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i AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING TIME CANCELLATION OF THE CONTRACT
OF EMPLOYMENT OF COPELAND AND KEEL, ATTORNEYS, FOR THE COLLECTION
OF DELINQUENT TAXES AND PUELIC IMPROVEMENT ASSESSMENTS OWING THE
CITY OF PADUCAH AND PROVIDING, FOR THE ACCEPTANCE OF A RELEASE
BY THE CITY OF PADUCAH FROM ALL LIABILITY UNDER SAID CONTRACT
WHEREAS, pursuant to an ordinance adopted by the Board
Of Commissioners on June 30, 1949, the City of Paducah entered
into a contract for the employment of Copeland and Keel, Attorneys,
to prosecute to conclusion eighty-three suits then pending and
which were to be instituted by the city for the enforcement of
liens securing the payment of ad valorem taxes and public improve-
ment assessments; and
WHEREAS, by reason of the difficulties encountered by
said attorneys in the preparation and prosecution of said suits,
they have been unable to perform the services required under said
contract for the closing of said suits within the time specified
therein and it is their desire to be released from the performance
of said contract;
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
OF THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY:
SECTION 1.
That the Contract which the City of Paducah entered into
vith A. Roy Copeland and Rudy Keel, Attorneys, on July 3, 1948,
;aid contract providing for the employment of said attorneys to
)rosecute eighty-three suits then pending and which were to be
_nstituted by the city for tFe enforcement of liens securing the
)ayment of ad valorem taxes and public improvement assessments
)e cancelled upon the condition that said Attorneys execute and
leliver to the City of Paducah a release which shall be in words
nd figures as follows, to -wit:
"KNOW ALL YEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That we,
A. Roy Copeland and Rudy Keel, attorneys engaged in the
practice of law under the firm name of Copeland & Keel,
for and in consideration of the sum of One Hundred
Eighty-five ($185.00) Dollars, paid to us by the
City of Paducah, Kentucky, the receipt of which is
hereby acknowledged, do hereby forever release and
discharge the City of Paducah of and from all claims,
demands, actions and causes of action which we have
upon or against it under a certain contract of employ-
ment which we entered into w ith the City of Paducah
on the 3rd day of July, 1948, which contract pro-
vided for our employment as attorneys to prosecute
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to conclusion eighty-three suits then pending and
which were to be filed by us for the enforcement of
liens securing the payment of ad valorem taxes and
public improvement assessments.
"We hereby agree to the cancellation of the
aforesaid contract and accept the sum of One Hundred
Eighty-five ($185.00) Dollars in full payment and
satisfaction of the amount owing to us for services
rendered in. the prosecution of the suits referred to
in the aforesaid contract.
"ID: TESTI14ONY INHEREOF, we have hereunto subscribed
our names this the _ day of October, 1949".
SECTION 2.
This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from
and after its adoption.
Idayor Pad Tem
Comm- .9 loner tPauI Auelly-
Passed by the Board of Commissioners, October 11, 1949
Recorded by Sarah Thurman, City Clerk, October 11, 1949.