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. >> TUSSDA.Y JUNE 10, 1952 The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, with Mayor J. R. Walker presiding, was held in the Council Chamber, City Hall, on Tuesday, June 10, 1952, at 7:30 o'clock P. M., all members, as follows, being present: Mayor and Councilman J. R. Walker, and Councilmen R. S. Brown, Jr., C. P. Craig, R. S. Hodnett, and W. T. Turner. Minutes of the regular Council lTBeting held May 27, 1952 and of the special Council lTBetir€ (budget hearing) held June 6, 1952, upon being read, were approved. Noting the presence of visitors, Council deferred the regular order of business to hear such visitors, viz., represenktives of the Martinsville Lions Club whose spokesman was Attorney Robert H. May, who explained to Council mat through an oversight on their part the current license tax of $67.00 on sixty-seven chewing- gum dispensing machines (67 @ $1.00 per machine) was not paid on or before the past May 31st and, consequently, was now subject to the penalty required by the Tax Ordinance wr.ich was interpreted by Commissiorer of the Revenue T. Jeff Eggleston as being $10.00 per one-dollar machine rather than ~nO.OO minimum for all sixty-seven machines as they maintained it should be. Courcil took no action other man to assure the Lions Club that it would give the matter due consideration, possibly rendering its opinion or decision at its next regular meeting. No action, either, was tal{en by Council on the proposed 1952-53 City Budget; however, Council called for a special mseting of the Council to consider the budget for Tuesday, June 17, 1952~ at 2:00 o'clock P. M.