The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-23
ATTEST:
G.. w. GROOM,
City Clerk.

G. w. GROOM,
City Clerk.
(Seal(
First Published March D, 1879
ORDINANCE NO. 354.
IAN ORDINANCE RELATING
TO THE CALLING OF AN
ELECTION FOR TIE PUR-
POSE. OF SUBMITTING TO
THE QUALIFIED PROPER
TY TAXPAYING ELECTORS
OF THE CITY OF ARDMORE,
CARTER COUNTY, STATE
OF OKLAHOMA, THE PROP
OSITION OF ISSUING THE
NEGOTIABLE UPON
BONDS OF SAID CITY TO
THE AMOUNT OF TWENTY
THOUSAND ($200O000) DOL
LARS FOR THE PURPOSE
OF PROVIDING FUNDS FOR
SECURING A SITE FOR A
PUBLIC PARK IN THE SEC
OND WARD OF THE CITY
OF ARDMORE, CARTER
COUNTY, OKLAHOMA AND
CONSTRUCTING DRIVE
WAYS AND WALKS THERE
IN AND ERECTING BUILD
INGS THEREON TO BE DE
VOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO
PUBLIC USE AND TO BE
OWNED AND CONTROLLED
EXCLUSIVELY BY SAID
CITY OF ARDMORE, AND
DECLARING AN EMERGEN-
CY.
BE 1T ORDAINED BY THE
BOARD OF COMMISSION
ERS OF THE CITY OF ARD
MORE, COUNTY OF CARTER,
STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
Section l. That a special election
be and the same is hereby called to
be held in the City OF Ardmore,
County OF Carter State OF Oklahoma
on Monday, April twenty-second,
1918, for the purpose of submitting
to the qualified property taxpaying
electors of said city, the following
proposition:
PROPOSITION.
Shall the City of Ardmore, Carter
County, State of Oklahoma. incur
an Indebtedness by issuing its ne
gotiable coupon bonds in the ag-
gregate principal sum of Twenty
Thousand ($20,000) Dollars for the
purpose OF providing funds for Sc
curing a site for a public park in
the Second Ward of the City of
Ardmore, Carter County, Oklahoma
and constructing driveways and
walks therein and erecting build
lngS thereon to be devoted exclus-
lively to public use and to be owned
and controlled exclusively by the
said City of Ardmore, and levy and
collect an annual tax in addition to
all other taxes upon all the taxable
property in said City of Ardmore,
sufficient to pay the interest on said
bonds as it falls due, and also to
constitute sinking fund for the
payment of the principal thereof
when due, said bonds to bear in
terest not to exceed five (5) per
cent per annum, payable semi-an-
nually and the principal sum to be-
come due within twenty-five (25)
years from date.
Section 2. That the Mayor of the
said City of Ardmore, County of
Carter, State OF Oklahoma, is here
by authorized and directed to call
said special election by proclama-
ton, specifying therein, the propo-
sition to be voted upon substantial
ly in the manner above set forth,
the time and place for holding said
election, the hours at which said
election shall open and close, the
names of the officers who shall CON
duct said election and the form OF
the ballot to be used thereat. Said
election shall be held as provided
by law for special elections, in ac-
cordance with the provisions of Sec
ton 458 of Chapter 10, Article 2, OF
the Revised Laws of Oklahoma OF
1910. The ballots for said election
shall be prepared by the City Clerk
OF Ardmore, Carter County, Okla
homa.
Section 5. All qualified electors
residing in said City OF Ardmore,
Carter County, Oklahoma, who are
also property taxpayers, shall be
to vote at said election on
the aforesaid proposition.
Section +. That by reason OF the
City of Ardmore being without 4
park in the Second Ward of said
city, it is deemed necessary for the
immediate preservation of the pub
lie peace, health, welfare and safe
ty, that said park be Immediately
selected and opened, and an emer-
gency is declared to exist by rea-
son thereof and this Ordinance
shall go into effect and become op-
erative Immediately from and after
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