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ORDINANCE NO. 213
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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SEWARD TO CALL AN ELECTION TO
DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT SAID CITY SHALL ACQUIRE ALL ASSETS OF
THE SBWARD WATER COMPANY AT A PURCHASE PRICE OF $80.000.00, ALL
AS AUTHORIZED BY THB PROVISIONS OF TITLB 48, UNITED STATES CODE
ANNOTATED. SECTION 44f · 44i.
BE IT ORDAINBD by the Common Council of the City of a.ward,
Alaska, as follows:
Section I. Pursuant to the Act of Congress approved March 6,
1946, Chapter 62, 60 Stat. 33, (USCA Title 48, Section 44f-44i)
whereby municipal corporations in Alaska are permitted to construct,
reconstruct, improve, extend, better, repair, equip, or acquire
public works of permanent character which may be operated upon a
revenue producing basis, a special election is hereby called to
be held in the City of Seward, Alaska, on the 17th day of September,
1951, under the provisions of said Act and pursuant to the law6 of
the Territory of Alaska and the ordinances of the City of Seward.
SAction II. There shall be submitted to the qualified voters
of said city, authorized to vote at said election the following
proposition:
(1) Shall the City of Seward, Alaska for the purpose of
acquiring all of the assets of the Seward Water Company, solely
owned by Krs. Jean E. Thorne, enter into an agreement with said
owner to pay the total purchase price of Eighty Thousand Dollars
($80,000.00) upon an installment basis in monthly payments of not
less than Seven Hundred Twenty Five Dollars ($726.00) per month
without interest and without down payment, and for the payment of said
purchase prtce to pledge the revenue of said utility and as
evidence of such indebtedness to issue bonds or such other security
8S to the Council may be deemed appropriate, and issue said bonds
either as a separate series or in combination with other bonds to
be authorized for the extension and improvement of said utility
all as authorized by the Act of Congress approved March 6, 1946,
Chapter 52, 60 Stat. 33, said bonds or other security to be issued
by subsequent ordinance or resolution of the Common Council of the
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solely owned by Mrs. Jean E. Thorne, enter into an agreement
with said owner to pay the total purchase price of ~ighty
Thousand Dollars ($80,000.00) upon an installment basis
in monthly pafments of not less than Seven Hundred Twenty
Five ($725.00) per month, without interest and without
down payment; and for the payment of said purchase price to
pledge the revenue of said utility and as evidence of such
indebtedness to issue bonds or such other security as to
the Council may be deemed appropriate, and issue said bonds
either as a separate series or in combination with other bonds
to be authorized for the extension and improvement of said
utility~ all as authorized by the Act of Congress, approved
March 6, 1946, Chapter 52, 60 Stat. 33, said bonds or other
security to be issued by subsequent ordinance or resolution
of the Common Council of the City of Seward upon such terms,
conditions, and maturities as may be ordained by said Council.
The polling place will be at the City Hall in the Oity of
Seward, AlB ska, and the polls will be open from 8:00 A.M. until
7:00 P.M. of said day.
Thos persons who are citizens of the United States over the
age of twenty-one years, who are bona fide residents of the
Territory of Alaska, and who have bean such residents continuously
during the entire year immediately preceding the election, and
who have been such residents continuously for thirty days next
preceding the election witpin the corporate limits of the Oity of
Seward, who are able to read the Constitution of the United States
in the English language, and to write the English language, and who
are registered and qualified to vote in accordance with the ordinances
of the City of Seward governing elections, shall be qualified to
vote at said election.
No special registration for this election prior to the date
thereof shall be required.
If a majority of the voters at said special election S1 all
cast their votes in favor of entering into such agreement for the
purpose of acquiring, expanding, rehabilitating, improving and
extending the Seward Water System, and shall be such vote authorize
the expenditure of highty Thousand Dollars ($80~000.00) therefor,
then the Council of said City proposes to issue revenue bonds or
other security in the sum of ~ighty Thousand Dollars ($80,000.00)
secured only by a pledge of the revenue of said utility in the
total principal sum of ~ighty Thousand Uollars ($80,000.00), which
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6..~'OA VUL. Th. ton of the ballot allall oonala' of' tb.
question a.t ra' 'h 1n a.oUon II ot th18 ordln8ft...
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ot ...lee, tbo T...ritor'l ~ A1IlIakft, aaa the ........1 ordlnRno.a
ot ,be Clt, ot 'eward r88u1etlnl eleotlon. nod th. 88ftvaaa of
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n......", .0oW'it, tor the pa,..a' tboreot.
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board ot tb. Clt, Hell, ~eanrd. Al~oko. tor 0 p.rlod or '.ont, (20)
$l,. pr1... to dau or alau"t1on. 8nd .maUb. publlabect OMO a .e.k
to.. two cone.cutIY. .eeka 1n .. n..apeper ot ..n....l e1l'Oulf1t1on
1n S..ard.
S_,!loa Xu... Thlo ordlBDftOe ahull t "ka .tt.., i_dbtel,
upon ita p"o.a.e find approval, an e..I"I~ bflvlna b..n d..1aNd.
pea.od Itv th.OollaOft Council of t1\. au, fill Ue'tfU'el, At>< .ka, eel
epPl'Oved by the d.,OI', an oft tab .,,'" 48, or ~u.., 1951.
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