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April 8, 1910. 'The Public Property Committee. "Per L. P. Slater, Oity Clerk." "VIRGINIA:- "At a meeting ef the Board of Supervisors cf 'Norfolk 0ounty held April 4th, 1910. 'RESOLVED, that the Board of Supervisors in receiving the communication of Messrs. L. P. Starer and S, B. Hutchins of the P~btic Property Committee of the 0ouncil of the ~ity of Portsmouth do net consider the same as in any sense an official communication from the Council ef said Oity, and there- fore it cannot be considered. "RES0~VED, that we have instructed the Oommonwealth Attorney to resist the erection of a build- ing on the property o~ned jointly by the Oity and ¢ounty umless the location thereof can be mut~ally agreed upon, otherwise, the Board of Supervisors shall insist that it has the right to erect build- ings on the property which are now needed for Oounty purposes, without consulting the Oity authorities as to the location of the same, "RESOLVED, tl~% the Clerk of this Board is directed to transmit a copy of the Council of the Oity of Portsmouth. "A copy, "Tests: Alvah H, N~rtin, Clerk." foregoing to the The communi~tions between the. lPub!ic Property Committee and the .Board of S~apervisors having been read the c rman of the 0ommmttee~hat he had had several ~alks with ~he ~ommonwealth Attorney for Norfolk County in regard to what was ~ro~osed about the Clerk's office, and the Commonealth Attorney himself had suggested that the Committee set forth in writing to She Board ef Supervisors the propo- sitions made personally concerning the same. Therefore, the chairman ~dded, he had been led to believe that our propositions would be accepted by the Board ef Supervisors, and he was much surprised at their Mr. Brinson then moved that the propositions made t~ Norfolk Oounty Board~of Supervisors concern- ing the Clerk's office be adopted. After some~discussion of the matter Mr. Montague moved to amend, that the fires proposition 0nly be adept~ed. The amendment by Mr, Nontague w~s adopted. The ~ieense ~x 0rdin~nce for 1910-11. Along with the ~ioense Tax Ordinance was read also a communication from the Retail Merchants' A~soeiation, in which protest w~e made~g~inst the adoption of the Ordinance as proposed by the Jeint ~in~nce Committee, co~¢~rni~ng t~e ta~ on merchants, and requested as a substitute therefor that the flat rate en the plmces of business ef merchants should be $12.50 annually with an additional $ per cent on the ren~$~l v~lue of such places, over $100.00. 'On motion of N~. Jno, Howard Hall, members of th~ Re%ail ~erchants~ Association present were corded the privilege of the floor. On motion, it was agreed that only the amendments and substitutes to sestions of the last year's 0rdin~nce should be read. ~.. Ballentine moved that the several sections read be discussed, when se desired, but not adop- ted at this meeting. The motion was adopted. The first Section of the Ordihance/the seeti~n concerning the tax on merchants, was discussed at some length by Messrs, Brinson, ~elton, Zanghorne, ~illiams, and by Mr. John A Morris of the Re- tail ~erchants' Association. Nit. Norris held out for the 0hange in the Ordinance proposed by his sociation, and the.other gentlemen opposed thereto. Then the readzng of the several sections was eontmnued to the end, with only one or two suggested verbal changes made without objection to same, On motion, Adjourned.