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~54 TUESDAY APRIL 12, 1955 In return for perpetual easement from Cities Service Oil Company to the City of Martinsville covering certain property owned by said Cit:Les Service Oil Company, to be used for sidewalk purposes, Council authorized City Manager Mathewson to execute a deed of lease, as approved by City Attorney Stone, vrhereby the City of Martinsville will lease for the S:lm of one dollar per year and on a nonth-to-month basis to Cities Service Oil Company certain unused right-of-way at the nortITnest corner of Fayette Street and Memorial Boulevard intersection for the purpose of allowing said Cities Service Oil Company to install a pump island on its mom property to which access can be made over the small tract of land leased. A petition from the Clea.1"Vievr Elementary School PTA, requesting the City to obtain necessary right-of-way and cOl13truct a sidewalk along Barrows Mill Road from N"lr. J. A. Richardson's residence to Clearview school access road (the Clearview PTA to pay the cost of necessa~J grading), was referred to City Manager Mathewson. In support of a resolution prepared by the Utilities Committee of the League of Virginia Municipalities for Presentation to the State Corporat,Itll'Commission during the course of its hearing scheduled April 26, 1955 on &1 application from the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company to pass on to its customers, as a separate charge, any license tax imposed by local governingbodies for the privilege of doing business in the respective localities, Council questioned the advisability of permitting any utilit;r to follow this procedure and instructed its Clerk to so advise the Corporat;n\ Commission. Council was adjourned. \~l~. , ~'-' ~ tV,,":\./'--~' ...l..--....-~ H. Year-l n, _Clerk of Council ~ w.