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i (t J' ~ f TUESDAY JUNE 25, 1968 WDEREAS, the City of Martinsville, Virginia, desires to construct and maintain sewer pipelines crossing the right-of-way of the Carolina & Northwestern Railway Company at six separate locations, involving a City sewer line construction project generally identified as 11Jones Creek Interceptor11; and WHEREAS, said Carolina & Northwestern Railway Company agrees-- insofar as its title enables it so to do--to permit said pipeline crossings located substantially as follows: (1) Shown in red color on print of Drawing marked 11Exhibit A11 and identified as crossings #5 and #6; (2) Shown in red color on print of Drawing No. 4-295, dated August 23, 1967, identified as crossings #2, #3, and #4; and (J) Shown in red color on print of Drawing marked "Exhibit A11 and identified as crossing #1; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this twenty-fifth day of June, 1968, that the Honorable F. T. Renick, M.D., Mayor, be--and is hereby-- authorized to execute agreements (being three in number, covering aforesaid crossings) with said Carolina & Northwestern Railway Company. By fee simple deed authorized by the following resolution, Council conveyed to the Department of Highways of the Commonwealth of Virginia an area of .98 acre within the City's Industrial Park alongside existing Route 976, to enable the Department of Highways to improve and/or relocate portions of said Route 976: WHEREAS, the Department of Highways of the Commonwealth of Virginia contemplates the improving and re-aligning of Route 976, including a portion of said route extending for a distance of some 1,200 feet from Norfolk & Western Railway Company property westward within the City's Industrial Park; and WI{EREAS, to accomplish such improvement and re-alignment, said Department of Highways requires possession and title to .98 of an acre of land owned by the City of Martinsville and near or adjacent to the existing Route 976; and WHEREAS, the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, desires to cooperate in this matter by donating said required right-of-way through fee simple deed; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this twenty-fifth day of June, 1968, that the Honorable F. T. Renick, M.D., Mayor, be--and is hereby-- authorized to execute said deed conveying said property to the Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Highways.