The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-02-04
THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF
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mercer, or app-opriatiny money or
- go. p4oper1y 10 pay or satisfy the same
49, 80 part thereof until such claim has
, occn referred to the proper depart
tnens+ nor until such derSsrtnlent has made
- lsPort TO the city council thereon pur-
$3.50 % sucn reference. No action shall
- - N ,r1sntained against the city fer any
1911 1Or damages until the same has been
E-eSexted 70 the city council and sixty
Gays nave elapsed after such presentation.
sec. ". The city council shall in every
ol4Inance prohibiting or requiring any act
% omission, impose penalty for the yio-
with
Sec. 81. A daily newspaper Of general
clIS1iaIion and published in the city. 10 be
Eyed City Official Newspaper" shall be
oesisnated in the following manner: The
cry clerk shall on the first Monday in No
sshoer IN each year cause 10 be published
LOT ten consecutive days, excluding sun
oays. IN some paper OF general circulation
~ me city call 70 the owners and man.
age-s or 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 bond with
aot less tAan two sureties, in the sum OF
Hss thousand dollars. approved by the
comptroller and corporation counsel, con-
oiEoned that IL the proposal be accepted,
Ihe party proposing will. during the period
mentioned IN his proposal. well. seasonably
and faithfully cause 10 be accurately print
ed and published. according TO law in a
certain daily newspaper manning it, Of gem
therein, all and singular the matters and
things required BY law TO be published in
the city official newspaper OF the city OF
seattle. ana shall with such bond be deliv-
cred TO the city clerk sealed up in an en-
Velope Endorsed Sealed proposals and
BOND Tor city printing" on or before the
tWencetn day next after the first puhli-
cauon 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-
Gil as early as may be at its next monthly
session thereafter. and thereupon the coun-
eli shal by resolution announce the names
or all parties whose proposals have been Of
fered. and the terms OF their proposals re-
specuvely. 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 snail 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 a city
official newspaper shall be lacking the
mayor shall designate and employ a 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 be re-
turned to the proposers. and the bond &C, G;
be filed by the city clerk and securely kept
by him.
All ordinances, resolutions, notices. tax
ceedings, statements, matters and things or
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 80 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. 30. The city council shall biennially
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 upon the credit
of the city, whether by temporary loans or
by the issue of bonds, the terms upon which
IL was obtained, the authority under which
il was borrowed, and the purpose to which
ii 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 un-
derstanding OF the financial concerns OF
the city No more than one thousand
copies OF any such pamphlet shall be
printed.
Sec. SO. 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.