Avalon, Ca Trustees, Board of. 
 [Miscellaneous publications] 
 
 1919* 
 
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 OF THE 
 
 CORDS and PROCEEDINGS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 BOARD OF TRUSTEES 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CITY OF AVALON 
 
 County of Los Angeles, State of California 
 
 In the matter of creating a Bonded Indebtedness 
 
 for the acquisition, construction and 
 
 completion of combined 
 
 ELECTRIC LIGHT and WATER WORKS 
 
 and for the acquisition, construction and completion of 
 
 GAS WORKS 
 
 by the 
 
 CITY OF AVALON

 
 A CERTIFIED COPY OF THE RECORDS AND 
 PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUS- 
 TEES OF THE CITY OF AVALON, COUNTY 
 OF LOS ANGELES, STATE OF CALIFOR- 
 NIA, IN THE MATTER OF CREATING A 
 BONDED INDEBTEDNESS IN THE FOL- 
 LOWING AMOUNTS AND FOR THE FOL- 
 LOWING PURPOSES, TO-WIT: 
 
 First: Eighty-eight Thousand ($88,000.00) 
 Dollars for the acquisition, construction and 
 completion of combined Electric Light and 
 Water Works, including the acquisition of lands, 
 water rights, rights of way, machinery, pipes, 
 wires, appurtenances, and other property, neces- 
 sary and proper for supplying the City ofAvalon 
 and its inhabitants with light, heat, power and 
 water. 
 
 Second: Fifty-five Thousand ($55,000.00) 
 Dollars for the acquisition, construction and 
 completion of Gas Works by the City of Avalon, 
 including the acquisition of lands, rights of way, 
 machinery, pipes, appurtenances, and other prop- 
 erty necessary and proper for supplying said City 
 and its inhabitants with gas for light, power and 
 heat. 
 
 Said proceedings were under and by virtue 
 of an act of the Legislature of the State of Cali- 
 fornia, entitled "AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE 
 INCURRING OF INDEBTEDNESS BY CITIES, 
 TOWNS, AND MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS 
 FOR MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENTS; AND REG- 
 ULATING THE ACQUISITION, CONSTRUC- 
 TION, OR COMPLETION THEREOF," which 
 became a law February 25th, 1901, together with 
 all Amendments thereto. 
 
 P. V. REEVES, 
 President of the Board. 
 I. L. NEWBERRY, 
 W. H. HEVREN, 
 J. ALBERT, 
 W. J. WALTON, 
 
 Board of Trustees. 
 T. M. POLHAMUS, 
 
 Treasurer of the City of Avalon. 
 F. M. TIDBALL, 
 
 City Clerk of the City of Avalon. 
 FREDERICK BAKER, City Attorney.
 
 STATISTICS. 
 
 The City of Avalon was incorporated June 
 26th, 1913, as a Municipal Corporation of the 
 Sixth Class, under the provisions of an Act of 
 the Legislature of the State of California, ap- 
 proved March 13th, 1883, entitled "An Act to 
 provide for the organization, incorporation and 
 government of municipal corporations," and of 
 the Acts amendatory thereof. 
 
 Population 1919 (estimated) - 1,000 
 
 Assessed valuation as shown by the Assess- 
 ment Roll of 1919-1920, $1,099,965.00. 
 
 Tax rate limited by law to $1.00 on the 
 $100.00 except upon a two-thirds vote of quali- 
 fied electors. 
 
 There is no bonded indebtedness other than 
 that herein set forth. 
 
 There is no litigation pending or threatened 
 affecting City Officers, City Boundaries, or this 
 or any bond issue of said City, or the corporate 
 existence of the City of Avalon.
 
 PROCEEDINGS FOR THE ISSUANCE OF COM- 
 BINED ELECTRIC LIGHT AND WATER 
 WORKS BONDS, AND GAS 
 WORKS BONDS. 
 
 Extracts from the Records of the Board of 
 Trustees of the City of Avalon, California, of 
 April 18th, 1919, 1:30 P. M. 
 
 (Record Book No. 4, Page 73.) 
 
 City Hall, Avalon, Cal., 
 Friday, April 18, 1919, 1:30 P. M. 
 
 The Board of Trustees of the City of Avalon 
 met pursuant to adjournment at the above time 
 and place. 
 
 Roll Call: 
 
 Present Trustees Walton, Hevren, Reyes. 
 
 Absent Trustees Newberry and Albert. 
 
 On motion the Board adjourned to 8:00 
 P. M., Friday, April 18, 1919. 
 
 Extracts from the Records of the Board of 
 
 Trustees of the City of Avalon, Cal., of April 
 18, 1919, 8 P. M. 
 
 (Record Book No. 4, Page 74.) 
 
 City Hall, Avalon, Cal., 
 Friday, April 18, 1919, 8:00 P. M. 
 
 The Board of Trustees of the City of Avalon 
 met pursuant to adjournment in regular ad- 
 journed session at the above time and place. 
 
 Roll Call: 
 
 Present Trustees Newberry, Walton, Hev- 
 ren and Reyes. 
 
 Absent Trustee Albert. 
 
 It was moved that the City Engineer be in- 
 structed to make an estimate of the cost of the 
 following municipal improvements, to-wit: 
 
 First: The acquisition, construction and 
 completion of combined electric light and water 
 works, including the acquisition of lands, water 
 rights, rights of way, machinery, pipes, wires, 
 appurtenances, and other property necessary and 
 proper for supplying the City of Avalon and its 
 inhabitants with light, heat, power and water.
 
 Second: The acquisition, construction and 
 completion of gas works by the City of Avalon 
 including the acquisition of lands, rights of way, 
 machinery, pipes, appurtenances, and other 
 property necessary and proper for supplying 
 said city and its inhabitants with gas, for light, 
 power and heat. 
 
 Carried by the following vote: 
 
 Ayes Trustees Newberry, Walton, Hevren 
 and Reyes. 
 
 Noes None. 
 
 Absent Trustee Albert. 
 
 On motion the Board adjourned to 1:30 
 P. M., Saturday, April 19, 1919. 
 
 Extracts from the Records of the Board of 
 Trustees of the City of Avalon, Cal., of April 
 19, 1919, 1:30 P. M. 
 
 (Record Book No. 4, Page 75.) 
 
 City Hall, Avalon, Cal., 
 Saturday, April 19, 1919, 1:30 P. M. 
 
 Pursuant to adjournment of meeting of the 
 Board of Trustees held Friday, April 18, 1919, 
 8:00 P. M., the Board of Trustees met in regular 
 adjourned session at the above time and place. 
 
 Roll Call: 
 
 Present Trustees Walton, Hevren, Reyes. 
 
 Absent Trustees Newberry and Albert. 
 
 On motion the Board adjourned to 5:30 
 P. M., Saturday, April 19, 1919. 
 
 Extracts from the Records of the Board of 
 Trustees of the City of Avalon, California, of 
 April 19, 1919, 5:30 P. M. 
 
 (Record Book No. 4, Pages 76-77.) 
 
 City Hall, Avalon, Cal., 
 Saturday, April 19, 1919, 5:30 P. M. 
 
 Pursuant to adjournment of meeting of the 
 Board of Trustees held Saturday, April 19, 1919, 
 1:30 P. M., the Board of Trustees met in regular 
 adjourned session at the above time and place. 
 
 Roll Call: 
 
 Present Trustees Newberry, Walton, Hev- 
 ren and Reyes.
 
 Absent Trustee Albert. 
 
 The City Engineer presented the following 
 estimate of cost of Municipal Improvements: 
 
 "Avalon, California, 
 
 April 19, 1919. 
 
 To the Board of Trustees of the City of Avalon, 
 California. 
 
 Gentlemen: 
 
 In pursuance of your instructions to make 
 an estimate of the cost of certain proposed 
 municipal improvements, I hereby estimate the 
 cost of the same to be as follows: 
 
 First: For the acquisition, construction and 
 completion of combined electric light and water 
 works, including the acquisition of lands, water 
 rights, rights of way, machinery, pipes, wires, 
 appurtenances, and other property necessary and 
 proper for supplying the City of Avalon and its 
 inhabitants with light, heat, power and water, 
 I estimate the cost to be the sum of Eighty-eight 
 Thousand ($88,000.00) Dollars. 
 
 Second: For the acquisition, construction 
 and completion of gas works by the City of Ava- 
 lon, including the acquisition of lands, rights of 
 way, machinery, pipes, appurtenances and other 
 property necessary and proper for supplying said 
 City and its inhabitants with gas for light, power 
 and heat, I estimate the cost to be the sum of 
 Fifty-five Thousand ($55,000.00) Dollars. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 A. B. WADDINGHAM, 
 City Engineer of the City of Avalon." 
 
 It was moved that the estimate of the City 
 Engineer be adopted and approved and placed 
 on file. Carried by the following vote: 
 
 Ayes Trustees Newberry, Walton, Hevren 
 and Reyes. 
 
 Noes None. 
 
 Absent Trustee Albert.
 
 Trustee Hevren offered a Resolution en- 
 titled: 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. Ill 
 
 A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF TRUS- 
 TEES OF THE CITY OF AVALON, COUNTY 
 OF LOS ANGELES, STATE OF CALIFOR- 
 NIA, DETERMINING THAT THE PUBLIC 
 INTEREST AND NECESSITY DEMAND 
 THE ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION AND 
 COMPLETION BY SAID CITY OF THE FOL- 
 LOWING MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENTS, 
 TO-WIT: 
 
 FIRST, COMBINED ELECTRIC LIGHT AND 
 WATER WORKS; 
 
 SECOND, GAS WORKS FOR THE PURPOSE 
 OF SUPPLYING SAID CITY AND ITS IN- 
 HABITANTS WITH GAS; THE COST OF 
 WHICH WILL BE TOO GREAT TO BE PAID 
 OUT OF THE ORDINARY ANNUAL IN- 
 COME AND REVENUE OF SAID CITY. 
 
 Said Resolution was then read and on motion 
 said Resolution, being Resolution No. Ill, was 
 adopted by the following vote: 
 
 Ayes Trustees Newberry, Walton, Hevren 
 and Reyes. 
 
 Noes None. 
 
 Absent Trustee Albert. 
 
 Said Resolution No. Ill, as adopted, is as 
 follows: 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. Ill 
 
 A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF TRUS- 
 TEES OF THE CITY OF AVALON, COUNTY 
 OF LOS ANGELES, STATE OF CALIFOR- 
 NIA. DETERMINING THAT THE PUBLIC 
 INTEREST AND NECESSITY DEMAND THE 
 ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION AND COM- 
 PLETION BY SAID CITY OF THE FOLLOW- 
 LOWING MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENTS, 
 TO-WIT: 
 
 FIRST, COMBINED ELECTRIC LIGHT AND 
 WATER WORKS;
 
 SECOND, GAS WORKS FOR THE PURPOSE 
 OF SUPPLYING SAID CITY AND ITS IN- 
 HABITANTS WITH GAS; THE COST OF 
 WHICH WILL BE TOO GREAT TO BE 
 PAID OUT OF THE ORDINARY ANNUAL 
 INCOME AND REVENUE OF SAID CITY. 
 
 Be it resolved and determined by the Board 
 of Trustees of the City of Avalon as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That the public interests and 
 necessity demand the acquisition, construction 
 and completion by said City of Avalon of the 
 following municipal improvements, to-wit: 
 
 First: The acquisition, construction and 
 completion of combined electric light and water 
 works, including the acquisition of lands, water 
 rights, rights of way, machinery, pipes, wires, 
 appurtenances, and other property necessary and 
 proper for supplying the City of Avalon and its 
 inhabitants with light, heat, power and water. 
 
 Second: The acquisition, construction and 
 completion of gas works by the City of Avalon, 
 including the acquisition of lands, rights of way, 
 machinery, pipes, appurtenances, and other 
 property necessary and proper for supplying said 
 City and its inhabitants with gas for light, 
 power and heat. 
 
 And that said improvements and each of 
 them are necessary and convenient to carry out 
 the objects, purposes and powers of said City. 
 
 Section 2. That the estimated cost of said 
 municipal improvements is as follows, to-wit: 
 
 First: For the acquisition, construction and 
 completion of combined electric light and water 
 works, including the acquisition of lands, water 
 rights, rights of way, machinery, pipes, wires, 
 appurtenances and other property necessary and 
 proper for supplying the City of Avalon and its 
 inhabitants with light, heat, power and water, 
 the sum of Eighty-eight Thousand ($88,000.00) 
 Dollars. 
 
 Second: For the acquisition, construction 
 and completion of gas works by the City of Ava- 
 lon, including the acquisition of lands, rights of
 
 way, machinery, pipes, appurtenances and other 
 property necessary and proper for supplying said 
 City and its inhabitants with gas for light, power 
 and heat, the sum of Fifty-five Thousand 
 ($55,000.00) Dollars. 
 
 And that the cost of said municipal improve- 
 ments and each of them is and will be too great 
 to be paid out of the ordinary annual income 
 and revenue of said City. 
 
 Section 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the 
 passage and adoption of this Resolution by a 
 vote of two-thirds of all the members of the 
 Board of Trustees of the City of Avalon, and its 
 approval by the President of said Board, and 
 shall thereupon cause the same to be published 
 once in The Catalina Islander, a weekly news- 
 paper of general circulation, published and cir- 
 culated in said City of Avalon. 
 
 Adopted and approved this 19th day of April, 
 1919. 
 
 (SEAL) 
 
 P. V. REYES, 
 
 President of the Board of Trustees of the City 
 of Avalon, California. 
 
 Attest: F. M. TIDBALL, 
 
 City Clerk of the City of Avalon. 
 
 State of California, } 
 
 County of Los Angeles, |- ss. 
 City of Avalon. \ 
 
 I, F. M. Tidball, City Clerk of the City of 
 Avalon, do hereby certify that the whole num- 
 ber of members of the Board of Trustees of 
 the City of Avalon is five, and that the fore- 
 going Resolution was duly passed and adopted 
 by a vote of two-thirds of its members at a reg- 
 ular meeting thereof held April 19, 1919, and 
 approved by the President of said Board on 
 said date, and that it was passed by the follow- 
 ing vote: 
 
 Ayes Trustees Newberry, Walton, Hevren, 
 Reyes. 
 
 Noes None.
 
 Absent Trustee Albert. 
 (SEAL) 
 
 F. M. TIDBALL, 
 City Clerk of the City of Avalon. 
 
 (A copy of said Resolution No. Ill, attached 
 to the following affidavit of publication, is on 
 file in the office of the City Clerk of the City 
 of Avalon.) 
 
 AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION OF 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. Ill OF THE 
 
 CITY OF AVALON 
 
 State of California, 
 County of Los Angeles, 
 City of Avalon. 
 
 E. Windle of said County and State, being 
 first duly sworn, deposes and says: 
 
 That he is and at all times herein mentioned 
 was a citizen of the United States, over eighteen 
 years of age; that he is and has been ever since 
 January 27th, 1914, the owner and publisher of 
 "The Catalina Islander," a weekly newspaper 
 of general circulation, published and circulated 
 in the City of Avalon, County of Los Angeles, 
 State of California, and that said newspaper 
 now is and has been ever since said January 
 27th, 1914, published for the dissemination of 
 local news and intelligence of a general char- 
 acter, and now has, and has had ever since said 
 date, a bona fide subscription list of paying sub- 
 scribers, and that said newspaper is, and has 
 been ever since said date, established, printed and 
 published at regular intervals, to-wit, on Tuesday 
 of each and every week, in the State of Califor- 
 nia, County of Los Angeles, City of Avalon, 
 and that said newspaper is and has been ever 
 since said January 27th, 1914, a newspaper of 
 general circulation, published and circulated in 
 said City of Avalon, as the same is defined by 
 Section 4460 of the Political Code of the State 
 of California, and is a newspaper in which offi- 
 cial printing may be done for said City, and that 
 Resolution No. Ill, of which the annexed is a 
 printed copy, was published in said newspaper
 
 once, and on the following day, to-wit: April 
 22nd, 1919, and in the regular and entire issue 
 of said newspaper, and not in any supplement. 
 
 E. WINDLE. 
 
 Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st 
 day of August, 1919. 
 
 (SEAL) F. M. TIDBALL, 
 
 City Clerk of the City of Avalon. 
 
 On motion the Board adjourned to Friday, 
 April 25, 1919, 1:30 p. m. 
 
 Extracts from the Records of the Board of 
 Trustees of the City of Avalon, California, of 
 April 25, 1919, 1:30 p. m. (Record Book No. 4, 
 Page 78.) 
 
 City Hall, Avalon, California, 
 Friday, April 25, 1919, 1:30 p. m. 
 
 The Board of Trustees of the City of Avalon 
 met pursuant to adjournment at the above time 
 and place. 
 
 Roll Call: 
 
 Present Trustees Walton, Hevren, Reyes. 
 
 Absent Trustees Newberry and Albert. 
 
 The minutes of meeting held at 1:30 p. m., 
 Friday, April 18, 1919, were read and on motion 
 were approved as read. 
 
 The minutes of meeting held at 8:00 p. m., 
 Friday, April 18, 1919, were read and on mo- 
 tion were approved as read. 
 
 The minutes of meeting held at 1:30 p. m., 
 Saturday, April 19, 1919, were read and on mo- 
 tion were approved as read. 
 
 The minutes of meeting held at 5:30 p. m.. 
 Saturday, April 19, 1919, were read and on 
 motion were approved as read. 
 
 On motion the Board adjourned to 8:00 
 p. m., Friday, April 25, 1919. 
 
 Extracts from the Records of the Board of 
 Trustees of the City of Avalon, California, of 
 
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 April 25, 1919, 8:00 p. m. (Record Book No. 4, 
 Page 79.) 
 
 City Hall, Avalon, California, 
 Friday, April 25, 1919, 8:00 p. m. 
 
 Pursuant to adjournment of meeting of the 
 Board of Trustees held Friday, April 25, 1919, 
 at 1:30 p. m., the Board of Trustees met in regu- 
 lar adjourned session at the above time and 
 place. 
 
 Roll Call: 
 
 Present Trustees Newberry, Walton, Hev- 
 ren and Reyes. 
 
 Absent Trustee Albert. 
 
 On motion an Ordinance entitled "An Ordi- 
 nance calling a special election to be held in the 
 City of Avalon, California, on the 3rd day of 
 June, 1919, and submitting to the qualified 
 voters of said City the proposition of incurring 
 a bonded debt in the following amounts and for 
 the following purposes to-wit: 
 
 First: Eighty-eight Thousand ($88,000.00) 
 Dollars for the acquisition, construction and 
 completion of combined Electric Light and 
 Water Works, including the acquisition of lands, 
 water rights, rights of way, machinery, pipes, 
 wires, appurtenances, and other property neces- 
 sary and proper for supplying the City of Ava- 
 lon and its inhabitants with light, heat, power 
 and water; 
 
 Second: Fifty-five Thousand ($55,000.00) 
 Dollars for the acquisition, construction and 
 completion of Gas Works by the City of Ava- 
 lon, including the acquisition of lands, rights of 
 way, machinery, pipes, appurtenances, and other 
 property necessary and proper for supplying said 
 City and its inhabitants with gas for light, 
 power and heat. 
 
 Providing for the issue of bonds therefor, 
 and for the levy of a tax for the payment of 
 said bonds; designating the election precinct 
 and polling place, and appointing the election 
 officers for said election, was taken up for its 
 first reading. Said Ordinance was then read by 
 the Clerk, and it was moved and carried that 
 
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 the Ordinance be declared read for the first time 
 and laid over until the next meeting. 
 
 On motion the Board adjourned to Friday, 
 May 2, 1919, 1:30 p. m. 
 
 Extracts from the Records of the Board of 
 Trustees of the City of Avalon, California, of 
 May 2, 1919, 1:30 p. m. (Record Book No. 4, 
 Page 81.) 
 
 City Hall, Avalon, California, 
 Friday, May 2, 1919, 1:30 p. m. 
 
 The Board of Trustees of the City of Avalon 
 met pursuant to adjournment at the above time 
 and place. 
 
 Roll Call: 
 
 Present Trustees Walton, Hevren, Reyes. 
 
 Absent Trustees Newberry and Albert. 
 
 The minutes of meeting held at 1:30 p. m., 
 Friday, April 25, 1919, were read and on mo- 
 tion were approved as read. 
 
 On motion the Board adjourned to 8:00 
 p. m., Friday, May 2, 1919. 
 
 Extracts from the Records of the Board of 
 Trustees of the City of Avalon, California, of 
 May 2, 1919, 8:00 p. m. (Record Book No. 4, 
 Page 83.) 
 
 City Hall, Avalon, California, 
 Friday, May 2, 1919, 8:00 p. m. 
 
 Pursuant to adjournment of meeting of the 
 Board of Trustees held Friday, May 2, 1919, at 
 1:30 p. m., the Board of Trustees met in regu- 
 lar adjourned session at the above time and 
 place. 
 
 Roll Call: 
 
 Present Trustees Newberry, Walton, Hev- 
 ren and Reyes. 
 
 Absent Trustee Albert. 
 
 The minutes of meeting held at 8:00 p. m.. 
 Friday, April 25, 1919, were read, and on motion 
 were approved as read. 
 
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 On motion an Ordinance entitled "An Ordi- 
 nance calling a special election to be held in the 
 City of Avalon, California, on the 3rd day of 
 June, 1919, and submitting to the qualified 
 voters of said city the proposition of incurring a 
 bonded debt in the following amounts and for 
 the following purposes, to-wit: 
 
 First: Eighty-eight Thousand ($88,000.00) 
 Dollars for the acquisition, construction and com- 
 pletion of combined electric light and water 
 works, including the acquisition of lands, water 
 rights, rights of way, machinery, pipes, wires, ap- 
 purtenances, and other property necessary and 
 proper for supplying the City of Avalon and its 
 inhabitants with light, heat, power and water; 
 
 Second: Fifty-five Thousand ($55,000.00) 
 Dollars for the acquisition, construction and 
 completion of Gas Works by the City of Avalon, 
 including the acquisition of lands, rights of way, 
 machinery, pipes, appurtenances, and other 
 property necessary and proper for supplying said 
 City and its inhabitants with Gas for light, 
 power and heat. 
 
 Providing for the issue of Bonds therefor, 
 and for the levy of a tax for the payment of 
 said Bonds; designating the election precinct 
 and polling place, and appointing the election 
 officers for said election, was taken up for its 
 second reading. Said Ordinance was then read 
 by the Clerk for the second time and upon mo- 
 tion, duly made and carried, said Ordinance was 
 declared read for the second time, and taken up 
 for its third reading and final passage. Said 
 Ordinance was then read by the Clerk for the 
 third time and, upon motion, was adopted by 
 the following vote: 
 
 Ayes Trustees Newberry, Walton, Hevren, 
 Reyes. 
 
 Noes None. 
 
 Absent Trustee Albert. 
 
 Said Ordinance as adopted being Ordinance 
 No. 86 of the City of Avalon is as follows: 
 
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 ORDINANCE NO. 86 
 
 AN ORDINANCE CALLING A SPECIAL ELEC- 
 TION TO BE HELD IN THE CITY OF 
 AVALON, CALIFORNIA, ON THE 3RD DAY 
 OF JUNE, 1919, AND SUBMITTING TO 
 THE QUALIFIED VOTERS OF SAID CITY 
 THE PROPOSITION OF INCURRING A 
 BONDED DEBT IN THE FOLLOWING 
 AMOUNTS AND FOR THE FOLLOWING 
 PURPOSES, TO-WIT: 
 
 FIRST: EIGHTY-EIGHT THOUSAND ($88,- 
 000.00) DOLLARS FOR THE ACQUISITION, 
 CONSTRUCTION AND COMPLETION OF 
 COMBINED ELECTRIC LIGHT AND 
 WATER WORKS, INCLUDING THE AC- 
 QUISITION OF LANDS, WATER RIGHTS. 
 RIGHTS OF WAY, MACHINERY, PIPES, 
 WIRES, APPURTENANCES, AND OTHER 
 PROPERTY NECESSARY AND PROPER 
 FOR SUPPLYING THE CITY OF AVALON 
 AND ITS INHABITANTS WITH LIGHT, 
 HEAT, POWER AND WATER; 
 
 SECOND: FIFTY-FIVE THOUSAND ($55,- 
 000.00) DOLLARS FOR THE ACQUISI- 
 TION, CONSTRUCTION AND COMPLE- 
 TION OF GAS WORKS BY THE CITY OF 
 AVALON, INCLUDING THE ACQUISITION 
 OF LANDS, RIGHTS OF WAY. MACHIN- 
 ERY, PIPES, APPURTENANCES, AND 
 OTHER PROPERTY NECESSARY AND 
 PROPER FOR SUPPLYING SAID CITY 
 AND ITS INHABITANTS WITH GAS FOR 
 LIGHT, POWER AND HEAT; 
 
 PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUE OF BONDS 
 THEREFOR, AND FOR THE LEVY OF A 
 TAX FOR THE PAYMENT OF SAID 
 BONDS; DESIGNATING THE ELECTION 
 PRECINCT AND POLLING PLACE, AND 
 APPOINTING THE ELECTION OFFICERS 
 FOR SAID ELECTION. 
 
 The Board of Trustees of the City of Avalon 
 do ordain as follows: 
 
 Section 1. Whereas, the Board of Trustees 
 of the City of Avalon, California, at a regular 
 
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 meeting thereof held April 19, 1919, by a vote 
 of two-thirds of all its members, duly passed 
 and adopted a Resolution determining that the 
 public interest and necessity demand the acqui- 
 sition, construction and completion by the said 
 City of Avalon of certain municipal improve- 
 ments, to-wit: 
 
 First: The acquisition, construction and 
 completion of combined electric light and water 
 works, including the acquisition of lands, water 
 rights, rights of way, machinery, pipes, wires, 
 appurtenances, and other property necessary and 
 proper for supplying the City of Avalon and its 
 inhabitants with light, heat, power and water. 
 
 Second: The acquisition, construction and 
 completion of gas works by the City of Avalon, 
 including the acquisition of lands, rights of way, 
 machinery, pipes, appurtenances, and other prop- 
 erty necessary and proper for supplying said 
 City and its inhabitants with gas for light, power 
 and heat; and 
 
 Whereas, said Resolution was approved by 
 the executive of said City, to-wit: the Presi- 
 dent of said Board of Trustees, on said 19th 
 day of April, 1919, at said meeting of said Board 
 of Trustees, and was published on the 22nd day 
 of April, 1919, in The Catalina Islander, a week- 
 ly newspaper of general circulation, published 
 and circulated in said City of Avalon; and 
 
 Whereas, the estimated cost of said munici- 
 pal improvements is as follows, to-wit: 
 
 First: For the acquisition, construction and 
 completion of combined electric light and water 
 works, including the acquisition of lands, water 
 rights, rights of way, machinery, pipes, wires, 
 appurtenances and other property necessary and 
 proper for supplying the City of Avalon and its 
 inhabitants with light, heat, power and water, 
 the sum of Eighty-eight Thousand ($88,000.00) 
 Dollars. 
 
 Second: For the acquisition, construction 
 and completion of gas works by the City of Ava- 
 lon, including the acquisition of lands, rights of 
 way, machinery, pipes, appurtenances and other 
 property necessary and proper for supplying said 
 
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 City and its inhabitants with gas for light, power 
 and heat, the sum of Fifty-five Thousand ($55,- 
 000.00) Dollars; and 
 
 Whereas, such estimated cost of said muni- 
 cipal improvements and each of them is, and 
 will be, too great to be paid out of the ordinary 
 annual income and revenue of said City; 
 
 Section 2. Now, therefore, a special elec- 
 tion is hereby called to be held in the said City 
 of Avalon, California, on the 3rd day of June, 
 1919, for the purpose of submitting to the qual- 
 ified voters of the said City the following propo- 
 sitions set forth in said Resolution: 
 
 First: The proposition of incurring a bond- 
 ed debt of the sum of $88,000.00 for the acqui- 
 sition, construction and completion by said City 
 of Avalon of combined electric light and water 
 works, including the acquisition of lands, water 
 rights, rights of way, machinery, pipes, wires, 
 appurtenances and other property necessary and 
 proper for supplying the City of Avalon and its 
 inhabitants with light, heat, power and water; 
 
 Second: The proposition of incurring a 
 bonded debt of the sum of $55,000.00 for the 
 acquisition, construction and completion of gas 
 works by the said City of Avalon, including the 
 acquisition of lands, rights of way, machinery, 
 pipes, appurtenances and other property neces- 
 sary and proper for supplying the said City of 
 Avalon and its inhabitants with gas for light, 
 power and heat. 
 
 Section 3. That the objects and purposes 
 for which said indebtedness is proposed to be 
 incurred are as follows: 
 
 First: The acquisition, construction and 
 completion of combined electric light and water 
 works, including the acquisition of lands, water 
 rights, rights of way, machinery, pipes, wires, ap- 
 purtenances and other property necessary and 
 proper for supplying the City of Avalon and its 
 inhabitants with light, heat, power and water. 
 That the estimated cost of such proposed public 
 improvement is $88,000.00. That the amount of 
 the principal of the indebtedness to be incurred 
 therefor is the sum of $88,000.00, and that the 
 
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 rate of interest to be paid on said indebtedness 
 is six per cent, per annum. That if the propo- 
 sition of incurring said indebtedness for said pur- 
 pose, so submitted at said election, receives the 
 requisite number of votes, to-wit: the votes of 
 two-thirds of all the voters voting at such special 
 election, bonds of said City to the amount of 
 $88,000.00 shall be issued and sold for said pur- 
 pose. Said bonds shall be One Hundred and 
 Sixty (160) in number and eighty (80) of said 
 bonds shall be issued in the denomination of 
 One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars each, and 
 eighty (80) of said bonds shall be issued in the 
 denomination of One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars 
 each, and the principal and interest thereon shall 
 be payable in lawful money of the United States. 
 They shall be dated June 30th, 1919, and bear 
 interest at the rate of six per cent, per annum, 
 payable semi-annually on the 30th day of Decem- 
 ber and the 30th day of June of each year. And 
 said one hundred and sixty (160) bonds shall 
 be payable in the manner following: 
 
 Two of said bonds of the denomination of 
 $1,000.00, and two of said bonds of the denom- 
 ination of $100.00, shall be paid on the 30th day 
 of June, 1920, and two of said bonds of the de- 
 nomination of $1,000.00, and two of said bonds 
 of the denomination of $100.00, on the same day 
 and date of each and every year thereafter, at 
 the City Treasury of said City of Avalon, to- 
 gether with the interest on all sums unpaid at 
 such date. 
 
 Second: The acquisition, construction and 
 completion of gas works by the City of Avalon, 
 including the acquisition of lands, rights of way, 
 machinery, pipes, appurtenances, and other 
 property necessary and proper for supplying said 
 City and its inhabitants with gas for light, power 
 and heat. That the estimated cost of such pro- 
 posed public improvement is $55,000.00. That 
 the amount of the principal of the indebtedness 
 to be incurred therefor is the sum of $55,000.00, 
 and that the rate of interest to be paid on said 
 indebtedness is six per cent, per annum. That 
 if the proposition of incurring said indebtedness 
 for said purpose, so submitted at said election, 
 receives the requisite number of votes, to-wit: 
 
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 the votes of two-thirds of all the voters voting 
 at such special election, bonds of said City to 
 the amount of $55,000.00 shall be issued and 
 sold for said purpose. Said bonds shall be one 
 hundred sixty (160) in number and forty (40) 
 of said bonds shall be issued in the denomina- 
 tion of One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars each, 
 and eighty (80) of said bonds shall be issued 
 in the denomination of One Hundred ($100.00) 
 Dollars each, and forty (40) of said bonds shall 
 be issued in the denomination of One Hundred 
 Seventy-five ($175.00) Dollars each, and the 
 principal and interest thereof shall be payable in 
 lawful money of the United States. They shall 
 be dated June 30th, 1919, and bear interest at 
 the rate of six per cent, per annum, payable 
 semi-annually on the 30th day of December and 
 the 30th day of June of each year. And said 
 one hundred sixty (160) bonds shall be payable 
 in the manner following: 
 
 One of said bonds of the denomination of 
 $1,000.00, and two of said bonds of the denom- 
 ination of $100.00, and one of said bonds of 
 the denomination of $175.00 shall be paid on 
 the 30th day of June, 1920, and one of said 
 bonds of the denomination of $1,000.00, and two 
 of said bonds of the denomination of $100.00, 
 and one of said bonds of the denomination of 
 $175.00, on the same day and date" of each and 
 every year thereafter, at the City Treasury of 
 said City of Avalon, together with the interest 
 on all sums unpaid at such date. 
 
 Section 4. That for the purpose of pay- 
 ing the principal and interest on such bonds 
 the Board of Trustees of said City shall at the 
 time of fixing the general tax levy, and in the 
 manner for such general tax levy provided, levy 
 and collect annually, each year, until said bonds 
 are paid, or until there shall be a sum in the 
 treasury, of said City set apart for that purpose 
 sufficient to meet all sums coming due for prin- 
 cipal and interest on such bonds, a tax suffi- 
 cient to pay the annual interest on such bonds, 
 and also such part of the principal thereof as 
 shall become due before the time for fixing the 
 next general tax levy. 
 
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 Said tax shall be in addition to all other 
 taxes levied for municipal purposes, and shall 
 be collected at the same time and in the same 
 manner as other municipal taxes are collected, 
 and be used for no other purpose than the pay- 
 ment of said bonds and accruing interest. 
 
 Section 5. The polls for said election must 
 be opened at 6 o'clock a. m. of the day of elec- 
 tion, and must be kept open until 7 o'clock p. m. 
 of the same day, when the polls shall be closed; 
 except and provided, however, that if at the hour 
 of closing there are any other voters in the 
 polling place or in line at the door, who are 
 qualified to vote and have not been able to do 
 so since appearing, the polls shall be kept open 
 a sufficient time to enable them to vote. But no 
 one who shall arrive at the polling place after 7 
 o'clock in the afternoon shall be entitled to vote, 
 although the polls may be open when he arrives. 
 
 The ballots to be used at such election shall 
 be printed substantially in the following form: 
 
 INSTRUCTION TO VOTERS 
 
 To vote on any proposition of incurring a 
 bonded debt for the purpose specified in such 
 proposition, stamp a cross (X) in the voting 
 square after the word "Yes," or after the word 
 "No." All marks except the cross (X) are for- 
 bidden. All distinguishing marks or erasures 
 are forbidden and make the ballot void. 
 
 If you wrongly stamp, tear or deface this 
 ballot, return it to the Inspector of Election and 
 obtain another. 
 
 Shall the City of Avalon incur 
 a bonded debt of $88,000.00 for 
 the acquisition, construction and 
 completion of combined electric 
 light and water works, including 
 the acquisition of lands, water 
 rights, rights of way, machinery, 
 pipes, wires, appurtenances, and 
 other property necessary and 
 proper for supplying the City of 
 Avalon and its inhabitants with 
 light, heat, power and water? 
 
 YES 
 
 NO 
 
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 Shall the City of Avalon incur a 
 bonded debt of $55,000.00 for the 
 acquisition, construction and com- 
 pletion of gas works by the City 
 of Avalon including the acquisi- 
 tion of lands, rights of way, ma- 
 chinery, pipes, appurtenances and 
 other property necessary and 
 proper for supplying said City and 
 its inhabitants with gas for light, 
 power and heat? 
 
 YES 
 
 NO 
 
 The voter at such election shall mark his bal- 
 lot by stamping in the appropriate voting square 
 a cross (X) opposite the answers he desires to 
 give as to such propositions. Such cross shall 
 be made only with a stamp. 
 
 Section 6. That for the holding of such 
 election, said City of Avalon shall be and is 
 hereby consolidated into one municipal election 
 precinct, the boundaries of which said precinct 
 shall be and are hereby fixed as the exterior 
 boundaries of the City of Avalon and the polling 
 place shall be and is hereby located at the City 
 Hall on the Westerly side of Metropole Avenue 
 between Beacon Street and Crescent Avenue in 
 said City of Avalon, and the Board of Election 
 for such special election is hereby appointed as 
 follows: 
 
 Inspectors: 
 
 Joseph H. Stamford 
 
 Mrs. Marguerite Fisher 
 Judges: 
 
 William H. Gill 
 
 Mrs. Leta L. Danielson 
 Clerks: 
 
 Miss Ruth Moricich 
 
 Mrs. Laura C. Goulding 
 
 And the above named persons are hereby 
 appointed to such offices respectively, and their 
 compensation shall be $5.00 each for all ser- 
 vices. 
 
 Section 7. That in all particulars not recited 
 in this Ordinance, such election shall be held 
 
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 as provided by law for holding municipal elec- 
 tions in said City. 
 
 Section 8. The City Clerk shall certify to 
 the passage and adoption of this Ordinance by 
 a vote of two-thirds of all the members of the 
 Board of Trustees of said City, and its approval 
 by the President of said Board, and shall cause 
 said Ordinance to be published once a week for 
 two weeks in The Catalina Islander, a weekly 
 newspaper of general circulation, published less 
 than six days a week in said City of Avalon, 
 and thereupon and thereafter it shall take ef- 
 fect and be in full force. 
 
 Adopted and approved this 2nd day of May, 
 1919. 
 
 (SEAL) 
 
 P. V. REYES, 
 President of the Board of Trustees of the City 
 
 of Avalon, California. 
 
 Attest: F. M. TIDBALL, 
 
 City Clerk of the City of Avalon. 
 
 State of California, 
 County of Los Angeles, 
 City of Avalon. 
 
 I, F. M. Tidball, City Clerk of the City of 
 Avalon, do hereby certify that the whole num- 
 ber of members of the Board of Trustees of the 
 City of Avalon is five, and that the foregoing 
 Ordinance was passed and adopted by a vote 
 of two-thirds of all its members and approved 
 by the President of said Board at a regular meet- 
 ing thereof held on the 2nd day of May, 1919, 
 and that the same was passed by the following 
 vote, to-wit: 
 
 Ayes Trustees Newberry, Walton, Hevren, 
 Reyes. 
 
 Noes None. 
 
 Absent Trustee Albert. 
 
 In witness whereof I have hereunto set my 
 hand and affixed the seal of the City of Avalon, 
 California, this 2nd day of May, 1919. 
 
 (SEAL) F. M. TIDBALL, 
 
 City Clerk of the City of Avalon. 
 
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 (A copy of said Ordinance No. 86 attached 
 to the following affidavit of publication is on 
 file in the office of the City Clerk of the City 
 of Avalon.) 
 
 AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION OF ORDI- 
 NANCE NO. 86 OF THE CITY 
 OF AVALON 
 
 State of California, \ 
 
 County of Los Angeles, [- ss. 
 City of Avalon. ) 
 
 E. Windle of said County and State, being 
 first duly sworn, deposes and says: 
 
 That he is and at all times herein mentioned 
 was a citizen of the United States, over eighteen 
 years of age; that he is and has been ever since 
 January 27th, 1914, the owner and publisher 
 of "The Catalina Islander," a weekly newspaper 
 of general circulation, published and circulated 
 in the City of Avalon, County of Los Angeles, 
 State of California, and that said newspaper 
 now is and has been ever since said January 
 27th, 1914, published for the dissemination of 
 local news and intelligence of a general char- 
 acter, and now has, and has had ever since said 
 date, a bona fide subscription list of paying sub- 
 scribers, and that said newspaper is, and has 
 been ever since said date, established, printed 
 and published at regular intervals, to-wit, on 
 Tuesday of each and every week, in the State 
 of California, County of Los Angeles, City of 
 Avalon, and that said newspaper is and has been 
 ever since said January 27th, 1914, a newspaper 
 of general circulation, published and circulated 
 in said City of Avalon, as the same is defined 
 by Section 4460 of the Political Code of the 
 State of California, and is a newspaper in which 
 official printing may be done for said City, and 
 that Ordinance No. 86 of the City of Avalon, of 
 which the annexed is a printed copy, was pub- 
 lished in said newspaper two times, and on the 
 following days, to-wit. May 6th and May 13th. 
 1919, and in the regular and entire issue of said 
 newspaper, and not in any supplement. 
 
 E. WINDLE, 
 
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 Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day 
 of August, 1919. 
 
 (SEAL) F. M. TIDBALL, 
 
 City Clerk of the City of Avalon. 
 
 On motion the Board adjourned to Friday, 
 May 9, 1919, 1:30 p. m. 
 
 Extracts from the Records of the Board 
 of Trustees of the City of Avalon, California, 
 May 9, 1919, 1:30 p. m. (Record Book No. 4, 
 Page 84.) 
 
 City Hall, Avalon, California, 
 Friday, May 9, 1919, 1:30 p. m. 
 
 The Board of Trustees of the City of Avalon 
 met pursuant to adjournment at the above time 
 and place. 
 
 Roll Call: 
 
 Present Trustees Newberry, Walton, Al- 
 bert, Hevren, Reyes. 
 
 The minutes of meeting held at 1:30 p. m., 
 Friday, May 2, 1919, were read and on motion 
 were approved as read. 
 
 The minutes of meeting held at 8:00 p. m., 
 Friday, May 2, 1919, were read and on motion 
 were approved as read. 
 
 Extracts from the Records of the Board of 
 Trustees of the City of Avalon, California, June 
 6th, 1919, 1:30 p. m. (Record Book No. 4, 
 Page 94.) 
 
 City Hall, Avalon, California, 
 Friday, June 6, 1919, 1:30 p. m. 
 
 The Board of Trustees of the City of Avalon 
 met pursuant to adjournment at the above time 
 and place. 
 
 Roll Call: 
 
 Present Trustees Walton, Hevren, Reyes. 
 
 Absent- Trustees Newberry and Albert. 
 
 On motion the Board adjourned to Friday, 
 June 6, 1919, 8:00 p. m. 
 
 Extracts from the Records of the Board of 
 Trustees of the City of Avalon, California, June 
 
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 6, 1919, 8:00 p. m. (Record Book No. 4, pages 
 95, 96.) 
 
 City Hall, Avalon, California, 
 Friday, June 6, 1919, 8:00 p. m. 
 
 Pursuant to adjournment of meeting of the 
 Board of Trustees held Friday, June 6, 1919, at 
 1:30 p. m., the Board of Trustees met in regular 
 adjourned session at the above time and place. 
 
 Roll Call: 
 
 Present Trustees Newberry, Walton, Hev- 
 ren, Reyes. 
 
 Absent Trustee Albert. 
 
 The minutes of meeting held at 1:30 p. m., 
 Friday, June 6, 1919, were read, and on motion 
 were approved as read. 
 
 It was moved that the Board of Trustees 
 now proceed to canvass the votes of the special 
 election held June 3, 1919, in pursuance to Ordi- 
 nance No. 86 of the City of Avalon, and that 
 tellers be appointed to canvass the said votes. 
 Carried. 
 
 Trustees Hevren and Newberry were ap- 
 pointed tellers and they proceeded to canvass the 
 said election returns. After canvassing said elec- 
 tion returns Trustee Hevren reported that the 
 tellers found the vote to be as follows, to- wit: 
 
 Shall the City of Avalon incur a bonded debt 
 of $88,000.00 for the acquisition, construction 
 and completion of combined electric light and 
 water works, including the acquisition of lands, 
 water rights, rights of way, machinery, pipes, 
 wires, appurtenances, and other property neces- 
 sary and proper for supplying the City of Ava- 
 lon and its inhabitants with light, heat, power 
 and water? 
 
 Total vote cast 141 votes 
 
 "Yes" 123 
 
 "No" 18 
 
 and shall the City of Avalon incur a bonded 
 debt of $55,000.00 for the acquisition, construc- 
 tion and completion of gas works by the City 
 of Avalon including the acquisition of lands, 
 rights of way, machinery, pipes, appurtenances 
 
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 and other property necessary and proper for 
 supplying said City and its inhabitants with gas 
 for light, power and heat? 
 
 Total vote cast 143 votes 
 
 "Yes" 132 
 
 "No" 11 
 
 and offered that certain Resolution entitled "A 
 Resolution declaring the result of the vote at 
 the special election held by the City of Avalon, 
 June 3, 1919." Said Resolution was then read, 
 and on motion said Resolution, being Resolu- 
 tion No. 115, was adopted by the following 
 vote: 
 
 Ayes Trustees Newberry, Walton, Hevren, 
 Reyes. 
 
 Noes None. 
 
 Absent Trustee Albert. 
 
 Said Resolution, No. 115, as adopted, is as 
 follows: 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. 115 
 
 A RESOLUTION DECLARING THE RESULT 
 OF THE VOTE AT THE SPECIAL ELEC- 
 TION HELD BY THE CITY OF AVALON, 
 JUNE 3, 1919. 
 
 RESOLVED, By the Board of Trustees of the 
 City of Avalon that: 
 
 WHEREAS, at the special election held in 
 the City of Avalon, County of Los Angeles, State 
 of California, on the 3rd day of June, 1919, the 
 proposition of incurring a bonded debt of 
 Eighty-Eight Thousand ($88,000.00) Dollars for 
 the acquisition, construction and completion of 
 combined electric light and water works, in- 
 cluding the acquisition of lands, water rights, 
 rights of way, machinery, pipes, wires, appur- 
 tenances, and other property necessary and prop- 
 er for supplying the City of Avalon and its in- 
 habitants with light, heat, power and water, re- 
 ceived 123 votes in favor of such proposition 
 and 18 votes against the same, and 
 
 WHEREAS, at such special election 132 
 votes were cast for and 11 votes against the 
 proposition of incurring a bonded debt of Fifty- 
 
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 five Thousand ($55,000.00) Dollars for the ac- 
 quisition, construction and completion of gas 
 works by the City of Avalon, including the ac- 
 quisition of lands, rights of way, machinery, 
 pipes, appurtenances and other property neces- 
 sary and proper for supplying said City and its 
 inhabitants with gas for light, power and heat, 
 and, 
 
 WHEREAS, the number of votes in favor of 
 incurring such indebtedness for both of said 
 propositions was more than two-thirds of the 
 votes of all the voters voting at such special 
 election; 
 
 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, 
 that the proposition of the City of Avalon in- 
 curring a bonded debt of Eighty-eight Thou- 
 sand ($88,000.00) Dollars for the acquisition, 
 construction and completion of combined elec- 
 tric light and water works, including the ac- 
 quisition of lands, water rights, rights of way, 
 machinery, pipes, wires, appurtenances, and 
 other property necessary and proper for supply- 
 ing the City of Avalon and its inhabitants with 
 light, heat, power and water, was duly accepted 
 and adopted by the votes of more than two- 
 thirds of all the voters voting at such special 
 election and that such proposition has carried 
 ahd was duly accepted by the qualified voters 
 of this municipality and that the City of Avalon 
 is duly authorized to issue bonds in the sum of 
 $88,000.00 for said purpose, and 
 
 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the 
 proposition of the City of Avalon incurring a 
 bonded debt of Fifty-five Thousand ($55,000.00) 
 Dollars for the acquisition, construction and com- 
 pletion of gas works by the City of Avalon, in- 
 cluding the acquisition of lands, rights of way, 
 machinery, pipes, appurtenances and other prop- 
 erty necessary and proper for supplying said 
 City arid its inhabitants with gas for light, 
 power and heat, was duly accepted and adopted 
 by the votes of more than two-thirds of all the 
 voters voting at such special election and that 
 the said proposition has carried and was duly 
 accepted by the qualified voters of this munici- 
 pality ahd that the City of Avalon is duly au- 
 
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 thorized to issue bonds in the sum of $55,000.00 
 for said purpose. 
 
 Adopted and approved this 6th day of June, 
 1919. 
 
 P. V. REYES, 
 
 President of the Board of Trustees of the City 
 of Avalon. 
 
 (SEAL) 
 Attest: 
 
 F. M. TIDBALL, 
 City Clerk of the City of Avalon. 
 
 State of California, 
 County of Los Angeles, 
 City of Avalon. 
 
 I, F. M. Tidball, City Clerk of the City of 
 Avalon, do hereby certify that the foregoing 
 Resolution was duly adopted by the Board of 
 Trustees of the City of Avalon, State of Cali- 
 fornia, and sighed by the President of said 
 Board, at a regular meeting thereof, held June 
 6, 1919, and that the same was adopted by the 
 following vote: 
 
 Ayes Trustees Newberry, Walton, Hevren, 
 Reyes. 
 
 Noes None. 
 
 Absent -Trustee Albert. 
 
 F. M. TIDBALL, 
 
 City Clerk of the City of Avalon. 
 (SEAL) 
 
 On nibtion the Board adjourned to Friday, 
 June 13, 1919, 1:30 p. m. 
 
 Extracts from the Records of the Board of 
 Trustees of the City of Avalon, California, Jiine 
 13, 1919, 1:30 p. m. (Record Book No. 4, 
 page 98.) 
 
 City Hall, Avalon, California. 
 Friday, June 13, 1919, 1:30 p. m. 
 
 The Board of Trustees of the City of Avalon 
 met pursuant to adjournment at the above time 
 and place. 
 
 Roll Call: 
 
 Present Trustees Walton, Albert, Reyea.
 
 Absent Trustees Newberry and Hevren. 
 On motion the Board adjourned to Saturday, 
 June 14, 1919, 8:00 p. m. 
 
 Extracts from the Records of the Board of 
 Trustees of the City of Avalon, California, June 
 14, 1919, 8:00 p. m. (Record Book No. 4, 
 page 99.) 
 
 City Hall, Avalon, California, 
 Saturday, June 14, 1919, 8:00 p. m. 
 
 Pursuant to adjournment of meeting of the 
 Board of Trustees held Friday, June 13, 1919, 
 at 1:30 p. m., the Board of Trustees met in reg- 
 ular adjourned session at the above time and 
 place. 
 
 Roll Call: 
 
 Present Trustees Newberry, Walton, Reyes. 
 
 Absent Trustees Albert and Hevren. 
 
 The minutes of meeting held at 8:00 p. m., 
 Friday, June 6, 1919, were read, and on motion 
 were approved as read. 
 
 The minutes of meeting held at 1:30 p. m. 
 Friday, June 13, 1919, were read, and on mo- 
 tion were approved as read. 
 
 On motion the Board adjourned to Friday, 
 June 20, 1919, 1:30 p. m. 
 
 Extracts from the Records of the Board of 
 Trustees of the City of Avalon, California, June 
 20, 1919, 1:30 p. m. (Record Book No. 4, page 
 101.) 
 
 City Hall, Avalon, California, 
 Friday, June 20, 1919, 1:30 p. m. 
 
 The Board of Trustees of the City of Ava- 
 lon met pursuant to adjournment at the above 
 time and place. 
 
 Roll Call: 
 
 Present Trustees Walton, Hevren, Reyes. 
 
 Absent Trustees Newberry and Albert. 
 
 On motion the Board adjourned to Friday, 
 June 20, 1919, 8:00 p. m. 
 
 Extracts from the Records of the Board of 
 Trustees of the City of Avalon, California, June 
 
 28
 
 20, 1919, 8:00 p. m. (Record Book No. 4, 
 pages 102, 103, 104.) 
 
 City Hall, Avalon, California, 
 Friday, June 20, 1919, S:00 p. m. 
 
 Pursuant to adjournment of meeting of the 
 Board of Trustees held Friday, June 20, 1919, 
 at 1:30 p. m., the Board of Trustees met in 
 regular adjourned session at the above time and 
 place. 
 
 Roll Call: 
 
 Present Trustees Newberry, Walton, Hev- 
 ren and Reyes. 
 
 Absent Trustee Albert. 
 
 The minutes of meeting held at 8:00 p. m, 
 Saturday, June 14, 1919, were read, and on 
 motion were approved as read. 
 
 The minutes of meeting held at 1:30 p. m., 
 Friday, June 20, 1919, were read, and on mo- 
 tion were approved as read. 
 
 It was moved and carried thajt an Ordi- 
 nance entitled "An Ordinance providing for the 
 issuing of Bonds of the City of Avalon, Cali- 
 fornia, as follows: 
 
 First: In the sum of Eighty-eight Thousand 
 ($88,000.00) Dollars for the acquisition, con- 
 struction and completion of combined Electric 
 Light and Water Works, including the acquisi- 
 tion of lands, water rights, rights of way, ma- 
 chinery, pipes, wires, appurtenances, and other 
 property necessary and proper for supplying the 
 City of Avalon and its inhabitants with light, 
 heat, power and water; 
 
 Second: In the sum of Fifty-five Thousand 
 ($55,000,00) Dollars for the acquisition, con- 
 struction and completion of Gas Works by the 
 City of Avalon, including the acquisition of lands, 
 rights of way, machinery, pipes, appurtenances, 
 and other property necessary and proper for 
 supplying said City and its inhabitants with gas 
 for light, power and heat," be taken up for its 
 first reading. Said Ordinance was then read by 
 the Clerk, and it was moved that the Ordinance 
 IDC declared read for the first time and laid over 
 until the next meeting. Carried.
 
 On motion the Board adjourned to Friday, 
 June 27, 1919, 1:30 p. m. 
 
 Extracts from the Records of the Board of 
 Trustees of the City of Avalon, California, June 
 
 27, 1919, 1:30 p. m. (Record Book No. 4, 
 page 105.) 
 
 City Hall, Avalon, California, 
 Friday, June 27, 1919, 1:30 p. m. 
 
 The Board of Trustees of the City of Avalon 
 met pursuant to adjournment at the above time 
 and place. 
 
 Roll Call: 
 
 Present Trustees Newberry, Walton, Reyes. 
 
 Absent- Trustees Albert and Hevren. 
 
 On motion the Board adjourned to Saturday, 
 June 28, 1919, 8:00 p. m. 
 
 Extracts from the Records of the Board of 
 Trustees of the City of Avalon, California, June 
 
 28, 1919, 8:00 p. m. (Record Book No. 4, 
 page 106.) 
 
 City Hall, Avalon, California, 
 Saturday, June 28, 1919, 8:00 p. m. 
 
 Pursuant to adjournment of meeting of the 
 Board of Trustees held Friday, June 27, 1919, 
 at 1:30 p. m., the Board of Trustees met in reg- 
 ular adjourned session at the above time and 
 place. 
 
 Roll Call: 
 
 Present Trustees Newberry, Walton, Hev- 
 ren and Reyes. 
 
 Absent Trustee Albert. 
 
 The minutes of meeting held at 8:00 p. m., 
 Friday, June 20, 1919, were read and on motion 
 were approved as read. 
 
 The minutes of meeting held at 1:30 p. m., 
 Friday, June 27, 1919, were read and on motion 
 were approved as read. 
 
 On motion the Board adjourned to Thursday, 
 July 3, 1919, 8:00 p. m. 
 
 Extracts from the Records of the Board of 
 Trustees of the City of Avalon, California, July 
 
 30
 
 3, 1919, 8:00 p. m. (Record Book No. 4, 
 page 109.) 
 
 City Hall, Avalon, California, 
 Thursday, July 3, 1919, 8:00 p. m. 
 
 The Board of Trustees of the City of Avalon 
 met pursuant to adjournment at the above time 
 and place. 
 
 Roll Call: 
 
 Present Trustees Walton, Hevren, Reyes. 
 
 Absent Trustees Newberry and Albert. 
 
 The minutes of meeting held at 8:00 p. m., 
 Saturday, June 28, 1919, were read, and on mo- 
 tion were approved as read. 
 
 On motion the Board adjourned to Friday, 
 July 11, 1919, 1:30 p. m. 
 
 Extracts from the Records of the Board of 
 Trustees of the City of Avalon, California, July 
 
 11, 1919, 1:30 p. m. (Record Book No. 4, 
 page 111.) 
 
 City Hall, Avalon, California, 
 Friday, July 11, 1919, 1:30 p. m. 
 
 The Board of Trustees of the City of Avalon 
 met pursuant to adjournment at the above time 
 and place. 
 
 Roll Call: 
 
 Present Trustees Hevren and Reyes. 
 
 Absent Trustees Newberry, Walton, Albert. 
 
 There not being a quorum present, no meet- 
 ing was held. 
 
 It was moved, seconded and carried to ad- 
 journ to Saturday, July 12, 1919, at 8:00 p. m. 
 
 Extracts from the Records of the Board of 
 Trustees of the City of Avalon, California, July 
 
 12, 1919, at 8:00 p. m. (Record Book No. 4, 
 pages 112, 113.) 
 
 City Hall, Avalon, California, 
 Saturday, July 12, 1919, 8:00 p. m. 
 
 Pursuant to adjournment of meeting of the 
 Board of Trustees held Friday, July 11, 1919, at 
 1:30 p. m., the Board of Trustees met in regu- 
 
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 lar adjourned session at the above time and 
 place. 
 
 Roll Call: 
 
 Present Trustees Walton, Hevren, Reyes. 
 
 Absent Trustees Newberry and Albert. 
 
 The minutes of meeting held at 8:00 p. m., 
 Thursday, July 3, 1919, were read, and on mo- 
 tion were approved as read. 
 
 The minutes of meeting held at 1:30 p. m. r 
 Friday, July 11, 1919, were read, and on motion 
 were approved as read. 
 
 It was moved and carried that an Ordinance 
 entitled "An Ordinance providing for the issuing 
 of Bonds of the City of Avalon, California, as 
 follows: 
 
 First: In the sum of Eighty-eight Thousand 
 ($88,000.00) Dollars for the acquisition, con- 
 struction and completion of combined Electric 
 Light and Water Works, including the acqui- 
 sition of lands, water rights, rights of way, ma- 
 chinery, pipes, wires, appurtenances, and other 
 property necessary and proper for supplying the 
 City of Avalon and its inhabitants with light, 
 heat, power and water; 
 
 Second: In the sum of Fifty-five Thousand 
 ($55,000.00) Dollars for the acquisition, con- 
 struction and completion of Gas Works by the 
 City of Avalon, including the acquisition of 
 lands, rights of way, machinery, pipes, appur- 
 tenances, and other property necessary and 
 proper for supplying said City and its inhabitants 
 with gas for light, power and heat," be taken 
 up for its second reading. Said Ordinance was 
 read by the Clerk for the second time, and upon 
 motion duly made and carried, said Ordinance 
 was declared read for the second time, and taken 
 up for its third reading and final passage. Said 
 Ordinance was then read by the Clerk for the 
 third time and, upon motion, was adopted by 
 the following vote: 
 
 Ayes Trustees Newberry, Walton, Hevren, 
 Reyes. 
 
 Noes None. 
 Absent Trustee Albert. 
 
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 Said Ordinance as adopted, being Ordinance 
 INTO. 90 of the City of Avalon. 
 
 (Said Ordinance No. 90, as adopted, is as 
 follows: ) 
 
 ORDINANCE NO. 90 
 
 AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE IS- 
 SUING OF BONDS OF THE CITY OF 
 AVALON, CALIFORNIA, AS FOLLOWS: 
 
 FIRST, IN THE SUM OF EIGHTY-EIGHT 
 THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR THE ACQUISI- 
 TION, CONSTRUCTION AND COMPLETION 
 OF COMBINED ELECTRIC LIGHT AND 
 WATER WORKS, INCLUDING THE AC- 
 QUISITION OF LANDS, WATER RIGHTS, 
 RIGHTS OF WAY, MACHINERY, PIPES, 
 WIRES, APPURTENANCES, AND OTHER 
 PROPERTY NECESSARY AND PROPER 
 FOR SUPPLYING THE CITY OF AVALON 
 AND ITS INHABITANTS WITH LIGHT, 
 HEAT, POWER AND WATER. 
 
 SECOND, IN THE SUM OF FIFTY-FIVE THOU- 
 AND DOLLARS FOR THE ACQUISITION, 
 CONSTRUCTION AND COMPLETION OF 
 GAS WORKS BY THE CITY OF AVALON, 
 INCLUDING THE ACQUISITION OF LANDS, 
 RIGHTS OF WAY, MACHINERY, PIPES, 
 APPURTENANCES, AND OTHER PROP- 
 ERTY NECESSARY AND PROPER FOR 
 SUPPLYING SAID CITY AND ITS INHAB- 
 ITANTS WITH GAS FOR LIGHT, POWER 
 AND HEAT. 
 WHEREAS, the Board of Trustees of the 
 
 City of Avalon, California, at a regular meeting 
 thereof, held on the nineteenth day of April, 
 1919, by vote of two-thirds of all its members, 
 'duly passed and adopted a resolution deter- 
 mining that the public interest and necessity 
 demanded the acquisition, construction and com- 
 pletion by said City of Avalon of the following 
 municipal improvements, to-wit: 
 
 First: The acquisition, construction and 
 completion of combined electric light and water 
 works, including the acquisition of lands, water 
 rights, rights of way, machinery, pipes, wires. 
 
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 appurtenances, and other property necessary and 
 proper for supplying the City of Avalon and its 
 inhabitants with light, heat, power and water. 
 
 Second. The acquisition, construction and 
 completion of gas works by the City of Avalon, 
 including the acquisition of lands, rights of way, 
 machinery, pipes, appurtenances, and other prop- 
 erty necessary and proper for supplying said 
 City and its inhabitants with gas for light, 
 power and heat; and that the estimated cos^ 
 of the first of said municipal improvements 
 above stated was Eighty-eight Thousand Dollars, 
 and that the estimated cost of the second of 
 said municipal improvements above stated was 
 Fifty-five Thousand Dollars, and that said esti- 
 mated cost of said municipal improvements, and 
 each of them, was, and will be too great to be 
 paid out of the ordinary annual income and rev- 
 enue of said city; and 
 
 WHEREAS, said resolution was approved 
 by the executive of said city, to-wit: the Pres- 
 ident of said Board of Trustees, on said 19th 
 day of April, 1919, at the said meeting of said 
 Board of Trustees, and was duly published on 
 the 22nd day of April, 1919, in The Catalina 
 Islander, a weekly newspaper of general circu- 
 lation published and circulated in said City of 
 Avalon; and 
 
 WHEREAS, the Board of Trustees of said 
 City of Avalon, at a regular meeting thereof held 
 on the 2nd day of May, 1919, by a vote of two- 
 thirds of all its members, duly passed and adopt- 
 ed an Ordinance calling a special election and 
 submitting to the qualified voters of said City 
 the following propositions set forth in said Res- 
 olution: 
 
 First: The proposition of incurring a bond- 
 ed debt of the sum of $88,000.00 for the acqui- 
 sition, construction and completion by said City 
 of Avalon of combined electric light and water 
 works, including the acquisition of lands, water 
 rights, rights of way, machinery, pipes, wires, 
 appurtenances and other property necessary and 
 proper for supplying the City of Avalon and its 
 inhabitants with light, heat, power and water; 
 
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 Second: The proposition of incurring a 
 bonded debt of the sum of $55,000.00 for the ac- 
 quisition, construction and completion of gas 
 works by the said City of Avalon, including the 
 acquisition of lands, rights of way, machinery, 
 pipes, appurtenances and other property neces- 
 sary and proper for supplying the said City of 
 Avalon and its inhabitants with gas for light, 
 power and heat, and said Ordinance was ap- 
 proved by the Executive of said City, to-wit: the 
 President of the Board of Trustees, on said 2nd 
 day of May, 1919, and said Ordinance was there- 
 upon duly published once a week for two weeks 
 in The Catalina Islander, a weekly newspaper of 
 general circulation, published less than six days 
 a week, in said City of Avalon; and 
 
 WHEREAS, such special election was duly 
 held on the 3rd day of June, 1919, as provided 
 by said Ordinance calling the same, and by law 
 for holding municipal elections in said City; and 
 each of said propositions of incurring such 
 bonded indebtedness herein above set forth, re- 
 ceived the votes of more than two-thirds of all 
 the voters voting at such special election; and 
 
 WHEREAS, all and singular the provisions 
 of the Act of the Legislature of the State of Cali- 
 fornia entitled: "An act authorizing the incur- 
 ring of indebtedness by cities, towns and munici- 
 pal corporations for municipal improvements, 
 and regulating the acquisition, construction, or 
 completion thereof," which became a law Feb- 
 ruary 25th, 1901, together with all amendments 
 thereto, and the Law and Ordinances of said City 
 have been fully complied with so as to authorize 
 the issue of said bonds: 
 
 NOW, THEREFORE, the Board of Trustees 
 of the City of Avalon do ordain as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That bonds of the said City of 
 Avalon in the sum of Eighty-eight Thousand Dol- 
 lars be issued in accordance with the provisions 
 of the Act of the Legislature of the State of 
 California, entitled: "An act authorizing the 
 incurring of indebtedness by cities, towns, and 
 municipal corporations for municipal improve- 
 ments, and regulating the acquisition, construc- 
 tion, or completion thereof," which became a law 
 
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 February 25th, 1901, together with aO amend- 
 ments thereto, and with the Ordinances of said 
 City; that said bonds shall be one hundred and 
 sixty (160) in number and eighty (80) of said 
 bonds shall be issued in the denomination of 
 One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars each, and 
 eighty (80) of said bonds shall be issued in the 
 denomination of One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars, 
 each, and the principal and interest thereon 
 shall be payable in lawful money of the United 
 States. They shall be dated June 30th, 1919,. 
 and bear interest at the rate of six per cent per 
 annum, payable semi-annually on the 30th day 
 of December and the 30th day of June of each 
 year. And said one hundred and sixty (160) 
 bonds shall be payable in the manner following: 
 
 Two of said bonds of the denomination of 
 $1,000.00, and two of said bonds of the denomi- 
 nation of $100.00, shall be paid on the 30th day 
 of June, 1920, and two of said bonds of the de- 
 nomination of $1,000.00, and two of said bonds 
 of the denomination of $100.00, on the same 
 day and date of each and every year thereafter, 
 at the City Treasury of said City of Avalon, to- 
 gether with the interest on all sums unpaid at 
 such date. 
 
 Said bonds shall be substantially in the fol- 
 lowing form, to- wit: 
 
 No 
 
 United States of America 
 State of California 
 
 City of Avalon 
 Combined Electric Light and Water Works Bond 
 
 Avalon, California, June 30, 1919. 
 On the 30th day of June, A. D. (year of ma- 
 turity), the City of Avalon will pay to the bearer 
 at the office of the City Treasurer of the City 
 of Avalon, in the County of Los Angeles, State 
 
 of California, the sum of 
 
 Dollars, with interest at the rate of six per cent 
 per annum, payable semi-annually on the 30th 
 day of December, and the 30th day of June of 
 each year, as specified in the interest coupons 
 hereto attached, at the office of the City Treas- 
 
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 urer upon the presentation and surrender ot said 
 interest coupons. Principal and interest pay- 
 able in lawful money of the United States. 
 
 This bond is issued in pursuance of the pro- 
 visions of an Act of the Legislature of the State 
 of California entitled: "An act authorizing the 
 incurring of indebtedness by cities, towns, and 
 municipal corporations for municipal improve- 
 ments, and regulating the acquisition, construc- 
 tion, or completion thereof," which became a 
 law February 25th, 1901, together with all 
 amendments thereto. 
 
 IT IS FURTHER CERTIFIED, that all the 
 requirements of law and of the Ordinances of 
 the City of Avalon for the issuing of this bond 
 have been fully complied with by the proper 
 officers; that this issue of bonds has been duly 
 authorized by the votes of two-thirds of all the 
 voters voting at a special election duly and regu- 
 larly called and held in the said City on the 3rd 
 day of June, 1919, and that the total amount 
 of this issue, together with all indebtedness of 
 said City, does not in the aggregate exceed fif- 
 teen per cent, of the assessed value of all the 
 real and personal property of the said City of 
 Avalon, nor does it exceed the limit prescribed 
 by the Constitution and Laws of the State of 
 California. 
 
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the said City of 
 Avalon has caused this bond to be signed by the 
 Executive of said municipality, to-wit: the Pres- 
 ident of the Board of Trustees of said City of 
 Avalon, and also by the Treasurer of said City, 
 and to be countersigned by the Clerk of said 
 City, and the Corporate Seal of said City to be 
 affixed hereto; and the City has caused the cou- 
 pons hereto attached to be numbered consecu- 
 tively and signed by the Treasurer of said City 
 of Avalon. 
 
 President of the Board of Trustees of the City 
 of Avalon. 
 
 Treasurer of the City of Avalon. 
 37
 
 Countersigned by 
 
 City Clerk of the City of Avalon. 
 (SEAL) 
 
 That interest coupons shall be attached to 
 each of said one hundred and sixty bonds rep- 
 resenting each installment of interest to accrue 
 on such bonds up to the maturity thereof, which 
 said interest coupons shall be substantially as 
 follows: 
 
 On the 30th day of (month 
 
 of maturity), A. D (year of ma- 
 turity), the City of Avalon promises to pay the 
 bearer at the office of the City Treasurer of the 
 City of Avalon, the sum of (amount of interest) 
 in lawful money of the United States, the semi- 
 annual interest due on Combined Electric Light 
 
 and Water Works Bond No (No. 
 
 of bond to which coupon is attached.) 
 
 Treasurer of the City of Avalon. 
 
 Section 2. That bonds of the said City of 
 Avalon in the sum of Fifty-five Thousand Dollars 
 be issued in accordance with the provisions of 
 the Act of the Legislature of the State of Cali- 
 for,nia_ entitled: "An act authorizing the incur- 
 ring of indebtedness by cities, towns, and mu- 
 nicipal corporations for municipal improvements 
 and regulating the acquisition, construction, or 
 completion thereof," which became a law Feb- 
 ruary 25th, 1901, together with all amendments 
 thereto, and with the Ordinances of said City; 
 that said bonds shall be one hundred sixty (160) 
 in number and forty (40) of said bonds shall 
 be issued in the denomination of One Thousand 
 ($1,000.00) Dollars each, and eighty (80) of 
 said bonds shall be issued in the denomination 
 of One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars each, and 
 forty (40) of said bonds shall be issued in the 
 denomination of One Hundred Seventy-five 
 ($175.00) Dollars each, and the principal and 
 
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 Interest thereof shall be payable in lawful money 
 of the United States. They shall be dated June 
 30th, 1919, and bear interest at the rate of six 
 per cent per annum, payable semi-annually on 
 the 30th day of December and the 30th day of 
 June of each year. And said one hundred sixty 
 (160) bonds shall be payable in the manner 
 following: 
 
 One of said bonds of the denomination of 
 $1,000.00, and two of said bonds of the denom- 
 ination of $100.00, and one of said bonds of the 
 denomination of $175.00 shall be paid on the 
 30th day of June, 1920, and one of said bonds 
 of the denomination of $1,000.00, and two of 
 said bonds of the denomination of $100.00, and 
 one of said bonds of the denomination of 
 $175.00 on the same day and date of each and 
 every year thereafter, at the City Treasury of 
 said City of Avalon, together with the interest 
 on all sums unpaid at such date. 
 
 Said bonds shall be substantially in the fol- 
 lowing form, to-wit: 
 
 No 
 
 United States cf America 
 
 State of California 
 
 City of Avalon 
 
 Gas Works Bond 
 
 Avalon, California, June 30, 1919. 
 
 On the 30th day of June, A. D. (year of ma- 
 turity), the City of Avalon will pay to the bearer 
 at the office of the City Treasurer of the City 
 of Avalon, in the County of Los Angeles, State 
 
 of California, the sum of 
 
 Dollars, with interest at the rate of six per cent 
 per annum, payable semi-annually on the 30th 
 day of December, and the 30th day of June of 
 each year, as specified in the interest coupons 
 hereto attached, at the office of the City Treas- 
 urer upon the presentation and surrender of 
 said interest coupons. Principal and interest 
 payable in lawful money of the United States. 
 
 This bond is issued in pursuance of the pro- 
 visions of an Act of the Legislature of the State 
 
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 of California entitled "An act authorizing the in- 
 curring of indebtedness by cities, towns, and mu- 
 nicipal corporations for" municipal improvements, 
 and regulating the acquisition, construction, or 
 completion thereof," which became a law Feb- 
 ruary 25th, 1901, together with all Amendments 
 thereto. 
 
 IT IS FURTHER CERTIFIED, That all the 
 requirements of Law and of the Ordinances of 
 the City of Avalon for the issuing of this bond 
 have been fully complied with by the proper 
 officers; that this issue of bonds has been duly 
 authorized by the votes of two-thirds of all the 
 voters voting at a special election duly and regu- 
 larly called and held in said City on the 3rd day 
 of June, 1919, and that the total amount of this 
 issue, together with all indebtedness of said 
 City, does not in the aggregate exceed fifteen 
 per cent of the assessed value of all the real and 
 personal property of the said City of Avalon, 
 nor does it exceed the limit prescribed by the 
 Constitution and Laws of the State of Cali- 
 fornia. 
 
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, The said City of 
 Avalon has caused this bond to be signed by the 
 Executive of said municipality, to- wit: The Pres- 
 ident of the Board of Trustees of said City of 
 Avalon, and also by the Treasurer of said City, 
 and to be countersigned by the Clerk of said 
 City, and the corporate seal of said City to be 
 affixed hereto; and the City has caused the cou- 
 pons hereto attached to be numbered consecu- 
 tively and signed by the Treasurer of said City 
 of Avalon. 
 
 President of the Board of Trustees of the City 
 of Avalon. 
 
 Treasurer of the City of Avalon. 
 Countersigned by 
 (SEAL) 
 
 City Clerk of the City of Avalon. 
 40
 
 That interest coupons shall be attached to 
 each of said one hundred and sixty bonds rep- 
 resenting each installment of interest to accrue 
 on such bonds up to the maturity thereof, which 
 said interest coupons shall be substantially as 
 follows: 
 
 On the 30th day of (month 
 
 of maturity), A. D , (year of ma- 
 turity), the City of Avalon promises to pay the 
 bearer at the office of the City Treasurer of the 
 
 City of Avalon, the sum of.. 
 
 (amount of interest) in lawful money of the 
 United States, the semi-annual interest due on 
 
 Gas Works Bond No (number of 
 
 bond to which coupon is attached). 
 
 Treasurer of the City of Avalon. 
 
 Section 3. That the President of the Board 
 of Trustees of the City of Avalon being the Ex- 
 ecutive of the municipality, and the C.ity Treas- 
 urer of said City, are hereby authorized and di- 
 rected to sign all the bonds herein provided for, 
 and the City Clerk is hereby authorized and di- 
 rected to countersign the same and to affix the 
 corporate seal of the City of Avalon thereto, 
 and the City Treasurer of said City is hereby 
 authorized and directed to sign the interest cou- 
 pons of said bonds, and said bonds shall be de- 
 livered by said City Clerk to said City Treas- 
 urer in such amounts as the Board of Trustees 
 of said City may from time to time determine. 
 
 Section 4. That for the purpose of paying 
 the principal and interest on such bonds, the 
 Board of Trustees of said City shall, at the time 
 of fixing the general tax levy, and in the man- 
 ner for such general tax levy provided, levy 
 and collect annually, each year until said bonds 
 are paid, or until there shall be a sum in the 
 Treasury of said City, set apart for that purpose, 
 sufficient to meet all sums coming due for prin- 
 cipal and interest on such bonds, a tax sufficient 
 to pay the annual interest on such bonds, and 
 also such part of the principal thereof as shall 
 become due before the time for fixing the next 
 general tax levy. 
 
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 Said tax shall be in addition to all other 
 taxes levied for municipal purposes, and shall 
 be collected at the same time and in the same 
 manner as other municipal taxes are collected, 
 and be used for no other purpose than the pay- 
 ment of said bonds and accruing interest. 
 
 Section 5. The proceeds of the sale of said 
 Combined Electric Light and Water Works Bonds 
 shall be placed in the City Treasury to the credit 
 of a fund to be known as the Combined Electric 
 Light and Water Works Bond fund, and the 
 same shall be applied exclusively for the pur- 
 poses and objects above mentioned in this Or- 
 dinance, for which such indebtedness of $88,- 
 000.00 was incurred. 
 
 Section 6. The proceeds of the sale of said 
 Gas Works Bonds shall be placed in the City 
 Treasury to the credit of a fund to be known 
 as the Gas Works Bond fund, and the same shall 
 be applied exclusively for the purposes and ob- 
 jects above mentioned in this Ordinance, for 
 which such indebtedness of $55,000.00 was in- 
 curred. 
 
 Section 7. The City Clerk shall certify to 
 the passage of this Ordinance, and shall cause 
 the same to be published once in The Catalina 
 Islander, a weekly newspaper of general circu- 
 lation, published and circulated in said City of 
 Avalon, and thereupon and thereafter it shall be 
 in full force and effect. 
 
 Adopted and approved this 12th day of July, 
 1919. 
 
 P. V. REYES, 
 President of the Board of Trustees of the City 
 
 of Avalon, California. 
 
 (SEAL) 
 Attest: F. M. TIDBALL, 
 
 City Clerk of the City of Avalon. 
 
 State of California, ) 
 
 County of Los Angeles, (. sa. 
 City of Avalon. ) 
 
 I, F. M. Tidball, City Clerk of the City of 
 Avalon, do hereby certify that the foregoing 
 Ordinance was duly passed by the Board of Trus- 
 
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 tees of the City of Avalon, State of California, 
 and approved by the President of said Board 
 at a regular meeting thereof, held on the 12th 
 day of July, 1919, and that the same was passed 
 by the following vote, to-wit: 
 
 AYES Trustees Newberry, Walton, Hevren, 
 Reyes. 
 
 Noes None. 
 Absent Trustee Albert. 
 
 In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my 
 hand and affixed the seal of the City of Avalon, 
 California, this 12th day of July ; 1919. 
 
 (SEAL) F. M. TIDBALL, 
 
 City Clerk of the City of Avalon. 
 
 (A copy of said Ordinance No. 90 attached 
 to the following printer's affidavit is on file in 
 the office of the City Clerk of the City of 
 Avalon.) 
 
 AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION OF ORDI- 
 NANCE NO. 90 OF THE CITY 
 OF AVALON 
 
 State of California, 
 County of Los Angeles, 
 City of Avalon. 
 
 E. Windle, of said County and State, being 
 first duly sworn, deposes and says: 
 
 That he is and at all times herein mentioned 
 was a citizen of the United States, over eighteen 
 years of age; that he is and has been ever since 
 January 27th, 1914, the owner and publisher 
 of "The Catalina Islander," a weekly newspaper 
 of general circulation, published and circulated 
 in the City of Avalon, County of Los Angeles, 
 State of California, and that said newspaper 
 now is and has been ever since said January 
 27th, 1914, published for the dissemination of 
 local news and intelligence of a general char- 
 acter, and now has, and has had ever since said 
 date, a bona fide subscription list of paying sub- 
 scribers, and that said newspaper is, and has 
 been ever since said date, established, printed 
 and published at regular intervals, to-wit: on 
 Tuesday of each and every week, in the State of 
 
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 California, County of Los Angeles, City of Ava- 
 lon, and that said newspaper is, and has been 
 ever since said January 27th, 1914, a newspaper 
 of general circulation, published and circulated 
 in said City of Avalon, as the same is defined by 
 Section 4460 of the Political Code of the State 
 of California, and is a newspaper in which offi- 
 cial printing may be done for said City, and that 
 Ordinance No. 90 of the City of Avalon, of which 
 the annexed is a printed copy, was published in 
 said newspaper once, and on the following day, 
 to-wit, July 15th, 1919, and in the regular and 
 entire issue of said newspaper, and not in any 
 supplement. 
 
 E. WINDLE, 
 
 Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day 
 of August, 1919. 
 (SEAL) F. M. TIDBALL, 
 
 City Clerk of the City of Avalon. 
 
 On motion the Board adjourned to Friday, 
 July 18, 1919, 1:30 p. m. 
 
 Extracts from the Records of the Board of 
 Trustees of the City of Avalon, California, Fri- 
 day, July 18, 1919, 1:30 p. m. (Record Book 
 No. 4, page 115.) 
 
 City Hall, Avalon, California, 
 Friday, July 18, <1919, 1:30 p. m. 
 
 The Board of Trustees of the City of Avalon 
 met pursuant to adjournment at the above time 
 and place. 
 
 Roll Call. 
 
 Present Trustees Walton, Hevren, Reyes. 
 Absent Trustees Newberry and Albert. 
 On motion the Board adjourned to Friday, 
 July 18, 1919, 8:00 p. m. 
 
 Extracts from the Records of the Board of 
 Trustees of the City of Avalon, California, July 
 18, 1919, 8:00 p. m. (Record Book No. 4, 
 page 116.) 
 
 City Hall, Avalon, California, 
 Friday, July 18, 1919, 8:00 P. M. 
 
 Pursuant to adjournment of meeting of the 
 Board of Trustees held Friday, July 18, 1919, 
 
 44
 
 at 1:30 P. M., the Board of Trustees met in reg- 
 ular adjourned session at the above time and 
 place. 
 
 Roll Call: 
 
 Present Trustees Newberry, Walton, Hev- 
 ren and Reyes. 
 
 Absent Trustee Albert. 
 
 The minutes of meeting held at 8:00 P. M., 
 Saturday, July 12, 1919, were read, and on 
 motion were approved as read. 
 
 The minutes of meeting held at 1:30 P. M., 
 Friday, July 18, 1919, were read and on motion 
 were approved as read. 
 
 Extracts from the Records of the Board of 
 
 Trustees of the City of Avalon, California, of 
 
 August 1, 1919, 1:30 P. M. (Record Book No. 
 4, Page 122.) 
 
 City Hall, Avalon, California, 
 Friday, August 1, 1919, 1:30 P. M. 
 
 The Board of Trustees of the City of Avalon 
 met in regular session at the above time and 
 place. 
 
 Roll Call: 
 
 Present Trustees Walton and Reyes. 
 
 Absent Trustees Newberry, Albert and Hev- 
 ren. 
 
 There not being a quorum present no meet- 
 ing was held. 
 
 It was moved, seconded and carried to ad- 
 journ to Friday, August 1, 1919, 8:00 P. M. 
 
 Extracts from the Records of the Board of 
 Trustees of the City of Avalon, California, of 
 August 1, 1919, 8:00 P. M. (Record Book No. 
 4, Page 123.) 
 
 City Hall, Avalon, California, 
 Friday, August 1, 1919, 8:00 P. M. 
 
 Pursuant to adjournment of meeting of the 
 Board of Trustees held Friday, August 1, 1919, 
 at 1:30 P. M., the Board of Trustees met in reg- 
 ular adjourned session at the above time and 
 place.
 
 Roll Call: 
 
 Present Trustees Newberry, Walton and 
 Reyes. 
 
 Absent Trustees Albert and Hevren. 
 
 The minutes of meeting held at 8:00 P. M., 
 Saturday, July 26, 1919, were read, and on mo- 
 tion were approved as read. 
 
 The minutes of meeting held at 1:30 P. M., 
 Friday, August 1, were read, and on motion were 
 approved as read. 
 
 Trustee Walton offered a Resolution entitled 
 "A Resolution directing the City Clerk of the 
 City of Avalon to advertise for sale certain 
 Municipal Bonds of said City." Said Resolution 
 was then read and on motion said Resolution, 
 being Resolution No. 123, was adopted by the 
 following vote: 
 
 Ayes Trustees Newberry, Walton and Reyes. 
 
 Noes None. 
 
 Absent Trustees Albert and Hevren. 
 
 (Said Resolution No. 123, as adopted, is as 
 follows) : 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. 123 
 
 A RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE CITY 
 CLERK OF THE CITY OF AVALON TO 
 ADVERTISE FOR SALE CERTAIN MUNICI- 
 PAL BONDS OF SAID CITY. 
 
 The Board of Trustees of the City of Avalon 
 do resolve as follows: 
 
 That the City Clerk be, and she is hereby 
 directed to publish by two insertions in The Cata- 
 lina Islander, a weekly newspaper of general 
 circulation, published and circulated in said City 
 of Avalon, a notice inviting proposals to pur- 
 chase certain Municipal Bonds of said City in 
 the following form. 
 
 NOTICE OF SALE OF COMBINED ELECTRIC 
 LIGHT AND WATER WORKS BONDS, AND 
 GAS WORKS BONDS OF THE CITY OF 
 AVALON, CALIFORNIA. 
 
 Sealed proposals will be received by the City 
 Clerk of the City of Avalon, California, until 
 
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 7:30 o'clock P. M. of Friday, August 29th, 1919, 
 to purchase certain Municipal Bonds of said City 
 of Avalon, to-wit: 
 
 First. Combined Electric Light and Water 
 Works Bonds in the amount of Eighty-eight 
 Thousand ($88,000.00) Dollars. Said Bonds are 
 forty-year serials and are one hundred and sixty 
 in number, eighty of said Bonds in the denomi- 
 nation of One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars 
 each, and eighty of said Bonds in the denomina- 
 tion of One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars each, 
 and the principal and interest thereon are pay- 
 able in lawful money of the United States. They 
 are dated June 30th, 1919, and bear interest at 
 the rate of six per cent per annum, payable semi- 
 annually on the 30th day of December and 30th 
 day of June of each year. 
 
 Two of said bonds of the denomination of 
 One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars and two of 
 said Bonds of the denomination of One Hundred 
 ($100.00) Dollars are due and payable on the 
 30th day of June, 1920, and two of said Bonds 
 of the denomination of One Thousand ($1000.00) 
 Dollars and two of said Bonds of the denomina- 
 tion of One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars, on the 
 same day and date of each and every year there- 
 after, at the City Treasury of said City of Ava- 
 lon, together with the interest on all sums un- 
 paid at such date. 
 
 Second. Gas Works Bonds of said City of 
 Avalon in the amount of Fifty-five Thousand 
 ($55,000.00) Dollars. Said Bonds are forty- 
 year serials and are one hundred and sixty in 
 number, forty of said Bonds in the denomina- 
 tion of One Thousand ($1000.00) Dollars each, 
 and eighty of said Bonds in the denomination of 
 One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars each, and forty 
 of said Bonds in the denomination of One Hun- 
 dred and Seventy-five ($175.00) Dollars each, 
 and the principal and interest thereon are pay- 
 able in lawful money of the United States. They 
 are dated June 30th, 1919, and bear interest at 
 the rate of six per cent per annum, payable seml- 
 annually on the 30th day of December and the 
 30th day of June of each year. 
 
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 One of said Bonds of the denomination of 
 One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars and two of 
 said Bonds of the denomination of One Hundred 
 ($100.00) Dollars, and one of said Bonds of the 
 denomination of One Hundred and Seventy-five 
 ($175.00) Dollars are due and payable on the 
 30th day of June, 1920, and one of said Bonds 
 of the denomination of One Thousand ($1000.00) 
 Dollars and two of said Bonds of the denomina- 
 tion of One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars, and one 
 of said Bonds of the denomination of One Hun- 
 dred and Seventy-five ($175.00) Dollars, on the 
 same day and date of each and every year there- 
 after, at the City Treasury of said City of Ava- 
 lon, together with the interest on all sums un- 
 paid at such date. 
 
 All of said Bonds are issued under the au- 
 thority of the act of the Legislature of the State 
 of California, entitled "An Act authorizing the 
 incurring of indebtedness by cities, towns and 
 municipal corporations for municipal improve- 
 ments, and regulating the acquisition, construc- 
 tion, or completion thereof," which became a 
 law February 25th, 1901, and the amendments 
 thereto, and in accordance with the provisions 
 of law and the ordinances of said City. 
 
 No proposals for said bonds will be enter- 
 tained at less than their face value together 
 with the accrued interest to the date of their de- 
 livery, and all bids or proposals submitted will 
 be construed by the Board of Trustees of said 
 City to mean par and' accrued interest to the 
 date of delivery of said bonds in addition to the 
 premium offered, whether the bids or proposals 
 set forth the same explicitly or not. 
 
 The said bonds will be ready for delivery on 
 or about September 15th, 1919, and will be de- 
 livered at the City Treasurer's office in the City 
 of Avalon, California, or at any designated place 
 upon the payment by the purchaser of all ex- 
 penses incurred by the delivery of the bonds and 
 transfer of the money necessary to make deliv- 
 ery and payment equivalent to a transaction at 
 the office of the City Treasurer in the said City 
 of Avalon. 
 
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 All bids or proposals providing for delivery 
 at any place other than the City of Avalon, Cal- 
 ifornia, will be construed by the Board of Trus- 
 tees to mean the price bid in addition to the ex- 
 penses of delivery, whether the bid or proposal 
 sets forth the same explicitly or not. 
 
 Separate proposals or bids may be submitted 
 for said Combined Electric Light and Water 
 Works Bonds and for said Gas Works Bonds. 
 With each proposal or bid for said Combined 
 Electric Light and Water Works Bonds must 
 be submitted a certified check drawn upon some 
 bank in the State of California, payable to the 
 order of the City Treasurer of the City of Avalon 
 for the sum of One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dol- 
 lars; and with each proposal or bid for said Gas 
 Works Bonds must be submitted a certified check 
 drawn upon some bank in the State of California, 
 payable to the order of the City Treasurer of the 
 City of Avalon, for the sum of Five Hundred 
 ($500.00) Dollars as a guarantee that the bidder 
 will purchase and pay for said bonds in accord- 
 ance with his proposal in the event the bid is 
 accepted. 
 
 The Board of Trustees of said City reserves 
 the right to reject any and all bids or proposals. 
 
 By order of the Board of Trustees of the 
 City of Avalon, made at a regular meeting of 
 said Board August 1st, 1919. 
 
 F. M. TIDBALL, 
 City Clerk of the City of Avalon, California. 
 
 Adopted this 1st day of August, 1919. 
 
 P. V. REYES, 
 President of the Board of Trustees of the City 
 
 of Avalon, California. 
 
 (SEAL) 
 Attest: F. M. TIDBALL, 
 
 City Clerk of the City of Avalon. 
 
 State of California, ) 
 County of Los Angeles, V ss. 
 City of Avalon, ) 
 
 I, F. M. Tidball, City Clerk of the City of 
 Avalon, do hereby certify that the foregoing
 
 Resolution was duly passed by the Board of 
 Trustees of the City of Avalon, State of Califor- 
 nia, and signed by the President of said Board 
 at a regular meeting thereof, held on the 1st 
 day of August, 1919, and that the same was 
 passed by the following vote, to-wit: 
 
 Ayes Trustees Newberry, Walton, Reyes. 
 
 Noes None. 
 
 Absent Trustees Albert and Hevren. 
 
 In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my 
 hand and affixed the seal of the City of Avalon, 
 California, this 1st day of August, 1919. 
 
 F. M. TIDBALL, 
 
 City Clerk of the City of Avalon. 
 (SEAL) 
 
 (The following printer's affidavit attached 
 to a printed copy of the Notice of Sale, above 
 set forth in said Resolution No. 123, is on file 
 in the office of the City Clerk of the City of 
 Avalon.) 
 
 AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION OF NOTICE OF 
 SALE OF COMBINED ELECTRIC LIGHT 
 AND WATER WORKS BONDS, AND GAS 
 WORKS BONDS OF THE CITY OF AVA- 
 LON, CALIFORNIA. 
 
 State of California, \ 
 County of Los Angeles, I ss. 
 City of Avalon, \ 
 
 E. Windle of said County and State, being 
 first duly sworn, deposes and says: 
 
 That he is and at all times herein mentioned 
 was a citizen of the United States, over eighteen 
 years of age; that he is and has been ever since 
 January 27th, 1914, the owner and publisher 
 of "The Catalina Islander," a weekly newspaper 
 of general circulation, published and circulated 
 in the City of Avalon, County of Los Angeles, 
 State of California, and that said newspaper now 
 is and has been ever since said January 27th, 
 1914, published for the dissemination of local 
 news and intelligence of a general character, and 
 now has, and has had ever since said date, a 
 bona fide subscription list of paying subscribers, 
 
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 and that said newspaper is, and has been ever 
 since said date, established, printed and pub- 
 lished at regular intervals, to-wit, on Tuesday of 
 each and every week, in the State of California, 
 County of Los Angeles, City of Avalon, and that 
 said newspaper is and has been ever since said 
 January 27th, 1914, a newspaper of general cir- 
 culation, published and circulated in said City of 
 Avalon, as the same is defined by Section 4460 
 of the Political Code of the State of California, 
 and is a newspaper in which official printing may 
 be done for said City, and that Notice of Sale 
 of Combined Electric Light and Water Works 
 Bonds, and Gas Works Bonds of the City of Ava- 
 lon, California, of which the annexed is a printed 
 copy, was published in said newspaper two times, 
 and on the following days, to-wit, August 5th 
 and August 12th, 1919, and in the regular and 
 entire issue of said newspaper, and not in any 
 supplement. 
 
 E. WINDLE. 
 
 Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st 
 day of August, 1919. 
 
 F. M. TIDBALL, 
 City Clerk of the City of Avalon. 
 
 (SEAL) 
 
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 State of California, i 
 
 County of Los Angeles, (-as. 
 City of Avalon, ) 
 
 I, F. M. Tidball, City Clerk of the City of 
 Avalon, California, do hereby certify that the 
 foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of the 
 Records, Ordinances and Proceedings of the 
 Board of Trustees of the City of Avalon and 
 Affidavits of Publication in the matter of author- 
 izing the issue of Bonds in the sum of $88,000.00 
 for the acquisition, construction and completion 
 of combined Electric Light and Water Works, 
 and in the sum of $55,000.00 for the acquisition, 
 construction and completion of Gas Works by 
 the City of Avalon. 
 
 I also further certify that all the proceedings 
 of said Board of Trustees had in said matter, 
 were at regular meetings of said Board, or at 
 regular adjourned meetings thereof, and that 
 the minutes of said meetings were regularly and 
 duly approved and signed. 
 
 All of which duly appears from the official 
 records, minutes and files in my office in the 
 City Hall of said City of Avalon, California. 
 
 In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my 
 hand and affixed the official seal of the City of 
 
 Avalon, California, this day of September, 
 
 1919. 
 
 City Clerk of the City of Avalon, California. 
 
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