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2 TUESDAY FEBRUARY 24, 1953 Engineer, July 1938 of record in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of the City of Martinsville, Virginia in Map Book 1, page 47. Scale 1 in. equalS 60 feet. Dated February 17th, 1953, by H. S. Pierce", attached to said Petition, which seeks to vacate Surry Court as previously laid out and re-dedicate Surry Court to enter Mulberry Road as a street 50 feet wide in its entirety, slightly East of the intersection previously shown. Said petitioners being the only owners of lots abutting on said Surry Court and Lanier Farm, Incorporated being the owner of the fee simple title of Surry Court as previously laid out. It appearing that vacation of the original Surry Court and establishment thereof as shown on the revised map is for the best interest of the City and in accordance with law, therefore: BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsv:ille in regular meeting assembled, that the map titled, ltForest par}c, Revision of Lots 7, 8 and 9 of Section N; Surry Court, and a part of Lot Number 1 and Lots 29, 30 and 31 of Section P of Forest Park, Subdivision of Lanier Farm, Incorporated, City of Martinsville, Virginia. Revising said lots and court as previously shown on map of same by Harold B. Bursley, Civil Engineer, July 1938 of record in the City of Martinsville Clerk'S Office in Map Book 1, page 47, By H. S. Pierce" is hereby approved. The said map shall be duly signed and authenticated by the proper officer of the City and admitted to record in the Clerk'S Office of the Circuit Court of the City of Martinsville. When the said map is properly recorded, Surry Court as originally laid out on the map previously identified and dated 1938 shall be vacated and the map hereby approved shall be the proper and official source of distances and courses thereon shown. The Clerk of the Council is directed to deliver a copy of this resolution to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the City of Martinsville. The Clerk of the Circuit Court of the City of Martinsville is directed to mark vacated Surry Court shown on map of same in Map Book 1, page 47, herein referred to. Upon reconnnendation of City Attorney Stone and Revenue Commission~Eggleston, Council adopted the following amendment to its current Business-Occupational License Tax Ordinance and, also, adopted the following ordinance to provide relief under certain conditions for certain licensees called into the armed forces during the Korean war emergency: BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled February 24, 1953 that Section 19, Chapter II, of the License Tax Ordinance of the City of Martinsville, 1949, be and is hereby repealed. An emergency existing, this ordinan:e shall be in effect from the date of its passage. ".,--,--_..__......;~.--"".""..,~".'"..-