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ORDINANCE NO. 1457
AN ORDINANCE APPROPRIATING 'Pi!E SUM 11 11,400.1 0
TO CONTRACTUAL SERVICES OF THE 1964 BUDGET OF
THE OLYMPIC GRAVITY WATER FUND, AUTHORIZING TIC
MAYOR TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH TIE ATT R
GENERAL OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON FOR THE PR S
OF A LAW SUIT, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, the Attorney General of the State of t}lashington has
determined that certain v blations of State and Federal Antitrust Statutes
have eccurred in which the State, the City of Port Townsend, and various
other minicipal corporations, have a common interest and may join as
plaintiffs, and
WFIEREAS, the said Attorney General has propos(J!d that the
City of Port Townsend and other municipalities shall sh re the cost.
and prosecute said law suit under the direction of said Attorney General,
to the end that the rights of each may be adjudicated in a joint and
common.action at law in the Federal Courts.
NOW THEREFORE be it ORDAINED, by the City Couipcil of the
City of Port Townsend, in regular session assembled, as Follows:
Section 1. There is here and hereby appropriated to con-
tractual services of the 1964 budget for The Olympic Gr vity Plater
Fund the sum of $1,400.00, for disbursement, upon deman for any
pmrtion thereof, to the Pipe Litigation Cost Advance Fund administered
by the Office of the Attorney General of the State of Washington,
pursuant to agreement with the City, for payment of the City of Port
Townsend share of costs of a law suit to be prosecuted ointly by the
City, the State and other municipal corporations.
Section. 2_ The Mayor is here and hereby authorized and dir-
ected to enter into an agreement with the Attorney Gene al of the State
of Washington, and other municipal corporations having n interest in
the subject matter as Plaintiffs, wherein and whereby tle City shall
authorize the Attorney General to act for the City as ounsel in Chief
for the prosecution of a law suit for the violation of antitrust statutes
by various defendants who have allegedly conspired to f-x prices in
bids made for pipe sold to the City, for a consideratio paid by the
City of a sum which shall approximate $1,400.00, and pr viding for City
psrticipatdon in the management of the suit.