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A RESOLUTION APPROPRIATING $57,148.50 TO COVER THE ENPENSES OF THE CITY GOVERNEMENT FOR THE QUARTER ENDING AUGUST 31, 1922. BE IT RESLOVED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL, THE BOARD COUNCIL, THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN CONCURRING; That the sum of $57,148.50 be and is hereby appropriated to cover the expenses of the city government for the quarter ending August 31, 1922, as follows; Streets $7000.00 Gas 13,500.00 Water 3,000.00 Sewers 800.00 Cemeteries 1,000.00 Parks 125.00 Fire 1,200.00 Police Salaries 4,800.00 Police Incidentals 875.00 Health 850.00 Poor 900.00 Engineering 125.00 Salaries 4,527.00 Court & Jail 600.00 Building & Grounds 100.00 Sanitary 2,000.00 Incidentals 1,100.00 Interest on Bonds 8,696.00 Interest & Discount 600.00 District Nurse 150.00 Lights 2,900.00 Library 750.00 Adopted by the Common Council June 8, 1922 Ayes: Forrest, Quarles, Morris, Via, Twyman, Watson and Whitten. Concurred in by Board of Aldermen June 12, 1922. Ayes: Greaver, Hade, Patton and Walker Presented and approved June 13, 1922 Mayor Signature. Clerk Signature. AN ORDINANCE CLASSIFYING THE THRITY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($35,000) OF GAS BONDS, AND TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND ($200,000) OF WATER BONDS OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTES- VILLE, AUTHORIZED AT AN ELECTION HELD IN THE CITY ON THE 8TH DAY OF JUNE, 1920, AND YET TO BE ISSUED, AS REVENUE BEARING BONDS OF THE CITY, WITHIN THE TERMS OF SECTION 127 (B) OF THE OONSTITUTION OF VIRGINIA, AND FIXING A PERIOD UNDER SAID SECTION DURING WHICH SAID BONDS SHALL NOT BE INCLUDED IN DETERMINING THE LIMITATION OF THE POWER OF THE CITY TO INCUR INDEBTEDNESS. WHEREAS, by Ordinance passed by the Common Council of the City of Charlottesville on the 4th day of May, 1920 concurred in by the Board of Aldermen of said City on the 7th day of May,1920, and approved by the Mayor on said 7th day of May, 1920, complying with Section 123 of the Constitution of Virginia, and the Statutes in such, cases made and provided, it was provided trat an election be held on the 8th day of June 1920, at which the qualified voters of the City might vote for and aginst the issue of bonds for the several specific purposes and undertakings therein particularly desivnated, among them $200,000 to augment and improve the City's water supply, and $35,000 to extend and equip the Gas Plant, AND WHEREAS, the Corporation Court of the City of Charlottesville, did, on May 8th 1920, enter an order pursuant to Statutes of Virginia, directing the election officials to do those things necessary to subrlit to the qualified voters of the city at an electio to be held on June 8th,1920, the question wlether such bonds for water and gas, as well as bonds for other purposed designed in said ordinance, should be issued, and directing due publicity of such election, said election was duly and legally held on the said 8th day of ,June,1920, and there was approved, by the qualified voters of the city in the manner required by law, the aforesaid issue of $200,000 for water, and $35,00 for gas, as well as all the other items set forth in said Ordinance and voted upon at said election, with the exception of the item of $18,000 for remodeling armory, AND WHEREAS, the said Ordinace, approved May 7th, 1920, recites in part, that it was deemed necesssary and expediet and to the advantage of the City, that the City should negotiatw a loan to extend and improve its revenue producing utilities, to-wit: $200,000 to augement and improve the City's water supply; 50,000 to extend the sewer system, and 35,000 to extend and equip the gas plant, --------------- $285,000 Total, but does not in terms exclude the aforesaid sums of $200,000 for water and $35,000 for gas, or either of them, from the otherwise authorized, indebtedness of sais city, under Section 127 (b) of the Constitution of Virginia; AND WHEREAS, It was, and is, the purpose to borrow money and issue said bonds in said sum of $200,000 for water, and $35,000 for gas under the provisions of class (b), Section 127, of the Constitution of Virginia to that said bonds for these said specific undertakings shall not be included in the otherwise authorized indebtedness of said City, and it has been found necessary to fix the period, under said section 127 (b) of the Constitution, during which said $200,000 of water bonds, and $35,000 of gas bonds shall not be included ir determining the limitation of the power of the City to incur indebtedness: BE ITORDAINED, by the Common Council, the Board of Aldermen concurring, That the said $200,000 of bonds, yet to be issued for water, and said $35,000 of bonds et to be issued for gas authorized b the election aforesaid, which said bonds are to be payable to the bearer, forty years after date, to contain the option on the part of the City to pay the principal thereof at the expiration of twenty (20)