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2:1 TUES DAY AUGUS T 26, 1952 The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, with Mayor J. R. Walker pt'esiding, was held in the Council Chamber, City Hall, on Tuesday, August 26, 1952, at 7:30 o'clock P. M., all members, as follows, being present: Mayor and Councilman J. R. Walker, and Counciloon R. S. Brown, Jr., C. P. Craig, R. S. Hodnett, and W. T. Turner. - Minutes of the regular Council meeting held August 12, 1952, upon being read, were appr oved. Council deferred its regular order of business to hear from Mr. P. S. Murphy, 112 College Street, this city, who requested Council to authorize sorre change in the sewer lines serving his house and several other properties on College ~€~ ~~ ~ street in order that certain alleged unsanitary comitions in that area might be eliminated; whereupon, Courcil asked City Manager Mathewson and Public Works Director Maury to investigate these conditions and see what, if anything, can be done to improve said c ondi ti ons · Council resumed its regular order of busiress by hearing a report from City Manager Mathewson as to pt'ogress being made on the study concerning the policy governing water service to customers outside the City's corporate limits. Mr'. Mathewson advised that said study woUld entail considerable time and work and, as a result, he would not be able to present his findings and/or recommendations for at least several weeks. Council, next, was advised that a proposal recommending changes in the laws governing the transportation of explosives in the State of Virginia, pending before the State Corporation Commission, on w;'ich proposal the Commission will hold a