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~" ~`, - .... ,;. • • MINUTES - REGULAR MEETING LA PORTE CTPY EOMII~SSTON -NOVEMBER 20, 1952 4:30 P. M. Regular meeting of the City Commission was called to order by Mayor M. D. Burgin, nth the foL~ owing members a~xi city officials present: Commissioners L, R. Rigby and Robert A.White, Supt. of Public ~~arks W.A. Arthur, City .Attor- ney Edward J. Cade, and City Clerk J.E. Muldoon. M~.ut es of the last meetir~; were read and approved. Mr. Vance Turner, Building, Plumbing & ~I.ectrical Inspector, appearedbefore the Co..ssion and gave a report a£ t he wok in his off ioe. Motion by Rigby, second by White, that Ordinance No. l~36, being AN ORDINANCE MAKING IT UNLAWFUL TO DAMACTE, DIS_9SSEMBLE OR IN ANY 1~'AY INT FRFEftE WITH THE NORMAL OPERATION 0 F A C ITY WATER MEi'E~; E#i. ANY PART THEREOF, AND PROVTDIN(' FOR A PENA7~TY OF NOT LESS ~'HAN TWENTY--FIVE DOLLARS (25.00) NOR MORE THAN T;YO HUNDRID DOLLARS (200.00) OR BY' IMPRISONMIl~tT NOT EXCLELi1NG SIX MONTHS, Cffi, BY' BOTH SUCH FINE AND IMPRISONMr'NT, ~f~ be adopted as read. Carried. The Mayor introduced an Ordinance calling a Bond Election. The Ordinance was read in full arm CommissionFx Rigby moved that it be adopted. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Ythite, and carried by the follmwing vote: AYES: Mayor Burgin, Commissioners White and Rigby. NOES: None. The ordin- ance thus adopted follows: BE IT ORDAINED by t by City Commission of the City of La Porte, Taxas: S ecti on 1: That an el ection shall be held in anti throughout the City of La Pore, Texas, on the 9th day of December, 1952, at which election the fo]~.o~ri.ng propositions shall be submitted to the duly qualified. resident electc;~'s of said City who own taxable propert,~.within said City a¢Zdwho have duly rendered the same far' taxation, far' their action ther'~pon: PROPOSITION N0. CH~1E ~y,~. ~. SHALL THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LA PC~tTE, TEXAS BE AUTHORIZID TO TISSUE THE BONDS OF SAID CITY IN THE AMOUNT OF X200, 000, MATURING SERIALLY WITHIN TH~T~€ ;(30) YEAP,S ~CTti[ THEM DATE 08 IIDATES, AND BEARING INTEREST AT g RATE NOT TO EXCEED F~ ;(~~) PIlTCENT PER ANNUT~, FOR THE ACQUISITION OF A CAPITAL PROJECT, TO 1~TIT : CONSTRIICi'ING ASiD IMPROVING THE ROAR>, BRIDGES AMID STREETS OF SAID CITY AND TO LEPY TAXES ON ALT., TAXABLE PROPERTY WITHIN SAID CITY' SUFFICIENT TO PAY THE ANNUAL INTEREST ~ SAID BONDS AND TO PROVIDE A SINRI1+iG FUND TO PAY THE PRIDTCIPAL THEREOF AT MATURITY. 69