Casper

*31 OPINION

By proper proceedings the City Council of the City of Los Angeles called an election at which the voters of said city duly authorized the issuance of bonds in the sum of $7,500,000 for the acquisition of land and the construction thereon of a new city hall. A part of said bonds have been sold, and proceedings for acquiring the site are under way. When this stage in the proceedings had been reached,, the city council, on March 6, 1925, by a two-thirds vote of all its members, passed a resolution reciting some of the facts above stated and that the council had been considering the selection of an architect or architects for the city hall, and that “the design, *32 preparation of plans, and supervision of the erection of the city hall is of that nature requiring professional, scientific, and expert services” and declaring that “pursuant to the provisions of section 207-a, Article XX, of the charter of the City of Los Angeles, the offer of Curlett & Beelman, Incorporated, architects of the City of Los Angeles, to design, supervise the erection of and to do any and all things generally and usually required of architects in connection with the erection of a building similar…