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4( TUESDAY MAY 25, 1965 - BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by said Council that it doth hereby agree to share in the cost of this project to the extent of fifteen (15%) per cent, it being Council's understanding that the Virginia Department of Highways will assume eighty-five (85%) of said cost. Upon reco~nmendation of City Manager Hirst, Council authorized the releasing of a 36" drain-pipe specification from a deed recorded in Deed Book 50, Page 418, in the City Circuit Court Clerk's office, conveying by the City certain property in the vi.~init:r of the intersection of West Church Street and Memorial Boulevard North, by which release the City and the present owners of said property (being Nationwide Homes) recognize that a natural drainage-way flows across the property and that responsibility for conveyance of natural water across this land is that of the owner of the property, pursuant to and consistent with general law. It was noted that, although a 3611 drain-pipe was originally specified, a 24" drain- pipe was installed by the persons to whom the City sold and conveyed the property; and, too, that it was not necessary to specify in the City's deed of conveyance any requirement-size as to drainage-pipe. In the form of status reports, Council was informed that grading and the placing of base-stone has been completed on the extension of the new road off Liberty Street, from the new Armory and new Health Center to the southwest corporate limits and that contemplated additional improvements should be deferred until the section of this road lying in the county, between the corporate limits and Route ,..... 220 North, is improved and available for motor traffic. Mr. George W. Lester, Executive Vice-President of Lester Lumber Company, Inc., lldonorl' of the right-of- way for this new road, reported that the County of Henry is proceeding with work on the portion in the county, which has been assigned route number 1112, and that