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TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1988 therein as well as payment by petitioner to the City of the sum of $1,136.00 (representing 50% of the appraised value of the area being abandoned, pursuant to policy recently established for rights-of-way of certain minimum area being abandoned), with the understanding that the City will retain ownership of, or easement upon, that portion of land upon which the present sidewalk is located, plus a one-foot strip of land along the edge of said sidewalk: BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this twelfth day of April, 1988, that a portion of unused-and-excess right-of-ways situated on the south ~ide of Market Street, east of College Street in front of property at 10 East Market Street, be and is hereby declared'vacated and abandoned in favor of Martinsville Bulletin, subject to the filing by Martinsville Bulletin of appropriate map or maps with--and the approval by--the City's Engineering Division and the City Planner, showing the area hereby vacated and abandoned, which map or maps, when and as approved, shall be duly recorded in the office of the Clerk of Martinsville City Circuit Court. BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by said Council that, an emergency existing, this ordinance shallbe in force on and after April 13, 1988. Upon being informed by Mr. J. Ronnie Minter, Commissioner of the Revenue for the City, that he has requested a legal opinion from the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia on a proposed ordinance (No. 88-3) which would amend the City's BP&O License Tax Ordinance by exempting merchants and/or peddlers, under certain conditions, from the license tax set forth therein (see Section 3 of Article 2), Council continued this matter for further consideration in expectation of the requested legal opinion. Citizens and/or businessmen speaking to this matter were Mr. Tom Leath (of Townes Furniture) and Mr. H. A. Jessie (of Shumate & Jessie Furniture Company). Meanwhile, Council concurred with Councilman McClain's suggestion that a portion of the proposed ordinance (considered as being superfluous) be deleted, when and if adopted.