The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-03-11
CITY'S ANSWER.
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maintenance of the public library OF de
PENDANT the sum of $4,000; for the sink
ing fund for the purposes provided IL
said chapter AZ of the Special Laws o.
1891 $500; for the payment of bonds out
standing and other Indebtedness of de
PENDANT due in the year 1902 the sun
of $4,000; all of said sums were asses
sed upon and against the taxable prop
.erty of said defendant as provided by
law, making the total tax levy upon the
assessed valuation of the taxable proper
ty of defendant for said purposes of one
and thirty nine hundredths per cent up
on the dollar. That notwithstanding the
levy so made there was during the yeal
1902, large deficiency in the funds re-
Tquired to pay the necessary operating ex-
penses of defendant for said year and
the interest upon the bonded and other
Indebtedness thereof and the floating in
debtedness which became due and pay
able during said year or prior thereto
and that said deficiency amounted to
about the sum of $4,000 for the pay
ment of which no provision was made in
said tax levy or any subsequent tax
levy. That the necessary operating and
running expenses of defendant in the
management of its municipal affairs for
the year 1902 amounted TO upwards of
the sum of $4,000, exclusive of any cost
or expense of paving, repairing and i'm
proving Broad street in said defendant
with asphaltum and boulevarding, curb
ing, and otherwise improving the same as
provided for in the specifications and
contract. attached to the complaint herein
and that in order to pay the Indebtedness
OF said defendant past due and falling
due during the year 1902 and interest on
the Indebtedness of said defendant fall
ing due in said year, and to pay the
current and operating expenses for said
year, exclusive of any amount for the
Improvement of Broad street as afore-
said, it would have been necessary for
defendant to raise by taxation upwards
of the sum of 100000 upon the taxable
real and personal property of defendant.
That the funds levied and assessed in
the fiscal year 1901, to be collected dur
ing the year 1902 were wholly insuffici-
ent to pay the necessary costs and ex-
penses of said city for said year ex-
elusive of any cost or expenses for the
paving and improving of Broad street in
defendant as hereinbefore set forth.
That the total taxable property of de-
lied by the state board of equalization
of the State of Minnesota in July, 1901
was and is 1921 10000.
10. That in the fiscal year beginning
on the second Tuesday in April, 1902,
there was levied, assessed and extended
against the taxable property both real
and personal in defendant taxes, to be
collected during the year 1903, in the
amount of $4,000, apportioned as fol-
lows: Current expenses, $4,000; main
tanning roads, highways, bridges and cul-
verts, and opening and constructing the
same, $4,000; for the park fund and the
maintenance of the public parks of de-
PENDANT $4,000; for the library fund and
for the maintenance of the public library
of defendant, $4,000; for the payment
of interest on outstanding bonds and 9th
er Indebtedness of defendant due in the
year 1903, the sum of $4,000; for the
sinking fund as provided by the charter
of defendant, the sum of $500. That the
total taxable property of the defendant
as equalized by the state board of equal
ization of the State of Minnesota in the
year 1902 was $3,472, 642. That all of
said sums were to be assessed against
all of the taxable property of said de-
PENDANT as provided by law making the
total tax levy upon the assessed valua-
ton for city purposes of upwards of one
and twenty mine hundredths per cent up
on the dollar. That Notwithstanding the
levy so made there was a large deficiency
in the funds required to pay the neces-
sary operating expenses of defendant for
the year 1908 and the interest upon the
bonded and other Indebtedness thereof
and the floating Indebtedness then past
due and payable and that said deficiency
amounted to upwards of the sum of $40,-
900, for the payment of which no pro-
vision was made by the tax levy. That
the necessary operating expenses of de-
PENDANT in conducting the city govern
ment, paying salaries, wages, and other
municipal expenses for said year, exclu
sive of the cost of improving Broad
street as hereinbefore alleged or any ex
penses in connection Herewith and eX-
elusive of the payment of the bonded or
other indebtedness of said defendant,
which is hereafter mentioned, amounted
to upwards of $4,000 in excess of the
tax levy. That the funds so levied and
assessed in the year 1902, to be collected
during the year 1908 were wholly in
sufficient to pay the necessary costs and
expenses of defendant for said year prop
erly payable out of such funds, exclusive
of paying anything for the improvement
of Broad street as above alleged.
90 That in the fiscal year beginning
on the second Tuesday in April, 1908,
there was levied and extended against
the taxable real and personal property
in defendant taxes to be collected during
10 ho Of
apportioned among the various funds as
follows: Current expenses, $4,000;
maintaining roads, highways, bridges and
culverts, and opening and constructing
the same. $4,000; for the park fund and
the maintenance of the public parks of
defendant $4,000; for the library fund
and the maintenance of the public Ii
brary in defendant, $4,000; for the pay
ment of interest on outstanding bonds
and other Indebtedness falling due and
payable during the year 1904, the sum of
$4,000; for the payment of bonds out
standing and other indebtedness of de-
PENDANT due in the year 1904, the sum of
$4,000; for the sinking fund as provided
by the charter of defendant the sum of
$4,000. That the total taxable property
of defendant as equalized by the state
board of equalization of the State of
Minnesota for the year 1908 was $685.
262. That all of the aforesaid sums
must be assessed against all of the tax
able property of defendant as provided
by law, making total tax levy upon the
assessed valuation for city purposes ex-
clusively, of upwards of one and thirty
five hundredths per cent upon the dollar,
and that notwithstanding such levy
there will be deficiency in the funds
required to pay the necessary operating
expenses of defendant for the year last
mentioned and the interest upon the
bonded and other Indebtedness and the
floating indebtedness now past due and
nauahle i'm llnwards of the sum of S35-