St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-08


for conference relative to the welfare
and financial affairs OF the city. Eacl,
officer is to make monthly reports. and
any member absent from the meetings
for two consecutive sessions shall be
held to have resigned his Office. No
officer can be excused from making a
monthly report. The tenth section of
the bill reads:
1t is hereby made the duty of the
conference committee, after advising
with the different departments OF said
city and with said board of educational as
early as its meeting in July, 1891, to
make out and designate by resolutionia
detailed and itemiZed statement of the
amount OF money which, in It's opinion,
it will be necessary to raise by the tax
levy to be made in the year 1891 for car
fying on the business of SAID city and
the affairs of said school board for said
year 1891, and to recommend said state
ment and resolution to the COM
mon council of said city hot
later than during the month
of August, 1891, and said council shall,
not later than It's first meeting in Sep
TENDER, 1891, declare, by resolution, the
amount in dollars that must be levied
for each department of said city and for
said school board for said year 1891, for
carrying on the business OF Said city
and the affairs of said school board for
said year. and said council shall have no
authority to declare for any greater
amount for any department of said city
or for said board of education. than is
shown by said recommendation of said
conference committee, but it may make
levy Or designation for less amount
than is shown in said recommendation.
As soon as said council shall designate
the amount of money to be
Raised by Taxation,
as herein provided. said council shall
transmit, or cause to be transmitted to
the county auditor of said Ramsey
county, its action and designation, and
thereafter and before the first day OF
November, said council shall make
tax levy OF said amount as now pro-
vided by law and the charter of said
city, and said tax levy shall be entered
upon the tax duplicates of the county of
Ramsey at the time said duplicates are
made up, and collected in like manner
as state and county taxes are collected.
IT shall be the duty of said conference
committee in the month of December of
each year. beginning in the year of
:, 1891, to make out an itemiZed statement
showing the amount of money afOre-
said which, in its opinion. will be need
ed for the use of each department of
said city, and for the use of said board
OF. education during the then succeed
I ing year, and to designate the same by
resolution, and the same shall be report
ed and recommended by said conference
committee, potIater than January next
following, said designation to the CON-
mon council of said city, and said
council shall thereupon, not later than
the month OF February next following,
declare, by resolution. the amount in
dollars that must be levied for each de-
partment of said city and for said
school board for the then current year
for carrying on the business of said city
and the affairs of said school board for
said year, and said council shall have
no authority to declare for any greater
amount for any department of said city
or of said school board than is shown by
said recommendation of said conference
committee, but it may make a levy or
designation for less amount than is
shown in said recommendation.
AS soon as the said council shalt
designate in any year the amount Of
money to be raised by taxation. as here;
i'll provided. said council shall transmit
Or cause to be transmitted to The county,
auditor OF said Ramsey county, it's ac-l
ton and designation, and thereafter
and before the first day of November
next following. the said council shall Z
> ~, Make a Tax Levy
of said amount as now provided by law
aud the charter Of. said city, and SAID tax
levy 'shalfbe entered upon the tax du-'
plieates of the county of Ramsey at the
time. said duplicates are made up, and
collected in like manner as state and
county taxes are collected.
AS soon as said tax designation or eS-s
innate for any particular year is trans
.:mitted to the county auildItOr, as afOre-
Saidy said city,, said common council by
ordinance first directing same, may
issue and sell, Or.cause to be issued and
sold, certificates CT indebtedness, in an
ticipation Of the collection of taxes for
any department. tanned in said tax eSti-
mate, for the purpose OF raising fluids
for the use and support of such depart
ment; but no power shall exist to issue
certificates Tor any Of said departments
exceeding eighty $50 per cent of the
amount named IN said tax estimate to
be collected for the use and benefit of
said department, and said certificates
from time to time if necessary; but no
certificate shall be issued to be-
come due and payable later than
June Is of the year sue
ceeding the year in which said tax esti-
mate reported to said auditor as afOre-
said, was made, and certificates shall
not be sold for less than par and shall
not draw a greater rate of interest than
Z per cent per annum. Each certificate
shall state upon its face for which of
said departments the proceeds of said
certificate shall be used, the whole
amount embraced in said tax estimate
for that particular department, and they
shall be numbered copsecntively and be
OF the denomination of five hundred
dollars $500 each, and the proceeds of
the tax assessed and collected as afore-
said for said department is hereby ir-
reyocably pledged for the redemption of
the certificates so issued for its depart
mert.4 The word department" in this
section shall be held to embrace said
board of education as well as the de-
partmentS of said city.
The proceeds OF the sale of the certifi-
Gates for any department aforesaid shall
not be borrowed or diverted Tor the use
and support of any other department,
except in case there is at any time
surplus of cash to the credit of any de-
partment, three.fourths of the confer
ence committee may, by resolution. said
common council conserving thereto, au-
th0riZe said surplus cash to be invested
IN the purchase of the certificates of
any other department.