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March i0, i908~ To make award to W. L. Walker for repairing the Vegetable N~rket at a cost of To appropriate $125 for the purchase of trees for 0ity cemeteries. To appropriate $140 tO publish the Mayor's annual message. The ~budget" of Receipts and Appropriations for fiscal year of ~908. To authorize the Treasurer ts make notes in the several 0ity banks %o amount ef $10,500, to meet sutton% expenses for ~areh, 1908. 0rdimanoes-- An ordimanee diresting the application, by the City Collector, of moneys eollee- ted by him for taxes on real estate. Fourth. Reports of 0ffloers a~d other unfinished business. The regular reports of 0ffioers for month of Pebx-~ary were presented and were ordered to take the Usual course. The Auditor repox~ed cancelled sonpons te amountof $9,~42.~50, .mud the said eoupons were refer- red to the Joint Finance 0ommitteeo The Auditor reported also hmving examined the ~fine ~ooks~ sf the Mayor andthe Clerk of the Court, referred to him january 14th~ His report is as follows: ~Gentlemen:- ~I have examined the ~flne books, of the Nays= and.Olerk of.the ~ourt, and report as below. Mmyor~s fines, $586.00. "Respeetfulty, 0n motion, the Presidents of the CommonCo~neil and. the Board of Aldermen'were requested ~o en- dorse said books. The Finance Committee now presented and recommended for adoption the loll'owing o~dinanee_ the issue of bonds: AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE ISSUE OF THIRTY THOUSAND DO~L~A~ RS OF BONDS, TO BE KNOWN AS MOUTH 'SCHOOL BONDS,"' 'ONE HUNDRED AND TEN ~HOUSAND DOLLARS OP BONDS, ~0 BE ENO~ AS ~PORTSNOUTH S~ ERASE BONDSms AND THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS OF BONDS, TO BE KNOWN AS "PORTSMOUTH PAVIN~ A~[D STREET IM- PROVEMEL~ BONDS~' PUt~UANTT0 AN AOT OP THE O~ASSE~BLY 0P VIRGINIA, APPROVED MARCH iO, 1908, ENTI~z~DAN A~ "TOAUTHORIEETHEOOUNCIL O~ THE CITYOP PORTSNOUTHT0 ISSUE BONDSiVOR SCHOOL, SE~ ERAOE, AJ[D PA~ING AND STR~.~T I~PROVEMENTS." ~E. Be it ordmined by the Oeuneil .of~ the City of Portsmou~Ja, Va.~ Thm%, pursuant to an asr of General Assembly of Virgimim, a~proved Marsh 10, 1908, in erde~to bmild & school house ~nd to sehool purposes; %o eontlnme-the sewerage in said City, an~ to pmve and g~ade the streets mhd for o~er street improvements, the~e shmll be issued in the mame of and on behalf of the d City of ~Pertsmouthm Va.~ coupon o~regis~ered bom~ the denominmtion of one humdred ~oiiars, five hundred dollars or one thOUsand dollmrs~ as $he Joint Finane~Oommit%ee of the two branches of l~he Counellmay dete~mine. The bonds sh~ll be know, as ~PortsmouTn Sehool Bonds,~ ~Portsmeu~h Sewerage ~onds," and "Portsmouth Pmving and Stree~ Improvement Bonds," respeetively; a~d ~he whole mmount of bonds to be issued under this ox~linmnee shall not exeeed One Hundred and Seventy Thousand Dollars, of which said amount not mo~e thmn Thirty Thousand Dollars shall bs applied to sshooi pu~poses~ not