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Resolution No. 100
ByOmmg.sAm" Ferry r
Authorizing the purchcse of
certain lands in the bed of
City Creek Canyon.
READ AND NAM
DEC 5 1916
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ROLL CALL
VOTING AYE NAY Salt Lake City, Utah, oember__4,___191__6
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I move that the resolution be adopted.
Scheid
Shearman
Wells
Mr.Chairman
Result RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The lands hereinafter described include about a mile
or more of the bed of City Creek above points thereon at which said
pity draws culinary water for the inhabitants of said city; and
WHEREAS, Pipe lines carrying city water pass through said lands,
and the owners of said lands may sooner or later build or attempt
to build habitations on said lands; and
WHEREAS, It is necessary for said city to own said lands in
order to prevent pollution of the waters of said creek and in order
to exercise a fuller and more complete control over said creek; and
WHEREAS, A suit is now pending wherein said city is seeking to
condemn a part of said lands, and the owners of said lands and said
city are now willing to dispose of all said matters on the following
basis:
NO.'; THEREFORE, Be it resolved by the Board of Commissioners of
Salt Lake City, Utah:
That the Mayor of Salt Lake City be, and he hereby is directed
to enter into and sign, and the City Recorder of said City to
countersign, a contract between Adam C. Speirs and Alice Speirs,
his wife, Ernest Speirs and Harriet S. Speirs, his wife, Mary McLean,
Effie Speirs Spokes, George A. Speirs and Ida Speirs, his wife, and
Edgar F. Speirs and Eldie Speirs, his wife, for the purchase of the
following described land:
The north half of the southeast quarter, the south half of the
northeast quarter, the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter,
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the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter, and the west half
of the southwest quarter of Section 20, Township 1 north, Range 1
east, Salt Lake Base and Meridian, Salt Lake County, State of Utah;
together with all rights and privileges thereto pertaining,
including all springs, waters and water rights.
The terms and conditions of said contract to be as follows:
Vendors shall make, execute and deliver to said City, a
warranty deed conveying said property to Salt Lake City, a Municipal
Corporation, free and clear of all clouds and encumbrances, except
rights heretofore acquired by said purchaser therein contemporane-
ously with tie execution of this contract.
Vendors shall pay the taxes for 1916 on said property.
Said purchaser shall pay said vendors for said property the
sum of Twenty Thousand One Hundred ( 20,100.00) Dollars, payable
in the following installments without interest, to-wit:
Nine Hundred ( 900.00) Dollars at time of delivery of deed;
Forty-two Hundred ($4200.00) Dollars on or before January
15, 1917;
Five Thousand ($5,000.00) Dollars on or before January 15, 1918;
Five Thousand ( 5,000.00) Dollars on or before January 15, 1919;
Five Thousand ( 5,000.00) Dollars on or before January 15, 1920.
In case any payment is not made as provided herein, the
purchaser is to pay a legal rate of interest from the time of the
default on any such payment, until paid.
The vendors are hereby given a vendor's lien on the property
sold, as security for the payment of any amounts to be paid by the
purchaser, as provided herein, and in case the purchaser defaults
in the payment of any one or more payments to be made, as provided
herein, and the default shall continue for a period of twelve months
thereafter, then in that event the vendors shall have the right to
foreclose their lien on said property and to cause the same to be
sold in accordance with law, and the proceeds to be applied in the
payment of the amounts due with legal interest upon any amounts
delinquent from the time when they become delinquent until paid,
and for the payment of a reasonable attorney's fee for the fore-
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closure of said lien.
The purchaser agrees to pay the vendors a reasonable attorney's
fee required for the enforcement of any of the provisions of this
contract.
And be it further resolved that the sum of 4900.00 be, and
hereby is appropriated out of the fund for purchase of lands,to
make the first payment mentioned in this resolution. Said sum to be
paid to grantors when they deliver to said City a properly signed
and executed warranty deed for the above property, and a properly
executed quit claim deed from the two trustees claiming an interest
in said property.
Passed by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, Utah,
December , 1916.
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C y Recorder.
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