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103 THE STATE OF TEXAS § THE COUNTY OF HAYS § CONTRACT FOR THE COLLECTION OF DELINQUENT TAXES THIS CONTRACT is made and entered into by and between the City of San Marcos, acting herein by and through its Mayor, J.E. Younger, hereinafter called "First Party", and Heard, Goggan, Blair, WilJ i affiS & Harrison and Pearcy, Garner & Hernandez, Attorneys at Law, hereinafter called "Second Party". I. First Party agrees to employ and does hereby employ Second Party to enforce by suit or otherwise the collection of all delinquent taxes, penalty and interest, within the City of San Marcos owing to the First Party, provided current year taxes falling delinquent within the period of this Contract shall become subject to its terms on the first day of July of the year in which the same shall become delinquent. II. Second Party is to call to the attention of the collector or other officials any errors, double assessments, or other discrepancies coming under their observation during the progress of the work, and shall intervene on behalf of First Party in all suits for taxes hereafter filed by any taxing unit on property located within its geographical limits and shall file and prosecute claims for delinquent taxes in the u.S. bankruptcy courts where applicable. III. First Party agrees to furnish delinquent tax statements to Second Party on all property within the taxing jurisdiction. Second Party will furnish forms for said statements on request and will assume responsibility for having penalty and interest computed on statements before such statements are mailed to property owners. IV. Second Party agrees to file suit on and reduce to judgment and sale any property located within the City of San Marcos against which a tax lien would prevail and to procure on behalf of First Party all information necessary for the proper preparation, filing and prosecution of said suits, including but not limited to, necessary data -1-