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June 12, 1928
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<br />Honorable City Council,
<br />Portsmouth, Virginia.
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<br />UPortsmouth,· Virginia,
<br />June llth, 1928.
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<br />Sirs:-
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<br /> We, the undersigned, petition your Honorable body to again consider our claim of a
<br />balance due us to the amount of $250.00 for assessment o~ City Zeal estate in the year 1925.
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<br /> Your City ~anager promised that if we defended the City, in the petitions for a re-
<br />duction of assessments in the Court of Hustings, and this s~reement we fulfilled, that he,
<br />the City Manager, would assure us that the balance due us would be paid.
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<br /> Thanking you for a careful consideration of this just claim, we remain,
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<br />Very truly yours,
<br />
<br />W. T. Claud,
<br />
<br /> g. N. Markham.H
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<br /> The following petitions were read from the Trustees of Lutheran Synod of Virginia, by
<br /> Cassell & Cassell, its attorneys:
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<br /> "To the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia.
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<br /> You are respectfully informed that L. Kootz sold to Trustees of Lutheran Synod of
<br />Virginia, by deed of B. & S., dated July 21, 1924, and recorded in the Clerk's Office of the
<br />Court of Hustings for the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, in Deed Book 92A, page 529, that cer-
<br />tain lot of land, etc., beginning at the Northwest corner of Washington Street with King Street
<br />thence ~annin~ North along Washington Street seventy ~0) feet, with a depth of one hundred ;
<br />and four (t04~ feet. As this is Church property, to ce used for Church purposes, the same
<br />under Section 22~3, of the 0ode of Virginia lelo is not chargeable withq~axes
<br />· ' / ~' Said land
<br />zs charged to L. Xootz for the year 1924, and for the years 1925, 1926,
<br />sessed to T~ustees of Lutheran Synodof Virginia. The taxes for the years 1924, 1925, 1926 and
<br />192~ amount to Seven Hundred Forty-six Dollars and Fifteen Cents, and for the year 1928, Two
<br />Hundred Five Dollars and Thirty-eight Cents. You are respectfully requested to cancel taxes
<br />charged against said land in the hands of the Trustees of Lutheran Synod of Virginia, for the
<br />years 1925, 1926, 192~ and 1928, and one half ~h ~
<br /> X .... · e taxes for the year 1924, which was assessed
<br />against L. oo~z. A ~e~azled description of the assessment is attached hereto.
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<br />Respectfully submitted,
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<br />Trustees of Lutheran Synod of Virginia,
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<br />By Cassell & Cassell,
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<br /> By Norma~ 0aasell, Its Attorneys.~
<br /> "To the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia.
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<br /> You arerespeotfumly'" infbrmed that: J. E. Cogper, by his last will and testament
<br /> dated January 26, 1915, probated by the Corporation Court of the City of Winchester, Virginia,
<br /> at June term, 1922, devised to the Board of Fore~gn Missions of United Synod of Evangelical
<br /> Lutheran Church in the South, etc., the property situate, at the Southwest corner of High and
<br /> · n~aal~tr~ts,.~ th~ C~ty of Portsmouth, ~i~g~nia, begirming at said corner, runni South
<br /> on ~nwiGo~e smreet one hunared and f ~ ng
<br />.... ~,_, ..... ~ ........ or~y-one (1~) f~et and three (3) inches: thence West and
<br />~m~m Wl~a nmga ~ree~ one nunGrea and eighty
<br />olnwlddie Street, twenty-eight (28) feet and three (3~' inches; thence East and~pa~aliei with
<br />High Street one hundred and twenty (120) feet; thence North and parallel with Dinwiddie Street
<br />one hundred &nd thirteen (ll3) feet to High Street; thence East along High Street sixty (80)
<br />feet to the poin~ of beginning. Said property was intended b' said
<br /> d Y ill to have been devised
<br />to Luthera~ Synod of Virginia, and by eed dated October 26, 1~26, Louis F. 0ooper, Executor
<br />of the last will and testament of J. E. Cooper, deceased, tggether, with the proper officials
<br />of ithe Lutheran Synod, conveyed to the Trustees of Lutheran Synod of Virginia, the real estate
<br />abo~e described, so that from October 26th, 1926, the property in question has been held by
<br />a ~etigious copgregation~ anda part of the property, namely, the Church, which is assessed
<br />as ~lO W. Dinwzddie Street, as it had been used for 0hutch ~urposes entirely, is not assessable
<br />for~ taxation under Section 2273 of the Code of Virginia, 1919, and since July let, 192~, the
<br />sto~e building at the Southwest corner of High Street, No. 501 High Street, is not ~ssessable
<br />with taxes, as the store has been used solely by the Trustees of Lutheran Synod'o£ Virginia,
<br />as a S~nday School Room, without receiving any compensatien whatever, and should not be assess-
<br />ed for taxes for one half o~ the year 1927, nor should it be assessed for any of the ts~xes for
<br />1928. You are therefore respectfully requested to relieve the property, No. 5:10 Dinwiddie
<br />Street, which is used as the place Of religious worship, for the years 1927 and 1928. For the
<br />years 1927 and 1928, the proper~y is assessed to Trustees of the Lutheran Synod of Virginim,
<br />and the store No. 501 High Street should be relieved of taxes for one half of the year 1927
<br />and the whole of the year 1928, it being assessed to Trustees of Luther~zu Synod of Virginia.
<br />A detailed description of the assessment is ~ttached hereto.
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<br />Respectfully submitted,
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<br />Trustees of Lutheran Synod of Virginia,
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<br />By 0asse!l & Oasseli,
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