The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-14
CTrF NOTICES.

C o b TnaKEnE pAy-
ment for such local Improvement to-wit: I'm
mediate payment and payment by bonds" The
mode to be adopted snail be the mode pc
titoned for. The mode of immediate pay
ment" shall be as follows: After the city
couHcil has by ordinance or Joint resolu-
ton ordered authorized the making Of any
local Improvement, and not more than twenty days
AFTER the contract therefor has been let her elm
after provided, the board of public works shall
report to the council an assessment roll
prepared by the city engineer. which
parcel of land or part thereof to be assessed with
the number OF feet frontage charged to each, the
total frontage the district frontage to be deter
mined provided in section OF this article the
total cost OF the Improvement including ali neces-
sary incidental expenses the rate per front foot.
the amount OF eacn ass ssment and the name OF
the owner of each lot parcel of land part thereof
If known, but in no case shall n mista ke in the
name of the owner be fatal where description OF
the property Is given together with the amount
charged to s:reet crossings
The council on receipts of such roll and assess
ment shall cause police thereofto be published in
the Official newSpape OF the city for ten coiSecu-
such roll has been filed and requiring them TO APP
pear at time fixed. not less than fifteen days from
the date OF such notice. and make objection thereto.
Toe council shall at the time fixed consider any
and all objections made, and shall make such cor
Tections of such roll as it deems just, and shall
then deduct the amount of such cost assessed
asainst street crossings, which shall be paid from
the general road fund of the city, and shall then by
ordinance approve such roll and shall levy and
sess the amounts thereof against each parcel and
lot and declare the same lien thereon and shall
direct he city clerk 60 deliver the roll to the city
comptroller who shall forthwith deliver to the city
treasurer certified copy thereof, upon receipt of
which the treasurer shall proceed to collect the
same as other city taxes are collected: provided,
that such treasurer shall give ten days notice IN
the official newspaper tand shall mall a
the property assessed when the postoffice adj
dress of such owner is known, but the failure to
mail the same shall not be fatal when publication
thereof is made) that such roll has been certified TO
him for collection, and that unless payment Is
tice such assessment shall become del nquent and
shall bear interest at the rate of 10 per cent.
annum until paid, and If not paid before said as
sessment shall have become delinquent a penalty
of per cent shall be added, and the sums delin-
quent shall be entered on the annual tax roll for
the current year against each lot and parcel so de-
linquent and with the interest collected as other
taxes, separate account being kept thereof, and if
not paid within the time fixed for the payment of
city taxes, shall be collected such taxes are col
lecaed, together with such addt onal charges or
penalties as are authorized TO be charged and col
lected on other delinquent taxes, and each lot or
parcel so delinquent shall be sold for the amount OF
such assessment with interest and costs at the
time and in the manner and by the same authority
as lands and lots are sold for city taxes.
Resolved that section 8 of article VIII. Of the
follows:
Sec 8 II payment by bonds" is to be made for
such improvement, then and in such case each es-
innate and roll shall be made and returned and
corrections made, and the notice given. as in the
eighth section hereinabove provided, and the cost
and expense of the Improvement shall be assessed
against the lots and parcels OF land as in said sec
ton declared. payne Mt for the CROSSINGS to be made
as therein stated, and n copy OF such roll
filed with the city treasurer. But the ordinance
Shall further declare on making such levy that the
sum charged against each lot and parcel OF land
shall be paid in not more than ten equal annual
payments, with interest upon the whole sum so
charged at a rate to be fixed by the city council
IN said ordinance, which annual rate of interest
shall be in each case per cent per annum
higher than the annual rate of interest which the
bonds to be issued in part payment Of the cost of
the Improvement, are to bear, as hereinafter pro-
vided. said interest shall be paid annually, and
the city treasurer shall proceed to collect the
amount due each year in the some manner as pro-
vided for collections in section eight hereof
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council as the agent of the local Improvement dis
trct, shall cause to be issued, in the name of the
city of Seattle the bonds of such local improve
ment district for the whole estimated cost of such
Improvement less the cost of such crossings and
thu amount assessed against lands of the United
States, the state of Washington State university,
county of King, city of Seattle or any school dis
trct, such bonds shall be called "Local Improve
ment Bonds, District No -, of the City of Seat
tle;" shall be payable not more than ten years
after date and snail be subject TO annual call by the
city treasurer, in such numbers and amounts as he
may have cash on hand to pay the same in the
respective local improvement fund from which
such bonds are pay abie and shall bear interest at
such rate per annum as the city council shall by
ordinance determine; provided that III no case
shall such bonds bear higher rate of interest than
nine per cent. per annum; said interest shall be
payable seminar nuaily at the office of the city
treasurer such bonds shall be sold after thirty days.
public notice thereof given. TO the highest bidder
thereof but in case shall such bonds be sold for
less than par and the proceeds shall be applied in
payment of such improvement: provided. that
when the mode of payment by bends has been
determined upon the improyement snail moi he he
gun until the bonds shall have been negotiated,
a2d all funds raised in each Improvement district,
as well as funds borrowed therefor. shall be paid
into fund for such district, to be called Local i'm
provement fund district No. - of Seattle, and
the holder holders of such bonds shall look only
to such fund for the payment of either the princi
pal or the interest of said bonds
Resolved that section -. Particle VIII. OF the
follows:
sec Is. ANY funds remaining in the treasury,
belonging TO the fund OF any local Improvement
district after the payment of the whole cost and
expense of such improvement, in excess of the to-
tai sum required to defray all the expenditures by
the city on account thereof shall be refunded, on
demand, to the person or persons who have over
paid the same, to the amount of such over pay
ment and If there shall be such excess in the
sessment OF any person who shall not have paid
his assessment a rebate shall. on demand, be al
lowed 10 such person TO the amount of such over
assessment; provided, such demand herein above
provided for be made within year from the
date upon which the assessment for such local inn
ing in the treasury after the expiration of year
from the date aforesaid for which no demand
has been made as herein provided belonging to
any local improvement district, after the payment
OF the whole cost and expense of such improve
ment shall be transferred TO the fund of the earliest
formed district the cost for the work of which has
not be paid.
Resolved. That article eight (vIII.) of the free
holders charter he amended by adding section
thereto to be section twentvnins. 10 read follows:
sec 20. Subdivision l.B fore any contract for
the doing of any work or labor, or furnishing any
kill labor material to for the city of Seattle
shall be valid or binding against said city. the con-
tractor sbali enter INTO joint ana several bond
with the city of Seattle for the of said city and
also for the use of all persons who may perform
cause to he performed any work or labor fur
nish cause he furnished any skill, labor or ma
terial in the execution o such contract conditioned
TO perform the contract according TO its terms
dltions and stipulations and To pay they become
due all just claims for all work and labor so per-
formed and all skill or labor and material so fur
nished in the execution of such contract, and TO
comply with all the requirements of the charter
and ordinances of said city and the amendments
thereto which bond shall be in an amount fixed by
the board of public works. but not less than the
contract price agreed tobe paid for the performance
of2 tt,sh An
contractor and two or more good aud sufficient
sureties, and after being approved herein pro-
troller OF Seattle.
Subdivision 2. The sureties on such bond shall
each justify as ball upon arrest.
More than two sureties may be accepted on such
bond, and they may justify in separate and different
provided, that the aggregate of their Justification
shall be equal to two suretieS justifying in double
the amount OF the bond in the manner herein pro-
yided.
Subdivision 3. 1t shall be the duty of the cor
poTaion counsel of said city To see that such bond
Is fully and properly executed and conforms in all
respects 10 the provisions OF this section: and
theraupon shall indOrse on said bond his approval
of the form thereof such bond and the suretles
thereon shalt be subject 20 approval by the mavor
and comptroller. but they shall not approve any
such bond un ess the said corporation connsels ap-
prova Of the form thereof be Endorsed thereon nor
unless the sureties on such bond appear personally
Def re the mayor and cumptroller If required And
are by them examined touching their fitness ana
ability to become SuretleS such bond; and IL
shall be the duty of SUCH MAYOR ana nnntroer To
reject any person, notwithstanding his Justification
su scribed to the bond. II they shah deem such
person of insufficient ability otherwise unfit 10
become surety Ga such bond.
subdivision l. No cOutEac: with said CITY for the
doing Of any public worS shall hereafter be as
signed or transferred III any manner without first
having Endorsed thereon the consent of the board
OF puoc works and of the sureties ON the con
tractors honH, and no transfer or assignment
thereof shall III any wise affect such bond a.
the liability of the sureties thereof and
any assignment or transfer, without such
consent and waiver Endorsed thereon, except
by operation OF law, OF any such contract shall
make The same mall and void. a any further
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