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BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS `vVASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
J ELMER JOHNSTON, JAMES W WALKER, W H ECKER, COMMISS.ONERS
Office of County Commis:Aoners,
Washington, Pa. , July 10, 1923.
Commissioners in °-egular session, members present being Messrs.
Walker, Johnston and Ecker,
Motion by Mr. Johnston, seconded by Mrs Ecker, that the county
solicitor be directed to take proper legal steps to place before the Grand Jury
of Washington County, for its approval , that portion of the public highway leading
from Raccoon to Cherry Valley, beginning at the county concrete road in the
village of Raccoon and extending in a southeasterly direction, via the Cherry
Valley road, through` the village of Cherry Valley, and being in ] ength,` 14,650
feet , more or less; all of said road being in Smith Township, the estimated
costs of its construction being $137 ,850.00. Motion unanimously carried,
There being no further business, the Boa rned.
SIGNED
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Office of County Commissioners,
Washington, Pa. , July 18, 1923.
July 18, 1923--At a meeting of the Board of County Commissioners
of the County of Washington, in the State of Pennsylvania, duly called and held
at the office of said Board of County Commissioners , at the Court House of the.
said County of Washington, in the Borough of Washington, Pennsylvania, on the
18th day of July, 1923 , all of the members of said Board, to wit , J. W. Walker,
J. E. Johnston and W. H. Ecker being present, the following resolution was, •
on motion duly made and seconded, unanimously adopted by said board, to,-wit:
Whereas, by resolution adopted on the 21st day of May , 1923 , providing
for the issuing of one hundred sixty-five thousand ( $165,000) dollars of Road j
Improvement Bonds, no provision was made for the levy of a tax sufficient to
cover the payment of the State tax of four ( 4)mille upon such indebtedness,
Now be it resolved, that the paragraph of said resolution referringi
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to .the levying of an annual tax be amended so as to read as follows: -
Be it further resolved, that an annual tax, beginning with the year;
1924, be and the same is hereby levied and assessed upon the 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 State taxes thereon
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as the same shall become payable ( said annual tax- is sufficient for the payment
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of the interest and State taxes thereon and of the principal of said debt within
a period not exceeding thirty years, to wit , within twenty-six years from the
MINUTE BOOK
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
J ELMER JOHNSTON, JAMES W WALKER, W H ECKER, COMMISSIONERS
date of increasing said debt) to be collected as follows:
In the year 1924 $ 8085
1925 0085
1926 8085
1927 8085
1928 8085
1929 8085
1930 8o85
1931 8085
1932 8085
1933 8o85
1934 8o85
1935 8o85
It 1936 8o85
1937 8085
1938- 13085
1939 12850
It 1940- 9600
1941 15500
1942 17125
1943- 16625
It 1944 26125
1945 15175
It 1946 24675
1947 23900
1948 22500
1949 36775
Resolved further that the paragraph in said resolution, reading as
follows:
"Be it further resolved that the Controller of said Washington County
be ordered and directed to advertise said bonds for sale in accordance with
the provisions of 'the Act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Penn-
sylvania, approved- the 6th day of July, 1917 , and the acts amendatory thereof
and supplemental thereto, and that the same be sold to the highest responsible
bidder after due public notice as required by said Act, provided that no ,bide
for said bonds at less than their par value shall be accepted" ,
be and the same is hereby repealed.
There being no further business, the Board a ourned.
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SIGNED
COUNTYCOMUISSIONERS.