The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-03
SEATTLE ACKNOWLEDGMENT. THURSDAY, JULY B 1890.

make valid, or in any menner recognize any de-
mand against the city which was moi, at the
time OF its creation q valid claim against the
same, nor shall they or any of them ever aloW
or authorize TO be paid sny demand when.
without such action, would De invalid. or which
shall then be barred by any statute of limitation,
or for which said city was never liable.
Sec 80 Referred 20 the committee on reve-
nue. and finance
Sec Sc. Ali claims for damages sgainst the city
must be presented TO the city council and filed
with the clerk within six months after the
time such claim for damages accrus, and no
ordinance shall be passed allowing any such
Claim or any part thereof, or appropriating
money or other property to pay or satisfy the
same or any part thereof until such claim has
first been referred TO the proper department, nor
until such department mas maGeits report to the
city council thereon pursuant 70 such reference.
No action shall be maintained against the city
for any claim for damages until the same has
been presented 10 the city council, and sixty
days have elar ssd after such presentation.
Sec. 81. The city council shall in every ord-
nance prohibiting or requiring any act or omis-
sion, impose penalty for the violation thereof
or Noncompliance Herewith
Sec s.. Preferred to the judiciary committee. !
Sec. SO. Referred TO the leg slative committee
Sec. 40 The city council shall at least once In
each year and not less than twenty nor more
than ninety days before the biennial election,
cause to be printed in pamphlet form fun and
ineligible statement of all the receipts ana
expenditures of every description for the fiscal
year ending on the 31st day of December next
preceding such statement, including all the
moneys which have passed through the hands
OF the treasurer for any purpose whatever,
together with the different resources of city rev.
enue, the amount received from each, the sew
eral appropriations made by the city council.
the objects for which the same were made and
the sums expended for each, and any me ney
borrowed upon the credit of the city, whether
by temporary loans or by the issue of bonds,
the terms upon which it was Obtained, the au-
thority uncer which 1t was borrowed. and the
purpose TO which IL was applied and how much
OF the same or other city Indebtedness has been
PAID and by what means; copy of which state
ment shall be supplied TO every citizen OF the age
OF twenfy-one years and upward making appli-
cation therefor. The statement shall also IN
clude detailed account OF city property. per-
sonal and real, its value. and If rented, to whom
and on what terms. and OF existing debts of
every description and of the condition of the
sinking fund, with all other information neces
sary for full understanding Of the financial
concerns of the city.
Sec d. All ordinances in force in the city at
date of the adoption of this charter and not in
consistent Herewith shall remainin force until
repealed, or until they expire by Limitation.
QUARANTINE.
The following article, as amended by the
committee on sanitation. was reported back:
SECTION !. Tie board of health may proclaim
such guarantees and establish aud declare such
quarantine districts and stations as may in their
Judgment be necessary for the preservation of
public health, and may appoint and remove at
pleasure quarantine officer.
Sec. 2. ALI vessels arriving at the port of Sc
attic from ports which have been legally de-
clared infected ports, aud all vessels arriving
from any place where there is prevailing at the
time OF departure any contagious, infectious or
pestilential disease, are subject to quarantine,
and must be, by the master, owner, pilot or con-
signee, reported to the quarantine officer with
out delay. No such vessel must cross q line
drawn as prescribed by the board OF health until
the quarantine officer has boarded the same and
given the order required by law
Sec. 8. The board of health shall make rules
and regulations relating to the disposition of
the sick and diseased arriving on any ship or
vessel, and the city council shall provide by or
dinance for the recovery of all expenses and
charges incurred in their treatment. or burial
Sec. A. The board may, when deemed neees-
sary, require all railroad cars or other public
conveyances. before the same shall stop at any
depot or station in the city to stop at any local
ity selected and established for quarantine pur-
poses, and to leave all such persons with their
stores and baggage. as in the opinion of the
health officer shall be deemed necessary for the
health OF the city.
Sec. 5. The board OF health shall make such
rules and regu atoms for the government of the
quarantine or the health of the city as from
time to time the public health may require and
the physicians or health officers in charge OF any
quarantine station or place shall have power to
enforce such regulations may be necessary
for the proper management thereof and it shall
be the duty OF all persons in quarantine. and all
agents, officers. policemen or others employed
by the city in and about said quarantine stations
or places to carry out and obey the same.
Sec. 6. It shall be unlawful to disinter or ex-
hume from grave, vault, cemetery or other
burial place within the city limits, or to deposit
therein the body OF any deceased person, with
out first causing to be filed a. the health Office
a certificate signed by legally qualified ply
stefan or coroner, setting forth as nearly as pos.
sbie the name, age. sex. color, place of birth.
occupation. date locality and cause OF death of
such decedent and obtain from the health officer
a written permit for burial or other purposes
Sec. T. The health officer shall prepare book
of blank permits in proper form containing
stubs, on which as we'll as in the permit shall
be entered by the health officer or his clerk a
record giving the name, age, nativity, and cause
of death, place of burial AID destination of re-
mains to be transported or otherwise removed
Sec. The city council must by ordinance or
otherwise provide for the enforcement of such
orders and regulations as the board OF health
may adopt and the council approve, providing
also for all expenses incurred in carrying out
the suggestions of the board. In addition to the
powers in the article enumerated, the health Of
fcer and the members of the board of health
may administered oaths on business connected
with the department and shall have such other
mowers and authority as may be presclibed hv
ordinance OF the city council or By general law.