The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-30
STREET PAVEMENT BONDS
FULL TEXT or THE ACT PASSED BY
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,.

Amount of Such Bonds Not to Exceed
$500, 900 and to be Paid in Five Ten,
Fifteen and Twenty Years From Date of
Issue-Manner of Assessing Abutting
Property Owners
The court of common council having
a last decided that West Chapel street,
from York to Mott streets and orange
street, from Crown to Gamer streets,
shall both be paved with sheet asphalt,
and the contest between sheet asphalt,
block asphalt and vitrified brick being
temporarily suspended, it is expected
that the excitement among the advo-
Gates of the several kinds of pavements
will be allowed to slumber at least until
the committee on streets of the count
of common council shall make another
report on the subject of permanent
street pavements
The general assembly, at its recent
session, passed an act authorizing the
city of New Haven to issue street pave
ment bonds and the act was approved
July /. In these times of intense in
terest and discussion on street pave
ment matters the bill will prove in
teresting reading to many citizens and
taxpayers who may not be thoroughly
familiar with it's provisions. In it's en-
tlrety the bill is as follows:
1.-THE court of common council of the
city of New Haven is hereby author
lied and empowered, by a concurrent
vote of majority of the members of
each branch of said court, present and
absent subject to the approval or dis
approval of the mayor of said city; as
provided in the charter of the city, to
issue, under the corporate name and
seal and upon the credit of the city
of New Haven, bonds or other certifi-
Gates of debt, which bonds shall be
denominated Street Pavement Bonds
of the City of New Haven; the amount
of said pavement bonds issued under
this act shall not exceed $780, 900, and
the same or the avails thereof, when
sold as hereinafter authorized, shall be
appropriated by said court of common
council to the payment of any expense
incurred by said city in the original
construction in said city of new and
so-called permanent pavements; but no
portion of said bonds or avails shall
be used for any other purpose what
soever Any avails of the salesof said
bonds may be temporarily borrowed by
~, to- re
the city ordinances, for the purpose
of meeting current expenses of the
city; provided said temporary loans
shall not in any way interfere with the
use of said funds for the purpose of
permanent pavements, nor shall any
loan be made from said funds for a
period of more than four current
months, Of the bonds issued at any
time by said city, one-quarter shall be
payable five years from date, one-quar-
ter ten years from date one-quarter f1f-
teen years from date, and one-quarter
twenty years from date. Said bonds
shall be prepared, signed, and authen-
ticated in such manner as the said
court Of common council may deter
mine, and they shall bear interest at
a rate not exceeding 4 per cent. per
annum, payable semi-annually, and
may be sold from time to time under
the direction of the mayor and board
of finance of said city. And said bonds
or certificates, when issued as afore-
said, shall be obligatory upon the said
city of New Haven to all intents and
purposes, and may be enforced and
collected in the same manner and to
the same extent that debts contracted
by municipal corporations in this state
are enforced.
Section 2-All pavemnts laid by au-
thority of this act shall be laid upon
the credit of said city, and under the
direction and control of it's common
council, and said city shall have the
power to collect a part of the costs
Of such pavements from the persons
and parties and in the manner herein
after provided, to wit: On all streets
or parts of streets upon which abutting
land owners have never paid the city
any assessment for a pavement; such
land owners on each side of such
streets or parts of streets, shall be as
sassed and shall severally pay to the
city the cost of such abutting land
On all streets or parts of streets upon
which abutting land owners have paid
to the city assessments for pavements
heretofore laid, such land owners or
each side of such streets or parts OF
streets shall be assessed and shall sew
orally pay to the city the cost of three
and one-half square feet of such pave
ment as shall be laid for every front
foot of such abutting land, and all pub.
lie AUDITING land shall be assessed al
the same rate, as like private abuttine
land hereinbefore described. On al
streets occupied by the track, or tracks
of any railway company, or companies
said company or companies shall be as
sessed and shall severally pay TO the
city the cost of paving and repavine
the full length, and nine feet wide fol
each and every line of track of sucf
railway or railways, now existing, OF
that may hereafter be laid in any
street of said city. All such assess
ments on the hereinbefore described
abutting land owners and railway com
panies shall be payable at such time o.
times as may be determined by the
court of common council. All the cos
of such pavements as may be laid undel
the provisions of this act, above the
costs collectable from the abutting lane
owners and the railway companies. q: