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36 TUESDAY FEBRUARY 28, 1956 confidence in the Council--Councilmen Walker and Turner st.ated that they are now in favor of vrithdrawi.rg the proposed tax rate amendment; therefore, COlLTlcil took no action with respe ct to the delegates t request. The City Ma..'1B.ger called to the attention of the Counc il that the three viewers who had been appointed in pursuance of Section 15-766 of the Code of Virgin:ia as amended, had been dovm to the 10c2.tion and looked over the proposed abandonment and discontinuance of that part of the Dye Plant Road leading off of the East edge of Memorial Boulevard near the South corporate limits of the City of Martinsville, and lJmich said property propos ed to be abandoned and discontinued is mace particularly described as follows, to wit: "All tha t certain lot or parcel of real estate vrhich is situated in the City of Martinsville, Virginia, and which is more particularly des cdbed, to-wit: BEGINNHn at a point on t11e Easterly side of U. S. Virginia Highways Nos. 58 and 220, where same are interse cted at the present tirre by the West line of the s aid Dye Plant Road, and runniq:; from said beginning point and across the s aid former Dye Plant Hoad, S. 660 59' w. 40.88 feet to an iron which formerly marked the East boundary line between the East side of the old Dye Plant Rood and the v. H. Ki.:::'by property now owned by the City of MrrtinsvilJ.e (see Deed Book ]I;, page 24 of the City of Martimville Clerk's Office); thence with what was formerl;y the Eastern margin of the Dye Plant Road, S. 80 50 r E. 110.01 feet to an iron on the Nortlmestern side of a street space as shown on map hereinafter referred to; thence s. 430 46' w., cros sing the said I}\Je Plant Road a[:;ain, 42.68 feet to an iron on vlhat was formerly the Western margin of said DJ-e Plant Road and also the Eastern line of the Texaco Service Station property owned 11.1 H. C. Lester, and thence with 1'That was formerly the West nargin of the said I}\Je Plant Road N. 110 28' W. 25.75 feet to an iron, and thence N. 8036'vr. 140.83 feet to tho poj_nt of beginning, being a strip of land that was formerly lmovm as the Dye Plant Road. Specific reference is made to a plat of saTJle prepared by W. C. Brcwn, C.L.S., entitled "Eevision of Lot #1 Callie H. Ranson Subdivisionll, prepared in July, 1955, and on record in the Current :![ap Book of the City of Martinsville Cix cuit Court Clerk t s Office." Tl1e s aid viewers, in pursuance of their dire ction anc~ appointment by the C01illCil under date of February 14, 1 CJS6, stated in their written r0)Ort that in their opinion the inconvenience a.."1d aOemc.onment of said street to the 1)ublic generally would be over-shadowed by the convenience of the public having a newl;y com tructed entrance into Hemorial Boulevard fron the Dye Plant Road across the Southern portion of the H. C. Lester Texaco Service Station property. Therefore, Mr. 'N. T. Tur nor moved, which was seconded by l:lr. Bradford H. Hill, and unanimously carried, that in pursuance of Section 15-766 of tile Code of Virginia as amended, the public ha"lrlng been duly