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The group of lots included in this plan are scat,ered throughout the C~ty and are all encumbered with 1915 Act Bonds, for Paving, Street Lights, Sewers, etc. It has been necessary to levy annually a rate of ten cents per hundred, assessed value, on ALL property within the City Limits, to pay the amounts due under the various 1915 Act Bonds of the City of Santa Aha, now in default. The successful working of this plan will place these lots back on the assessment rolls of both the City and the County and will help eliminate the ten cent levy now required to service the delinquent 1915 Act Bonds. This plan, in general, is as follows:- (a~ The City of Santa Aha will purchase from the County of Orange, under Section 3897d of th~ Political Code, and amendments thereto, the tax title now held by the State of California, subject however, to the ~pproval of the State Controller. At this point the State tax title and the city tax lien will both be vested in the City of Sauta Ana. (b) The City of Santa Ana will then offer to the record owner of each lot so purchased from the County, a small sum of money in cash for a Quitclaim deed to such lots. At this point the City will have a good and marketable title to any such lots for which it holds Quitclaim deeds, thereupon the City will cancel all city taxes and penalties, to date, against such lots. (c) Where Quitclaim deeds to the lots involved in this sale are not secured quickly and at a very mnall cost, the City will inmediately institute a court action to quiet its title to such lots as are secured under tax deed. (d) Upon the Court's decree, granting title to the City (it is expected that most parties will default, by failing to answer the City's complaint), the City will then hold good title and will then cancel all ta~es and penalties outstanding against such lots and will then sell such lots to the best advantage of the City. (e) If it is found that some of these lots cannot be sold for the full amount of the i~sprovement bonds outstanding against them, then it is the intention of the City of Santa Aha to make such sales at the best price obtainable on the present market, so as to get this property back on the assessment rolls. Section 4 of the Assembly Bill 1129, be~ngChapter No. 396 of the Statutes of 1935, pertinent to this plan and reads as follows:- "The facts constituting such necessity are as follows: - Due to the depression which has existed in the past several years, many land-owners have been unable to meet the taxes and assessments levied by the State, political ~dbdivisions, agencies, reclsmations, drainage and levee districts, with the result that their lands have been sold to the State and such taxing and assessing agencies. The heavy penalties assessed by law have made it impossible for the landowners to redeem their lands~ hence, thousands of acre~ of land (together v~th thousands of lots), have been sold for the non- payment of such taxes and assessments, and deeds have been executed thereon to the State and such taxing and assessing agencies. That as long as such lands (or lots~ remain State lands, the same are non-assessable for tax or assessment purposes, and the tax and assessment burden becomes heavy upon the paying lands, causing more delinquencies and losses**~ The legislature hereby declares that the welfare of the State requires that such lands (or lots) be placed in private ownership as promptly as possible so that such land (or lots) henceforth bear its Just proportion of current taxation and assessments." is Plan dated August lst~ 1939. AGR~R~IE~T OF $~E AND PURCHASE THIS AGREEMENT~ made and entered into as of this ?th day of August, 1939, by and BETWEEN: A N D BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE COUNTY OF ORANGE A Political Subdivision hereinafter designated as SELLER CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA, a municipal Corporation of the Fifth Class of the State of California hereinafter designated as BUYER