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March
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<br />Merchants & Fa~ers Bank, The Bank of Portsmouth, the Bank of Tidewater, and The First National
<br />Bank of Portsmouth, to amount of Twenty Thousand Dollars ($E0,O00.O0), or as much of the same
<br />as may be necessary, for Current Expenses for the. month of March, 1915; said amount to be repaid
<br />from revenues of the City for the c~rent year.
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<br /> RESOLVED, That the Treasurer be, and he is hereby, authorized to make notes in The Merchants
<br />& Farmers Bank, The Bank of POrtsmouth, the Bank of Tidewater, and The First Nationa~ Bank of
<br />Portsmouth, to amount of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), to meet School Expenses for the month
<br />of March, 1915; said amount to be repaid from revenues of the City for the current year.
<br /> To make available funds allowed in the. Budget for ~Paving Sidewalks, First street," and
<br />for repairing "Gosport Bridge.~
<br /> Ne will recommended that the amounts be made available, when the Street Committee re-
<br />ports that same are needed.
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<br /> To make available $?5°00 allowed in the Budget for "Fire Box, Tamp and Irons." It is recommended t~t said amount be made available.
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<br /> Matter of fire apparatus for the Fourth Ward.
<br /> We report that the finances of the City do not justify at this time the purchase of
<br />new addi$ional fire apparatus.
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<br /> To-make available the followi~ng amounts allowed .in the?ire L~n~dget for 191~: .Suction Sle.eve
<br />and Couplings ~70 GO- Batteries $?5.00: Exnansion Rxngs. $1E.00; R~bber-Gaskets, $9.00; Chem,-
<br />eel Nozzles ~15,00; Small Chemical Hose~ $20.00~ Collars for Horse~, $.~O.00, Harness, $40, P~
<br />building L~nes, $1~5."00; Armature and Bearmngs, $?0o00~ Battery Pla~e, $100.00.
<br /> It is recommended that the following appropriations be allowed to Fire Department: Bat-
<br />reties, $75.00; Collars.for Horses, $50.0.0; Rebuilding Li.nes, $1E5.0.0; Armature.land Bearings,
<br />$70.00; Battery Plate, $100.00; Traces, $14.00; Harness Lxft, $41.00, Repairs, $25.00.
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<br /> To make available $~5. allowed in the Budget for ~Repairs to Union Fire House," roofing
<br />and plastering the same.
<br /> It is recommended~ that said amount be made available.
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<br /> To make available $100.
<br />It is recommended
<br />Gun Room"be~made available.
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<br /> To ma~e available $80.
<br /> It is recommended
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<br /> Eot "Repairs to Grimes Battery Gun Room."
<br /> that the $50. allowed in the BUdget f~r."Repairs to Grimes Batter~
<br /> We report Progress on the~additiona~ $~0. asked for.
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<br /> for a. light at the corner of Dinwiddie and King streets.
<br /> that $~.50 be allowed for a light at said co=net, beginning April
<br />for the balance of ~the year.
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<br /> To make available $150. allowed in the Budget for "Repairs
<br />mistead Building, and Municipal Building."
<br /> It is recommended that Said amount be made available.
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<br />to Roofs of the Court House, Ar-
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<br /> (With Police and Fire Committees) The .question of puttin~ ~ires of the telephone and teie-
<br />g~aph system on separate poles, and maintenance of same under the s~up.e~vision of one p. erson.
<br /> We report that we ha~e considered t'his matter with the Police and Fire committees and
<br />recommend the empl.oym+e~nt of a competent man at a s$~la~y of $~0. pe~ month, ~foz a period not to
<br />exceed thirty days, total amount fox' salary, m~termal, &c.~ not to exceed $150.00.
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<br />Referred by Board of Aldermen February 18th.
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<br /> A request of the Seventh Ward Local Board for a~s~0~ropriatiom of SAC0. to do drainage work
<br />in said Ward. Progress.
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<br />To make available the appropriation allowed in the Budget for "West Park View Bridge."
<br /> Progress.
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<br />An overdraft on the Bank of Tidewater to amount of $8~.$~, on the Sixth Ward.
<br /> It is recommended that the overdraft be paid out of first funds available to said Ward.
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<br /> When taking up consideration of the "License Tax Ordinance for 19i5-!6," consider also the
<br />advisability of submitting to a popular vote the question of an increase of tax for the City
<br />Public Schools, in order to maintain their p~eeent high state of effi~iency~ and to separate_
<br />the funds which should go for support of the Schools from those for general expenses of the City.
<br /> Progress.
<br /> Referred by Common Council January lSth.
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<br /> Bonds required of City Officers.
<br /> We repor~ that we have examined.the bonds of the follOwing City Officers them
<br />to be cor{~e~t and re~c~amend that they be accepted: Street Inspector, City ~.Attorney,
<br />Chief E~g~ueer of Fire Depa~ment, City Collector, Deputy City Collector, Plumb-
<br />ing Inspector, Keeper of Almshouse, Keeper cf Cemeteries~ Clerk of Marke~,
<br />Physician to Poor, City Treasurer, Commissioner of Revenue, Chief of Potice~ Heait~ Officer.
<br /> Also, recommends that the bonds of L. C. Brinson, newly eiected A~dit~v ~or the unex-
<br />pired rearm of T. Hume, deceased, be accepted.
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<br /> It is f-~rther recommended that, in view of the fact that the City will not have avail-
<br />able funds to pay bills due the Portsmouth, Berkley & Suffolk Water Cc. for.several months,.u~.-
<br />less borrOwed, the City'm note o= notesl, dated Aprii let, 1915, payable seven months after same,
<br />with interest at six per cent per ~num, fgr amount due, as certified by the City Attorney and
<br />City Auditor, be'given the Water Ccmpany~ ~f such arrangement be satisfactory to it.
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<br />(Signe&) J.T. Hanvey, Chairman.
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<br />~(iSigued) E.L. Barlow, Vice-0haix~an.
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