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April '5~ 1911. ~ ' ~ ~y~cade~u from Rice~s Br~mch to the 4. For 5,500 S%uare Yarde-e_g~m, inch Tarva ~ County line on ~ou~h Street Road, Duke & Desmoine Ave , © $1.14 ........ 2 6,$84.00 As we w~!l-have eonsmderable surplus earth, we would mosz r~speetfu~y rgqusst mo zns$~l~ ~e d~{n~ge o~es~ac~oss. Chesln~t and Effingham Streets on the bounaary of the Czty ~d Seventa warm i~ediately, so that z~ may be used in raising the grade of these ~treets az the. pips. also: in ffonnection with the above recommended award, "To the Honorable C~y Council: ~' James T. Casteen, Secretary.'~ the follo~mng, other communications were road ,Portsmouth~ Va., March 31st, 1911. ~ent_e_en.. In the judgment of the Sevsnth ~ard Local Board, tko laying of the new 15, main ~by the P. B. & S. Water Co., in South Street Road at. this tims from Godwin to Chestnut Stm., will seriously hurt the paving of South Street Road, and most respec~uzly request your honorable body to orevent them z~om laying this main in South Strset, and let them use some other s~reez preferably zo= ~tree,s in this Ward, that ar~v future pipes in And in as much as grades are being preparsd this Ward ~o be placed in the strsets by d~ect=on of the~ Seventh Ward Local Board. "Yours very respectfully, "James T. Casteen, Secretary." "Portsmouth, Va., April 4th, tRi1.. "To the Honorable O~y Co'~uc~!: "Gentlemen:-- in co~uection w~ ~e South Street Road progrsm, the following resolutionwas adopted ~' ~ ~ = o~ the ~oaa~ Board a~ a meeting held night April 4th, Resolved: That if the P. B. & S. Water Company is permitted to lay additional ~ater main on South Street Road, the Local Improvement Board of the Seventh Yard will noz recommend any permanent improvement of said Road in t~e nsa~ futurs. it was also Resolved; That the Seventh Ward Local ~m~rdvement Board petition the 0ouncil that the City improve South Street Road as outlinsd, but the contract be not sigh_ed until Local Board directs. ~'Yours very respectfully, ~Js~es To . as~esn, Secret .s~TF. ~ it~was noted that l~r. William G. Parker, a resident of the Seventh Ward, was present, who de- sired to addness the Council in con_ueotion with these corm~nications~ and, on motion, the rules were suspended to hear from him. ~r. Parker spore in objection to allo~u~ng the Water Company to lay a water main on the South S~rset Ro&d and urged that the requsst of tho Local Board that'the contract for doing work on said Read'be not si=ouaed ulm~m! the Local Board so d~ec,s. Hr. Eontague then moved that the Water Oompany be refused the right to lay a main on the South Street Road, said~refusal of right to be subject to the opinion of the Citi~AttoraeY.therson. Tke~mot~on was adopted. an= the reoor.~uen=aulon zn regard to si~ing of win~r~.-%he recom~.~ended award to E. P, Lindsay ~ s ~' - ' a con~rac~ ~_hh klm we_~e aeop~ed. On ~o ~ion, adjourned.