Section 5. The said Commission shall organize by the elec- 
tion of one of its members as President. It may meet at such 
times and places as it may deem proper, and adopt its own rules 
of order. The said Commission shall be authorized from time to 
time to make such expenditures as shall be provided for by 
appropriation by the City Council. 
Section 6. The sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) or so 
much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for 
account of the said Commission for the fiscal year beginning 
July 1, 1908, which sum shall be paid by the City Treasurer upon 
warrants drawn on him by the City Comptroller. 
Section 7. This ordinance shall be in force from and after 
its passage, and all ordinance or parts of ordinance in conflict 
herewith are hereby repealed. 
Organizing under this ordinance, the Commission proceeded 
to embody rules governing its procedure in the following 
CITY ORDINANCE GOVERNING THE COMMISSION. 
Section 1. BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City 
of Norfolk that the Commission on Beautifying the City shall 
have the management, control and care of the parking space be- 
tween the street curbing and the sidewalk, and of all trees and 
shrubbery on the streets, avenues and public grounds except 
public parks; shall direct and regulate planting, transplanting, 
pruning, removal, care and protection of all shade and ornamental 
trees and shrubbery in the streets, avenues and public grounds 
of the City ; designate the kind, quality and character of all trees 
and shrubbery to be planted and cultivated ; determining distance 
for such planting, and to have all other necessary and convenient 
powers incident to the conduct of its duties. 
Section 2. Said Commission in the furtherance of its duties 
shall have authority to establish and maintain nurseries for the 
cultivation and growth of trees and plants for public use, upon 
such land owned by the city as may be designated by the Board 
of Control. Said nurseries shall be under the supervision of the 
Commission on Beautifying the City, to be operated under such 
rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the said Commis- 
sion. Said Commission is hereby authorized to supply and in- 
stall free of cost, trees and plants from its nurseries to be planted 
on the streets of the City at such points as the said Commission 
may deem expedient, or for the purpose of replacing trees which 
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