The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-02-01
THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF
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- thereog. or appropriating money or
- property TO pay or satisfy the same
A-s part thereof until such claim has
- = eeen referred TO the proper depart
Tnent, nor until such department has made
II report 10 the city council thereon pur-
slant 20 such reference. No action shall
lain Tor damages until the same has been
.IcSc.itec 10 the city council and sixty
Gays nave elapsed after such presentation.
Sec 80 The city council shall in every
orainance prohibiting or requiring any act
or omission, impose penalty for the v.o-
with.
Sec. 81. A daily newspaper of general
circulation and published in the city. TO be
styled CITY Official Newspaper shall be
designated in the following manner: The
city clerk shall on the first Monday in No
tenoer In each year cause 10 be published
LOT ten consecutive DAYS, excluding sun
DAYS, In some paper Of general circulation
IN the city s. call 10 the owners and man.
ayers OF newspapers for sealed proposals
10 do the city printing for the then next
ensuing fiscal year. each OF which propos-
ais snail be accompanied by bond with
not less than two sureties. in the sum OF
hVe thousand dolla.s. approved by the
comptroller and corporation counsel, con-
diuoned that IL the proposal be accepted
the party proposing Will. during the period
mentioned in his proposal. well, seasonahly
and faithfully cause 10 be accurately print
cd and published. according TO law. in q
certain daily newspaper manning IT'D OF gen.
therein. all and singular the matters and
things required by law to be published in
the city official newspaper of the city OF
Seattle and shall with such bond be deiiv-
cred TO the city clerk sealed up in an en-
velope Endorsed Sealed proposals and
bond for city printing on or before the
twentieth day next after the first publi-
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 the city coun-
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session thereafter. and thereupon the eoun-
ell shall by resolution announce the names
or all parties whose proposals have been Of
Tered. and the terms or 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 at the beginning OF the then
next ensuing fiscal year, and during said
year, be such city official newspaper. Pro-
vided that whenever from any cause city
official newspaper shall he lacking the
mayor shall designate and employ like
newspaper to serve as such until designa-
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 he re-
turned to the propoSers, and the bond ac-
companying the successful proposal shall
be filed by the city clerk and securely kept
by him.
All ordinances resolutions notices, tax
and assessment sales, and all other pro-
ceedings, statements. matters and things of
the mayor. city council or any department
or board or other officer or functionary OF
the city, which by this charter are, or shall
be required to be published, except the
statement prescribed In section 81 OF this
article shall be published in the city official
newspaper. but not for more than three
consecutive issues except as otherwise in
this charter provided
Sec. g. The city council shall hiennially
and not less than twenty nor more than
sixty days before the biennial election,
cause 10 be printed in pamphlet form for
distribution to citizens applying therefor
a full and Ineligible statement of 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
and any money borrowed unon me credit
of the city whether by temporary loans or
by the issue of bonds, the terms upon which
. Ii was obtained, the authority under which
it was borrowed, and the purpose to which
IL was applied, and how much of the same
or other city Indebtedness has been paid
and by what means. The statement shall
also include detailed account of city prop
erty, personal and real. its value, and IL
rented to whom and on what terms, and of
existing debts of every description, and OF
the condition of the sinking funds, with all
other information necessary for full UNI
Outstanding. OF the financial concerns OF
the city. No more than one thousand
copies of any such pamphlet shall be
printed.
Sec 49, All ordinances In force IN the city
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.