Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-30
ATTENTION TAXPAYERS.
Some Reasons Why You Should Vote
County Bonds YES"


WHEREAS, the County OF Los Angeles has not
at this time any court house, or any place or
offices where the business of said county can be
properly, economically or fully transacted and
WHEREAS, said county has heretofore con-
tracted for the construction of suitable court
house, containing proper offices, adequate and
sufficient for the transaction of the public bust
ness of said county; and
WHEREAS, the said court house as so con-
tracted for was to be twostory structure and
was deemed at the time said contract was
entered into sufficient for the needs of the
county: but afterward two additional depart
ments of the superior court were created to
meet a corresponding increase in the judicial
business of said county, thus necessitating a
modification of the original contract so as to
provide for three-story instead of a two-story
court house: and
WHEREAS, the construction of such court
house so containing such offices will cost the
sum of O0,00O and the cost of furnishing and
equipping the same will be $4,000; and
WHEREAS, of said amounts, there has already
been raised from the sale of bonds of said
county heretofore issued, and sold in accordance
with law, the sum of 100000, for and on
account of the construction of said court house,
which sum has been properly and legally ex-
pended on account of such construction of such
and there has also been raised by said county
from other sources, and lawfully expended in
such construction, the further sum Of 900;
and
WHEREAS, at the time said 100000 of bonded
Indebtedness was incurred, it was with good
reason contemplated and expected by the said
board of supervisors that before any ad-
ditonal sum would be needed for the compile
ton of said court house, or for the furnishing
or eauipping thereof, that certain real prop
ertv, belonging to said county and situate in
Los Angeles City, California, and known as the
Old Court House Property; also the portion of
the D. G. stephens tract, situate OH Temple
street, in said city, which said county has not
disposed of the title of which appears in the
records in the recorders office of said county,
to be in said county; also that portion of the
Transit tract, in said city, the same being
subsidvision of lots 2, 3 and of the County
Hospital grounds the title of which appears in
the records in the recorders Office of said
county, to be in said county, would be sold by
said county, and sufficient sum realized from
said sale to complete the construction, ana TO
equip and furnish the court house contracted
for as aforesaid, which said expectations were
not realized, it having been found impossible
to sell said property to advantage, and it
being for the benefit of said county and the
taxpayers thereof to retain said property for
better market: and
WHEREAS, such court house is only partially
constructed and will be of no avail whatever
for any purpose until its construction, under
the said contract, has been fully completed,
and until it is properly furnished and equipped;
and
WHEREAS, it is necessary in order to complete
said court house, and to provide offices for the
proper, economical and efficient transaction OF
the business of said county, that there should
be raised as soon as practicable, the sum of
$25O,OOO in addition to the sum already so
raised and expended; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary, in order to prop
erly furnish and equip said court house, that
there should be raised as soon as practicable
the further and additional sum OF $4,000; and
WHEREAS There is no money in the treasury
of said county available for such purposes, to-
wit for the completion of the construction of
such court house, and the furnishing and equip
ping of the same, nor is there likely to be any
money in said treasury so available; and
WHEREAS, 1t is inexpedient, and would be un-
Justly burdensome the taxpayers of said
county to raise the money necessary to com
pete said court house, or to equip or furnish the
same by direct taxation; and
WHEREAS, 1t is for the best interests of said
county and the taxpayers thereof that said
y,
said court house and $4,000 for the equipment
and furnishing of the same, should be raised by
theissuance and sale of 300 bonds of said county
of the denomination of 81 900 each, to run for
20 years. and to obearinterest at rate not greater
than five per cent per annum;
Now, therefore, 1t is hereby ordered that there
shall be, and there is hereby submitted, to the
qualified electors of the county of Los Angeles.
at a special election which is hereby called and
ordered to take place on the 9TH day OF June,
1890, the question whether said electors will
consent to the issuance of bonds of said county
in the sum of 100000, said bonds to be 800 in
number, and of the denomination of 81 900
each, to run for 20 years. and to bear interest at
a rate not greater than five per cent. per annum;
and it is hereby ordered that the particular pur-
pose for which such Indebtedness is to be created
is as follows: Two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars of said Indebtedness is to be created,
and the amount raised by the sale of $50 of
said bonds is to be expended IN the completion
of the construction of the court house of said
county, such court house having been only par
TALLY constructed, and being located in the
city and county of Los Angeles state of Cali
fornia, on that certain lot described in a deed
from city of Los Angeles to county of Los An
geles, recorded on The Goth day of February in
book 154, page 112, of Deeds in the recorders S
Office of said county, and the balance of said
Indebtedness, to wit: Fifty thousand dollars, is
to be created, and the amount raised by the
sale of so of said bonds is to be expended in
equipping and furnishing said court house. The
total number of bonds, as to the issuance of
which said electors are so called upon to de-
eide, being 300 of the denomination of 81 900
each, running for 20 years and bearing interest
at rate not to exceed 5 per cent per annum.
The question now is, do you prefer to have
the 100000 necessary to complete the court
house raised this fall by direct tax, or will you
authorize the supervisors to borrow the money
at per cent. per annum interest.
The county has considerable city property as
shown above, which can be sold at a good price
ere long, and with the money derived, the
bonds can be redeemed.
But independent of that is it not better that
the greatly augmented property of twenty
years hence, should pay for the court house,
when the tax would be so small as to be scarcely
felt than that the taxpayers should this fall
have to go down in their pockets to pay it,
The contract is let, the court house is nearly
complete, and the same MUST be paid for by
tax or by sale of bonds.
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