HomeMy Public PortalAboutR0069 R E S O L U T I O N NO. 69
A RESOLUTION to declare the result of a special
election held in Subdistrict Number Two of the River des Peres
Watershed of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District on May 29,
1956.
WHEREAS, heretofore, to wit: on the 30th day of April,
1956, the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer
District did adopt a certain ordinance calling and ordering a
special election to be held within Subdistrict Number Two of the
River des Peres Watershed of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer
District on Tuesday, the 29th day of May, 1956, for the purpose of
submitting to the qualified electors of said Subdistrict the
following proposition:
PROPOSITION Shall the general obligation bonds of Subdistrict Number Two of the River des Peres Watershed of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District (Vinita Park Area), be issued in the amount of One Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($125,000.00), to provide funds for the purpose of constructing sanitary trunk sewers within and for said Subdistrict, including all expenses necessarily incidental thereto?
and
WHEREAS, the Secretary-Treasurer of this Board, acting
pursuant to the aforesaid ordinance, did give notice of said
special election by advertisement published once a week for at
least three (3) consecutive weeks, namely, May 7, 14, 21 and 28,
1956, in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and in the St. Louis Post
Dispatch, newspapers of general circulation in The Metropolitan
St. Louis Sewer District, the first publication in each of said
newspapers having been made at least twenty-one (21) days prior to
the date of the election and the last publication in each of said
newspapers having been made not more than seven (7) days prior to
the date of said election, all as shown by the publishers'
affidavits now on file in the office of the Secretary-Treasurer of
this Board; and
WHEREAS, the said election was duly held on said 29th
day of May, 1956, by the Board of Election Commissioners of St.
Louis County, Missouri; and
WHEREAS, the ballots furnished for and used at the said
special election were in substantially the form as set forth in
the aforesaid ordinance adopted by this Board; and
WHEREAS, the said Board of Election Commissioners, the,
2nd day of June, 1956, did certify to this Board of on Trustees
the result of the aforesaid election; and
WHEREAS, this Board has now canvassed the returns of
said election, as certified by the said Board of Election
Commissioners; and
WHEREAS, it appears upon said canvass that at said
election there was cast a total of three hundred eighty two (382)
votes on the aforesaid proposition of which three hundred fifty
nine (359) votes were cast "FOR THE BOND ISSUE" and twenty three
(23) votes were cast "AGAINST THE BOND ISSUE";
and
WHEREAS, more than two-thirds of all of the votes cast
on the aforesaid proposition were cast in favor thereof;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLD BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
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OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT, AS FOLLOWS:
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Section One. That the following proposition, to-wit:
PROPOSITION Shall the general obligation bonds of Subdistrict Number Two of the River des Peres Watershed of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District (Vinita Park Area), be issued in the amount of One Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($125,000.00), to provide funds for the purpose of constructing sanitary trunk sewers within and for said Subdistrict, including all expenses necessarily incidental thereto?
as submitted to the qualified electors of Subdistrict Number Two
of the River des Peres Watershed of The Metropolitan St. Louis
Sewer District at a special election held on the 29th day of May,
1956, was assented to by more than two-thirds of the qualified
electors of said Subdistrict voting on said proposition at said
election; and that the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan St.
Louis Sewer District is, therefore, authorized to issue the bonds
of Subdistrict Number Two of the River des Peres Watershed of The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District in the amount and for the
purpose set forth in said proposition.
Section Two. That the aforesaid bonds shall hereafter
be issued at such time or times and subject to such terms and
provisions as shall hereafter be prescribed by this Board. The foregoing Resolution was adopted June 25, 1956.