ORD CC 05/04/1920 - tax levy & sewer bondsTAY. LEVY
Be it ordained by the City Council of the City
of Huntsville in Council assembled: -
2:hat there is hereby levied for the year 1920 on
all real property owned zithin
of Huntsville on the first day
year except so much thereof as
tution and lavis of this State,
following taxes:
1e yin ad valorem tax
the limits of the said City
of January of the current
may be exempt by the Consti-
or the United States, she
of and at the rate of
fifteen cents on the one hundred dollars cash value thereof
estimated in lawful currency of the United States for
current expenses for the support and maintenance of the
City Government of the said City of Huntsville.
2, tln ad valorem tax of and at the rate of fif"
teen cents on the one ,hundred dollars cash value thereof,
estimated in lawful currency of the United ;;fates, for
the support and maintenance of the streets and bridges with-
in and for the said City of Huntsville.
3, an ad valorem tax of and at the rate of ten
bents on the one hundred dollars cash value thereof, esti-
mated in lawful currency of the United States, to pay eux-
rent interest on and provide one year's sinking fund to be
designated as "Special Funding Warrant i`und ", for the pur-
pose of paying the interest on and retiring the funding
warrants issued by the said City of Huntsville on the first
day of February, 1920.
4, jin ad valorem tax of and at the rate of twenty
five cents on the one hundred dollars cash value thereof,
estimated in lawful currency of the United States, to pay
current interest on and provide one year's sinking fund for:-
(a) : he cater works bonds of the said City of
huntsville dated the first day of iiovember, 1913, the prin-
cipal amount of which bonds outstanding bring the sum of
(0500.00) Four 5`hoanaand Five Hundred Dollarse
(b) To pay current intereo t on and provide one
year's sinking fund for the City of Huntsville ;>ewer Bonds
dated the first day of July, 1916, the principal amount of
said newer bonds now outstanding being the sum of (019,500.00)
Idinteen `ihoasand five hundred dollars;
(c) :o pay the current interest on and provide
one year's sinking fund for the City of Huntsville, Street
Improvement Bones dated the first day of July, 1916, the
principal amount of said bonus now outstanding being the
principal sun of (y- 7,500.00) Seven Thousand Five Hundred
Dollara.
(d) :io pay current interest and provide one
year's sinking Fund for the City of Huntsville : Street
Improvement Fonds in the sum of Seven ;thousand Five hun-
dred (i'7,600.00) Dollars, and City of hunt sviile Sewer
Bonds in the sure of rive �:housand (%0000.00) Dollars , said
bonds having been authorized by u vote of the property
owners voting at an election held for that purpose on the
12th day of epril, 1920.
b. "n occupation tax on all persons, firms and
corporations doing busineso v ithin the City of Huntsville
equal to one -half of that provided by lays for an occupation
tux due and payable to the State of i�exas.
6. "n annual tax of five dollars on every male
person residing in said City of Huntsville between the
ages of twenty -one years and forty -five years,sub jest to
the payment of a street tax as provided by law and the
ordisanees of the said City of Huntsville,
7. a poll tax of one Dollar on every mule in-
habitant of the said City of Huntsville over the age of
twenty -one years and not over sixty years of age on the
first day of January, 1920.
?"Referred to the Finance Committee in open
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Council this 4th day of May, 190-
T H Humphrey,
L o iayor
We, the Pinanae Committee, to whom the above and
foregoing ordinance has been referred do here now recommend
that said tax levy ordinance be adopted.
Sam !Aoxinney
H 0 le igh
W R Nance.
Finance UOMMItteee
Aa,,)pte%-&' in open Council 1AUY 4, 1920.
1: liumphrey ,
'aJore
The stats 01 Taxaz. I
County of wuiktar. I il, R E yraaklow, City Secretary of
the City of Hantsvil-).s, A'.1e:,ras, do hereby certify that the
f-,)ragn'.ina is a tz°ue "d oorrec'w- oopy of tile iax Jjew passed
by the Oity Cou-noil of the (UtY Of Huntsville on the 4th day
o-=' may, 1.920, more than a two-thirds majority of all the
merabers oi said Council being present and acting, and of
rccord on pages 3t 6 ^t 8eq. DOOk 11;9 of t1je minutes of said
Witness z;r hand and the Beal Of said city, this
the da"(1 of october, 190.
Gity 15ecrezarY, Of 'De QIV
of Huntsvi"Ile, Texas.