Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-05-13
Proclamation
To the Qualified Voters of the City Of

City of Wheeling did, at regular
held on the goth day Of April
1915, adopt regularly and according t.
law, an ordinance in words and figures
as follows, that is to say:
AN ORDINANCE to provide for the
issue and sale of onds Of the City OF
Wheeling to be known as Filtration
bonds of 1916" and for the redemption
and payment thereof.
Whereas, the City of Wheeling Is at
present without supply OF filtered
water and there is a pressing ana
e,nt demand for a filtration system
20 supply filtered water to those per-
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of Wheeling; and
Whereas, al :, preferential electlc
held on July S., 1914, the citizens i
the said city did express a preference
for what is known as the Smith SLOW
Sand Filtration System above all
other systems then submitted to the
said citizens; and
Whereas, the construction of such a
system will require a vast amount OF
money and the said city of Wheeling
is unable to furnish the funds neces-
sary for the construction aforesaid
without the issue of bonds; therefore
BE 1T ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF WHEELING:
Section /. That for the purpose OF
providing means for the installing fl
the benefit of the city OF Wheeling
what is known as the Smith Slow
San Filtration Plant of twenty million
10000, O0O) gallons daily capacity, to-
gether with ten 10) twenty-four inch
supply lines from filter beds to the
valve chamber and auxiliary pumping
station; to construct the valve cham
Der and auxiliary pumping station with
four "a ten million 10,000,000) gallon
centrifugal pumps; to construct a COW
cred concrete reservoir of five million
q, 000,000) gallon capacity near the
said auxiliary station; to construct a
thirty-si xinch cast-iron pipe line from
the reservoir to the present city pumps
ing station; to purchase all necessary
cites for said reservoir, station and
plant land what other accessories may
be required by said system; to pur-
chase all necessary rights of way for
water mains, pipe lines and sewers,
and to purchase such other rights of
way or properties as may be necessary
in connection with the installation of
said Smith Slow Sand Filtration Sys-
tem," the Mayor and Auditor Of the
city of Wheeling be, and they are
hereby authorized and directed to
make and on the 1st day of July, 1915,
or as soon thereafter as practicable, to
deliver to the commissioners herein
after named and appointed, the bonds
of the city of Wheeling dated on the
first day of July, 1915, for an amount
|aggregating not more than six hundred
and forty thousand dollars, ($540,;
00O.00) which bonds shall be of the
following denominations, namely:
Six hundred and forty (640) of the
said bonds shall be of the denOmina-
ito nof five hundred dollars ($5OO.OO)
each;
Three hundred and twenty (320) of
the said bonds shall be of the denomi-
nation of one thousand dollars
each.
Said bonds shall be numbered frol:
81" to 1860" inclusive. The said bonds
shall be payable on or before the Is
day of July, 1919, at the Office of the
Treasurer of the City Of Wheeling
The said 'onds shall bear interest at
the rate of five per centum per annum
payable annually on the first day of
July, 1916, and on the first day of July
in each year thereafter until and in
Guiding the year 1949, and the said in
terest shall be payable at the same
place hereinbefore designated for the
payment of bonds. For the said in
terest, coupons in proper form shall bf
attached to each bond, with the sigma
ture of the Auditor of the city of
Wheeling engraved thereon. The said
bonds shall be signed by the Mayor
countersigned by the Auditor and seal
ed with the seal of the said city.
Sec. 2. John F. He'll, Charles A.
! Bowers and Fidelius Riester are here
by appointed and elected commission
ers, and they are hereby empowered
and instructed to sell said bonds IL
the manner provided by chapter 141
of the acts Of 187241S73. and any sub
sequent acts of the Legislature of the
State of West Virginia amendatory OF
said chapter al of the acts of 1872
1873. and to perform the other acts
and duties hereinafter named, provid-
ed, however, that no bond shall be
sold at less than its par value in cash,
and provided further that no one OF
said commissioner shall act under this
ordinance until he shall have given
bond with good security to be APPROX
ed by council, in the penalty Of ten
thousand dollars ($10,000.00), condi-
toned as in the case of official bonds.
Sec. 8. The said bonds shall be is
sued only for the purpose Of installing
what is known as the Smith Slow
Sand Filtration System" and all ne
cessary equipment and appendages
thereunto appertaining. And the ex-
penditure of the funds to be raised by
the sale Of said bonds shall be for the
following purposes and the amount to
be expended for each purpose shall
not exceed the following amounts:
- First, for the construction of
what is known as the Smith Ma
tural Slow Sand (iltration Plant of
twenty million 10000, 000), gallons
daily capacity, together with ten
(10) twenty-four inch supply lines
from filter beds to the valve cham
Der and auxiliary pumping. station,
$3.50, 100000;
Second, for. the construction Of
the valve chamber and auxiliary