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RES 0 L UTI 0 N CALL FOR BIDS FOR LEASE OF BAND INSTRUMENTS: 7 WHEREAS, Chief Petty Officer K. A. Greerwood and Warrant Officer Robert Lo White of the United States Navy t,./ 1 have offered to lease nine (9) band instruments owned by this city for use by the Construction Battalion of the United States Navy in the South Pacific for the duration of the war and six months thereafter; and WHEREAS, this Council is willing to entertain an offer therefor; RESOLVED that a notice be published once a week for two weeks calling for bids for the leasing of said instru- ments for said period, in a newspaper requiring bids to be submitted to this Council for its consideration at its next meeting on December 6, 1'343, at 8:00 o'clock P. mo; that the conditions of such proposed lease shall be'that said instru- ments shall be used only within the state of California and given ordinary care, any defects of said instruments now or hereafter occurring shall be repairedjand a bond in the some of $110000 for the safe return of said instruments in as good condition as at present, shall be required, unless the United states Navy shall be the highest and best bidder therefor, in which event no bond shall be required and said instruments may be taken out of the State of California; prohibiting any assignment of such lease and authorizing the City Council to require the return of said instruments forthwith if any rental therefor is unpaid for fifteen (15) days after same becomes due; Passed and adopted by the Council of the City of Redwood City at a regular meeting thereof held on the 15th day of November, 1943, by the following vote: Ayes and in favor of the passage of the foregoing -1-