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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 47-KLJ AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE OF $27'5,,000.00 -CITY OF BEAUPt20NT REFUNDING BONDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF REFUNDING 1 LIKE; J �2. and that Fifty-five Thousand Dollars ( $55_,000.00) of such bonds are still outstanding. And it further appearing to the ' Ci ty Commission that all of the hereinbefore described bonds have reached their optional date and that it is advisable and to the best interest of the City of Beaumont that they should be called for redemption, and should be refunded ata lower .rate of interest, as hereinafter more fully set out, by the issuance of the hereinafter described refunding bonds. N0W, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY CO1.11MISSION OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT. Section 1 That the City of Beaumont shall issue refunding bonds of said City to the extent of $275,000.00 for the purpose of refunding and canceling and in lieu of like amount of the hereinbefore de- scribed outstanding bonds of the City of Beaumont, said refunding bonds to be issued for the following purposes, to wit. City of Beaumont Street & Severer Refunding Bonds Series A; to the amount of $120,000.00; City of Beaumont Wharf & Dock Refunding Bonds Series A, to the amount of. $100, 000.00; City of Beaumont School Refunding Bonds Series A, to the amount of $55,000.00. That said refunding bonds provided for herein shall be and are issued under and by virtue of the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas and the Charter of the City of Beaumont, including Articles 717 and 725 Revised Civil Statutes of 1925, and Section 16, sub -section 99 of the Charter of the City of Beaumont. Section 2 That said refunding bonds in the sum of Two Hundred Seventy-five Thousand Dollars ($275,000.00) shall be divided into three series, and each series of said bonds divided into fifteen (15) installments, and said series of said bonds shall be known and called each respectively,., "City of Beaumont Street and Sewer Refund- ing Bonds Series P.11; "City of Beaumont Wharf & Dock Refunding Bonds Serres All; and "City of Beaumont School Refunding Bonds Series A"9 and the Mayor of the City of Beaualont is hereby authorized and directed to have prepared alzd executed a set of bonds for each of said purposes as follows. #3 ol 30 193,T STREET AND SEWER REFUNDING BONDS SERIES Lq $12O,000.00,. Street and Sewer Refunding Bonds Seri -es n, One Hundred Twenty Thousand Dollars ($120,000.00) to bo divided into one hundred twenty (120) bonds of the denomination of One Thousand Dollars (,?1,000.00) each, to be numbered from one (1) -to one hundred twenty (12:.0), inclusive, payable as follows, respectively. 1-1os. 1 to 4 of 01,000.00 each payable lst day of June, 1936 Nos. 5 to 8 of 1$1,000.00 each payable lst day of June, 1937 Nos. 9 to 12 of 511,000.00 each payable lst day of June, 1938 Nos. 13 to 20 of -,,1,000.00 each payable lst day of June, 1939 Nos. 21 to 28 or 1;15000.00 each payable lst day of June, 1940 Nos. 29 to 36 of $1,000.00 each payable lst day of June, 1941 Nos. _. 3-7 to 44 of x1:;000.00 each payabl-e lst day of June, 194:2 Nos. 45 to 52 of 01,000.00 -aa ch payable lst day of June, 1943 Nos. 53 to 60 of $1,000.00 oa.ch payable lst day of June, 1944 Nos. 61 to 68 of Y12000.00 each payable 1st day of June, 1945 Nos. 69 to 78 of 01.,000.00 each payable lst. day of Juana, 1946, Nos. 79 to 88 of $15000.00 each payable lst day of June, 1947 Nos. 89 to 98 of $1,000.00 oach payable 1st day of June, 1.948 Nos. 99 to 109 of $1,000.00 each payable lst day of June, 1949 Nos. 110 to 120 -of' $1,000.00 each payable lst day of Juno, 1950 �ATHARF & DOCK REFUNDING BONDS SMIES A 1±:100, 000.00 :; Vill .-f &; Dock Refunding Bonds Series A, Ono Hundred Thousand Dollars (u.100,000.00) to be divided into one hundred (100) bonds of the denomination of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) each, to be numb.'.Ired from one (1) to one hundred (100), inclusive, payable as follows, respectively. - Nos. 1 to 4 of 01,000.00 each payable lst day of June, 1936 Nos. 5 to 8 of $15000.00 each payable lst dray of June, 1937 Nos. 9 to 12 of $1,000.00 each payable lst day of June, 1938 Nos. 13 to 20 of $1,000.00 each payable lst day of June, 1939 Nos. 21 to 28 of $12000.00 each payable lst day of June, 1940 Nos. 29 to 36 of $1,000.00 each payable lst day of June, 1941 Nos. 37 -to 44 of $1,000.00- -each payable 1st day of June, 1942 Nos.' 45 to 52 of $1,000.00 each payable lst day of Juno, 1943 Nos. 53 to 60 of $1,000.00 each payable lst day of June, 1944 Nos. 61 to 68 of 51,000.00 each payable lst day of June, 1945 Nos. 69 to 74 of $1,000.00 each payable lst day of June, 1946 Nos. 75 to 80 o f $1, 000.00 cac'r� ;�ayabl e l s t da,y of Junta 1947 Nos. 81 to 86 of $1,000.00 cash pay,-ble 1st day of June, 1948 Nos. 87 to 91 of 01,000.00 each payable lst day of June, 1949 Nos. 92 to 100 of $1,000.00 each payable lst day of June, 1950 SCHOOL REFUNDING BONDS SERIES A3 $55,000.00. School Refunding Bonds Series A, Fift -five Thousand Dollars ($55,000.00) to be divided into fifty-five (55� bonds of the denomination of One. Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) each, to be numbered. from one (1) to fifty-five (55) , in- clusive, payable as folloviis, respectively-, Nos. 1 and 2 of ;11,000.00 each payable lst day of June, 1936 Nos. 3 and 4 of 11 .15000.00 each payabi- lst day of June, 1937 Nos. 5 and 6 of '.;1,000.00 each payable lst day of June, 1938 Nog. 7 to 10 of 01,000.00 each payable lst day of June, 1939 Nos. 11 to 14 of $1.9000.00 each payable lst day of June, 1940 Nos. 15 to 18 of $1,000.00 each payable 1st day of June, 1941 -- Noso 19-- to 22 of $1,000.00 each payable lst day of June, 1942 - Nos. 23 to 26 of 1.1,000.-00 each payable lst day of June, 1943 Nos. 27 to 30 of $1,000.00 each payable lst day of June, 19441 Nos. 31 to 34 of $12000.00 oa.ch payable lst day of. June, 1945 Nos. 35 to 38 of $1,000.00 each payable lst day of June, 1946 Nos. 39 to 42 of 01,000.00 oath payable lst day of June, 1947 Nos. 43 to 46 of $1,000.00 each payable lst day of June, 1948 Nos. 47 to 50 of $1,000.00 each payable lst day of June, 1949 Nos. 51 to 55 of $1,000.00 each payable lst day of June, 1950. #5. This bond is one of a series of one hundred twent (120) bonds of the denomination of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00 each, known and called Street and Sewer Refunding Bonds Series A• of like tenor and date excet as to maturity, numbered from one 1 to one hundred twenty (120Y inclusive, bonds numbered from one �1 to forty- four (44) inclusive bearing interest at four and one-half percent (42%) per annum, and bonds numbered from forty-five (45) to one hun- dred twenty (120) inclusive bearing interest at four and one-quarter percent (44%) per annum, aggregating in amount One Hundred Twenty Thousand Dollars ($120,000.00), said bonds issued for the purpose of refunding and canceling and in lieu of a like amount of valid outstand- ing street and sewer bonds of said city, under and by virtue of the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas, and the Charter of the -City of Beaumont including Articles 717 and -725, Revised Civil Statutes of 1925, and Section -16, sub -section 9, of the Charter of the City of Beaumont, and pursuant to an ordinance passed by the City Commis- sion of the City of Beaumont, which ordinance is of record in the Minutes of said Commission. The date of this bond in conformity with the ordinance above mentioned, is June 1, 1935. And it is hereby certified and recited that the issuance of this bond and the series of which it is a part is duly authorized by law, and that all acts, conditions, and things required to be done precedent to and in the issuance of this bond and of the series of which it is a part have been properly done, have happened and been performed in regular and due time, form and manner as required by law, and that the total indebtedness of said city, including the entire series of bonds of which this is one, does not exceed any constitutional or statutory limitation. IN WITNESS WHEREOF the City Commission of the City of Beaumont, Texas, has caused its corporate seal to be affixed hereto and this bond to be signed by its Ida-yor, counters. fined and attested by its City Clerk, and registered by its Director of Finance, and_ - the interest coupons hereto attached to be executed. by the facsimile signatures of its 1dayor and its City Clerk, as of the lst day of June, A. D. 1935. Mayor, City of Beau�iont, Texas. Countersigned and Attested City Clerk, City of Beaumont, Texas. Registered. Director of Finance, City of�' Beaumont, Texas. FORM OF COUPON No. $22.50 On the lst day of ; 19__, the City of Beaumont, Texas,- promises to -pay to bearer a -t the office of the Director of Finance of the City of Beaumont, at Beaumont, Texas, or at the Chase National Bank of New York City, New York, at the option of the holder, the sum of TWENTY-TWO .DOLLARS AND FIFTY CET+TTS in lawful money of the United States of America, being six Months? interest due that date on its City of Beaumont Street �lnd 'evver Refunding Bonds Series A, dated June 1, 1935, numbered Attestz Mj yor, City of Baaumon t, Texas. City Clerk, City of Beaumont, Texas. The remaining interest coupons of said bonds shall be in substantially the above form, but those attached to bonds numbered from one (1) to forty-four (44) inclusive shall be for the sum of :22.50, being six months' interest on said bonds, and those attached to bonds numbered from forty-five (45) to one hundred twenty (120) inclusive, shall be in the sum of $21.25, being six months' interest on said bonds. Said coupons shall be payable every six months on the lst day of June and the lst day of December of each year until fully paid. SECOND. FORM OF BOND UNITED STATES OF AMERICA STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY -OF JEFFERSON CITY OF BEAUMON T WHARF & DOCK REFUNDING BOND SERIES A No. 1 $1,000.00 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That the City of Beaumont, in the State of Texas, for value received, acknowledges itself indebted and hereby promises to pay to bearer on the lst day of June, 1936, the sum of ONE THOUSL�ND DOLLARS - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -($1,000.00) in lawful money of the United States of America, with interest thereon from the date hereof at the rate of 42% per annum, interest payable on December 1, 1.935 and semi-annually thereafter on June lst and December lst on each year, principal and interest payable upon presentation and surrender of bond or proper coupon at the office of the Director of Finance of the City of Bo,aumont, at Beaumont, Texas, or at the the Chase National Bank of New York City, New York, at the option of the h�;lder, and said city is hereby held and firmly bound and its full faith and credit and all taxable real and personal prnporty therein are hereby dodged for -the prompt payment of the principal of this bend and the interest thereon as it matures. This bond is one of a series of one hundred (100) bonds of the denomination of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) each, known and called 61harf & Dock Refunding Bonds Scries i_, of like tenor and date except as to maturity, numbered from one (1) to one hundred (100) inclusive, bonds numbered from one (1) to forty-four (4.4) inclusiv e bearing interest at four and one-half percent (42%) per annum, and bonds numbored from forty-five (45) to one hundred (100) inclusive bearing interest at four and cne-quarter percent (4'61,00,000.00), %), per annum, aggregating in amount One Hundred Thousand Dollars 6100, 000.00) , said bonds issued for the purpose of refunding and canceling and in lieu of a like amount of valid outstanding wharf and dock bonds of said city, under and by virtue of the Constitution and lavas of the S.tate of Texas, and the Charter of the City of Beaumont including Articles 717 and 725, Revised Civil Statutes of 1925, and Section 16, sub -section 9, of the Charter of the City of Beaumont, and pursuant to an ordinance passed by the City Commission of the City of Beaumont, which ordinance is of record in the Minutes of said Commission. The date of thi s - bend in -conformity with -the -ordinance above mentioned, is June 1, 1935. And it is hereby certified and recited that the issuance of this bond au. -id the series of 1�,hicb it is a part is duly authorized by law, and that X11 acts, conditions, and things required to be done precedent to anal in the issuance of this bond and of the series of wd chi it is a part have been properly done, have happened and been performed in regular and due time, form and manner as required by law, and that the total indebtedness of said city, including the entire series of bonds of which this is one, does not exceed any constitutional or statutory limitation. IN WITNESS WHEREOF the City Commission of the City of Beaumont, Texas, has caused its corporate seal to be affixed hereto and this bond to be signed by its Mayor, countersigned and attested by its City Clerk, and registered by its Director of Finance, and the interest coupons hereto attached to be executed by the facsimile signatures of its Mayor end its City Clerk, as of the lst day of June, A. D. 1935. Mayor,, City of Beaumont, Texas. Countersigned and attested. City Clerk, City of B eaurion t, Texas. Registered; Director of Finance, City of Beaumont, Texas. FORM OF COUPON No. _ $22.50 On the lst day of 19_, the City of Beaumont, Texas, promises to pay to bearer at the office of the Director of Finance of the City of Beaumont, at Beaumont, Texas, or at the Chase National Bank of New York City, New York, at the option of the holder, the sum of TWENTY-TWO DOLLARS FIFTY CENTS in lawful money of the United States of America, being six months' interest due that date on its City of Beaumont Wharf & Dock Refunding Bonds .Series A, dated June 1, 1935, numbered Attest. City Clerk, City of Beaumont, Texas. .Mayor, City of Beaumont, Texas The remaining interest coupons of said bonds shall be in substantially the above form, but those attached to bonds numbered from one (1) to forty-four (44) inclusive shall be for the sum of $22.50, being six months' inter: st on said bonds, and those attached to bonds numbered from forty-five (45) to one hundred (100) inclusive shall be for the sum of $21.25, being six months' interest on said bonds. Said coupons shall be payable every six months on the lst day of June and the lst day of December of each year until fully paid. THIRD FORM OF BOND UNITED STATES OF dC`ERICfz STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF JEFFERSON CITY OF BEhUjIONT SCHOOL REFUNDING BOND SERIES A No. 1 $1,000000 KN0W ILL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS., That the City of Beaumont, in the State of Texas, for value received, acknovledges itself indebt- ed and hereby promisas to pay to bearer on the lst day of June, 1936, the sum of ONE THOU Ski D DOLLE,RS - - - - - -- - - - - - - - -- - - - - - 01, 000.00) 0 in lawful money of the United States of America, with interest thereon from the date hereof at the rate of 4 o per annum, interest payable on December 1, 1935 and semi-annually thereafter on June lst and December lst of each yoar, principal and interest payable upon presentation and surrender of bond or proper coupon at the office of the Director of Finance of theCity of Beaumont, at Beaumont, Texas, or at the Chase National Bank of New York City, New York, at the option of the holder, and said city is hereby held and firmly bound and its full faith and credit and all taxable real and personal property therein are hereby pledged for the prompt payment of the principal of this bond and the interest thereon as it matures. This bond is one of a series of fifty-five (55) bonds of the denomination of One Thousand .Dollars (IP'1,000.00) each, kno.vn and called School Refunding Bonds Series A, of like tenor and date except as to maturity, numbered from one (1) to fi ft-fi ve' (55) inclusive, bonds numbered from one (1) to twenty-two (22' inclusive bearing interest at four and one-half percent (42/) per annum, and bonds numbered from twenty-three (23 ) to fifty-five (55) inclusive bearing' interest at four and one-quarter percent (4n%),per annum, aggregating in amount Fifty-five Thousand Dollars ($55,000 . 00) , said bonds issued for the purpose of refunding and canceling and in lieu of a like amount of valid outstanding school bonds of said city, under and by virtue of the Constitution and law' of the State of Tetras, and the Charter of the City of Beaumont, including Articles 717 and 725, Revised Civil Statutes of 1925, and Section 16, sub -section 9, of the Charter of the City of Beaumont, and pursuant to an ordinance passed by the City Commission of the City of Beaumont, which ordinance is of record in tyre Minutes of said Commission. The ; ate of this bond in conformity with the ordinance above mentioned, i.s _June 1, 1935. 1935. And it is hereby certified ^nd recited that the issuance of this bond and the series of which it is a part is duly authorized by law, and that all acts, conditions, and things required to be done precedent to and in the issuance of this bond and of the series of which it is a part have been properly done, have happened and been performed in regular and due time, form and manner, as required by law, and that the total indebtedness of the City of B-3,aumont and the Beaumont independent School District, including the entire series of bonds of which this is one, does not exceed any constitutional or statutory limitation. IN WITNESS WHEREOF the City Commission of the City of Beaumont, Texas, has caused its corporate soa.l to be affixed hereto and this bond to be signed by its Mayor, countersigned and attested by its City Clerk, and registered by its Director of Fin -:ince, and the interest coupons hereto attached to be executed by the facsi-mile signatures of its Mayor and its City Clerk, as of the lst day of June, A. D. 1935. Mayor, City of Beaumont, Texas. Countersigned and attested' City Clerk, City of Beaumont, Texas. Registered'. Director of Finance, City of Beaumont, Texas. #90 FOAM OF COUPON !B C., P • f� No. .r ----X220 5U On the lst day of _ lam____, the City of Beaumont, Texas, promises to pay to bearer at the office of the Director of Finance of the City of Beaumont, at Beaumont, Texas, or at the Chase National Bank of New York City, New York, at the option of the holder, the sum of TWENTY-TWO DOLLARS FIFTY CENTS in .lawful money of the United States of America, being six monthsf interest due that date on its City of Beaumont School Refunding Bonds Series A, dated 'June 1, 1935, numbered Attest., City Clerk, City of Beaumont, Texas Mayor, City of Beaumont, Texas. The remaining interest coupons of said bonds shall be in substantially the above foam, but those attached to bonds numbered from one (1) to twenty-two (22.) inclusive shall be for the sum of 4220 50, being six months' interest on said bonds, and those attached to bonds numbered from twenty-three (23) to fifty-five (55) inclusive, shall be in the sum of ! 2 10 25, being six months' interest on said bonds. Said coupons shall be payable every six months on the lst day of June and the lst day of December of each year until fully paid. Section a The following certificate shall be printed on the back of each bond° - OFFI-CE OF -COMPTROLLER THE STATE OF TEXAS I hereby certify that there is on file and of record in my office a. certificate of the Attorney General of the State of Texas, to the effect that this bond has been examined by him as required by law and that he finds that it has been issued in con- formity with the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas, and it is a valid and binding obligation upon said City of Beaumont, Texas, and said bond has this day been registered by me. ti'VITNESS my hand and seal of office at Austin, Texas, this day of , 1935. Comptroller of Public accounts of the State of Texas. Section 5 Be it .further orda.ined that for the purpose of paying the in-tbrest-on said--Street--anal Sewer Refunding Bonds Series A9 as well as the various installments of principal as the same shall respectively mature, there is hereby levied for the year 1935 and for each year thereafter so .long as the same may be necessary to provide for the interest and annual installments of principal of said bonds, on all of the property in the City of Beaumont aubj ect to taxation, an additional tax of 1.025 on each one hundred dollars valuation of all taxable property within the City of Beaumont, or so much thereof or such other .rate of tax as shall be necossary, and the same shall be so annually assessed, collected and applied, and said tax or so much thereof or such other tax as may be necessary is hereby levied for each year hereafter while said bonds or any number thereof are outstanding, and the same shall be annually assessed, collected and applied to the purpose naDedo The taxes heretofore levied for the purpose of paying the bonds being rafunded hereby are ratified, brought forward and consolidated into the levy. #10 It is further ordained that for the pu.cpose of paying the interest on said V:fharf & Dock Refunding Bonds 8ories A, as Well as the various installments of principal as tho same shall respectively mature, there is heroby levied for the year 1935 and for each year thereafter so long as th.e sai-iie may be necess<<.ry to provide for the interest and.. G.nnua.l installments of principal. of said bonds, on all of the property in the City of Beaumont subject to taxation an a.dditional tax of $.02 on each one hundred dollars valuation of all taxable property within the City of Beaumont, or so much thereof or such other rate of tax as shall be necessary., and the same shall be so annually assessed, Collected :and applied, and said tax or so much thereof or such other -tax as may be necessary is hereby levied for each year hereafter while said bonds or any number thereof are outstanding, and the shall be annually assessed, collected and applied to the purpose nTfiet o The taxes heretofore levied for the purpose of paying the bonds being refunded hereby are ratified, brought forward and consolidated into the levy. It is further ordained- that for the purpose of paying the interest on said School Refunding Bonds Series t',, as v°ell as the various installments of principal as the same sh a.11 respectively 1_.ature, there is hereby levied for the year 1935 and for each year thereafter so long as the same may be necossa.ry to provide for. the interest and annual i.nstallm.ents of principal of said bonds, on all of the property in the Beaumont Independant School District subject to taxation, an additional tax of $00125 on each one hundred dollars valuation of all taxable property Zvi thin the Beaumont Independent School District, or so much thereof or such other rate of tax as shall be necessary, and the same shall be so annually assessed, collected and applied, and said tax or so much thereof or such other tax as may be necessary is hereby levied for each year hereafter while said bonds or any number thereof are outstanding, and. the same shall be annually assessed, collected and applied to the purpose named. The taxes here- tofore levied for the purpose of paying said __bonds being refunded - -- - - hereby are rati-fiecl; brougYit forvTrd and consolidated into the levy. Section 6 It is further ordained that the IMayor of said City is hereby authorized to take and have charge of said bonds pending their in- vestigation by the Attorney General and .registration by the Comptroller of Public Accounts, anal is also authorized to deliver the same either all at one time or in installments in exchange for the surrender and cancelation of an equal ai-dount of the h,�.reinbefore described bonds that are being refunded, and in the event such deliveries shall be made in installments, the Mayor is hereby authorized to deliver any of the new bonds in exchange for the surrender and. cence;lation of a like anount of any of the old bonds vvhi ch are being refunded. Section 7 The fact that it will be to the advantage of the financial condition of the City of Beautiiiont to complete the refunding herein provided constitutes an emergency and an imperative public necessity requiring that the rule requiring ordinances to be passed at more than one -meeting be suspenaeci, end. such rule is hereby suspended; an -d- this ordinance shall be in force and effect from and after its passage. Passed by the affirmative vote of all members of the City Commission this the 30th d'ay of 11pril, 1935. il. T, 70-7. l -----_