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<br />TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1998
<br />WHEREAS, §58.1-3965 of the Code of Virginia provides that when any taxes on real estate in a city are
<br />delinquent on December 31 following the second anniversary of the date on which such taxes have become
<br />due that such real estate may be sold for the purpose of collecting all delinquent taxes on said property; and
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<br />WHEREAS, §58.1-3968 of said Code provides that two or more parcels of real estate may be covered by
<br />one bill in equity where they are owned by different parties provided that each parcel is assessed at a value
<br />which does not exceed $1 00,000; and
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<br />WHEREAS, all of the hereinafter described parcels are assessed at a value which does not exceed
<br />$100,000.00, now, therefore
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<br />BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular session held on
<br />November 10, 1998 that Nita K. Stanley, Attorney at Law, be, and she hereby is, authorized and directed to
<br />file a bill in equity in the Circuit Court of the City of Martinsville within the time prescribed by law following
<br />the giving of the notices of said sale and the publication of same required by said §58.1-3965 to subject the
<br />hereinafter described parcels of real estate to the lien for such delinquent taxes, which real estate is described
<br />as follows:
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<br />Parcel one: that certain tract or parcel of land known as Lots A, B, C and D located at the
<br />end of Allen Street shown on plat of survey for John W. Swanson, prepared by W. C.
<br />Brown, dated April 4, 1954, recorded in the City of Martinsville Circuit Court Clerk's
<br />Office in Map Book 3, page 119 (Plat Cabinet A-43), and being part of the same property
<br />conveyed to John Swanson from Mabel Cunningham, widow, et als, by deed dated March
<br />1, 1946 in the Circuit Court Clerk's Office of Henry County, Virginia in Deed Book 79,
<br />page 117, to which deed and plat reference is hereby made for a more particular description
<br />of the aforesaid tract or parcel of land
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<br />Parcels two and three: all those two certain lots or parcels of land, with appurtenances
<br />thereunto appertaining, situate on the northwest intersection of Bunk Street and Dalton
<br />Street, parcel one being more particularly described as Lot "4D", containing 5,069 square
<br />feet more or less, as shown on plat of survey for Harry W. Brown and Cora M. Brown,
<br />dated January 31, t986, prepared by J. A. Gustin and Associates, P.E. & M.L.S. and parcel
<br />two being more particularly described as all that certain lot, piece or parcel of land with
<br />improvements thereon, lying in and being in the City of Martinsville, Lot 47 x 220, North
<br />margin Bunk Street, Map #22(1)4C, said lots or parcels of land being the same two parcels
<br />conveyed to Robert L. Cooke and Rosemary Cooke, Husband and Wife, from W. R.
<br />Broaddus, HI and Charles Williams, Co-Executors of the Estate of Sadye F. Baldwin,
<br />deceased by deed dated May 31, 1995 and of record in said Clerk's Office in Deed Book
<br />236, at page 474, to which plat, map and deed reference is hereby made for a more
<br />particular description of the aforesaid lots or parcels of land.
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<br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that neither the Martinsville City Council nor the City of
<br />Martinsville shall be obligated to compensate said attorney for bringing the suit and that her
<br />compensation shall be such as is determined by the Circuit Court of the City of Martinsville or by the
<br />party who has an interest in the bringing of the suit that is hereby authorized.
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<br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that said attomey be, and she hereby is, directed to report from time
<br />to time to Council concerning the status of said suit once it has been filed.
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