Skip to main content

Search the Special Collections and Archives Portal

Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, March 1, 1922 to May 10, 1929, lvc000002-53

Image

File
Download lvc000002-053.tif (image/tiff; 59.9 MB)

Information

Digital ID

lvc000002-053
    Details

    Rights

    This material is made available to facilitate private study, scholarship, or research. It may be protected by copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity rights, or other interests not owned by UNLV. Users are responsible for determining whether permissions are necessary from rights owners for any intended use and for obtaining all required permissions. Acknowledgement of the UNLV University Libraries is requested. For more information, please see the UNLV Special Collections policies on reproduction and use (https://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/research_and_services/reproductions) or contact us at special.collections@unlv.edu.

    Digital Provenance

    Digitized materials: physical originals can be viewed in Special Collections and Archives reading room

    Publisher

    University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

    sidered as my application to fill the vacancy existing in your Board of City Commissioners, to-wit: Sewer and Light Commissioner. Respectfully yours, W.R. Burns. Las Vegas, Nevada. December 15,1922. Honorable Board of City Commissioners, Of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada. Gentlemen: I respectfully make application for appointment to the vacancy of Commissioner of the Fourth Class of the Board of City Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada subject to the discretion of the Board. Yours respectfully, H.J. Woodard. Honorable Mayor, and Board of City Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. Gentlemen: Pursuant to your announcement in the last edition of the Las Vegas papers, we the undersigned respectfully submit the name of Mr. Harry Blanding for your consideration in filling the va­cancy on your honorable Board; he is a business man ,well and fav­orably known in this City and if appointed he will have the full confidence of all who know him, and prove a valuable addition to the membership of your honorable board. Most respectfully submitted. Leslie R. Saunders W.R. Burns Conklin Bros. by H.D.B. A.A. Hinman Carl D. Farrar, White Cross Drug Go. A.W. Ham C.P. Ball Leo A. McNamee O.K. Adcock E.H. Hunting M.E. Ward C.C. Ronnow Will Beckley C.E. Pembroke Elbert Howard Dr. Roy W. Martin C.P. Squires Walter R. Bracken O.C. Boggs W.H. Pike W.E. Ferron E.E. Smith A.R. Anderson E.W. Griffith W.S. Park I.C. Johnson J.H. Lightfoot After general discussion of the application submitted the Mayor Pro Tem announced that nominations were in order ,whereupon W.E. Arnold placed in nomination the name of Harry Blanding, the same being seconded by Commissioner Hodgens. Thereupon it was the motion of Commissioner Arnold, seconded by Commissioner Hodgens that nominations be closed. Voting on said motion Commissioners Arnold and Hodgens, and Mayor Pro Tem Dentner, Aye. Noes, none. Thereupon the name of Harry Blanding was submitted to vote as Commissioner of the Fourth Class of the City of Las Vegas, the vote being as follows: Commissioners Arnold, and Hodgens, and Mayor Pro Tem Dentner, Aye. Noes, none. Thereupon the bond of Harry Blanding as Commissioner of the Fourth Class of the City of Las Vegas was presented, said bond being in the sum of One thousand Dollars, with W.E. Ferron and Roy W. Martin as sureties thereon, the same having been heretofore approved by W.J. Stewart, Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners of Clark County, Nevada. It was the order of the Board that said bond be approved, upon motion of Commissioner Arnold, seconded by Commissioner Hodgens, the same appearing to be a good and sufficient bond. Voting on said motion Commissioners Arnold, Hodgens, and Mayor Pro Tem Dentner, Aye, Noes, none. Thereupon Harry Blanding took the oath of office as Commissioner of the Fourth Class of the City of Las Vegas, and assumed his seat. It was the order of the Mayor that Commissioner Blanding serve as Water, Sewer and Light Commissioner of the City of Las Vegas. There being no further business to come before the Board at this time, it was the order og the Board upon motion of Commissioner Hodgens, seconded by Commissioner Arnold, that the Board adjourn until Wednesday , the third day of January, A.D. 1923, at the hour of three o'clock p.m. Voting on said motion Commissioners Arnold, Blanding and Hodgens, and Mayor Pro Tem Dentner Aye. Noes, none.