The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-04-10
$20,000y0O
GREENWOOD, MISSISSIPPI.
STREET PAVING BONDS.

The City Council of the City of
Greenwood, in the County of Lef1ore
and State of Mississippi, met, pursu-
ant to adjournment on the 26th day of
March, A. D., 1917, the same being
an adjourned session of said council,
with the following members present:
G. L. Ray, Mayor, G. P. Elliott and
T. H. Baird, Councilmen.
There being a legal quorum pres
emit, the following ordinance was pre-
scented by G. L. Ray, and, upon motion
of G. P. Elliott, duly seconded by T.
H. Baird, wal unanimously passed and
adopted: AN ORDINANCE PRE-
! SCRIBING THE FORM AND DE-
| TAILS FOR THE ISSUANCE OF
OF THE TWENTY THOUSAND
DOLLARS ($2O,OOo) STREET I'M
PROvEMENT BONDS OF THE CITY
OF GREENWOOD, LEFLORE
COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI.
WHEREAS, by an ordinance duly
adopted and passed by the City Coun-
Gil of the City Of Greenwood, in the
County of Lefore, State of Mississippi,
on the 7th day Of November, A. D.
1916, ordering a special election to
be held on the 9Th day of December,
1916 for the purpose Of submitting
to the qualified electors Of said city,
who are legally qualified to vote at
such election, the question of incurr-
ing an Indebtedness to the amount Of
Twenty Thousand Dollars 100000
and issuing negotiable coupon bonds
of the City Of Greenwood, Mississippi,
to become payable within twenty
years after date, for the purpose Of
paving, curbing and guttering Wash
ington Street from Howard Street,
westwardly to Mary Street and that
part of Market Street, eastwardly to
Pelucia Bayou Bridge, and that part
Of Lamar Street from Marker Street
TO Carroiitoa Avenue; and,
WHEREAS, an election was duly and
regularly called and held In said City
Of Greenwood, Of the 9Th day u De-
cember, A. D., 1915; and, +,
WHEREAS, more than two-thirds
of the qualified electors of said City, :
at said election, voted in favor =
of the issuing of said bonds as afore- ;
said, !
NOW, THEREFORE, Be it ordained :
by the City Council of the City of \
Greenwood, telore County Mississip- t
pi, as follows: :
Section /. That the Mayor and A
Clerk of the City of Greenwood, Le- i.
lore County, Mississippi, be land they 4
IRE hereby, authorized and instructed y
have prepared, and to issue and E
for and On behalf Of the said :
Jity of Greenwood, the negotiable ;,
coupon bonds of said city to the 9
mount of Twenty Thousand Dollars +
$40, 0O0), which bonds shall be desig- =
lated STREET IMPROVEMENT =
and shall be in denomination L
# Five Hundred Dollars ($5O0.0O) :,
ZACH, numbered from mi ~ to forty !,
4O), both inclusive, and shall become !,
lue and payable Twenty years from :,
heir date. Said bonds shall bear in :.
at the rate of five per centem 4
5 per cent? per annum, payable ~
emi-annually on the first days of
une and December in each year, in r
awful money of the United States of ..
america, at the banking house Of the u
'irst National Bank, in the City Of i,
;hicago, Illinois. 9;
Section 2. That the said bonds shall ~
e signed by the Mayor and counter &.
igned by the Clerk Of said City Of y
Mississippi, and shall bear q,
he impress of the, corporate seal of IL
aid, City, and that the annexed in r
crest coupons shall be executed by D
he autographed facsimile signatures y
f said Mayor and Clerk, which litho-
signatures are hereby adopt
d by the said City.
Section 3. That said bonds and r,
oupons shall be in substantially the
blowing forms, respectfully, to-wit: q
o.. $500
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State of Mississippi NJ
County of Le1ore