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37 of 1920 - A resolution accepting bid of Merrill, Oldham and Company for $500,000.00 5% refunding bonds of Salt REMARKS: — - - Resolution No. 37 By Commissioner \ 5reen ;4 Accepting bid of Merrill, Oldham & Company for $500,000 5 per cent refunding bonds of Salt Lake City to be dated Jan. j let, 1921. READ ANO ADOPTED D[C8A 1(320 ( t , • • _ _ _ two r �o z a R f F ;E:; .'-r ROLL CALL VOTING AYE NAY Barnes Salt Lake City,Utah, December 8, , 1920• Burton Crabbe I move that the resolution be adopted. Green INN= rc Mr. Chairman Result RESOLUTION BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, Utah; that, WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City on the llth day of November, 1920, duly passed a resolution authorizing and directing the Acting Mayor and City Recorder to advertise for bids for the purchase of five hundred bonds of the denomination of One Thousand (: 1,000) dollars each, in the aggregate sum of Five Hundred Thousand ($500,000) dollars, to be known as Salt Lake City Refunding Bonds, Series No. 22, which bonds are to be issued and sold for the purpose of paying and retiring an issue of bonds in the sum of Five Hundred Thousand ($500,000) dollars of date January 1, 1901, and becoming due on the first day of January, 1921, and notice to bidders having been duly published for a period of ten days in the "Deseret News", a daily paper of general circulation, and published in Salt Lake City, Utah, and also in five issues of the "Daily Bond Bayer ", a paper of general circulation in financial quarters and published in New York City, N. Y., said notice to describe generally the proposed bonds and inviting bids on four several propositions, namely: Said $500,000.00 of bonds issued as 20-year aerials, that is, one-twentieth of said issue payable one year after date of issue and one-twentieth each year thereafter until fully paid, with interest at the rate of five per cent (5%) per annum; Said $500,000.00 of bonds issued as 20-year serials, that is, one-twentieth of said issue payable one year after date of issa and one-twentieth each year thereafter until the full amount ha+ been paid, with interest at the rate of five and one-half per cent (5w4) per annum. Said $500,000.00 of bonds issued as 20-year term bondq 111I payable absolutely twenty years from date of issue with interest at the rate of five pe,r,cent (b%) peer annum; Said $00,00A.00 of bonds issued as 20-year term bonds 9 it payable absolutely twenty years from date of issue, with interest at the rate of five and one-half per cent (5-i%) per annum. Said bonds to be number one to five hundred, both inclusive, interest payable semi-annually; principal and intere t Ii to be paid at a bank in New York City to be hereafter designat ; said bids to be accompanied by check in the sum of Ten Thousand) ($10,000) dollars, payable to the order of the Treasurer of Salk Lake City as a 'guarantee of good faith on the part of the bidder and to reimburse said City for its loss and expense in this beh$lf in case the bidder shall not perform his bid after acceptance 4ereof; said bids to be sealed and placed in the hands of the City Recorder at or before 10 o'clock A. M. on the 8th day of December, A. D. 1920, said bids to be opened by the Board of Commissioners on said date; and WHEREAS, pursuant to and in conformity with said resolution and advertisement for bids, pertain bids for said bonds and upon the several proposition upon which bids were invited, were received by the City Recorder, which bids were opened and read at the regular meeting of the Board of Con- missioners held at 10 O'clock A. M. on the 8th day of December, A. D. , 19204 and WHIMS, upon motion duly made and seconded said bid were referred to the City Treasufer for tabulation and report; nd RHERBL3, a recess was taken by said Board of Com- missioners to the hour of 3 o'clock P. M. of said 8th day of December, A. D. , 1920, at which time the report of the City 2. Treasurer on the tabulation of the bids received for the pur- I chase of $500,000.00 refunding bonds of Salt Lake City was received and read and thereupon all of said bids were rejected as being unsatisfactory to said City; and WHEREAS, it now appears that it is to the best interest ' of said City to issue said bonds as 20-year term bonds payable i 1 ab i solutely twenty years after the date thereof, with interest j thereon payable semi-annually at the rate of five per'oent 1 ,(5%) per annum; and i WHEREAS, Merrill Oldham & Company has offered in writ-J d ,ling to purchase all of the $500,000.00 of bonds of said City at Ipar value, plus scoured interest from date of bondsto date of delivery and have attached to said offer certified.oheok in the il sum of $10,000.00 on the National Bank of the Republic of Salt Lake City, as a guarantee of good faith on the part of said company and to reimburse said city for its loss and expense 3n• tale behalf in case it shall not perform its offer after acceptance M thereof. NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Com- missi oners of Salt Lake City, Utah, that the said $500,000.00 bonds of Salt Lake City refunding bonds, Series No. 22, be � 1 `I issued as 20-year term bonds, dated January 1, 1921 and payable 4 Jariiary 1, 1941, with interest at the rate of five per cent (5%) per annum, payable semi-annually, both principal and interest i payable at the National Park Bank, New York City, N. Y.; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the bid of Merrill 1 Oldham & Company for the purchase of said bonds at par value, with accrued interest from date of bonds to date of delivery, be, and the same is hereby declared to be the highest, best and most advantageous to Salt Lake City, sad the same is j hereby accepted and said bonds are hereby sold to said Merrill 1 Oldham & Company, and the City Treasurer of Salt Lake City il is hereby authorized and directed to deliver said bonds to said 3. purohasere upon receipt of the purchase price thereof, to-wit, the sum of $500,000.00 with accrued interest thereon at the ratEi of five per oent ($) per armum from date of bonds to date of delivery, and that the City Treasurer be, and he is directed to retain said certified check of $10,000.00 and apply the same on the purohase price of said bonds; said sum of $10,000.00, however, to be forfeiter),,to Salt Lake City in the event of failure on the part of Merrill Oldham & Company to perform its contract III for the purchase of said. bonds. In the opinion of the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, it is necessary to the peace, health and safety of the inhabitants of said City that this resolution take effect at once. � I This resolution sh$411 take ffeot upon its passage. Pa sed by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake Ci n•, Utah, this day of December, A. D., 1920. o r E j I Attest: City Recorder. • r I 4.