The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-10-02
BOARD PROCEEDINGS
Proceedings of Board of Super.
visors in the September Session,
1919

Proceedings Of Board of Super.
visors in the September Session,
1919
Leon, Iowa, September 8, 1919.
The Board of Supervisors of the
county of Decatur, in the State OF
Iowa, met in regular session, pursu-
and to adjournment. The meeting
was called to order by the chairman,
and the roll being called, there were
Present: p. c. Morgan, chairman;
in the chair, and the following named
SUPERVISORS: w. H. Golfer and E.
J. Blair.
Supervisor w. H. Golfer intro
duced and read the resolution next
hereinafter set out, and moved its
adoption, seconded by p. J.. Blair,
and after due consideration thereof
by the Board, the chairman put the
question upon the adoption of said
resolution, and the roll being called,
the following named supervisors
voted:
Aye: Golfer, Blair and Morgan.
Nays: None.
Whereupon the chairman declared
said resolution duly adopted as fol-
\ lows:
] Resolution.
!, To provide for the issuance of
$38,O0O.0O funding bonds.
WHEREAS, The County Of Deca-
tur, in the State of Iowa, is body
corporate, duly organized and exist
ing under and by virtue of the laws
and Constitution of the State of
Iowa; and said county has a popula-
ton exceeding $4,000, and there is
not located within said county any
city Of the second class with a popu-
lation of 5000 or over which is ira
versed by stream two hundred
feet or more in width from shoreline
to shoreline, or any city of the first
class, or any special charter city:
and
WHEREAS, Said county now has
an Indebtedness in the amount OF
over $38,2O0.00, all evidenced by
valid warrants now remaining un.
paid, each issued in pursuance Of
Section All of the Code of Iowa, all
of which Indebtedness, thus evil
denced was on the first day of Sep
TENDER, 1919, and now is, outstand-
ing, payable and due; and
WHEREAS, All of said indebted
ness was contracted, incurred and
allowed, and each of said warrants
was executed and issued by order OF
the Board Of Supervisors Of said
county, for purposes authorized by
law, and in form, time and manner
required by law; and none of said
Indebtedness was incurred; and none
of said warrants were issued in VIOLA
ton of Sections 4O9-a ct seq. 423 ct
seq, 429, 440, 446 ct seq. or 2241 OF
the Code of Iowa and Code Supple
ments of any law mandatory thereof
or substitutive therefor, or supple
mentary or additional thereto, or in
violation of any law forbidding, re-
stricting or regulating the contract
ing or the mourning of Indebtedness
or the issuance of warrants, or IN
violation of any law whatever; and
WHEREAS, None of said indebt-
edness was incurred and none OF
said warrants were issued for the
purchase of any real estate, or for
the purchase or construction OF any
building; and
WHEREAS, An appropriation was
duly made by the Board of Super
visors of said county in strict com
pliance with Section 424 of the Code
Of Iowa for each of the bridges for
which any of said Indebtedness was
incurred or warrants issued; and
none Of said Indebtedness was in
Cured, and none of said warrants
were issued for the construction of
any bridge not county charge, or
for the construction of any bridge
costing more than $4,000 per lineal
construction Of any bridge entirely
within said county costing, including
substructure, superstructure and APP
proaches, more than $4,000 or for
the construction of any bridge across
a stream which is boundary Of
said county, costing, including sub
structure, superstructure and APP
proaches, more than SIS, 900; and
WHEREAS, None Of said indebt-
edness has ever been adjudicated to
be invalid and no litigation is pend
ing, prayed or threatened involving
the validity of any of said indebted
ness, and said Indebtedness is le-
gal, valid and binding obligation Of
said county, and all of said indebted
character that it can legally be fund
ed (and in the manner hereinafter
WHEREAS, It is deemed to the
best interests of said county to fund
said outstanding Indebtedness to the
amount of $3S,O00.OO; and
WHEREAS The amount, nature
said county now is and was o. the
first day Of September, 1919, includ-
ing the aforesaid Indebtedness, and
was at the time of the contracting
and of the mourning and of the al
lowing of each item of said indebted
ness, including Such item, sucn tnat
according to the last previous. State
and County tax lists no portion of
said county now is, or was at any
of said times, chargeable with taxa
ton (either levied or necessary at
forwards to be levied) to pay coun-
ty Indebtedness exceeding the limit
of one and One-Quarter per centum OF
the actual value of the taxable pro-
perty within such portion of said
county, and such that the total IN
debtedness of said county does not
now, and did not at any of the afore-
said times, exceed the Constitutional
or Statutory limitations; now there
fore
Be 1t Resolvde, by the Board of
Supervisors of the County Of Deca-
tur, in the State of Iowa:
Section 1. That for the purpose Of
funding the indebtedness of said
county in the amount of $38,00O.0 I.
referred to and proposed to be fund
ed in the preamble of this resolution
there are hereby authorized to be
issued thirty-eight (38) negotiable