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BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
JOHN D. BERRYMAN, ROSS R. CUMMINS, JOHN N. O'NEIL, COMMISSIONERS
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Office of the County Commissioners,
Washington, Pa., January 6, 1942.
Board of County Commissioners in regular session, specially called, those present being Messrs.
Berrymlan, Cummins and O'Neil.
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i Motion duly made and seconded that Joseph F. Antoon, Washington, Pennsylvania, Member of the
Washington County Sousing Authority, whose term expires on January 7, 1942, be re -appointed on such
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Housing Authority for a five-year terra, or until January 7, 1947, Motion carried, with the Chief
Clerk directed to forward certified copies of the minutes of this meeting to the United States
Sousing Authority, Washington, D. C., the State Board of Housing, Harrisburg, Pa., and to Re Wo
Knox, Chairman of the Washington County Housing Authority.
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There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned.
THE FOREGOING MINUTES RL4D ANTI APPROVEDI;
i January 14, 1942
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NO. 256 Office of the- County Ctudasi.oners,
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Board of County Commissioners in regular session, specially tailed, those present being Messrs.
Berryman, Cummins and O'Neil.
Motion duly made and seconded that the following Resolution be adopted, covering the action of
the Board on January 9, 1942, authorizing the cutting of a door -way into the present record room on
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the basement floor of the Court House:
TI ERE,AS, the acquisition of hundreds of properties by the County of Washington #br the non-
payment of taxes has created a condition requiring the setting up of a real estate department to
properly and efficiently supervise these properties and make possible the collection of rents there-
from and sales thereof to the end that the greatest proceeds be derived therefrom for the benefit
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WMU AS, the crowded condition of the present Court House makes necessary the utilisation of
all the available space in the Court House for the care and preservation of the books and records of
the various county offices and the business of the county; and
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WHEREAS the only s available for the real estate office aforesaid requires the -
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tion of a portion of the record room in the north east portion of the ground floor into such an
offioo, now, therefore,
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