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R. C. P,
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<br />June ~ 1915.
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<br />To consider the advisability of aliEht near one end of the Gosport Bridge.
<br /> Progress as to same.
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<br /> Atten$io~ called to bad condition of the City lights, and especially at
<br />fingham.and Bart and Chestnut and Bart streets.
<br /> We report that the condition of City lights is bad, but we can not
<br />a machine for testing lights is purchased.
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<br />the corners of Ef-
<br />remedy same tmtil
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<br />On motion,
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<br />the report of-the
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<br /> (Signed) S.B. Layior,
<br /> (Signed) Lorenzo Carr,
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<br />Committee was adopted.
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<br />Vice-Chairman.
<br />Chairman.
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<br /> At this point, Mr. Langhorne stated that he desired permission to retire, but before
<br />l~aving, he would like to call the attention of the body to a matter which he thought ought to
<br />be straightened out; Viz, that the Commissioner of Revenue had assessed a license tax on the
<br />Portsmouth Savings and Loan Corporation for $300.00, whereas the License Tax Ordinance calls for
<br />a tax of $100. on same; and he moved aS the sense of this body that the Commissioner of Revenue
<br />be instructed to-assess a License Tax of $100. against said Corporation'and if $300. has been
<br />paid by it, that $~00. be reikmded. The motion was adopted.
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<br />(Mr~ Langhorne excused from further attendance).
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<br /> UNFINISHED BUSINESS.
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<br />First. Matters adopted by the Common Council June Sth and referred to the
<br />for concurrence.
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<br />Board of Alder-
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<br /> To authorize the
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<br /> To instruct the
<br />as now constituted.
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<br /> Treasurer to renew notes to amount of $4E,500. falling due in July, 1915.
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<br />City Attorney to give written opinion as to legal status of the School Board
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<br /> To permit the Joint Hater & Sewerage Committee to use one-sixth of its appr~oriations al-
<br />lowed in the Budget.~
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<br />All of the above were concurred in and by the following vote:
<br />Barlow, Cart, Adams, Privett, Wilson, Browne, Frey,
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<br />Ayes--Markham,
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<br /> The Common Council on June 8th concurred in action of the Board on May 18th in referring
<br />to Finance Committee the following: the placing of country carts coming to market along Craw-
<br />ford and South streets and surplus of such carts on Middle street only and the removal from the
<br />streets of parties having the benefit of country cart rates for stands on the streets without
<br />paying market rental therefor.
<br /> T~e Common Council concurred also in action of the Board on May 18th in referring back
<br />to the Street Committee application of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. to construct a
<br />manhole at the corner of Court and High strsets, and to lay a conduit north and South, in order
<br />to require said Company to give a bo~d for $5,000. to secure the City before the work begins.
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<br /> S~cond. Communications from the Mayor.
<br /> ~portsmouth, Va., June 7th, 1915.
<br /> ~To the Council.
<br /> Gent lemen
<br /> "For a year or more I have had under discussion with the City
<br />Engineer the feasibility of his office preparing a mac of the City's natural drainage and de-
<br />fining the rights of the City's holdings in the same. This matter has impressed itself upon me
<br />not only as a present necessity but also as a future necessity.
<br /> "The recent unusual rains have Clearly demonstrated the inability of the present condition
<br />as to ~=ainage to take care of an unusual fall of water; in fact, it does not satisfactorily take
<br />care of normal rain fall.
<br /> "In vzew of these facts, I r~spectfully call your attention to the o~structed flow of water,
<br />first, in the basin at the intersection of Nashington and F~rrison streets; to the property un-
<br />der Dinwiddie stree~ hear Wythe; to the daily endroachment on the canal east of Union Bridge to
<br />the Cat Hole, with especial reference to the intersection of Middle street 'with said canal; the
<br />piping under Washington street, north from High to Swimming Point Creek; the gradual filling in
<br />of ~wimming Point Creek; Gander Creek and Scotts Creek.
<br /> "To my mind, the immediate looking after these interests~is of vital importance.
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<br />"Respectfully,
<br /> "F. S. Hope, Mayor."
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<br />On motion, the communication was referred to the Street Committee.
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<br /> The Mayor returned also his approval of the following matters adopted by the two branches
<br />of City Council May~ll-18th, 1915:
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<br /> To authorize the Treasurer to transfer $10,000. from General Account to meet School Expenses
<br />for May, 1915.
<br /> To pay'a bill of the Board of Harbor Commissioners to amount of ~375; covering payment on
<br />acoount of appropriation of $1~00. for ~iscal year ending J~e 30, 1915.
<br /> Special appropriation of $195. for ~epairi~g apprsach to t~e Hospital B~idge.
<br /> To ma~e avaimable 1/E of amount of $~50. aziowed mn the Buaget for "0rpnan ~sylum."
<br /> To allOW t.he Consolidated Investment Co. to grade Green street, between Randolph and Lin-
<br />coln streets, provided substantial driveway of shells or cinders be put there by the Company,
<br />and thework be done under the supervision of the City F~ugineer.
<br /> To allow Fort Nelson Chap., D. A. R., to place on the Court House Squ~re a "memorial" to
<br />Commodore Richard Dale. under the direction of the Public Pronertv Committee.
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