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12 TUESDAY MARCH 24. 1959 Upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council adopted the following resolution tentatively committing the City for certain costs should a proposed new National Guard armory be built in Martinsville: WBEREAS, during the course of several conferences between members of Martinsville City Council and the commanding officers of the local National Guard units, considerable interest has been indicated by the Council in obtaining for Mirtinsville a new armory under terms and conditions presented by the aforesaid commanding officers; and WHEREAS, as evidence of the Council's interest and efforts, a special committee appointed by direction of the Council has made a study of available sites deemed suitable for location of a nevT armory and now desires an early review of the sites by the Adjutant General of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Virginia National Guard; now, therefore, BE IT RES OLVED by the Council of the City of Martbsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this twenty-fourth day of Mirch, 1959, as further evidence of its interest and efforts, that it herein expressed its intention of providing at City e:Jq)ense a minimum of five (5) acres of land as a site for the proposed armory and, also, e:Jq)ressed its intention of appropriatL'1.g in the City's forthcoming 1959-60 budget the sum of approximately twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) as the City's estimated share of the cost of constructing the proposed armory; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be forwarded to the Adjutant General of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Virginia National Guard, and to the commanding officers of the local National Guard units. Council acknowledged with appreciation the recent donation of 110 Dogwood trees by the M3.rtinsville Council of Garden Clubs, which trees the City is planting on certain streets, probably and eventually to replace large trees which now require periodic trimming to avoid interference with electric utility lines. After discussing terms and conditions of the recent Court-ordered annexing by the City of territory from Henry County in the Druid Hills-Forest Park areas, Council ordered made a part of these minutes the following order entered by the three-judge court effecting the annexation as of January 1, 1960: