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Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, June 22, 1911 to February 7, 1922, lvc000001-51

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    after due consideration of the matter of the refusal of said Sutherlin & Co. to agree to said contract of date January 19th, 1912. the following resolution was adopted towit: and the Clerk and Mayor of this Board is hereby authorized to send the following telegram to said Sutherlin & Co. Las Vegas, Nevada January 30th, 1912. Sutherlin & Co. Commerce Bldg. Kansas City Mo. Your letter twenty fourth instant received, Board of Commissioners by resolution passed today require you either accept their offer as per draft of contract dated the nineteenth instant and transmitted in letter of City Clerk dated the twentieth instant or all negotiations are hereby closed. if proposition is accepted by you wire us immediately and your telegram of acceptance together with this telegram and the draft of contract as signed by you and transmitted in your letter of twenty fourth instant will form completed contract that will restore those portions stricken out of the draft of the agreement by you otherwise transmitt all papers plans specifications and contracts to First State Bank here and your contract and check will be delivered. Peter Buol. Mayor. Attested: Harley A. Harmon City Clerk. The vote upon said resolution was as follows towit: McGovern, aye, Stewart aye, Von Tobel, aye, his Honor the Mayor Peter Buol , aye,. It was then upon motion duly made and carried ordered that said Board adjourn untill the next regular meeting in February 1912. Office of the City Clerk Las Vegas, Nevada February 7th, A.D. 1912. At a regular meeting of the Board of City Commissioners in and for the City of Las Vegas, Nevada. Present Hon. Peter Buol. Mayor, Commissioners Coughlin, $$$$$$$$, Stewart, and Von Tobel. Minutes of the last special meeting held January 30th, A.D. 1911. read and approved as read. Reports of officers read and approved and ordered filed. All Bill allowed per claim, except the claim of the Clark County Review for printing ordinance of the Consolidated Light and power Company for a gas franchise, which was ordered returned to said Clark County Review as the said claim was a charge against the Consolidated Light and power Company, and not the City of Las Vegas, Nevada. At this time the following was read before the Board : Pasadena California. January 22nd 1912 To the Mayor and City Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada. Gentlemen: I the undersigned Philip Buck do hereby petition your Hon Body to grant to me, my heirs and assigns a 25 year franchise (City to have the right of purchase)on appraised value at any time during the life of the franchise), to lay water mains in the streets alleys and public places of Bucks Subdivision of Las Vegas Nevada. and extensions therefrom to and through other legal divisions of the City of Las Vegas Nevada, subject to the regulations of the Board of City Commissioners, To sell water for Irrigation and domestic use. Yours truly. Philip Buck. After due consideration upon the part of the Board it was upon motion of Von Tobel and seconded by Coughlin and duly carried ordered that said request be granted, and that Philip Buck be granted a franchise, thereafter the Clerk proceeded to read before the Board an ordinance covering the same, after further deliberations upon the part of the Board it was upon motion of Stewart and seconded by Von Tobel order and duly carried ordered that said franchise