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32 TUESDAY JULY 27, 1965 of an option to sell to the Post Office Department, from the tract acquired from the J. R. Smith Estate, such front footage (with depth corresponding to that described in the July 13th resolution) on the south side of West Church Street as the Post Office Department might require, up to and including forty feet, at $1,000.00 per front foot: WnEREAS, under date of July 13, 1965, the Council of the City of Martinsville adopted a resolution, as entitled above, authorizing the Honorable J. Frank Wilson, Mayor of the City of Martinsville, 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 of that tract of land acquired by the City of Martinsville from the J. R. Smith Estate, as described in said resolution and for the purpose set forth in said resolution; and WHEREAS, an authorized representative of the United States Post Office Department has subsequently indicated need by the Department for a smaller tract of land than was cited in said resolution; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this twenty-seventh day of July, 1965, that the aforesaid resolution adopted July 13, 1965, be and is hereby rescinded; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the preface to said resolution adopted July 13, 1965, be and is hereby made a part of this resolution (dated July 27, 1965) as though it were herein recited; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED 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 one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) per fro~foot, up to and including forty front feet, a portion of the land acquired by the City of Martinsville from the J. R. Smith Estate, which portion is generally described as fronting 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 distance 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 more specifically 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.