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January 29, 1923 13. In several instances the ordinance provides a routing for cars and the same routing for trackless trolleys. Of course upon the adoption of the ordinance this will h~ve to be straightened out. It is suggested that the Council determine first whetker it will grant the trackless trolley franchise or not, as the whole scheme is based on that as an essential part of it. lb. In view of the effort being made by the Auto-Bus Association to have the people adopt an ordinance-allowing jDtney competition, there should be some provision to protect the Com- pany in the event either the people or the Council should hereafter allow jitney competition except in the manner ~rovided in the ordinance itself. Add as Section 7, of Article "In the event that the Council of Graator, or the eleotzrs of the 0ity of Portsmouth, should du~ing the li~e of this franchise by ~mendment ordi~nce of the Council of Grantor, or by a vote by the electors of t~e City of Portsmouth, permit~or~!~ow the operation of any system of or separate vehicles for urban transportation in competition with grantee on streets nearer than two blocks from the portion of ~ny street on which grantee operates or may operate its street cars and busses in the City of Portemouth~ unless and ~uutil grantee b~s previously given its con~ent thereto in writing except as provided in Article V1, and Section 6,,of Article lll, of this franchise, the grantor will release the grantee from all license taxes provided for in this franchise, ~s well ~s from all paving ob- ligations lmpesed on gr~atee by this franchise which fall due thereafter.~ lay. ~sleeck move~ that we begin with the ~A~n~ger's c,mmunications containing any proposed ~mendments, taking each one separately. The motion was adopted, Therefore, the com~u~uication of the ~an~ger dated January 3rd warm.taken up first. With referamce to the kind of cars, Mr. ~ite moved thmt the following paragraph be added at the end of Article ~, Section 5: "Provided that if in the opinion of the ~r~antee, the same may, by ordinance, be recruited of the Ers~utee," The amendment was ~dopted.- ~Ir. Oast moved that the reco~m-~endation of the Eanager to cut out the number of cars be adopted. The motion was adopted, ~r. Brooks voting ~o. With reference to the Nmnager's reoom~endmtion that the period for re-routing of jitneys be changed from ninety days to thirty days, Er. F.~hite moved that the recommendation be not concurred in. The motion was adopted. Next, the com~huication of the ~anager of January 12th was taken up. On motion, the Eanager was allowed to withdraw i-rem ~, as follows, same to be taken o~re of when necessary: "Section 3, Article A, reference is made to connecting of tracks in Sixth Avenue north of High street, with tracks os High street~ If existing franchises do not give us the right of two tracks on Sixth Avenue, north of High Street, it would seem advisable to secure this right at this time in the event it should become necessary to exercise it in ren- derdngproper service in this territory." ~ith reference to recommendation of the i~nage= that the following be added at the and of Article E, Section 3-b, "and on Hatton street~ from Ann to B streets," Mr.-V~nite moved to con- cur in the recommendation. The motion was adopted~ ~ With r~ference to recommendation that the first line of Article follows: "~he trmoks on Lincoln street from Effingh~m ~o First street, and on ~First street, from Lincoln to near Wythe," instead of "the tracks on Lincoln from Washington to First ~t~eet," Er. White moved th~ ~he recommendmtion be adopted, predicated on the Esaager making provision for some kind of transportation down First street. ~e motion was adopted. With reference to Article E, Section ~, Er. ~hite moved thmt the Eanager be authorized to change the reading so that Graatee sh~!l be required to pave the sp~oe between and two feet on each side of rails on all paved streets having single tracks and the tota2 space between lines two feet outside of each outer rail on paved streets having double tracks. Adopte~. ~tv. White moved that the following be added at the end of said Section: "and p~o~ided further, that this section shal~ not abrogate Section 8 of contract entered into between the City of Portsmouth and the Virginia Railway and Power Company on the E~t~h d~y of July, 1~13." The motion was adopted. Then on motion of ~r. WhDte, the seotion~ as amended, was adopted. Section 6, line 8, the word "not" should precede the word With ~efe=ence to Article 3, ~suoh? Same already changed. Ar~icl$ ~, paragraph ~2of Section l, on motion of i~lr. White, the following recommendation was concu~ed in: That the paragraph be oha~ed to read as follows: "(a) All cars will either p~ss over the entire loop or over suc~ portion of the loop as is neoesss~y, a~ east end of High street, via. ~ddle, County, Crawford, and High St~eems." Art~icle ~, Section l, (b), on motion of ~. ~it~, the following recommendation was con- curred in: That sub-section (b) be changed to read ~s follows: ,(b) Park View Line: Starting on Crawford Street, at loop, and continuing mlor~ Orawford, to High, tm 0ou~t, to North, to Green, to 0aledonia, to Chestnut, to Ann, to H~tto~, to N~val, to Park, to Villa, to Cooke, to Leckie, to Webster, to B,~ to H~tton, to London, tc Middle, to County, to Orawford," Paragraph F of same section and article had already been changed. On motion of ~r. cast, the following route recommended by the Eighth Ward Civic League