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~26 TUESDAY -- JUL Y 1 3. 1 965 WHEREAS, the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, has received an inquiry from an authorized representative of the United States Post Office Department as to whether the City of Martinsville would sell to the United States Post Office Department a portion of that tract of land acquired by the City of Martinsville from the J. R. Smith Estate and fronting on the south side of West Church Street, in Martinsville, Virginia; and WHEREAS, the acquisition by the City of Martinsville of several tracts of land--including the J. R. Smith Estate property--in this area has been and is for the purpose of constructing new municipal facili ties; and WHEREAS, the constructing by the United States Post Office, or by its agent, of new post office facilities within the same block of West Church Street and adjoining City-owned property, in conjunction with the City's purpose, would enhance the general area and would be mutually beneficial; therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this thirteenth day of July, 1965, that the Honorable J. Frank Wilson, Mayor of the City of Martinsville, be and is hereby authorized to execute (on behalf of the City of Martinsville) an option to sell to the United States Post Office Department, for the sum of forty thousand dollars ($40,000.00), a portion--more specifically described in aforesaid option--of the land acquired by the City of Martinsville from the J. R. Smith Estate, which portion would have a frontage of forty (40) feet on the south side of West Church Street, between a proposed new east line of City-owned property and the west boundary of property owned by Mrs. Mary L. 'Semple; and would extend south for a dis tance of approximately three hundred and twenty (320) feet to a projection of the rear (or south) line of a lot owned by Richardson Motor Company, Inc.; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by said Council that said option shall expire at the end of three hundred (300) days from date of option and shall be an assignable option only to the extent that improvements shall be constructed on the land described in said option, as well as on adjoining land to the east and on land adjoining the present post office tract, for new post office facilities only. Council acknowledged with appreciation a report of the activities of the Martinsville Memorial Public Library for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1965, and also for the month of June, 1965, reflecting considerable growth in usage of the library during the year.