St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-18
Date of
Selections.
Names
and
Locations.
| Date
| of Filing
| PiatS.

l, Garfield, 9th W'd Apr. 80. S7iOcL Id, ST
2, Indian Mound.
Dayton's bluff :. Oct l, 'S7l0ct. Il, 'S7
8, Carpenter. Sam
4, Hiawatha, Re
serve ToWn.,.tOct. 8, 'S7IOct. Ia, 81
s, Lincoln. Day
toms bluff. -. Mar. %, 80 Mar. %, 'S9
g. McManus Mo-
hawk, 9th w'd .. May "a, 'S9lJune ID, 'S9
z. Mound, Dayton S
bluH July IL, 'S9iJulY ~, SS
8, Ridgewood, short
line raj road. -. Aug. 2. 's9'Aug. 8, 80
The result of filing the plats iii the register
of deeds Office holds the property from the
date of filing, thereby preventing the owners
from borrowing upon or disposing of it by
sale or otherwise. while at the same time the
property is liable for the general taxes and
all the assessments for local improvements,
which the owners would have to pay before
the amount of damages awarded to them for
the laud selected and condemned could be
paid.
Hiawptha Park Is not in the statement of
the status of the city park fund furnished to
the board of public works on the =, Tia ultimo,
as it was not on the list of parks given to me
at the time for the purpose. find that the
plat in the register of deeds Office shows that
the selection of The land for said park was
confirmed by the park commissioners Oct 8,
1889, and filed Oct. Ii, 1887,
1t is claimed that your honorable
board have annulied all the proceedings
covering the Hiawatha park. which may
be the case so far as to all of the pro-
ceediugS after the platS were placed
upon file in the register of deeds office,
but Hiawatha has as lively an existence
in said Office as any other of the parks
selected, consequently holding $40, 600
of the city park fund, as one of the ap-
preparations in the regular order of
selection of the land and filing of the
plats.
The accompanying statement of the
condition of the city park fund contains
all of the parks selected, except Ridge
wood park, in the order of selection and
filing, including Hiawatha, shows a bal
ance of s9,39l.T to the credit of the
fund Feb. Is, 1890.
If Ridgewood was figured in the state
ment, the fund would be overdrawn
S22,916.10, but if the common council
should order the $4,000 and $4,000 city
bonds issued for the city park fund to
cover the Indian Mound and McManus
Mohawk p rks respectively, the assess
ment for the Indian Mound park would
be only S11,S79. about third of the
cost, in place of S15, $3.50, half the cost
represented in the statement, making a
difference of s4,060.50 in favor of the
fund, which. with the bonds. if issued,
would snow credit balance or SlO,-
l44.4O in the city park fund. The park
commissioners and board of public
works are aware that in case the COM
mon council
DECLINE TO ISSUE BONDS,
the power rests with the park COM
missiOnprs to have the condemnation
proceedings made in the regular way,
Just the same as if no legislative act
passed authorizing the common council
to issue said bonds for said Indian
Mound and McNanus parks.
1t is optional with the council to issue
the bonds, and not mandatory, where
fore it would be absurd and false for me
to credit the city park fund with these
bonds when at the same time they have
no existence, and it would be equally
false for me to strike out of the state
ment the amounts charged for Indian
Mound and McManus parks. as they
have an existence in the Office of the
register of deeds of greater weight than
any of the parks where the prOfiles
were subsequently filed in said offibe.
In case the legislative act made 1t
mandatory upon the council to issue
said bonds, it would be proper to in
clude them in the credit of the city park
fund.
The withdrawal of assessment war
rants from my Office and the annulling