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~smch 27, 1928. Securities: 3 Portsmouth, Berkley & Suffolk Water Bonds, 5%, due 1944, Nos. 1~26-!627 llpS, $1000. each ........ $ 3,000.00 8 Portsmouth, Berkley & Suffolk Water Bonds, 5%, due 1944, Nos. 1~$?-1895-!902-1905-1906- 1907-1917-191~, $500. each .... .... ....................... 4,000.00 l0 City of Portsmouth Water Bonds Reg. 5%~ due 1948, Nos. D 91-92-~3-95-96-9?-98-99-100-101, SDO0. each .... 5~000.00 40 Cit~ of Portsmouth Refunding Bonds, 4½%, due 1~53, Nos. I 40, Incl, $1000. each .......................... 40,000.00 l0 City of Portsmouth Water Bonds, 5%, due Nos. D 25-34, Inc., $500. each ........................ 5,000.00 43 City of Portsmouth Water Bonds 5%, due 1948, Nos. 751-793, Inc., $1000. each ............................ 65 City of Portsmouth Refunding Bonds, 4~, 1931r1955, Nos. 1-65, Inc., $1OO0. each ......... 65,000.00 47 Cityof Portsmouth Refunding Bonds, 4~, due 1957~ Nos'. 1 ~o ~7, I~c., $I000~ each ....................... 47,000°00 ? City of Portsmouth Nater Bonds,5%, due 1~48, 35 to ~l, Inc., SDO0. each ...................... 3,500.00 85 City ~f Portsmouth Water Bonds, 5%, due 1948~ Nos. 802 8B6, Inc., $1000. each... Total ........................................................................ $300,500.00 $735,5?8.00 GRAND TOTAL City Sinking Fuud ............................................................. $364,566.91 Water Sinking Fund.. ......................................................... 7 5,578.oo L. C. Brinson, Secretary Sinking Fund." On motion of ~hv. White, the communication and report were received a~d ordered to be filed, ~nd a vote of thanks given the Sinking Fund Commission for' the efficient manner in which they have handled the Sinking Fund. A petition was read from~tvs. Oora L. Duke, widow of J. E. Duke, pension roll, that Council make some provision for her. On motion, the petition was referred to the City Eanager. who was on the City On motion of Dr. Dunford, the following Orders of 0curt were referred to the City Attorney for investigation and report: "VIRGINIA: At the 0curt of Hustings for the city of Portsmouth, In the matter of the petition of ) L. T. Caplan to h~ve certain taxes mamked off the land books. held on the '28th day of February, 1928: This day came L. T. Caplan a~ud filed his petition alleging that there is assessed in his name on the land books of the City of Portsmouth and th? State of Virginia I lot of land 160 S. High Street for ~he years 192~ ~land book page 271 t~ne 13), 1922 (land book'page 2?2 line 18), and t925 ('land book page ~ ~e 17), and that he is not, nor has he ever been, the owner 9f sa~d lot of land, and that 0ity taxes are delinquent ~hereon for the year 1921 amounting to $11.1~, for ~he year 1922 amounting to $10.69 and for the year 1~25 amount%rig to $13.?6, a~d that State taxes are ~elinquent' thereon for the year 1925 amount~n~ to $1.69 together with interest, penalty and clerk's fee for releasing said tax; and thereupon he moved the Court to expmgned the land books and records of the said assessment and to cancel the taxex charged to him theremnder, which said motion was defended by R. B. Albertson~ Commonwealth Attorney for the City of Portsmouth, and R. C. Barclay, City Attorney for the City of Portsmouth, and the Commissioner of the Revenue of the 0ity of Portsmouth was examined as a witness touching said petition. Upon consideration whereof, it appearing to the court that the said L. T. Caplan is not the owner, nor has he ever been the owner, of lot 160 S. High Street, Portsmouth, Virginia, and that the assessment in his name for the years 1921, 1922, and 1925 is null and void and illegal, it is ordered that the land books of the City of Portsmouth and the State of Virginia be and they mare hereby expugned of said assessment and all taxes, both city and state, charged to the said L. T. Caplanupon said assessment for the years 1921, 1922~ and 1925 are hereby cancelled. A CODY.