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RESOLUTION #100
WHEREAS, R. H. Lindgren, secretary of the Board of
Library Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach, has this
evening reported that the Huntington Beach Company has
offered certain lots of land in this city for the uses of
the Library, providing there is built thereon a library
building to cost at least $5,000; and,
WHEREAS, the said Secretary further reports splendid
progress by the said library since its organization; and,
WHEREASs the mass of citizens of this City are
anxious to do all in their power to make ample provision
for a library; and,
WHEREAS, this Board last year levied a tax of fif-
teen cents on the $100.00 for the benefit of the said library
amounting to nearly one-sixth of the gross income of the
City, and can in the future levy as high as thirty cents
on the $100.00 of assessed valuation for the benefit of
the said library, which would amount, under present con-
ditions, to $3000 per year; and,
WHEREAS, the present Board of Trustees of the said
Library desire to perfect an application to Andrew Carnegie,
Esq. , for funds with which to construct a building on the
said lots; and,
WHEREAS, this Board cannot bind its successors in
office in the matter of the tax levy, but, feel that the
moral effect of a preponderating public opinion in favor
of the Library should be crystallized at this time into a
resolution.
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Res. 100
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. NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that this Board of S
Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach, California,
does hereby recommend to their successors in office that
they appropriate liberally, as far as necessary and
possible to the support of any library that may be secured
and constructed through the efforts of the said Huntington
Beach Company and the said Andrew Carnegie.
I, E. R. BRADBURY, City Clerk, hereby certify that
the above Resolution was adopted at a regular meeting of
the Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach held
at the City Hall on the 21st day of February, 1910, by the
following vote:
AYES: Helme, Stewart, Warner, Manning
NOES» None
ABSENT: Howard
E.R. Bradbury
City Clerk oF the ; ty
of Huntington Bea