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R, C, P.
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<br />April
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<br />1914.
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<br /> ~ At a regular meeting of the Board of Aldermen April Elst there were present:
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<br /> Nessrs=-W. Jones Williams, Vice-Pres.ident, M. B. Langhorne, E. L. Barlow, D. W. Ballentine, L. Privett, C. N. Markham, L. H. Davis,
<br /> O. P. Nutty, Henry Pile, 9.
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<br /> The minutes of the regular meeting March l?th were read and were approved.
<br /> When the minutes of the Joint Session March 16th were read, Nm. Markham objected to the en-
<br />try in regard to increase of pay of firemen, as he said the entry ought to ShSw:that the increase
<br />begins from January lsd, instead of April let.
<br /> ~ The Clerk.stated, mn reply, that ~e did not make such entry because the Councils themselves
<br />dmd not state when the pay should begmn.
<br /> After some further discussion of the matter, the records stood approved by announcement
<br />from the Chair.
<br /> REPORTS OF COkU~ITTEES.
<br /> Auditing-- Reported having examined bills against the City for the month of March, 1914,
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<br />and they recommended the payment of the same to following amounts:
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<br />Street Repairs,
<br />~ " Cleaning,
<br />Incinerator,
<br />Trash & Garbage,
<br />Almshouse,
<br />Board of Health,
<br />Cemeteries,
<br />Et~cfions,
<br />Lights,
<br />Police,
<br />Public Property,
<br />Sewerage,
<br />Water,
<br />Water Commission,
<br />Court Expenses,
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<br />Total,
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<br /> $ ss.gu
<br /> 119.10
<br /> 12.50
<br /> 409, 50
<br /> 716.30
<br /> . ~8.55
<br /> 90.41
<br /> 350, Si
<br /> 4, 407. O0
<br /> 170.85
<br /> Z6I. t~
<br /> 69.99
<br /> 1, ~95. O0
<br /> Z, 99Z.!8
<br /> zs.Oo
<br />$11, ~0t. 68
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<br />City Proper.
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<br />Sixth
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<br />· ard Bills:
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<br />Board of Healt'h, $ 104.00
<br />Night Soil, 740. ~5
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<br />alarmes, ?5.00
<br />Lights, 4~9.07
<br />Streets, 66.~
<br />Contingent, 1.89
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<br />Total, $1,4Z6.A~
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<br />On motion, the bills were allowed and by the following vote:
<br /> Ayes--Williams,
<br /> Barlow, Ballentine, Privett, Markham, Davis, Nutty, Pile, 9.
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<br />Finance--
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<br />~on.
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<br />Gentlemen:-- Your
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<br />Langhorne,
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<br />Finance Committee respectfully reports here-
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<br />mn concerning the following matters refezred to the Joint Finance Committee March 10-17, 1914:
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<br /> Referred by Common Council March 10th.
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<br />Reports of the Auditor, Treasurer, and Sixth and Seventh Ward Boards for February, 1914.
<br /> Progress as to same.
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<br /> A report of the Auditor of funds needed to take up coupons due April let, to amount of
<br />$~,490. for the C~y Proper and$1,965.S5 f~r the Sixth and Seventh Wards each.
<br /> It is xe~eomme~ded that an approprmation of $~,490. be allowed for taking 9are of City
<br />coupons; and that $1,968.~5 be advanced to the Sixth and Seventh Wards each for takzng oazs of
<br />their coupons, said amounts to be repaid to the City by the said Wards with interest.
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<br /> A petition of Ida C. Birdsong to be refunded $1.89~ paid in error for soil tax for the year
<br />1913.
<br /> It is recommended that said amount be refunded, out of Sixth Ward funds.
<br /> A request of the Sixth Ward Board that the City advance it $1,800. to enable it to take up
<br />certain bills due by said Board.
<br /> We report that this request is provided for in $1,750. allowed to'take up pas~ due
<br />bills of the Ward by. the Councils March 17-31st. ....
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<br /> Bills. of D. S. Phlegar-to amounts of $~9.2B and $~$0, for report.~n'g cases of E. P. Lind-
<br />say and Jobson vs. the City of Portsmouth, respectively. .
<br /> It is recommended that ~e b~ll for $~9.S5 be allowed; but We report that the other
<br />bill for $E5.~0 has been paid.
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<br /> A .request~ of the City Treas~mrer to borrow $8,000.~0 for School Expenses and tZO, O00.O0 for
<br />Current Ex~enses, for April,'~191~
<br /> it.is recommended ~at~$8,000.O0, out~of the $~,000.00 allowed in.}he Budget for
<br />Schools, be made available t~ ~t School Expenses for.~pril, 1914; and that tEO,O00, be appro-
<br />priated to meets. Current Expense~'~for April, 1914; and ~hat the following resolutions be adopted
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