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

.ssA -rcn uonus snan De called Local Improve
ment Bonds, District 20. - of the City of Seat
AFTER date ard shall be subject annual call by the
city treasurer. in such manner and amounts he
may have cash On hand to pay the same 10 the
respective local improyem ent fund from which
such bonds are payable. and shall bear interest AZ
ordinances determine: provided, that IN no case
shal such bonds bear higher rate of nteres: than
payable semi. snnusiiy At the ofiee Of he CITY
treasurer Such bonds shall DO sold after thirty days
noes IN ne case shall suS ~ % f5r
less than par, and the proceeds shall be applied in
payment of such Improvement; provided, that
determined upon the improvement shall not be be-
gun until the bonds shall have been negotiated.
and all funds raised IN each Improvements district
rs well as funds borrowed therefor. shall be paid
into fund fer such district to be called Local I'M
the holder or 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 Is, ofarticls VIII. OF the
freeholders charter be amended so a. to read a.
sec Is. ANY fun6s remaining In the treasury,
belonging to the fund OF any local improvement
district after the payme OF the whele cost And
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, 10 the amount of such over pay
ent; and If there shall be such in the
sessrnent OF any person who shall not have paid
his assessment a rebate shall. on demand, be al
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
proveInent became due. Any such funds remain-
Ing in the treasury after the expiration ftwoyears
from the date aforesaid, for which no demand
has been made as herein provided, belonging to
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
H<solvtd That article eight (vIII) of the free-
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thereto to be section twenty-nne. to read follows:
Sec. 20. Subdivision 1.-Btfore any contract for
skill labor or material for the city OF Seattle
shall be valid or binding against said city the
with the city Of Seattle for the use of said city and
also for the use of all persons who may perform or
cause to be performed any work OF labor, or fur
teral In the execution OF such contract conditioned
70 perform the contract according to Its terms
due all Just claims for all work and labor SO per
formed and si skill or labor and material so fur
nishsd 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 amount tixed by
the board of public works. but not less than fifty
per cent. more than the contract price agreed be
pad the performance Of such contract and shall
DO duly signed by such contractor and two or
more good and sufficient sureties. and after being
approved as herein provided. shall be filed In the
Subdivision 2. The suretes on such bond shall
each justify as bail upon arrest.
bond, andthey may justify In separate and different
sums less than the sum specified IN such bond;
shall be equal to two suret,ss jusiifying in double
the amount of the bond In the manner herein pro-
vided-
Subdivision 8. It shall be the duty Of the cor
poraiion counsel Of said city to that such bond
Is fully and properly eIecuied and conforms in an
thereupon shall indorse on said bond his approval
Of the form thereof such bond and the sureties
thereon shLll be subject to approval by the mayor
and comptroller, but they shall not approve any
such bond unless the said corporation counsels ap
prevail of the form thereof DO 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 suretles en- such bond: and il
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 70
become surety on such bona.
subdivision 4. No contract with said city for the
doing Of any public work shall hereafter be as
egned or transferred in any manner without first
having Endorsed thereon the consent of the board
- puelio works and of the sureties on the con-
1900 bcnds and no transfer or ASSIGNMENT
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otherwise. of any contract WITH rid city 1er tAe
doing of any work labor the furhishing 81 ~
work or labor skill or material, nor any cnonGo u
any such contract, nor any extension OF tf1s u
which to complete any such contract shall eve
operate TO release the sureties on the bond la
this act provided for; and no such assignment
transfer, abandonment, surrender, change or ex-
tension of time shall ever be pleaded as defense
TO any action upon such bond in any court in this
Subdivision s. The board OF public works Of the
N Whenever n
one or more Of the sure.ies on such bonds have
become insolvent, or for any cause are no longer
tt and su Client sureties, require any such con-
tractor to file new or additional bond within ten
days after notice 10 that effect; and thereupon
all work on such contract shall cease until such
additional bend shall be fled with the city comp
troller of said city, and If any such contractor
file new or additional bond as aforesaid, his
tract shall by that fact alone become fully ended
aud void to further performance thereof by such
contractor. And thereupon said board OF public
WORK shall proceed to re- ct 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 bondsnea.
Subdivision .: II any SUCH contract shall fer
public works shall compete 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 endel or void, in such case 1t shall
be the duty of the corporate N counsel of the ely
of seattle to at once commence \ action in tho
name of said city against such contractor and his
bondsnen for 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
void. The board OF public works OF tho city OF
Seattle are hereby prohibited from entering into
any contract for the doing CT any work lssor or
the furnishing of any skill or material with
any person who, within two years prior thereto,
shsll have made default in the payment OF any
Just claim for any work or labor performed or fog
any skill 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
piete 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 1st day OF Feb
ruary, 1892. R.w. JONES'
President House OF Dsleyates
Passed board Of aldermen this lst day of Feb
ruary, 1892. A. S. MILLER,
President Board Of Aldermen
Approved by me this LIST day of February 1891
GEORGE W. HALL. Mayor.
Filed by me this 1st day Of February. 1891
H. w. MILLER, City Clerk.
Dste OF first publication February 2. 1892.