The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-30

shall cause notice of such application and reso-
luton to be published for ten days in the G ~
Official newspaper and shall In said notice
specify the route over and along which they
have determined to grant such franchise, and
shall offer to grant the same to the person,
company or corporation who viii pay the high
est sum for the franchise. Bidding for such
franchise must be in accordance with the pro-
visions OF this charter in relation to bids made
to the board of public works, so far as such pro-
visions may be applicable. and the city council
may reject any and all bids, and may refuse TO
grant franchise for any part of { he ronte for
which the application was made.
Sec. q. The city council Fhall make no appro-
priation in aid of any corporation, person or
society, unless expressly authorized by this
charter or the laws of the state
SEC. 20 The city council, after the taxes have
been levied in any year, shall have power to
make temporary loans in anticipation of the
collection of such taxes SUCH loans to be APP
piled TO the purpose for which such taxes have
been levied and for no other, and such tax shall
be inviolably applied to pay such loans.
Sec. 20. When loans shall be created and
bonds therefor issued by the city under this
charter, the city council in authorizing and
providing for the same shall direct the times
and manner OF payment and rates of interest
but no such bonds shall be issued except as
provided by law. nor unless thu proposition for
creating such Indebtedness shall have been pre-
viously submitted to the electors of the city at a
regular general special election, of which
nintey days notice shall have been published in
the city official newspapers. and such PROPOSE
ton shall have then received the affirmative
vote of q majority OF the voters OF such
election. The mode and manner of sub
mitting such proposition to the voters
shall be described by ordinance. And in
case the majority of voters are in favor OF such
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by ordinance confirm the loan; but no bonds
shall be issued therefor until after such confr-
nation, nor until the city council shall have
made specific provisions for sinking fund to
be raised by annual pass sufficient to pay ana
discharge such bonds at maturity, and the faith
and property of the city shall be and is hereby
pledged for the final payment OF any and all
such loans.
eec So No debt or obligation of any kind
against the city shall be created by the city
council except by ordinance specifying the
amount and object Of such expenditure
Sec. 81 No expenditure, debt or liability shall
be made, contracted or incurred during any ifs.
cal year that cannot be paid out of the revenues
provided for such fiscal year. Except as other
wise authorized in this charter, tine city shall
not, nor the city council or any board. depart
ment or officer incur any Indebtedness or liabil-
ity in any manner or for any purpose exceeding
in any year the income and revenue provided
for it for such fiscal year. All contracts. in
debtedness or liabilities incurred contrary to the
provisions of this section shall be void, and
shall not be paid out of the treasury, or consti-
tute or be the foundation of any claim. demand
or liability legal equitable. against SAID city.
The words expenditure, Indebtedness and liabil-
ity herein used shall include official salaries
and the pay of all employees of the said city or
any of its departments.
Sec. 80. No part of the income or revenue pro
f1n1 Ia tax.fA rI1n71 hxc
piled in payment of any Indebtedness or liabil-
ity incurred during any previous fiscal year, the
sinking fund and the interest upon the bonded
debt alone excepted.
Sec. SO. All ordinances or bills for appropriate
ing money or for the incurring of Indebtedness
or liability against the city introduced in either
house must, before being passed. be presented
to the comptroller, and until he certifes in
writing upon such ordinance or resolution that
such appropriation can be made or indebted
ness incurred without the violation of any of
the provisions of this charter, no further action
shall be had upon the same.
Sec. 81 Neither the. city council nor any
ofhcer board, department or authority shall
allow, make valid, or in any manner recognize
any demand against the city which was not at
the time Of its creation q valid claim against the
same. nor shall they or any of them ever allow
or authorize to be paid any demand which,
without such action. would be invalid, or which
shall then be barred by any statute of imita-
ton, or for which said city was never liable.
Fec. 50. Except as otherwise ordered in this
charter, the city council or any board, depart
ment, committee or officer shall NOT give one
demand preference over another in the author
ization. allowance, or approval thereof; but de-
mands shall be acted upon in the order in which
they are presented.
Sec. IS. All claims for damages against the
city must be presented to the city council and
G1od wit fho alor1 xuifh 81 he
occurrence from which the damages arose, 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 has made its report to
the city council thereon pursuant to such ref.
erence.
Sec. 81. The city council shall in every ordi-
nance prohibiting or requiring any act or omis-
sion, impose penalty for the violation thereof
or noncompliance Herewith.
Sec. 3S. Actions may be prosecuted in the
name of tie city against any person or persons
who shall violate any provision of any ordi-
nance OF the city, or who shall neglect or refuse
to perform any act or duty thereby required of
OF him or them; and in every such action the
ordinance or provision thereof shall be suffi-
ciently pleaded in the complaint by reeitng the
number and title OF the ordinance and the num-
Der of section or other subdivision containing
the requirement, and proceedings for any viola
ton of an ordinance may be commenced by
warrant of arrest, as well as by service of sum-
mons. to be issued by any magistrate or court
having jurisdiction in the case and every JUS
tce of the peace in this city shall have iurisdic.
ton in all such cases.
Sec. SO. The city council shall designate two
daily newspapers each having large and gen.
eral circ ulation in the city, In which shall be
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tees, tax and assessment sales, and all other
proceedings, statements, papers, doings or mat
tiers of the mayor, city council or any depart-
ment board or other Off cer or functuary of the
city which by this charter or any law or orli-
nance are or shall be required to be published
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
caused to be printed in pamphlet form full
and Ineligible statement of all the receipts
and expenditures Of every description for the
fiscal year ending on the 3ist day OF December.
next preceding such statement, including Ali
the moneys which have passed through the
hands of the treasurer for any purpose what.
ever, together with the different sources OF cisv
revenue, the amount received from each the
several appropriations made by the city conn
ell, the objects for which the same were made
ana the sums expended for each, and anv
money borrowed upon the credit of the citv
whether by temporary loans or by the issue of
bonds, The terms upon which it was Obtained.
the authority under which it was borrowed. and
the purpose to which it was applied and how
much Ct the same or other city Indebtedness has
been paid aud by what means; a copy of which
statement shall be supplied to every citizen
making application therefor. The statement
shall also include a detailed account of civ
property, personal and real, its value, and II
rented. to whom and on W hat terms. aud of ex.
listing debts of every description and of the con.