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Office of the City Clerk Las Vegas, Nevada. Las Vegas, Nevada. March 7th, 1917. At a regular meeting of the Board of City Commissioners in and for the City of Las Vegas, Nevada held on the 7th day of March A.D. 1917. Present Hon. W.E. Hawkins Mayor. with Commissioners Matzdorf. Farnsworth, Ball and Elwell. with the Clerk and City Attorney being present. Minutes of the last regular meeting read and approved as read. Reports of officers read and approved as read. All claims against the City of Las Vegas, Read and approved ad read and on file with the Clerk of this Board except the claims of Bert French for ten dollars and Dan Mc Donald for Four Dollars and the Claim of John Webber for Four dollars which were laid ever to be approved by the parties ordering the same. At this time the Clerk proceeded to read an Ordinance for second reading before the Board as amends section 22 of Ordinance No, 66, Entitled " An Ordinance regulating Travel and Traffic upon the Public Streets of the City of Las Vegas Nevada." Whereupon after reading said Ordinance in full to the Beard it was then upon motion being duly made and carried upon motion of Commissioner Elwell and seconded by Commissioner Matzdorf and duly carried ordered that said Ordinance be passed as appears mere fully in Ordinance Book Number one of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada Under Ordinance No. 67 of said City, the vote upon said Ordinance being as follows towit; Commissioners Matzdorf, aye, Farnsworth aye, Farnsworth, aye, Elwell, aye, Ball aye, and his honor the Mayor W.E. Hawkins voting aye, Noes None. The Board than proceeded to take up the Tax rate for the Year 1917. and found the following towit; That An Ad Valorm Tax of Eighteen Cents on each one hundred dollars worth of taxable property situated, lying lying and being within the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, be levied, collected and Paid for the year 1917. including the next proceeds of the mines except such property as is exempt from taxation, and said tax to be known as and used as the Sewer bond interest fund of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada. It was further ordered by the Board that there be levied, collected and paid for the year 1917 An Ad Valorum tax of Ten cents on each one hundred dollars worth of taxable property situate lying and being within the City limits of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, including the next proceeds of the mines except such property as is exempt from taxation, said tax to be known as and used as Sinking fund for sewer bonds of said City of Las Vegas, Clark County Nevada. It was farther ordered by the Board that there be levied , collected and paid for the year 1917. An Ad Valorum Tax of Twenty cents on each one hundred dollars worth of taxable property situate lying and being within the City Limits of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada. including the next proceeds of the mines except such property as is exempt from taxation, said Tax to be known as and used as the street fund of said City of Las Vegas, Clark County Nevada. Whereupon motion of Commissioner Ball and seconded by Commissioner Farnsworth and duly carried ordered that the foregoing tax rate be and the same is hereby established for the year 1917. the vote upon said resolution being as follows towit: Commissioners Matzdorf, aye, Farnsworth, aye, Elwell aye, Ball aye, and his honor the Mayor W.E. Hawkins voting aye. The Question of providing funds for fire equipment coming on before the Beard and it appearing to the Board that it will take a sum equally to Two Thousand dollars for said equipment and it further appearing to said Beard that said equipment is badly needed in said City, it was then upon motion of Commissioner Matzdorf and seconded by Commissioner Elwell and duly carried ordered that the sum of two Thousand be and the same is hereby transferred from the General fund of the City of Las Vegas Nevada, to the Fire Department fund and said City Treasurer is hereby directed to open up said Fund and that the matter of purchasing said equipment be passed for the present.