Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, June 22, 1911 to February 7, 1922, lvc000001-28

by the City Clerk thereof over the seal of said City and shall have attached and appended thereto, interest coupons which shall be the promise of said City of Las Vegas to pay the amounts therein specified in gold coin of the present standard of weight and fineness at the semi-annual time therein mentioned. Section 4. And to the end that such bonds may legally be made, executed and issued by the said City of Las Vegas, the said City Commissioners thereof does hereby ordain that an election be and is hereby called to be held in the said City of Las Vegas on the 10th. day of October, 1911 and at such election there shall be submitted to the qualified electors of said City the question "Shall the City of Las Vegas issue sewerage bonds to the sum and extent of $40,000.00?" which question so to be voted upon shall be placed upon the ballot in the form provided by paragraph 5 of Section 31 of Chapter 132 of the Statutes of Nevada passed at the session of 1911 and which Chapter was approved by the Governor on March 16, 1911. Section 5. And be it further ordained: That notice of holding of such election be given to the public by advertising the holding thereof in the newspapers commonly known and called the Las Vegas Age and the Clark county Review both whereof are published in the City of Las Vegas, for the period of four weeks and by posting notice thereof in at least three public places in said City for at least four weeks prior to the holding of such election. Such notice to be so drawn and drafted that their contents shall advise those who may read them of the time, place and purpose of holding the election therein specified. Section 6. And the Municipal Judge is hereby directed to forthwith open books of registration and register all electors, competent and qualified to vote at the election by this ordinance called to be held, and such books of registration are to be kept and held open by the said municipal judge until 6:00 o'clock P. M. of the 11th. day next proceeding the day upon which the election provided for by this ordinance is to be held. Section 7. And E. Fenner and John W. Tuck and George Swadener are hereby chosen and designated and appointed by the said City Commissioners to act as inspectors at such election so- called as aforesaid, and they shall, and are hereby authorized to select and appoint two competent and qualified persons to act as clerks at such election. Read the first time September 6, 1911 Read the second time, September 6, 1911. Passed and adopted by the following vote on the question; "Shall the foregoing become the by-law and ordinance of the City of Las Vegas?" Commissioner Coughlin voting yes; Commissioner McGovern voting yes; Commissioner Stewart voting yes; commissioner Von Tobel voting yes; his Honor the Mayor voting yes, and by virtue thereof the said ordinance and by-law is passed and carried. Attest: Harley A. Harmon, Clerk Peter Buol, Mayor September 6, 1911. And whereas, the said Board of Commissioners by a motion duly made, seconded and carried unanimously and duly entered on the minutes of said meeting, ordered that under and by virtue of the authority vested in them by Chapter 132 of the laws of the state of Nevada passed at the 25th. Session of the Legislature thereof and 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," and approved March 16, 1911 the question of contracting a bonded indebtedness of $40,000.00 for the purpose of constructing a system of sewerage in the City of Las Vegas, Nevada be submitted to the legally qualified electors of said City at a special election to be held in said City as provided by said Act. That said bonds bear interest at six per cent payable semi-annually and that they are issued in denominations and payable as set forth in the above ordinance. Now therefore, in