Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-12-08
Those Failing to Pay Special Side
walk Tax, When Due, Will be
Assessed 7 Per Cent.
WILL ENFORCE THE ORDINANCE.
Resolution Recommended by Auditor
ReiseI and Adopted by the
City Council.

who fall to pay any special tax for
sidewalk Improvements in this city
when the same becomes due shall be
required to pay interest at the rate Of
Z per cent per annum on such deferred
payment and the city treasurer Is au-
thorized TO take such steps as are
necessary to collect such interest. The
city ordinance has provided for such
action in the past but the payment Of
the interest has never been enforced,
II is the intention henceforth TO strict
~ enforce this ordinance. BY compell-
ing the payment OF interest on deferred
payments II Is believed that the great
delays in paying the special tax and
getting the work completed VIII be
avoided.
REISER'S RESOLUTION.
sThe following resolution covering this
matter, which was adopted by the
council was recommended by City
Auditor Reiser and introduced by
Councilman Fernstrom:
Resolved, That the city treasurer be
instructed TO notify all parties interest
ed that Interest at the rate OF Z per
cent per annum, provided by law. will
be collected on all deferred payments
OF special taxes for sidewalk extensions
from the time tho first payment is due,
and that the city treasurer proceed to
collect said tax and interest as fast
as me law win permit and he It fur
ther
Resolved, That in view Of the fore
going premises, II be the sense of this
council that interest at the rate of
per cent per annum be allowed said r.
q. Palmer on all payment on estimates
appropriated to his credit for work on
sidewalk extensions ordered done prior
to the adoption OF the resolution Of
Aug. 10, 1903 said interest TO date OF
payment; and he II further
Resolved. That the city recorder fur
nish certified copies of this resolution
TO said +, G. Palmer and TO the city
auditor and city treasurer, and that
the auditor and treasurer enforce the
terms OF this resolution.
MUST SECURE FRANCHISE.
The council amended section 73S Of
the revised ordinances IN such a man
ner that II will now be necessary for
the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
company to receive a franchise from
the city before Il can set another pole
or string another wire. The company
at the present time has no franchise
but has been operating under COM
mon usage right, II will now have to
get a franchise from the city before
making future extensions OF its lines In
this city
An effort was made to increase the
city treasurers salary from 81 800 to
1900 per annum, After considerable
discussion the increase was voted down
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the stenographer for the waterworks
department was increased from $50 to
$50 per month and the salary of the
polltax collector was increased from
$50 to SI5 per month.
The matter of imposing the penalty
OF A,750 against the City Street Inn
provement Company for failure to COM
plete the South Temple street paving
within contract time was referred TO
the committees on finance and munich
pal laws for consideration. The board
OF public works reported that il had
considered the matter and had given
the company's representative a hear
Ing and II recommended that the penal
ty be enforced. The majority Of the
council considered it doubtful whether
the full amount of the penalty could be
imposed II the company decided to fight
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the city was responsible for part Of
the delay. The matter was therefore
referred for further consideration.
The finance committee reported In ia
vor OF allowing T. p. Steffey ct al, to
withdraw their deposit Of 5000. which
accompanied their petition for an cleo
trio railway franchise, they having pre-
viously withdrawn their petition Pres
ldent Cottrell ruled that. inasmuch as
the petition was referred to the city at
tofney as we'll as the committee, the
report should have been signed by him
or he should have submitted an opinion
upon II with the report. He therefore
ruled that the report was not properly
before the council Fernstrom appeal
ed from the decision OF the chair on
the ground that the city attorney or
any other city official has no right to
sign committee report. The ruling
of the president was upheld by a vota
OF 10 TO 3. Later Fernstrom moved
that the rules be suspended and the
matter taken out OF the committees
hands. He did not get the two-thirds
vote necessary to suspend the rules,
hence his motion was lost.
Mayor Thompson sent i'm the APP
pointment OF II. II. Browne as the
city's representative on the board OF
arbitrator OF the water rights in
Emigration canyon, The appointment
was unanimously confirmed
Acting Chief Of Police Burbidge sent
in the appointment of @. g. Hunting
as special policeman at st. Marks
hospital TO act without pay from the
city. The appointment was con-
flrmed.
The appointment by Chief Devine,
of II. II, Mccarthy as a member OF the
fire department, to nh vacancy, was
confirmed by the council
city Auditor Reser asked and was
granted permission to employ an ad-
ditlonal clerk IN his Office at s. so per
day during the month OF December TO
complete the work Of checking up the
departments of the present admnistra-
tlon before the new administration
comes into Office.
The sum OF 500 was placed upon the
appropriation list 60 the credit Of the
city attorney, to be used for paying
the filing fees OF polltax suits, which
will be instituted by the street super
visor against delinquents. The amount
was appropriated at the request Of
City Attorney Nye.
The report OF the committees on
municipal laws and streets, recon-
mending that the franchise OF the Utah
Light 4 Power company be extended
from 20 Ia 80 years, was referred to
the city attorney for an opinion
The Rio Grande Western Railway
company sent In It's acceptance OF the
franchise granted Il by the council on
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