The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-02-05
IhE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF
SEATTI E-rousSuuea

- taereoe. or app-opriatirg money or
$50 property % BAY or satisfy the same
Part hereof until such claim has
- oe~n referred 10 the proper depart
.aeni- rsor until such department has made
- report 70 the city council thereon pur-
slA1s 20 such reference. No action shall
claim FOR damages until the sane has beea
IASr.1ed 10 the City council AMI sixty
Gays have elapsed after such presentation
Sec ". The city council shall in every
or omission. Impose q penalty for the vio-
with
Sec. 81. A daily newspaper OF general
circulation and published in the city. TO he
t.yied city Official Newspaper" shall be
SeS,gnafed IN the following manner. The
city clerk shall on the first Monday in No
moer In each year cause 10 De published
sor ten consecutive days, excluding sun
Gays II some paper OF general circulation
IN the city cali 70 the owners and man.
sges OF newspapers for sealed proposals
70 do the city printing for the then next
ensuing fiscal year, each OF which propos-
as snail be accompanied by 8 bond with
not less than two sureties. IN the sum OF
Ave Thousand dollars. approved BY the
comptroller ard corporation counsel con-
diaoned that r the proposal be accepted,
the party proposing Will. during the period
mentioned in his proposal. well. seasonably
and faithfully cause to be accurately print
ed and published. according 20 Law. in a
certain daily newspaper manning IT'D Of gen
therein. all and singular the matters and
things required by law 70 be published in
me city official newspaper OF the city OF
Seattle, and shall with such bond be deliv-
cred 10 the city clerk sealed up in an en-
yelope fnaorsed Sealed proposals and
bond for city printing" on or before the
cation OF such call, and shall be endorsed
by the city clerk at the time OF such deliv-
cry, with the date OF his reception thereof.
and shall be first opened by tho city cosIn-
, y yf1aN hsa ~ r. fsf
session thereafter. and thereupon the coun-
Gil SHAH by resolution announce the names
OF ali parties whose proposals have been Of
Tered, and the terms OF their proposals re-
spectively. and designate as city Official
newspaper that newspaper whose manager,
or owner. has offered the lowest proposals,
with duly approved bond. and such news
paper shall ar the beginning OF the then
next ensuing fiscal year, and during said
year. be such city official newspaper. Pro-
videc that whenever from any cause city
official newspaper shah be lacking the
mayor shall designate and employ a like
newspaper to serve as such until cessgna-
ton and qualification Is made and had. as
above directed. under like bond and for
reasonable compensation TO be audited by
the auditing committee. Bonds accom-
panying unsuccessful proposals shall be re-
( turned TO the proposers, and the bond ac-
cornpanying the successful proposal shall
be filed by thu city clerk and securely kept
by him.
All ordinances. resolutions, notices, tax
and assessment sales. and all other pro-
ceedings, statements, matters and things d.
the mayor. city council or any department.
or board or other officer or functioaary OF
the city. which by this charter are. or shall
be required to be published. except the
statement prescribed In section 30 OF this
article shall be published in the city Official
newspaper. but not for more tnan three
consecutive issues except as otherwise in
this charter provided.
Sec. 81 The city council shall biennially
and not less than twenty nor more than
sixty days before the biennial election.
cause 20 be printed in pamphlet form for
distribution to citizens applying therefor
a full and ineligible statement or all the
receipts and expenditures Of every de-
scription for the fiscal year ending on the
thirty-first day of December next preced-
ing such statement, including all the mon
eys which have passed through the hands
OF the treasurer for any purpose whatever.
together with the different sources OF city
revenue, the amount received from each,
the several appropriations made by the city
council, the objects for which the same
were made and the sums expended for each
OF the city. whether by temporary loans or
by the Issue OF bonds, the terms upon which
II was obtained. the authority under which
IL was borrowed, and the purpose 10 which
it was applied, and how much or the same
or other city indebtedness has been paid
and by what means. The statement shall
also include a detailed account OF city prop
erty, personal and real. It's value. and II
existing debts of every description, and OF
the condition of the sinking funds, with all
other information necessary for fuil un-
Outstanding OF the financial concerns OK
the city. No more than one thousand
copies OF any such pamphlet shall be
printed.
at the date of the adoption OF this charter.
and not inconsistent herewith, shall re-
main IN force until repealed or until they
expire by limitation.