The herald., 1893-01-30
SOME OF OF THE THE c|1TSS cc||T1TS BUSINESS BUSINESS
City Clerk Luckenbach's Ideas
About Tax Rates.
Proceedings of the Public Works
Board and Finance Committee.
Some Excellent Notifications of the
Delinquent Tax Sale Matter
Proposed-The Commit
tee Reports.

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tee Reports.
During Saturdays session of the
councils finance committee, Clerk Luck
enbach called the attention of the COM
mittee to the manner in which tax sales
and redemptions had been conducted
heretofore. The collector, finding taxes
delinquent upon several lots in the same
block, owned, we will say, by A, b, q,
D and e, advertises the same for sale to
liquidate taxes due the city. In due
process of law he sells the property, sub
ject to redemption on the part of the de-
linquent taxpayers as provided by the
statute. After while B turns up. He
has been away to Europe, or somewhere
else, and finds that his lot has increased
in value during his absence. He has a
chance to sell it well above its cost price,
and desires to do SO. The tax collector,
having sold the property for taxes and
given tax title to somebody therefor,
cannot release any one of these delin-
quent taxpayers without releasing all
the rest. So A, Q, D and + stand in the
way of B selling his property. There
fore B is compelled to go before the
council and procure the passage of an Or
dinance to allow the tax collector to &C.
cept his payment of taxes before he can
cell his property. This will occasion
delay of at least one week, perhaps two !;
and in the meantime the intending pur-
chaser is liable to be taken with re-
lapse.
Each lot should be advertised separ-
ately, sold separately. and, if sold, re-
deemed separately. This would enable
a man to redeem his property at once
and get its value without delay.
The chairman of the committee, Mr..
Rhodes, said that the correctness of the
clerks remarks struck him very forcibly.
He had not given the matter consid
erstion before this, but he was very
much impressed with the necessity OF
relieving real property OF all encum-
brances in the briefest possible manner.
He asked the clerk to reduce the matter
to writing and make it portion of his
report to the council on Monday morn
ing next.
FINANCE COMMITTEE.
The finance committee will present
the following report the council today.
Your finance committee beg to report
as follows:
Recommend that the report of the
city auditor on the condition of the
funds for the week ending January 81,
1898. be filed.
Recommend that petition No. 81,
from III. Harris. asking for return of
$23.72 to him on account of an errone-
GUS tax sale certificate. be referred to
the city assessor to report to this COM
mittee as to the facts.
Recommend that in all cases where
tax sales have been made to the city of
Los Angeles of two or more lots includ-
ed in the same certificate of sale, that
the city clerk be instructed to mark re-
deemed either of the individual lots
sold upon said certificate upon the pay
ment into the city treasury of the pro
rata amount for which the property
sought to be redeemed has been sold,
together with the penalties thereon,
Recommend that in the future no
money be returned to purchasers of tax
sale certificates on account of erroneous
or double assessments, when the appli-
cant for said return holds tax deed
from ths city to other property issued
upon double assessments, unless the Pc
titioner for said rebate files with his
said petition quit-claim deed to the
actual owner of said other property
upon which he has a tax deed ON ac-
count of the double assessment.
PUBLIC WORKS.
The board of public works made the
following report on matters intended for
action tomorrow morning:
In the matter of the grading of Buena
Vista street between Rock street and
Bellevue avenue, the city attorney has
reported that there is private property
to be acquired, and we therefore recon-
mend that further proceedings be aban-
doned until after such property has
been acquired.
In the matter of the placing of tenders
upon street cars, we recon- mend that
the city attorney be instructed to pre-
sent an ordinance compelling street car
companies to put on tenders suitable to
protect life, and that the ordinance now
in force be repealed.
Recommend that the grade on Mon
treal street he changed from Bellevue
dNtuuo W OOSbOu sblCCb haQ OO lcOb
south thereof, in accordance with the
recommendation of the city engineer,
and also that the city engineer present
an ordinance to change the grade of
Boston street to conform to Montreal
street at this point.
Recommend that Joseph Burkhard be
allowed to cut drain on Hoover street
from Twenty. eighth street to drain
water from in front Of his premises
under the direction of the city engineer
and street superintendent; also recon-
mend that the grade OF Hoover street be
established.
In the matter of the petition from M.
M. Gillespie ct al, asking to have Bart
lett street graded, graveled and curbed
with redwood, we recommend the same
bs granted and the city engineer in
structed to present the necessary ordi-
nance of intention.