Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, June 22, 1911 to February 7, 1922, lvc000001-169

Thereafter due consideration upon the part of the Board and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Board that the Bids of R.C. Dodds for the sum of ($275.00) is the best Bid of the bids hereto submitted to said Board, it was upon motion of Commissioner Sullivan and seconded by Commissioner Griffith and duly carried ordered that the Bid of R.C. Dodds be and the same is hereby accepted and the City Attorney be and is hereby instructed to draw up a contract between the said R.C. Dodds and the City of Las Vegas Nevada, said contract to be signed by the Mayor of said City in the interest of said City, the vote on said resolution being as follows towit:- Commissioners Griffith. aye. Sullivan aye. and his honor the Mayor W.E. Hawkins voting aye. There being no further business before the Board it was upon motion being duly made and carried ordered that this Board stand adjourned until the next regular meeting of this Board. Office of the City Clerk Las Vegas Nevada. March 3rd, A.D. 1915. At a regular session of the Board of City Commissioners in and for the City of Las Vegas Nevada held on the above mentioned date Present Hen. W.E. Hawkins Mayor, E.W. Griffith, J.B. Curtiss, E.E. Smith and P.J. Sullivan Commissioners with the City Clark and City Attorney. Minutes of the last regular meeting read and approved as read. Reports of officers read and approved as read, All claims against the City allowed except the Claim of M.M. Riley which was rejected by the Board upon the grounds that the same was a legal charge against the City of Las Vegas. At this time the Cemetery Committee appeared before the Board and represented to the Board the fact that it was necessary that some kind of a building be constructed upon the cemetery property in said City whereupon after due consideration upon the part of the Board it was upon motion of Commissioner Smith and seconded by Commissioner Griffith and duly carried ordered that the plans and specifications be drawn for said building and that the City Attorney be instructed to draw Notice to contractors asking for bids on said building to be submitted to this Board on the 15th day of March at 8:30 A.M. of said when all bids will be opened as per plans and specifications on file with the Clerk of this Board, the vote on said resolution being as follows towit :- Commissioner Griffith, aye, Curtiss, aye, Smith, aye, Sullivan, aye , and his honor the Mayor. W.E. Hawkins voting aye. At this time the Clerk read before the Board An Ordinance to amend section eight (8) of Ordinance No. 27 of the City of Las Vegas, entitled an Ordinance Fixing the Fire limits of the City of Las Vegas, regulating building Construction and the keeping and storage of Combustibles and explosives, whereupon after due consideration upon the part of the Board and it appearing to the Board that an emergency exists relative to said ordinance it was upon motion of Commissioner Griffith and sec­onded by Commissioner Sullivan and duly carried it was ordered that this ordinance be passed as an emergency ordinance as appears more fully in Ordinance Book number one of said City under Ordinance No. 59 of said City:- the vote on said resolution being as follows towit:- Commissioners Smith, aye, Griffith, aye, Curtiss, aye, Sullivan aye, and his honor the Mayor W.E. Hawkins voting aye. The Clerk then read an ordinance before the Board to amend Section one of ordinance No. 57 of the City of Las Vegas entitled an Ordinance to amend Section seven of Ordinance No. 33, entitled an Ordinance regulating the distribution of Intoxicating liquors and regulating places where liquors are sold or otherwise distributed, providing for permits and licenses and repealing Ordi­nance No. 3, and all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict therewith, and introducing a new section therein; for the first reading before the Board whereupon motion of Commissioner Griffith and seconded by Commissioner Sullivan and duly carried it was ordered that this