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Show TREASURER ISIES OEE FOR M Ml City Official Goes to Attach Seal and Indorsement to Recent Bond Issue. Owing to an alleged omission in the form of tie city's $775,000 4- per cent refunding1 bonds, recently sold to the Emery, Peck & Bock-vrood company of New York, Karl A. Scneid, city recorder, re-corder, -was dispatched posthaste to New York yesterday. The recorder will attach an indorsement to each of the bonds to the effect that the issue is not in excess of the city's legal limit of bonded indebtedness. The bonds were sold more than a month ago and were forwarded by registered reg-istered mail before lay J. They were to have been deposited at the" First National bank of New York for payment pay-ment of the old issue falling due that date, but the attorneys for the purchasing pur-chasing company refused to approve the bonds because the certification to the effect that they are not in excess of the city's bond limit was not attached. at-tached. Urgent telegrams flew back and forth between the purchasing company at New York and the oitv treasury yesterday, with the rc3iilt that a special spe-cial meeting of the city commission was called for yesterday afternoon, at which a resolution directing the recorder re-corder to go to New York was passed. An appropriation of $'i30 was made to defray his expenses. Mr. Scheid left at 9 o'clock last night and wiU reach New York Tuesday Tues-day night. Until he arrives the $775,000 bond issue is tied up. Mr. Scheid took with him the official corporate cor-porate seal of the city of Salt Lake, an article weighing aboxit twenty pounds. During the absence of the seal a new seal will have to be used and an order to meet the emergency was placed with the city purchasing agent yesterday. The "city attorney advised the commission com-mission yesterday that the certification certifica-tion demanded by the New York company com-pany was not necessary and had not been put, on city bonds heretofore, but rather than precipitate an embarrassing embarrass-ing situation for the bonding hoiiso or the city, it was decided to waive the point. |