HomeMy Public PortalAboutR0118 R E S O L U T I O N NO. 118
A RESOLUTION to declare the result of a special
election held in Subdistrict Number One of the River des Peres
Watershed (Creve-Coeur Frontenac Area) of The Metropolitan St.
Louis Sewer District on March 19, 1957.
WHEREAS, heretofore, to wit: on the 18th day of
February, 1957, 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
One of the River des Peres Watershed (Creve-Coeur Frontenac Area)
of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District on Tuesday, the 19th
day of March, 1957, for the purpose of submitting to the qualified
electors of said Subdistrict the following proposition:
PROPOSITION "Shall the general obligation bonds of Subdistrict Number One of the River des Peres Watershed of the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District (Creve Coeur-Frontenac area) be issued in the amount of Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand ($750,000.00) Dollars to provide funds for the purpose of constructing a system of Trunk and Sub-Trunk Sanitary 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, on February 21st, and
28th, and on March 7th and 14th, 1957, in the St. Louis Globe
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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 the said
19th day of March, 1957, 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, on
the 2nd day of April, 1957, did certify to this Board of 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 one thousand five hundred
thirty (1,530) votes on the aforesaid proposition, of which one
thousand two hundred thirty five (1,235) votes were cast "FOR THE
BOND ISSUE" and two hundred ninety-five (295) votes were cast
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"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 RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT, AS FOLLOWS:
Section One. That the following proposition, to-wit:
PROPOSITION "Shall the general obligation bonds of Subdistrict Number One of the River des Peres Watershed of the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District (Creve Coeur-Frontenac area) be issued in the amount of Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand ($750,000.00) Dollars to provide funds for the purpose of constructing a system of Trunk and Sub-Trunk Sanitary Sewers within and for said Subdistrict, including all expenses necessarily incidental thereto?"
as submitted to the qualified electors of Subdistrict Number One
of the River des Peres Watershed (Creve Coeur-Frontenac Area) of
The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District at a special election
held on the 19th day of March, 1957, 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 One of the
River des Peres Watershed (Creve Coeur-Frontenac Area) in the
amount and for the purpose set forth in said proposition.
Section Two. That the aforesaid bonds shall hereafter
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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 April 8, 1957.