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68 TUES DAY MAY 24, 1960 and Memorial Boulevard North (near their intersection with Fayette Street), these agreerents beirg with the Ramsey-Baldwin Corporation, and now await approval by city officials before final execution. Attorney Harrison Joyce, of the law firm of Joyce and stone, appeared before Council on behalf of Cooper and Ratcliff, operators of a grocery supermarket on East Church Street, and requested a proration of the busiress license tax now due by said Cooper and Ratcliff which, in effect, would be measured by the gross receipts of said business during the seven months it expects to do businews within the corporate limits during 1960--inasmuch as it expects to relocate outside the corporate limits in July of 1960--rather than pay a license tax for the privilege of doing business within the corporate limits based on gross receipts of the preceding calendar year, or 1959, as required by the Cityls Busir.ess and Occupational License Tax Ordinance. Council determined that the firm should pay the license tax as required by the ordinance; however, Council indicated that consideration might be given to a rebate of a portion of the license tax to be paid at the conclusion of firm's business operations within the c orpar ate limits. Upon recommendation of City Manager Hirst, and subject to City Attorney Taylorls approval of legal documents involved, Courx:il unanimously accepted a dedication of right-of-way by and from the C. Y. Thomas Estate between Hairston street and the Martinsville Block Company plant, which right-of-way will provide for a fifty- foot-wide extension of Orchard street to the Martimville Block Company property, Council understanding that this street will be brought up to standards--at no cost to the City--by the Norfolk & Western Railway Company and the Martinsville Block Company.