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AN ORDINANCE RATIFYING, CONFIRMING
.AND REVISING THE TAX LEVIES OF THE CITY
OF OCOEE FOR THE YEARS 1926 TO 1937,
BOTH INCLUSIVE.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Oooee,
under date of January 2, 1939, adopted a resolution en-
titled "Resolution Correoting Certain Tax Levies Hereto-
fore Made by Ocoee and Amending and Correcting said Tax
Levies So That the Tax Levies Shall Reflect the Truth and
the Purposes for Wbich Levied," and
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theretofore levied and spread on the tax rolls of the City
of Ocoee for the years 1926 to 1937, both inclusive, and
WEEREAS, under date of October 6, 1939, a final
order was entered in the United states District Court,
Southern Distriot of Florida, relative to oomplianoe with
peremptory writs theretofore issued by said Court in the
cases of
United States of America, ex reI.) The'
Brown-Crummer Investment Company vs. City
of Oooe6, et al., #2794-T-Civil, and
United States of America, ex reI., W. J.
Meredith, L. F. Rodgers and James G. Martin
vs. City of Oooee, et al., #207-0rlando-Civil,
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WEEREAS, said final order requires the action
herein taken relative to the tax levies of the City of Ocoee
tor the years 1~" tp 31937, both inolusive.
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N'pW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY TEE CITY
COUNCIL OF TEE CITY OF OCOEE, AS FOLLOWS:
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Section 1. That the resolution adopted by
the City Council of the City of Ocoee, under date of
January 2, 1939, entitled "Resolution Correcting Certain
Tax Levies Heretofore Made by Oooee and Amending and Cor-
recting said Tax Levies So That the Tax Levies Shall Re-
flect the Truth and the Purposes for Which Levied," is
hereby ratified and confirmed as revised in and by Section
2 hereof.
Section 2. That the tax levies of the City of
Ocoee for the years 1926 to 1937, both inclusive, be and
they are hereby ratified, confirmed and revised, in order
that they may reflect the truth, so as to provide that the
taxes levied by the City of Ocoee for the years 1926 to 1937,
both inolusive, be and the same are hereby fixed, for the
respective years, and for the respective purposes, and in
the respective amounts, as are set forth for eaoh of said
years in the fOllowing schedule:
Allocation of Total Millage
For Brown-Crummer Inv.Co.
Judgment in Case No.2475-
T-Civ. Pursuant to peremp- General Oper-
tory writ in Case No.2794- Interest & ating
T-Civil Sinking Fund ~
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8
8
9
8
8
8
34
22
22
22
22
7
5
7
7
7
7
5
5
5
6
5
5
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25
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12
12
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
19.31
19.32
1933
19M
19.35
1936
1937
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Section 3. That all prooeeds hereafter
realized from the General Interest and Sinking Fund
tax levies referred to in Section 2 hereof and all
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proceeds hereafter realized from the special tax levies
for the Brown-Crummer Investment Company Judgment re-
ferred' to in Section ~ hereof are hereby appropriated
and "ear-marked" for the speoific purpose of complying
with the said order of the District Court of the United
States for the Southern Distriot of Florida. dated October
6th. 1939. as aforesaid. in the fOllowing manner. to~vit:
Said prooeeds shall be applied first to the
payment of the .:remaining balanoe due upon
the said judgment of The Brown-Crummer In-
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vestment Company. together with costs~ ~nd
the interes,t thereon. until the same shall
have been paid in full; and thereafter the said
prooeeds shall be applied to the payment of the
said judgment of W. J. Meredith, L. F. Rodgers
and James G. Martin until the said Judgment,
together with oosts, and the interest thereon,
shall have been paid in full; "oosts" being
hereby intended to mean oosts of the aotion re-
sulting in the judgment and oosts in the man-
damus prooeedings to enforoe the same.
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Section 4. That all ordinances, resolutions
and other actions hereto~ore taken by the City Council
of the City of Ocoee, in conflict with this ordinance,
are hereby repealed, in so far as they are in oonflict
with the provisions hereof.
Section ,5. That this ordinance shall take
effect immediately.
The undersigned President of the City Council
of the City of Ocoee and the undersigned City Clerk of
the City of Ocoee do hereby certify that the above and
foregoing ordinance was passed and adopted by the City
Il~ ' day of
Council of the City of Ocoee, on the
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President of the City ouncil of
the City of Ocoee. .
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City Clerk of the City of Ocoee.
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'Approved this ./.1 -.::: day of
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Mayor of the City of Ocoe . '
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