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Au~us.~ 29th_~_19~3. At a special meeting of the ~ity Gouncil held August 29th, 1933, at 8:00 there were present: Vernon A. B~ooks, Leslie T. Fox, W. R. Hutchins, S. B. Moore, J. Alden Oast, Archibald Ogg. The following call for the meeting was read: Er. L. O. Brinson, City Olerk, ~ortsmouth, Va. ~Portsmouth,.Va., A~st 28tn, 1933. Dear Sir: Please call a special meeting of the City Oouncil to be held in the Gouncil Chamber at 8:00 P.M., on the evening of August 29th, 1933, to consider the endorsement of Hon~ E. T. Humphries of NorfoLk Oounty to succeed the Hon. I. Walks Truxton, as member of the State Highway Oommission from the S~cuffolk District. Yours truly, J. Alden 0asr, president, 0ity Oouncil. ' The following resolution was read: 'WHEREAS, announcement has been made that a vacancy will soon exist on the State Highway Oo~nission of Virginia, occasioned by the resignation of Honorable I. Walke Truxton of Norfolk,Virginia, therefore be it RESOLVED that the 0ouncil of the Oity of Portsmouth hereby endorses and recommends, in event a vacancy exists, Honorable E. r. Humphries, Membe~ of the House of Delegates from Norfolk Oouhty and the Oity of South Norfolk and re~oeo~fully requests Honorable John Garland Pollard, Governor ef Virginia, to appoint Mr. Humphries to the position and sets forth the following reasons for this request. 1. ~t~. Humphriem is a merchant and the largest farm opere~ tot in Norfolk 0ounty and probably one of the largest in the Tidewater section. He has been an outstanding success in his own business opera- tions which is ample proof of his ability and good judgment. He is the ranking member of the Road's Oommittee of th~ House of Delegates and has taken a very active part in State road affairs and is thoroughly oonversanz with the needs and operations of the Highway Depa=tment. 2. Mr. H~m~phries represents a 0ounty which spent several million dollars for road building before the State had a Highway De- partment and his ideas are progressive but no~ wasteful. 3. Norfolk Oounty and its immediate environs contains nearly yO per cent of the population of the Suffolk District of the Highway Department and an even larger percentage the taxable values of that area. For these and other reasons, this 0ouncil feels that Mr. Mumphries is the logical successor of Major Truxton. RESOLVED FURTHER, that a copy of the above resolution be sent to Honorable John Garland Pollard, Governor of Virginia.' Motion of Mr. Fox to adopt. Motion of Mr. Brooks to lay on table was adopted. The following petition was read: 'Portsmouth, Va., Aug. 29, 1933. Hon. J. Alden Oast, Mayor Oity of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, Va. Dear Sir: .we, the owners of property and tenants in block 100, High St. Portsmouth, Va., respectfully petition you as the official head of this city to cause to be removed the men- ace now confronting our property and our businesses by condition of property located in said block, known and numbered ll5 and lll. This property was damaged by fire several years ago, and is now in such bad con- dition that we fear serious injury to life and property.