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'~u~y 14, 19o8.
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<br /> To authorize the Treasurer te renew a note for $10,000 in the Eerchants & Farmers Ba~k, and one
<br /> in the Ba~zks of Portsmouth for $3,000, bo%h due July 15th.
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<br /> To lend the School Board $1,400 until November l, 1908.
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<br /> Fifth. RePOrtS of Officers and other unfinished business.
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<br /> The regular reports of 0ffieers for month of June were presented and were ordered to take the
<br /> u~ual .course.
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<br /> The Auditor reported esmeelled coupons to s~o~Lnt of $15,152, and the same were referred to the
<br /> Joint Finance 0orm~ittee.
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<br /> The Keeper of 0emeteries made the following report of lots and graves sold in the Oak Grove cem-
<br /> etery during the month of June, 1908:
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<br /> June 2, to O. W, Riddiek, No. 293, Ave,
<br /> 5, A.D. O~rter, S, H, of No. 359, Ave, E.
<br /> 5_, ~, J. Leupton, a child's grave in No, 906, Ave. J. '
<br /> 6, Z.E. Sykes, S. H. of No, 655, Ave. F.
<br /> 12, Adolphus ~Marshall, N. H. of No. 295, Ave.
<br /> 27, V~m. Jame? Luke, a child's grav~e in~No. 906, Ave,
<br /> 30, Mrs. Elmira Dobbins, N. W. of do. b55, lye. F.
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<br /> NEW BUSINESS.
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<br /> A Communication was read from the Board of Police Commissioners in which request was made for
<br />four (4) new S & W. blue steel hammerless revolvers for the police force, and the said request was
<br />referred to the Joint Police 0o~mittee.
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<br /> A request was read from the Board of Trade & Business Nen's ~ssociation of Norfolk for the City
<br />0ouncil ~o appoint a conference eemmittee with that body and other municipal organizations, To eon-
<br />sider the best eourse to be pursued to have the returning Pacific fleet disband in this harbor.
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<br /> TBe request was ¢o~curred in. (0ommittee to be appointed).
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<br /> A petition of L. S. Eargrove and sundry others for a pavement on the south side of Glasgow, be-
<br />tween Effingham and 0hestnut streets, was referred to the Joint Street Committee.
<br />
<br />A bond of S, S. Armstreng,~Jr., given
<br />was referred to the Joint Finance Oommittee.
<br />
<br /> The Clerk applied for a leave of absence
<br />dermen, and the same was granted.
<br />
<br /> ~r~ Culpepper called for the reading of
<br />Supervisoms of Norfolk county for permission
<br />0curt House yard~ The request was read, but
<br />f~ilure of the Board of Supervisors %o reply
<br />
<br /> Nr. Hawks moved that a committee be appoi
<br />erty bounded by High, Dinwiddie and King Stree
<br />housed for the building of a joint 0ity
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<br />The motion w~s adopted. (0o~Eittee to b
<br />On motion of Nr. Karts, the Joint Fire 0o
<br />re-~rranging the "fire district" for the nor~
<br />ford streets.
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<br /> Mr. Johnson moved to refer to the Joint
<br />purchase the remainder of a Jib of land i~ th
<br />said piece of land bei~gnecessmry to give his
<br />
<br />Nr. Harvey moved that ~nappropriation
<br />for ente~sdnment of the League of Virginia~a
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<br /> A.V0te having been taken
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<br />h his amende~ contract for the removal of.night soil,
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<br />for ~0 days after the next meetin~ of the Board of Al-
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<br />opy of request made by the 0it~y Council to the Board of
<br />e build a Clerk's office ~nd 0ouncil 0hamber on the
<br />here was little comment and no aetion concerning the
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<br /> the request.
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<br />ated to consider the advis~billty of acquiring the prop-
<br />ts which, with the 0ity lots in the same square, may
<br />ounty court house thereon.
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<br /> appointed).
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<br />~mittee was instructed to consider the advisability of
<br />ern part of the First Ward, between Niddle and 0raw-
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<br /> ~metery Committee an ap plication of~m.~ B. W~lder to
<br /> 0edar Grove cemetery, and adjoining his lot there, the
<br /> lot a proper shape. The motion was adopted.
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<br /> ~200, or as much thereof as ~ay be necessary, be m~de
<br /> mieipalities to meet here in August,
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<br />on the motion it was lost, but after some explanation of the mattera
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