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Frost Proof from Station 324-00 to 1808-33.
December 29, 1930 - Parked and stationed all air valves, fire hydrants and blow off valves from
Station 324-00 to Station 1808-33.
trestles at
a to hoes and fire tools on e
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Installed fi , ,
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August 6, 1930 -Fir P
Stations 6639-75, 1 4 -20.
December 18, 1930 - Built a 9 ft. x 9 ft. log and shake tool house at Station 668-00.
September 6, 1930 - Installed a 12" air vent on the 16" overflow line out of City Lake Reservoir
and screen chamber.
November 22, 1930 - New Work at Cit Lake in ordor to raise level ten feet. This consisted of
clearing lake shore, putting a 10 . ex ens or -on' on e 8 no over ow p po ou o e lake and building a
300 ft. earth dyke - Coat $2,800.00
December 3, 1930 - Made hooessary repairs on te.nporary living quarters.
October 10, 1930 - Built a now road from the lake to the scroen Chamber.
October lb, 1930 - Cleared off and put Coder logs on now building site for a log cabin living quar-
ters near sorcen Chamber.
Said oommunications and Maintenance Report were referred to the Water Committee.
REQUISITIONS.
20 Cords Wood.
A requisition for 20 cords of wood for the City Hall was presented end .read and it was moved
by,-CcuhoilmAp. Lammbro^and seconded by Councilman Miller that the requisition be granted and that the City
Clerk be instructed to advertise for bids for 20.cords of live, Bound, old growth fir wood, out in 12 inch
lengths, delivered in 10-oord lots as ordered and that the bide be opened at the regular session of March 3rd
Upon roll Call, all six Councilmen present voted in favor thereof and motion was declared carried.
Grass Seed end Map;
Councilman E. M. Starrett presented a verbal requisition for a nap bitytmap for the
Council Chamber and for Grass send for the park areas in the City Hall sidewalks -and moved, seconded by
Councilman Lafferty that the requisition be Gr
anted. Motion declared carried.
ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS.
Ordinance Setting form of Bonds, etc.
Kh-ordinance entitled pAN- ORDINANCE- ofutheGoity of Port* Townsel;&fixing:r.the:Aonominations and iateroet
rate of. the, bonds 'provided:for':An. Ordinanoe'.Ho:•997 of•eaid city; cdatermining3thorvdrious!annual:'unturitida
itandt.:interest'.payments„and,:specifying:.thelform::thereofe;.w i, submitted;;byi3thecCitypAttornoy,Landiwas rbodcid"
full by the City Clerk, .for the first reading.
It was moved by Councilman Lammers and seconded by Councilman Peach that the first reading be considered
the second reading and that the third reading be by title only.. Upon roll call, all six Councilman present,
namely; W. B. Smith, W. S. Lafferty, Wm. Lammers, Sr., Jacob Miller, E. M. Starrett and S. V. Poach, voted in
the affirmative and motion was declared Carried.
Third Reading, The City Clerk thereupon road the said ordinance by title only for the third reading.
Ordinana p'aeod, It was then moved by Councilman Lammers and seconded by Councilman Peach, that said
Ordinance do now pane. Upon roll call, all six Councilmon present votadin the affirmative and motion was
declared carried.
Ordinance No. 1006.
The following in a full, true and correct Dopy of said Ordinance No. dD06, as passed
by the City Council Febrpary 17, 1931; approved by the Mayor February 172 1931, amid published in the Port
Townsend Leader February 19, 1931, to -wits
ORDINANCE 110. 1006.
AN ORDINANCE of the City of Port Townsend fixing the denominations and interest rate of the bonds provided
for in Ordinance No. 997 of said City; determining the various annual maturities and interest payments and
specifying the form thereof.
WHEREAS, under Ordinance No. 997 of the City of Port Townsend, Washington, passed by the City Council
on the 2nd day of September, 1930, and approved by the Mayor on the 4th day of September, 19SO, there was
submitted to the qualified voters of the City of Port Townsend the question or proposition of authorizing
the City of Port Townsend to become indebted in the aum of $49,000.00, for the purpose of making certain pub-
lic improvements as provided in said ordinance, and providing for the issuance and sale of negotiable inter-
est -bearing general indebtedness coupon bonds of said city, and
VGiEREAS, said proposition to become indebted was truly authorized and ratified by the qualified voters
of said city at an election held for that purpose, and
WHEREAS, a bid for said bonds has been received and accepted by the City Council of the City of Port
Townsend, therefore,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PORT TOWNSEND DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The denominations of the "Port Tomneend General Indebtedness 1931 Water Bonds" provided for
in Ordinance No. 997 of said city shall be in the sum of Five Hundred Dollars (0500.00) each; shall be num-
bered aerially from one to ninety-eight Consecutively; and shall boar interest from date at the rate of four
and three-quarters (4-3/4) per cent per annum, interest payable annually. All of said bonds shall be dated
as of January let, 1931, and shall mature as follows, Two bonds - two years after dotal two bonds - three
years after date; two bonds - four years after data; throe bonds - five years after dotal three bonds - six
years after data; throe bonds - seven years after date; throe bonds - eight years after data; throe bonds -
nine years after date; throe bonds - ton years after dotal three bonds - eleven years after date; Your bonds
twelve years after data; four bonds - thirteen years after datol four bonds - fourteen years after data; fow
bonds - fifteen years after date; four bonds - sixteen years after date; five bonds - seventeen years after
dotal five bonds - eighteen years after data; five bonds - nineteen years after date; five bonds - twenty
�I years after date; five bonds - twenty-one years after data; six bonds - twenty-two years after data; six ban
- twenty-three years after date; seven bonds - twenty -Tour years after date; seven bonds - twenty-five years
it after date.
Section 2. That the City Clerk be and hereby is authorized and directed to have printed and engraved,
or lithographed, on good bond paper, bonds and Coupons in the following form, to -wit,
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
� State of Washington
County of Jefferson
City of Port Townsend
No. #500.00
PORT TOWNSEND GENERAL INDEBTEDNESS 1931 WATER BOND
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Svruinanoe no. iwu ccnc>_nueul
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That the City of Port Townsend in the County of Jefferson, State of
is ton is justly ndebte r ale received, hereby promises to n t Wash indebted, and for value rC d o the bearer, on
the first
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day of January, 19 , the principal sum of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), with interest at the rate of
four and throe -quarters (4-3/4) par cent per annum, payable annually on the first day of January in each
your, upon.the presentation and surrender of the annexed interest coupons. Both principal and interest of
this bond are payable in gold Coln of the United States of America of the present standard weight and fine-
ness, at the Fiscal. Agency of .the State of Washington, in the City and State of New York, or at the office
of the City Treasurer of the City bfvPort4owneend, Washington.
For the prompt payment hereof, both principal and interest, as the same may mature, the full faith,
credit and resources of the City of Port Townsend are hereby irrevocably pledged.
This bond is one of the sreies issued by the City of Port Townsend under the authority of, and in full
compliance with, the Laws and Constitution of the State of Washington, for the purpose of providing funds
for the making of certain additions and betterments to, and extensions of, the municipal wator-works system
of the said City of Port Townsend, as specified and provided by Ordinance No. 997 of said city, and which
expenditure has boon ratified and confirmed by a vote of the electors of said city at an election hold on
the 4th day of November, 1930.
It is hereby certified and recited that all sots, conditions and things required to be done precedent
to, and in the issuance of this bond have happened, been done and performed as required by law. That
provision has been made for the annual levy and collection of the tax upon alltthe taxable property of said
city sufficient to pay the principal and interest of this bond as the same may mature and accrue; and that
the total indebtedness of the City of Port Townsend, including this bond, does not exceed any constitutional
or statutory limitation.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the said City of Port Townsend, by authority of its City Council, has caused this
bond to be sealed with its seal, signed by its Mayorand attested by its City Clerk, and has caused the oou-
pons annexed thereto to be signed with a facsimile of the signatures of said officers, all as of the first
day of January, 1931.
ATTEST;
City Clerk.
(FORM OF COUPON)
Mayor
No. $
On the first day of January, 19 , the City of Port Townsend, Washington, will pay to bearer at the
office of the City Treasurer of PortTownsend, or at the Washington Fiscal Agency in Now York City,
Dollars, 1n gold Coin, for the annual interest due that data on Port Townsend General Indebtedness 19-31 Water
Bond, dated January lot, 1931, and numbered
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk.
Section 3. There shall be printed on each bond, a duly authenticated copy of the act or note of the
Legislature of the State of Washington, authorizing the issuance and sale of the bonds as aforesaid; togeth-
er with a copy of said Ordinance No. 997 of the City of Port Townsend, together with a copy of the signed
statement of the Mayor axd City Clerk choiing the result of said election as directed by daid Ordinance No.
997.
Section 4. That this ordinance be published once in the Port Townsend Leader and to take effect and be
in force five days after such publication.
Passed by the City Council February 17, 1931
Approved by the Mayor February 17, 1931
Dr. George Bangerter, Mayor
ATTEST,
C. F. Christian, City Clerk
(seal)
UNFINISHED ANDNEW BUSINESS.
Blaine Street Work.
Councilmen Lafferty brought up the matter of certain work on Blaine Street but same was
laid over for the present.
RECESS VOTED. '
It wan moved by Councilman Peach and seconded by Councilman Lafferty that the Council recess for 16 min-
uten. Motion carried and recess declared.
COUNCIL RE -CONVENES.
Roll Call.
The City Council re-oonvened at 9 „ 36 P.M., and upon roll call there were present Mayor George Banger-
ter, City Clerk C. F. Christian, City Attorney and Councilmen W. B. Smith, W. S. Lafferty, Win. Lanm,ern,Sr.,
Jacob Miller, E. Morris Starrett and S. V. Peach.
Unfinished and New Business.
Conniff, at al. Claims rejected.
In the matter of claims for damages filed by Win. J. Conniff at al, and re-
ferred to the Council, -as a Committee on the Whole, the said committee submitted the following written reports
To the Honorable Mayor and City Council
of the City of Port Townsend, Washington.
That We, the undersigned members of the City Council, herewith report on the claims of A. L. Greene,
Joseph H. Johnston and Wm. J. Conniff, individually, for damages against the City, as eat forth in each of
said Claims, filed with the City Clerk and submitted to the City Council, and which said claims were refer-
red to a Committee of the Whole of said city council, for consideration and report, do hereby recommend that