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4~ DECEMBER 11, 1984 TUESDAY to a special meeting (to consider this and other matters) scheduled for Tuesday, December 18, 1984, in the Council Chamber, City Hall, beginning at 3:00 P.M., at which meeting Council will consider proposals from banking institutions offering to serve as registrar and paying agent for bonds, if sold, to help finance the City's cost of the Leatherwood Creek Raw Water Line. Council unanimously adopted the following ordinance (as previously introduced) which amends the City's Business-Professional-Occupational License Tax Ordinance, as to Section 5 of Article II thereof, to reduce--as State-mandated--from $3,000.00 to $1,000.00 the amount of license tax which can be assessed against fortune-tellers, (etc.) : BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular session on December 11, 1984, that the Business, Profes- sional, Occupational License Tax Ordinance, 1983, be amended in Article II, Section 5, so as to read as follows: 5. FORTUNE-TELLERS, ETC. Every person who, for compen- sation, pretends to tell fortunes, presumes to act as a clairvoyant, or practices palmistry or phrenology in the City shall pay a license tax of $1,000 a year and the same shall not be transferable or proratable. City Manager Edmonds reported that, in response to invitation, no bids have been received for the purchase of the City's "Poor House Farm" property. Council unanimously authorized City Attorney Worthy to proceed with instituting suits against the following property owners, from whom delinquent taxes and interest are due, it being determined that methods available to and employed by the City's Delinquent Tax Collector have been unsuccessful in collecting these taxes and interest: