Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-08
How TO GO ABOUT 1T
To Get Aid From Judge Phillips
for Permanent Streets


lips has said that he will aid in the
building of permanent streets in
disctricts which are created for
that purpose, and that the
first district formed will get the first
aid. The plan is all right, 1t will
place the responsibility of improve
ments right up to the people them
selves, and only those who are will
ing to help pay for permanent streets
will get them. 1t will also have a ten
dency to put those who are willing to
help pay for the improvements
to have their districts created
at once. In fact there
are persons already at work securing
the necessary number OF signatures
to create districts, as there is also an
anxiety to get the first aid from the
three-mill tax. There is no doubt at
all but what the great majority of
property owners are willing to help
pay for the improvements, and there
will be enough districts created to
use all Of the three mill road tax and
the city's general revenues that can
be spared for street Improvements.
In order that the people who are
anxious to have improvement dis
tricts the Graphic herewith prints
the law on the subject so that they
may know exactly how to proceed
legally in the matter.
"The council of any city of the
first or second class. or any incor-
porated town, may assess all real
property within such city. or within
any district thereof, for the purpose
OF grading or otherwise improving
streets and alleys constructing sewers
or making any local improvements Of
a public nature, in the manner herein
after set forth.
real property in any such
city or incorporated town, or
of any portion thereof shall peti-
tion the city or town council to take
steps toward the making of any such
local Improvement, it shall be the
duty of the council to at once lay
off the whole city or town, If the
whole of the desired i'm
provement be general and
local in its nature to said city or
town or the portion thereof mentioned
in the petition, if it be limited to
part of said city or town only, into one
or more Improvement districts, desig
mating the boundaries of such dis
trict so that it may be easily dis
tinguished; and each district, if more
than one, shall be designated by num-
Der and by the object of the proposed
Improvement.
within five days after the desig-
nation of such district Or districts,
the clerk of said city or town shall
publish the order or ordinance or the
council establishing the district. in
some newspaper published in said
city, for one insertion.
''If, within three months after the
publication of any such ordinance, a
majority in value of the owners Of
real property within such district ad-
joining the locality to be affected,
shall present to the council peti'
tion praying that such i'm
provements shall be made,
\ which petition shall designate the
mature of the improvements to be un-
aertaken, and that the cost thereof
bts assessed and charged upon the real
property situated within such district
I or districts, the city council shall at
sonc& appoint three persons, owners of
real property therein, who shall COM
n Aose a board of improvement for the
4strict.
Each member of the board shall.
=. Thin ten days after his appointment,
-,.MA, the oath of Office required by
=. lion twenty of article nineteen of
tonstitution of this state, and that
Ill not, either directly of indirect
=, no interested in any contract made
board; which oath shall be filed
:. tho IA Office of the city clerk.
.,e ohy member of the board shall
..u +ol take such oath and to
a,o the same in the office OF
tho c,erkA of the city within the time
allowed h1erein, he shall be taken to
have decli1pe ped the office, and the coun'
Gil shall aN once appoint another per.
son. havinS the like qualifications,
In his place, who shall take and file
>>his oath Of office within ten days aft
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