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EcrARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
J. EGME�JOHNSTON, JAMES W. WALKER. W. H. ECKER,
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MISSIONERS
each, for the purpose of providing funds for permanently improving, repair*
A and maintaining the public roads and highways in said County as provided by
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the .Actw, pf Aasembly of May 11, 1911, P. L. 244, and May 31, 1911s P. L. 4$6,
and the ndments thereof and supplements thereto, and as assented to b the
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C electors of Washington County by virtue and in pursuance of a special eleetten
held ih said County on the 17th day of June, 1919, for their approval or dis-
a.Ppr,4va1,.
AM BE Z-T FURTHER RESOLVED That said proposed issue of -Road Improvevent
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Bonds be submitted to the Court of Quarter Sessions on Monday, November 10,1924,
at 4000 e�Glock A. M., for its approval or disapproval.
Presented and adopted at a regular meeting of the Board of..Countyy,
CRq 4ouse:: ,
Commisatoners of Washington County held at their office Is the ,-
�tti,l dshi o��r. �s�rly� a�gin, ttie 28th,;day ; of Oc,tober,. 1924, and duly
recorded in the minutes of said Hoard.,
There being no further business, the Board adjourned.
SIGNED
COUNTY COMMISaIONERS .
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Office of County Commissioners
Nov. 11, 192#' Washington, Pa.
A RESOLUTION, authorizing the issuance of Two Hundred Thousand !
-(t200;000'1O0)Dollars of bonds of the County of Washington, Pennsylvania, for
theppurposet of providing funds for permanently improving, repairing and maintain- M
ing certain public reads and highways in the County of Washington, as prow-
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vided by Acts of Assembly of May 11, 1911, P. L. 244, and May 31, 1911, P. L.
468, a,n4e.the amendments thereof and supplements thereto; to approve the ` g
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fog of i0ad; and to provide for the assessment, levy and collection of a tax `
to pay the interest and taxes covenanted to be paid thereon and the princifal
t-hereof'at-maturity.
WHREM1S, by resolution duly adopted May 15, 1919, the voun,ty Cb -
missioners of tie county '0i Washington; Penns:�ivahia; did signify their de4i
sire to increase the bonded indebtedness of said county in the sum of One 10illion
($1,000,000) Dollars for the purpose of providing funds for permanently improving,
repairingR,4d maintaining public roads and highways in the County of Washington,
as p"vi.de4 by Acts of Assembly of May 11, 1911, P. L. 244, and May 31, 1911,
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MINUTE BOOK
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSY€ vA-NIA
J ELMER JOHNSTON, JAMES W WALKER, W H ECKER, COMMISSIONERS
P. L. 468, and the amendments thereof and supplements thereto, and
wnwusAS, by separate resolution duly adopted the same date-, said
Board of County Commissioners fixed dune 17, 1919, as the date for holdimg's
public election upon said increase of the bonded indebted-ness of said voonty,
and
ISAS, said election, after being advertised, was held and a`
majority of the qualified electors voting at said selection assented to the,ian- `
crease of said indebtedness of said county in,the sum of One Million 'r3
($10000,000,00) Dollars as aforesaid, as appears by the return of the Clerk
of quarter Sessions, a certified copy of which has bpea furntished to the Board
of County �-oamnissioaners and placed of 'record "ong thou minutes, and
wr w-M ,, said G*=Ay of wash toa 'lnlwe ::entered into certain oont* ,
tracts -with the State lisko r-ftortomt fit aka _peat improvement, at o$ r
taint highways as State and Stat maid M, the Act of Xay 31, 19i1,
P. L. 468, and the erect and supplements thereto, and
VEMBAS, by proper proceedings in the Court of quarter Son4t bo,_
for said county, authority has been given for the permanent improving ofcertain
roads as county roads under the provisions of the Act of May 11, 19110- F.-L.-,.
244, and the amendments thereof and supplements thereto and the Grand Jua �.V#
said Court of quarter Sessions sleeting during November Term of 1924, has duly
certified its approval of the issuance of bonds up to the sum of Two dated
Thousand ($200,000.00) Dollars for the permanent improving of said ag ty rods
and state roads or any of them and a decree of the Court to the same effoO,
has been duly entered aovember 10, 1924, pursuant to sold consent of the Grand
Jury.
NOV, therefore, be it/ resol"di
Section 1: That for the puuunpmee of priding, funds for per mently
improving, repairing and naintaining.cert&in public roads and highways in tb*
County of Washington, as provided by Acts of Assembly of May 11, 1911, ?.,L.
244, and May,31, 1911, P. L. 468, and the amendments thereof and supplements
thereto, the County Commissioners of Washington County do hereby authorise
the incurring of a debt by said county in.the sum of Two Hundred Tho
($200,000.00) Dollars and direct the issuance of aaaMpiowbonds therefor In, the
form and subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth, to be kntova as
"Washington Uounty Road Bonds, Series A. 1925".
Section 2: Said bonds shall be Issued in the denominatioo,of
One Thousand ($l,000.00) Dollars each; numbered respectively from one to Two
hundred, inclusive, maturing as follows:
Bone
Numbers
1 -
22,
inolusivm,
January
1,
1941
Bonds
Numbers
23-
42,
inclusive,
January
1,
1942
Bonds Numbers 43. 47, inclusive, January 1, 1941
Bonds Numbers 48- 52, inclusive, January 1, 1946 e
Bonds aumtbsare 53- 62, inclusive, January i, 1948
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BOARD OF' COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
WASHINGTON COUNTY, PE,NNSYLVANIA
J ELMER JOHNSTON, J
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Bonds Numbers
3
63-112, Inclusive,• January 11, 1949 i
Bonds Numbers
113-162, inclusive,
January 101950
Bonds numbers
163-200, inclusive, January 1,1951
Section 3:
Said bonds shall
be dated Jam 4 19250 and
shall bear interest at the
rate of four
and oa f -pw t "rawm s,
Faymble semi-annually, on
the first day
of July and the first day of Jetucry
in eaoh year until the same shall mature;
said interest to be r rpreohited by
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detachable coupons in a form
hereinafter
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set forth.
Section 4:
Said bonds shall
be free from any tax or tax**# a
except succession and inheritance taxes,
which are now or may hereinarOr
be levied or assessed by
or under the authority
of the Commonwhalth.of Penn-
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sylvanio, upon the interest
or principal
thereof, all. of which said taxes.
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said.Lzounty of Washington
hereby covenants
and agrees to pay*
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Section 5: Be it further resolved
that au annual ta: tfting I
with the year 1925 be and
the same is hereby
levied and assessed upon to
proper subjects of taxation within said
county, to be applied solely.to the
payment of•the principal
of said bonds at
maturity and the interest and
taxes covenanted to be paid
thereon, as
the same shall become payable, to be
collected as follows:
In the
year 1925
4 98000.00 {
In the
year 1926 --
.91800.00
In the
year 1927 --
9,800,00
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In the
year 1920 --
908001.00 �
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In the
year 1929 --
9,800.00
In the
year 1930 --
9,800.00
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In the
year 1931 --
9.800.4Q
In the
year 1932 --
90800.00
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in the
year 1933 --
9,800.00
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In the
year 1934 --
9,800,00
In the
year 1935 --
90800.00
4n the
year-1936 - -
98800.00
' In the
year 1937 •-
9,800.00
In the
year 1938 --
90800.00
In the
year 1939 --
90800.00
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In the
year 1940 --
9,800.00
In the
year 1941 -•
31,800.00
In the
year 1942 --
'28.?50.00
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In the
year 1943 --
12.750-00
In tho
jr-1944 --
7.504.00
In the
year 1945 --
7*500,00
In the
year 19-" •-
12,50040
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In the
year 1947 --
7o250,00
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MINUTE BOOK
BOAR® OF COUNTY COI M'ISSIONERS WASHINGT0N COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
J ELMER JOHNSTON, JAMES W WALKER, W H ECKER, COMMISSIONERS
In the-eer 1946 -- 17, 250. 00
In
the
year
1949 --
57,000.00
In
the
year
1950_ --
54,30040
In
the
year
1951 --
39►$60.00
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Section 6: All bonds issued by -virtue of this resolution shall be
and become a part of the funded debt of the County of Washington and for the
payment of the principal -of said bonds and the taxes and annual interest
accruing thereon, the faith, -honor, credit and property of said County of
Washington are hereby_�and shall continue pledged.
Section 7: Said bonds shall be executed in the name of the County
of Washington by the County Commissioners and said Commissioners shall cause
the seal of said -county to be duly affixed thereto, attested by the Clerk,
and the interest coupons annexed to said bonds shall.be authenticated by the
facsimile signatures of the county Commissioners.
No.
Said bonds and coupons shall be substantially in the following form:
STATS OF PZNNSYLVANIA
COUNTY OF WASHINGTON
ROAD BONDS SBRISS ♦, 1925
$1,000.00
THS County of 'Washington, State of Pennsylvania, for -value
received, -hereby acknowledges itself to be indebted and promisee to pay to�
the bearer, or in case of -registration as hereinafter provided, then to the -
registered owner hereof, the sum of One Thousand-($1,000,00) Dollars, lawful
money of the united States of America, on the first day of January, .19., ,
presentation and surrender hereof, together with interest thereon from the
first .day of January, 1925, Payable semi-annually, upon presentation and sur-
render of the ooupons hereunder attacbsd as they severally mature.at then
rate of 4f per cent per anam on the' -first day of July and January in each
and eye" year. Both principal and interest of this bond are parable at the
office of the Treasurer of the County,of Washington, Washington, Pennsylvania,
free of any tam or taxes,, except succession and inheritance tax, which are
now or may hereafter be levied and assessed by or under the authority of tho
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania upon the interest or principal hereof, all of
which taxes the County of -Wanhingtgn covenants and agrees to pay.
This bond iS one of at series of two hundred bonds of like datew
amount and tear, differing only as to the maturity thereof, numbered con-
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secutively from one to twor hundred, both inclusive, said bond being issued
by the County of 'Washington for the purpose of providing funds for perveAt ently
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BOARD OF COUNT COMMISSIONERS WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
J ELMER JOHNSTON, JAMES W. WALKER, W H ECKER, COMMISSIONERS
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improving# repairing and maintaining certain public reads and highWeeys in
the County -of Washington, as provided by Acts of Assembly_of gay ll, 1911,
P. L.,244, and lI$ay 31, 1911, P, L. 468, and the amendmints thereof and supple-
ments thereto, and under and in pursuance of the Act of Assembly of the Common -
Wealth of Pennsylvania, approved April 20, 1874, and the supplements thereto and
amendments thereof, and pursuant to resolutions of the County Commissioners of
VashingtM county, duly adopted, and the authority granted by the electors in an
election duly held June 17, 1919 .
It is hereby covenanteld.::Sa& agreed that all acts and conditions
precedent- to or in the issuing of this bond have been done and VgxAN md, as
required r law, and that the total indebtedness of the County of Vashington,
including this issue of bonds, is not in excess of any statutory or consti-
tittioAx1limitation and that an annual tax sufficient for the nt of the
intireet and taxes agreed to be paid, and the principal of said bonds, as the
some become due, has been duly levied .and assessed.
This bond shall pass,�,by delivery or may be regieteered •as to principal
only upon the bond registry book of the County of Washington, to be kept at the
office of the County Commissioners of said County of Washington, at Washington,
Pennsylvania, and by endorsement upon the back hereof by the Cleric for the time
being for the County Uommissioners, after which no transfer shall be made except
by the registered holder or holders in person or by his or their duly authorized
attorney,, and such transfer shall be noted upon said bond registry book and
upon the back hereof, provided, however, that this band msy -be Usawferred to
bearer and negotiability thereby restored, mad shall _donkirlue subject to suc-
cessive registrations or transfers to bearer, at`the option of the holder or
holders for, the: time being, --but no such registration of the principal Shill affect
the negotiability of the coupons hereto annexed, which shall continue to`tie
transfISTAble by delivery merely.
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j IN WITWBSS *n A&01. the County -Commissioners of the County of Washington
have amused this bond to be issued in the name of paid `aunty, signed by them
and,oaasod the seal of said County of Washington to be hersuntQ affixed, attested i
W US Connissionersr-' 4erk as of the first day of Januaryc 1925, and have caused
the ,et*wL&taohed to be signed by the engraved facsim_i, of the si
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turom ,
of said County Commissioners,
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Commissioners of Washington County
Clerk- for Commissioners.
(FORK Of COt3'B'ONS )
. x Upon the first day. of � ,�,.• :1�., ,,� - the C0gn ,y of �0-
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BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
J ELMER JOHNSTON. JAMES W. WALKER, W H ECKER, COMMISSIONERS
Washington, Pennsylvania,_ will pay to bearer Twenty -Two and 501100 ( t*10) Do7.Lars,_
Dollars, free of taxes, at the office of the Treasurer, Washington. P*A"ylvani�,
being" sic months' interest on bond No........ of the County of wishingtcft lid"
Bonds, Series A, 1925, dated January-1. 1925.
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Commissioners of Washington County.
(INDORT)
$1,000.00
UNITED STATES OF A)WICA
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA
COUNTY OF WASHINGTON
ROAD BONDS, SERIES A. 1925
Bond No .
4*%
Dated January 1, 1925
Principal due January 1. 19�
Interest payable semi-annually duly 1 and January 1
Principal and interest payable at the office of the Treasurer of'Washingt"
County, Pennsylvania."
Section 8: The proper officers of the County of Washington
are authorized and directed to make oath to the statement required by"tbo
Act of Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, approved April 20, 187*1,
and its supplememts and amendments and file the same in the office of $)w
Clerk of the Cibii~ of quarter Sessions of Washington County.
AND be it further resolved: -
That all resolutions or parts of resolutions in so far-S&
they are inconsistent herewith be and the same are hereby repealed.
DULY Fhesented and unanimously approved at a regular Imeotii*'�of
the Board of Uounty Commissioners of Washington County: Pennsylvania, held
November 11, 19240 at which all members of the Board, to -wit: Yesorsj"Johlsst;
Walker and Barnes, were present. 1-7,,r /T n
ATTEST:
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Clerk for Commissioners.
Commirasionero of Washiww 9A, county"