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March t9, 19lB.
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<br /> To make available the following appropmma~lons allowed in the "budget" for 191S: 6720.00 for
<br />paving High street, between Effingham and Chestnut; $488.00 for paving Anne street, between Cooke
<br />and Butler; $~00.O0 for paving Randolph street, between First and Second.
<br /> It ts recommended that $720.00 be allowed for paving High street, between E~f~noham~ ' ~ and
<br />Chestnut. The other appropriations have already been allowed.
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<br /> Referred by Board of Aldermen February BOth.
<br /> To close the Sinking Fund Account, and to transfer 6B$1.~0 from said account to the Sinking
<br />Fund Commission Account.
<br /> It is recommended that said recommendation be adopted.
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<br /> To have all noles~ borrowed of the Sinking Fund Commission Account deposited in bank for col-
<br />lection when due, and interes~ as well as principal of same collected at each maturity date of notes,
<br />and that no loan be made to the City for a longer period than ninety days at a ti~e. Progress.
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<br /> To require the Health OIficer to give his entire time to the duties of his office, with a pro-
<br />per increase of pay.
<br /> We report that we do no~ think action on this matter advisable at this time.
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<br /> Advisability of codifying the City ordinances. Progress.
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<br /> To pay the Sealer of Neights and Measures a salary, or to ~ive him one-half of the fines im-
<br />posed for violations of City ordinances prohibiting the sale of unsound meat, &c. and tO purchase
<br />for him proper testing apparatus. '
<br /> We report that we do not think action on this matter advisable at this time.
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<br /> A petition of the Board of Quarantine Co~nissioners for an appropriation of 6SiB.O0 to meet its
<br />expenses for the c~rrent year.
<br /> It is recommended that.said petition be allowed, and that said amount of $$1~.00 be paid
<br />in equal instalments quarterly.
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<br /> To pay a bill of Dalby, Nottingham Company to amount ~f $$~.00. We report that this bill has been paid.
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<br /> To have a~l warrants drawn on the Sinkin~ Fund Commission AcOOtunt countersigned by the Mayor~
<br />and the ~hairman of the Finance Committee. ~rogress.
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<br /> Referred by Common Council December ISth.
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<br /> A petition of W. G. Hinton to be paid $~.~0 which was erroneously assessed for night soil tax
<br />on his wife's property No. 741Riverview avenue.
<br /> We report that said amount has already been refunded to M~. HintOn.
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<br /> A petition of Mrs. Lulls O. Banks to have refunded her $10.~4 erroneously assessed against her.
<br /> Progress. ~ ~
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<br /> A petition of Mrs. Gustave E. Maschke to have refunded her 611.50 erroneously assessed against
<br />her. Progress.
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<br /> It is further recommended that the appropriation of SS,C00.00 allowed for the Board of ~a-
<br />ter Commissioners in the "budget" for 191E, which said appropriation was vetoed by the Ma~or, be re-
<br />appropriated.
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<br /> We report that the Committee is awam~mng a report of the Light Committee on the
<br />Way," and as soon as said Committee shall have reported we shall make a recommendation as
<br />propriation for same.
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<br /> We report further tha~ the Committee hopes to make some recommendation for an appropriation
<br />for Grimes Battery at the meeting of Council in April.
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<br /> The following statement and recommendation was adopted by the two branches of City Council June
<br /> I~-~0, 1911:
<br /> "The two Committees (Finance and Public Property) have given this matter careful consideration
<br />and have finally concluded, unanimously~ to recommend that you acquire the 'Armistead property'touch-
<br />ing the court-house yard, and that $40~$00.00 be appropriated for building thereon a suitable Clerk's
<br />office and Council Chamber, and for furnishing the same.
<br /> "That for these pturposes, the ~Joint Finance Committee be instructed to negotiate a loan of 680,
<br />000.00 in the several City banks for four years time, said loan to be paid in four equal yearly in-
<br />stalments; and that receipts of the City from the Norfolk County Ferries be hypothecated for payment
<br />of same.
<br /> Accordingly, your Committee have conferred with the banks~ and The Merchant~' & Farmers' Bank
<br />has agreed to lend the City one-half of said amount of Sixty Thousand Dollars, or Thirty Thousand
<br />Dollars, The First National Bank, Fifteen Thousand Dollars~ and the Bank of Tidewater, Fifteen Thous-
<br />and Dollars, on the conditions named. Twenty Thousand Dollars of said amount~has been borrowed from
<br />The Merchants' & Farmers' Bank to pay for the "Armistead property;, and it is now further recommend-
<br />ed that the balance, or Forty Thousand Dollars, be borrowed from the several said banks, from time
<br />to time, as the Finance Committee may deem necessary for payments on the building, furniture,
<br />and that the following additional resolution be adopted therefor:
<br /> "Resolved, That the Treasurer be,
<br />and he ie hereby, authorized, under instruction of the Finance Committee, to make notes in The Mer-
<br />chants' & Farmers' Bank, to amount of Ten Thousand Dollars (610,O00.OO), in The First National Bank,
<br />to amount of Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($1~,000.00), and in the Bank of Tidewater, to amount of Fif-
<br />teen Thousand Dollars ($1~,GO0.OO); said notes to be curtailed by equal payments every ninety days
<br />and by one-fotbrth of their several amounts yearly~ with receipts of the City from lease of the Nor-
<br />folk COunty Ferries."
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<br /> The said notes are authorized in accordance with resolution of two branches of City Council
<br />adopted June 15-SO, 1911, instructing the Joint Finance Committee to negotiate a loan of Sixt~ Thous-
<br />and Dollar~ (680.O00.00) with the sev~rai City
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