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~o T DES DAY FER-;i.UAftY ili, 1956 state Highway Engineers that the present entrance from the Dye Plant Road into Highway #220 should be closed and abandoned. It also apreared from a statement by the City Manager that the City of Martinsville mms the real estate on the East side of the proposed section of the street to be abandoned, and that H. C. Lester owns the portion of the l,'[est side of the Dye Plant Road proposed to be abandoned. After bavi ng heard the City Manager I s explanation of the discontinuance of the said portion of the Dye Plant Read, and after a general discussion by members of the Council, Hr. Turner b_oved, which was seconded by :Hr. .[[alleer, and unanimously carried, that p1Jrsuant to Section 15-766 of the Code of Virginia, that ~rr. Brooks R. Leavitt, Mr. .Arthur Richardson, and I(ll'. Irvin'I'r. Ramsey are hereby appointed to go dO"l"m and view the said situation and ascertain what, if any, incor::venience would result from the discontinuance and abandonment of' said section of the street or roadway, provided a new street is located and constructed across the Southern portion of the present I-I. C. Lester Texaco Service Station property leading from the j}se Plant Road into the East margin of the newly co mtructed Memorial B01uev2rd on the River Hill in the City of llartinsville, Virginia; that part of the Dye Plant Road proposed to be ab2Ddoned being more particularly described as follows: nAIl that certain lot or parcel of real estate y{hich is now a p2rt of what is called Dye Plant Road in the City of tiartinsville, Virginia, and which is more particularly described, to-wit: BEGINNING at a point on the Easterly side of U. S.-V:irginia Highvmys No. 58 and 220 where same are intersected at the present time by the West line of the said Dye P12.nt Road, and running from said beginning point and across the said former Dye Plant Road, S. 660 59' E. 40.88 feet to an iron which formerly marked the East boundary line between the East side of the old Dye Plant Eoad and the V. H. Kirby property now ovmed by tho City of Martinsville (see Deed Book 15, page 24 of the City of Martimvllle Clerk's Office); thence with what ViaS formerly the Eastern