Voorhees

On January 17, 1934, the city council of the City of Long Beach passed and adopted ordinance No. C-1244, entitled, “An Emergency Ordinance Providing for the Registration and Redemption of Warrants Drawn upon the City of Long Beach; Providing for the payment of Interest upon Such Registered Warrants, and Providing for the Priority of the Payment of Such Registered Warrants.” On February 17, 1934, said city council passed and adopted Ordinance No. C-1251, amending Ordinance No. C-1244, which later enacted ordinance was entitled: “An Emergency Ordinance Amending Section One of Or dinanee No. C-1244 Providing for the Registration and Redemption of Warrants Drawn upon the Treasurer of the City of Long Beach; Providing for the Payment of such Registered Warrants, and Providing for the Priority of the Payment of such Registered Warrants.”

Ordinance C-1244 provided that whenever the city auditor of the City of Long Beach draws his warrant upon the City Treasurer of said city payable out of any fund in the city treasury and such warrant represents an amount in excess of the unapplied money in said fund, the city auditor shall, upon the date that such warrant is drawn, present such warrant…