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0etober 21, 1919 13½- Niles 30~ continu us stave Redwood pips including nine cross con,actions. 3 - Reinforced concrete culverts carrying ~ipes beneath zrgmnzan P~ilroad near Algren. "Item 5 Portsmouth Pumpin~ Station I - Babcock & Wilco~ Stifling water tube boiler, 160 HP and steel stack. I - 400 EP 5000 series Cochrane open exhaust feed water heater. 2 - 8~3~x8" Worthington boiler Feed pumps. I - 4,000,000 gal. per day Epping Carpenter triple e~pansion duplex horizontal primp. i - Surface condenser~ 225 ~q. ft. capacity. Addition to Pumping Station building. "Item In City of Portsmouth 1630' 27.56" ~. I. pipe. 1 - 2,000,000 gallon reinforced ~oncrete reservoir with two aeratir~ heads. 4140t 24" C. I. pmpe; Vf0' 21~65~ C. t. pipe; 2100' t6~ C. I. pipe. Cor~uection~ with 16" line serving the U. S. Housing Corp. town Craddock and 12" line to the Portsmouth Navy Yardo Meters Installed 8434 Meters installed in Berkle~ 1651 "Item All parts, fixtures, fittings, valves, pipes, attachments, corrections, structures, equipment and ether appurtenances constructed in cmo~hTlection with the Portsmouth ~ater Development, in accordance with the contract above mentioned. "4. This letter is sent in duplicate and you are requested to sign the receipt at the bottom thereof and return.to this office. "B. F. Vandsrvoort, Captain, Engineers, Constructing Quartermaster. Received possesion of the above described property. GIT~ 0F PORTSMOUTH By: ~ ITNESS~: WITS~ES~S: A report was read from H. P. Bragg, Agent for the State Board of Charities and Corrections, concerning condition of the City Jail, as per his visit October 8, 1919; and same was ordered to be filed. A bill was received from Frank L. Crocker to amount of ~500.00, for services in connection with water contract between the City and Sttffolk, Sn c~nnection with defending the ~ity in suit of Parker & Mulvey, and mn connection with the applmcatmon of the Va. P~. &Power Co~ for in- crease in ra~es. On motion, the bill was referred to the Finance Department. The following resolution adopted by the Council of Petersburg, Va., was read and the advis~ ability of this bodyadopting similar resolution was referred to the Finance ~Department: "BE IT RESOLVF~D, by the Common Cottucilof The City of Petersburg, the Board of Aldermen concur m. that the attention of our Senator and Delegate in the State Legislature be called to _ __urr in6, . . the law requiring Cities to pay to their Treasurers and eormmfssioners of the Revenue the commis- sions heretofore paid by the State on Twenty-five Cents on the $100,00 of tamesen re~ and tangible personal property and on the tangible personal pro_Pe_rity.a~ real e~ta~e.~f.p.u~, lic ser- vice corporations, not ta~e~ by the State after the yea~ ~915.,~ wmth the reques~ ~na~ ~ney use their best efforts to secure-the amendment of said law so as n~t to a~ply to cities, at the neet s~ssZon of the State Legtslat~. Almethat a Committee of tt~ee from the Cobb. on Council and tmWO fro~ the Board of Aldermen be appointed by the Rresidentsofthe two-branches to advo- cate the repeal of said law before the proper~ Co~mittee of the Legislature, who may have the same in charge, "BE IT FURTH~ RESOLVED that the Clerk of this CoDu~cil certify copies of this resolution to our State~ Senator and Delegate and .to the cities o~ this State sir~lar~y situated. . "Passed in the Common Council of the City of PeDersbung, 0ct~er 7th, 1919. "Passed in the Board of AlderK~n of~the City of Petersburg, October 13th~'~ 1919. G. B. Gill, Clerk of the Council." At this point~ the Department of Public Service recormuer~led that the City ~nager be instruct