O-1925-196 A Contract Entered Into by and Between the Mayor of the CLP and R.C. Barber for the Sale and Purchase of the Fire Engine and Certain Fire Hose for Said City

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warrant and the contrnot by nuthority of which said vicirrnnt vino issued, ond the bonrer hereof is authorized to collect the same and to give re aeipt and nequittanca therefor, Ile 1thon the warrants 1wreby nuthoriszod to be issued have been properly executed, they shrill be delivctred to saki I?. C. Barbee under a resolution passed by the city council authorising such delivery, and said resolution shall recite that said ri. C. Barbee has delivered said fire ongine and fire h000 to tho City of La forte; that the dity council of ®aid city has tested said fire engine and fire hose and has, accept -ad E1Yv1 received the name as f'�u-nishod according to contract and that said R, Go Sarrbee Is entitled to receive said warranted 12. It is further ordained by the city eounoil, that while said warrants, or any of them, are outstanding foul unpaid, there shall be, and it le hereby ordered that t1-ore be levied, assessed and collected, in due time, form and manner a tax upon all taxable property in said City of La Porte, sufficient to pay the current Interest on snid warrants and the principal thereof at maturity, and to pay the interest on stild warrants and to provide the re- quisite oinking fund for the first year there is hereby levied for the year 1025 a trot of nncl tit the rate of eighteen canto (18;t) on enoli t5104.00 valuation ol!` taxn' ile property in nrtid city, and while said warrants, or tiny of them, are outstanding said uppnid, a trot for eaoh yenr at a rate, from year to year, an will be apple and sufficient to proMde funds to pay the owrrent interest on said warrants and to provide the necessary nicking fund, full allowrance being made for delinquenoies and coats of collection, shall, be, and is hereby levied for each years, respoctively, while said warrants or any of them a-ro outatwiding ruxi unpaid, and said tax shall enoh year be assessed and collected and applied to the ( l payment of the interest on, and prinoipiLl of, atild warranted 'lhe fact that the City of La Porte :.l-.e no adequate equip- Toent, for fio-.t}n? fire and that this engine an_i hose a--e necessary r one pro tec Sion of the homes andbusiness hou:3es of the citizens of La Porte creates an emergency and imperative public necessity requiring than G=ze constitutional rule that or..inaa�ceSs 1 1 be read on three Several days, be suspended, au _ saiC. r", e i S tli1 ref ore herely suspended, and this ordinance s sal 1 taze effe c , an ,_ be in _f,. roe from and of her its oassage, end it is so ordained.