Arizona republican., 1919-07-01
Legal Advertising
ORDINANCE NO. 271.

AN ORDINANCE DIRECTING AND
 CALLING A SPECIAL ELECTION
 WITHIN THE CITY OF PHOENIX,
 ARIZONA, FOR THE PURPOSE OF
 SUBMITTING TO THE QUALIFIED
 ELECTORS THEREIN, THE PROP
 OSITION OF INCURRING AN IN
 DEBTEDNESS BY THE CITY OF
 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, IN EXCESS
 OF FOUR PER CENT OF THE
 VALUE OF THE TAXABLE PROP
 ERTY OF THE SAID CITY OF
 PHOENIX, BUT NOT EXCEEDING
 FIFTEEN PER CENT THEREOF,
 BY THE ISSUING OF THE NEGO-
 TABLE COUPON BONDS OF SAID
 CITY IN THE AGGREGATE PRIN-
 CIPAL SUM OF ONE MILLION,
 THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND
 DOLLARS FOR THE PURPOSE OF
 PUR CHI ASING, CONSTRUCTING
 AND INSTALLING A WATER
 WORKS SYSTEM TO SUPPLY
 SAID CITY WITH WATER, SAID
 WATERWORKS SYSTEM TO BE
 OWNED AND CONTROLLED EX-
 CLUSIVELY BY SAID CITY, AND
 DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
 WHEREAS, in the opinion of the Commission of the City of Phoenix, a municipal corporation within the Coun- ty of Maricopa, State of Arizona, the public interests demand that bonds of said City be issued for the purpose of acquiring funds for the purchase, construction and installation of a waterworks system for said City, and the inhabitants thereof, to be owned and controlled exclusively by said City of Phoenix, and that an indebtedness 10 0raated tharafnr 11U fhn iSCl1i1O nf bonds in the aggregate principal sum of One Million Three Hundred Thous- and Dollars, for the purpose of pur- chasing, constructing and installing a waterworks system. and
 WHEREAS, it is provided by Chapter 2, Title 52, of the Revised Statutes of Arizona, 1913, Civil Code) that prior to the creation of said indebtedness and the issuance of bonds therefor, the question of whether said indebted ness shall be authorized, shall be sub- mitted to the vote of the property taxpayer of the City of Phoenix, who in all other respects shall be qualified electors in said City, for their deter imitation; NOW, THEREFORE
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COMMIS-
 SION OF THE CITY OF PHOENIX,
 AS FOLLOWS:
 Section l. That with the assent of said property taxpayers, who in all other respects shall be qualified elec- tors of the City of Phoenix as hereinaf- ter provided, bonds of the City of Phoe- nxi shall be issued in the aggregate sum of $1,300, ,000.00, and the proceeds of the sale thereof shall be used for the purpose of purchasing, construct ing and installing a waterworks sys- trm to be owned and controlled by said City; that said bonds shall bear the date of their issuance and shall mature January l, 1850; they shall be in the denomination of S1,000.00 each and shall be numbered consecutively from one to thirteen hundred, both inclusive; they shall be payable to bearer and bear interest as evidenced by coupons at tached thereto at the rate of per cent per annum, payable semi annually or the first days of January and July beginning January l, 1920. at some bank in the City of New York, State of New York; said bonds shall be signed and attested by the Mayor and City Clerk and coupons for the interest i thereon shall be attached to each o1 said bonds and each of said coupons | shall bear a fac -simile of the sigma l lures of the Mayor and City Clerk as such signatures appear on said bonds. l Section 2. That a special election by 1 the property tax payers of the City oi Phoenix, who in all other respects shal l be qualified electors of said City, be and the same is, hereby called and di- rected to be held in accordance witt law on the 18th day of July, A. D. 1919 | for the purpose of determining whether such indebtedness in such amount shal be authorized.
 1 Section 5. That at said special cleo ton the following question shall be, anC ! is, hereby submitted to the legall!