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218 January the tax on its real and personal property. "Respectfully~ "J~ Davis Reed~ Mayor.~ On mouflons, that part of the communication relating to the failure of the Ferries Company to maintain its schedules was referred to the Ordinance Committee,~ and that part relating to the con- dition of waiting rooms, &c., of the ferry boats was referred to the Ferry Committee. On motion: the City Attorney was instructed to draft a bill to have amended an Act concerning a fra~ohis~ t~ on l~h~ heat, wa~e~ and power:com~.an~s. The following co~unzca~on was received from the ~ayor, in zep~y to a resolution of the Bcard adopted December 19: lSll requesting the ~!ayor to lnvsstigat~ what disposal had been made of the old stone at the north end of Washington street and to ascertain why the action of th~ ~a~ncil in re~ard ~o said stone had not been carried out: '?ortsmouth~ Va., ~8th ~oe~b~r~ 1911. ~The Board of Aldermen~ ~ G~n~lemen: -- "Complying with your request~ I hav~ investigated what disposal has been made of some stone taken from the streets and placed a~ the north end of Washing- ton street, ~d which etone~ you state in ~he co~unica~ion received by me from the City Clerk, was sold to Er. A. Ogg. "I beg to state that p~t of the stone has not been removed from the north end of Washington street. ~. ~ "Some of it is now in a ~ch, some on the ground~ and some~ I am infolm~ed, has been covered over with the filling olaced~on this e~treet. ~ ~ .... ~ mittee was givs~ authority to sell t%e stone~ for the s~ of $1.~5 per cubic yard, but that ~ae com- mittee was not d~rec~ed to se~l ~t. . ~That after scenting authority to sell the stone to ~. ~o inform ~r 0~ that he-could g~t th~ stene, that the City Engineer d~a so ~nror~ ~r. ugg~ 'b ~ ~ ~ve~ a~lied for any of the stone~ that certain residents of the north en~ of Wash~tg~ street ~sked that the stone be removed from the stree~, that after receiving ~u~ho.~ty to stone the Local Boards of ~blic Improvements of the Sixth and Seventh Wards aske~ ~ha ~he stone be given them for use on the streets in said ~rds,~d that inas~ch as Nr~ Ogg ha~ failed to take th~ stona and it was desired to have it removed from the st~t, the request of the Local Boards was granted. "That all stone removed by the Local Boards was removed without cost to the City. "That ail of the stone taken by th~ Seventh W~rd Bo~d is now on a vacant lot in said ward and ~h~ stone for curbing. that the Local Board of that ward intends using ~ ~ "That the rubble stone taken by the Sixth ~d Board was used on the bulkhead at Scott's Creek~ and that the contractor was paid a certain sum for putting this stone in place. ~That a certain quantity of sho~t fla~ stone taken from the north ~nd of Washington street by - ' ~' ~ who had t~e contract for layin~ ourbing~and ~he. Sixth Wa~d-w~s given by said board %o Er. NcGu~r~ was used by him as a fo~dation'under curbing on the south side of the Air Line T~np~ke, ~d for headers at the street intersection on County street. "That the value of this stone, or at least ston~ Mr. EcGuir~ woul~ ~ve had to ~mve bought if ' ' ' ~as fro~ the stone from north end off Washington street ~d hot,been.~gxven~h!m, "Respectfully, ~J, Davis Reed, ~Mayor." (Attached to said co~unication was a letter from the Sixth Ward Local Board concerning said matter). After considerable discussion of the matter, Mr. committee of five. The motion was adopted. Langhorne moved to refer it to a special The Mayor returned also his approval or d~sapprov~ of the following resolutions and ordinances adopted by the two bramches of C. ity Council December l~-lg, 19tlr RESOLUTIONS AND ORDINANCES. APPROVED-- To allow $295.00 to ~. L. Walker to dc general repair work at the Jail~ out of appropriation to Jail Repairs. To allow a special appropriation of $464.1~ tp Public Property Department~ to pay bills held up because of lack of approprt=t~on. To authorize the Treasurer to renew notes to amount of $46,000.00, due December 195 and due December SO,~ 1911. To appropriate $195.00 to the Board of Health to meet its expenses until January l, 191~. To authorize the Auditor to pay off City employees for December in Jam. u~ry, 19gE. To make award to Larkin Manufacturing Company, of Dayton, 0.: to furnish paid men of the Fire Dep~rtment with rubber coats and boots. A resolution ~n regard to the manner in which inmates may be sent to the Almshouse. "An Ordinance to Rename Certain Streets in the Seventh Ward of the City~" ORDII~ANCE. DISAPPRO%~D-- "AN ORDINANCE TO PROBIBIT THE SWINGING OF GATES AND DOORS OUTBfARDLY O%~R THE. STREETS OF THE CITY," g~ving the following reasons therefor: ~i disapprove of the above ordinance to prohibit the swinging of gates or doors outmwakrdiy OVer the streets of the City. "The property owners have a right to the re.asonable use of the streets. The swinging of gates or doors outwardly would inconvenience the public no more, if as much as~ the passage of vehicles across the sidewalks from roadway to lot on which there may be Stab!es~ the rolling of barrels or boxes across the eidewalk~ the unloading of carts and' w~gons backing up to the curb~ and the unload- inn by means of a plank from wagon zo the door of the building, the erection of porches on the side- o' on the sidewalk, many of which are perma- waIk, the placing of boxes, barr~s, fruit stands: etc.: