Arizona republican., 1898-12-28
ELECTION NOTICE.

WHEREAS, At a meeting of the common council of the city of Phoenix,
 Maricopa county, Arizona, held in their council chamber in 5he said city of
 Phoenix on the Fist day of December,
 1898, at which meeting a majority of the members of said common council
 were present and voted, the following resolution was adopted by a unanimous
 vote of all the members of said com
 mon council present at said meeting, wiz:
 RESOLUTION, Concerning the is
 suing of bonds for the purpose of es-
 tablishing water works and sewerage system for the city of Phoenix.
 Whereas, The common council of the city of Phoenix deem it advisable to
 issue bonds of the said city, for the purpose of establishing a water works and sewerage for said city, and,
 Whereas, It is provided by section 8 of article XIX of the charter of said city that the question of issuing bonds of said city shall first be submitted to the legal voters of said city to be voted upon, and,
 Whereas, The congress of the United States by act approved March 4, 1898, has provided that the legal voters at such election shall be the owners of real or personal property, subject to taxation, within the municipality, who are otherwise qualified electors therein, therefore.
 Resolved, By the common council of the city of Phoenix that the following proposition be, and the same hereby is, submitted to the qualified electors and owners of real and personal property in said city to be voted upon by them at an election to DC called for that purpose, and to be held in said city on the 24th day January, 1899, viz:
 Shall the bonds of the city of Phoe- nix to the amount of Two Hundred and SiNty-f1ve Thousand (S265 ,O0O) dollars be issued for the pur-ose of building and equipping a water works and sewerage system within said city to be owned and op- erated by said city for the use of it's said bonds to be issued in denominations of One Thousand ($1,00O) Dollars each; the principal to be due and payable thirty years after the date thereof, provided, however. that the city of Phoenix reserves the right to pay the principal of said bonds to the amount of Ten Thousand ($10, ,000) Dollars per annum in their order at par and accrued in terest thereon at any time after the expiration of ten years from the date thereof; all Of said bonds to bear in terest at the rate of five per cent per annum, payab ble semi-annually; both principal and interest payable in gold coin of the United States; said bonds 70 be signed by the mayor and recorder of said city in their official capacity, and to have the seal of the city of Phoenix affixed ito each bond, and each pond to have interest coupons attached hereto for the interest to accrue hereon, which said coupons shall nave the fac simile of the signatures If the mayor and recorder of said city or printed thereon. Such | ponds shall be sold by the common 1 .ouncil of said city in such manner as hey may deem for the best interest of | aid city, provided the same shall not | 'e sold below par"
 Be it further resolved that said | election shall be held on the 24th day f January, 1899, between the hours of i o'clock a. m. and o'clock P. m. of said | lay, at polling places in the several | -Oting precincts of said city to be ereafter selected by the common and shall be conducted by such lection officers as are provided by law or the conducting of general city lections and that the ballots used at uch election shall have written or rin:ed thereon the following words: FOR ISSUING CITY BONDS FOR yATER WORKS AND SEWER GE. 265, ,000." AGAINST ISSUING CITY ,ONDS FOR WATER WORKS AND r. $2s5, 5,000," together with