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; e It ,"~ e' Texas, for value received, hereby promises to pay to the bearer hereof on the 10th day of April, 1928, the sum of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS in lawful money'of' the United States of America, with interest thereon from the date hereof, at the rate of 6% per annU41, interest payable April lO, 1927, and semi-annually thereafter on the lOth day of October and the lOth day of April, each year, principal and interest payable upon presentation and sur- rehder of bond or proper coupon at the Hanover National Bank of New York, N. Y., and the City of La Porte, Texas, is hereby held and firmly bound and its faith and credit and all real ~ and personal property in said City ~re hereby pledged for the prompt payment of the prinCipal of this bond and the interest 'I:;hereon at mat'\.i.I'ity. ~ This bond is one of a series of thirty bonds numbered consecutively from 1 to 30 inclusive, of the denomination of Ul,OOO.OO each, aggregating ~30,000.OO, issued for the pUl~pose of eonstruction of waterworks for the City of La Porte, Texas, within its limits as authorized by the Constitution and laws of the state or.' ~~xes, inoluding Ch~pter 9, of the Gener'al Laws enacted by the T~irty-oeventh Legislature at its regular ses- sion in 1921, and Chapters 1 and 7, Title 22, Revised Statutes of 1925; and in pursuance of an ordinance passed by the City Council of the City of La Porte, Texas, on the 17~ay of ftrt }... , 1925, which ordinance is of record in 'the r,Iinutes of said City. The date of this bond, in conformity with the ordi- nance above mentioned, is November lO, 1925. It is hereby certified and recited that the issuance '.... , ~ ----- -..... .'...,\ of this bond, and the series of bonds of which this is one, is duly authorized by law and by a vote of tho qualified property tax paying 'voters of the City of La Porte, Texas, voting at an election held for that purpose within said City on the 7th day ~f November, 1925; and that all acts, conditions and tcings required to be done precedent to and in the issuance of this serieu of bonds and of this bond, have been properly