The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-12
AUDITING TRACTS ONLY
PARK BENEFIT ASSESSMENTS TO DE
CONFINED TO THEM.
OF the Fall Creek Sys-
tenn VIII Begin Monday-BIan-
ket Ordinance.

Monday afternoon the Board of Public
Works will begin liking the price that is
to be paid for land In the White river and
Fall creek park system. After that work
is completed the Pogues run land also will
be appraised. This was decided on yester-
day at a meeting of the board with Mayor
Taggart. Park Engineer Power and Messrs-
Flack and Burton, who with Mr.. Coffin con-
stituted the board OF assessors under
the old park board. After the cor terence
the mayor said that the board would so
over the land calling the former assessors
and, if necessary. real-estate men to help
them fix fair valuation OH the land. Park
Engineer Power has had his assistants pre-
pare lists of every piece of land showing
the valuation set on each piece for taxa
ton purposes in the county assessors Of
flee. This will serve he board in its work.
Mayor Taggart SAID that the work of
appraising the land would probably be
completed before March /. He said that
no property would be assessed for benefits
except that which actually abuts the park
system. This is the same rule followed in
improving streets, save that residents of
cross streets help pay for the intersec-
tions. In the main, however, the street inn
provements are paid by abutting property.
IF man has forty-acre tract of land
said the mayor, and the park line runs
through the middle, half being included in
the parks, the other half will be assessed,
as the building of a boulevard along the
part taken would undoubtedly increase the
valuation of the remaining land. If a piece
of land is doubled or tIebled in value, there
is no reason why it should not help pay
the expenses. The board will follow the
ideas laid down in the campaign last fall
when we opposed the idea of assessing
small homes for parks No land will he as
sessed except that abutting the parks"
After the assessments are completed. the
board will get the subject in shape to send
TO the council AS indicated the other day,
a blanket ordinance authorizing the board
to purchase all the tracts i'm the entire
system viii be sent to the Council, in order
to dispose of the system I'm bulk rather
than by separate ordinances designating
each tract. at some step in the proceeding
the board will adopt q formal resolution
condemning and appfopriating the land for
the city's use, as Is done in street openings
and extensions. A roll of benefits and dam
ages will then be prepared and notice Civ
en- by publication describing the land taken
by metes and bounds so that the owners
of the twelve hundred tracts may know
how they are affected.
To Prosecute Unlicensed Physicians.
DIR. F. A. Morrison, president of the local
Board Of Health. says that the medical
registration law will be rigidy observed by
the board. A list of physicians in Marion
county who have been legally licensed to
practice by the state Board of Medical
Examination and Registration, has been re-
ceived by. the board When death returns,
birth returns and reports of contagious dis
eases are received the mime of the attend
ing physician will be compared Win TIC
list and If IL Is not included the case VIII
be called to the attention of Coroner Bray
ton, where death occurs. and the unlicensed
physician will be prosecuted.