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AV ORDINANCE AUTHOPI7.INIG THE P,'AYOR T.0 ACCEPT DEED TO
CERTAIN REAL ESTATE N MCCRACKEN COU14TY FOR THE PURPOSE OF
ESTABLISHING AN AVIATION FIELD U14DFR THF. PR®VISIONS OF LAW AN
PROVIDING FOR THF PAYMENT THEREFOR.
WHEREAS, it is provided by law that cities of the second
class may acquire real estate for the purpose of establishing
and maintaining aviation fields or ports, and it is desired that
the City of Paftesh in the interest of the public welfare shall
procure and establish and equip an aviation field, and the City
through its Board of Park Commissioners having procured a suitable
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site for such aviation field at the price mutually agreed upon
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and which price is a fair and reasonable compensation for such
property.
NO'VI, THERFFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY TIM BOARD OF
CO'fnJISSIONFRS OF THF. CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY.
SECTION 1.
j That the Mayor be and is hereby authorized and empowered
to accept deed to certain real estate to be conveyed by
Tommy B. Whittemore to a certain tract and pracel of land
i. described in such deed as being a part of Lot #3 in the division
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of J. M. Fountleroy's land as shown by Plat in deed book V
Page 24 McCracken County Court Clerk's Office. for the purpose
of establishing.and maintaining thereon an aviation field or
port, so long as the same may be desirable for such use and for
such other purposes as may be permitted by law. There is hereby
appropriated for the purpose of paying the purchase price for
Ii said aviation field the sum of Twelve Hundred ($1200.00) Dollars
!,to be paid out of the Treasury of the City of Paducah and to be
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used to discharge and satisfy a note heretofore executed by the
Board of Park Commissioners of the City of Paducah to pay certain i
heirs of George F. Backer, deceased, and in full satisfaction
jand payment for the purchase price of said real estate referred to
and described as approximately fifty (50) Acres.
SECTION 2.
On account of the fact that said property is now tendered
to the City of Paducah with the understanding that unless it is
paid for at once that the City will not be permitted to take title
thereto, and the required time for the making of an appropriation
jsufficient to defray the purchase price of said land being such
that the City would lose the right to obtain said property, and
the Public Health and Safety and the Public interest requiring
that said aviation field be acquired speedily and without delay,
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an emergency is declared to exist and this ordinance shall be
in full force and effect upon its adoption by the Board of
Commissioners. � /)
Signed
% Mayor
Passed by the Board of Commissioners January 8th, 1934.
Recorded by Rudy Stewart, Clerk January 8th 1934.