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Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, January 7, 1947 to October 26, 1949, lvc000006-538

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    508 RESOLUTION WHEREAS there is now pending the Legislature of the State of Nevada a bill providing for taxation on the gross revenue of gaming clubs, and WHEREAS, the Board of the City Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas feels that such a tax la at the present time unnecessary, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of City Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas that the Clark County delegation to the State Legislature in hereby notified to fight against the bill now pending in the State Legislature providing for the tax­ation of the gross revenue of gaming clubs, and RE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that if it shall appear that the passage of such a bill is eminent that the Clark County Delegation attempt to administrate said bill to pro­vide that fifty per cent (50%) of the tax so collected shall go to the City, twenty-five per cent (25%) to the County and twenty-five (25%) to the State as is the case in the present tax collected by the County. This resolution war read and adopted March 7, 1945. —ooOoo— RESOLUTION WHEREAS, it has come to the attention of the Board of City Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada that the local troop of Girl Scouts in Las Vegas gave great aid and encouragement and spent a great amount of time and energy in the drive for Cadet Nurses in Las Vegas, Nevada, NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of City Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas that a vote of gratitude by extended to the local Girl Scouts in Las Vegas, Nevada for their aid and assistance in the recent drive for Cadet Nurses in the Las Vegas Area. This resolution was adopted on March 21, 1945. ---------0-------- RESOLUTION At the last meeting of the Board of Directors of the Clark County Humane Society, held March 24th, 1945, it was moved, seconded and carried that the following Resolution be adopted: BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Directors of the Clark County Humane Society hereby authorize the President, Mrs. Earnest Amante, and the Secretary, Lois Craig, to sign the Contract for the year 1945, between the Clark Couth Humane Society and the City of Las Vegas, and any other papers required by the City to complete the agreement, and secure the monthly payments from the City as therein agreed. Signed: Lois Craig, Secretary His Honor, Mayor Cragin, ordered the foregoing Resolution filed. RESOLUTION : BE IT RESOLVED, this 9th day of May, 1945, by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, County of Clark, State of Nevada, that the deed, dated the 30th day of April, 1945, executed by Roman Catholic Bishop of Reno, a corporation sole, Thomas K. Gormen, incumbent, to the city of Las Vegas, County of Clark, State of Nevada, and that the real property described therein be, and is hereby accepted for the purposes and intentions as therein set forth; and, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a copy of this Resolution be attached to said deed, and that the same be recorded in the Office of the county Recorder of the County of Clark, State of Nevada, and filed in the records of this Board. This resolution was unanimously adopted May 9, 1945. ----ooOoo--—