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R. O. P, ganuaz'y 8, 1918 At a regular meeting of the.City Council January 8th there were present: Eessrs-- T. A. Bunting, ~.. P.'.01aud, Earl H. Wr~ght~ J. T. Harvey,_ Q.~H. Herbert, Ca,roll D. Deans, W. H. Culpepper, 7. The minutes of the .adjourned regular meeting December 2?th were read REPORTS 0P DEPART~NTS Law-- Referred December 18th and.were approved. (With City }aanager, City Attorney, Clerk & Auditor) The matter of revising the City Code. Progress. Carroll D. Deans, Chairman. Public Service-? No report Public Property-- No report Public Safety-- No report Public Wel£are-- No report Finance - - Referred December llth A p'etition~of the Board of Harbor Cormnissioners to have increased from $1§00. to ~S000. per year. P~ogress as to same. its appropriation from this City (With City Attorney) A bill of .J. ~. Nright to ~mount of $t00.00, as expert on the Pearl street dock. It is reconm~ended that Nr. Wright be paid $50. ~ud that a special appropriation be made for s~e. (Signed) C.H. Herbert, Chairman. On motion~ the report of the Department was adopted. At this point, the City Attorney presented the following bill for the issue of $150,000. City o~ Portsmouth School B.$nds, as instructed to do by the Council D$cember 1Sth: A BILL TO AUTHORIZE T~ COUNCIL 0P THE CI~ 0P PORTSMOUTH TO ISSUE BONDS TO BUILD SCHOOL- HOUSES AND FOR 0~ SCHOOL PURPOSES. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That the Council of the City of Ports- 1 mouth, in order to build a schoolhouse or schoolhouses and for other school purposes, is autho- rized and empowered to issue coupons or registered bonds, in such denominations and at such rate of interest as may be ~determined by said council; the said rate of interest, however, not to ex- ceed six per centUm per ann~ paya~!e semi-annually; provided~ however, the whole amount of bonds issued under this act/sh~ll not exceed one hundred and fzfty thousand dollars; and provided ~trther tha~the whole amount of bonds issued nnder th~s act, together with the other outstand- ing bonds of said city, shall not exceed eighteen per centum of the assessed value of the real ~state of the said city. ~. The said bonds shall be issued in the name of the city of Portsmouth; they s?~ll 9e si~ned by the president of the council and the city treasurer, with the seal of the city thereto affixed, attested by the city clerk. The proceeds arising from the sale of said bonds shall be used for no other purpose than that herein specified. The said bonds shall be subject to no take, ion whatever by.the city of Ports~cutho T~ey shall be made payable in thirty years after their date, and the znterest thereon shall be provided for by a special levy or out of the gen- eral le-~y. ~The council may dispose o£ the said bonds in such m~nner as it may deem expedient. 3. The public schools being affected, and it being necessary to build a schoolhouse before the next session begin~ so as to~a~ainthe efficiency of the public school system, an emergency! is declared to exist and this ~¢t shall be in force from its passage. 0~ motion of N~. Hsrbert, the bill was approved and the Clerk was instructed to send s~me to our representatives in the Legislature~ requesting them to use their best efforts to have it adopted as early as possible. He presented also the following bill to amend the Charter of the City of PortsmoUth, which he thought ~h0uld be adol~ted to protect the interest of the City: A BiLL TO A~D THE CHARTER 0F ~ CITY OF PORTS~QB~H, APPROVED ~ARCH 10, 1908, BY ADDING THERETO A N~ SECTION TO BE KN0~N AS SECTION Gl-a PRESCRIBING RIPLES ~ND REGULATIONS FOR ~ BRINGING OF ACTIONS AGAINST T~ CITT OF PORTSMOUTH FOR D~GES P0E iNJ~iES TO PERSONS 0E PROZ PERTYALI~GED TO HAVE BEEN SUSTAINED BT REASON OF NEGLIGENCE. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That the charter of the City of Ports- mouth, approved March 10th, 1908, be ~ended by addi~.g thereto a new section to be known as sec- tion 31-a preScribir48 ~u~es and regulations for the bri~n~ging 62 actions against the city o~ Po~ts-i mouth for damages for insuries to persons or propert~alleged to have been sustained by teaso~ i.i~Li of negligence~ ~? ~ ~ !?i~