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~12 T:-1URSDAY SEPTEMBER 17, 1964 The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, with Mayor J. Frank Wilson presiding, was held Thursday, September 17, 1964 (in lieu of the regularly-scheduled meeting for September 22, 1964), in the Council Chamber, City Hall, beginning at 7:30 P.M., all members being present, viz., Mayor J. Frank Wilson; Vice-Mayor Fred T. Renick, M.D.; Harry L. Boaz; Thomas J. Burch; and E. E. Stone. '- After the invocation, Council approved as recorded the minutes of its regular meeting held September 8, 1964. Pursuant to Council's acceptance on March 24, 1964, of an offer from representatives of the John R. Smith Estate, for the acquisition of the Smith Estate property on the south side of West Church Street, and in accordance with terms of the acceptance agreement, it was reported to Council that Mayor Wilson and Council's Clerk (and Director of Finance) on September 11, 1964, executed two notes payable to the Smith Estate and due in equal aTIlOunts of $61,250.00 in each of the years 1965 and 1966, representing balance due after the City's initial payment of $52,500.00; whereupon, Council unanirrlously ratified the executing of these notes by Mayor Wilson and the Clerk. By deed dated September 10, 196L, Council accepted a ten-foot strip of land, extending along the west side of Bridge Street to its intersection with Memorial Boulevard, as shown on map entitled "Record Plat -- Boddie-Noell Enterprises!!, prepared by W. C. Brown, C.L.S., under date of August 27, 1964, this strip of land being that deE:cribed in proposal presented to Council on June 9, 1964, by Burch- Hodges-Stone, Inc., and providing for the widening of Bridge Street along the Bridge Street frontage of the Boddie-Noell property.