The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-02-27
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS.

vss. sucn oon1s sna1 be called "Locss Improve
ment Bonds, District No. -, OF the City of Seat
tle:" shall be payable not more than ten years
date and shall be subject to annual call by the
city treasurer. in such manner and amounts as he
may have cash hand to pay The same In the
respective local Improvement fund from which
such bonds are payable, and shall bear Interest
such rate per annum Is the city council shall by
sne Sens bear hsser rate o ~ a sns
nine per cent per annum: said interest shall be
payable semiJsnnus.iy A. the Office OF the city
public notice thereof given 20 the highest bidder
therefor but in case snail 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
gun until the bonds shall have been negotiated,
and all funds raised IN each improvement district,
into fund fer such district be called Local I'M
provement Fund District No. - OF Seattle" and
the holder or holders Of such bonds shall LOOK only
70 such fund for the payment Of either the princi-
Pal or the interest Of said bonds
Resolved that section 3. Of article VIII OF the
feeho,ders charter be amended SO as 20 read as
follows:
belonging 10 the fund Of any local improvement
district after the payment OF the whole cost and
expense Of such lmprevement in excess Of the to-
tai required te defr ay all the expenditures by
the city en- account thereof shall be refunded, on
demand. 20 the person or persons who have over
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. pe 81
lowed to such person to the amount of such over
assessment; provided, such demand herein above
provided for be made within two years from the
date upon which the assessment for such local inn
proveInen. became due ANY such funds remain
Ing in the treasury AFTER expiration of two years
srom the date aforesaid, for which no demand
has been made as herein provided. belonging to
any local improvement district. after the payment
men shall be transferred to the fund of the earliest
formed district tho cost for the work Of which has
Resolved That article eight (vIII) Of the free
holders charter be amended by adding section
sec 20. Subdivision 1.-Before any contract for
the doing of any work or labor, furnishing any
SKILL labor material 10 or for the city OF Seattle
shall be valid binding against said city the
tractor shall enter into a Joint and several bond
with the city of Seattle for the of said city and
also for the use of all persons who may perform or
cause to be performed any work or labor, or fur
nish cause to tie furnished any skill, labor
terial the execution OF such contract conditioned
to perform the contract according to its terms
ditions and stipuiations and to pay they become
due all just claims for all work and labor per-
formed. and all skill or labor and material fur
nished in tho execution of such contract, and to
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 fifty
per cent than the contract price agreed to be
paid for the performance of such contract and shall
be duly signed by such contractor and two
good and sufficient sureties. and after being
approved as herein provided. shall be filed in the
office of the city comptroller of Seattle.
Subdivision 2. The sureties on such bond shall
each justify as bail upon arrest.
More than two sureties may be accepted such
bond and they may Justify in separate and different
sums less than the sum specified In such bond;
provided, that the aggregae of their justification
shall be equal TO TWO suret.es justifyng in double
the amount of the bond In the manner herein pro-
vided.
poration counsel of said city to see that such bond
Is fully and properly executed and conforms in all
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
and comptroller. but they shall not approve any
such bond unless the said corporation counses APP
prova OF the form thereof be Endorsed thereon nor
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 1t
shall be the duty of such mayor and comptroller to
reject any person. notwithstanding his justification
subscribed to the bond, If they shall deem such
person of insufficient ability otherwise unfit to
become a surety on such bona.
subdivision A. 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 or assignment
thereof shan In any wise AFFECT such bond OF
any assignment or transfer, without such
consent and waiver Endorsed thereon, except
by operation of law, of any such contract shall
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 once
proceed to re-et such contract, said board may,
In Its discretion, proceed to complete the same as
the agent and at the expense OF such contractor
and his bondsmen. No assignment, transfer,
otherwise. of any contract with said city for the
doing of any work labor or the furnishing of any
work or labor skill or material. nor any change in
any such contract, nor any extension OF time in
which to complete any such contract shall ever
operate to release the sureties on the bond in
this act provided for; and no such assignment
transfer, abandonment, surrender, change ex-
tension of time shall ever he pleaded as defense
to any action upon such bond In any court IN this
state.
Subdivision 5. The board of public works of the
city of Seattle may, whenever in their Judgment
become insovent, or for any no longer
fl and su Client sureties, require any such con-
tractor to file additional bond within ten
days after notice to that effect; and thereupOn
all work on such contract shall cease until such
additional bond shall be fled with the city comp
troller of said city, and if any such contractor
shall fall for ten days after notice to that effect to
file new or additional bond, as Aforesaid, his con-
tract shall by that fact alone become fully ended
and void to further performance thereof by such
work shall proceed to re-let such contract or said
board may IN its discretion, proceed TO complete
the same as the agent and at the expense Of such
contractor and his bondsmen.
Subdivision 6. 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 provide and the costs Of completing
such contract Sail exceed the amount unpaid by
said city upon such contract at the time the same
shall become endef or void, in such case 1t shall
be the duty of the corporate counsel of the city
of seattle TO at once commence an action In the
name of said city against such contractor and mis-
bondsmen for the recovery of the difference in
amount between the cost of 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 or labor
the furnishing OF any SIKH material with
any person who within two years prior therato,
shall have made default in the payment of any
Just claim for any work or labor performed for
any skill material furnished pursuant 10 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 LIST day OF Feb
ruary, 1892. K. w. JONES,
President House of Delegates
Passed board of aldermen this 1st day Of Feb
ruary, 1892. A. :. MILLER,
President Board of Aldermen
Approved by this lst day of February, 1892
GEORGE w HALL, Mayor.
Filed by me this LIST day Of February, 1892.
II. w. MILLER City Clerk
Date Of first publication February 9, 1892.
DRoPosED AMENDMENT NO. ga PROP
i osition 10 amend sections 40 and IL OF article