HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - City Council - Regular - 3/19/1946RECESSED REGULAR SESSION.
Lubbock, Texas
March 19, 1946.
The City Commission of the pity of Lubbock, Texas, met at 2 P.M. in
Recessed Regular Session, recessed from regular meeting of March 14, 19460
at the regular meeting place in the City Hall, the followi-:g members
thereof being present, to -wit:
Mayor O.W. Ribble, Commissioners W.B. Price, J. Ray Dickey, F.H. Childress,
City Attorney Vaughn E. Wilson, City Manager Homer A. Hunter, City Secretary
Lavenia Williams.
Absent: Commissioner Hub Jones.
Motion by Commissioner Price, seconded by Commissioner Childress, carried
unanimously, to authorize publication of Notice, as follows:
i4OTIOE TO BIDDERS
Sealed proposals aaaressea to Lavenia Williams, City Secretary of the city
of Lubbock, Texas, will be received at the office of the �`Ity 6ecretery un-
til 2:00 p.m. April 9, 1946, for furnishing all necessary materials,
machinery, equipment, superintendence, and labor for Revisions and Additions
to Swimming Pool Facilities at McKenzie State Palk. Division I, Revisions
and Additions to Buildings, and Division II, Placing Ounite Lining in Pool
for City of Lubbock, OWNER, Lubbock, Texas.
Bidders must submit Cashier's or Certified Check issued by a bank satis-
factory to the Owner, or a Bidder's Bond from a reliable Surety Company,
payable without recourse to the order of Lavenia Williams, City Secretary
in an amount not less than five (5%) percent of the largest possible bid
submitted as a guaranty that Bidder will enter into a contract and execute
bond and guaranty in the forms provided within ten (10) days after notice of
award of contract to him. Bids. without required check or reposal Bond will
not be considered.
The Successful Bidder must furnish performance bond on the
the amount of 100 percent of the total contract price from
holding a permit from the state of Texas to act as surety,
or sureties acceptable to the OWNER.
attached form in
a surety Company
or other Surety
All lump sum and unit prices must be stated in both script and figures. The
Owner reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive formalities.
In case of ambiguity or lack of clearness in stating the prices in the bids,
the Owner reserves the right to consider the most advantageous construction
thereof, or to reject the bid. Unreasonable (or "Unbalanced") unit prices
will authorize the OWNER to reject any bid.
Bidders are expected to inspect the site of the work and to inform them-
selves regarding all local conditions.
Attention is called to the fact that there must be paid on this project not
less than the general prevailing rates of wages which have been established
by the OWNER as the following:
Skilled Labor $1.00 to $1.75 per hour
Semi -skilled Labor $0.85 to $1.00 per hour
Unskilled Labor 0.55 per hour
Instruction to bidders, proposal forms, specifications, and plans are on
file at the office of the City Secretary, City Hall, Lubbock, Texas.
Copies may be secured from �.alker & Atcheson, Architects, Palace Theatre
Building, Lubbock, Texas, for Division I - Remodelling of Buildings, and from
H. N. Roberts & Associates, Consulting Engineers 2415-20th Street, Lubbock,
Texas, for Division II Placing Gunite Lining in Pool, upon deposit of $15.00
for each division which deposit will be returned to the CONTRACTOR on sub-
mission of a bona fide on the work, with such plans and Specifications; or
upon returning the Plans and Specifications immediately after examination of
same, and advising the Architects or the Engineers that bid will not be sub-
mitted: otherwise, the deposit shall be forfeited.
First Publication March 21, 1946
CITY OF LUBBOCK, OWNER
Second Publication March 28, 1946 By 0_ W_ RIBBLE. MAYOR
ORDINANCE NO. 754
ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING IS_UANCE
OF $60,000.00 "CITY OF LUBBOCK,
TEXAS, FIRE STATION BUILDING
BONDS, SERIES 1946n, DATED
MARCH 1, 1946.
THE STATE OF TEXAS )
)
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK )
CITY OF LUB30CK )
ON THIS the 19th day of March! 1946, the"City Commission
of the City of Lubbock, Texas, convened in called session, at the
regular meeting -place thereof in the City Hall, with the following
members thereof, to -wit:
0. W. RIBBLE, MAYORP
F. H. CHILDRESS, )
J. RAY DICKEY, COMUISSIONERS�
W. B. PRICEY )
LAVENIA WILLIAMS, SECRETARY.,
present, and the following absent: Hub Janes
constituting a quorum, when, among .ether proceedings had, were
the following:
Commissioner W. B. Price presented for the consideration
of the City Commission an ordinance authorizing the issuance of
460,000.00 " CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, FIRE STATION BUILDING BONDS.,
Series 1946 % dated March 1, 1946 (being parcel of a total issue
of 4101,000.00 bonds authorized at the election held -in said City
on December 11, 1945).
The ordinance was read in full by the City Secretary.
Thereupon, Commissioner J. Ray Dickey moved that the
rule requiring that no ordinance shall be passed on the day of
which it is introduced be suspended, and that in view of the
emergency set forth and defined in the preamble to the proposed
ordinance, that the same be declared an emergency measure. This
motion was duly seconded by Commissioner W. B. Price. The motion
carried by the following vote:
AYES: Mayor Ribble and Commissioners Childress,
Dickey and price.
NOES: None.
Thereupon, the Mayor announced that the proposed
ordinance had been declared an emergency measure by unanimous
vote of the Commission.
Thereupon, Commissioner W. B. Price moved that the
ordinance as read in full by the City Secretary be finally passed
and adopted byy the Commission. This motion was seconded by
Commissioner J. Ray Dickey, and the motion, carrying with it the
final passage and adoption of the ordinance, was unanimously
carried by the following vote:
AYES: Mayor Ribble and Commissioners Childress,
"Ickey and Price.
NOES: None.
Thereupen, the Mayor announced that the ordinance had
been finally passed and adopted by unanimous vote of the Commission,
in accordance with the requirements of Secions 15, 16 and 17 of
Article IX, of the Lubbock Charter: and the Mayor thereupon signed
and approved the ordinance in the presence of the Commission.
The ordinance is as follows:
"AN ORDINANCE by the City Commission of the Uity
of Lubbock, Texas, authorizing the issuance of
ors0 000.00 "CITY OF LUBBOCK T'EXASI FIRE STATION
BUILiDING BONDS, SERIES 1946 dated March 1, 1946
(being parcel of a total issue of 4101,000.00
bonds authorized at the election held in said
City on December 11, 1945), for the purpose of
the construction, erection, enlargement and
improvement of Fire Station Buildings, purchasing
sites therefor, and furnishing and equipping the
same in the City of Lubbock: prescribing the form
of the bonds and the form of interest coupons;
levying a continuing direct annual ad valorem
tax on all taxable properties within the limits
of said Uity to pay the interest on such bonds
and to create a sinking fund for the redemption
thereof, and providing for the assessment and
collection of such tax; enacting provisions
incident and relating to the subject and purpose
of this ordinance; and declaring an emergency.'
WHEREAS, under and by virtue of an ordinance duly
passed and adopted by the City Commission of the City of Lubbock,
Texas, on the 20th day of November, 1945, an election was ordered
to be held in said City on the llth day of December, 1945, and at
which election the following proposition was submitted to the
qualified electors of said Uity:
uSHALL the Uity Commission of the City of Lubbock
b,e authorized to issue the negotiable interest bearing
bonds of the Ulty of Lubbock in the amount of 0101,000.00
bearing interest at a rate of not exceeding three and
one-half per centum (32�) per annum from date and
maturing at such time or times as may be deemed most
expedient by the City Commission, serially not later
than twenty-five years from their date, for the purpose
of the construction, erection, enlargement and improve-
ment of Fire Station Buildings, purchasing sites therefor
and furnishing and equipping the same in the City of
Lubbock; and shall there be annually levied, assessed and
collected, while said bonds or any of them are outstanding
an ad valorem tax upon all taxable property within said
City sufficient in amount to pay the annual interest on
said bonds and to provide a sinking fund to pay the
principal thereof as the same matures.
IM WHEREAS, upon consideration of the returns of said
election, the City Commission found that said election had been
conducted in the manner prescribed by law, and was in all respects
legally held, after due and proper notice as required by law; that
due returns of said election had been made by the proper officers;
that said election resulted favorably to the issuance of said
bonds; that a majority of the qualified electors voting at said
election voted in favor of the issuance of said bonds; and that
the City Commission is in all things authorized to issue said
bonds and to do any and all things necessary an/or convenient in
connection therewith; and
WHEREAS, it being now determined by the City Commission
that it is not desired at this time to issue all of the bonds for
4101,000.00, voted for on the preposition, as aforesaid, and that
460,000.00 is the amount of bonds now desired to be issued, and
that the remaining amount of said bonds, to -wit: $41,000.00, shall
be issued at a future date or dates when, in the judgment of the
City Commission of said City, the amount is needed by the City for
the purpose for which it was authorized; and
WHEREAS, it is to the best interest of the City that
the authorized improvements and construction of the Fire Station
buildings be commenced at the earliest possible date, thereby
creating this an emergency measure for the immediate preservation
of the public peace, property, health and safety, as well as a
more efficient administration and operation of the Fire Depart-
ment of the municipal government; therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
LUBBOCK:
,CTION 1: That the bonds of said Qityy, to be called
"CITY C!F LUBBOCK, TEXAS, FIRE STATION BUILDING BONDS, SERIES 1946",
be issued under and by virtue of the 6onstitution and lawns of the
State of Texas, and the Charter of the City, for the purpose of
the construction, erection, enlargement and improvement of Fire
Station Buildings, purchasing sites therefor and furnishing and
equipping the same in the City of Lubbock, in the principal sum
of SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($60,000.00).
SECTION 2: That said bonds shall be numbered consec-
utively from One (1) to Sixty (60) inclusive; shall be of the
denomination of One Thousand Dollars ( $1,000.00) each, aggregating
the sum of Sixty Thousand Dollars ($60,000.00).
SECTION 3: That said bonds shell be dated March 1,
1946, and shall mature in accordance with the following schedule:
BouD NU�dBERS
(All Inclusive)
MATURITY DATES AMOUNTS
1
to
2
March
1,
1947
2,000.00
3
to
4
March
1,
1948
2r000.00
5
to
6
March
1,
1949
2,000.00
7
to
8
March
1,
1950
2,000.00
9
to
10
March
1,
1951
21T 000.00
11
to
12
March
1,
1952
2,000.00
13
to
14
March
19
1953
2,000.00
15
to
16
March
1,
1954
2,000.00
17
to
18
March
1,
1955
2,000.00
19
to
20
March
1,
1956
20000.00
21
to
22
March
1,
1957
2,000.00
23
to
24
March
1,
1958
20000.00
25
to
26
March
1,
1959
2,000.00
27
to
28
March
1,
1960
2,000.00
29
to
30
March
1,
1961
2,000.00
31
to
33
March
11
1962
3,000.00
34
to
36
March
1,
1963
3,000.00
37
to
39
March
1,
1964
3,000.00
40
to
42
March
1,
1965
3,000.00
43
to
45
March
1,
1966
3,000.00
46
to
48
March
1,
1967
3,000.00
49 to 51
March
1,
1968
3,000.00
52
to
54
March
1,
1969
3,000.00
55
to
57
March
11
1970
3,000.00
58
to
60
March
11
1971
3,000.00
SECTION 4: That all of said bonds shall bear interest
from date until paid at the rate of ONE AND ONE-HALF PER CENTUM
(I2,%) per annum, payable on March lst and September 1st in each
year, the first interest payment date being March 1, 1947; such
interest to be evidenced by proper coupons attached to each of
said bonds.
SECTION 5: That the principal and interest of said
series of bonds shall be payable on presentation and surrender
of bonds or proper coupons, in lawful money of the United States
of America, at the GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK
CITY, NEW YORK.
SECTION a: That each of said bonds shall be signed by
the Mayor and countersigned by the Uityy Secretary, and the corpor-
ate seal of the `CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS", shall be impressed upon
each of them.
SECTION 7: That the facsimile signature of tft Mayor
and City Secretary may be lithographed or printed on the interest
coupons attached to said bonds, and shall have the same effect as
if they had been signed by them.
SECTION That the form of said bonds shall be sub-
stantially as follows:
NO. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, $1,000.00
STATE OF TEXAS,
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK.
CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS FIRE STATION
BUILDING BOND, SERIES 1946.
UITY OF LUBBOCK, a municipal corporation, of the State
of 'Texas, acknowledges itself indebted to and, FOR VALUE RECEIVED,
hereby promises to pay to bearer, the sum of
ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS
(k,000.00), in lawful money of the United States of-merica, on
the FIRST DAY OF MARCH, 19-----, with interest thereon from the
date hereof until paid, at the rate of UNE AND ONE-HALF PER CENTUM
(l2%) per annum, payable on March Ist and September Ist in each
year, the first interest payment date being March 1, 1947, on
presentation and surrender of the annexed coupons as they sever-
ally mature.
BOTH PRINCIPAL and interest of this bond are hereby
made payable at the GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORKNEW YORK j�
CITY, NEW YORK. ,
THIS BOND is one of a series of Sixty (60) serial -
bonds, numbered from One (1) to Sixty (60), both inclusive, all
of said bonds being of the denomination of One 'Thousand Dollars
411000.00) aggregating in amount SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS
(660,000.005, and issued for the purpose of the construction,
erection, enlargement and improvement of Fire Station Buildings,
purchasing sites therefor and furnishing and equipping the same
in the City of Lubbock, under authority of the Constitution and
Laws of the State of Texas, and the Charter of said City, and
pursuant to an ordinance duly adopted by the City Commission of the City of Lubbock, Texas, and recorded in the Minutes of said
City Commission.
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED., RECITED hND REPRESENTED that
the issuance of this bond and the series of which it is a part
is duly authorized by law and by a vote of the qualified property
taxpaying voters of the City of Lubbock, Texas, voting at an
election held for that purpose within said City on the 11th day
of December, 1945; that all acts, conditions, and things required
to be done precedent to and in the issuance of this series of
bonds, and of this bond, have been properly done and performed
and have happened in regular and due time, form and manner as
required by law; that sufficient and proper provision for the
levy and collection of taxes has been made which, when collected,
shall be appropriated exclusively to the payment of this bond and
the series of which it is a part, and to the payment of the
Interest coupons thereto annexed as the same shall become due;
and that the total indebtedness of the City of Lubbock, Texas,
including the entire series of bonds of which this is one, does
not exceed any constitutional or statutory limitation.
INTESTIMONY WHEREOF, the City of Lubbock, Texas, by
its City Commission, has caused its corporate seal to be affixed
hereto, and this bond to be signed by its Mayor and countersigned
by its City Secretary, and the interest coupons hereto attached .
to be executed by the lithographed or printed facsimile signatures
of the Mayor and City Secretary; the date of this bond, in conform-
ity with the ordinance above referred to, being the first day of
March, 1946.
Mayor, City of Lubbock, Texas
COUNTERSIGNED:
City Secretary, City of Lubbock, Texas,
SECTION 9: That the form of interest coupon shall be
substantially as follows:
NO. ON THS DAY OF 19 _
the City of Lubbock, a municipal cerporation of the State of
Texas, hereby promises to pay to bearer, at the GUARANTY TRUST
COMPANY OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, the sum of
DOLLARS _
), in lawful money of the United States of America being
months' interest on the "CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, FIRA STATION
BUILDING BONDS, SERIES 1946", dated March 1, 1946.
Bond No.�
City Secretary Mayor
SECaTION in: That the following certificate shall be
printed on the back of each bond:
OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER
STATE OF TEXAS
REGISTER NO.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that there is on file and of record
In my office a certificate of the Attorney General of the State
of Texas, to the effect that this bond has been examined by him
as required by law and that he finds that it has been issued in
conformity with the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas,
and that it is a valid and binding obligation upon said City of
Lubbock, Texas, and said bond has this day been registered by me.
WITNESS MY HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE, AT AUSTIN, TEXAS,,
Comptroller of Public Accounts of
the State of Texas.
SECTION 71: BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
That to pay the interest on said bonds and create a
sinking fund sufficient to redeem them at m turity, a tax of
ONE AND ONE-FOURTH CENTS ( I& ) an each one hundred
dollars valuation of all taxable property in the City of Lubbock,
Texas, or such an amount as may be at all times be legally necessary,
shall be annually levied on said property and annually assessed
and collected,_or so much thereof as shall be necessary, or in
addition thereto as may be required, until said bonds with
interest thereon have been fully paid* and the said tax of
ONE AND ONE-FOURTH CENTS ( ) is here now levied
for the current year, and so much thereof as shall be necessary,
or in addition thereto as may be required, is hereby levied for
each succeeding year while said bonds, or any of them, are out-
standing, and the same shall be annually assessed and collected
and applied to the purpose named.
SECTION 12: BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
That the Mayor of said City shall be and he is hereby
authorized to take and have charge of all necessary orders and
records pending investigation by the Attorney General of the
State of Texas, and shall take and have charge and control of
the bonds herein authorized pending their approval by the Attorney
General and their registration by the Comptroller of Public Accounts.
SECTION 13: AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
The fact that it is to the best interest of the City
that the authorized construction, erection, enlargement and im-
provement of Fire Station Buildings, purchasing sites therefor
and furnishing and equipping the same in the City of Lubbock,
be cmmmenced at the earliest possible date, creates this an
emergency measure for the immediate preservation of the public
peace, property, health and safety, as well as a more efficient
administration and operation of the Fire Department of the
municipal government, demanding that the Charter provisions to the
effect that no ordinance shall be passed on the day on which it
shall be introduced, be suspend6d, and this ordinance is hereby
declared an emergency measure by unanimous vote of the Uity
Commission, and the same shall take effect from and after its
passage, and it is so ordained.
PASSED, this the 19th day of March, 1946.
APPROVED, this the 19th day of March 1946.
Mayor, City of Lubbock, Texas.
ATTEST:
City Secretary, City ofubbock, Texas
(City Seal)
CERTIFICATE OF CITY SECRETARY
THE STATE OF TEXAS)
COU.4TY OF LUBBOCK
CITY OF LUBBOCK }}
I Lavenia Williams, City Secretary of the City of
Lubbock, texas, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a true
and correct copy of an ordinance authorizing issuance of
"CITY OF LUBBOCK,, TEXAS, FIRE STATION BUILDING BONDS, SERIES 1946",
adopted by the City Commission of said City on the 19th day of
March, 1946 (and of the Minutes pertaining to its adoption), and
that it has been properly enrolled, placed in the office of the
City Secretary and approved by the %or, having been recorded
in Book_ .._page et seq. , of thinutes of said
Commission.
IN WITNESS YHBRBOF, I have hereunto signed my name
officially and affixed the seal of said City, this the 19th
day of March, 1946.
City Secretary, City of Lubbock, Texas.
(City Seal)
ORDINANCE NO. 755
ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING ISSUANCE
OF 485,000.00 "CITY OF LUBBOCK,
TEXAS POLICE STATION BUILDING
BONDS, SERIES 19460, dated
MARCH 1, 1946.
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK )
CITY OF LUBBOCK )
ON THIS the 19th day of March, 1946, the City Commission
of the City of Lubbock, Texas, convened in called session, at the
regular meeting place thereof in the City Hall, with the following
members thereof, to -wit:
0. W. RIBBLB,
F. H. CHILDRESS,
J. RAY DICKEY,
W. B. PRICE,
MAYOR,
COMMISSIONERS,
LAVENIA WILLIAMS, SECRETARY,
present, and the following absent: Huh Jones ,
constituting a quorum, when, among other proceedings had, were the
following:
Commissioner W. B. Price presented for the consideration
of the Gity Commission an ordinance authorizing the issuance of
488,000.OQ "CITY OF LUBBOCK,, TEXAS POLICE STATION BUILDING BONDS,
SERIES 194611, dated March 1, 1946.
The ordinance was read in full.by the City Secretary.
Thereupon, Commissioner J. Ray Dickey moved that the
rule requiring that no ordinance shall be passed on the day on
which it is introduced be suspended, and that in view of the
emergency set forth and defined in the preamble to the proposed
ordinance, that the same be declared an emergency measure. This
motion was duly seconded by Commissioner V0. B. Price. The motion
carried by the following vote:
AYES: Mayor Ribble and Commissioners Childress,
Dickey and Price.
NOBS: None.
Thereupon, the Mayor announced that the proposed
ordinance had been declared an emergency measure by unanimous
vote of the Commission.
Thereupon, Commissioner W. B. Price moved that the
ordinance as read in full by the City Secretary be finally passed
and adopted by the Commission. This motion was seconded by
Commissioner J. Ray Dickey, and the motion, carrying with it the
final passage and adoption of the ordinance, was unanimously
carried by the following vote:
AYES: Mayor Ribble and Commissioners Childress,
Dickey and Price.
NOES: None
Thereupon, the Mayor announced that the ordinance had
been finally passed and adopted by unanimous vote of the Com-
mission, in accordance with the requirements of Sections 15, 16
and 17 of Article IX, of the Lubbock Charter; and the Mayor
thereupon signed and approved the ordinance in the presence of
the Commission.
The ordinance is as follows:
"AN ORDINANCE by the City Commission of the City of
Lubbock, Texas authorizing the issuance of
foe 000.00 'CIfiY OF LUBBOCK TEXAS POLICE
STAE ON BUILDING BONDS, SERIES 1946", dated
March 1, 1946, for the purpose of the construct-
ion, erection, enlargement and improvement of
Police Station Buildings and furnishing and
equipping the same and purchasing sites therefor
in the City of Lubbock; prescribing the form of
the bonds and the form of interest coupons; levy-
ing a continuing direct annual ad valorem tax on
all taxable properties within the limits of said
City to pay the interest on such bonds and to
create a sinking fund for the redemption thereof,
and providing for the assessment and collection
of such tax; enacting provisions incident and
relating to the subject and purpose of this
ordinance; and declaring an emergency."
WHEREAS, under and by virtue of an ordinance duly passed
and adopted by the City Commission of the City of Lubbock, Texas,
on the 20th day of November, 1945, an election was ordered to be
held in said City on the filth day of December, 1945, at which
election the following proposition was submitted to the qualified
electors of said City:
"SHALL the City Commission of the Ulty of Lubbock be
authorized to issue the negotiable interest bearing bonds
of the City of Lubbock in the amount of 088,000.00, bearing
interest at a rate of not exceeding three and one-half
per eentum (31%) per annum from date and maturing at
such time or times as may be deemed most expedient,by
the City Commission, serially not later than twenty-
five years from their date, for the purpose of the
construction, erection, enlargement and improvement
of Police Station Buildings and furnishing and equipping
the same and purchasing sites therefor in the Uity of
Lubbock; and shall there be annually levied, assessed
and collecte,', while said bonds or any of them are out-
standing, an ad valorem tax upon all taxable property
within said City sufficient in amount to pay the annual
interest on said bonds and to provide a sinking fund
to pay the principal thereof as the same matures.
AND WHEREAS, upon consideration of the returns of said
election, the City Commission found that said election had been
conducted in,the manner prescribed by law, and was in all respects
legally held, after due and proper notice as required by law;
that due returns of said election had been made by the proper
officers; that said election resulted favorably to the issuance
of said bonds; that a majority of the qualified electors, voting
at said election, voted in favor of the issuance of said bonds;
and that the City Commission is in all things authorized to
issue said bonds and to do any and all things necessary and/or
convenient in connection therewith; and
WHEREAS, it is to the best interest of the City that
the authorized improvements and construction of the Police Station
Buildings be commenced at the earliest possible date, thereby
creating this an emergency measure for the immediate preservation
of the public peace, property, health and safety, as well as a
more efficient administration and operation of the Police Depart-
ment of the municipal government; therefore
HE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY CO)84ISSION OF THE CITY OF
LUBBOCK:
SECTION I: That the bonds of said City to be called
"CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS: POLICE STATION BUILDING AONDS SERIES 1946"
be issued under and by virtue of the Constitution and 'Laws of the
State of Texas, and the Charter of the City, for the purpose of
the construction, erection, enlargement and improvement of Police
Station Buildings and furnishing and equipping the same and pur-
chasing sites therefor in the City of Lubbock, in the principal
sum of EIGHTY-EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS ($88,000.00).
SECTION : That said bonds shall be numbered consec-
utively from One 1) to Eighty-eight (SS) inclusive; shall be of
the denomination of One Thousand llollars (61,000.00) each, aggre-
gating the sum of Eighty -Eight Thousand Dollars (418,000.00) .
SECTION 'l: `1'
f hat said bonds shall be dated March 1,
1946, and shall mature in accordance with the following schedule;
BOND NUMBERS MATURITY DATES AMOUNTS
All Inclusive)
I
to
3
March
1,
1947
0 3,000.00
4
to
6
March
1,
1948
3,000.00
7
to
9
earth
1,
1949
3,000.00
10
to
12
March
1,
1950
3,000.00
13
to
15
March
1,
1951
3,000.00
16
to
18
March
1,
1952
39000.00
19
to
21
March
1,
1953
3,000.00
22
to
24
March
1,
1954
3,000.00
25
to
27
March
1,
1955
3,000.00
28
to
30
March
1,
1956
3,000.00
31
to
33
March
1,
1957
39000.00
34
to
36
March
1,
1958
3,000.00
37
to
40
March
1,
1959
4,000.00
41
to
44
March
1,
1960
4,000.00
45
to
48
March
1,
1961
4,000.00
49
to
52
March
1,
1962
4,000.00
53
to
56
March
1,
1963
41,000.00
57
to
60
March
1,
1964
4,000.00
6l
to
64
March
1,
1965
4,O00.00
65
to
68
March
1,
1966
42000.00
69
to
72
March
1,
1967
42000.0u
76
to
16
maren
1,
1968
4,000.00
77
to
80
March
1,
1969
41*000.00
81
to
84
March
1,
1970
4,000.00
85
to
88
March
I,
1971
43,000.00
SECTION 4: That all of said bonds shall bear interest
from date until paid at the rate of ONE AND ONE-HALF PER CENTUM
(I-) per annum, payable on March 1st and September 1st in each
year, the first interest payment date being March 1, 1947; such
interest to be evidenced by proper coup-ns attached to each of
said bonds.
SECTION 5: That the principal and interest of said
series of bonds shall be payable on presentation and surrender
of bonds or proper coupons, in lawful money of the United States
of America at the GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK
CITY, NEW IORK.
SECTION €: That each of said bonds shall be signed by
the Mayor and countersigned by the City Secretary, and the corpor-
ate seal of the "CITY OF LUBBOCK2 TEXAS', shall be impressed upon
each of theca.
SECTION 7: That the facsimile signatures of the Mayor
and City Secretary may be lithographed or printed on the interest
coupons attached to said bonds, and shall have the same effect as
if they had been signed by them.
SECTION 8: That the form of said bonds shall be sub-
stantially as follows:
NO, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, $1,000.00
STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK.
CITY OF LUBBOCKY POLICE STATION
BUILDING BOND, SERIES 1946.
CITY OF LUBBOCK, a municipal corporation, of the State
of Texas, acknowledges itself indebted to and, FOR VALUE RECEIVED,
hereby promises to pay to bearer, the sum of
ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS
(i1,000.00), in lawful money of the United States of America, on
the FIRST DAY OF MARCH, I9 , with interest thereon from the
date thereof until paid, at the rate of ONE AND ONE-HALF PER CENTUM
(12%) per annum, payable on March Ist and September 1st in each
year, the first interest payment date being March 1, 1947, on
presentation and surrender of the annexed coupons as they severally
mature.
BOTH PRINCIPAL and interest of this bond are hereby
made payable at the GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK
CITY, NEW YORK.
THIS BOND is one of a series of Eighty-eight (88)
serial bonds, numbered from One (1) to Eighty-eight (88), both
inclusive all of said bonds being of the denomination of One
Thousand 6ollars 41,000.00) aggregating in amount EIGHTY-EIGHT
THOUSAND DOLLARS {$8g,000.00�, and issued for the purpose of the
construction, erection, enlargement and improvement of Police
Station Buildings and furnishing and equipping the same and
purchasing sites therefor in the City of Lubbock, under authority
of the Constitution and Laws of the State of Texas, and the Charter
of said City, and pursuant to an ordinance duly adopted by the
City Commission of the City of Lubbock, Texas, and recorded in the
Minutes of said Oity Commission.
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED, RECITED AND REPRESENTED that
the issuance of this bond and the series of which it is a part
is duly authorized by law and by a vote of the qualified property
taxpaying voters of the City of Lubbock, Texas, voting at an
election held for that purpose within said City on the llth day
of December, 1945; that all acts, conditions, and things required
to be done precedent to and in the issuance of this series of
bonds, and of this bond, have been properly done and performed
and have happened in regular and due tire, form and manner as
required by lair; that sufficient and proper provision for the
levy and collection of texes has been made which, when collected,
shall be appropriated exclusively to the payment of this bond and
the series of which it is a part, and to the payment of the
interest coupons thereto annexed as the same shall become due;
and trat the total indebtedness of the City of Lubbock, Texas,
including the entire series of bonds of w hbh this is one, does
not exceed any constitutional or statutory limitation.
IN TESTIMONY ►,HEREOF, the City of Lubbock, Texas, by
Its City Commission, has caused its corporate seal to be affixed
hereto, and this bond to be signed by its Mayor and countersigned
by its City Secretary, anr' the interest coupons hereto 6ttached
to be executed by the lithographed or printed facsimile signatures
of the Mayor and City Secretary; the date of this bond, in conform-
ity with the ordinance above referred to, being the first day of
March, 1946.
Mayor, City of Lubbock, Texas.
uOUNTERSIGNED:
City Secretary, City of Lubbock, Texas.
SECTION s: That the form of interest coupon shall be
substantially as follows:
NO.- ON THE DAY OF 19 ,
the CITY OF LUBBOCK, A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION of the State of
Texas hereby promises to pay to bearer, at the GUARANTY TRUST
COMPANY OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, the sum of
DOLLARS
�4 ), in lawful money of the United States _f America, being
monthst interest on the CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, POLICE STATION
BUILDING BONDS, SERIES 194E", dated March 1, 1946.
Bond No.
City Secretary. Mayor
SECTION In: That the following certificate shall be
printed on the back of each bond:
OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER
STATE OF TEXAS
REGISTER NO.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that there is on file and of record
In my office a certificate of the Attorney Ueneral of the State
of Texas, to the effect that this bond has been examined by him
as required by law and t'',at he finds that it has been issued in
conformity with the Constitution and Laws of the State of Texas,
and that it is a valid and binding obligation upon said City of
Lubbock, Texas, and said bond has this day been registered by me.
,FITNESS MY HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE, AT AUSTIN, TEXAS,
Comptroller of Public Accounts
of the State of Texas.
SECTION 11: BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
That to pay the interest on said bonds and create a
sinking fund sufficient to redeem t�em at maturity, a tax of
One And Three -Fourths CENTS (lam on each one hundred
dollars' valuation of all taxable property in the City of Lubbock,
Texas, or such an amount as may at all times be legally necessary,
shall be annually levied on said property and annually assessed
and collected, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, or in
addition thereto as may be required, until said bonds with
Interest thereon have been '
fullyy aid- and the said tax of
T -F CENTS1$¢J is here now levied
for the current year, and so much thereof as shall be necessary,
or in addition thereto as may be required, is hereby levied for
each succeeding year while said bonds, or any of them, are out-
standing, and the same shall be annually assessed and collected
and applied to the purpose named.
SECTION 12: BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUB:30CK:
That the Mayor of said City shall be and he is hereby
authorized to take and have charge of all necessary orders and
records pending investigation by the Attorney General of the
State of Texas, and shall take and have charge and control of
the bonds herein authorized pending their approval by the Attor-
ney General and their registration by the Comptroller of Public
accounts.
SECTION 13: AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
The fact that it is to the best interest of the City
that the authorized construction, erection, enlargement and im-
provement of Police Station Buildings, purchasing sites therefor
and furnishing and equipping the same in the City of Lubbock, be
commenced at the earliest possible date, creates this an emergency
measure for the immediate preservation of the public peace, prop-
erty, health and safety, as well as a more efficient administra-
tion and operation of the Police Department of the municipal
government, demanding that the charter provisions to the effect
that no ordinance shall be passed on the day on which it shall
be introduced, be suspended, and this ordinance is hereby de-
clared an emergency measure by unanimous vote of the City Com-
mission, and the same shall take effect from and after its
passage, and it is so ordained.
PASSED this the 19th day of March, 1946.
APPROVAD� this the 19th day of March, 1946.
Mayor, City Of Lubbock, Texas.
ATTEST: ,
r
City Secretary, City of Lubbock, 'exas
(City Seal)
CERTIFICATE OF CITY SECRETARY
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK
CITY OF LUBa>OCK
Is Lavenia Williams, City Secretary of the City of
Lubbock, Texas, DO HEREBY CEITIFY that the foregoing is a true
and correct copy of an ordinance authorizing issuance of
"CITY OF LUBBOCK TEXAS POLICE STATION BUILDING BONDS SERIES
1946% adopted by the City Commission of said Lity on the 19th
day of March, 1946 ( and of the Minutes pertaining to its adoption)
and that it has been properly enrolled, placed in the office of
the City Secretary and approved by the Mayor, having been re-
corded in Book -Page at seq., of the Minutes of said
Commission.
IN V,ITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto signed my name
officially and affixed the seal of said City, this the l9th
day of March, 1946.
City Secretary, City of Lubbock, Texas
(City Seal)
ORDINANCE NO. 756
ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING ISSUANCE
OF $60,000.00 "CITY OF LUBBOCK,
TEXAS EQUIPMENT STORAGE.AND
GARAGA BUILDING BONDS, SERIFS
1946°, DATED MARCH 1, 1946.
THE STATE OF TEXAS )
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK )
CITY OF LUBBOCK )
ON THIS the l9th day of March, 1946 the City Commission
of the City of Lubbock, Texas, convened in called session, at the
regular meeting place thereof in the City Hall, with the following
members thereof, to -wit:
0. W. RIBBLE, MAYOR,
F. H. CHILDRESS., )
J. RAY DICKEY, ) COMMISSIONERS,
W. B. PRICE, )
LAVENIA WILLIAMS, SECRETARY,
present, and the following absent: Hub Jones ,
constituting a quorum, when, among other proceedings had, were the
following:
Commissioner �V. B. Price presented for the consideration
of the city Commission am ordinance authorizing the issuance of
460 000.00 "CITY OF LUBBOCK TEXAS, EQUIPMENT STORAGE AND GARAGE
BUILDING BONDS, SERIES 1946dated March 1, 1946.
The Ordinance was read in full by the City Secretary.
Thereupon, Commissioner J. Ray Dickey moved that the
rule reouiring that no ordinance shall be passed on the day on
which it is introduced be suspended, and that in view of the
emergency set forth and defined in the preakble to the proposed
ordinance, that the same be declared an emergency measure. This
motion was duly seconded by Commissioner Wi. B. Price. The motion
carried by the following vote:
AYES: Mayor Ribble and commissioners Childress,
Dickey and Price.
NOES: None
Thereupon, the Mayor announced that the proposed
ordinance had been declared an emergency measure by unanimous
vote of the 6ommissi6n.
Thereupon, Commissioner W. B. Price moved that the
ordinance as read in full by the City Secretary be finally passed
and adopted by the Commission. This motion was seconded by
Commissioner J. Ray Dickey, and the motion, carrying with it the
final passage and adoption of the ordinance, was unanimously
carried by the following vote:
AYES: Mayor Ribble and Commissioners Childress,
Dickey and Price.
NOES: None.
Thereupon, the Mayor announced that the ordinance had
been finally passed and adopted by unanimous vote of the Commission,
in accordance with the requirements of Sections 15, 16 and 17 of
Article IX, of the Lubbock Charter; and the Mayor thereupon signed
and approved the ordinance in the presence of the Commission.
The ordinance is as follows:
uAN ORDINANCE by the City Commission of the City
of Lubbock, Texas authorizing the issuance of
460 000.00 'CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, EQUIPMENT
STOLGE AND GARAGE BUILDING BONDS, SERIES 294611,
dated March 1, 1946, for the purpose of the
construction and erection of an Equipment
Storage and Garage Building, purchasing a site
therefor and equipping the same in the City of
Lubbock; prescribing the form of the bonds and
the form of interest coupons; levying d contin-
uing direct annual �kd valorem tax on all taxable
properties within the limits of said City to
pay the interest on such bonds and to create
a sinking fund for the redemption thereof, and
providing for the assessment and collection of
such tax; enacting provisions incident and
relating to the subject and purpose of this
ordinance; and declaring an emergency."
WHEREAS, under and by virtue of an ordinance duly
passed and adopted by the City Commission of the City of Lubbock,
Texas, on the 20th day of November, 1945, an election was ordered
to be held in said City on the llth day of December, 1945, and at
which election the following proposition w-s submitted to the
qualified electors of said City:
'SHALL the City Commission of the City of Lubbock
be authorized to issue the negotiable interest bearing
bonds of the City of Lubbock in the amount of 460,000.00
bearing interest at a rate of not exceeding three and one-
half per centum (316) per annum from date and maturing at
such time or times as may be deemed most expedient by the
City Commission, serially, not later than twenty-five
yeers from their date, for the purpose of the construction
and erection of an Equipment storage and Garage Building,
purchasing a site therefor and equipping the same in the
City of Lubbock; and shall there be annually levied,
assessed and collected, while said bonds or any of them
are outstanding, an ad valorem tax upon all taxable
property within said City sufficient in a::ount to pay
the annual interest on said bonds and to provide a sinking
fund to pay the principal thereof as the some matures.
AND WHEREAS, upon consideration of the returns of said
election, the pity Commission found that said election had been
conducted in the manner prescribed by law, and was in all respects
legally held, after due and proper notice as required by law;
that due returns of said election had been trade by the proper
of'f•icers; tnat said election resulted favorably to the issuance
of said bonds; that a majority of the qualified electors, voting
at said election, voted in favor of the issuance of said bonds;
and that the City Commission is in all things authorized to
issue said bonds and to do any and all things necessary and/or
convenient in connection therewith; and
WHEREAS, it being now determined by the City Commission
that it is to the best interest of the City that the Authorized
Improvements and construction of the Equipment Storage and Garage
building be commenced at the earliest possible date, thereby
creating this an emergency measure for the immediate preservation
of the public peace, property, health and safety, as well as a
more efficient administration and operation of all departments
of said City using mechanical vehicles and other machinery of
the municipal government; therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMAISSION OF THE CITY
OF LUBBOCK:
SECTION 1: That the bonds of said City, to be called
"CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, EQUIPMENT STORAGE AND GARAGE BUILDING
BONDS, SERIES 1946", be issued under and by virtue of the Con-
stitution and Laws of the State of Texas, and the Charter of the
City, for the purpose of the Construction and erection of an
Equipment Storage and Garage Building, purchasing a site therefor
and equipping the same in the City of Lubbock, in the Principal
sum of SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($60,000.00).
SECTION That said bonds shall be numbered consec-
utively from One (1) to Sixty (60) inclusive; shall be of the
denomination of One Thousand Dollars (61,000.00) each, aggregating
the sum of Sixty Thousand Dollars ($60,000.00).
SECTION 3: That said bonds shall be dated March 1, 1946,
and shall mature in accordance with the following schedule:
BOND
NUMBERS
UTURITY
DATES
AMOUNTS
TA-11
Inclusive)
1
to
2
March
1,
1947
29000.00
3
to
4
March
1,
1948
2,000.00
5
to
6
March
1,
1949
22000.00
7
to
8
March
1,
1950
2,000.00
9
to
10
March
1,
1951
2,000.00
11
to
12
March
1,
1952
2,000.00
13
to
14
March
1,
1953
2,000.00
15
to
16
March
12
1954
2,000.00
17
to
18
March
1,
1955
2,000.00
19
to
20
March
1,
1956
22000.00
21
to
22
March
1,
1957
2*000.00
23
to
24
March
1,
1958
2,000.00
25
to
26
March
1,
1959
23,000.00
27
to
28
March
1,
1960
22000.00
29
to
30
March
1,
1961
23P000.00
31
to
33
March
1,
1962
30000.00
34
to
36
March
1,
1963
3,000.00
37
to
39
March
2,
1964
30000.00
40
to
42
March
1,
1965
33,000.00
43
to
45
March
1,
1966
3,000.00
46
to
48
March
1,
1967
3,000.00
49
to
51
March
1,
1968
3,000.00
52
to
54
March
1,
1969
39000.00
55
to
57
March
11
1970
3,000.00
58
to
60
March
1,
1971
3,000.00
SECTION 4: That all of said bonds shall bear interest
from date until paid at the rate of ONE AND ONE-HA.LF PER CENTUM
(I,%) per annum, payable on March lst and September 1st in each
year, the first interest payment date being March 1, 1947; such
interest to be evidenced by proper coupons attached to each of
said bonds.
SECTION 5: That the principal and interest of said
series of bonds shall be payable on presentation and surrender of
bonds or proper coupons, in lawful money of the United States of
America at the GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK CITY,
NEW YORk.
SECTION a: That each of said bonds shall be signed by
the Mayor and countersigned by the City Secretary, and the corpor-
ate seal of the CITY OF LUBBOCK., TEXAS"., shall be impressed upon
each of them.
SECTION 7: That the facsimile signatures of the Mayor
and City Secretary may be lithographed or printed on the interest
coupons attached to said bonds, and shall have the same effect as
if t',ey had been signed by them.
SECTION m: That the form of said bonds shall be sub-
stantially as follows:
NO. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, $1,000.00
STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK.,
CITY OF LUBBOCKP TEXAS., E(4UIPMENT
STORAGE AND GARAGE BUILDING BOND
SERIES 1946.
CITY OF LUBBOCK, a municipal corporation, of the State
of Texas, acknowledges itself indebted to and, FOR VALUE RECEIVED.,
hereby promises to pay to bearer, the sum of
ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS
41,000.00), in lawful money of the United States of America, on
the FIRST DAY OF MARCHr 19 , with interest thereon from the
date hereof until paid, at the rate of ONE AND ONE-H«LF PER CENTUM
(12 ) per annum, payable on March lst and September lst in each
year, the first interest payment date being Harch 1, 1947, on
presentation and surrender of the annexed coupons as they severally
mature.
BOTH PRINCIPAL and interest of this bond are hereby
made payable at the GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK
CITY! NEU YORK.
THIS BOND is one of a series of Sixty (60) serial
bonds, numbered from One (1) to Sixty (60), both inclusive, all
of said bonds being of the denomination of One Thousand Dollars
1,000.00) aggregating in amount SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS( 60,000.00% and issued for the purpose of the construction
and erection of an Equipment Storage and Garage Building, purchas-
ing a site therefor and equipping the same in the City of Lubbock,
under authority of the Constitution and Laws of the State of
Texas, and the Charter of said City, and pursuant to an ordinance
duly edopted by the City Comm`_ss'on of the City of Lubbock, Texas,
and recorded in the Minutes of said City Commission.
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED., RECITED AND REPRESENTED that
the issuance of this bond and the series of which it is a part
Is duly authorized by law and by a vote of the qualified property
taxpaying voters of the City of Lubbock, Texas, voting at an
election held for that purpose within said City on the llth day
of December, 1945; that all acts, conditions, and t'ings required
to be done precedent to and in the issuance of this series of
bonds, and of this bond, have been properly done and pef4formed
and have happened in regular and due time, form and manner as
required by law; that sufficient and proper provision for the
levy and collecti,n of taxes has been made which, when collected,
shall be appropriated exclusively to the payment of this bond and
the series of which it is a part, and t) the payment of the
interest coupons thereto annexed as the same shall become due;
and that the total indebtedness of the City of Lubbock, Texas,
including the entire series of bonds of which this is one, does
not exceed any constitutional or statutory limitation.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, the City of Lubbock, Texas, by
its City Commission, has caused its corporate seal to be affixed
hereto, and this bond to be signed by its Mayor and countersigned
by its City Secretary, and the interest coupons hereto attached
to be executed by the lithographed or printed facsimile signatures
of the Mayor and City Secretary; the date of this bond, in con-
formity with the ordinance above referred to, being the first day
of March, 1946.
Mayor, City of Lubbock, Texas.
COUNTERSIGNED:
City Secretary, 6ity of Lubbock, Texas
(City 5ea1)
SECTION 9: That the form of interest coupon shall be
substantially as follows:
NO. ON ZtHE DAY OF 19 , $
the CITY OF LUBBOCK, a municipal corporation of the State of
Texas, hereby promises to pay to bearer, at the GUARANTY TRUST
COMPANY OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK CITY, NEW YO:K, the sum of
DOLLARS
( ), in lawful money of the United States of America, being
months interest on the CITY OF LUBBOCK TEXAS, EQUIPMENT
STORAGE AND GARAGE BUILDING BONDS, SERIES 1946dated Me rch 1,
1946.
Bond No.
City Secretary
Mayor
SECTION in: That the following certificate shall be
printed on the back of each bond:
OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER )
STATE OF TEXAS )
REGISTER NO.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that there is on file and of record
in my office a certificate of the Attorney General of the State
of Texas, to the effect that this bond has been examined by him
as required by law and that he finds that it has been issued in
conformity with the Constitution and Lacs of the State of Texas,
and that it is a valid and binding obligation upon said City of
Lubbock, Texaw, and said bond has this day been registered by me.
WITNESS MY HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE, AT AUSTIN, TEXAS,
Comptroller of Public Accounts of
the State of Texas.
SECTION 11: BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
That to pay the interest on said bonds and create a
sinking fund sufficient to redeem them at maturity, a tax of
Ona and OnA-Fourth CENTS (1-419) on each one hundred
dollars valuation of all taxable property in the City of Lubbock,
Texas, or such an amount as may at all times be legally necessary,
shell be annually levied on said property and annually assessed
and collected, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, or in
addition thereto as im y be required, until said bonds with interest
thereon have been fully paid; and the said tax of nnA & o�urth CENTS
(lJ56 is here now levied for the current year, and so much
thereof as shall be necessary, or in addition thereto as may be
required, is hereby levied for each succeeding year while said bonds,
or any of them, are outstanding, and the same shall be annually
assessed and collected and applied to the purpose named.
SECTION 12: BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
That the Mayor of gaid City shall be and he is hereby
authorized to take and have charge of all necessary orders and
records pending investigation by the Attorney General of the
State of 'Texas, and shall take and have charge and control of
the bonds herein authorized pending their approval by the Attorney
General and their registration by the Comptroller of Public Accounts.
SECTION 13: AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
The f-et that it is to the best interest of the City
that the authorized construction, erection of an Equipment
Storage and Garage building, purchasing a site therefor, and
equipping the same in the City of Lubbock, be commenced at the
earliest possible date, creates this an emergency measure for the
immediate preservation of the public peace, property, heQlth and
safety, as well as a more efficient administration and operation
of all departments of said City using mechanical vehicles and
other machinery of the municipal government, demanding that the
Charter provisions to the effect that no ordinance shall be passed
on the day on which it shall be introduced, be suspended, and this
ordinance is hereby declared an emergency measure by unfinimous
vote of the City Commission, wind the same shall take effect from
and after its passage, and it is so ordained.
PASSED, this the 19th day of March, 1946.
APPROVED, this the 19th day of March, 1946.
02
Mayor, City of Lubbock, Texas
ATTEST:
c� l
City secretary, City of Lubboe-k, Texas.
City Seal)
CERTIFICATE OF CITY SECRETARY
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF LUBr3OCK
CITY OF LUB:3OCK
I. Lavenia W4111ams, City Secretary of the City of
Lubbock, Texas, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a true
and correct copy of an ordinance authorizing issuance of
"CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, EQUIPMENT STORAGE AND GARAGE BUILDING
BONDS., SERIES 1946", adopted by the City Commission of said City
on the 19th day of March, 1946 ( and of the Minutes pertaining
to its adoption), and that it has been properly enrolled, placed
In the office of the City Secretary and approved by the Mayor,
having been recorded in B�ok_—.page et seq., of the
Minutes of said Commission.
iN `JITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto signed my name
officially and affixed the seal of said City, this the l9th day
of March, 1946.
City Secretary, City of Lubbock, Texas
(City Seal)
ORDINANCE #757
ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING IS.'UANCE
OF $22,000.00 "CITY OF LUBBOCK,
TEXAS FIRE EQUIPMENd BONDS,
SERIES 1946", DATED MARCH 1, 1946.
THE STATE OF TEXAS )
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK )
CITY OF LUBBOCK )
ON THIS the 19th day of March, 1946, the City Commission
of the City of Lubbock, Texas, convened in called session, at the
regulfir meeting place thereof in the city Hall, with the following
members there of, to -wit:
0. W. RIBBLE, MAYOR,
F. H. CHILDRESS, )
J. RAY DICKEY, ) COMMISSIONERS,
W. B. PRICE, )
LtVENIA WILLIAMS, SECRETARY,
present, and the following absent: Hub Jones ,
constituting a quorum, when, among other proceedings had, were the
following.
Commissioner W. B. Price presented for the consideration
of the City Commission an ordinance authorizing the issuance of
�22,000.00 "CITY OF LUBBOCK TEXAS, FIRE EQUIPMENT BONDS, SERIES
1946", dated March 1, 1946 (being parcel of n total issue of
465,000.00 bonds authorized at the election held in said City on
December 11, 1945).
The ordinance was read in full by the Uity Secretary.
Thereupon, Commissioner J. Ray Dickey moved that the
rule requiring that no ordinance shall be passed on the day on
which it is introduced be aispended, and that in view of the
emergency set forth and defined in the preamble to the proposed
ordinance, that the same be declared an emergency measure. This
motion was duly seconded by Commissioner W. B. Price. The motion
carried by the following vote:
AYES: Mayor nibble and Commissioners Childress,
Oickey and Price.
NOES: None
Thereupon, the Mayor announced that the proposed
ordinance had been declared an emergency measure by unanimous
vote of the Commission.
Thereupon, Commissioner W., B. Price moved that the
ordinance as read in full by the City Secretary be finally passed
and adopted by the Commission. This motion was seconded by
Commissioner J. Ray Dickey, and the motion, carrying with it the
final passage and adoption of the ordinance, was unanimously
carried by the following vote:
AYES: Mayor Ribble and Commissioners Childress,
Dickey and Price.
NOES: None.
Thereupon, the Mayor announced that the ordinance had
been finally passed and adopted by unanimous vote of the Commission,
in accordance with the requirements of Section 15, 16 and 17 of
Article IX, of the Lubbock Charter; and the Mayor thereupon signed
and approved the ordinance in the presence of the Commission.
The ordinance is as follows:
"AN ORDINANCE by the City Commission of the City of
Lubbock, Texas authorizing the issuance of
422 000.00 ICHY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, FIRE EQUIP-
1121h BJNDS, SERIES 19461, dated March 1, 1946
(being parcel of a total issue of %i65,000.00
bonds authorized at the election held in said
City on December 11, 1945), for the purpose of
purchasing and installing apparatus, equipment,
engines and machinery for the Fire De artment
of said City of Lubbock; prescribing the brm
of the bonds and the form of interest coupons;
levying a continuing direct annual ad valorem
tax on all taxable properties within the limits
of said pity to pay the interest on such bonds
and to create a sinking fund for the redemption
thereof, and providing for the assessment and
collection of such tax; enacting provisions
incident and relating to the subject and purpose
of this ordinance; and declaring an emergency."
WHEREAS., under an by virtue of an ordinance duly passed
and adopted by the City Commission of the City of Lubbock, Texas,
on the 20th day of November, 1945, an election was ordered to be
held in said City on the llth day of December, 1945, and at which
election the following proposition was submitted to the qualified
electors of said City:
"SHALL the City Uommissibn of the City of Lubbock
be authorized to issue the ne7otiable interest bearing bonds
of the City of Lubbock in the amount of 465,000.00, bearing
interest at the rate of not exceeding three and one-half
per centum (32%) per annum from date and maturing at
such time or times as may be deemed most expedient by
the Uity Commission of the City of Lubbock, serially,
not later than twenty-five years from their date, for
the purpose of purchasing and installing apparatus,
equipment, engines and machinery for the r'ire Department
of said Uity; and shall there be assessed, levied and
collected annually, while said bonds or any of them are
outstanding, an ad valorem tax upon all taxable property
within said City sufficient in amount to pay the annual
Interest on said bonds and to provide a sinking fund for
the redemption thereof at maturity."
AND WHEREAS, Upon consideration of the returns of said
election, the City Commission found that said election had been
conducted in the manner prescribed by law, and was in all respects
legally held, after due and proper notice as required by law;
that due returns of sE,id election had been made by the proper
officers; that said election resulted favorably to the issuance
of said bonds; that a majority of the qualified electors, voting
at said election, voted in favor of the issuance of said bonds;
and that the City Commission is in all things authorized to
issue said bonds and to do any and all things necessary and/or
convenient in connection therewith; and
WHEREAS, it being now determined by the Uity Commission
that it is not desired at this time to issue all of the bonds for
465,000.00, voted for on the proposition, as aforesaid, ^nd that
4229000.00 is the amount of bonds now desired to be issued, and
that the remaining amount of said bonds, to -wit: $43,000.00, shall
be issued at a future date or dates, when, in the judgment of the
Uity Commission of said City, the amount is needed by the City for
the purpose for which it was authorized; and
WHEREASP it is to the best interest of the Uity that
the authorized purchase and installation of apparatus, equipment,
engines and machinery for the r'ire Department be made at the
earliest possible date, ther*y creating this an emergency measure,
for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property,
health and safety, as well as a more efficient administration
and operation of the Fire Department of the municipal government;
therefore
bE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COM:IISSION OF THE
CITY OF LUBBOCK:
SECTION 1: That the bonds of said Uity, to be called
"CITY OF LUBBOCK, TFEXASP FIRE EQUIPMENT BONDS, SERIES 1946 %
be -issued under and by virtue of the Constitution -,ind Laws of the
btate of 'Texas, and the Charter of the City, for the purpose of
purchasing and installing apparatus, equipment, engines and
machinery for the Fire Department of the Uity of Lubbock in the
principal sum of TWENTY-TWO THOUSAND DOLLhRS {422,000.003.
SECTION 2: That said bonds shill be numbered consec-
utively from one (1) to Twenty-two (22), inclusive; shall be of
the denomination of One Thousand Dollars 41,000.00) each,
aggregating the sum of Twenty -Two `Thousand Dollars (422,060.00)
SECTION 3: That said bonds shall be dated March 1,
1946, and shall mature in accordance with the following schedule:
BOND NUMBERS MATURITY DATES AMOUNTS
lAll Inclusive)
1 March
1,
1947
41,000.00
2 March
1,
1948
1,000.00
3 March
1,
1949
1,000.00
4 March
1,
1950
1,000.00
5 March
1,
1951
1,000.00
6 March
19
1952
11000.00
7
March
1,
1953
10000.00
8
March
1,
1954
1,000.00
9
March
1,
1955
1,000.00
10
March
1,
1956
1,000.00
11
March
1,
1957
1,000.00
12
March
1,
1958
1,000.00
13
March
1,
1959
1,000.00
14
March
1,
1960
1,000.00
15
March
1,
1961
19000.00
16
March
12
1962
1,000.00
17
March
11
1963
1,000.00
18
March
1,
1964
1,000.00
19
March
1,
1965
1,000.00
20
March
1,
1966
1,000.00
21
March
1,
1967
1,000.00
22
March
1,
1968
1,000.00
SECTIO14 4. , That all of said bonds shall bear interest
from date until paid at the rate of ONE AND ONE-HALF PER CENTUM
(127) per annu4i, payable on March 1st and September 1st in each
yec,.r, the first interest payment date being March 1, 1947; such
Interest to be evidenced by proper coupons attached to each of
said bonds.
SECTION 5: That the principal and interest of said
series of bonds shall be payable on presentation and surrender
of bonds or proper couppons in lawful money of the United States
of hmerica at the G0 UNTI TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK
CITY, NETORK.
SECTION F: That each of said bonds shall be signed by
the Mayor and countersigned by the City secretary, and the cor-
porate seal of the "CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS", shall be impressed
upon each of them.
SECTION 7: That the facsimile signatures of the z1ayor
and Uity Secretary may be lithographed or printed on the interest
coupons attached to said bonds, and shall have the same effect as
if they had been signed by them.
SECTION a: That the form of said bonds- shall be sub-
st6ntially as follows:
NO. UNITED STATES OF .AMERICA, �1,000.00
STATE OF TEXAS,
COUNT it OF LUBBOCK.
CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS
FIRE EQ4UIPMENT BOND, SERIES 1946.
uITY OF LUBBOCK, a municipal corporation, of the State
of Texas, acknowledges itself indebted to -nd, FOR VALUE RECEIVED,
hereby promises to pay to bearer, the sum of
UNE THOUSAND DOLLARS
($1,000.00) in lawful money of the united States of hmerica, on
the r'IRST UY CF MARCH, 19----, with interest thereon from the
date hereof until paid, at the rate of ONE AND ONE-HALF PER CENTUM
(11,/%) per annum, payable on March 1st and September 1st in each
year, the first interest payment date being March 1, 1947, on
presentation and surrender of the annexed coupons as they severally
mature.
nOTH PRINCIPAL and interest of this bond are hereby
made payable at the uUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK
CITY, NEW YORK.
THIS BOND is one of a series of 'Twenty -'Two (22) serial
bonds, numbered from One (1) to 'Twenty -Two (22) both inclusive,
all of said bonds being -)f the denoipination of bne 'Thousand
Dollars ( 1,000.00) aggregating in amount 'Twenty -Two 'Thousand
Dollars (422,000.005, and issued for the purpose of purchasing
and installing apparatus, equipment, engines and machinery for
the Tire Department of the Lity of Lubbock, under authority of
the Lonstitutinn _.nd Laws of the btate of Texas, and the charter
of said Uity, end pursuant to an ordinance duly adopted by the
L,ity Uommission of the (-ity of Lubbock, 'Texas, and recorded in
the minutes of said Uity Commission.
iT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED, RECITED AND REPRESENTED that
II the issuance of this bond and the series of shich it is a part
Is duly authorized by law and by a vote of the qualified property
taxpaying voters of the city of LubbocK, texas, voting at an
election held for that purpose within said (ity on the llth day
of December, 1945; that all acts, conditions, and things required
to be done precedent to and in the issuance of this series of
bonds, and of this bond, have been properly done and performed
and have happened in regular and due time, form and manner as
required by 19w; that sufficient and proper provision for the
levy and collection of taxes has been made which, when collected,
shall be appropriated exclusively to the payment of this bond and
the series of which it is a part, -nd to the payment of the
interest coupons thereto annexed as the same shall become due;
and that the total indebtedness of the City of Lubbock, Texas,
Including the entire series of bonds of which this is one, does
not exceed any constitutional or sta-utory limitation.
IN TESTIMONY 4kHEREOF, the Uity of Lubbock, Texas, by
its City Commission, has caused its corporate seal to be affixed
hereto, and this bond to be signed by its Mayor and countersigned
by its City Secretary, and the interest coupons hereto attached
to be executed by the lithographed or printed facsimile signetures
of the jkieyor and City Secretary; the date of this bond, in con-
formity with the ordinance above referred to, being the first day
of March, 1946.
Mayor, City Of L-gbbock, Texas
COUNTERSIGNED:
City Secretary, City of Lubbock, Texas.
SECTION Q: That the form of interest coupon shall be
substantially as follows:
NO .________ ON THE DAY OF l9 4
the CITY OF LUBBOCK, a municipal corporation of the State of
Texas, hereby promises to pay to bearer, E,t the GUARANTY TRUST
COMPANY OF NEW YORK, NEV, YORK CITY, NEW YORK, the sum of
DOLLARS
), in lawful money of the United States of America being
months' interest on the ''CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, FIRA
EQUIPMENT BONDS, SERIES 1946", dated March 1, 1946.
Bond No.
City Secretary.
Mayor
SECTION jo: That the following certificate shall be
printed on the back of each bond;
OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER )
STATE OF TEXAS )
REGISTER NO.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that there is on file and of record
In my office a cert'ficate of the Attorney General of the State
of Texas, to the effect thet this bond has been examined by him
as required by law and that he finds that it has been issued in
conformity with the constitution and Laws of the State of Texas,
and that it is a valid and binding obligation upon said City of
Lubbock, Texas, and said bond has this day been registered by rae.
WITNESS MY HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE, AT AUSTIN, TEXAS,.
Comptroll of Public Accounts of
the State of Texas.
SECTION 11: BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
That to pay the interest on said bonds and create a
sinking fund sufficient to redeem them at maturity, a tax of
SI x-Tgnt;hg of On^ CENTS on_ ench
ah=onc� gd
dollars' valuation of all taxable property in the City of Lubbock,
Texas, or such an amount as may at all times be legally -necessary,
shall be annually levied on said property and annually assessed
and collected, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, or in
addition thereto as may be required, until said bonds with
interest thereon have been fully paid; and the said tax of
Six-Twnths of Ong CENTS (6/IOd) is here now levied
for the current year, and so much thereof as shall be necessary,
or in addition thereto as w y be required, is hereby levied for
each succeeding year while said bonds, or any of them, are out-
standing, and the same shall be annually assessed and collected
and applied to the purpose named.
SECTION -I?: BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
That the Mayor of said City hall be and he is hereby
authorized to take and have charge of all necessary orders and
records pending investigation by the Attorney General of the
State of Texas, and shall take and have charge and control of
the bonds herein authorized pending their approval by the Attorney
General and their registration by the Comptroller of Public Accounts.
SECTION U. AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
The fact that it is to the best interest of the Gity
that the authorized purchfise and installation of apparatus,_equip-
ment, engines and machinery for the Fire Department of the City of
Lubbock, be made at the earliest possible date, creates this an
emergency measure for the immediate preservation of the public
peace, property, health and safety, as well as a more efficient
administration and operation of the Fire Department of the
municipal govefnment, demanding that the Charter provisions to the
effect that no ordinance shall be passed on the day on which it
shall be introduced, be suspended, and this ordinance is hereby
declared an emergency measure by unanimous vote of the City
Commission, and the same shall take effect from and after its
passage, and it is so ordained.
PA.�SED, this the 19th day of Wirch 1946.
APPROVED, this the 19th day of March, 1946.
Mayor, City of Lubbock, Texas
ATTEST: /1
City Secretary, City of Lubbock; T-exas.
(City Leal)
CERTIFICATE OF CITY SECRETARY
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK
CITY OF LUBBOCK
I, Lavenia Williams, City Secretary of the City of
Lubbock, Texas, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a true
and correct copy of an ordinance authorizing issuance of
"CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, FIRE E(4UIPMENT BONDS, SERIES 1946",
adopted by the City Commission of said City on the 19th day
of March, 1946 (and of the Minutes pertaining to its adoption)
and that it hss been properly enrolled, placed in the office
of the City Secretary and approved by the Mayor, having been
recorded in Book Page et seq. , of the Minutes of
said Commission.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto signed my name
officially and affixed the seal of said City, this the 19th
day of March, 1946.
City Secretary, City of Lubbock, Texas
City Seal)
ORDINANCE NO. 758
ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING ISSUANCE
OF $64,000.00 OCITY OF LUBBOCK
TEXAS, PARK BONDS SERIES 1946`�
DATED MARCH 1, 1946.
THE STATE OF TEXAS )
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK )
CITY OF LUBBOCK
ON THIS the 19th day of March, 1946, the City Commission
of the City of Lubbock, Texas, convened in called session, at the
regular meeting place thereof in the City Fall, with the following
members thereof, to -wit:
0. W. RIBBLE, MAYOR,
F. H. CHILDRESS, )
J. RAY DICKEY, ) COMMISSIONER,
V. B. PRICE, )
LAVENIA WILLIAMS, SECRETARY,
present, and the following absent: Hub Jones ,
constituting a quorum, when, among other proceedings had, were the
following:
Commissioner W. B. Price presented for the consideration
of the City Commission an ordinance authorizing the issuance of
464,000.00 to OF LUB30CK, TEXAS, PARK BONDS', SERIES 19464,
dated March 1, 1946 (being parcel of a total issue of 0155,000.00
bonds authorized at the election held in said City on December 11,
1945) .
The ordinance was read in full by the City Secretary.
Thereupon, Uommissioner J. Ray Dickey moved that the
rule requiring that no ordinance shall be passed on the day on
which it is introduced be suspended, and that in view of the
emergency set forth and defined in the preamble to the proposed
ordinance, that the seme be declared an emergency measure. This
motion was duly seconded by Commissioner W. B. Price. The motion
carried by the following vote:
AYES: Mayor Ribble and Commissioners Childress,
Dickey, and Price.
NOES: None.
Thereupon, the Mayor announced that the proposed
ordinance had been declared an emergency -measure by unanimous
vote of the Commission.
Thereupon, Commissioner W. B. Price moved that the
ordinance as read in full by the City Secretary be finally passed
and adopted by the Commission. This motion was seconded by
Commissioner J. Ray Dickey, and the motion, carrying with it the
final passage and adoption of the ordinance, was unanimously
carried by the following vote:
AYES: Mayor Ribble and Commissioners Childress,
Dickey and Price.
NOES: None.
Thereupon, the Mayor announced that the ordinance had
been finally passed and adopted by unanimous vote of the Commission,
in accordance with the requirements of Sections 15, 16 and 17 of
Article IX, of the Lubbock Charter; and the Mayor thereupon signed
and approved the ordinance in the presence of the Commission.
The ordinance is as follows:
BAN ORDINANCE by the City Commission of the City
of Lubbock, Texas authorizing the issuance of
$64 000.00 ' CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, PARK BONDS,
SERIES 19461, dated March 1, 1946 (being parcel
of a total issue of 4155,000.00 bonds authorized
at the election held in said City on December II
1945), for the purpose of purchasing sites for
parks and of erecting and constructing improve-
ments to the parks of the City of Lubbock, in-
cluding raising, grading, filling, terracing,
landscape gardening, erecting buildings, estab-
lishing walks and paving driveways around, in
and through said parks, playgrounds and other
public grounds, as well as installing, con-
structing, repairing and improving swimming
pools, wading pools and other facilities for
the recreation of the children and citizens
of said City of Lubbock; prescribing the form
of the bonds and the form of interest coupons;
levying a continuing direct annual ad valorem
tax on all taxable properties within the limits
of said City to pay the interest on such bonds
and to create a sinking fund for the redemption
thereof, and providing for the assessment and
collection of such tax; enacting provisions
incident and relating to the subject and purpose
of this ordinance; and declaring an emergency."
WHEREAS, under and by virtue of an ordinance duly
passed and adopted by the City Commission of the City of Lubbock,
Texas, on the 20th day of November, 1945, an election was ordered
to be held in said City on the llth day of December, 1945, and at
which election the following proposition was submitted to the
qualified electors of said City:
KSHALL the City Commission of the City of Lubbock
be authorized to issue the negotiable interest bearing
bonds of the City of Lubbock in the amount of 4155,000.00.
bearing interest at a rate of not exceeding three and one-
half per centum (3�%) per annum from date and maturing
at such time or times as may be deemed most expedient by
the City Commission, serially, not later than twenty-five
years from their date, for the purpose of purchasing sites
for parks and of erecting and constructing improvements
to the parks of the City of Lubbock, including raising,
grading, filling, terracing, landscape gardening, erect-
ing buildings, establishing walks and paving driveways
around, in and through said parks, playgrounds and other
public grounds, as well as installing, constructing, re-
pairing and improving swimming pools, wading pools and
other facilities for the recreation of the children and
citizens of said City of Lubbock; and shall there be
annually assessed, levied and collected upon all taxable
property within the City of Lubbock, while said bonds or
any of them are outstanding, a tax sufficient in amount
to pay the annual interest on such bonds and to provide
a sinking fund for the redemption thereof at maturity?"
AND WHEREAS, upon consideration of the returns of
said election, the Uity Commission found that said election had
been conducted in the manner prescribed by law, and was in all
respects legally held, aftsr due and proper notice as required
by law; that due returns of said election had been made by the
proper officers; that said election resulted favorably to the
issuance of said bonds; that a majority of the qualified electors,
voting at said election, voted in favor of the issuance of said
bonds; and that the City Commission is in all things authorized
to issue said bonds and to do any and all things necessary and/or
convenient in connection therewith; and
WHEREAS, it being now determined by the City Commission
that it is not desired at this time to issue all of the bonds for
4155,000.00, voted for on the proposition, as aforesaid, and that
464,000.00 is the amount of bonds now desired to be issued, and
that the remaining amount of said bonds, to -wit: $91,000.00, shall
be issued at a future date or dates when, in the judgment of the
City Commission of baid City, the amount is needed by the City for
the purpose for which it was authorized: and
WHEREAS, it is to the best interest of the City that
the authorized purchase of sites for parks, and the erection and
construction of improvements to the parks of the City of Lubbock,
Including raising, grading, filling, terracing, landscape garden-
ing, erecting buildings, establishing walks and paving driveways
around, in and through said parks, playgrounds and other public
grounds, as well as installing, constructing, repairing and im-
proving swimming pools, wading pools, and other facilities for the
recreation of the children and citizens of the City of Lubbock,
be accomplished at the earliest possible date, thereby creating
this an emergency measure for the immediate preservation of the
public peace, property, health and safety, as well as a more
efficient administration and operation of the Park Department
of the municipal government; therefore
dE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY
OF LUBBOCK:
SECTION 1: That the bonds of said City, to be called
"CITY OF LUBJOCK, TEXAS, PARK BONDS,, SERIES 1946", be issued under
and by virtue of the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas,
and the Charter of the City, for the purpose of purchasing sites
for parks and of erecting and constructing improvements to the
parks of the City of Lubbock, including raising, grading, filling,
terracing, landscape gardening, erecting buildings, establishing
walks and paving driveways around, in and through said parks,
playgrounds and other public grounds, as well as installing, con-
structing, repairing and improving swimming pools, wading pools
and other facilities for the recreation of the children and
citizens of the city of Lubbock, in the principal sum of SIXTY-
FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS ($64,000.00).
SECTION g: That said bonds shall be numbered consec-
utively from One (1) to Sixty-four (64), inclusive; shall be of
the denomination of One Thousand Dollars (61,000.00) each aggre-
gating the sum of Sixty -Four 'Thousand ►collars (464,000.005.
SECTION 3: That said bonds shall be dated March 1,
1946, and shall mature in accordance with the following schedule:
BOND NUN BERS IIATURITY DATES AMOUNTS
ill Inclusive)
1-2
March
1,
1947
$2,.000.00
3-4
March
10
1948
2,000.00
5-6
March
1,
1949
2,000.00
7-8
March
1,
1950
2,000.00
9-10
March
1,
1951
2,000.00
11-12
March
I,
1952
2,000.00
13-14
March
1,
1953
2,000.00
15-16
March
1,
1954
2,000.00
17-18
March
1,
1955,
2,000.00
19-20
March
1,
1956
2,000.00
21-22
March
1,
1957
2,000.00
23-24-25
March
10
1958
3,000.00
26-27-28
March
1,
1959
3,000.00
29-30-31
March
1,
1960
3,000.00
32-33-34
March
1,
1961
30000.00
35-36-37
March
10
1962
3,000.00
38-39-40
March
1,
1963
3,000.00
41-42-43
March
1,
1964
3,000.00
44-45-46
March
1,
1965
3,000.00
47-48-49
March
1,
1966
3,000.00
50-51-52
March
1,
1967
3,000.00
53-54-55
March
1,
1968
33P000.00
56-57-58
March
1,
1969
3,000.00
59-60-61
March
1,
1970
3,000.00
62-63-64
March
1,
1971
3,000.00
SECTION 4: That all of
from date until paid at the rate
(12%) per annu4L, payable on March
year, the first interest payment
interest to be evidenced by prooe
said bonds.
said bonds shall bear interest
of ONE AND ONE-HALF PER CENTUM
1st and Se tember 1st in each
date being arch 1, 1947; such
r coupons attached to each of
SECTION s: That the principal and interest of said
series of bonds shall be payable on presentation and surrender
of bonds or proper coupons, in lawful money of the United States
of America, at the GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK, NEW YOR
CITY, NEW YORK.
SECTION a:. That each of said bonds shall be signed by
the Mayor and countersigned byy the City Secretary, and the cor-
porate seal of the "CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS", shall be impressed
upon each of them.
SECTION I: That the facsimile signatures of the Mayor
-nd City Secretary may be lithographed or printed on the interest
coupons attached to said bonds, and shall have the same effect as
If they had been signed by them.
SECTION 8: That the form of said bonds shall be sub-
stantially as follows:
NO. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, $1,000.00
STATE OF TEXAS,
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK,
CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS,, PARK BOND, SERIES 1946.
CITY OF LUBBOCK, a municipal corporation of the State
of Texas, acknowledges itself indebted to and, FOA VALUE RECEIVED
hereby promises to pay to bearer, the sum of
ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS
(91,000.00) in lawful money of the United States of America, on
the FIRST UY OF MARCH, 19 , with interest thereon from the date
hereof until paid, at the rate of ONE AND ONE-HALF PER CENTUM (12�)
per annum, payable on March 1st and September 1st in each year,
the first interest payment date being March 1, 1947, on present-
ation and surrender of the annexed coupons as they severally mature,
BOTH PRINCIPAL and interest of this bond are hereby
made payable at the GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF WSW YORKK., NEW YORK
THIS BOND is one of a series of Sixty -Four (64) serial
bonds, numbered from One (1) to Sixty -Four (64) both inclusive,
all of said bonds being of the denomination of bne Thousand Dollars
(1,000.00) aggregating in amount SIXTY-FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS
( 64,000,005.. and issued for the purpose of purchasing sites for
parks and of erecting and constructing improvements to the parks
of the City of Lubbock, including raising, grading, filling,
terracing, landscape gardening, erecting buildings, establishing
walks and paving driveways around, in and through said parks, play-
grounds and other public grounds, as well as installing, construct-
ing, repairing and improving swimming pools, wading pools and other
facilities for the recreation of the children and citizens of the
city of Lubbock, under authority of the Constitution and Laws of
the State of Texas, and the charter of said City, and pursuant to
an ordinance duly adopted by the City Commission of the City of
Lubbock, Texas, and recorded in the Minutes of said City Commission.
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIEDj, RECITED AND REPRESENTED that
the issuance of this bond and the series of which it is a part
Is duly authorized by law and by a vote of the qualified property
taxpaying voteres of the City of Lubbock, 'Texas, voting at an
election held for that purpose within said City on the llth day
of December, 1945; that all acts, conditions, and things required
to be done precedent to and in the issuance of this series of
bonds, and of this bond, have been properly done and performed
and have happened in regular 8 nd due time, form and manner as
required by law; that sufficient and proper provision for the
levy and collection of taxes has been made which, when, collected,
shall be appropriate:. exclusively to the payment of this bond and
the series of which it is a part, and to the payment of the
interest coupons thereto annexed as the same shall become due;
and that the total indebtedness of the City of Lubbock, Texas,
Including the entire series of bonds of which this is one, does
not exceed any constitutional or statutory limitation.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, the City Of Lubbock, Texas, by
its City Commission, has caused its corporate seal to be affixed
hereto, and this bond to be signed by its Mayor and countersigned
by its City Secretary, and the interest coupons hereto attached
to be executed by the lithographed or printed facsimile signQtures
of the Mayor and City Secretary; the date of this bond, in conform-
ity with the ordinance above referred to, being the first day of
March, 1946.
Mayor, City of Lubbock, Texas
COUNTERSIGNED:
City Secretary, City of Lubbock, Texas.
SECTION 9: That the form of interest coupon shall be
substantially as follows:
NO. ON THE DAY OF 19 , 6
The CITY OF LUBBOCK, a municipal corporation of the State of Texas,
hereby promises to pap to bearer, at the GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF
NEW YORK, NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, the sum of
DOLLARS
( ), in lawful money of the United States of .Lmeriea, being
months' interest on the CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, PARK BONDS,
SERIES 1946".. dated March 1, 1946.
Bond No.
City Secretary.
Mayor
SECTION in: That the following certificate shall be
printed on the back of each bond:
OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER }
STATE OF TEXAS }}
REGISTER NO.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that there is on file and of record
in my office a certificate of the Attorney general of the State
of Texas, to the effect that this bond has been examined by him
as required by law and that he finds that it has been issued in
conformity with the Constitution and Laws of the State of Texas,
and that it is a valid and binding obligation upon said City of
Lubbock, Texas, and said bond has this day been registered by me.
WITNESS MY H&ND AND SEAL OF OFFICE, AT AUSTIN., TEXAS,
Comptroller of Public Accounts of
the State of `texas.
SECTION 11: BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
That to pay the interest on said bonds and create a
sinking fund sufficient to redeem them at maturity, a tax of
cane Fsnd one-twnth CENTS (1.15e) on each one hundred
dollars' valuation of all taxable property in the City of Lubbock,
Texas, or such an amount as may at all times be legally necessary,
shall be annually levied on said property and annually assessed
end collected, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, or in
addition thereto as may be required, until said bonds with interest
thereon have been fully paid; and the said tax of nne nnd nnA-tAn,th
CENTS (]-I 2�) is here now levied for the current year, and so
much thereof as shall be necessary, or in addition thereto as may
be required, is hereby levied for each aieceeding year while said
bonds, or any of them, are outstanding, anO the same shall be
annually assessed and collected and applied to the purpose named.
SECTION 1.: BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
That the Mayor of said City shall be and he is hereby
authorized to take and have charge of all necessary orders and
records pending investigation by the Attorney General of the
State of Texas, and shall take and have charge and control of
the bonds herein authorized pending their approval by the
-attorney General and their registration by the Comptroller of
Public accounts.
SECTION 13: AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
The fact that it is to the best interest of the City
that the authorized purchase of sites for parks, and the erection
and construction of improvements to the parks of the City of
Lubbock, including raising, grading, filling, terracing, land-
scape gardening, erecting buildings, establishing walks and
paving driveways around, in and through said parks, playgrounds
and other public grounds, as well as installing, constructing,
repairing and improving swimming pools, wading pools and other
facilities for the recreation of the children and citizens of
the Uity of Lubbock, be accomplished at the earliest possible
date, creates this an emergency measure for the immediate pre-
servation of the public peace, property, health and safety, as
well as a more efficient administration and operation of the
Park Department of the municipal government, demanding that the
Charter provisions to the effect that no ordinance shall be
passed on the day on which it shell be introduced, be suspended,
and this ordinance is hereby declared an emergency measure by
unanimous vote of the City Commission, and the same shall take
effect from and after its passage, and it is so ordained.
PASSED this the 19th day of March, 1946.
APPROVkD, this the 19th day of March, 1946.
ATTEST: I
City Secretary, City of Lubboc , Texas.
(City Seal)
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK
CITY OF LUBBOCK
Mayor, City of Lubbock, Texas
CERTIFICATE OF CITY SECRETARY
I, Lavenia Williams City Secretary of the City of
Lubbock, Texas, DO HEREBY CEkTIFY that the foregoing is a true
and correct copy of an ordinance authorizing issuance of
"CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS., P.&RK BONDS, SERIES 1946", adopted by
the City Commission of said City on the 19th day of March, 1946
(and of the Minutes pertaining to its adoption), and that it
has been properly enrolled, placed in the office of the City
Secretary and approved by the Mayor, having been recorded in
Book , page et seq., of the Minutes of said Uommission.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto signed my name
officially and affixed the seal of said Ulty, this the 19th
day of March, 1946.
City Secretary, City of Lubbock, Texas
(City Seal)
ORDINANCE NO. 759
ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING ISSUANCE
OF $36,000.00 "CITY OF LUBBOCK.,
TEXAS MUNICIPAL AIRPORT IMPROVE-
MENT AONDS SERIES 1946", dated
MATCH 10 1946.
THE STATE OF TEXAS )
)
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK )
CITY OF LUBBOCK )
ON THIS the 19th day of March, 1946, the City Commission
of the City of Lubbock, Texas, convened in called session, at the
regular meeting place thereof in the City Hall, with the following
members thereof, to -wit:
0. W. RIBBLE HAYORI
F. H. CHILDRESS, )
J. RAY DICKEY ) COMMISSIONERS,
W. B. PRICE., )
LAVENIA WILLIAMS., SECRETARY,
present, and the following absent: Hub Jonas ,
constituting a quorum, when, among other proceedings had, were the
following:
Commissioner W. B. Price presented for the consideration
of the City Commission an ordinance authorizing the issuance of
$ 36 000.00 "CITY OF LUBBOCK., TEXAS., MUNICIPAL AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT
BONS, SERIES 1946", dated March 13, 1946 (being parcel of a total
issue of 4300,000.00 bonds authorized at the election held in said
City on December 11, 1945).
The ordinance was read in full by the City Secretary.
Thereupon, Commissioner J. Ray Dickey moved that the
rule requiring that no ordinance shall be passed on the day on
which it is introduced be suspended, and that in view of the
emergency set forth and defined in the preamble to the proposed
ordinance, that the same be declared an emergency measure. This
motion was duly carried by the following vote:
AYES: Mayor Ribble and Commissioners Childress,
Dickey, and Price.
NOES: None.
Thereupon, the Mayor announced that the proposed
ordinance had been declared an emergency measure by unanimous
vote of the Commission.
Thereupon, Commissioner ti,. B. Price moved that the
ordinance as read in full by the City Secretary be finally passed
and adopted by the Commission. This motion was seconded by
Commissioner J. Ray Dickey, and the motion, carrying with it the
final passage and adoption of the ordinance, was unaniriously
carried by the following vote:
AYES: Mayor Ribble and Commissioners Childress,
Dickey and Price.
NOES: None.
Thereupon, the Mayor announced that the ordinance had
been finally passed and adopted by unanimous vote of the Commission,
in accordance with the requirements of Sections 15, 16 and 17 of
Article IX, of the Lubbock Charter; and the Mayor thereupon signed
and approved the ordinance in the presence of the Commission.
The ordinance is as follows:
"AN ORDINANCE by the City Commission of the City
of Lubbock, Texas authorizing the issuance of
§36,000.00 'CITY 6F LUBBOCK, TEXAS, MUNICIPAL
AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT BONDS, SERIES 1946', dated
i
March 1, 1946 (being parcel of a total issue of
4300,000.00 bonds authorized at the election
held in said City on December 11, 1945), for
the purpose of constructing, repairing, erect-
ing and improving buildings, hangars and other
permanent improvements to the Municipal Airport
of the City of Lubbock, including the construct-
ion of roads, drives, parking areas, send the
purchase and installation of conzrol equipment
and machinery and other improvements incidental
to the operation of such Municipal Airport in
the City of Lubbock; prescribing the form of
the bonds and the form of interest coupons;
levying a continuing direct annual ad valorem
tax on all taxable properties within the limits
of said City to pay the interest on such bonds
and to create a sinking fund for the redemption
thereof, and providing for the assessment and
collection of such tax; enacting provisions
incident and relating to the subject and purpose
of this ordinance; and declaring an emergency.
WHEREAS, under and by virtue of an ordinance duly
passed and adopted by the City Commission of the Qity of Lubbock,
Texas, on the 20th day of 1ilovember, 1945, an election was ordered
to be held in said City on the llth day of December, 1945, and at
which election the following proposition was submitted to the
qualified electors of said City:
"SHALL the City Commission of the City of Lubbock
be authorized to issue the negotiable interest bearing
bonds of the City of Lubbock in the amount of 4300,000.009
bearing interest at a rate of not exceeding three and one-
half per centum t3Q%) per annum from date, and maturing
at such time or times as may be deemed most expedient by
the City Commission, serially, not later than twenty-five
years from their date, for the purpose of purchasing sites
for parks and of erecting and constructing improvements to
the parks of the City of Lubbock, including raising, grad-
ing, filling, terracing, landscape gardening, erecting
buildings, establishing walks and paving driveways around,
in and through said parks, playgrounds and other public
grounds, as well as installing, constructing, repairing
and improving swimming pools, wading pools and other
facilities for the recreation of the children and citizens
of said City; and shall there be annually assessed, levied
and collected, while said bonds or any of them are out-
standing, an ad valorem tax upon all taxable property within
said City sufficient in amount to pay the annual interest
on said bonds and to provide a sinking fund for the re-
demption thereof at maturity."
AND WHEREAS, upon consideration of the returns of said
election, the City Commission found that said election had been
conducted in the manner prescribed by law, and was in all respects
legally held, after due and proper notice as required by law; that
due returns of said election had been made by the proper officers;
that said election resulted favorably to the issuance of said bonds;
that a majority of the qualified electors, voting at said election,
voted in favor of the issuance of said bonds; and that the City
Commission is in all things authorized to issue said bonds and to
do any and all things necessary and/or convenient in connection
therewith; and
WHEREAS, it being now determined by the City Commission
that it is nbt desired at this time to issue all of the bonds for
$300,000.00, voted for on the proposition, as aforesaid, and that
�36,000.00 is the amount of bonds now desired to be issued, and
that the remaining amount of said bonds, to -wit: $264,000.00
shall be issued at a future date or dates when, in the judgment of
the City Commission of said City, the amount is needed by the City
for the purpose for which it was authorized; and
WHEREAS, it is to the best interest of the City that
the authorized construction, repairs, erection and improvement
of buildings, hangars and other permanent improvements to the
Municipal Airport of the City cT Lubbock, be commenced at the
earliest possible date, thereby creating this an emergency
measure for the immediate preservation of the public peace,
property, health and safety, as well as a more efficient admin-
istration and operation of the Municipal Airport of the municipal
government; therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
LUBBOCK:
SECTION 1: That the bonds of said City to be called
"CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, MUNICIPAL AIRPORT IkPRNEMENT BONDS,
SERIES 1946", be issued under and by virtue of the Constitution
and Laws of the State of Texas, and the Charter of the City, for
the purpose of constructing, repairing, erecting and improving
buildings, hangars and other permanent improvements to the
Municipal Airport of the City of Lubbock, including the construe-t-
ion of roads, drives, parking areas, and the purchase and instal-
lation of control equipment and machinery and other improvements
incidental to the operation of such Municipal Airport in the City
o Lubbock, in the principal sum of THIRTY-SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS
( 36,000.00).
SECTION?... That said bonds shall be numbered consec-
utively from One (1) to Thirty -Six (36), inclusive; shall be of
the denomination of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) each aggre-
gating the sum of Thirty -Six Thousand Dollars ($36,000.001.
SECTION 3: That said bonds shall be dated March 1, 1946,
and shall mature in accordance with the following schedule:
BOND NUMBERS MATURITY DATES AMOUNTS
A11 inclusive)
1
March
1,
1947
41,000.00
2
March
1,
1948
1,000.00
3
March
1,
1949
1,000.00
4
March
1,
1950
10000.00
5
March
1,
1951
1,000.00
6
March
1,
1952
1,000.00
7
March
1,
1953
1,000.00
8
March
1,
1954
1,000.00
9
March
1,
1955
1,000.00
10
March
1,
1956
1,000.00
11
March
1,
1957
1,000.00
12
March
1,
1958
10000.00
13
March
1,
1959,
1,000.00
14
March
1,
1960
1,000.00
15-16
March
1,
1961
20000.00
17-18
March
1,
1962
20000.00
19-20
March
12
1963
2,000.00
21-22
March
13V
1964
20000.00
23-24
March
1,
1965
2,000.00
25-26
March
1,
1966
23000.00
27-28
March
1,
1967
20000.00
29-30
March
11
1968
2,000.00
31-32
March
1,
1969
23,000.00
33-34
March
1,
1970
2,000.00
35-36
March
1,
1971
20000.00
SECTION 4: That all of said bonds shall bear interest
from date until paid at the rate of ONE AND ONE-HALF PER CENTUM
(l�) per annum, payable on March lst and September lst in each
year, the first interest payment date being March 1, 1947; such
interest to be evidenced by proper coupons attached to each of
said bonds.
SECTION E: That the principal and interest df said
series of bonds shall be payable on presentation and surrender
of bonds or proper coupons, in lawful money of the United States
of America, at the GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NE0: YORK, NEW YORK
CITY, NEW YORK.
SECTION B. That each of said bonds shall be signed by
the Mayor and countersigned by the City Secretary, and the corpor-
ate seal of the "CITY OP LUBBOCK, TEXAS", shall be impressed upon
each of them.
SECTION 2: That the facsimile signatures of the Mayor
and City Secretary may be lithographed or printed on the interest
coupons attached to said bonds, and shall have the same effect as
if they had been signed by them.
SECTION a: That the Form of said bonds shall be sub-
stantially as follows:
NO. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
STATE OF TEXAS,
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK.
CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS MUNICIPAL
AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT BOND,, SERIES 1946.
CITY OF LUBBOCK, a municipal corporation of the State
of Texas, acknowledges itself indebted to and, FOA VALUE RECEIVED,
hereby promises to pay to bearer, the sum of
ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS
(61,000.00), in lawful money of the United States of America, on
the FIRST DAY OF MARCH, 19 . with interest thereon from the
date hereof until paid, at the rate of ONE AND ONE-HALF PER CENTUM
(11%) per annum, payable on March lst and beptember 1st in each
year, the first interest payment date being March 1, 1947, on
presentation and surrender of the annexed coupons as they severally
mature.
BOTH PRINCIPAL and interest of this bond are hereby
made payable at the GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK
CITY, NEW YORK.
THIS BOND is one of a series of Thirty -Six (36) serial
bonds, numbered from One (1) to Thirty -Six i36] both inclusive,
all of said bonds being of the denomination of 6NE Thousand Dollars
(41,000.00) aggregating in amount THIRTY-SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS
($36,000.00j, and issued for the purpose of constructing, repairing,
erecting and improving buildings, hangars and other permanent im-
provements to the Municipal Airport of the City of Lubbock, in-
cluding the construction of roads, drives, parking areas, and the
purchase and installation of control equipment and machinery and
other improvements incidental to the operation of such Municipal
Airport in the City of Lubbock, under authority of the Constitution
and Laws of the State of Texas, and the Charter of said City, and
pursuant to an ordinance duly adopted by the City Commission of
the City of Lubbock, Texas, and recorded in the Minutes of said
City Commission.
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED, RECITED AND REPRESENTED that
the issuance of this bond and the series of which it is a part
Is duly authorized by law and by a vote of the qualified property
taxpaying voters of the City of Lubbock, Texas, voting at an
election held for that purpose within said City on the Ilth day of
December, 1945; that all acts, conditions, and things required to
be done precedent to and in the issuance of this series of bonds,
and of this bond, have been properly done and performed and have
happened in regular and due time, form and manner as required by
law; that sufficient and proper provision for the levy and col-
lection of taxes hes been made which, when collected, shall be
appropriated exclusively to the payment of this bond and the
series of which it is a part, and to the payment of the interest
coupons thereto annexed as the same shall become due; and that the
total indebtedness of the City of Lubbock, Texas, including the
entire series of bonds of which this is one, does not exceed any
constitutional or statutory ligitation.
1N TESTIMONY WHEREOF,, the City of Lubbock, Texas, by
its City Commission, has caused its corporate seal to be affixed
hereto, and this bond to be signed by its Mayor and countersigned
by its City Secretary, and the interest coupons hereto attached
to be executed by the lithographed or printed facsimile signatures
of the Mayor and City Secretary; the date of this bond, in conform-
ity with the ordinance above referred to, being the first day of
March, 1946.
Mayor, City of Lubbock, Texas.
COUNTERSIGNED:
City Secretary, City of Lubbock, Texas
�3EQT QN A: That the form of interest coupon shall be
substantially as follows:
No. ON THE DAY OF 19 $
the CITY OF LUBBOCK, a municipal corporation of the State of Texas,
hereby promises to pay to bearer, at the GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF
NEW YORK, NEW YORK CITY,. NEW YORK, the sum of
DOLLARS
), in lawful money of the United States of America, being
months' interest on the "CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, MUNICIPAL
AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT BONDS, SERIES 1946", dated March 1, 1946.
Bond No.
City Secretary.
Mayor
SECTION 10: That the following certificate shall be
printed on the back of ev ch bond:
OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER )
STATE OF TEXAS )
REGISTER NO.
I HEREBY CERTIFY That there is on file and of record in
my office a certificate of the Attorney General of the State of
Texas, to the effect that this bond has been examined by him as
required by law and that he finds that it has been issued in
conformity with the constitution and Laws of the State of Texas,
and that it is a valid and binding obligation upon said City of
Lubbock, Texas, and said bond has this day been registered by me.
WITNESS MY HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE, AT AUSTIN, TEXAS,
Comptroller of Public Accounts of
the State of Texas.
SECTION ii: BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
That to pay the interest on said bonds and create a
sinking fund sufficient to redeem them at maturity, a tax of
Aix -tenths nf onA CENTS ( ri/lend 1 on each one hundred
dollars' valuation of all taxable property in the City of Lubbock,
Texas, or such an amount as may at all times be legally necessary,
shall be annually levied on said property and annually assessed
and collected, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, or in
addition thereto as may be required, until said bonds with
interest thereon have been fully aid; and the said tax of
six -tenths of onA CENTS g t' ) is here now levied
for the current year, and so much thereof as shall be necessary,
or in addition thereto as may be required, is hereby levied for
each succeeding year while said bonds, or any of them, are out-
standing, and the same shall be annually assessed and collected
and applied to the purpose named.
SECTION 12: BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY
COMMISSION OF TH;s CITY OF LUBBOCK:
That the Mayor of said City shall be and he is hereby
authorized to take and have charge of all necessary orders and
records pending investigation by the Attorney General of the
State of Texas, and shall take and have charge and control of
the bonds herein authorized pending their approval by the Attorney
General and their registration by the Comptroller of Public
Accounts.
SECTION 13: AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
The fact that it is to the best interest of the City
that the authorized construction, repairs, erection and improve-
ment of buildings, hangars and other permanent improvements to
the Municipal Airport of the Uity of Lubbock, be commenced at
the earliest possible date. creates t1-1s an emergency measure for
the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health,
and safety, as well as a more efficient administration and oper-
ation of the Municipal Airport of the municipal government, de-
manding that the Charter provisions to the effect that no ordinance
shall be passed on the day on which it shall be introduced, be
suspended, and this ordinance is hereby declared an emergency
measure by unanimous vote of the Uity Uommission. and the same shall
take effect from and after its passage, and it is so ordained.
PASSED, this the 19th day of March, 1946.
APPROVED, this the 19th day of March, 1946.
ATTEST:
L ,
City Secretary, City of Lu ock, Texas
(City Seal)
CERTIFICATE OF CITY SECRETARY
THE STATE OF TEXAS )
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK ))
CITY OF LUBBOCK )
I,, Lavenia Williams City Secretary of the City of
Lubbock, Texas, DO HEREBY CERTIFY'that the foregoing is a true
and correct copy of an ordinance authorizingg issuance of
"CITY OF LUBBOCK.- TEXAS! MUNICIPAL AIRPORT i14PROVEMENT BONDS.,
SERIES 1946% adopted by the City Commission of said City on
the 19th day of March, 1946, (and of the Minutes pertaining to
its adoption), and that it has been properly enrolled, placed
in the office of the City Secretary and approved by the Mayor,
having been recorded in Book Page et seq., of the
Minutes of said Commission.
IN gITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto signed my name
officially and affixed the seal of said City, this the 19th
day of March, 1946.
City Secretary, City of Lubbock, Texas.
(City Seal)
ORDINANCE NO. 760
ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING ISSUtiNCE
OF $300 000.00 "CITY OF LUBBOCK
TEXAS PUBLIC BUILDING AUDITORIUM_
COLISAUM BONDS, SERIES 1946".
DATED MARCH 1, 1944.
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK
CITY OF LUBBOCK
ON THIS the 19th day of March, 1946, the City
Commission of the City of Lubbock, Texas, convened in
called session, at the regular meeting place thereof
in the City Hall, with the following members thereof, to -wit:
0. W. RIBBLE, MAYOR,
F. H. CHILDRESS, )
J. RAY DICKEY, )
W. B. PRICE, )
LAVENIA WILLIAMS,
COMMISSDNERS,
SECRETARY,
present, and the following absent: Hub Jones
constituting a quorum, when among other proceedings had,
were the following:
Commissoner F. H. Childress presented for the
consideration of the City Commission an ordinance author-
izing the issuance of 4300,000.00 "CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS,
PUBLIC BUILDING AUDITORIUM-COLISEUid BONDS, SERIES 1946",
dated March 1, 1946 (being parcel of a total issue of
$1,750,000.00 bonds authorized at the election held in said
City on December 11, 1945).
The ordinance was read in full by the City Secretary.
Thereupon, Commissioner W. B. Price moved that the
rule requiring that no ordinance shall be passed on the day
on which it is introduced be suspended, and that in view of the
emergency set forth and defined in the preamble to the proposed
ordinance, that the same be declared an emergency measure.
This motion was duly seconded by Commissioner J. Ray Dickey.
The motion carried by the following vote:
AYES: Mayor Ribble and Commissioners Childress,
Dickey and Price.
NOES: None.
Thereupon, the Mayor announced that the proposed
ordinance had been declared an emergency measure by unanimous
vote of the Commission.
Thereupon, Commissioner F. H. Childress moved that
the ordinance as reed in full by the City Secretary be finally
passed and adopted by the Commission. This motion was seconded
by Commissioner W. B. Price, and the motion, carrying with it
the final passage and adoption of the ordinance, was unanim-
ously carried by the following vote:
AYES: Mayor Ribble and Commissioners Childress,
Dickey and Price.
NOES: None.
Thereupon, the Mayor announced that the ordinance
had been finally passed and adopted by unanimous vote of the
Commission, in accordance with the requirements of Sections
15, 16 and 17, of Article iX, of the Lubbock Charter; and the
Mayor thereupon signed and approved the ordinance in the
presence of the Commission.
The ordinance is as follows:
"AN ORDI14ANCE by the City Commission of the City
of Lubbock, Texas, authorizing the issuance of
4300t000.00 'CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, PUBLIC
BUILDING AUDITORIUM -COLISEUM BONDS, SERIES
1946', dated March 1, 1946 (being parcel of
a total issue of V1,750,000.00 bonds authorized
at the election held in said City on December
11, 1945), for the purpose of the construction,
erection and equipment of a public building and
auditorium to be known as the Lubbock Auditorium -
Coliseum, and purchasing a site therefor; pre-
scribing the form of the bonds and the form of
interest coupons, levying a continuing direct
annual ad valorem tax on all taxable properties
within the limits of said City to pay the inter-
est on such bonds and to create a sinking fund
for the redemption thereof, and providing for
the assessment and collection of such tax;
enacting provisions incident and relating to
the subject and purpose of this ordinance; and
declaring an emergency."
WHEREAS, under and by virtue of an ordinance duly
passed and adopted by the City Commission of the City of Lub-
bock, Texas, on the 20th day of November, 1945, an election
was ordered to be held in said City on the llth day of December,
1945, and at which election the following proposition was sub-
mitted to the qualified electors of said City:
"SHALL the City Commission of the City of
Lubbock be authorized to issue the negotiable interest
bearing coupon bonds of said City in an amount of
41,750,000.00, bearing interest at a rate of not exceed-
ing three and one-half per centum (31.1%) per annum from
date and maturing at such time or times as may be deemed
most expedient by the City Commission, serially not later
than twenty-five years from their date, for the purpose
of the construction, erection and equipment of a public
building and auditorium to be known as the Lubbock
Auditorium -Coliseum, and purchasing a site therefor; and
shall there be annually assessed, levied and collected
upon all taxable property within the City of Lubbock
a tax sufficient in amount to pay the annual interest
on such bonds and to provide a sinking fund for the
redemption thereof at maturity?"
AND <<HEREAS, upon consideration of the returns of
said election, the Uity Commission found that said election
had been conducted in the manner prescribed by law, and was in
all respects legally held, after due and proper notice as re-
quired by law; that due returns of said election had been made
by the proper officers; that said election resulted favorable,
to the issuance of said bonds; that a majority of the qualified
electors, voting at said election, voted -in favor of the issu-
ance of said bonds; and that the City Commission is in all
things authorized to issue said bonds and to do any and all
things necessary and/or convenient in connection therewith; and
VHEREAS, it being now determined by the City Commis-
sion that it is not desired at this time to issue all of the
bonds for 61,750,000.00, voted for on the proposition, as afore-
said, and that $300,000.00 is the amount of bonds now desired to
be issued, and that the remaining amount of said bonds, to -wit:
$1,450,000.00, shall be issued at a future date or dates when,
In the judgment of the Gity Commission of said City, the amount
is needed by the City for the purpose for which it was author-
ized; and
.JHEREAS, it is to the best interest of the City that
the said Public Building Auditorium -Coliseum be erected and
equipped at the earliest possible date, thereby creating this
an emergency measure for the immediate preservation of the
public peace, property, health and safety, as well as a more
efficient administration and operation of the Public Property
Department of the municipal government; therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY
OF LUBBOCK:
SECTION ; That the bonds of said City to be
called "CITY OF LUBBOCK, TE;US� PUBLIC BUILDING LDITORIUM-
COLISEUM BONDS, SERIES 1946". be issued under and by virtue of
the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas, and the Charter
of the Uity, for the purpose of the construction, erection and
equipment of a public building and auditorium to be known as
the Lubbock Auditorium -Coliseum and purchasing a site there-
for, in the pprincipal sum of THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS
(0300,000.00).
SECTION 2: That said bonds shall be numbered con-
secutively from One (1) to Three Hundred (300), both inclusive;
shall be of the denomination of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00)
each, aggregating the sum of 'THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS
0300,000.00).
SECTION 3: That said bonds shall be dated March 1,
1946, and shall mature in accordance with the following schedule:
BOND UMBERS MATURITY AMOUNTS
(All Inclusive)
1 to 9
March
1,
1947
9,000.00
10
to
19
March
1,
1948
10,000.00
20
to
29
March
1,
1949
10,000.00
30
to
39
March
1,
1950
10,000.00
40
to
49
March
12,
1951
10,000.00
50
to
59
March
1,
1952
10,000.00
60
to
70
March
1,
1953
112000.00
71
to
81
March
1,
1954
11,000.00
82
to
92
March
1,
1955
11,000.00
93
to
103
March
1,
1956
1I,000.00
104
to
114
March
1,
1957
11,000.00
115
to
126
March
11
1958
12,000.00
127
to
138
March
1,
1959
12,000.00
139
to
150
March
1,
1960
12,000.00
151
to
162
March
1,
1961
12,000.00
163
to
175
March
1,
1962
13,000.00
176
to
188
March
1,
1963
13,000.00
189
to
201
March
1,
1964
13,000.00
202
to
214
March
I,
1965
13,000.00
215
to
228
March
1,
1966
14,000.00
229
to
242
March
I,
1967
14,000.00
243
to
256
March
11
1968
14,000.00
P-57
to
270
March
1,
1969
142000.00
271
to
285
March
1,
1970
15,000.00
286
to
300
March
1,
1971
15,000.00
SECTION 4: That all of said bonds shall bear inter-
est from date until paid at the rate of ONE AND ONE-HALF PER
CENTUM (12%) per annum, payable on March 1st and September 1st
in each year, the first interest payment date being March 1,
1947; such interest to be evidenced by proper coupons attached
to each of said bonds.
SECTION L. That the principal and interest of said
bonds shall be payable on presentation and surrender of bonds
or proper coupons, in lawful money of the United States of
America, at the GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NMI YORK, NEW YORK
CITY, NEW YORK.
SECTION 8: That each
by the Mayor and countersigned
corporate seal of the "CITY F
pressed upon each of them.
of said bonds shall be signed
byy the City Secretary, and the
LUBBOCK, TEXAS", shall be im-
SECTION 7: That the facsimile signature of the
Mayor and City Secretary may be lithographed or printed on the
Interest coupons attached to said bonds, and shall have the
same effect as if they had been signed by them.
SECTION I; That the form of said bonds shall be
substantially as follows:
NO.� UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 41,000.00
STATE OF TEXAS,
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK,
CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, PUBLIC
BUILDING AUDITORIUM -COLISEUM
CITY OF LUBBOCK, a municipal corporation, of the
State of Texas, acknowledges itself indebted to and, FOR VALUE
RECEIVED, hereby promises to pay to bearer, the sum of
ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS
(41,000.00) in lawful money of the United States of America,
on the FIR0 DAY OF MARCH, 19 , with interest thereon from
the dat hereof until paid, at the rate of ONE AND ONE-HALF PER
CENTUM �11%) per annum, payable on March 1st and September 1st
in each year, the first interest payment date being March 1,
1947, on presentation and surrender of the annexed coupons as
they severally mature.
MOTH PRINCIPAL and interest of this bond are hereby
made payable at the GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK, NEW
YORK CITY= NEW YORK.
THIS BOND is one of a series of Three 'hundred (300)
serial bonds, numbered from One (1) to Three Hundred (300),
both inclusive, all of said bonds be;ng of the denomination of
One Thousand Dollars 41,0 0.00), aggregating in amount THREE
HUNDRED THOUSAND DOIALARS 4300,000.00), and issued for the pur-
pose of the construction, erection and equipment of a public
building and auditorium to be known as the Lubbock Auditorium -
Coliseum, and purchasing a site therefor, under authority of
the Constitution and Laws of the State of Texas, and the
Charter of said City, and pursuant to an ordinance duly adopted
by the City Commission of the City of Lubbock, Texas, and re-
corded in the Minutes of said City Commission.
IT ?S HEREBY CERTIFIED, RECITED AND REPRESENTED that
the issuance of this bond a.nd the series of which it is a part
is duly authorized by law and by a vote of the qualified prop-
erty taxpaying voters of the City of Lubbock, Texas, voting at
an election held for that purpose within said City on the llth
day of December, 1945; that all acts, conditions, and things
required to be done precedent to and in the issuance of this
series of bonds, and of this bond, have been properly done send
performed and have happened in regular and due time, form and
manner as required by law; that sufficient and proper provision
for the levy and collection of taxes has been made which, when
collected, shall be appropriated exclusively to the payment of
this bond and the series of which it is a part, and to the pay-
ment of the interest coupons thereto annexed as the same shall
become due; and that the total indebtedness of the City of
Lubbock, Texas, including the entire series of bonds of which
this is one, does not exceed any constitutional or statutory
limitation.
IN TESTIMONY iiHEREOF, the City of Lubbock, Texas, by
its City Commission, has caused its corporate seal to be affixed
hereto, and this bond to be signed by its Mayor and countersigned
by its City Secretary, Pnd tine interest coupons hereto attached
to be executed by the lithographed or printed facsimile signatures
of the Mayor and City Secretary; the date of th's bond, in con-
formity with the ordinance above referred to, being the first day
of March, 1946.
Mayor, City of Lubbock, Texas.
COUNTERSIGNED;
City Secretary, City of Lubbock, Texas
SECTION 9: That the form of interest coupon shall
be substantially as follows:
NO. ON THE DAY OF
19 ,
the CITY OF LUBBOCK, a municipal corporation of the State of
Texas, herebpromises to pay to bearer, at the GUARANTY TRUST
COMPANY OF N6 YORK, NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, the sum of
DOLLARS
(4 ), in lawful money of the United States of America,
being months' interest on the "CITY OF LUBBOCK TEXAS,
PUBLIC BUILDING AUDITORIUM -COLISEUM BOND, SERIES 1946dated
March 1, 1946. Bond No.
City Secretary
Mayor
SECTION 3n: That the following certificate shall
be printed on the back of each bond:
OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER )
REGISTER NO.
STATE OF TEXAS )
I HEREBY CERTIFY that there is on file and of record
in my office a certificate of the Attorney General of the State
of Texas, to the effect that this bond has been examined by him
as required by I-aw and that he finds that it has been issued in
conformity with the Constitution and lfws of the State of Texas,
and that it is a valid and binding obligation upon said City of
Lubbock, Texas, and said bond has this day been registered by me.
WITNESS MY HAND .AND SEAL OF OFFICE, AT AUSTIN, TEXAS,
Comptroller of Public Accounts
of the 6tate of Texas
SECTION 11: BE IT FURTHER ORDAINEI BY THE CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
That to pay the interest on said bonds and create
a sinking fund sufficient to redeem them at maturity, a tax of
Fi vt- and Ei ght-Tenths CENTS 5 8/10 V on each
one hundred dollars' valuation of all taxable property in the
City of Lubbock, Texas, or such an amount as may at all times
be legally necessary, shall be annually levied on said property
and annually assessed and collected, or so much thereof as shall
be necessary, or in addition thereto as may be required, until
said bonds with interest thereon have been fully paid; and the
said tax of Five s nd ei ghtt-tenfb®ENTS (5 8/10 f�
is here now levied for the current year, and so much thereof as
shall be necessary, or in addition thereto as may be required,
is hereby levied for each succeeding year while said bonds, or
any of them, are outstanding, and the same shall be annually
assessed and collected and applied to the purpose named.
SECTION 12: BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
That the Mayor of said City shall be and he is hereby
authorized to take and have charge of all necessary orders and
records pending investigation by the Attorney General of the
State of 'Texas, and shall take and have charge and control of
the bonds herein authorized pending their approval by the Attorney
General and their registration by the Comptroller of Public Accounts.
SECTION 13: AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
The fact that it is to the best interest of the City
that the said Public building Auditorium -Coliseum be erected and
equipped at the earliest possible date, creates this an emergency
measure for the immediate preservation of the public peace,
property, health and safety, as well as a more efficient
administration and operation of the Public property Department
of the municipal government, demanding that the charter pro-
visions to the effect that no ordinance shall be passed on the
day on which it shall be introduced, be suspended, and this
ordinance is hereby declared an emergency measure by unanimous
vote of the City Commission, and the same shall take effect
from and after its passage, and it is so ordained.
PASSED, this the 19th day of March, 1946.
APPROVED, this the 19th day of March, 1946.
Mayor, City of Lubbock, Texas.
ATTEST*
City Secretary, City of Lubbock, Texas.
(City Seal)
CERTIFICATE OF CITY SECRETARY
THE STATE OF TEXAS )
}
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK )
CITY OF LUBBOCK
I. Lavenia Williams City Secretary of the City of
Lubbock, Texas, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a
true and correct copy of an ordinance authorizing issuance
of "CITY OF LUBBOCK TEXAS, PUBLIC BUILDING AUDITORIUM -
COLISEUM BONDS, SERfES 1946°, dated March 1, 1946, adopted
by the City Commission of said City on the 19th day of
March, 1946 (and of the Minutes pertaining to its adoption),
and that it has been properly enrolled, placed in the office
of the City Secretary and approved by the Mayor, having been
recorded in Book page et seq., of the
Minutes of said Commission.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto signed my name
officially and affixed the seal of said City, this the 19th
day of March, 1946.
City Secretary, City of Lubbock,
Texas.
(City Seal)
ORDINANCE N0. 761
ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING ISSUANCE
OF $325 000.00 "CITY OF LUBBOCK,
TEXAS, ATBEET IMPROVEMENT BONDS,
SERIES 1946" , DATED MARCH 1, 1946.
THE STATE OF TEXAS )
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK )
CITY OF LUBBOCK )
ON THIS the 19th day of March, 1946, the City
Commission of the City of Lubbock, Texas, convened in called
session, at the regular meeting place thereof in the City Hall,
with the following members thereof, to -wit:
0. W. RIBBLE, MAYOR,
F. H. CHILDRESS, )
J. RAY DICKEY, )) COMMISSIONERS,
W. B. PRICE, )
LAVENIA WILLIAMS, SECRETARY,
present, and the following absent__ Hub Jonas J,
constituting a quorum, when, among other proceedings had, were
the following:
Commissioner F. H. Childress presented for the con-
sideration of the City Commission an ordinance authorizing the
issuance of $3E5 000.00 "CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, STREET IMPROVE"
MENT BONDS, SERIES 1946u, dated March 1, 1946 (being parcel of
a total issue of 4600 000.00 bonds authorized at the election
held in said City on becember 11, 1945).
The ordinance was read in full by the City Secretary.
Thereupon, Commissioner F. H. Childress moved that the
rule requiring that no ordinance shall be passed on the day on
which it is introduced be suspended, and that in view of the
emergency set forth and defined in the preamble to the proposed
ordinance, that the same be declared an emergency measure.
This motion was duly seconded by Commissioner W. B. Price.
The motion carried by the following vote:
AYES: Mayor Ribble and Commissioners Childress,
Dickey and Price.
NOES: None.
Thereupon, the Mayor announced that the proposed
ordinance had been declared an emergency measure by unanimous
vote of the Commission.
Thereupon, Commissioner W. B. Price moved that the
ordinance as read in full by the City Secretary be finally
passed and adopted by the Commission. This motion was seconded
by Commissioner r. H. Childress and the motion, carrying with
it the final passage and adoption of the ordinance, was unani-
mously carried by the following vote:
AYES: Mayor Ribble and Commissioners Childress,
Dickey and Price.
NOES: None.
Thereupon the Mayor announced that the ordinance
had been finally passed and adopted by unanimous vote of the
Commission, in accordance with the requirements of Sections
15, 16 and 17, of Article IX, of the Lubbock Charter; and the
Mayor thereupon signed and approved the ordinance in the
presence of the Commission.
The ordinance is as follows:
u
"-AN ORDINANCE by the City Commission of the city
of Lubbock, Texas, authorizing the issuance of
4325 000.00 'CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS STREET
IMPR6VEMENT BONDS, SERIES I946', dated March 1,
1946 (being parcel of a total issue of 4600,000.00
bonds authorized at the election held in said
pity on December 11, 1945), for the purpose of
improving, extending and altering public streets,
avenues, alleys, highways and boulevards by pav-
ing, widening, raising, grading, filling, re-
paving or resurfacing the same or otherwise
improving such streets and highways, and for
the purpose of acquiring the necessary rights -
of -way incidental thereto; prescribing the
form of the bonds and the form of the interest
coupons; levying a continuing direct annual ad
valorem tax on all taxable properties within
the limits of said City to pay the interest on
such bonds and to create a sinking fund for the
redemption thereof, and providing for the assess-
ment and collection of such tax; enacting pro-
visions incident and relating to the subject
and purpose of this ordinance; and declaring an
emergency.
WHEREAS, under and by virtue of an ordinate duly
passed and adopted by the City Commission of the City of Lub-
bock, Texas, on the 20th day of November, 1945, an election
was ordered to be held in said City on the llth day of Decem-
ber, 1945, and at which election the following proposition
was submitted to the qualified electors of said City:
"SHALL the City Commission of the kity of
Lubbock be authorized to issue the negotiable interest
bearing coupon bonds of the City of Lubbock in the amount
of 4600,000.00, bearing interest at a rate of not exceed-
ing three and one-half per centum (42%) per annum from
date and maturing at such time or times as me be deemed
most expedient by the City Commission, serially not later
than twenty-five years from their date, for the purpose
of improving, extending and altering public streets, ave-
nues, alleys, highways and boulevards by paving, widen-
ing, raising, grading, filling, repaving or resurfacing
the same or otherwise improving such streets and highways,
and for the purpose of acquiring the necessary rights -of -
way incidental thereto; and shall there be annually
assessed, levied and collected upon all taxable property
within the City of Lubbock, while said bonds or any of
them are outstanding, a tax sufficient in amount to pay
the annual interest on such bonds and to provide a sink-
ing fund for the redemption thereof at maturity?"
AND WHEREAS, upon consideration of the returns of
said election, the Qity Commission found that said election
had been conducted in the manner prescribed by law., and was
in all respects legally held, after due and proper notice as
required by law; that due returns of said election had been
made by the proper officers; that said election resulted
favorably to the issuance of said bonds; that a majority of
the qualified electors, voting at said election, voted in
favor of the issuance of said bonds; and that the Uity Commis-
sion is in all things authorized to issue said bonds and to do
any and all things necessary and/or convenient in connection
therewith; and
ViHEREAS, it being now determined by the City Commis-
sion that it is not desired at this time to issue all of the
bonds for 4600,000.00, voted for on the proposition, as afore-
said, and that 4325,000.00 is the amount of bonds now desired
to be issued, and that the remaining amount of said bonds, to -
wit: 4275,000.00, shall be issued at a future date or dates
when, in the judgment of the City Commission of said City, the
amount is needed by the City for the purpose of which it was
authorized; and
WHEREAS, it is to the best interests of the City
that the authorized street improvements be constructed at the
earliest possible date, thereby creating this an emergency
measure for the immediate preservation of the public peace,
property, health and safety, as well as a more efficient ad-
ministration and operation of the Street Department of the
municipal government; therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY
OF LUBBOCK:
SECTION 7: That the bonds of said City, to be
called "CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, STREET I.dPROVEMENT BONDS,
SERIES 1946", be issued under and by virtue of the Constitu-
tion and laws of the State of Texas, and the Charter of the
City, for the purpose of improving, extending and altering
public streets, avenues, alleys, highways and boulevards by
paving widening, raising, grad;.ng, filling, repaving or re-
surfacing the same or otherwise improving such streets and
highways, and for the purpose of acquiring the necessary
rights of way incidentalthereto in the principal BUM of
THREE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS (6325,000.00).
SECTION U That said bonds shall be numbered cop-
secutively from One (1) to Three Hundred Twenty-five (3251,
both inclusive; shall be of the denomination of One Thousand
Dollars (61,000.00) each aggregating the sum of 'THREE HUNDRED
TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS (6325,000.00).
SECTION a: That said bonds shall be dated March 1,
1946, and shall mature in accordance with the falla*ing schedule
3OND NUMBERS
MATURITY
DATES
AMOUNTS
(All
Inclusive)
1
to
10
March
1,
1947
410,000.00
11
to
20
March
I,
1948
I0,000.00
21
to
31
March
11
1949
11,000.00
32
to
42
March
I,
1950
11,000.00
43
to
53
March
1,
1951
11,000.00
54
to
64
March
1,
1952
11*000.00
65
to
75
March
1,
1953
11,000.00
76
to
87
March
19
1954
129,000.00
88
to
99
March
1,
1955
12,000.00
100
to 111
March
I,
1956
12,000.00
112
to
123
March
1,
1957
12,000.00
124
to
136
March
I,
1958
13,000.00
137
to
149
March
I,
1959
13,000.00
150
to
162
March
1,
1960
13,000.00
163
to
175
March
I,
1961
13,000.00
176
to
189
March
1,
1962
14,000.00
190
to
203
March
1,
1963
14,000.00
204
to
217
March
I,
1964
141,000.00
218
to
232
March
1,
1965
15,000.00
236
to
247
March
1,
1966
15,000.00
248
to
262
March
I,
1967
15,000.00
263
to
277
March
1,
1968
I5,000.00
278
to
293
March
I,
1969
169000.00
294
to
309
March
1,
1970
16,000.00
310
to
325
March
1,
1971
16,000.00
SECTION a: That all of said bonds shall bear inter-
est from date until paid at the rate of ONE AND ONE-HALF PER
CENTUM (11% per annum, payable on March 1st and September lst
in each year, the first interest payment date being March 1,
1947: such interest to be evidenced by proper coupons attached
to each of said bonds.
SECTION 5: That the principal and interest of said
bonds shall be payable on presentation and surrender of bonds
or proper coupons, in lawful money of the United States of
America at the GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK
CITY, Nk YORK.
SECTION a: That each
by the Mayor and countersigned
corporate seal of the "CITY OF
pressed upon each of them.
of said bonds shall be signed
byy the Cityy Secretary, and the
LUBBOCK, TEXAStl, shall be lm-
SECTION 7: That the facsimile signatures of the
Mayor and City Secretary may be lithographed or printed on the
interest coupons attached to said bonds, and shall have the
same effect as if they had been signed by them.
SECTION R: That the form of said bonds shall be
substantially as follows:
NO. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, $1,000.00
STATE OF TEXAS,
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK.
CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, STREET
IMPROVEMENT BOND, SERIES 1946.
CITY OF LUBBOCK, a municipal corporation, of the
State of Texas, acknowledges itself indebted to, and, FOR
VALUE RECEIVED, hereby promises to pay to bee.rer, the sum of
ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS
($1.,000.00) in lawful money of the United States of Ameriea,
on the FIRS DAY OF MARCH, 19 , with interest thereon from
the date hereof until paid, at the rate of ONE AND ONE-HALF
PER CENTUM (l.%) per annum, payable on March Ist and September
1st in each year, the first interest payment date being
March 1, 1.947, on presentation and surrender of the annexed
coupons as they severally mature.
BOTH PRINCIPAL and interest of this bond are hereby
made payable at the GUAR&NTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK, NEW
YORK CITY,, NEW YORK.
THIS BOND is one of a series of Three Hundred Twenty-five (325)
serial bonds, numbered from One (1) to Three Hundred Twenty-five
(325), both inclusive, all of said bonds being of the denomi-
nation of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) aggregating in
amount THREE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND bOLLARS 0325.,000.00).
and issued for the purpose of improving, extending and altering
public streets, avenues, alleys, highways and boulevards by
paving, widening, raising, grading, filling, repaving or re-
surfacing the same or otherwise improving such streets and high-
ways, and for the purpose of acquiring the necessary rights -
of -way incidental thereto, under authority of the Constitution
and Laws of the State of Texas, and the Charter of said City,
and pursuant to an ordinance duly adopted by the City Commis-
sion of the City of Lubbock, Texas, and recorded in the
Minutes of said City Commission.
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED, RECITED AND REPRESENTED that
the issuance of this bond and the series of which it is a part
Is duly authorized by law and by a vote of the qualified proper-
ty taxpaying voters of the City of Lubbock, Texas, voting at an
election held for that purpose within said City on the llth day
of December, 1945; that all acts, conditions, and things re-
quired to be done precedent to and in the issuance of this ®ries
of bonds, and of this bond, have been properly done and performed
end have happened in regular and due time, form and manner as
required by law; that sufficient and proper provision for the
levy and collection of taxes has been made which, when collected,
shall be appropriated exclusively to the payment of this bond
and the series of which it is a part, and to the payment of the
Interest coupons thereto annexed as the same shall become due;
and that the total indebtedness of the City of Lubbock, Texas,
including the entire series of bonds of which this is one, does
not exceed any constitutional or statutory limitation.
IN TESTIMONY :THEREOF, the City of Lubbock, Texas, by
its City Commission, has caused its corporate seal to be affixed
hereto, and this bond to be signed by its Mayor and countersigned
by its City Secretary, and the interest coupons hereto attached
to be executed by the lithographed or printed facsimile signatures
of the Mayor and City Secretary; the date of this bond, in con-
formity with the ordinance above referred to, being the first
day of March, 1946.
Mayor, City of Lubbock, Texas.
COUNTERSIGNED:
City Secretary, City of Lubbock, Texas
(City Seal)
SECTION 9: That the form of interest coupon shall
be substantially as follows:
NO. ON THE DAY OF
19 ,
the CITY OF LUBBOCK, a municipal corporation of the State of
Texas, herebyy promises to pay to bearer, at the GUARANTY TRUST
COMPA14Y OF NEY� YORK, NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, the sum of
DOLLARS
($ ) ,. in lawful money of the United States of America,
being months interest on the CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS,
ATRE.t!T IMPROVEME14T BOND, SERIES 1946" , dated March 11 1946.
Bond No.
City Secretary
Mayor
SECTION in: That the following certificate shall
be printed on the back of each bond:
OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER
STATE OF TEXAS
REGISTER NO.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that there is on file and of record
in my office a certificate of the Attorney General of the State
of Texas, to the effect that this bond has been examined by him
as required by law and that he finds that it has been issued in
conformity with the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas,
and that it is a valid and binding obligation upon said City of
Lubbock, Texas, and said bond has this day been registered by me.
114ITNESS MY HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE, AT AUSTIN, TE _S,
Comptroller of Public Accounts
of the State of Texas.
SECTION ll: BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
That to pay the interest on said bonds and create
a sinking fund sufficient to redeem them at maturity, a tax of
Six And Ona-Hiqlf_ CENTS ( B j$ d 3 on each
one hundred dollars' valuation of all taxable property in the
City of Lubbock, Texas, or such an amount as may at all times
be legally necessary, shall be annually levied on said property
and annually assessed and collected, or so much thereof as shall
he necessary, or in addition thereto as may be required, until
said bonds with interest thereon have been full paid; and the
said tax of Six -Anti OnP-Hp 1 f CENTS
is here now levied for the current year, and so much thereof as
shall be necessary, or in addition thereto as may be required,
Is hereby levied for each succeeding year while said bonds, or
any of them, are outstanding, and the same shall be annually
assessed and collected and applied to the purpose named.
SECTION 12: BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
That the Mayor of said City Shall be and he is hereby
authorized to take and have charge of all necessary orders and
records pending investigation by the Attorney Ueneral of the
State of Texas, and shall take and have charge and control of
the bonds herein authorized pending their approval by the Attorney
General and their registration by the Comptroller of Public
Accounts.
SECTION 13: AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
The fact that it is to the best interests of the City
that the authorized street improvements be constructed at the
earliest possible date, creates this an emergency measure for
the immediate preservation of the public peace, property,
health and safety, as well as a more efficient administration
and operation of the Street Department of the municipal govern-
ment, demanding that the Charter provisions to the effect that
no ordinance shall be passed on the day on which it shall be
introduced, be suspended, and this ordinance is hereby declared
an emergency measure by unanimous vote of the City Commission,
and the same shall take effect from and after its passage, and
it is so ordained.
PASSED., this _12_day of March, 1946.
APPROVED, this the 19 day of March, 1946.
oe-
Mayor, City of Lubbock, Texas
ATTEST:
City Secretary, City of Lubbock, --Texas.
(City Seal)
CERTIFICATE OF CITY SECRETARY
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK
CITY OF LUBBOCK
I, Lavenia Williams City Secretary of the City of
Lubbock, Texas, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a
true and correct copy of an ordinance authorizing issuance
of "CITY OF LUBBOCK,, TEXAS, STREET IMPROVEMENT BONDS., SERIES
1946" dated March 1, 1946, adopted by the City Commission of
said pity on the _day of March, 1946 ( and of the Minutes
pertaining to its adoption), and that it has been properly
enrolled, placed in the office of the City Secretary and
approved by the Mayor, having been recorded in Book
page et seq., of the Minutes of said Commission.
IN WITNESS WHEREOFN I have hereunto signed my name
officially and affixed the seal of said City, this the _IQ
day of March, 1946.
City Secretary, City of Lubbock,
Texas.
(City Seal)
IJ
ORDINANCE NO. 762
ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING ISSUANCE
OF $65,000.00 "CITY OF LUBBOCK,
TEXAS STREET LIGHTING BONDS,
SERIES 1946", DATED MARCH 1, 1946.
THE STATE OF TEXAS )
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK )
CITY OF LUBBOCK )
pN T I�u e 19t da of March 946 h 01I Commission
of the Ci y o ock, �exa , convened n cal a sea on, at
the regular meeting place thereof in the Uity Hall, with the
following members thereof, to -wit:
0. W. RIBBLE, MAYOR,
F. H. CHILDRESS., )
J. RAY DICKEY, ) COMMISSIONERS.,
V.. B. PRICE, )
LAVENIA WILLIAMS, SECRETARY,
present, and the following absent: Hub Jnnes
constituting a quorum, when, among other proceedings had, were
the following:
Commissioner F. H. Childress, presented for the consider-
ation of the City Commission an ordinance authorizing the issuance
of 465,000.00 "CITY OF LUBBOCK., TEXAS, STREET LIGHTING BONDS,
SERIES 1946; dated March 1, 1946 (being parcel of a total issue
of $245,000.00 bonds authorized at the election held in said City
on December 11, 1945).
The ordinance was read in full by the Uity Secretary.
Thereupon, Commissioner J. Ray Dickey moved that the
rule requiring that no ordinance shall be passed on the day
on which it is introduced be suspended, and that in view of
the emergency set forth and defined in the preamble to the
proposed ordinance, that the same be declared an emergency
measure. This motion was duly seconded by Commissioner ii. B. ?rice.
The motion carried by the following vote:
AYES: Mayor Ribble and Commissioners Childress,
Dickey and Price.
NOES: None.
Thereupon, the Mayor announced that the proposed ordinance
had been declared an emergency measure by unanimous vote of the
Commission.
Thereupon, Commissioner V+. B. Price moved that the
ordinance as read in full by the City Secretary be finally
passed and adopted by the Commission. This motion was seconded
by Commissioner F. H. Childress, and the motion, carrying with
It the final passage and adoption of the ordinance, wRs unani-
mously carried by the following vote:
AYES: Mayor Ribble and Commissioners Childress,
Dickey and 'rice.
NOES: None.
Thereupon, the Mayor announced that the ordinance had been
finally passed and adopted by unanimous vote of the Commission,
in accordance with the requirements of Sections 15, 16 and 17,
of Article IX, of the Lubbock Charter; and the Mayor thereupon
signed and approved the ordinance in the presence of the
Commission.
The ordinance is as follows:
"AN ORDINANCE by the City Commission of the Uity
of Lubbock, -'Texas authorizing the issuance
of 465,000.00 'CIY OF LUBBOCKr TEXAS, STREET
LIGHTING BONDS, SERIES 1946', dated March 1,
1946 (being parcel of a total issue of
4245,000.00 bonds authorized at the election
held in said City on December 11, 1945), for
the purpose of constructing, installing,
extending and improving the street lighting
system of said City, including the Install-
ation of street lights, stop and traffic lights
and other improvements incidental thereto;
prescribing the form of the bonds and the
form of interest coupons; levying a continuing
direct annual ad valorem tax on all taxable
properties within the limits of said City to
pay the interest on such bonds and to create
a sinking fund for the redemption thereof,
and providing for the assessment and col-
lection of such tax; enacting provisions
incident and relating to the subject and
purpose of this ordinance; and declaring an
emergency."
WHEREAS, under and by virtue of an ordinance duly
passed and adopted by the Uity Commission of the city of
Lubbock, 'Texas, on the 20th day of November, 1945, an election
was ordered to be held in said City on the llth day of December,
1945, and at which election the following proposition was sub-
mitted to the qualified electors of said Uity:
"SMALL the Uity Uommission of the City of Lubbock be
authorized to issue the negotiable interest bearing
coupon bonds of the Uity of Lubbock in the amount
of 4245,000.00, bearing interest at a rate of not
exceeding three and one-half per centum 13j%) per
annum from date and maturing at such time or times
as may be deemed most expedient by the City Commission
serially not later than twenty-five years from their date,
for the purpose of constructing, installing,
extending and improving the street lighting system
of said city, including the installation of street
lights, stop and traffic lights and other improve-
ments incidental thereto; and shall there be
annually assessed, levied and collected upon all
taxable property within the City of Lubbock, while
said bonds or any of them are outstanding, a tax
sufficient in amount to pay the annual interest on
such bonds and to provide a sinking fund for the
redemption thereof at maturity2a
AND VHEREAS, upon consideration of the return of said
election, the City Commission found that said election had been
conducted in the manner prescribed by law, and was in all
respects legally held, after due and proper notice as required by
law; that due returns of said election had been made by the
proper officers; that said election resulted favorably to the
issuance of said bonds; that a majority of the qualified electors,
voting at said election, voted in favor of the issuance of said
bonds; and teat the City Commission is in all things authorized
to issue said bonds and to do any and all things necessary and/or
convenient in connection therewith; and
WHEREAS, it being now determined by the City Commission
that it is not desired at this time to issue all of the
bonds for 4245,000.00, voted for on the proposition, as aforesaid,
and that $65,000.00 is the amount of bonds now desired to be
issued, and that the remaining amount of said bonds, to -wit:
$180,000.00, shall be issued at a future date or dates when, in
the judgment of the City Commission of said City, the amount is
needed by the City for the purpose for which it was authorized;
end
WHEREAS, it is to the best interest of the City that the
authorized improvement and extensions to the Street Lights be
constructed at the earliest possible date, thereby creating this
an emergency measure for the immediate preservation of the
public peace, property, health, and safety, as well as a more
efficient administration and operation of the Traffic Department
and Street System of the municipal government; therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
LUBBOCK:
SECTION 1: That the bonds of said City to be called
"CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, CTREET LIGHTING BONDS, �ERIES 1946", be
Issued under and by virtue of the Donstitutibn and laws of the
State of Texas, and the Charter of the City, for the purpose of
constructing, installing, extending and improving the street
lighting system of said Uity, including the installation of
street lights, stop and traffic lights and other improvements
incidental thereto; in the principal sum of SIXTY-FIVE THOU SAND
DOLLARS 065,000.00).
SECTION 2: That said bonds shall be numbered
consecutively from One (1) to Sixty-five (65) both inclusive;
shall be of the denomination of One Thousand bolla rs (01,000.00)
each, aggrating the sum of SIXTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLIA RS
(6 65,000.Oegg.
SECTION 3: That said bonds shall be dated March I, 1946,
and shall mature in accordance with the following schedule:
BOND NUMBERS
Ml,TURITY
DATES
AMOUNTS
1-2
March
1,
1947
42,000.00
3-4
March
1,
1948
20,000.00
5-6
March
1,
1949
2,000.00
7-8
March
1,
1950
2,000.00
9-10
March
1,
1951
2,000.00
11-12
March
1,
1952
27000.00
13-14
March
1,
1953
2,000.00
15-16
March
1,
1954
2,OOO.00
17-18
March
1,
1955
2,000.00
19-20
March
1,
1956
2,000.00
21-22-23
March
1,
1957
3,000.00
24-25-26
March
1,
1958
3,000.00
27-28-29
March
1,
1959
3,000.00
30-21-32
March
1,
1960
3,000.00
33-34-35
March
1,
1961
3,000.00
36-37-38
March
1,
1962
3,000.00
39-40-41
March
I,
1963
3,000.00
42-43-44
March
10
1964
3,000.00
45-46-47
March
1,
1965
30000.00
48-49-50
March
10
1966
3,000.00
51-52-53
March
1,
1967
3,000.00
54-55-56
Merch
1,
1968
3,000.00
57-58-59
March
1,
1969
3,000.00
60-61-62
March
I,
1970
3,000.00
63-64-65
March
1,
1971
3,000.00
SECTION 4: That all of said bonds shall bear interest
from date until paid at the rate of UNE AND ONE-HALF PER CENTU
(12%) per annum, payable on March Ist and 6e tember Ist in each
year, the first interest payment date being March 1, 1947;
such interest to be evidenced by proper coupons attached to
each of said bonds.
SECTION s: That the principal and interest of said series
of bonds shall be payable on presentation and surrender of
bonds or proper coupons, in lawful money of the United States
of America, at the GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEii YORK, NEW
YORK CITY, NEW YORK.
SECTION s: That each of said bonds shall be signed by
the Mayor and countersiggned by the Gity Secretary, and the
corporate seal of the "CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS", shall be
impressed upon each of them.
SECTION 7: That the facsimile signatures of the Mayor
and City Secretary may be lithographed or printed on the
interest coupons attached to said bonds, and shall have the
sane effect as if they had been signed by them.
SECTION S: That the form of said bonds shall be
substantially as follows:
NO. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, $I,000.00
STATE OF TEXAS,
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK.
CITY OF LUB3OCK, TEXAS STREET
LIGHTING BONDS, SERIES
1946.
CITY OF LUBBOCK, a municipal corporation, of the State of
Texas, acknowledges itself indebted to and, FOR VALUE RECEIVED,
hereby promises to pay to bearer, the sum of
ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS
(61,000.00) in lawful money of the United Ststes of America, +
on the FIRS DAY OF MARCH, lg , with interest thereon
from the date hereof until paid, at the rate of ONE AND ONE-HALF
PER CENTUM (12%) per annum, payable on March 1st and September 1st
in each year, the first interest payment date being March 1, I947,
on presentation and surrender of the annexed coupons as they
severally mature. II
BOTH PRINCIPAL and interest of this bond are hereby made
payable at the GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK CITY,
NEW YORK.
THIS BOND is one of a series of Sixty-five (65) serial
bonds, numbered from One (1) to Sixty-five (65) both inclusive,
all of said bonds being of the denomination of bne Thousand
Dollars (411,000.00) aggregating in amount SIXTY-FIVE THOUSAND
DOLLARS (465,000.00% and issued for the purpose of constructing,
installing, extending and improving the street lighting system
of said city, including the installation of street lights, stop
and traffic lights and other improvements incidental thereto,
under authority of the Constitution and Laws of the State of
Texas, and the Charter of said City and pursuant to an
ordinance duly adopted by the City dommission of the City of
Lubbock, Texas and recorded in the Minutes of said City Commission.
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED, RECITED AND REPRESENTED that the
issuance of this bond and the series of which it is a part
Is duly authorized by law and by a vote of the qualified
property taxpaying voters of the City of Lubbock, Texas,
voting at an election held for that purpose within said City
on the llth day of December, 1945; that all acts, conditions,
and things required to be done precedent to and in the issuance
of this series of bonds, and of this bond, have been properly
done and performed and have happened in regular and due time,
form and manner as required by law; that sufficient and proper
provisions for the levy and collection of taxes has been made
which, when collected, shall be appropriated exclusively to
the payment of this bond and the series of which it is a part,
and to the payment of the interest coupons thereto annexed as
the same shall become due; and that the total indebtedness of
the City of Lubbock, Texas, including the entire series of
bonds of which this is one, does not exceed any constitutional
or statutory limitation.
IN TESTIMONY V"THEREOF, the City of Lubbock, Texas, by its
City Commission, has caused its corporate seal to be affixed
hereto, and this bond to be signed by its Mayor and Countersigned
by its City Secretary, and the interest coupons hereto attached
to be executed by the lithographed or printed facsimile
signatures of the Mayor and City Secretary; the date of this
bond, in conformity with the ordinance above referred to,
being the first day of March, 1946.
Mayor, City of Lubbock, Texas.
COUNTERSIGNED:
City Secretary, City of Lubbock,
Texas
SECTION q: That the form of interest coupon shall be
substantially as follows:
No. ON THE DAY OF
19 ,
the CITY OF LUBBOCK, a municipal corporation of the State of
Texas, hereby promises to pay to bearer, at the GUARANTY
TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, the sum of
DOLLARS
( ), in lawful money of the United States of America,
being months interest on the "CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS,
STREET LIGHTING BOND, SERIES 1946"t dated March 13, 1946.
Bond No.
City Secretary
Mayor
SECTION in: That the following certificate shall be
printed on the back of each bond:
OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER )
STATE OF TEXAS )
REGISTER NO.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that there is on file and of record.in my
office a certificate of the Attorney General of the State of Texas,
to the effect that this bond has been examined by him as required
by law and that he finds that it has been issued in conformity
with the Constitution and laws of the State of 1'exas and that it
is a valid and binding obligation upon said City of Lubbock, Texas,
and said bond has this day been registered by me.
4ITNESS MY HhND AND SEAL OF OFFICE, AT AUSTIN, TEXAS,
Comptroller of Public Accounts of
the State of Texas
SECTION 11: BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE'CITY COMMISSION
OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
That to pay the interest on said bonds and create
a sinking fund sufficient to redeem them at maturity, a tax of
Ona and r'mir_TAntha CENTS (-_ 1 4/1() 4 ) on each
one hundred dollars' valuation of all taxable property in the
City of Lubbock, Texas, or such an amount as may at all times
be legally necessary, shall be annually levied on said property
and annually assessed and collected, or so much thereof as shall
be necessary, or in addition thereto as may be required, until
said bonds with interest thereon have been fully paid; and the
said tax of OnA and v'nur-Tan .hs CENTS (_4/10 �Z) is here
now levied for the current year, and so much thereof as shall
be necessary, or in addition thereto as may be required, is
hereby levied, for each succeeding year while said bonds, or any
of them, are outstanding, and the same shall be annually
assessed and collected and applied to the purpose named.
SECTION 12: BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION
OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
That the Mayor of said City shall be and he is hereby
authorized to take and heve charge of all necessary orders and
records pending investigation by the Attorney General of the
State of Texas, and shall take and have charge and control of
the bonds herein authorized pending their approval by the
Attorney General and their registration by the Comptroller of
Public Accounts.
SECTION 13: AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
The fact that it is to the best interest of the City that
the authorized improvements and extensions to the Street
Lighting System be constructed at the earliest possible date,
creates this an emergency measure for the immediate preservation
of the public peace, property, health and safety, as well as a
more efficient administration and operation of the Traffic and
Street Department of the Municipal Government, demanding that
the (-harter provisions to the effect that no ordinance shall be
passed on the day on which it shall be introduced, be
suspended, and this ordinance is hereby declared an emergency
measure by unanimous vote of the City Uommission, end the
same shall take effect from and after its passage, and it is so
ordained.
PASSED this the 19th - day of March, 1946
APPROVED, this the 19th day of March, 1946.
Mayor, City Of Lubbock, Texas.
ATTEST:
City Secretary, City of Lubbo k, Texas
(City Seal)
CERTIFICATE OF CITY SECRETxRY
THE STATE OF TEXAS )
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK )
CITY OF LUBBOCK 3
I, Lavenia Williams, City Secretary of the Uity of
Lubbock, Texas, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a true
and correct copy of an ordinance authorizing issuance of
"CITY OF LUBBOCK,TEXAS., STREET LIGHTING BONDS, SERIES 1946"
adopted by the City Commission of said Uity on the 19th day
of March 1946 ( and of the Minutes pertaining to its
adoption , and that it has been properly enrolled, placed in
the office of the City Secretary and approved by the Mayor
having been recorded in book page et seq.,
of the ►-linutes of said commission.
114 WITNESS THEREOF= I have hereunto signed my name
officially and affixed the seal of said City, this the 19th
day of March, 1946.
City Secretary, City of Lubbock
Texas
(City Seal)
ORDINANCE NO, 763
ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING ISSUANCE
OF 690,000.0() "CITY OF LUBBOCK,
TK?AS SEYIER EXTENSION BONDS, SERIES
1946", DATED MARCH 1, 1946.
THE STATE OF TEXAS
(
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK
(
CITY OF LUBBOCK
ON THIS the 19th day of March, 1946, the City Uommission
of the City of Lubbock, Texas, convened in called session at the
regular meeting place thereof, in tre Lity Hall, with the folbw-
ing members thereof, to -wit:
0. r'l. RIBBLE, MAYORI
F. H. CHILDRESS, )
J. RAY DICKEYS ) GOMMISSIONERS,
}
Vr. B. PRICE) )
LAVENIA WILLIAMS, SECRETeRYI,
present and the following absent: Hiih JnnAA
constituting a quorum, when, among other proceedings had, were the
following:
Commissioner W. B. Price presented for the consideration
of the City Commission an ordinance authorizing the issuance of
490,000.00 "CITY OF LUBBOCK TEXAS., OEWER EX`1'Eiv5ION BONDS, SERIES
1946, dated March 1, 1946 being parcel of a total issue of
4445,000.00 bonds authorized at the election held in said City
on December 11, 1945).
The ordinance was read in full by the City Secretary.
Thereupon, Commissioner J. Ray Dickey moved that the
rule requiring that no ordinance shall be passed on the day on
which it is introduced be suspended, and that in view of the
emergency set forth and defined in the preamble to the proposed
ordinance, that the same be declared an emergency me=lsure. This
motion was duly seconded by Commissioner F. H. Childress. The
motion carried by the following vote:
AYES: Mayor Ribble and Commissioners Childress,
Dickey and Price.
NOES: None.
Thereupon the Mayor announced that the proposed
ordinance had been declared an emergency measure by unanimous
vote of the Commission.
Thereupon, Commissioner W. B. Price moved that the
ordinance as read in full by the City Secretary be finally passed
and adopted by the Commission. This motion was seconded by Com-
missioner J. Ray Dickey, and the motion, carrying with it the
final passage and adoption of the ordinance, was unanimously
carried by the following vote:
AYES: Mayor Ribble and Commissioners Childress,
Dickey and Price.
NOES: None.
Thereupon, the Mayor announced that the ordinance had
been finally passed and adopted by unanimous vote of the com-
mission,: in accordance with the requirements of Sections 15, 16
and 17 of Article IX of the Lubbock Charter; and the Mayor there-
upon signed and approved the ordinance in the presence of the
Commission.
The ordinance is as follows:
"AN ORINANCE by the city Commission of the City of
Lubbock, Texas authorizingg the issuance of
690,000.00 '-CI fi1' JF LUBBOCK, Texas, Sewer Exten-
sion Bonds, Series 19461, dated March 1, 1946
(being parcel of a total issue of $445,,000.00 bonds
authorized at the election held in said City on
December 11, 1945), for the purpose of construct-
ing, extending, enlarging, improving and adding
to the sewage disposal plant, filtering beds and
emptying grounds for the sewage system, and acquir-
ing lands and rights of way within and without the
limits of the City of Lubbock for such sewage dis-
posal purposes and extending and installing addi-
tional sanitary sewer lines; prescribing the form
of the bonds and the form of interest coupons;
levying a continuing direct annual ad valorem tax
on all taxable properties within the limits of
said Uity to pay the interest on such bonds and
to create a sinking fund for the redemption thereof,
and providing for the assessment and collection of
such tax; enacting provisions incident and relat-
ing to the subject and purpose of this ordinance;
and declaring an emergency.
WHEREkS, under and by virtue of an ordinance dul
passed and adopted by the City Commission of the City of �ubbock,
Texas, on the 20th day of November, 1945, an election was ordered
to be held in said City on the llth day of December, 1945, and at
which election the following proposition was submitted to the
qualified electors of said City:
"SHALL the City Commission of the City of Lubbock
be authorized to issue the negotiable interest
bearing coupon bonds of the City of Lubbock in an
amount of $445,000.00, bearing interest at a rate of
not exceeding threw and one-half per centum (30)
per annum from date and maturing at such time or times
as may be deemed most expedient by the City Commission,
serially not later than twenty-five years from their
date, for the purpose of constructing, extending,
enlarging, improving and adding to the sewage dis-
posal plant, filtering beds and emptying grounds for
the sewage system, and acquiring lands and rights of
way within and without the limits of the City of
Lubbock for such sewage disposal purposes, and extend-
ing and installing additional sanitary sewer lines;
end shall there be annually assessed, levied and
collected upon all taxable property within the City
of Lubbock, while said bonds or any of them are out-
standing, a tax sufficient in amount to pay the annual
Interest on such bonds and to provide a sinking fund
for the redemption thereof at maturity?"
AND WHEREAS, upon consideration of the returns of
said election, the City Commission found that said election had
been conducted in the manner prescribed by law, and was in all
respects legally held, after due and proper notice as required
by lair; that due returns of said election had been made by the
proper officers; that said election resulted favorably to the
issuance of said bonds; that a majority of the qualified electors,
voting at said election, voted in favor of the issuance of said
bonds; and that the City Commission is in all things authorized
to issue said bonds and to do any and all things necessary and/or
convenient in connection therewith; and
WHEREAS, it being now determined by the City Qommission
that it is not desired at this time to issue all of the bonds for
4445,000.00, voted for on the proposition, as aforesaid, and that
$90,000.00 is the amount of bonds now desired to a issued, and
that the remaining amount of said bonds, to -wit: 355,000.00 shall
be issued at a future date or dates when, in the judgment of the
City Commission of said City, the amount is
needed by the pity for the purpose for which it was authorized; end
WHEREAS, it is to the best interest of the City that
the authorized improvements and construction of the sewer system
extensions be commenced at the earliest possible date, thereby
creating this an emergency measure for the immediate preservation
of the public peace, property, health and safety, as well as a more
efficient administration and operation of the sewage disposal
system of the municipal government; therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
LUBBOCK:
SECTION 1: That the bonds of said City, to be called
"CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS., SEWER EXTENSION BONDS, SERIES 1946", be
issued under and by virtue of the Uonstitution and laws of the
State of Texas, and the Charter of the City of Lubbock, for the
purpose of constructing, extending, enlarging, improving and adding
to the sewage disposal plant, filtering beds and emptying grounds
for the sewage system, and acquiring lands and rights of way within
and without the limits of the City of Lubbock for such sewage
disposal purposes, and extending and installing additional sanitary
$ewer lines in the principal sum of NINETY THOUSAND DOLLARS
1�90,000.005.
SECTION 2: That said bonds be numbered consecutively
from One (1) to Ninety (90), inclusive; shall be of the denomina-
tion of One Thousand Dollars 41,00000) each, aggregating the sum
of Ninety 'Thousand Dollars (490,000.60).
SECTION 3: That said bonds shall bedated March 1, 1946,
and shall mature in accordance with the following schedule:
BONDS NUMBERS
(All Inclusive)
MATURITY DATES AMOUNTS
1
to
3
March
1,
1947
037000.00
4
to
6
March
1,
1948
3,000.00
7
to
9
March
1,
1949
3,000.00
10
to
12
March
1,
1950
3,000.00
13
to
15
March
1,
1951
30000.00
16
to
18
March
1,
1952
3,000.00
19
to
21
March
13,
1953
3,000.00
22
to
24
March
19
1954
3,000.00
25
to
27
March
1,
1955
3,000.00
28
to
30
March
1,
1956
3,000.00
31
to
33
March
1,
1957
33,000.00
34
to
37
March
1,
1958
4,000.00
38
to
41
March
1,
1959
4,000.00
42
to
45
March
1,
1960
4,000.00
46
to
49
March
1,
1961
4,000.00
50
to
53
March
1,
1962
4,000.00
54
to
57
March
1,
1963
4,000.00
58
to
61
March
1,
1964
4,000.00
62
to
65
March
1,
1965
4,000.00
66
to
69
March
1,
1966
4,000.00
70
to
73
March
1,
1967
4,000.00
74
to
77
March
1,
1968
4,000.00
78
to
81
March
1,
1969
4,000.00
82
to
85
Marr•h
1,
1970
4,000.00
86
to
90
March
1,
1971
5,000.00
SECTION 4: That all of said bonds shall bear interest
from date until paid at the rate of ONE AND ONE-HALF PER CENTUM
(117) per annum, payable on March 1st and September 1st in each
year, the first interest payment date being March 1, 1947; such
interest to be evidenced by proper coupons attached to each of
said bonds.
SECTION 5: That the principal and interest of said
series of bonds shall be payable on presentation and surrender
of bonds or proper coupons in lawful money of the United States
of America at the GUARANH TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK
CITY, NEW FORK.
SECTION s: That each of said bonds shall be signed by
the Mayor and countersigned by the City Secretary, and the corpor-
ate seal of the "CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS", shall be impressed upon
each of them.
SECTION 7: That the facsimile signatures of the Mayor
and City Secretary may be lithographed or printed on the interest
coupons attached to said bonds, and shall have the same effect as
if they had been signed by them.
SECTION 8: That the form of said bonds shall be
substantially as follows:
NO. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA $1,000.00
STA`''E OF TEXAS
COUPITY OF LUBBOCK
CITY OF LUBBOCK TEXASP SEWER EXTENSION BOND.,
SERIES 1946.
CITY OF LUBBOCK, a municipal corporation, of the
State of Texas, acknowledges itself indebted to and, FOR VALUE
RECEIVED, hereby promises to pay to bearer, the sum of
ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS
(41,000.00) in lawful money of the United States of imerica, on
the FIRST UY OF MARCH, 19 , with interest thereon from the
date thereof until paid, at the rate of jNE AND ONE-HALF PER CENTUM
(If%) per annum, payable on March 1st and September 1st in each
year, the first interest payment date being March 1, 1947, on
presentation and surrender of the annexed coupons as they severaiiy
mF, ture.
BOTH PRINCIPAL and interest of this bond are hereby
made payable at the GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK., NEW YORK
CITY., NEW YORK.
THIS BOND is one of a series of Ninety (90) serial
bonds, numbered from One (l) to Ninety (90) both inclusive, all
of said bonds being of the denomination of bne Thousand Dollars
(11,000.00) aggregating in amount NINETY THOUSAND DOLLARS
C 90,000.003, and issued for the purpose of constructing, extending,
enlarging, improving and adding to the sewage disposal plant, filter-
ing beds and emptying grounds for the sewage system, and acquiring
lands and rights of way within and without the limits of the City
of Lubbock for such sewage disposal purposes, and extending and
installing additional sanitary sewer lines, under authority of the
Constitution and Laws of the State of Texas, and the Charter of said
City and pursuant to an ordinance duly adopted by the City
Commission of the Uity of Lubbock, Texas, and recorded in the Minutes
of said City Commission.
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED, RECITED AND REPRESENTED that
the issuance of this bond and the series of which it is a part
is duly Puthorized by law and by a vote of the qualified property
taxpaying voters of the City of Lubbock, Texas, voting at an election
held for that purpose within said City of the llth day of December,
1945; that all acts, conditions, and things required to be done
precedent to and in the issuance of this series of bonds, and of
this bond, have been properly done and performed and have happened
in regular and due time, form and manner as required by law; that
sufficient and proper provision for the levy and collection of taxes
has been made which, when collected, shall be appropriated exclusively
to the payment of this bond and the series of which it is a part,
and to the payment of the interest coupons thereto annexed as the
same shall become due; and that the total indebtedness of the
City of Lubbock, Texas, including the entire series of bonds of
which this is one, does not exceed any constitutional or stautory
limitation.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, the City of Lubbock, Texas, by
its Gity Commission, has caused its corporate seal to be affixed
hereto, and this bond to be signed by its Mayor and countersigned
by its Gity secretary, and the interest coupons hereto attached
to be executed by the lithographed or printed facsimile signatures
of the Mayor and City Secretary; the date of this bond, in conform-
ity with the ordinance above referred to, being the first day of
March, 1946.
Mayor, City of Lubbock, Texas
Countersigned:
City secretary, City of Lubbock, Texas
SECTION A: That the form of interest coupon shall
be substantially as follows:
j
NO. ON THE DAY OF 19 4
the CITY OF LUBBOCK, a municipal corporation of the State of Texas,
hereby promises to pay to bearer, at the GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY
OF NEV, YORK, NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, the sum of
DOLLARS
), in lawful money of the United States of America being
months' interest on the "CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, SEWEk
EXTENSION BOND., SERIES 1946", dated March 1, 1946.
Bond No.
City Secretary
Mayor
SECTION Zn: That the following certificate shall be
printed on the back of each bond:
OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER )
STATE OF TEXAS ,� REGISTER NO
I HEREBY CERTIFY that there is on file and of record
in my office a certificate of the Attorney General of the State of
Texas, to the effect that this bond has been examined by him
as required by law and that he finds that it has been issued in
conformity with the Constitution and Laws of the State of Texas,
and that it is a valid and binding obligation upon said City of
Lubbock, Texas, and said bond has this day been registered by me.
WITNESS MY HhND AND SEAL OF OFFICE, AT AUSTIN, TEXAS
Comptroller of Public Accounts of the
State of Texas
SECTION 11: BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY
(,OMMISSIUN OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
That to pay the interest on said bonds and create a
sinking fund to redeem them at maturity, a tax of One & Nine-TAnths
CENTS ( 1 9 0 d.) on each one hundred dollars' valuation of all
taxable property in the City of Lubbock, Texas, or such an amount as
may be at all times legally necessary, shall be annually levied on
said property and annually assessed and collected, or so much thereof
as shall be necessary, or in addition thereto as may be required
until said bonds with interest thereon have been fully paid; and
the said tax of nnA and nine -tenter —CENTS { 1 10 9�) is
here now levied for the current year, and so much thereof as shall
be necessary, or in addition thereto as may be required, is hereby
levied for each succeeding year while said bonds, or any of them,
are outstanding, and the same shall be annually assesed and collected
and applied to the purpose named.
SECTION 1": BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMIS_
SION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
That the Mayor of said City shell be and he is hereby
authorized to take and have charge of all necessary orders and
records pending investigation by the Attorney General of the
State of 'texas, andshall take and have charge and control of
the bonds herein authorized pending their approval by the Attorney
General and their registration by the Comptroller of Public Accounts.
SECTION 13: AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
The fact that it is to the best interest of the City
that the authorized construction and improvement of the sewage
system of the (-ity of Lubbock be commenced at the earliest possible
date, creates this an emergency measure for the immediate preserva-
tion of the public peace, property, health and safety, as well as a
more efficient administration and operation of the sewage disposal
system of the municipal government, demanding that the Charter
provisions to the effect that no ordinance shall be passed on the
day on which it shall be introduced, be suspended, and this
ordinance is hereby declared an emergency measure by unanimous
vote of the City Commission, and the same shall take effect from
and after its passage, and it is so ordained.
PASSED, this the 19th day of March, 1946.
APPROVED, this the 19th day of March, 1946.
Mayor, City Of Lubbock, Texas
ATTEST:
City ecretary, City of Lubbock, Texas
CERTIFICATE OF CITY SECRETARY
THE STATE OF TEXAS )
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK )
CITY OF LUBBOCK )
I, Lavenis Williams City Secretary of the City of
Lubbock, Texas, DO HEREBY CUTIFY that the foregoing is a true
and correct copy of an ordinance authorizing issuance of
"CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS SEWER EXTENSION BONDS, SERIES 1946",
adopted by the City Commission of said City on the 19th day of
March, 1946 ( and Minutes pertaining to its adoption), and that
it has been properly enrolled, placed in the office of the City
Secretary and approved by the Mayor, having been recorded in
Volume , page , et. seq., of the Ordinance Register
of the City of Lubbock and being registered as Ordinance No. .
IN FITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto signed my name
officially and affixed the seal of said City, this the 19th day
of March, 1946.
City Secretary, City of Lubbock; Texas
(City Seal)
ORDINANCE NO. 764
ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING ISSUANCE
OF $3651,000.00 "CITY OF LUBBOCK,
TEXAS, VATER SYSTEM EXTENSION
BONDS, SERIES 1946", DATED
MARCH 1, 1946.
THE STATE OF TEXAS )
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK )
CITY OF LUBBOCK )
ON THIS the 19th day of March, 1946, the City
Commission of the City of Lubbock, Texas, convened in
called session, at the regular meeting place thereof in
the City Hall, with the following members thereof, to -wit:
0. W. RIBBLE, MAYOR,
F. H. CHILDRESS,
J. RAY DICKEY, ) COMMISSIONERS,
}
W. B. PRICE, )
LAVENIA WILLIAMS, SECRETARY,
present, and the following absent: Hub Jonas ,
constituting a quorum, when, among other proceedings had,
were the following:
Commissioner J. Ray Dickey presented for the con-
sideration of the City Commission an ordinance authorizing
the issuance of $365,000.00 "CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, VATER
SYSTEM EXTENSION BONDS, SERIES 1946", dated March 1, 1946
(being parcel of a total issue of 41,300,000.00 bonds author-
ized at the election held in said City on December 11, 1945).
The ordinance was read in full by the City Secretary.
Thereupon, Commissioner F. H. Childress moved that
the rule requiring that no ordinance shall be passed on the day
on which it is introduced be suspended, and that in view of
the emergency set forth and defined in the preamble to the
proposed ordinance, that the same be declared an emergency measure.
This motion was duly seconded by Commissioner J. Ray Dickey.
The motion carried by the following vote:
LYES: Mayor Ribble and Commissioners Childress,
Dickey and Price.
NOES: None.
Thereupon, the Mayor announced that the proposed
ordinance had been declared an emergency measure by unanimous
vote of the 6ommission.
Thereupon, Commissioner W. B. Price moved that the
ordinance as read in full by the City Secretary be finally
passed and adopted by the Commission. This Motion was seconded
by Commissioner F. H. Childress and the motion, carrying with it
the final passage and adoption of the ordinance, was unanimously
carried by the following vote:
AYES: Mayor Ribble and Commissioners Childress,
Dickey and Price.
NOES: None.
`Whereupon, the Mayor announced that the ordinance
had been finally passed and adopted by unanimous vote of the
Commission, in accordance with the requirements of Sections
15, 16 and 17, of .&rticle IX, of the Lubbock Charter; and
the Mayor thereupon signed and approved the ordinance in the
presence of the Uommission.
The ordinate is as follows:
"AN ORDINANCE by the City Commission of the city
of Lubbock, Texas, authorizing the issuance of
V 365 000.00 CITY OF LUBBOCK., TEXAS WkTER
SYSTAM. EXTENSION BONDS,, SERIES 19461, dated
March 1, 1946 (being parcel of a total issue
of 41,300,000.00 bonds authorized at the elec-
tion held in said City on December 11, 1945),
for the purpose of constructing, installing,
enlarging, improving, extending and adding to
the water supply system of the Uity of Lubbock,
including the extension of water lines, mains
and facilities, the construction of additional
water supply systems, wells, lines, filtering
and treating facilities and other improvements
Incidental thereto, as well as acquiring lands,
water rights in lands, and such other interests
therein, and rights of way, within and without
the limits of the Uity of Lubbock for such
purpose; prescribing the form of the bonds and
the form of interest coupons; levying a continu-
ing direct annual ad valorem tax on all taxable
properties within the limits of said City to
pay the interest on such bonds and to create a
sinking fund for the redemption thereof, and
providing for the assessment and collection of
such tax; enacting provisions incident and
relating to the subject and purpose of this
ordinance; and declaring an emergency."
V,HEREAS, under and by virtue of an ordinance dul
passed and adopted by the City Commission of the City of Kub-
bock, 'Texas, on the 20th day of November, 1945, an election w?s
ordered to be held in said City on the llth day of December,
1945, and at which -election the following proposition was sub-
mitted to the qualified electors of said City:
"SHALL the City Commission of the City of
Lubbock be authorized to issue the negotiable interest
bearing bonds of the City of Lubbock in the amount of
41,300,000.00, bearing interest at a rate of not exceed-
ing three and one-half per centum (32%) per annum from
date and maturing at such time or times as may be deemed
most expedient by the City Commission, serially not
later than twenty-five years from their date, for the
purpose of constructing, installing, enlarging, improving,
extending and adding to the water supply system of the
City of Lubbock, including the extension of water lines,
mains and facilities, the construction of additional
water supply systems, wells, lines, filtering and treat-
ing facilities and other improvements incidental thereto,
as well as acquiring lands, water rights in lands, and
such other interests therein, and rights of way, within
and without the limits of the Uity of Lubbock for such
purpose; and shall there be annually assessed, levied
and collected upon all taxable property within the City
of Lubbock, while said bonds or any of them are outstand-
ing, a tax sufficient in amount to pay the annual inter-
est on such bonds and to provide a sinking fund for the
redemption thereof at maturity?"
AND WHEREAS., upon consideration of the returns of
said election, the City Commission found that said election
had been conducted in the manner prescribed by law, and was in
all respects legally held, after due and proper notice as re-
quired by law; that due returns of said election had been made
by the proper officers; that said election resulted favorably
to the issuance of said bonds; that a majority of the qualified
electors, voting at said election, voted in favor of the issuance
of said bonds; end that the City Commission is in all things
authorized to issue said bonds and to do any gfid all things
necessary and/or convenient in connection therewith; and
viHJSRHAS, it being now determined by the City Commis-
sion that it is not desired at this time to issue all of the
bonds for 41,300,000.00, voted for on the proposition, as
aforesaid, and that $365,000.00 is the amount of bonds now
desired to be issued, and t1^at the remaining amount of said
bonds, to -wit: $935,000.00, shall be issued at a future date
or dates when, in the judgment of the City Commission of said
City, the amount is needed by the City for the purpose for
which it was authorized; and
WHEREAS, it is to the best interest of the City
that the authorized improvements and extensions to the Water
System be constructed at the eerliest possible date, thereby
creating this an emergency measure for the immediate preserva-
tion of the public peace, property, health and safety, as well
as a more efficient administration and operation of the hater
Department of the municipal government; therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMAISSION OF THE CITY
OF LUBBOCK:
SECTION 1: That the bonds of said City to be
called "CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, WATER SYSTEM EX+ENSION BONDS
SERIES 1946", be issued under and by virtue of the Constitu-
tion and laws of the State of Texas, and the Charter of the
City, for the purpose of constructing, installing, enlarging,
Improving, extending and adding to the water supply system
of the City of Lubbock, including the extensions of water lines,
mains and facilities, the construction of additional water
supply systems, wells, lines, filtering and treating facili-
ties and other Improvements incidental thereto, as well as
acquiring lands, water rights in lands, and such other inter-
ests therein, and rights -of -way, within and without the limits
of the Uity of Lubbock for such purpose in the principal sum
of THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($365,000.00).
,SECTION 2: That said bonds shall be numbered con-
secutively from One (1) to Three Hundred Sixty-five (365),
both inclusive; shall be of the denomination of One Thousand
Dollars (41 000.00) each, agreeating the sum of THREE HUNDRED
SIXTY-FIVE fiOUSAND DOLLARS f4365,000.00).
SECTION 3: That said bonds shall be dated March 1,
1946, and shall mature in accordance with the following schedule:
BOND NUMBERS MATURITY DATES AMOUNTS
(All Inclusive)
1
to
11
March
1,
1947
1191000.00
12
to
23
March
1,
1948
12,000.00
24
to
35
March
1,
1949
12,000.00
36
to
47
March
1,
1950
12,000.00
48
to
59
March
1,
1951
12,000.00
60
to
72
March
1,
1952
130000.00
73
to
85
March
1,
1953
13,000.00
86
to
98
March
1,
1954
13,000.00
99
to
111
March
1,
1955
13,000.00
112
to
125
March
1,
1956
144000.00
126
to
139
March
1,
1957
14,000.00
140
to
153
March
1,
1958
14,000.00
154
to
167
March
1,
1959
14,000.00
168
to
182
March
1,.
1960
159000.00
183
to
197
March
1,
1961
15,000.00
198
to
212
March
1,
1962
15,.000.00
213
to
228
March
1,
1963
16,000.00
229
to
244
March
1,
1964
16,000.00
245
to
260
March
1,
1965
160000.00
261
to
277
March
1,
1966
17,000.00
278
to
294
March
1,
1967
172000.00
295
to
311
March
1,
1968
17,000.00
312
to
329
March
1,
1969
18,000.00
330
to
347
March
1,
1970
182000.00
348
to
365
March
1,
1971
18,000.00
SECTION 4: That all of said bonds shall bear inter-
est from date until paid at the rate of ONE AND ONE-HALF PER
CENTUM (12%) per annum, payable on March 1st and September 1st
in each year, the first interest payment date being March 1,
1947; such interest to be evidenced by proper coupons attached
to each of said bonds.
SE TION 5: That the principal and interest of said
series of bonds shall be payable on presentation and surrender
of bonds or proper coupons, in lawful money of the United States
of America, at the GUARA14TY TRUST COMPA14Y OF NEV, YORK,. NEW YORK
CITY, NEW YoRK.
SECTION 6:_ That each
by the Mayor and countersigned
corporate seal of the "CITY OF
pressed upon each of them.
of said bonds shall be signed
byy the OttSecretary, and the
LUBBOCK, TKX S", shall be im-
SECTION 7: That the facsimile signatures of the
Mayor and City Secretary may be lithographed or printed on the
Interest coupons attached to said bonds, and shall have the
same effect as if they had been signed by them.
SECTION R: That the form of said bonds shall be
substantially as follows:
NO. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 41,000.00
STATE OF TEXAS,
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK.
CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS WATER
SYSTEM EXTENSION BOND, SERIES
1946.
CITY OF LUBBOCK, a municipal corporation, of the
State of Texas, acknowledges itself indebted to and, FOR VALUE
RECEIVED, hereby promises to pay to bearer, the sum of
ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS
(41,000.00) in lawful money of the United States of 6merica,
on the FIRS DAY OF MARCH, 19 , with interest thereon from
the date hereof until paid, at the rate of ONE AND ONE-HALF PER
CENTUM per annum, payable on March Ist and September 1st
in each year, the first interest payment date being March 1,
1947, on presentation and surrender of the annexed coupons as
they severally mature.
r3OTH PRINCIPAL Rnd interest of this bond are hereby
made payable at the GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK, NEW
YORK CITY, NEW YORK.
THIS BOND is one of a series of 'three Hundred Sixty-
five (365) serial bonds, numbered from One (1) to Three Hundred
Sixty-five (365) both inclusive, all of said bonds being of the
denomination of bne Thousand Dolla rs (�l 000 00), aggregating
in amount THREE HUNDRED SIXTY FIVE THODUND ($365,000.00), and
issued for the purpose of constructing, installing, enlarging,
improving, extending and adding to the water supply system of the
City of Lubbock, including the extension of water lines, mains and
facilities, the construction of additional water supply systems,
wells, lines, filtering and treating facilities and other improve-
ments incidental thereto, as well as acquiring lands, water rights
in lands, and such other interests therein, and rights of way,
within and without the limits of the City of Lubbock for such pur-
pose, under authority of the Constitution and Laws of the State
of 'Texas, and the Charter of said City, and pursuant to an ordi-
nance duly adopted by the City Commission of the City of Lubbock,
Texas, and recorded in the Minutes of said City Commission.
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED, RECITED AND REPRESENTED that
the issuance of this bond and the series of which it is a part
is duly authorized by law and by a vote of the qualified property
taxpaying voters of the City of Lubbock, Texas, voting at an
election held for that purpose within said City on the llth day
of December, 1945; that all acts, conditions, and things required
to be done precedent to and in the issuance of this series of
bonds, and of this bond, have been properly done and performed
and have happened in regular and due time, form and manner as
required by law; that sufficient and proper provision for the
levy and collection of taxes has been made which, when collected,
shall be appropriated exclusively to the payment of this bond
and the series of which it is a part, and to the payment of the
interest coupons thereto annexed as the same shall become due;
and that the total indebtedness of the City of Lubbock, Texas,
Including the entire series of bonds of which this is one, does
not exceed any constitutional or statutory limitation.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, the City of Lubbock, Texas, by
its City Commission, has caused its corporate seal to be affixed
hereto, and this bond to be signed by its Mayor and countersigned
by its City Secretary, and the interest coupons hereto attached
to be executed by the lithographed or printed facsimile signntures
of the Mayor and City Secretary; the date of this bond, in conformity
with the ordinance above referred to, being the first day of
March, 1946.
Mayor, City of Lubbock, Texas.
COUNTERSIGNED:
City Secretary,. City of Lubbock,
Texas
SECTION a: That the form of interest coupon shall
be substantially as follows:
NO. ON THE DAY OF
19 ,
the CITY OF LUBBOCK, a municipal corporation of the State of
Texas, hereby promises to pay to bearer, at the GUARANTY TRUST
COMPANY OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, the sum of
DOLLARS
( ), months' interest on the "CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS,
WATER SYSTEM EXTENSION BOND, SERIES 1946", dated March 1, 1946.
Bond No.
City Secretary
Mayor
SECTIUN in: That the following certificate shall
be printed on the back of Each bond:
OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER )
STATE OF TEXAS )
REGISTER NO.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that there is on file and of retard
in my office a certificate of the Attorney General of the State
of Texas, to the effect that this bond has been examined by him
as required by law and that he finds that it has been issued in
conformity with the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas,
and that it is a valid and binding obligation upon said Uity of
Lubbock, Texas, and said bond hfls this day been registered by me.
V-iITNESS MY HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE, AT AUSTIN, TEXAS
Comptroller of Public Accounts
of the State of Texas.
SECTION 11: BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE; CITY
COMMISSION .•F THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
That to pay the interest on said bonds and create
a sinking fund sufficient to redeem them at maturity, a tax of
SAVAn CENTS ( 7 / on each
one hundred dolle rs' valuation of all taxable property in the
City of Lubbock, Texas, or such an amount as may at all times
be legally necessary, shall be annually levied on said property
and annually assessed and collected, or so much thereof as shall
be necessary, or in addition thereto as may be required, until
said bonds with interest thereon have been fully paid; and the
said tax of SmyAn CENTS ( 7 �)
is here now levied for the current year, and so much thereof as
shell be necessary, or in addition thereto as may be required,
is hereby levied for each succeeding year while said bonds, or
any of them, are outstanding, anti the sane shall be annually
assessed and collected and applied to the purpose named.
SECTION 12: BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY
C OidMI SS I O14 OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
That the Mavor of said City shall be and he is hereby
authorized to take and have charge of all necessary orders and
records pending investigation by the Attorney General of the
State of Texas, and shall take and have charge and control of
the bonds herein authorized pending their approval by the
-ttorney ueneral and their registration by the Comptroller of
Public Accounts.
SECTION 13: AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
The fact that it is to the best interest of the amity
that the authorized improvements and extensions to the eater
System be constructed at the earliest possible date, creates this
an emergency measure for the immediate preservation of the public
peace, property, health and safety, as well as a more efficient
administration and operation of the eater Department of the
municipal government, demanding that the Charter provisions to
the effect that no ordinance shall be passed on the day on which
it shall be introduced, be suspended, and this ordin^ce is hereby
declared an emergency measure by unanimous vote of the City
Commission, and the same shall take effect from and after its
pa -sage, and it is so ordained.
ATTEST:
PASSED31 this the 19 day of March, 1946.
APPROVED, this the 19 day of March, 1946.
Mayor, City of Lubbock, Texas
City Secretary, City of Lubbock, Texas
(City Seal)
CERTIFICATE OF CITY SECRETARY
THE STATE OF TEXAS )
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK )
CITY OF LUBBOCK )
I, Lavenia Williams City Secretary of the City of
Lubbock, Texas, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a true
and correct copy of an ordinance authorizing issuance of
"CITY OF LUBBOCKS TEXAS., WATER SYSTEM EXTENSION BONDS., SERIES
1946", adopted by the City Commission of said City on the
19 day of March, 1946 ( and of the Minutes pertaining to
its adoption and that it has been properly enrolled, placed
In the office of the City Secretary and approved by the Mayor,
having been recorded in book page et seq.,
of the Minutes of said Commission.
IN I+ITNESS WHEREOF,, I have hereunto signed my name
officially and affixed the seal of said City, this the 19
day of March, 1946.
City Secretary, City of Lubbock,
Texas
(City Seal)
ORDINANCE NO. 765
ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING ISUANCE
OF $25,000.00 "CITY OF LUBBOCK
TEXAS WATER TREATING AND SOFTAN-
ING SYSTEM BONDSP SERIES 1946"1
DATED MARCH 1, 1946.
THE STATE OF TEXAS }
)
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK )
CITY OF LUBBOCK )
ON THIS the 19th day of March, 1946, the City Commission
of the City of Lubbock, Texas, convened in called session, at
the regular meeting place thereof in the City Hall, with the
following members thereof, to -wit:
0. W. RIBBLE� MAYOR,
F. H. CHILDRESS., )
J.RAY DICKEYS
� COP,iMISSIONERS,
B . PRICE, )
LAVENIA W ILLI t—JAS, SECRETARY,
present, and the following absent Huh Joner, _
constituting a quorum, when, among other proceedings had, were
the following:
Commissioner J. Ray Dickey presented for the consideration
of the City Commission an ordinance authorizing the issuance of
425,000.00 " CITY OF LUBBOCKP TEXAS uATER TREATING AND SOFTENING
SYSTEM BONDS, SERIES 1946", dated March 1, 1946 (being parcel of
a total issue of 4650,000.00 bonds authorized at the election
held in said City on December 11, 1945).
The ordinance was read in full by the City Secretary.
Thereupon, Commissioner 1". H. Childress moved that the
rule requiring that no ordinance shall be passed on the day on
which it is introduced be suspended, and that in view'of the
emergency set forth and defined in the preamnie to the proposed
ordinance, that the same be declared an emergency measure.
This motion was duly seconded by Commissioner J. Ray Dickey.
The motion carried by the following vote:
AYES: Mayor Ribble and Commissioners Childress,
Dickey e.nd Price.
NOES: None.
Thereupon, the Mayor announced that the proposed ordinance
had been declared an emergency measure bir unanimous vote of the
Commission.
Thereupon, Commissioner W. B. Price moved that the
ordinance as read in full by the City Secretary be finally
passed and adopted by the Commission. This motion was seconded
by Commissioner F. H. Childress, and the motion, carrying with
it the final passage and adoption of the ordinance, was unanimously
carried by the following vote:
AYES: Mayor Ribble and Commissioners Childress,
Dickey and Price.
NOES: None.
Thereupon, the Mayor announced that the ordinance had been
finally passed and adopted by unanimous vote of the Commission,
in accordance with the requirements of Section 15, 16 and 17,
of Article IX, of the Lubbock Charter; and the Mayor thereupon
signed and approved the ordinance in the presence of the Commission.
The ordinance is as follows:
"bN ORDINANCE by the City Commission of
the City of Lubbock, Texas, authorizing
the issuance of W,000.00 1 CITY OF
LUBBOCK TEXAS rdATER TREATING AND
SOFTENING SYSTAM BONDS, SERIES 19461
dated March 1, 1946 (being parcel of a
total issue of $6501,000.00 bonds
authorized at the election held in
said City on December 11, 1945), for
the purpose of constructing, erecting,
Installing and improving a complete
water treating and softening plant
with all machinery and equipment
requisite for the operation and
maintenance thereof, and acquiring
lands and rights of way within and
without the limits of the City of Lubbock
requisite for the installation and main-
tenance of such system; prescribing the
form of the bonds and the form of
interest coupons; levying a continuing
direct annual ad valorem tax on all
taxable properties within the limits of
said City to pay the interest on such
bonds and to create a sinking fund for
the redemption thereof, and
providing for the assessment and
collection of such tax; enacting provisions
incident and relating to the subject
and purpose of this ordinance; and
declaring an emergency."
V,HERE:.S. under and by virtue of an ordinance dul
passed and adopted by the City Commission of the Cite of Kubbock,
Texas, on the 20th day of November, 1945, an election was ordered
to be held in said City on the llth day of December, 1945, and at
which election the following proposition was submitted to the
qualified electors of said City:
"SHALL the City Commission of the City of Lubbock
be authorized to issue the negotiable interest bearing
bonds of the City of Lubbock in the amount of
�650,000.00, bearing interest at a rate of not exceed-
ing three and one-half per centum (32%) per annum
from date and maturing at such time or times as may
be deemed most expedient by the City Commission,
serially not leter than twenty-five years from their
date, for the purpose of constructing, erecting,
installing and improving a complete water treating
and softening plant with all machinery and equipment
requisite for the operation and maintenance thereof,
and acquiring lands and rights of way within, and
without the limits of the City of Lubbock requisite
for the installation and maintenance of such system;
and shall there be annually assessed, levied and
collected upon all taxable property within the City
of Lubbock, while said bonds or any of them are
outstanding, a tax sufficient in amount to pay the
annual interest on such bonds and to provide a
sinking fund for the redemption thereof at maturity?"
AND WHEREAS upon consideration of the returns of
said election, the City Commission found that said election
hFd been conducted in the manner prescribed by law, and wes in
all respects legally held, after due and proper notice as
required by law; that due returns of said election had been
made by the proper officers; that said election resulted
favorably to the issuance of said bonds; that a majority of the
qualified electors, voting at said election, voted in favor of
the issuance of said bonds; and that the City Commission is in
all things authorized to issue said bonds and to do any and all
things necessary and/or convenient in connection therewith; and
WHEREAS, it being now determined by tho City
Commission that it is not desired at this time to issue all of
the bonds for 465fl2000.00, voted for on the proposition, as
aforesaid, and that $25,000.00 is the amount of bonds now desired
to be issued, and that the remaining amount of said bonds,
to -wit: $625,000.00 shall be issued at a future date or dates
when, in the judgment of the City Commission of said City, the
amount is needed by the City for the purpose for which it was
authorized; and
WHEREAS, it is to the best interest of the City of
Lubbock that the authorized installation of a water treating and
softening plant be made at the earliest possible date, thereby
creating this an emergency measure for the immediate preservation
of the public peace, property, health and safety, as well as a
more efficient administration and operation of the Water
Department of the municipal government; therefore
bE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY
OF LUBBOCK:
SECTION 1: That the bonds of said City, to be
called "CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS WATER TREATING AND SOFTENING
SYSTEM BONDS, SERIES 1946", be issued under and by virtue of the
Constitution and laws of the State of Texas, and the Charter of
the City, for the purpose of constructing, erecting, installing
and improving a complete water treating and softening plant with
all m,)chinery and equipipent requisite for the operation and
maintenance thereof, and acquiring lands and rights of way within
and without the limits of the Uity of Lubbock requisite for the
installation and maintenance of such system; in the principal
sum of TWBNTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($25,000.00).
SECTION That said bonds shall be numbered
consecutively from One (1) to Twenty-five (25)1, both inclusive;
shall be of the denomination of One Thousand Dollars ($1 000.00)
each, aggreBe&ating the sum of TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLAR
($25,000.00).
SECTION ., That said bonds shall be dated
March 1, 1946, and shall mature in accordance with the following
schedule:
BOND NUMBERS MATURITY DATES AMOUNTS
(A11 inclusive)
1
March
1,
1947
$ 1,000.00
2
March
1,
1948
1,000.00
3
March
1,
1949
1,000.00
4
March
1,
1950
1,000.00
5
March
1,
1951
1,000.00
6
March
1).
1952
1,000.00
7
March
1,
1953
1,000.00
8
March
1,
1954
1,000.00
9
March
1,
1955
1,000.00
10
Ila rch
1,
1956
1,000.00
11
March
1,
1957
1,000.00
12
March
1,
1958
1,000.00
13
March
1,
1959
1,000.00
14
March
1,
1960
1,000.00
15
March
1,
1961
1,040.00
16
March
1,
1962
1, 000.00
17
March
1,
1963
1, 000.00
18
March
1,
1964
1,000.00
19
March
1,
1965
12000.00
20
March
1,
1966
12,000.00
21
March
1,
1967
1,000.00
22
March
1,
1968
1,000.00
23
March
1,
1969
1,000.00
24
March
1,
1970
1,000.00
25
March
1,
1971
1,000.00
SECTION 4: That all of said bonds shall bear Inter-
est from date until pLid at the rate of JNE AND ONE-HALF PER
CENTUM (12) per annum, payable on March 1st and 6eptember 1st
in each year, the first interest payment date being March 1, 1947;
such interest to be evidenced by proper coupons attached to eech
of said bonds.
SECTION S: That the principal and interest of said
series of bonds shall be payable on presentation and surrender of
bonds or proper coupons, in lawful moneyof the United States of
America, at the GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK
CITY, NEW YORK.
SECTION 6: That each of said bonds shall be signed by
the Mayor and countersigned by the Uity Secretary, and the
corporate seal of the "CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS", shall be impressed
upon each of them.
SECTIO 7: That the facsimile signatures of the
Mayor and City Secretary may be lithographed or printed on the
interest coupons attached to said bonds, and shall have the some
effect as if they had been signed by them.
SECTION 8: That the form of said bonds shall be
substantially as follows:
NO,
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, $117000.00
STAVE OF TEXAS,
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK,
CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, WATER TREATING
AND SOFTENING SYSTEM BOND,
SERIES 1946
CITY OF LUBBOCK, a municipal corporation of the State
of Texas, acknowledges itself indebted to and, FOA VALUE RECEIVED,
hereby promises to pay to bearer, the sum of
ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS
(41,000.00), in lawful money of the United 6tates of America, on
the FIRST DAY OF MARCH, 19 , with interest thereon from r the date hereof until paid, at the ate of ONE AND ONE_HALF PER
CENTUM (12%) per annum, payable on March 1st and September 18t
in each year, the first interest payment date being March 1, 1947
on presentation and surrender of the annexed coupons as they
severally mf,ture.
BOTH PRINCIPAL and interest of this bond are hereby made
payable at the GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK CITY,
NEW YORK.
THIS BOND is one of a series of Twenty-five serial bonds,
numbered from One (1) to Twenty-five (26), both inclusive
all of said bonds being of the denomination of One thousand
Dollars ($1,000.00) aggregating in amount TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND
DOLLARS (425,000.00% and issued for the purpose of constructing,
erecting, installing and imprWing a complete water treating and
softening plant with all machinery and equipment requisite for
the operation and maintenance thereof, and acquirin lands and
rights of wey within and without the limits of the ,ity of
Lubbock requisite for the installation and maintenance of such
system, under authority of the Constitution and Laws of the
State of Texas, and the Charter of said City, and pursuant to
an ordinance duly adopted by the City Commission of the City
of Lubbock, Texas, and recorded in the Minutes of said City
Commission.
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED, RECITED AND REPRESENTED that the
issuance of this bond and the series of which it is a part is
duly authorized by law and by a vote of the qualified property
taxpaying coters of the Uity of Lubbock, Texas, voting at an
election held for that purpose within said City on the llth day
of December, 1945; that all acts, conditions, and things required
to be done precedent to and in the issuance of this series of
bonds, and of this bond, have been properly done and performed
and Ye ve happened in regular and due time, form and manner as
required by law; that sufficient and groper provision for the
levy and collection of taxes has been made which, when collected,
shall be appropriated exclusively to the payment of this bond
and the series of which it is a part, and to the payments of the
interest coupons thereto annexed as the same shall become due;
and that the total indebtedness of the City.of Lubbock, Texas,
including the entire series of bonds of which this is one, does
not exceed any constitutional or statutory limitation.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, the City of Lubbock, Texas, by
its Ulty Uommission, has caused its corporate seal to be affixed
hereto, and this bond to be signed by its Mayor and countersigned
by its City Secretary, and the interest coupons hereto attached
to be executed by the lithographed or printed facsimile
signatures of the Mayor and City Secretary; the date of this
bond, in conformity with the ordinance above referred to, being
the first day of March, 1946.
Mayor, City of Lubbock, Texas
UOUNTERSIGNED:
City Secretary, City of Lubbock,
Texas
SECTION 9: That the form of interest coupon shall be
substantially as follows:
NO. ON THE DAY OF
19 ,
The CITY OF LUBBOCK, a municipal corporation of the State of
Texas, hereby promises to pay to bearer, at the GUARANTY TRUST
COMPANY OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, the sum of
DOLLARS
($ ), in lawful money of the United States of America,
being months' interest on the "CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS,
WATER TREATING AND SOFTENING SYSTEM BOND, SERIES 1946", dated
March 1, 1946.
bond No.
City Secretary
Mayor
SECTION 10: That the following certificate shall be
printed on the back of each bond:
OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER )
REGISTER NO.
STATE OF TEXAS )
I HEREBY CERTIFY that there is on file and of record
In My office a certificate of the Attorney General of the Utate
of 'Texas, to the effect that this bond has been examined by him
as required by law and that he finds that it has been issued in
conformity with the Constitution and laws of the 6tate of Texas,
and that it is a valid and binding obligation upon said Uity
of Lubbock, 'Texas,, and said bond has this day been registered
by me.
v.ITNESS MY HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE, AT AUSTIN, TEXAS,
Comptroller of Public hccounts
of the State of 'Texas.
SECTION 11: BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF
LUBBOCK:
That to pay the interest on said bonds and create a
sinking fund sufficient to redeem them at maturity, a tax of
Six -tenths of One CENTS ( _non /) on each
one hundred dollars' valuation of all taxable property in the
City of Lubbock, Texas, or such an amount as may at all times
be legally necessary, shall be annually levied on said property
and annually assessed and collected, or so much thereof as shall
be necessary, or in addition thereto as may be required, until
said bonds with interest thereon have been fully paid; and the
said tax of Six-TAnths of Ona CENTS ( -0064 ) is here now levied
for the current year, and so much thereof as shall be necessary,
or in addition thereto as may be required, is hereby levied for
each succeeding year while said bonds, or any of them, are
outstanding, and the same shall be annually assessed and collected
and applied to the purpose named.
SECTION 12: BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF
LUBBOCK:
That the Mayor of said City shall be and he is hereby
authorized to take and have charge of all necessary orders and
records pending investigation by the Attorney General of the
State of Texas, and shall take and have charge and control of
the bonds herein authorized pending their approval by the
Attorney General and their registration by the Comptroller of
Public Accounts.
SECTION 13: AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF
LUBBOCK:
The fact that it is to the best interest of the Gity
that the authorized installation of a water treating and
softening plant be made at the earliest possible date, creates
this an emergency measure for the immediate preservation of the
public peace, property, health and safety, as well as a more
efficient administration and operation of the 1,ater Department
of the municipal government, demanding that the Charter
provisions to the effect that no ordinance shall be passed on the
day on which it shall be introduced, be suspended, and this
ordinance is hereby declared an emergency measure by unanimous
vote of the City Commission, and the same shall take effect from
and after its passage, and it is so ordained.
PASSED, this the 19 day of March, 1946.
APPROVED, this the 19 day of March, 1946.
1
Mayor, City of Lubbock, Texas
ATTEST•
I!el, - - - - — - - -- - " J
City ecretary, City of Lubbock, Texas
(City Seal)
CERTIFICATE OF CITY SECRETARY
THE STATE OF TEXAS }
}
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK }
}
CITY OF LUBBOCK }
I, Lavenia Williams. City Secretary of the city of
Lubbock, Texas, DO HEREBY CEkTIFY that the foregoing is a true
and correct copy of an ordinance authorizing issuance of
"CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS., WATER TREATI14G AND SOFTENING SYSTEM
BONDS,, SERIES 1946", adopted by the City Commission of said City on
the day of March, 1946, (and of the 114inutes pertaining
to its adoption), and that it has been properly enrolled,
placed in the office of the City Secretary and approvers by
the Mayor, having been recorded in Book page
et seq., of the Minutes of said Commission.
IN VIITNESS HEREOF, Ihave hereunto signed my name
officially and affixed the seal of said City, this the —12
day of March, 1946.
City Secretary, City of
Lubbock, Texas
(City Seal)
No further business coming up for consideration, the Gity Commission
adjourned. 0
Read and approved this tha 28th day of March, 1946.
�0 .W W. RI b b'�e , MAYOR, City
of Lubbock, Texas
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