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January t6~ ~ A petition of Mrs. ~ustave E. Naschke to have refunded her $1t.50~ said amount having been roneous!y assessed against her prpperty for the years 1906-07 and £or night soil tax for the years 1906~07-08~09-!0. Progress. A reoyuest of the Sixth Ward 5ocat Board for an, additional bond issue of $80,000.00 for Street Improvements in said Ward. Progress. Advisability of issuing $150,000.00 of additional bonds for Street Paving for the City proper. Progress. Reoommitted. A request of the Commonwealth Attorney for an increase of pay commensurate wi~h his services in connection with the late-~re-assessment of City real Estate. It is reoon~ended that the request be not granted. Referred by Board of Aldermen December 19th~ Bonds of J. W. Booth & Bro. and I. C. Brinkley: for supplying the City ~ith medicines and tions, respectively, for igiB. Progress. Referred by Common Council September lSth. A resolution for establishing a~Police Justice for the City. It is recommended that the General Assembly be petitioned to amend the Charter of the City so as to provide that a Police Justice may be elected by the Council~ when it may deem it advisable so to do~ and that said Police Justice be authorized to collect such fees ae the Nayor is now autho- rized to collect, said fees to be turned into the City Treaeury~ and that said Police Justice be paid such a salary as the Council may think proper. Referred by Board~ of Aldermen June BOth. A petition of Retail Merchants' Association and Central Improvement Association for lights on High and Effingham streets. This +~ ma~er has been referred ~o the Light Co~mittee who have not made a report to the Council on s~me. (Signed). ~. Jones Williams, Cha~r~.~n B. of A. gard On motions, the several recommendations of the Committee: including the reco~endation in to issuing of bonds~ were adopted by the following vote: ~yes-- Walker, Williams, ~oore~ Langhorne, Ballentine, Privett~ Narkham, Davis, Nur~y~ Nicholson, lC. Streets-- Hon. Board of Aldermen. Gentlemen:-- Your Street Committee respectfully reports here- in concerning the following matters referred to the Joint Street Committee December t~-I~, 1~11: Refer~a by Common Council December 1Sth, To ascertain lstance~ ma ter. the cost of making thorough inspection, with the aid of expert and practical as- of the entire work done by the Bithulithic Paving contractors. We submit herewith the following written statement of the City Engineer concerning this ~r. E. B. Hawks: "Dear Sir:-- Chairman Street Committee, Portsmouth~ ~Portsm~th~ Va. Va.~ December 30th~ 1911.. "In compliance with requests contained in your letters of 28th ins't., I beg to report as follows: "To ascertain the cost of making thorough, inspection~ with the aid of expert and practical sistance~ of the entire work done by the Bithulithic Paving Contractors. "This would require the employment of an expert, whose charges would be based upon time devoted to the examination and to the number of samples taken and chemical tests made therefor. "The cost of same could only be obtained from expert who might be selected. "The Bithulithic Paving was sampled, from time to~Zme, during the progress of the Paving and t~e samples were tested and reported uoon by Row & Sm~th~ $24 East ~ls? Street, New York, N. a~Jd their reports on all samples take~ w~,re to the effect t~at the materials of which the Paving ~t.mixture was composed was first class ~n every respect. -"The employment of an expert for the purpose named would be costly a~d entirely unnecessar~ as the Paving materials as laid were thoroughly 'tested by Nessrs. Dow & Smith~ expert chemists, sexect- ed by yourself. "The reports of tests made by Dgw & Smith are on file in my office and can be seen when desir- ed "Respectfully submitted~ "V. O. Cassell~ Jr., Oity Engineer." It is the intention of the Committee: after the City Engineer has made his final exami- nation and has found the work satisfactory~ to go over the-entire work and thoroughly inspect the same, before approving the final payment of the 15~ reserved. As experts have been employed throughout the progress of the work and as the work has now practically been completed, we are of the opinion that the employment of other experts at this time would be a useless waste of money. request of the Tidewater Knitting Mills rom pavoment Progress. of Chestnut street~ from South to E~ke i~ in exoense of imur~in~ Jefferson