HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 04.09.1923 - Authorizing Promissory Note for Water and Light SystemsAN .ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE KILYOR OF THE CITY OF GEORGETO7,5,
TEXAS, TO E�aC'UTE AND IIELIVER TO THE FARIERS STATE BANK OF GE{R:GE-
TOY.N, TEXAS, PROM ISSO�tY NOTES OF THE SAID CITY, AGGMGATING EIGHTEEN
THOUSAND ($p'18 , 000.00) DOLLARS, AND TO ENCUIrBER THE Vv"' TER 41M LIGHT SYS-
TEMS BELONGING TO SAID CITY AND THE IIvCO14ES T12; �EOF 1_,ND EVERYTHING
PERTAINING THERETO IN SUCH AL OUNT , JUM TO EXECUTE A DEED OF T1IUST
ON SUCH :'rATER AND LIGHT SYSTEMS AND THE INCOITS TBEREEOF AND EVERY-
THING PERTIiINIRG TIMEETO TO SECURE SAID _Th'DEBTEDMSS, IN ACCORDANCE
1ITH CH..PT ,,R 112, OF TLIE GEIERAL LAZ,-S OF THE STATE OF TEXAS, PASSED
BY THE THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE AT ITS REGULAR SESSION.
AREAS, the City of Georgetovn is a municipal corporation,
'incorporated and operating under Title 19, of the Revised Civil Sta-
tutes of the State of Texas, and owns and operates a water system
and a light system in said city; and whereas, in accordance with an
rrdinance passed &nd approved by the City Council of said City on
October 10th, 1921, said City executed and delivered to the Farmers
State Bank of Georgetolwn, Texas, a Deed of Trust, on the water and
light systems belonging to said City and the incomes thereof and
everything pertaining thereto, dated October 25th, 1921, which deed
of trust is of record in Vol. 36, Page 364, of the Deed of Trust Re-
cords of Williamson County, Texas, to secure the payment of eight
promissory notes of -;aid city, aggregating Fifteen Thousand($15,000.00)
Dollars, said notes as shown by said Deed of Trust being also secured
by chattel mortgage and reservation of title on certain property des-
cribed in said Deed of Trust and there now being unpaid on said notes,
principal and interest in the amount of Twelve Thousand and Four
($12,400.00)Dollars, to which ordinance and Deed of Trust, reference
is here made; and
VIIEREA.S, said Deed of Trust was executed for the purpose
of securing the said Farmers State Bank for money advanced by said
bank and used by said -city in improving, enlarging, extending and
repairing -said water and light systems and in paying for and install-
ing the engine and other property described in said ordinance and
deed of trust; and whereas, said bank since the execution of said
deed of trust has advanced to said city the sum of Fifty -Six Hundred
($5600.00)Dollars, which has been used in improving, enlarging, ex-
tending and repairing said systems and said City is now indebted to
said bank in the total sum of Eighteen Thousand($18,000.00)Dollars,
and desires to refund said indebtedness without impairing said liens
by which a portion of said indebtedness is already secured.
THE iEFORE , BE IT ORDAII%,, D BY TIM COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
GEORGET OWN, TEXAS: -
Section 1. That for the purpose of refunding the said
Eighteen Thousand($18,000.00)Dollars, of existing indebtedness,
expended as aforesaid in improving, enlarging, extending and re-
pairing the vaater and light systems belonging to said City, the
Mayor of --aid City is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to
execute and deliver to the said Farmers State Bank, Ten promissory
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notes -of-said City, which notes are hereinafter described and for the
purl)ose of securing satid grramizzory r.otes,te mortgage and encumber said
water and light systems �.rd incoi.-.c s thereof end everything pertaining
thereto, and acquired or to be acquired, including the land upon which
said water and light systems are situated, together with all machinery,
engines, boilers, dynamos, pumps, generators, switch board, panels,
pipelines, ires, tools, water mains and any and all property and things
used in connection with and ws a part of said systems. That said mayor
shall execute a deed of trust on said prcperty to E. G. Gillett, as
trustee, to secure said notes but that the management and control of
said systems during the time same are so encumbered shall remain in
the hands of the City -Council of said City. Said Deed of Trust shall
give to the said E. G. Gillett, as trustee., authority and power to
sell all of said property after giving notice as provided in Chapter
112, of the General La -vas of the State of Texas, passed by the thirty-
second Legislature at its regular session, and in the event said pro-
perty is so sold, the purchaser thereof shall be granted a franchise
to operate said water and light systems for a term of twenty years,
provided, however, that if default should be made in the payment of
said notes and such sale by trustee should not be authorized by a
majority vote of the cualified votes of said City then and in that
event, said water and light systems shall be placed in the hands of
a Board of Trustees of three members, one of whom shall be the mayor
of said city, and R. E. Ward and E. G. Gillett, of Georgetown, VVil-
liamson Colmty, Texas, are hereby named as the other trustees to
manage, control and operate said systems as provided in said Chap-
ter 112, and said trustees shall receive as their compensation for
managing and control-ing said systems, five per cent of the gross
receipts and shall retain possession of said systems until said in-
debtedness has been fully paid off and discharged; if the said E.
G. Gillett or R. E. Ward or any successor of theirs should die or
remove from the City of Georgetov-;n, Texas, or fail or , efuse to act
in such rapacity then the mayor of said city and the remaining
trustee shall select'a successor for the one not acing; said trus-
tees after paying the necessary run Ang expenses of said systems
and their commission shall pay the balance of the income of said
systems on said notes and said trustees shall have the right to
make such rules and regulations as are right and proper for carry-
ing on the business of said systems.
Section 2. That said Mayor shell execute for said City
ten promissory notes to be of even date v,ith said Deed of Trust,
the first note ,being for the sum of $1000.00, the next eight notes
being _for Two Thousand (32000.00)Do:Llars, each, and the last note
being for the sum of $1000.00, said notes, to be due and payable
3-6-5-12-15-18-21-24-27 and 30 months from date, respectively,
payable to the order of the Farmers State Bank of Georgetown,
Texas, to bear interest at the rate of eight per cent per annum
from date, the interest payable annually as it accrues, shall
provide for ten per cent'addit-i_onal if placed in the hands of.an
attorney, as attorney's fees for collection, and shall provide
that if' default shall be made in the payment of any installment
of principal or interest, 94 days written notice shall be given
to each member of the City Council of such City and to each mem-
ber of said Board of Truste�:s, th t payment has beer demanded and
default made, which notice shall be given in accordance with the
provisions of said Chapter 112, and if all aziounts due are not paid
within said 90 days then the v;hole of said indebtedness shall ma-
ture and the deed of trust shall be subject to foreclosure.
Section 3. That the signature of the said Mayor to said
deed of trust and to swid notes shall be C:.ttested by the `secretary
of the said City, and the corporate seal- of said City --hall be at-
tached thereto.
Section 4. That the execution of said deed of trust and
said notes, are authorized under and in accordance to Chapter 112,
of ' the General Laws of the State of Tetras, passed by the Thirty -
Second Legislature, at its regular session, and shall be draxn and
executed in accordance with said Chapter 112.
Section 5. That the giving of said deed of trust shall not
eyfect nor be effected by the reservation of title and chattel mort-
gage lien, which the said Farmers State Bank already holds against
the new .:Gchinery and appliances installed in said systems as set
out in -the above mentioned deed of trust, dated October 25th, 1921,
and the deed of trust directed to be given by this -ordinance shall
constitute a renewal and extension of the liens given and mentioned
in said original deed cf trust.
Passed and approved this the 9th day of April, A. D. 1923.
L. J. DIMMITT.
ILMR, OF THE CITY OF GEORGETO%',N, TEXAS.
ATTEST: GEO . EMUMY.
SE C RE Vi.RY OF THE CITY OF GLORGE TOtid N , TEXTS.