The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-04
CITY ORDINANCES.

Buildings
the City OF Philadelphia do ordain. That the
following named gentlemen, TO wit-Willtam
Adamson, Wiliiam +. Miskey, Hiram Miller,
James Page, Joshua Spering, Alexander j.
Harper, John McUarthy. John Robbins. Jr.,
George Day, flames II. orne, Robert p. Gilling-
James g. Watson, Thomas u. Walter, Nathan
Hlles, and William Morris Davis. who, together
with the Mayor and the Presidents of Select
and Common Councils, Chief Engineer and
Surveyor Chief Engineer OF the Water Works,
ShieI Com missioner 9t highWsys Inspector OF
Markets and City Property; and they are
hereby appointed and constituted Commission
ers for the erection of Public Buildings for the
accommodation OF the Courts and ali the City
and County Officers who shall hold their Office
al g members by virtue of their office as Mayor,
President of Council, or Head Of Department.,
unless the buildings herein provided for shall
have been before tnat time erected and COM
pleted. Any vacancy occurring in the said
Board excepting those who are members by
Council, or Head OF Department), shall be filled
by Councils. The said Commissioners shall
meet within one month after the passage of
this ordinance. and organize by the election of
a President from their number. but they shall
receive no compensation for their services as
Commissioners. The Clerk OF the Department
of Markets and City Property shall be Secre-
tsry of this Commission.
Section 2. That IL shall be the duty of the said
Board TO advertise in at least two daily news
papers published in said city, for three weeks.
for plans and estimates of cost of the proposed
buildings; and they shall, within three months
afI Ier their first meeting, determine upon and
adopt plan, and thereupon shall determine
what portion OF said plan shall be first executed.
They shall advertise for at least two weeks in
one or more newspapers for proposals for
the erection OF such part TO be by them desig-
mated in the advertisement; and they shall
award The contract or contracts to the lowest
and best bidders, who shall give such security
the Commissioners shall deem sufficient;
ard who shall thereupon enter into a contract
with the said city, and shall proceed, under the
direction of the said Commissioners, to erect
said buildings and fit them up for the purposes
intended. Provided, That no contract under
this ordinance shall be binding upon the city
until approved by Councils.
Sections. That The said commissioners shall
prepare contract, to be approved by the City
Solicitor, the terms OF which shall be published
at the Time Of advertising for the proposals for
the erection of such portion of the buildings as
vide terms of payment, and fix the amount and
kind OF security to be given by the contractor or
contractors, and approve the same. .And when
ever the said Commissioners shall deem il ex-
pedent, they shall proceed in the erection aud
completion & of any any other % part par or parts of the
tracts therefor shall be made and approved,
and shall be awarded after advertisement in
the same manner as is above provided for that
portion which is first to be erected.
Section 4. That the said buildings shall be
erected in Independence So uare.
delphla is hereby pledged that at the time OF
fixing the annual tax for general purposes. In
each year, and annually hereafter until the said
buildings are finished and completed, they will
levy "a special tax of one tenth of one per centum
Philadelphia, or such other rate as will yield at
least three hundred thousand dollars annually;
the said special tax to be collected separately
and TO be kept as separate fund by the City
Treasurer, and to be known as "rhe Public
Buildings Fund.-" and that the said sum so
raised by taxation shall be annually appropri-
ated to the erection and completion of said
buildings, and for no other purpose. Provided,
that no money shall he ex expended by this Com :
mission, except as the same shall be appro-
priated as herein provided.
Section 9. That in order that immediate
steps may be taken for the erection of said
buildings, the sum of ten thousand dollars is
hereby appropriated to the said Commission
ers OF Public Buildings for the purpose of car
rying out the objects OF this ordinance. The
said sum TO be elmbursed out of the amount
TO be raised by taxation under the provisions
OF this ordinance for the year 1869. The war;
rants TO be drawn by the said Commissioners
of Public Buildings. signed by the President
and attested by the Secretary. In the form au'
tboriZed by existing ordinances.
Section 7. That upon the completion of the
buildings herein authorized TO be erected, all
the present buildings upon Independence
Square, with the exception OF independence
Hall, shall be taken down and removed by the
JOSEPH f. MARCER,
President OF Common Council.
Attest
BENJAMIN H. HAINES,
Clerk of Select Council.
WILLIAM s. STOKLEY,
President of Select Council.
Approved this thirty first day of December
Ammo Domini one thousand eight hundred anC
MORTON MoMIOHAEL.
| l2lt Mayor of Philadelphia.