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M~rch 27, 1917
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<br /> "Would report progress on the several recomm~n~atmons~ ' ' made by Er. R. J. '~atker, Public
<br />co~ut a~t.
<br />
<br />"Would report that flags have been purchased for public buiidings~.
<br />
<br />"Would report proEress on repairs ~o Pearl St., betw~en County and Columbia.
<br />
<br /> "Would report progress on proposition to work prisoners on the street.
<br />
<br /> "Would request action on application cf H. C. Hall as license inspector.
<br />
<br /> "Would suggest ordinance requiring persons installing electrical work to t~ke out a license
<br />and file a bond.
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<br /> "COI~ICATIONS ~ED~HEREWITH:
<br />
<br /> "Resignation, recommendations ~nd reports o'f Mr.
<br />Justice.
<br />
<br />Emmett Deans, 'Clerk to Civil
<br />
<br />and Police
<br />
<br /> "Petition from The Ferries Co
<br />re~omm~na favorable action.
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<br />to increase ferry rates for v~hmo,es over .6,000
<br /> "Rsspectfully submitted,
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<br />lbs. weight,
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<br /> "Tyrreli B. Shertzer, City M~nagero"
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<br /> The report having been read, Mr. D~shiell moved that the vacancy, caused by the resigna-
<br />tio~ of Mr. Emmett Deans~ Clerk to the ~ivil & Police Justice and Clerk to the Chief of Police,
<br />be filled by tn~ City Manager, and that th'e Law Department bring in an ordinance covering same.
<br /> The motion was adopted.
<br />
<br /> With regard to the recommendation that an Assistmut S~nitary Inspector be mppointed to
<br />inspect out-houses and incidentally, lots, &c., in the Sixth a~d Seventh ~ards~ s~me was dis-
<br />cussed and recommitted to the Nasager £or further investigation.
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<br /> Then the several other recommendations in the report were referred to the respective
<br />Departments for consideration.
<br />
<br /> The
<br />regard to Port Warden Lines for G~nder Creek~
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<br /> "Hon. City Council,
<br /> "Portsmouth, Va.
<br />
<br /> "Gentlemen:-
<br /> "We beg to ~epo~t in connection with the
<br />in Gander Creek as follows:
<br />
<br />following report was rea~i from the City E~uager, City Attorney, and City Engineer
<br /> "Portsmouth, Va., Narch 22, I~17.
<br />
<br />establishment of Port Warden lines
<br />
<br />with
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<br />"The orginal lines of Gander Creek were established about the ?ear 1900.
<br />
<br /> "The Harbor Commissioners' records were destroyed in the Atlantic Hotel fire, ~nd there
<br /> appea~s to be no authentic map showing ~he line~ of this creek° ~e submit for your perusal a
<br />~=mcing, m~rked Pian~"A," of a blue print map of Gander Cre~k made by Er. Bascom Sykes, City
<br /> Engineer, in October l~00. The dot ~nd d~sh lines were traced from pencil lines on the blue
<br /> print, which represent a ~terway forty (~0) feet wide from the C~port Bridge to ~ point about
<br /> 220 feet from the Union Bridge, and tapering from said point to a width of twenty feet at the
<br /> east side of Union Bridge; thence from the east side of Unlon~Bridge to the e~st side of Wash-
<br /> ington Street Bridge a waterway twenty (20) feet in width. Waterways twenty(20) feet in width
<br /> are also shown extending to Wythe street. If these lines were the original Port ~arden lines
<br /> they were not adhered to by the City, as Bar~ Street has been extended to Crawford Street; ~id-
<br /> d~e Street, south of Ba~t Street; culverts four feet high and ten feet wide have been construct-
<br /> ed at Union Bridge and at Dinwiddie Street; and the lines entirely obliterated at the present
<br /> playgrounds.
<br />
<br /> "We herewith submit Plan "B~ showing approximately the present conditions existing in Gan-
<br />der Creek, and respectfully recommend that the Harbor Commissioners be requested to establish
<br />and have defined, with permanent markers, a waterway twenty (20) feet in width from the Gosport
<br />bridge to the east side of the .Cgurt Street culvert; and from theeast side of the Coumt Street
<br />culvert to the east side of Washmngton Street ten (10) feet in width; mhd from the Gosport Bridge
<br />to Wythe Street ten (10) feet in width, and from Wythe Street to Randolph Street as shown on
<br />Plan "B" to be eight (8) feet in width.
<br />
<br /> "We further recommend that if the lines a~e established mhd defined by the Harbor Commissio~-
<br />ers, that tracings in duplicate'be made of the sams and ~ copy filed in the Clerk's Ofzic~.
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<br />"Respectfully submitted,
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<br />"Tyrrell B. Shertzer,
<br />
<br />"Jno. W. Happer,
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<br />On motion,
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<br />the report
<br />
<br />"Joe. F. Weaver, Jr.~
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<br />was adopted, and by the following vote:
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<br /> He~uvey, Dashiel!, Herbert, ~orris,
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<br />Ayes--Bunting, Claud,
<br />Morgan,
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