San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-11
NOTICE OF SPECIAL LAW.

| NOllCe IL ueIeUy BINeu' Ill dCCOTuauCe
with Chapter 3, Title LIN, Of the Revised
| Civil Statutes Of Texas, that the under
signed, after this notice shall have been
published for the period OF 30 days. will
apply to the Legislature Of the State Of
| Texas for the passage OF a special law
amending the existing Charter of the City
Of San Antonio, as follows:
| o. Amending Section 43 Of said Char
ter so as to read as follows:
| SECTION 43. To borrow money on the
credit OF the City and issue bonds there
for, to an amount not to exceed Fifty
| thousand Dollars during any one year,
| for permanent public improvements. To
| make loan exceeding the aforesaid sum
the question must be submitted to the
property aX-payiug voters of the City,
and il sustained by a majority Of the
votes pOlled, such loan shall be lawful.
All bonds shall specify for what purpose
| they were issued and when sold. shall net
! the City not less than their par value,
with accrued interest to date OF payment
4 of proceeds into the City Treasury; and
the bonds shall be negotiated in lots as
the City Council may determine and d.
| rect: Provided, That no debt shall be
! contracted for the payment whereof such
| bonds, or lot thereof, are issued until
such bonds. or lot OF bonds! shall have
been disposed of and the proceedSlthereof
| paid into the City Treasury: and no debt
shall ever be created by said City, unless
at the same time provision be made to
assess and collect annually a sufficient
sum to pay the interest thereon and create
sinking fund of at least two percent.
thereon; which fund shall not be
diverted or drawn for any other
purpose, and the City Treasurer
| shall honor no draft drawn on said
| fund, except to pay the interest or to re-
deem the bonds for which it was pro-
vded: provided the rate Of tax shall not
exceed one half OF one per cent, and. THE
rate of interest paid shall not exceed six
| per cent: provided also, no loan shall be
! made for any other purpose or purposes
| than those connected with the corporation
| of said City, and no loan shall be made to
| aid any private enterprise, railroad or
| undertaking, not under the management
or control of the City Council: provided
| further, that the sinking fund for the re-
| demptiOn of any loan or debt shall be in
| vested, as fast as the same accImulateS,
| in United States interest bearing bonds,
| bonds of the State of Texas, or in bonds
! In t,,tA ,f ,l,
| bonds shall be re-invested and such
| bonds shall be sold when necessary to
| pay the interest or principal of the bonds
issued under the provision Of this section.
e. Amending Section 2O3 of said Char
ter so as to read as follows:
Section 9O3 Whenever, in the opinion
of the City Council, it shall become neceS-
| sary or proper to appropriate private
property for the use of .thel City for
streets, alleys, avenues, bOulevardS,
parks, public squares, plazaS, sewers, gas
| works. water works, market houses,
school houses, or other public purposes
authorized by law, such property may be
condemned for such use inithe following
manner: the City Council shall by ordi
nance declare the necessity or propriety
of such appropriation, describing the
| property sought to be appropriated, and
stating the name and residence of the
| owner If known, and if unknown stating
| that fact. The damages to aCcrue,to the
owner of such property by reason Of such
| condemnation shall be aSseSSedjby three
! commissioners, who shall be diSintereSted
| free holders Of the City, one to be selected
by the owner OF the property, one to be
selected by the Mayor, and Jthe,thIrd to
be selected by the two thus appointed.
| The City Clerk shall issue to such; own
er notice calling upon him to appoint
the Commissioner to be selected by him,
| and such notice shall be accompanied by
a copy of such ordinance and copy Of this
| Section Of the Charter, which notice and
| copies shall be delivered to such.owner by
the City Marshal. II such owner shall
fail to appoint the Commissioner to be
selected by him, giving the name iof such
appointee to the City Clerk, within the
ten days after the service Of such notice
and copies upon him, the Mayor shall.
| appoint such Commissioner. If the two
commissioners so appointed cannot agree
upon the selection of the third, then the
District Judge Of any DiStrictHcOurt OF
Bexar county, shall upon application OF
the Mayor appoint such commissioner.
Such commissioners or any two Of them,
after being duly sworn TO perform the
duties Of their appointment with fidelity
and impartiality, shall fix time and
place for the hearing of the parties upon
the matter of such assessment, and shall
give not less than ten days notice to both
parties of such time andypace, which