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~14 TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 27. 1960 thereupon, directed that the business license tax for the year beginning May 1, 1960 shall be computed on the gross receipts of the firm while located within the corporate limits during the calendar year 1960 and that such steps as may be necessary to carry out Council's direction be taken. Representatives of local tobacco warehouses petitioned for the abolition of the local business license tax imposed on the operators of these warehouses. Council indicated that it will give this petition their consideration. No action was taken on salary and expense requests submitted by the local constitutional officers for the calendar year 1961, pending a conference between Council and the several individual officers on Friday, September 30, 1960. Upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council appointed Mr. J. English Ford, Attorney at Law, as right-of-w~ negotiator in connection with the acquisition of right-of-way necessary to the reconstruction of Route 58 from Bob Gregory Street to the City's east corporate limits on said Route 58. City Manager Hirst, after presenting a report on local jail detention facilities in conne ction ID.th the reported termination by the Henry County Board of Supervisors of its contract with the City for the detention of City prisoners at the Henry County Jail, was instructed to contact representatives of the Henry County Board of Supervisors in an effort to develop a new contract mutually acceptable to the County and to the City. Upon recommendation of City Manager Hirst, Council transferred the sum of $400.00 from the General Fund's Emergency Account to the Traffic Department budget to provide for improved traffic direction signals at Church and Oakdale Streets and to nrovidA for a stand-by unit at the intersection of Favette and Church Streets