Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-27

| apportionment so made may, within five
days thereafter, appeal to the board of
county commissioners of such county,
and their decision shall be final.
Sec. 8. And upon the completion of
such apportiOnment of the costs of i'm
provement aforesaid, the county clerk
shall enter the same upon the duplicate
tax rolls of the county, and such costs
shall be collected as other taxes.
Sec. 10. The certificates for work done
on any such road, issued by the said
board of commissioners, shall be received
by the county treasurer in payment of
any tax levied under this act.
Sec. II. All necessary bridges along
the line of any such road shall be built as
now provided by law; and the expenses
of surveying, locating and mapping such
road shall be paid by the respective
counties, and the fee therefor shall be
the same as fixed by law for other county
work.
Sec. II. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its first publ
cation in the official state paper.
Approved, March 5, 1887.
l hereby certify that the foregoing is
true and correct copy of the original en-
rolled bill now on file in my office, and
that the same was published in the official
state paper, March II, 1887.
E. B. ALLEN, Secretary of State.
COPIES OF LAWS OF KANSAS, 1887, RELAT
ING TO INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS IN
CITIES OF THE FIRST CLASS.
Section l. [Ch-., Laws 1877. That
whenever the mayor and council of any
city of the first class shall under authority
vested in them by any law of this state,
cause any street, avenue or alley i'll such
city to be graded, curbed, guttered,
paved, repaYed, or macadamiZed,
| or any sewer to be constructed, the
| expense of which is chargeable to the
| AUDITING property, or any bridge over
water course to be erected or the areas
formed by the intersection of streets and
alleys to be paved, repaved or macadam-
lied, they may, i'll their discretion, pro-
vide for the payment of the cost thereof
by installments, instead of levying the
entire tax or special assessment for such
cost at one time; and for such INSTALL
ments they may issue Improvement bonds
of the city, payable in installments of
equal amounts each year, none of which
bonds nor any of the installmentS thereof,
shall run longer than ten years, nor bear
interest exceeding per centum per an
Hul. LIE circuit Oh IHe Guy lSSulLg SucH
bonds shall be pledged for the payment
thereof. Such bonds may be issussF 10
the contractor constructing the ips2sr6vk-
ment in payment thereof, or the mayer
and council sell the same, at ngtsssss'
than their par value, and pay tfessSro-
ceeds thereof to the contractofss sSsuchti
bonds shall not be issued i'll R1Stnt Id
excess of the contract price of'fhe work
or improvement, except that the INSTALL
ment coupons shall include the interest
on such installments to the maturity
thereof. The bonds shall be of such de-
nominations as the mayor and council
shall deem proper. Where improvement
bonds are issued under this act for i'm
prOvements, the cost of which is by law
charged by special assessment against
specific property, the mayor and
council shall levy special assessments
each year sufficient to redeem the INSTALL
ment of such bonds next thereafter ma
turing, but i'll computing the amount of
special assessment to be levied against
each piece Of property liable therefor,
interest thereon shall be added at the
rate of per centum per annum from the
date of the issuance of said bonds until
the maturity of the installment of bonds
next thereafter maturing. Such assess
IueHls sIldll Dc luiut upon Ine property
chargeable for the costs of such improve
ments respectively, and shall be levied
and collected in the same manner as NAV
be provided by law for the levy and col
lection of special assessments for such
improvements where no bonds are issued,
except as otherwise provided by this act,
but the assessed valuation liable for such
cost, which is established for the first
years assessment, shall be retained for
the assessments for the succeeding in
installments of said bonds. The owner
of any piece of property liable to any
such special assessment may redeem his
property from such liability by paying
the entire amount chargeable against his
property, upon the city clerk mailing
him n written or printed notice thirty
days before the issuance of the bonds,
or after the issuance of the bonds by
paying all the installments of the assess
ments which have been levied and also |
the amount of unlevied installments,
with interest on the latter at the rate of S |
per centum per annum from the date of |
the issuance of the bonds TO the time of |
maturity of the last installment In all |
cases where installments of assessments |
not yet levied and paid is above provided. |
whether before or after the issuance of |
the bonds, the same shall be paid to the |