and 43, not finding
<br />~he error. 1931 has been paid in the name of Fred E.0. Rach on lot ~. I am today paying the
<br />taxes on lot ~3 in my name and 45 in the name of Fred E.0. Rach. As I do not own lot $2, I
<br />respectfully request that I be relieved from taxes charged thereon for the years 1932 amd1933
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<br />amounting to $$,18 on each lot for each year, w ~h interest and oenalties. The Land Book
<br />should be corrected and lot $2 should be assessed to Mamie W~ight and Martin Wright.
<br />
<br />Yours very truly,
<br />
<br />T.B. Lee."
<br />
<br />Motion of Mr. Brooks to refer to the 0ity Attorney was adopted.
<br />
<br />The following letter was read:
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<br />"TO THE COUNSEI~ FOR THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH:
<br />
<br /> Your petitione~, Nathan Goldstein, respectfully represents that on
<br />the ~th day of November, 1922, he purchased from Jenmie Robbins a piece of property known as
<br />1316 Washington St., at the northeast intersection of Washington and Scott Streets, ~being-
<br />composed of twenty-eight (28) feet and three (3) inches, by one hundred and thirty (ll3) feet,
<br />a~d recorded in Deed Book 93-A, page 205, in the Oourt of Hustings for the City of Portsmouth;
<br />that in 1926 when the property was re-assessed the assessor divided this one lot belonging to
<br />~our petitioner and gave pazt of it to Jennie Robbins cal~Dg the~new part 131~ Washington
<br /> t., and assessing tS~is part fo~ the sum of Four Hundred ($~00.00) .Dollars, the 1.and in front
<br />belonging to your petitioner was assessed at One Thousand ($1000,00) Dollars, making a total
<br />of One Thousand and Fount Hundred ($1400.00) Dollars, wherein it should only have been One
<br />Thousand ($1OOO.O0) Dollars for the entire piece of property; t.hat your petitioner has been
<br />assessed with the following erroneous taxes; 1926, Sixteen D61Iars and Twenty-five cents
<br />($16.25), 192~, Seventeen Dollars and Fifty-five Gents ($17.55), 192S, Seventeen Dollars and
<br />Twenty-three Gents ($I7.23), 1929, Seventeen Dollars and Twenty-two Gents ($17.22), and 1930,
<br />Seventeen Dollars and Twenty-Three. Cents ($17.23); the above listed taxes included the assess-
<br />ment of Four Hundred ($400.00) Dollars upon the land and Two Hundred and Fifty ($250.00) Del-
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