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AN ORDINANCE declaring an emergency and directing the issuance of
warrant for $3000.00 in settlement of property damage caused by flood and
declaring this ordinance to take effect immediately.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY CCU~IIS$IONERS OF THE CITY OF BREMERTON, AS
FO LLOWS:
~tEREAS, claims against, the City of Bremerton were filed by John D.
Taylor, W. F. 8tephenson and wife, George E..NacCormac and wife, Harry W.
Delo and wife, Clyde Wilson and wife, by reason o2 their property having
been flooded; and
WHEREAS their claims were duly assigned to John D. Taylor, a bachelor,
for the purpose of suit against the City, and trial of said claims was duly
had in the Superior Court of the State of Washington for Kitsap County, and
Judgment announced from the bench against the City of Bremerton, in the sum
of $3,950.00, besides costs; and,
WHEREAS, the City of Bremerton has an opportunity to settle said claims
forthwith, for the sum of $3000.00;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE AND IT ~EREBY IS, ORDERED:
Section 1. That ~he said claims for damage to personal property caused
by reason of said floods, be and they hereby are allowed in the sum of $3000.00.
Section 2. That Emergency Warrant in the sum of $3000.00 be issued to
the said John D. Taylor in payment and settlement in full of said claims.
Section 3. That said expenditure is ~andatory and has arisen since the
enactment of the budget and that an emergency has arisen.
Section 41 That the Clerk of the City of Bremerton be, and he hereby is
directed to forthwith issue Emergency Warrant to the said John D. Taylor, in
the sum of $3000.00, and that the Treasurer is hereby directed to pay said
warrant from any monies on hand in the City Treasury, or out of any fund
properly chargeable with said expenditure, and if there is not sufficient money
in the Accident Fund to pay said warrant, that said warrant be registered and
shall bear interest until called, in the manner and form provided by law.
PASSED unanimously by the City Commission of the City of Bremerton,
Washington, this 20th day of November, 1937.
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