The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-21
CRY NOTICES.

payment Of such Improvement: provided. that
Hhsn tle mode OF payment by bends has been
determined upon the Improvement shall not be be-
gus HiitJi the bonds shall have been negotiated
and al 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
provemeut f,nd district No. ---a-- OF seattle and
The holder or holders of such bonds shall look only
70 sncn fund for the paymen; OF either the princi
pal or the Interest OF said bonds
Resolved that section 13 ofarticIe VIII of the
follows - ''A -
sec. ID Any funds remaining in the treasury.
belonging t. the fund OF any local inproye,neni
district. after the payment Of the whole cost aud
expense OF sueh Improvement in excess of the TO-
tai required 10 efr 4y ali the exnendituras hy
Tue city on account thereof. shall be refunded on
demand 10 the person persons who have over
PAD the same, 70 the amount Of such over pay
Inent; and If here shall be such an excess In the as
s.ssment o. any person who shah not have paid
ms assessment rebate shall. on demand be al
assess nent; provided such den and herein above
provided ter be made within year from the
gate upon which the assessment for sGch local inn
PfoFemeut became due Any such funds remain
ing IN the treasury after the expiration of year
from the daie aforesaid. for which no demand
mas been made as herein provided belonging 10
any local Improvement district. after the payment
OF me Whole cost and expense Of sucn improve
nthl sha be transferred q the fund OF the earliest
aistFiet the cost for the WORK Of which has
Resolved. That article eight (vIII.) of the free
nolders charter he am ended by adding section
thereto 70 be section tweEtynine 70 read follows:
:, rec. -. Snodlvision l.B fore any contract for
the DONG OF any work or lEbos furnishing any
s. III labor or material Tor the city Of seattle
shasi oe Nald or blndlng against said city. the
tractor shah enter into joint and several bond
with the city Of Seattle for the of SAID city and
also Tor the use of all persons who perform or
cause 10 be performed any work OF labor or fur
nish or cause TO furnished any skill labor or ma
tefiai IN the execution of such contract conditioned
TO perform the contract according to its terms con-
Gitlons AID stipniations and TO pay they become
due all just claims for all work and lahor "a nar
formed, and all skill labor and material so fur
hl,hed IN the execution of such contract. and TO
comply with al the requirements of the charter
E he ina DINO, qs
thereto which bond shall be in an amount fixed bv
contract price agreed be paid for the performance
OF such contract, and shall be duly signed by such
Contractor ana two or more good and sufficient
vlded shall be filed in the office OF the city comp
troller of Seattle
each justify as bail upon arrest
More than two sureties may be accepted on such
bono and they may Justify in separate and different
sums less than the specified in such bond:
provided, that the aggrega of their justification
snail be equal to two surees jusiifying in double
vided.
Subdivision 3. 1t shall be the duty of the cor
poTaion counsel of said city to that such bond
Is fully and properly executed and conforms in ali
Ie.pects TO the provisions Of this section; and
lhefeupon snail indorse on said bond his approval
OF the form thereof such bond and the suretes
thereon shall be subject To approval by the mayor
and comptroller but they shall not approve any
such bond unless the said corporation counsels an
proya of the form thereof be Endorsed thereon nor
unless me sureties ON such bond appear personally
before the mayor and comptroller If required, and
are by them examined touching their fitness and
abitty 10 become suretles on such bond: and il
shall be the duty of such mayor and comptroller
reject any person, Notwithstanding his justification
subscribed to the bond. If they shall deem such
person of insufficient ability or otherwise unfit TO
become a surety on such bond.
subdivision 4. No contract with said city for the
doing of any public WORK shall hereafter be
signed or transferred in any manner without first
having Endorsed thereon the consent of the board
of public works and Of the sureties the con-
tractors bond, and no transfer assignment
thereof shall in any wise affect such bond or
thereof.
any assignment or transfer, without such
by operation OF law, of any such contract shall
make the same null and void. TO any further
performance thereof by the contractor or his as
signs without any act on the part OF said city: and
the board of public works OF said city shall at once
proceed to re-let such contract or said board NAV
In It's discretion. proceed To complete the same as
the agent and at the expense of such contractor
and his bondsmen. No assignment. transfer,
abandonment or surrender. either voluntary or
otherwise, of any contract with said city tor the
doing of any work labor or the furnishing of any
labor, skill or material. nor any change in such
contract. nor any extension Of time in which
complete any such contract shall operate to
yided for; and no such assignment. transfer aban-
donnent, surrender. change or extension of time
shall ever be pleaded as defense TO any action
upon such bond in any court in this state
subdivision 8. The board of public works of the
city Of Seattle may, whenever in their Judgment
one or more of the sureties such bond have
becoin insolvent, or for any cause are no longer
fit and sufficient suretes require any such con-
tractor to file additional bond within ten
days after notice to that effect; and tbereupon
Ill work on Sucn contract shall cease untlI SuCn
additional bond shall be filed with the city comp
troller OF said city, and If any such contractor
shall fail for ten days after notice 70 that effect To
file a new additional bond, aforesaid, his
contract shall by that fact alone become fully
ended and void as to further performance thereof
by such contractor. And thereupon said board OF
public works shall proceed 20 re-let such contract,
or said beard may, in its discretion, proceed to
complete the the agent and NJ the expense
| OF such contractor or his bondsmen.
subdivision d. If any such contract shall for
any reason become ended or void and the board of
| public works shall complete the same. as in this
section provided, and the costs of so completing
| such contract shall exceed the amount unpaid by
said city upon such contract At the time the
shall become ended OF void. in sueh ii shall
be the duty OF the corporation counsel of the city
| OF seattle 10 at once commence an action in the
name OF said city against such contractor and his
bondsneu fof the recovery of the difference in
amount between the cost Of so completing such
contract and the amount unpaid by said CITY upon
such contract at the time the same became ended
or void. The board OF public works of the city of
Seattle are hereby prohibited from entering into
any contract for the doing of any work labor or
the furnishing Of any SKIN material with
any person who, within two years prior thereto,
shall have made default in the payment of any
Just claim for any work or labor performed or for
any skill or material furnished pursuant 10 any
such contract with said city, with any person
who. within two years prior thereto, shall have
assigned. abandoned, surrendered failed TO COM
plete any such contract, except herein author
iEgd, or who shan have failed To comply with any
OF the provisions of this section.
II. W. MILLER,
Clerk of the City of Seattle.
Date OF first publication, \ November II, 1891.
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