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186 TJESDAY JULY 26. 1960 Go-Kart Club, Inc., whereby some two acres of land in the airport tract would be leased to the Go-Kart Club, which agreement muld run for sixty- day intervals unless terminated by written notice at least ten days in advance of the expiration of any sixty-day period. On behalf of Morris Novelty Furniture Corporation, petitioner, Attorney M. H. MacBryde, Jr., presented the following petition requesting the vacating and abandonment of Third and Fourth Streets--in the Watt Street vicinity-- pursuant to the provisions of Section 15-7th of' the Virginia Code: Your Petitioner, MOrris Novelty Furniture Corporation, here~ renews its petition heretofore filed on March 20, 1957, as will more fully appear by a copy of said petition hereto attached requesting that Third and Fourth Streets be vacated and abandoned pursuant to theprovisions of Section 15-766 of the Virginia Code of 1950 as amended. Your Petitioner further shows that it has filed the requisite notice on the first day of the term of the Circuit Court of Martinsville City, Virginia, as will more fully appear from a copy of said notice attached hereto. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Public Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will, on Tuesd~, July 26, 1960, at 7:15 P.M., petition the Council of the City of Martinsville, to abandon and vacate Third and Fourth Streets, Martinsville City, Virginia, as shown on map styled "Map of Property Belonging to Annie W. James" made ~ T. S. Moore, dated December 1924, recorded in Map Book 2, Page 13, of Henry County Clerk's Office; pursuant to Section 15-766 of the Virginia Code, as amended, for the following reasons: 1. Third Street is wholly surrounded by the property of the Petitioner and the lands of the Appalachian Electric Power Company and lies between Watt Street and the right-of-way of the Carolina and Northwestern Railroad. Fourth Street is wholly surrounded by the lands of the Petitioner and both Streets for more than twenty years have been enclosed within the cyclone fence of the Petitioner. 2. Said Streets have never been accepted ~ either Henry County of the City of Martinsville for public street purposes. 3. The rights-of-way of these two Streets, as shown on the aforesaid map, are only forty feet, each, in width, and are unsuitable to be taken over by the City as public streets. This July 20, 1960.