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    564 RESOLUTION 210 Commissioner Peccole introduced and moved the following resolution be adopted: WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas by Emergency Ordinance No. 432 passed, adopted and approved the 25th of October, 1950, declared its determination to make certain public improvements as therein provided, and fixed a time in which protests against the proposed improvements or the creation of such district might be heard and consid­ered by said Board, and directed notice thereof to be given, and WHEREAS, said Board determined that said notice was given in the manner prescribed by the Charter of the City of Las Vegas, and WHEREAS, the owners of more than one-half the frontage to be assessed have not filed written objections to the creation of said district, and WHEREAS, no objections suggestions, comments nor questions were made or raised at the protest hearing, and WHEREAS, said Board by Ordinance No. 441 created Street Improvement Assessment Dis­trict No. 100-3 for the purpose of making said improvements, and WHEREAS, said Board has done all things necessary and preliminary to the letting of the contract for doing the work and making said improvements. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas at a regular meeting thereof held on the 20th day of December, 1950, that the City Engineer be and he is hereby directed to give notice and advertise for bids for the furnishing of all labor, material, transportation and services for making the improvements in Assessment District No. 100-3. Said notice shall be published once a week for three successive weeks in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, a daily newspaper published in said City. Said bids are to be filed with the said Board on or before 3:30 P.M., on the 10th day of January, 1951, at which time they will be opened and publicly read aloud. Motion seconded by Commissioner Whipple and carried by the following vote: Commissioners Bunker, Moore, Peccole, Whipple and His Honor voting aye; noes, none. ———#Oo——— RESOLUTION 211 Commissioner Moore introduced and moved the adoption of the following resolution, which was thereupon read in full, and at length, and is as follows: WHEREAS, the City of Las Vegas, in the County of Clark and State of Nevada, and the officers thereof, have taken action to make certain public improvements by installing a san­itary sewer along certain streets and portions of streets thereof; and WHEREAS, said City has created Sanitary Sewer Improvement Assessment District No. 200-3 for the purpose of making said improvements; and WHEREAS, said City assessed the entire cost and expense of making said improvements, including all incidental expenses which may be legally included in the sums assessed, against the owners and the assessable lots, premises and property specially benefited by such im­provements and included within said District; and WHEREAS, said assessments aggregate the principal sum of $49,283.51; and WHEREAS, said City heretofore provided that said assessments were due and payable at the office of the County Treasurer of Clark County, Nevada, acting ex-officio City Treasurer and ex-officio Tax Collector of said City, without interest and without demand, within one week after the special assessment roll for said District was confirmed and approved; and WHEREAS, said roll was confirmed and approved on the 17th day of January , 1951; and WHEREAS, within said week there was paid the aggregate sum of $6,008.58, and there remains unpaid assessments in the aggregate principal amount of $43,274.93; and WHEREAS, said City heretofore provided that the failure to pay the whole of any assess­ment, or any part thereof, within said period of one week should be conclusively considered an election on the part of all parsons interested to pay said assessment in ten substantially equal annual installments of principal shall be due and payable on or before the 1st day of December, 1951, and annually thereafter on the same day in each year until paid, at the same rate of interest as that provided for the special assessment bonds to be thereafter authorized, sold, issued and delivered, but not to exceed seven par centum (7%) par annum; and WHEREAS, said City and the officers thereof have determined, and do hereby determine, that it is necessary and for the beat interest of said City and the inhabitants thereof that it issue its Assessment District No. 200-3 Sanitary Sewer Improvement Bonds, Series of Jan­uary 1, 1951 in an aggregate principal amount of said unpaid assessments, to-wit; $43,274.93, to defray said entire cost and expanse of making said improvements, except to the extent funds are available therefor from the assessments which have been heretofore paid; and WHEREAS, said City and the officers thereof desire to sell said bonds after public advertisement therefor, pursuant to the laws of the State of Nevada and the City of Las Vegas. NOW, THEREFOR, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS, NEVADA: That the special assessment, negotiable coupon, Assessment District No. 200-3 Sanitary Sewer Improvement Bonds, Series of January 1, 1951, of the City of Las Vegas , in the aggregate principal amount of $43,274.93 shall be sold at public sale to the person or persons offering the best and most advantageous terms to said City. The Mayor and the City Clerk be and they are hereby authorized and directed to give notice offering said bonds for sale and calling for bids for the purchase of said bonds by publishing a notice once a week for four consecutive weeks by five insertions at weekly intervals in the La? Vegas Evening review-journal, the official newspaper of the City of Las Vega , and by mailing a copy of such notice at least three weeks prior to the date fixed for the sale of said bonds to the State Board of Finance, Carson City