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22 TUESDAY APRIL 27, 1954 Section 2 - TAX There is hereby levied and there shall be collected a tax of five per centum (5%) of the amount paid for the admission to any place of amusement or entertainment where the admission charge is 15~ or more, to be paid by every person who pays such an admission charge to such place. In case of any person (except those set forth in Section 9 of this ordinance) being admitted to any place of amusement or entertain- ment at any time when an admission charge is made to other persons, an equivalent tax is hereby levied and shall be colledted based on the price charged to such other persons of the same class for the same or similar acconmodations, said tax to be paid by the person so admitted. Where the admission charge is less than 15~ the tax shall be t of l~ for admission or entertainment charge. BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that this amendment shall become effective on July 1, 1954. By letter dated April 21, 1954 Attorney John E. Campbell, Counsel for Messrs. J. Carroll Eanes and Robert H. Oakley, advised the Council through the City Planning Commission that a request recently submitted to rezone certain property owned by Messrs. Eanes and Oakley on the Figsboro Road (near Inman Street) has been withdrawn by the petitioners. Through communications from State Assembly Delegates William F. Carter and William F. Stone, Council was informed of a public hearing to be conducted by the State Highway Department on May D, 1954 (from 9:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M.) in Roanoke, Virginia on allocations for primary roads in the Salem District. In discussing the forthcoming presentation by City Manager :Mathewson of the 1954-55 budget and budget message, Council set Friday, May 7, 1954, at 7:45 P.M. in the Council Ghamber, as a special public meeting of Council to receive said budget and budget message.