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A~ril 11, 1911.
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<br /> ~e ~yor re,urned also his approval of the following matters adopted by the two branches March
<br />14-tlst. and April 5th:
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<br />To sell 13 new lots in the Cedar Grove Cemetery at auction, provided said lots be sold for not
<br />than $125,00 each.
<br />To allow the Chief of ,ollce a 30 day leave of absence from March let,, without pay.
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<br />To allow employees at the Sewer Power House the same pay as the regular street fores, when they
<br />on the streets.
<br />To assess the Sixth and Seventh Wards $250,00 each towards salary of the 0ity Collector for 1911.
<br />To print the Mayor's Annual Message for 1911, at a cost of 2140.00.
<br />To set aside $20,000 of Ferry funds to take up City notes,
<br />To authorize the Treasurer to redeem $7,500 of Cemetery Bonds.
<br />To allow a bill of George D. Lawrence to amount of $200.00 for assistance to the Street Commit-
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<br />tee in bpening Ration Street, and the south end of Dinwiddie Street,
<br /> To appropriate,$800.O0, out of Seventh Ward funds, to pay for an engineer on street work of
<br />said Ward.
<br /> To allow $200.00. out of Sixth Ward funds, for employmenz of a consulting engineer,
<br /> An ordinance for the employment of a City Bacteriologist,
<br /> An ordinance for putting into effect the "Gleason system of accounts."
<br /> An ordinance for renaming certain streets in the Sixth ~ard.
<br /> To make award of contract to E. P. Lindsay by the Seventh Ward Local Improvement Board for cer-
<br />tain work to be done on the South Street Road. to amounz of $I4,173.~0.
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<br />~hird. ~eports of
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<br />The regular reports of Officers were presented and were ordered to take the usual course.
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<br /> " oh~ the re~ort
<br /> The Clerk having reported in answer to the question, ~Are ali the reports in. ~ *~ _
<br />of the ~ea±th Officer had not been received, was directed to write to the said Officer and tell him
<br />that he must make hi~ reports to the Council more regularly.
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<br /> · he oath of office of W. n. Ewa~d, elected to the Board of Police O~mmissioners; Joseph Grace,
<br />as Bacteriologist; an~ W. E, Whitehurst and W. H, Shackelford, to the Seventh Ward Local Improvement
<br />Board, were presented and were ordered to file.
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<br /> The following opinion was read from the Ci~ty Attorney concerning ~he~her.thS..Traction':ComDanyis
<br />required to pave between 2he rails and two feet on each side of same. when paving is to be done on
<br />streets in the Sixth and Seventh Wards, where its tracks are laid:
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<br /> ~ Portsmouth. Va, April lC, l~li.
<br /> "To the Honorable City Counsil,
<br /> "Portsmouth, Virginia.
<br /> ~Gentlemen:--
<br /> ~Replying to a communication addressed to me, as City Attorney, by the City Clerk,
<br />which states:
<br /> 'The Sixth and Seventh Ward ~ocal Boards desire your opinion as to ~nether, in the paving of
<br />streets in said Wards, the Eorfolk and Portsmouth Traction Company can be compelled to provide for
<br />pavement between its tracks and two feet on each side of same, as it is required to do in the City
<br />proper.'
<br /> While this question is not free from doubt, I am constrained to resolve this doubt-in favor of
<br />the City, and answer in the affi.~mative.
<br />Under the Company's present contract with the City, Hay IT, 18~7, it agrees to pave South Street
<br />bet~ween its tracks and two feet on each side and any and all other streets that may be hereafter p~ved.
<br /> These streets are now, by annexation, streets of the City and the Company in ~aking its contract
<br />with the ~'~
<br /> ~wy. as I construe the decision in Wade vs, the City of Ri~h~ond, 18 Graft., 583, should
<br />have realized and understood that sometime, in the near future, the limits of the City would be
<br />tended.
<br /> Besides the improvement of these streets, while calling from the Company an immediate expendi-
<br />ture, necessarily increases its revenues, thereby Infl~oting no loss,
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<br />· Respectfully submitted.
<br /> City Attorney."
<br />
<br /> The'~eeper of the Cemeteries ~ade th~ following report of lots and graves sold in the Oak Grove
<br /> m~reh
<br />Cemetery during the month of ~, ~,~.~o~.
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<br />March
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<br /> ,,~J.J.~-am G. Jone=, a child's grave in ~o. 907, Ave. J.
<br /> 2, C, S. S~e~wood, Nos. 862-864, Lye. I.
<br /> 3, Zennie Z. Jones, N, H. of Ho, 82I, Ave. H.
<br /> 7 Tkos, J ~un~h, ~o. 752, & H.
<br /> P. L, ~rnell, an adult's Erave in No, 916, Ave. ~.
<br />lS, E.L. Corbell & R. L. Binford, ~o. 823, Ave, H.
<br />20, ~. f, ,ay=or, No. 327, Ave. E.
<br />21 gno F. O'Co~or, Nos, 82pr8 7, Ave. H.
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<br />BUSINESS,
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<br /> Mr. Oooke moved that the ~'~
<br /> zns~s, cted to draf~ a contract between the
<br /> ul~ Arrow%ney be ' ~
<br /> ~l~j' and
<br />m. ~. L~n~s~y, for doing street work on the South Street Road, in accordance with condition of his
<br />bid therefor. The motion was adopted.
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<br /> On motion of Mr, Wzthy, the Joint Sewerage Committee were z~s~ruc~ed to consider the necessity
<br />for running a sewer main on Randolph street, between Second and Third,
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<br /> On motion of ,~r. Hall, the Joint Ordinance Committee were
<br />i'ty of re-organizing the Board of Health by electing ~ members
<br />to prepare an ordinance therefor.
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<br />instructed to
<br />to said Board.
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<br />consider the advisabi!-
<br />one from each Ward, and
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<br /> ~. Brinson moved ~'~na~ the Joint Ceme~er~.~ v Committee be instrneted to sell the 13 new lots in
<br />Cedar Grove Cemetery, in accordance with tho resolution heretofore adopted.
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