HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 1211 The City Council of the City of Port Worth met in
regular session in the Council Chamber at the City Hall at
9:30 A. M. Tuesday the 28th day of December, A. D. 1925,
and upon roll call the following were present: H. C. Meaeham,
Mayor, Willard Burton, T. B. Hoffer, A.: 3. Thomas, William
Bryce, 9, T. Renfro, William Monnig, W. B. Austin and L, P.
Card, Councilmen, conetituting a quorum and majority of said
Board, and I. L. Van Zandt, Jr., City Ssoretary-Treasurer was
in attendance at said meeting, and the following proceedings,
among other things were had and dare:
C ou nc ilman Immig, sec coded by Councilman Burt m,
moved the auoption of the follow Ordinance:
ORDINANCE NO. 1211
APT ORDIN16"4CB PROVIDING FOR THE ISSU"ITCE ON PTEGOTIME
COUPON RMS 0? THT GOV Td'TITUT ' .OF THE, C171 OF PORT 70RTH
QMITING TO THE PRINCIPAL S71 OF SIX TIMIMM THOUSAND DOLLARS
600 000.00 IN ADDITIMT "0 "i'HE S[P'.� OF ONE ITILLIOTT DOLLP.RS
166 0 000. b '�OR'!'H Or SAID BOPTDS H;wTOFOT'�; IS"UED BY THE
COTMC IL DT ORDINMr, S DULY MT AC" BY TTCE CITY COUNCIL
P11 wUAPTT TO VEA.T ID AUTHO�nI'i'Y s3T 'D ITT AID GO7321IRG BODY B�
A , ''Y G LLC T I ON HELD ON i� 24TH DAY 0, 710 T TBRR,
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A. D. 1925 OUT OF :, A RIZED'IS�U� F THE MO 11ILLION T6d0
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MIMES. AIRS 200 000.00 hl'TD BFrrT= F�'T0.7, AS
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BO11DT1 To BE ISM IT FO; iL T rmlpo'' OF 1°'-7I11G IPA
PnOV.-stT'?'S BY COTISTI=TING IMPROnIMG '"'D 27"MM, TFF, STREETS,
THOROUGHFAMM AND STOIRT ^u ifo' OF Sl ID C I7• LAC$ �' il" ID BO ?DS
TO BE rT III; 'D71MIPTATION OF Ori THOMATTD ALAR,S ? 1 0
EACH 1 B" DIT) FEBMARY 13T 192'7 MATURING "ROM I�JT 1 0
FORTY 40��YEARS PROM TTTP. DATA OF ATID TO IZTy'AR INT^. ; I AT
THE TEAL POUR ARID Otis"-MP 4 I'a�i Cr 7T PLR 'I:;TtM PAY-
ABLE S T I-AMMALLY THE INT'EM BE EXPR33 3MM IN C Of TON NOTES
ATTACH- TOM BOlhS, DIRMTING THAT M. SAID BONDS BE =M
BY THE MAYOR ATM C I^Y SECRETARY-TRBASUMR• AND PROVIDING FOR
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VIDING THAT ;IS OFbIITIITC SITALL ?3^ IN "OTICE AND 97tT FRMI AND
.AFTER TM DATE OF ITS PASSAGRi.
1I UMS, on the 3rd day of November, A. D. 1925,
pursuant to the authority crested in said City by Section 19
of Chapter XXV of the Charter of the City of Fort Worth,
adopted by the qualified voters within the limits of said
City on the llth day of December, A. D. 1924, and the laws
and constitution of the state of Texas, the City Council of
the City of Fort North, Texas, by a resolution and an ordinance
of that date, directed the submission to the resident property
tax paying qualified voters of said City, at an election to
be held in said City on the 24th day of November, A. D. 1925,
of the right, power and authority of the City Council of said
City to issue negotiable coupon bonds of the corporate govern-
ment of the said City in the principal sum of Two pillion,
Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($2,2A0,000.00), for the purpose
of malting permanent improvements in said City by c mstruoting,
improving and extending the streets, thoroughfares and storm
sewers of the said City, and to include in such permanent im-
provements the widening, paving, grade separation, bridges and
drainage; and
NfMREAS, in conformity with the said resolution and
ordinance, the Mayor of the said City did make proclamation of
said election, and fixed the date thereof for the 24th day of
November, At D. 1925; and
WH]I9 S, said election order and proclamation thereof
was prepared and published in the manner and for the time pre-
'scribed in said resolution and ordinance; and
WHERM, on the 24th day of November, A. D. 1925, said
election was held in the City of Fort North at the respective
polling places designated in the election order, at which said
election the issuance of said bonds was submitted as a proposi-
tion to the tax paying qualified voters of said City; and
TEMASS the official ballot on such occasion„ in
conformity with the resolution and ordinance of this City
Council, hereinabove mentioned, and in accordance with the
order of said election, in form and in substance reads as
follows:
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OFFICIAL BALLOT
I.
Shall the City of F^rt Worth, Teras, through its City Council
ssue its negotiable coupon bonds, running from five (5) to forty
,mars in the principal sum of Three Million Three Hundred Thousand
13,300,000.00) Dollars, for the purpose of improving and extending
'ne water and sanitary sewer system of said City, the first of said
%onds being payable at the expiration of five (5) years from the de,,.
hereof, and serially thereafter as may be determined by the said
ity Council, so that the last maturing .bonds shall become payable
'thin forty (40) years from the date thereof, bearing interest at a
,ate not to exceed five per cent (5a) per annum from the date thereo
?ayable semi-annually, and levy a sufficient tax to pay the interest
on said bonds and create a sinking fund sufficient to redeem said
bonds at the maturity thereof?
FOR the Issuance of Water and Sanitary Sewer Bonds.
AGAINST the Issuance of Water and Sanitary Sewer Bonds.
II.
Shall the City of Fort Worth, through its City Council, issue
its negotiable coupon bonds, running from five (5) to forty (40)
;rears in the principal sum of Two Million Two Hundred Thousand
32,260,000.00) Dollars, for the purpose of constructing, improving
and extending the streets, thoroughfares and storm sewers of said
city, including in such permanent improvements the widening, paving,.
Trade separation, bridges and drainage, the first of said bonds be-
_ng payable at the expiration of five (5) years from the date therec�
end serially thereafter as may be determined by the said City Counc.
so that the last maturing bonds shall become payable within forty (
years from the date thereof, bearing interest at a rate not to exce,
Five per cent (5%) per annum from the date thereof, payable semi-
.nrivally and lev a sufficle tt tax t pad the interest on v id bond.
and creme a sinking
ng fund sufficient o r deem said bonds a he ma-
turity thereof?
FOR the Issuance of Street Improvement Bonds.
AGAINST the Issuance of Street Improvement Bonds.
III.
Shall the City of .Fort Worth, through its City Council, issue
its negotiable coupon bonds, running from five (5) to, forty (40)
years, in the principal sarrn of 5eve.zty-One Thousand (471,000.00)
Dollars, for the purpose of constructing, building and equipping an
additional incinerator plant for the City of Fort Worth,, Texas, and
p,irchasing the necessary lands and site therefor, the first of saic
bonds being payable at the :expiration of five (5) years from the
.late thereof, and serially thereafter as may be determined by the
said City Council, so thIt the last maturing bonds shall become
payable within forty (40) years from the .date thereof, bearing in-
terest at a rate not to exceed five per cent (5 ) per annum from the
date thereof, payable semi-annually, and levy a sufficient tax to
pay the interest on said bonds and create a sinking fund sufficient
to redeem said bonds at the maturity thereof?.
FOR the Issuance -of Incinerator Bonds.
AGAINST the Issuance of Incinerator Bonds.
IV.
Shall the City oP".'Firt Worth, through its City Council, issue
its negotiable coupon bCtnds, running from five (5) to forty (40)
years, 'in tide principal sum of Five Hundred Thousand ($500,000.00)
Dollars, for the purpose, of purchasing, [acquiring and improving lands
and property for public parks in the City of Fort Worth, the first of
;aid bonds being payabl•D at the expiration of five (5) years from
the date thereof, and sc rially thereafter as may be determined by the
said City Council, so that the last maturing bonds shall become pay-
.ble within forty (40) years from the date thereof, bearing interest
:.t a rate not to exceed five per. cent (5%) per annum from the date
thereof, payable semi-annually, and levy a sufficient tax to pa^r i
_nterest on said bonds and create: a sinking fund sufficient to re-
said bonds at the maturity thereof?
FOR the Issuance of Park Bonds.
AGAINST the Issuance of Park Bonds.
V.
Shall the City of Fort Worth, through its City Council, issue
is negotiable coupon bonds, running from five (5) to forty (40)
ars, in the principal sum of One Hundred and Sevegty Thousand
N370,000.00) Dollars, for the purpose of purchasing, acquiring and
improving playgrounds, athletic fields and other recreation facil-
'.ties of a permanent nature in said City, the first of said bonds
being payable at the expiration of five (5) years from the date
Thereof, and serially thereafter as may be determined by the sn$d
City Council, so that the last maturing bonds shall become payable
v^ithin forty (40) years from the date thereof, bearing interest at
rate not to exceed five per cent (5%) per annum from the date
thereof, payable semi-annually, and levy a sufficient tax to pay
the interest on said bondo and create a sinking fund sufficient to
redeem said bonds s.t the raturity thereof?
FOR the Issuance of Recreation Bonds.
AGAINST the Issuance of Recreation Bonds.
VI.
Shall the Ci.ty, of Pont Worth, through its City Counci., issue
'.ts negotiable coupon bonds, running from five (5) to forty (40)
,ears, in the principal sam of Eighteen Thousand ($18,000.00) Dol-
1jrs, for the purpose of constructing, building and equipping an
,ddition to the City-County Hospital in the City of Fort Worth, Texas,
cne first of said fonds ba}ng payable at the expiration of five (5)
.mars from the date, thereof, and serially thereafter as may be do-
ermined by the sa;.d City Council, so that the last maturing bonds
Tall become paya".r;..e within forty (40) years from the date thereof,
•,oaring interest at', a rate not to exceed five per cent (5a) per annum.
from the date thereof, payable semi-annually, and levy a sufficient
to pay the interest on Said bonds, and create a sinking fund suf-
Icient to redeem taid. bonds at the maturity thereof?
FOR the Iss-Lance of City-County Hospital Bonds.
AGAINST the Issuance of City-County Hospital Bonds.
VII.
Shall the ,Ci �y of Fort Worth, through its City Council, issue
s negotiable coup�ii bonds, running from five (5) to forty (40)
ars, in the prina.hinl sum �f' One Millian• Four Hundred Thousand
'p•1,400,OOO.00j Dolt::trs, for the purpose of constructing, improving
ad extending:its syxstexn of ptreets and thoroughfares by constructing,
aproving and extending a neat main arterial street and thoroughfare
,tmntng north and sA)uth and it new main arterial street and thorough-
,%re extending east and west through said City, irin luding in such per-
'n.ent improvements grade se` aration, bridges, dr5age and. the pur-
,:} ase of right of w1ty, the first of said bonds beinjA payable at the
-piration of five -.b) ..ybars 'from-the date' thereof,hnd serially there-
ter as may be det,,Pkined b`q the said City Council, so that the last
taring bonds shaft become ;ayable within forty (40) years from the
to thereof, beariije intcron t at a rate not toexceed five per cent
3%) per annum from, lhe date thereof, payable semi-annually, and levy
sufficient tax to, poy the--4nterest on said bonds and 'create a sink-
;_ng fund sufficient to redeet* said bonds at the maturity thereof?
FOR the Issuance of *4n Arterial Thoroughfare Bonds.
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AGAINST the Issuance f Main Arterial Thoroughfare Bonds,
WHIU AS, in the election held in said City of Fort
Worth on the 24th day of November, A. D. 1925, on the question
of the issuance of said bonds hereinbefore mentioned, there
Were a majority of votes in favor of the issuance of said bonds;
and
WHHHHAS, by virtue of said election, said Council is
vested With power and authority by and from the people to issue
said bonds for the purposes aforementioned, and to make same
valid and binding obligations of the corporate government of
the City of Fort forth; and
WAS, pursuant to the power vested in the City
Council, the duly constituted governing body of the City of
Fort 'forth, by said election and the laws and Constitution of
the State of Texas, the said City Council did, by an ordinance
lawfully passed and adopted on the 29th day of December, A. D.
1925, and which ordinance was amended by an ordinance lawfully
passed and adopted by the City Council on the 5th day of January,
A. D. 1926, authorising the issuance of negotiable coupon bonds
of the government of the City of Fort Worth, amounting to the
principal sum of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars (M,000.00)
out of an authorized issue of Two Million, Two Hundred Thousand
Dollars ($2,200,000.00) worth of said bonds authorized by the
property tax paying qualified -voters or said City at the said
election held on the 24th day of November, A. D. 1925, and being
known as Series #46 and designated as "Street Improvement Bonds";
and
MMRUS, the said City Council in accordance with the
power vested in said governing body as set forth in the pre-
ceding paragraph, did lawfully pass and adopt an ordinance on
the 15th day of June, A* D. 1926, authorizing the issuance of
negotiable coupon bonds of the government of the City of Fort
North, amounting to the principal sum of Six Hundred Thousand
Dollars ($600,000.00), in addition to the Five Hundred Thousand.
Dollars ($500,000.00) ,worth of said bonds heretofore issued by
authority of an ordinance, lawfully passed and adapted on the
29th day of December, A. D. 1926, and xhich ordinance was amend-
ed by an ordinance adopted on the 5th day of January, A. D. 19269
all of said bonds being issued out of an authorised issue of Two
Million, Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ('ZV200,000.00) worth of
said bonds authorised by the property tax paying qualified voters
of said City at the said election held on the 24th day of November,
A. D. 1925, and being known as Series 46 and designated as "Street
Improvement Bonds"; and
NH§Wp it is deemed vise and expedient by the City
Council of the City of Fort Forth in the exercise of the dis-
cretion reposed in it by law that Six Hundred Thousand Dollars
�llars
000.00) worth of said boaods, in addition to the One Mil-
lion ($1,000,000.00) worth of said bonds heretofore is-
sued out of the issue of Two Million, Two Hundred Thousand Del-
lars $2l20O,000.00), be issued in bonds at this time; said bonds
to be issued being a part of Series #46 and designated as
"Street Improvement Bonds."
NON, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAIM BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH:
SECTION I.
That pursuant to Section 19 of Chapter XXT of the Charter
of the City of Fort Worth adopted by the qualified voters with-
in the corporate limits of said City on the llth day of December,
A. D. 1924, and the lags and Constitution of the State of Texas,
a d pursuant to a vote of the resident property tax paying
voters of the City of Fort Worth at an election held in laid
City for such purposes on the 24th day of November, A. D.
1925, that the municipal �!overwent of the City of Fort Worth
issue its corporate negotiable coupon bonds in the principal
sum of Six Hundred Thousand Dollars (' ,00,000.00), this sum `
being in addition to the Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,-
000.00) worth of said bonds heretofore ismied by an ordinance
lawfully passed and adopted on the 29th day of December, A, D.
1925, and which ordinance was amended by an ordinance lawfully
passed and adopted on the 5th day of January, A. D. 19260 by
the City Council, and also, in addi t ion to Five Hundred Thousand
Dollars (M,000.00) worth of said bonds heretofore issued,
by an ordinance lawfully passed and adopted on the 15th day of
Jume, L D. 1926, pursuant to valid authority from the property
tax paying qualified voters of said City at a proper and re-
gular election held on the 24th day of November, k, D. 1925, out
of an authorised issue at said election of Two Million, Two Hun-
dred Thousand Dollars ($2,200,000.00), and which authorised issue
is known as Series f46 and designated as "Street Improvement
Bonds", and the bonds so to be issued shall be in the denomination
of One Thousand Dollars ($1y000.00) each, dated February lst,
1927, bearing interest at the rate of four and one-half (4*%)
per cent per annum, payable semi-amuually on the 1st day of
August and February of each year respectively, both principal
and interest of said bands being payable at the Hanover National
Bank, in the City of New York« State of New York, the semi-
annual interest being evidenced by interest coupons attached
thereto, all of said bonds to be executed for and on behalf of
the City of Fort forth by the Mayor thereof, attested by its
City Searatarp-Treasurer, with the seal of the City thereon
duly impressed, but the interest coupons to be executed with
the lithographed facsimile signature of the Mayor and City
Secretary-Treasurer of the City of Fort Worth, each of said.
bands and coupons shall be negotiable and payable to bearer,
and said bonds shall be numbered in the way and manner herein-
after set out, maturing five (5) years from the date thereof
and annually thereafter until the last maturing bond shall
become payable within forty (40) years from the date thereof,
and the bonds themselves, six hundred (600) in number, shall
be numbered consecutively from one thousand and one (1001) to
sixteen hundred (1600) inclusive, and shall mature in the amounts
and manner hereinafter set out; said bonds shall be used for the
purpose of making permanent improvements by constructing, ex-
tending and improving the streets, thoroughfares and storm sewers
of said City.
That the general form of said bonds and the coupons
thereto ann xed and the interest added to said bonds shall be
executed substantially in the following form:
woo...- WITBD STATES $1000
OF AMERICA
STATE OF TEXAS, CO3M OF TARRANT
SERIES 46
CITY OF FORT WORTH
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Street Improvement Bond of the City of Fort Worth issued
for the purpose of making permanent improvements
by o mstruoting, improving and extending the
streets, thoroughfares and storm sewers
of the City of Fort Worth.
KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESEiTTS:
That the government of the City of Fort Worth, a
municipal corporation, duly created under the lays of the
State of Texas, hereby acknowledges itself to owe, and for
value received proni.ses to pay, to bearer,
ONE THOMAND DOLLAR$ ($1000)
in lawful money of the United States of America, on the 1st
day of February, A. D. 1932, together with interest thereon
at the rate of four and one-half (4* ) per centum per anntmm,
payable seam-annually on the first day of August and February
in each year, on presentation and surrender of the annexed
interest coupons, as they severally fall due. Both the prin-
cipal and interest of this bond are payable at the office of
the Hanover National Bank, in. Now York City, N. Y., and for
the due and punctual payment of this bond at the maturity there-
of, and the interest thereon., when it falls due, the OIl faith,
credit and resources of the City of Fort Worth are hereby ir-
revocably pledged,
This bond is one of a series of six hundred (600)
bonds membered consecutively from one thousamd and one (1001)
to sixteen hundred (1600) inclusive; each of the denomination
of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), amounting in the.aggre-
gate to the sun of Six Hundred Thousand Dollars ($600,000.00)
issued for the purpose of making psrman ent improvements by
constructing, imnrD7in'; and extendini, the streets, thorough-
fares and stare sewers of said City, under and by virtue of
the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas, the Charter
of the City of Fort ,'forth, and an ordinance of the City Cozmcil
of the City lavftlly Passed and adopted on the 28th day of
December, A. D. 1926, pursuant to salid authority`from the
property tax paying qualified voters of said City, at a pro-
per and legal election held on the 24th day of November, A. D.
1925.
It is hereby further expressly represented, recited
and covenanted by the eDvernment of the City of Fort Worth,
to and with each and every holder of said bonds or any one
of them, that all acts, conditions and things required by the
lava of the State of Texas, and of the Charter and Ordinances
of the City of Fort Worth, precedent to and in the issuance of
this bond, have been done, have happened, and have been performed
in proper and lawful time, form and manner as prescribed by
law, so as to mals this bond a legal, binding anal valid obliga-
tion of the City of Fort "orth, and that provision has been
made for the levy and collection of a direct annual tax on all
taxable property in the City of Fort Worth, and that such tax
has been levied in a sufficient amount for the payment of the
principal and interest of this bond at the respective maturity
dates thereof, art that the total indebtedness of said City,
including this bcad, and the issue of which it is a component
part, does not exceed any constitutional or statutory limitation.
IN TESTITIONY MR90F, the City of Fort Worth, in
the State of Texas, has executed this bond by causing it
to be signed by its Mayor and attested by the City Secretary%.
Treasurer with the seal of the City thereunto duly impressed,
and has paused the annexed interest coupons to be executed
with the facsimile signature of the Mayor and City Secretary-
Treasurer, and dated as the first day of February, A. D. 1927.
THE CITT OF FORT A4RTH, TEAS
ATTEST:
OTTY sore arg reaourer
(FORK OF COUPON NO")
NO*-r� r r $22,50
The City of Fort Worth, in the State of Twms,
promises to pay to bearer Twenty-two Dollars and Fifty
Cents ($22.50), on the 1st day of August, A. D. 19271
at the Hanover National Bank in the City of New York,
N. T., for interest due that day on its municipal bond
dated February let, A. D. 1927, and numbered 1001.
TOE CITY OF FORT WOMI mus
►ayor
ATTEST
UITY sore cry- sneerer.
OFFICES OF CO MMUR,
STATE OF TEXAS.
I hereby certify that there in on file and of record
in my office, a certificate of the Attorney General of the
State of Tee to the effect that this bond has been exmined
by him as required by law, and that he finds it has been is-
sued in conformity with the Constitution and Taws of the State
of Texas, and that it is a valid and binding obligation upon
said City of Fort Worth, Texas, and said bond has this day
been registered by me.
WITNESS my hand and seal of office, at Austin, Texas,
this thR........r_..."y o
Umpi era c Acoomtso e
State of Texas,
SECTION II.
That the said bonds to be issued by the City of Fort
Worth, amounting to Six Hundred Thousand Dollars ($600,000.00),
out of the said authorized issue of Two Million, Two Hundred
Thousand Dollars ($2,200,000.00)1, shall be issued for the.pur-
pose of constricting, improving and extending the streets,
thoroughfares, storm sewers, bridges end draipage of the City
and shall consist of six hundred (600) bonds, numbered from one
thousand and one (1001) to sixteen hundred (1600) inclusive,
and shall bear interest at the rate of four and one-half (4 %)
per cent per annum, payable semi-annually, as aforesaid; all of
which said six hundred (600) bonds shall be known as Series #46
and shall be styled and designated as "Street Improvement Bonds";
that all of said bonds, comprising the sum total of Six Hundred
Thousand ($600,000.00), shall mature in the manner and amounts
as set out in the tabulated statement herewith attached, to-grit:
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ACTION III.
That the said bonds are hereby authorized to be sold
to the best adventage, but in no event shall sarz be sold for
less than par, and the acorued interest to the time of delivery
and the prooeeds thereof, to be placed in the treasury of the
City of Port Worth and utilized for the special purposes for
which they are created.
SMTION IV.
That or the purpose of creating a sinking fund for
the payment and complete extinguishment of the foregoing bonded
debt, principal and interest, and all and every part of same,
there is hereby levied and there shall be assessed and collected
as provided by law, set apart and appropripted for the said
purpose, an annual, direct special ad valorem tax for the year
1927? and every successive year thereafter during the life of
said bonded debt or any part thereof of 2.71 cents (or such an
amount as may be necessary and adequate, be it more or less) on
every One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars of property valuation,, real,
personal and mixed, subject to taxation and not exempt there-
from under the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas, sit-
uated and owned in the City of Fort Worth on the let day of
January, A, D. 1927) and on the 1st day of Amuary of each year
thereafter until said debt renraspnted by said bonds and coupon
interest notes shall have been dully p id, and if, at any time,
such tax should be insufficient, then it shall be the duty of the
City Council or any other governing body of the City of Fort Worth;
to set apart and appropriate such additional amount of money out
of the general revenues of the said city, as may be requisite
to supply the deficienoy until all interest shall have been
paid and the sinking fund established as required by the Con-
stitution of the State of Texas and the Charter of the City
of Fort Worth.
SECTION V.
That it shall be the duty of the City Council of the
City of Dort Worth and its successors, and of the government
of the City of Fort Worth, by levying taxes for general pur-
poses for the said City of Fort worth for the year 1027, and
for every successive year during the life of said bonded debt
or any T.rt thereof, to include in such levy the special tag
of 2.71 cents on the One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars property
valuation (or so much thereof as may be requisite ana necessary)
provided for in the next preceding section of this ordinance,
and such special tax shall on no account whatsoever be dis-
placed therefrom,
SM TION VI.
That the special tax hereinbefore provided for, vhen
Qollected, shall be placed and kept in separate fund and shall
be devoted to the payment of the interest and the extinguish-
ment of the principal of all and singmlar the bcnds hereinabove
mentioned as same matures from time to time, and shall not be
used, applied or diverted to any other purpose or object what-
soever; and the funds derived from said tag shall be held and
listed as separate account on the books of said City, and the
proceeds held and kept by the City Treasurer of said City as a
separate and distinct account and Sao specified as such on his
books.
UC T ION VI I.
That as soon as convenient after said bonds shall
have been prepared and signed in the mnnner prescribed by
the ordinance, they shall be submitted to the Attorney Gen-
eral of the State of Texas, together with a certified copy of
this ordinance and a statement of the total bonded indebted-
ness of the City of Fort Worth, including the bonds herein and
hereby authorized and the assessed value of the taxable property
in said City, for his approval, and none of said bonds shall
be negotiated, sold or transferred Lentil the same shall have
received the official sanction of the said Attorney General as
prescribed by law, and thereafter said bonds shall be placed
with the State Comptroller of Pdb lic Accounts for registration.
SECTION VIII.
That the City Secrotarr►Treaarzrer of the City of Fort
Worth, or other lawful custodian of such funds, during the
months of July and Jvnnary of each and every year during the
life of said bonds or part thereof, and not later than the 20th
day of each of aaid months, shall transmit su`ftoient money
out of the interest funds hereinbefore created, for the payment
of the semi-saanual interest accruing on said bonds, to the Han-
over National Bank of the City of 73v ''ork, State o-O 1 ew Tore,
and likewise remittance shall be made in due course to provide
for the payment of the principal of any of said bonds in advance
of the maturity of same.
MOTION IX.
All owes and parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith be and they are hereby expressly repealed,
SECTION L
The holding or adjadioation of any section, porticm,
or part hereof to be invalid, shall not effect the validity
of any other section or -ort of this ordinance, but all such
other sections, portions and parts hereof shall be and remain
valid.
SECTION XL.
That this ordinance shall take effect and be in full
force and effect from the date of its passage and it is so
ordained..
layer H. C. l oaahms presiding at said meeting,
submitted the motion to adopt said ordinance and all of
the Co=oilw a, including the gayer, voted "W thereon
and none voted "No". and the notion to adapt the ordiname
was deoLtred to teaan3aouly passed and adopted.
THE MATH OF TIM
COMM flF TARRM.
It I. L. Van Z=dt, Jr., City SearstarpIr"es"r
of the City of Fort Wart]„ do hereby certify that the above
fey idt�foi�iFNi rogoin; erdimnee is a true and
gpcoor t copy of
Ordi oo Iry rr'x and that sme as vanixonely
passed and adopted by the City Com oil of the City of Fort
worth,Teaae, at a regdar meeting hold in the Coil, Chambers
at the City Hall on Tiosday tkq.. "y ,
A. D. 1A...rw.�rro
WITWS my head at Fort Worth, Toxa*, this tho. ;.
day of , A. D. JML___,,.
CITY- save ary4 eaaee�r.