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(~etober 174 1911.
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<br />· .A.regue~t of the School Board to be relieved f~om City taxe~ from June i, 191~ on the follow-
<br />ing Acrs To ce used for school purposes:. 3 lots at the northeast corner of Ann anffButler streets;
<br />~ lo~s on the east side of Butler street, and 4 lots at the northwest corner of 0~en and Ann streets.
<br /> It is recommended that the request of the School Board be granted.
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<br /> A bill of the Coroner, High Constable, and juries, to amount of $110.00, for holding inquests
<br />on bodies, during June, July, and$u~st~ l~ll.
<br /> It is recommended~that ~aid bill be allowed.
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<br /> A bill of'the Mayor, to amount of $5.00, expenses,to Richmond in the matter of assessment of pro-
<br />perty of the S. A. L. Ry. Company.
<br /> It is recommended that s~id~bill be~allowed~
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<br /> A request of the High Constable, Harry C. Hall, that the Council pay for rent of his office,
<br />amounting to $15.00 per month.
<br /> We have ~ooked into this ~equest, and recommend that it be not granted.
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<br /> (With City Engineer). Th~ question of sewering Randolph street, b~tween Second and Third. Prog.
<br /> A resolution for establishing~a Police Justice for the City. Progress.
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<br /> Referred by Board of Aldermen September 19th.
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<br /> Reoommitted. The matter of paying $150.00 each to Jam~s A. Nulvey, Geo. D. Lawrence, and H. L.
<br />Alexander, late appraisers of City real estate.
<br /> Your Committee had decided to adhere to its former action in recommending $150.00 each for
<br />the pay of said assessors, when they were advised by t~e City Attorne~ that it would be illegal to
<br />pay the assessors more than the~ were entitled to
<br />recommended,.therefore, that zazd assessors be allowed only $.50 per day'each for said services.
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<br /> F~ank C. Hanrahan and suncbvy others to have refunded them the license taxes paid on slot ma-
<br />chines for the year 1911, said slot machines having been repressed by order of the Mayor.
<br /> It is recommended that the peti$ionezs be allowed a reba%e of five-sixths of the amount
<br />paid the City on each slot machine so repressed by order of the Mayor.
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<br /> A request of the Water Company to be paid $167.55 due it by decree of the couzt. It is recommended that said'amount be allowed.
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<br />Referred by' Co,men Council August Sth.
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<br /> (With Claims Committee and City Attorney). Report of the Claims Committee on the claim of Mrs.
<br />N. L. Dozier, hurt on Elm avenue, Seventh Na~d.
<br /> By the advice of the City Attorney, it is recon~ended that this claim be allowed, and that
<br />it be paid out of the Seventh Wa~d funds.
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<br />Referred by Common 0 uneml July llth.
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<br /> A bill of the Clerk of the Cou~rt, for SB00; City Bergeant, $EBO; C. N. Markham, $200~ for ser-
<br />vices in connection with the re-assessment of City real estate.
<br /> ~s the Clerk's bill is much lower than what he is allowed by law to charge for said ser-
<br />vices, it is recommended that said bil~ be allowed; it is alee recommended ~hat the City Sergeant be
<br />allowed $1BO. 00 in lieu of ~1 fe&s that he might be allowed by law to cha~ge for hie services.
<br /> ' In regard to ~he pay of M~. Markham, we report t~t he-has received the full payheretofore
<br />recommended by~ the Oommmttee for his services and adopte~Dy~the Council, and' we' have no i~r~her
<br />commendation to make as to him.
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<br />A bill of the Treasurer, to amount of $75.90, for certifying the poll tax list.
<br /> It~is~=eoommended~$hat said bill be allowed.
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<br /> It is further recommended ~hat the Treasurer b~ authorizeffto borrow $55,000~ or as much
<br />of the same as may be necessary, in order to refund the Paving Bond Account to that amount, and that
<br />the following resolution be adopted therefor:
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<br /> Resolved, That the Treasurer be, and he is hereby, authorized to make notes in The Bank of
<br />Portsmouth, The Merchants' & Farmers' Bank, the Bank of Tidewater, and The First National Bank of
<br />Portsmouth, to amount of Fifty-five Thousand Dollars ($55,000.00), in order to re-imburse the Paving
<br />Bond funds to that amoun~ ~aid amount to be repaid from revenues of the City forths current year.
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<br />(Signed).
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<br />W. Jones Williams,
<br /> Chairman B. of A.
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<br /> The report having been read, Mr. Montague moved that this body do not concur in the recommenda-
<br />tion of the Committee in regard to the non-employment of an engineer to furnish plans and specifica-
<br />tions for the Gosport and Swimming Point bridges, and that the matter be recommitted.'
<br /> The motion was adopted.
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<br /> Mr. Markham observed that Mr. G. Hatton was present in the interest of Mr. Geo. D~ Lawrence,
<br />one of the late appraisers of City ~eal estate, and ~oved a ouspension of the rules to hear from Mr.
<br />Hatton on the subject. Adopted.
<br /> N~v. Hatton spoke at some length, giving his re,sons why he thought the report did not do justice
<br />to the appraisers.
<br /> Then Mr. Montague moved that the matter of pay for these assessors be sent back to the Finance
<br />Committee, and that they obtain the opinion of the City Attorney as to right of the City to m~ke an
<br />additional appropriation to the assessors, if the Council should think proper to do so.
<br /> Mr. Williams moved to amend that the recommendation of the Committee, both as to the assessors~
<br />Clerk of the Court, City Sergeant, and M~. C. ~. Markham, be also recommitted. The motion, as amended, wa~ adopted.
<br /> Then the report of the Committee, as ame~de~, was adopted by the following vote:
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