Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, June 22, 1911 to February 7, 1922, lvc000001-134

Upon motion of Commissioner Curtiss and seconded by Commissioner Griffith and duly carried it was ordered that the following resolution be adopted" Resolved that an Ad Valorm tax of one dollar be and the same is hereby levied for the year 1914. upon each one hundred dollars worth of taxable property situated and lying within the limits of the City of Las Vegas, Clark County Nevada, including the net proceeds of the mines, except such property as is exempt by law from taxation; such tax to be Known and used as " The City of Las Vegas tax for the year 1914," according to the provisions of section 51 of an Act of the state of Nevada, entitled " An Act to incorporate the town of Las Vegas, in Clark County, and defining the boundaries thereof, and to authorize the establishment of a City Government therefor, and other matters relating thereto." approved March 16th, 1911. Be it further resolved, that said tax rate of one dollar as above mentioned and specified by levied in the amounts and for the purposes and special fund of the City as follows towit:- Sinking fund six cents (6) sewer bond interest fund (28 cents) Street fund (30 cents) General fund (36 cents) and that when collected the same be apportioned to said special funds as provided and above specified. The Board then took up the matter of the Bids on sidewalks as presented at the morning session whereupon motion of Commissioner Griffith and seconded by commissioner Sullivan it was ordered that this Board take an adjournment of this meeting until February 16th, at ten o'clock A.M. to consider said bids and any matters that may come before said Board. the vote being as follows towit:- Commissioners Griffith, aye, Curtiss, aye, Sullivan aye, and his honor the Mayor. W.E. Hawkins voting aye, Office of the City Clerk Las Vegas Nevada. February 16th, A.D. 1914. At a regular meeting of the Board of City Commissioners in and for the City of Las Vegas Nevada, held on the 16th, day of February A.D. 1914 pursuant to adjournment Present Hon. W.E. Hawkins Mayor, with Members P.J. Sullivan, John B. Curtiss, and E.W. Griffith, E.E. Smith Commissioner being absent. This being the time set by the Board of City Commissioners for the letting of the contract for street work as per Notice given and said bids having been opened at the regular meeting of the Board but final decision having been postponed until this date, it was upon motion being duly made by Commissioner Griffith seconded by Commissioner Curtiss and carried ordered that the contract for building sidewalks in said City of Las Vegas Nevada as advertised for be granted to Ja.A. Delameter of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada his bid being the lowest bid upon his filing a good and sufficient bond in the sum of two thousand Five hundred dollars to be approved by the Board. Upon motion being duly made and carried it was ordered that the City Attorney be and is hereby instructed to have written contract drawn to be submitted to the Board for the faithful performance of said work, At this time the Clerk read a protest from J.H. Ladd to the Board whereby the said J.H. Ladd protest against the using of a certain highway through his property whereby upon motion being duly made andncarrled it was ordered that the same be placed on file.