The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-04
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS.

~se. suca pords snan De csrlsd local improve
men; Bonds District No. -, OF the City Of Seat
le;" shall be payable not more than ten years
after date and shall be subject to annual call BY the
city treasurer in such manner and amounts as ns
may have cash hand to pay the same In the
such bonds are payable, and shall Gear Interest a.
such rate per annun Is The city council shall by
sran.ncs Ssae e. Tia, =, IN no sass
nine per cent per annum; saId interest shall be
payable semi annu.liy o. the onics Of The city
public notice thereof given, to the highest bidder
therefor but In case shall such bonds be sold for
payment Of such Improvement; provided that
when the mode Of payment by bonds has been
yum until the bonds shall have been negotiated.
and all funds raised in each Improvement district,
IS wei a. FUNDS oorr9wea mercer shall % pald
provement Fund District No. - Of Seattle" and
the holder or holders Of such bonds shall look emily
10 such fund for the pay ment OF either the prnct-
pal or the interest Of said honda
Resolved that section Is. of article VIII. Of the
freeholdss charter be amended 50 a. to read a.
SEQ 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-
s SUN os 10 ssreo sh s. %
demand, to the person or persons who have over
paid the same. 70 the amount Of such pay.
ment: and If there shall be such excess In the
sessment of any person who shall not have paid
bis assessment a rebate shall. ON demand, be al
assessment; provided such demand herein above
provided for be made within two years from tbs
provement became due. Any such funds remain
Ing in the treasury after the expiration of two
from the date Aforesaid, for which no demand
any local Improvements district, after tine payment
Of the whole cost and expense of such improve
ent shall be transferred to the fund Of the earliest
formed district the cost for the work Of which has
not been paid.
ezsolved That article eight (vIII) OF the rec
soldiers charter be amended by adding Q section
thereto to be section to read follows:
Sec. 29. Subdivision l.-Befors any contract for
skill labor material to or for the city of Seattle
shall be valid or binding against said city. the
tractor shall enter into joint and several bond
with the city of Seattle for the of said city and
also for the Ilse Of all persons who perform
nish cause to furnished any skill labor or ma
tsrla In the execution OF such contract conditioned
TO perform the contract according to Its
ditions and stipulations and pay as they become
due all just claims for all work and labor per-
sSsd II; an ne az .scuon ~ sneh cansr 50 do
and ordinances OF said city and the amendments
thereto, which bond shall be In an amount hxed by
the board of public works. but not less than fifty
per cent more than the contract price agreed be
paid for the performance OF such contract and shall
be duly signed by such contractor and two or
more good and sufficient sursties and after being
sfice Of the city comptroller Of Seattle. -- 'A'
Subdivision 2. The sureties on such bond shall
each justify as bail upon arrest
More than two sureties may be accepted on such
bond and they may justify In separate and different
sums less than the sum specified In such bond;
shall be equal to two sure.es justifying in double
the amount Of the bond In the manner herein pro-
vided
Subdivision s. 1t shall be the duty Of the cor
poration counsel Of said city to see that such bond
respects to the provisions OF this section; and
thereupon shall indorse on said bond his approval
Of the form thereof Such bond and the sureties
thereon shall be subject to approval by the mayor
and comptroller, but they shall not approve any
such bond unless the said corporation counsels APP
proval of the form thereof be Endorsed thereon
unless the sureties such bond appear personally
before the mayor and comptroller II required, and
are by them examined touching their fitness and
ability to become sureties on such bond and IL
shall be the duty OF such mayor and comptroller to
sSrscribsd to he bond. II they shali desm sneh
person of insufficient ability or otherwise unfit TO
become a surety on such bono.
doing of any public work shall hereafter be
signed or transferred in any manner without first
Of public works and Of the sureties the con-
tractors bond, and no transfer or assignment
The liability Of the suretes thereon. and
any assignment or transfer, without such
consent and waiver indorsed thereon, except
make the same null and void. as to any further
performance thereof by the contractor or his as
the board Of public works Of said city shall at
proceed to relet such contract, said board may,
me agent and at the expense Of such contractor
and his bondsmen. No assignment transfer,
otherwise, Of any contract with said city for rhs
doing of any work labor the furnishing Of aay
work or labor, skill or material nor any change IN
any such contract, ner any extension OF time in
which to complete any such contract shall ever
operate to release the sureties the bond in
transfer. abandonment, surrender, change or ex.
tension Of time shall ever lie pleaded a defense
to any action upon such bond in any court In tais
state.
subdivision s. The board OF public works of the
city OF Seattle may, whenever In their Judgment
one more of the sureties on such bonds have
become insolvent, or for any cause are no longer
tt and SUI cient sureties. require any such con-
tractor to file a new or additional bond within ten
days after notice to that effect; and thsreupon
all work on such contract shall cease until such
additional bond shall be hlsd with the city comp
troller of said city, and If any such contractor
Shall fail for ten days after notice to that effect
file a new additional bond aseAforesaid, his con-
tract shall by that fact alone become fully ended
and void to further performance thereof by such
contractor. And thereupon said board Of public
work shall proceed to re-let such contract or said
board may. in its discretion, proceed to complete
the same a. the agent and at the expense Of such
contractor and his bondsmea.
subdivision 8. If any such contract shall fer
any reason become ended or void and the board Of
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 same
shall become endea or void in such case 1t shall
be the duty of the corporation counsel Of the city
of Seattle 10 at once commences an action In the
name of said city ainst slch contractor and bis
bondsmen for the recovery Of the difference In
amount between the cost OF so completing sucA
contract and the amount unpaid by said city upon
such contract at the tine 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 ekill material with
any person who, within two years prior thereto,
bhall have made default in the payment of any
just claim for any work or labor performed or for
any skill or material furnished pursuant to any
such contract with such party, or with any person
who. within two years prior thereto, shall have
assigned abandoned. surrendered or failed to com
plete any such contract, except as herein author
lied, or who shall have failed to comply with any
OF the provisions of this section.
Passed house Of delegates this lst day OF Fob
ruary, 1892. r. W. JONES'
President House Of Delegatss
Passed board Of aldermen this 1st day Of Feb
ruary, 1892 A. s. MILLER.
President Board Of Aldermen
Approved BY me this lst day Of February, 1924
GEORGE w. HALL, Mayor.
Filed by ne this LIST day Of February, 1892
n. W. MILLER, City Clerk.
Date OF first publication February 2, 1892.
DRoPoSED AMENDMENT NO. Ga PROP.