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:3 TUES DAY NOVEMBER 9, 1954 a letter so conveying Council's appreciation to Lee Telephone Company. The following ordinance (amendment), clarifying a similar ordinance adopted by Council on June 22, 1954 and. relating to public drunkenness, was adopted with emergency clause attached: BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this ninth day of November, 1954, that Title VIII, Chapter I, Section 2., of the Martinsville City Code enti tled "Wrongs and Offenses Generally" be amended to read as follows: Section 2. Drunkenness in Public. If a:ny person arrived at the age of discretion get or be drunk in public he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than one dollar nor more than ten dollars. ~" i~ ~ If any person shall be convicted for being drunk in public three times within one year, upon the third or any subsequent conviction for such offense wi thin the period of one year, such pers on may be punished by imprisonment in jail for not more than six months or by a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment. An emergency existing, this ordinance shall be in force from date of its passage. Council received from City Manager Mathewson a verbal report on the City IS Paving Division operations for the past SUIlUll3r season, in which report it was noted that these operations had been most successful. (see summary on page 310) In its final action of the meeting, Council accepted with many regrets the resignation of Attorney Claude E. Taylor, Jr. from membership on the City's Board of Zoning Appeals. Council was adjourned. - ) ..-~ ~<~ ~ w. H. Council )