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Resolved that W.G. Newby chairman of the finance committee, be inmstructed to proceed to New York City,
and there endeavor to make an arrangement with Blair & Co., the city's
financial agents, by which the interest owing by the city and falling due
prior to or on the first day of January, 1901. will be taken care of by them
on behalf of the city and the city's credit thus preserved. And to that
end the said Newby is hereby authorized to represent to said Blair & Co.
that as fast as moneys come into the hands of the city which arise out of
the tax levy for interest the same will be by this council voted and ap-
propriated to pay the interest coupons taken up and cared for by said
Blair & Co. together with interest thereon accrued at the time of payment by the city.
And be it further resolved that the City Auditor shall furnish
to the said Newby such certified statements of matters of record in the
city offices as shall be by the said Newby deemed proper for use in carry-
ing out the purpoe aforesaid.
E.C. Orrick
Alderman 8th Ward.