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December 14, 19a6. On motion of N~. Brooks, the 0ity Attorney was instructed to draft deeds for the lots sold and the proper City Officials were authorized to execute same. 3rd. #In reference to petition referred to me from the West park View Garden Club, ask- lng for lights at the corner of Spratleyand Guthrie_Sts., Spratleyand First Ave., Barton and First Ave., and Leckie and First Ave., will state that I had already_ordered a light to be placed at First Ave. a~d Leckie St., which is, I believe, the worst corner. This light has already-been installed. I have gone over the matter.with the City Engineer and the Electrical Inspector az~lwe have taken the City map a~d in checking over all the lights of the Oity$ find that some places have more light them others ~ud more than they need in some instances and a.good ma~y sections have not sufficient lights. As you know, these lights have been installed from time to time in the past years. ~ In some places throughout the City, there are high powered lights where low powered lights woBld be sufficient and vice ver~. Some lights are too close to the pole and do not l~op~rly distribute the lights; I have had several of these changedto swing in the center of the street and the Power Oompany representatives have agreed to make these changes for the City and we are correcting these from time to time. : ! have so m~ny requests for-lights from various parts of the City, that unless the Council allows more lights for 192?,than they have in the past, it will be impossible to grant the request of the West Park View Garden Club. In rearranging the lights of the Oity, we may be able to save a few lights when we complete the survey b~t as there are sc many needed in the different sections of the City, I doubt if we will be able to place as many in West Park View as the~ desire. I hope to be able to make a definite report by the next meeting of the Council on the lighting sitaation." On motion, the communication was ordered to be filed. ' 4th. "I have investigated the matter of protecting passengers to and from street cars on the corner of High and Crawford Sts., which was referred to me at the last meeting. There are several bad conditions at this corner.. At times there are fou~ or fi~e street oars waiting to receive passengers and several ~f the merchants near this corner ~mload their merchandise from cars placed there by the Seaboard Air Line. I have had an officer check the time these cars remain on the tracks and find that one car remained there four days from the time it was placed by the Seaboard. I took this matter up with the yardmaster of the Seaboard and he as- eured~me that he would m~ve the cars in the future as quickly as they were unloaded. Traffic Officer Sykes has watched this corner and has taken the matter up with the merchants whose places of business are near the corner. These merchants, finding out that we were endeavoring to make some change, have petitioned me asking that I please not block the street. On Major Broughton's taking charge of the Department, I referred th · matter to him,~together with the City Engineer, and hope to make this corner as safe as possible, taking into consideration the congestion of box oars and street cars and[certain rights that the mer- chants have of ~etting to and from their places of business. It appears to be a small matter, but at.the same time, it can not be made absolutely safe unless the street is closed, and I do not feel that we should close the street, there~y, deprivi~n~ the merchants of access to their places of business, t believe we can make it suffmcmentt~ s~e without closing it." On motion, the communication was ordered to be filed. 5th. "I hereby appoint Mr. James Talbot as special policema~m for the month begimning December let. I hope it will be your pleasure to approve the appointment." On motion, the notice was ordared to be filed. 6th. "I am submitting herewith agreement between the Seaboard Air Line Railway. Oompany and the City. of Portsmouth as to ~" sewer main orossing under the Railway's tracks and property at Prentis a~d Elm Aves. This agreement has been approved by the Oity Engineer and also by the City Attorney, as tQ form. It is recommended that it be approved by the Council and that the proper officer of your body be authorized to sign it.~ "THIS AGREEMENT, Nade this 1Sth day of November, 1~26, between Seaboard Air Line Railway Company, a corporation of Virginia and other States, hereinafter designated 'Railway,s of the first part; and City o£ Portsmouth, a m~ni¢ipal corporation duly existing under the laws of the State of Virginia, hereinafter designated 'Licensee,, o~ the second part. (The term "Li- censee, and all terms user, herein with reference thereto shall be construed as embracing such number and gender as the cb~-rac~er of the parmy o~parties requires). WITNESSETH, t. For and in oonsi~eration of One Dollar ($1.00), receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, and in further consideration of the faithful perfor.~ma~ce by the Licensee of his covenants herein contained, the Railwa~hereby grants the Licensee, subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set out, the right to lay, and thereafter maintain and operate or use, mnder and beneath the tracks and property of the Railway, at the following location, the follow- ing described iine~5~ of pipe, to-wit: a- That certain 8" sewer main crossing under the Railway's tracks and ~roperty 165 ft., more or less, wewterly from Mile Post I as measured from Portsmouth, Va.,' said'crossing being in the bed cf prentis Avenue, Portsmouth, Norfolk Oounty, Va., as shown in red on Blue Print VA-310, attached hereto as a part hereof. b- That certain ~" sewer main crossing under the Railway's tracks and property ~90 ft., more or less, westerly from said ~i±e Post l, s~id crossing being in the bed of Elm Avenue, insaid Po~vtsmouth, as also shown in red on said blue print VA-3!0, attached hereto as a part hereof.