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January 14. 1910. By common consent Er. Palmer moved mo refer to the Joint Finance Committee to consider and re- port. whether cost of registration, election and rent cf places for election put--poses in the Sixth and Seventh wards, should be borne by said wa~ds or by thme City proper. The motion was adopted. The E~e~pe~ of Cemeteries made the following repo~vt of lots and graves sold in the Oak Grove cemetery during December.. t909: December g ave 7. John Eneeburg. No. 307. Ave~ C. li. P.F. Eelms~ N. E. of No. 673~ Ave. F. James Horan. two adult graves in No. ~.16. Ave. M~ ~. Buchanan. N. H. of Ho. llP. Ave B~ Fredrick ~llen. ~. H~ of No. 339~ Ave. E. 14. Kate E~ Noel~ N. H~ of ?65~ve~ Go P. ~. Butler. S. H. of No. ~00~ Ave. D. 20 !da H. Britt~ ~ , ~o. 334,, ive~ D. 24, Abso!am T. Smith, N. H. of No. 300, ~ve. D. ~illiam~. Reggs. S. H. of No. 763. Ave. G. On motion~ ad2ourned~ © ~anuary 25. lei0. At a joint session of the two hranchss of City ~o~u~eil January 25th there were present-- Eessrs. M. B. Langhorne. C. ~. ~alker. D. W. Ballentine. ~. E. Ad, ms. E. N. Goodson~ S. T. Montague. ~. Jones ~i!li~s. L. M. P~lmer. 0. P. Murray~ John Howard Hall; H. ~. ~.atts. J. T. Hanvey. ~. C. Corbitt. Ohas. R. ~elton~ J. H. Hall. Jr.. Jno. P. Leigh~ Z. O. Brinson. Chas. J. Withy. 0. L. Tyler. S. B. Hutchins. E. P. ~i!kins. H. H. Parker. 22. The President of ~he Board ~f A&dermen presided. The following direction for -the. 2ozn~ session w~s read: Portsmouth. Va., January 24. 1910. Mr. L. P. Slater. City Clerk. Dear Sir=- Tou wilI please call a joint session of the two br~u- che8 of City Council Tuesday. January 25th. at 8 o~clock P. ~. to consider-- -First. Applications 6f the Sixth and Seventh Nar~Local ~oar&s for ~u issue of $75.000. of bonds, each. Second. An application of the Sixth ~&rd Local Board for an appropriation of $950. dn order to have prepared a topographical map of said ward. Third. Bids for alter~n, g and repamring. ~he. Smxth and Seventh ~s~d engine.. , houses. Fourth. ~ne pay of fmremen enter~mnE the ~mre Departmen~ after January l~lg!O. Fi~th. ~ appropriation ~o pay teachers of the publicschools ~or a p~rt of ~r~. ~910~ Immediately fol~_owing the icing session the Board of Aldermen will meet to consumer Such m~t~ ters adopted in said joint session as may require concurrence therein. W. C. Corhitt. President. (Sig~ed) O, ~. Jal~er, l~'esident. B. of A. Whereapon. the Joint Fin~uce 0enmities made the following report concerning all of the matters embraced in the "call.~ except for wan appropriation to pay teachers of the l~mblie schools for a part of Jan~ary~ 1910 ~ ~ Hon. Co, men 0bu~eil--Board of Aldermen. Gentlemen: -Your Joint Finance 0ommittee respectfully reports concerning T~he following matters referred to it January 11-18 and December i4th: Referred by Co, on 0ouneil January t!~m~ -k~ An application of the Sixth and Seventh wards for sa issueof $75.000. of bonds, each. It is ~recom~ended that' the a~pl~cation be grante~ and that ~the following bill be ted to the General Assembly therefor: ~ _~N AOT TO AU~ORIZE THE 0.0b~Oil OF T~E OITT OF PORTS~OU~ TO ISSUE B0~UOS FOR G~W~DING. PAVING A~ OTHEP. S~ET I~UPROV~ENTS. (See sopy of the bill on file). An application of the Sixth ~vd Local Board for a~a~propriation of $950- to have.prepared topographical map of said ward. Progress as to same. Referred by Board of Aldermen Janu~y iSth~ Bids for alteration ~nd repair of the Sixth ~& Seventh war& en~dne ~ouses. ~wo ~i~s have ~een~mrned ever to thi~ 0ommitt~e_by the P~blie Property ~onm~ttee. viz.~ ~rom 0~ H. Mood~ and E. B. Wilkins~ 0. E. Moody~v~ill~do all of the work requi~d ~y ~peci~ic~tio~s for the houses for $1.38~.80; ~nd E. B. ~ilkins. ~for $1.I~?.2~. les~ the supplying of eight _an~hors and bracing the roof of the