Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-01-27
CITY COUNCIL.
Transactions in the Oity's Interest Thurs
day Evening, by Our City Fathers.
Report Regarding street Paving -Ch'ef
Walkers Report ON the BevingtOn Case
Relocation Of Electric Light
Minor Business.


evening" fres'ueh' MAST III ti'e cta"' 'io'''
bers absent: Cogley and Russell.
Minutes of the previous meeting wer'
read by the clerk and approved.
BY the solicitor-Deed by. w. BOOK
walter of lot on Lagonda avenue, for flr'
engine house. Referred TO committee o.
ilre department.
The city solicitor presented the follow
ing:
SPRINGFIELp. o.. Jan. 20, 1856.
10 the boporable CITY council:
Gentlemen.-In c,mpliance with you
resolution of m. sth inst
directing me to report wha
preliminary proceedings are necessary I.
suthoyiye cornciI IN order certain paris M
Min limestone and High streets TO b.
navel i h,, leave to saw.
That council may. ON the written petit
ion of the owners of more than two-thiri,
of the feet front of the property abuttins
ON the streets or street. or part of the street
10 he improyai. by ordinance. direct the
work 10 he done. Or council two-thirds OF
the members elected thereto copcurriny, NAV
order the work done. proceeding as herein.
after stated:
Council NAV assess the cost of the i'm.
nrnNtntanf ALL the taNAhltA real and
sonal prouerty in the corporation: or il NAV
p,ouir,. the Street Railway Campany tu
nave that mart of the street between III.
rails of its tracks and then assess the cosi
of having the remainder of the street on
the abuffing ard s,,ch adjacent and cOatig,l-
ons. or other benefited lots and lands in the
CITY. either in proportion 10 the benefits
which may result from the improyemept. or
s..ssed. or by the feet front of the nroperty
admitting up,n the improyement. as council
may determine
In the event. however. that council de-
termines 10 assess the cost of the improy.-
mept ON the abutting property. whether
accorIing 10 the value. the benefits. or feet
front, the city must assess a tax upon the
general tax list Of all the taxable real and
personal property in the cOrporation for the
estimated cost and expense Of SO much of
the Improvement as NAV be included in the
crossings or Intersections of streets. toeetber
with one-fiftieth of ali the costs and ex-
penses of the Improvement
The tax or assessment. so specially levied
and assessed ON any LOT of land for the i'm
proyement must in no case amount to
inore than as per centum of the value of the
property as assessed for taxation, and the
cost exceeding that per ceutum mu.t he maid
by the corporation ont of its general rsy,,.
nue.: and there cannot be collected of such as
in apy one wear. more than one
fifteenth of the yalue of the prnperty On
which the assessment WAS made. as yaiued
in the county tax list for taxation. And the
same territory must not be assessed for
making two different streets. within a uerioi
Of five wears. i'm such amounts that the
maximum assessment of 25 per ceptum will
IN, thereby be executed.
II council should decide to make the as
sessment by the foot front and tber,, is land
or ahutting said improvements
and living lengthwise of said improyements
the council must fix the front Of such land
and such lots to the usual depth of lots in
the neiyhborhood which are subject Tn sucb
If council makes the assessments pav.ble
In annual installments. il NAV barrow unon
the credit of the citv a sum OF money suffi-
c;ept to nav the estimated cost and expenss
of Improvement and NAV issue bonds notes
or certificates of indebtedness. pledging the
faith and credit of the CITY for the nayment
of the prjncipal and interest
There are other provisions of law appli
cable TO the subject which I have not
thought il necessary now to notice.
Respectfully submitted.
A. n. SUMMERS.
City Solicitor
By the Mayor-Statement from Chief of
Police Walker regarding the charges pr,.-
ferred against Ofjcer Beyinpton in the Red
den and o,her cases, In the case
of Reiden. who. il has been charged.
WAS shot in the leg by ON
Ger Beyington some weeks since. under
slight proyication, the chief states that the
evidence shows that Officer Beyington did
shoot of his revolver on the night and at
the place stated, but that he fired il in the
air for the purpose of intimidation onIy:
that four or five DAYS after the alleged shoot
ing. Redden applied to surgeon to dress
his wound. whom he told he had been shot
by Officer Mills few nights before: that
this he 1.-THE chief, knew 70 be untrue. for
Mills was, at the hour mentioned. ON duty
at the uatrol hOuse: that Retlden Ia a
drunken. worthless. and troublesome
character, and that he NAV
have shot himself or his companion