Arizona republican., 1904-08-20
ROOSEVELT ROAD APPROPRIATION
A Special Meeting of the City Council
 Last Night.

There was a special meeting of the city council last night, called particu- larly for the purpose of auditing the Roosevelt road accounts. Incidentally, though, arrangements were made for the attendance of the councilmen at the funeral of the late M. w. Messin- ger, a former councilman, and some discussion was given the matter of fur ther street improvement by the con- struction of cement ditches.
 In respect of the road accounts, dup licate pay-rolls were presented, sign ed by L. c. Hill, supervising engineer, to the amount of $23O34.75. They were | audited and found to be correct. That represents the amount that has been earned so far and is due and payable by the city less a few of the payrolls that are undoubtedly correct but were submitted without the official signature of MT. Hill and will be returned that it may be attached. The amount of time checks that have actually been presented to the banks for payment, however, is only 1S,491.7S. The differ ence represents the amount the wage earners are still carrying in their pocN- cts, not having come or sent to the city yet to get their money.
 That everything may be kept in or der, 1t was decided by the council to. make a special appropriation for the total of each installment of Payrolls audited. as the checks issued are all accounted for thereon. rather than to appropriate on the total of returned time checks, which would be vastly more numerous and confusing. The
 
 government is what the city owes any how, as it does its business with the government, not with the individual la borer. As fast as the payrools are com pleted they will be sent in and audited in like manner, so there will in all proba bility always be money enough appropriated to cover the time cheeks before their presentation for payment.
 That there may be a full and accu- rate record of all appropriations for the expenditure of the money, that can be referred to at any and all times by interested or doubting citizens. a self explanatory resolution was pre- sented and adopted by the council, there being present Councilmen Dennis and Lauver and Mayor Bennett, and the recorder and treasurer. A similar
 
 ter the auditing of each consignment of payrolls, the text of it being as fCl- lows:
 Whereas, the city council of phOe'iN has audited and approved vouchers of l.. c. Hill, U. s. engineer in charge of the construction of the Salt River res ervoir and the Roosevelt ~oad, leading thereto, for money expc1del for h. bor and material in the construction Of the said Roosevelt road, which vouoh- CTS are numbered as follows. viz: ,t1 be supplied by recorder), and whereas the total amount of said vouchers so audited and approved as aforesaid, amounts to the sum of t23. '}f. |.
 Now, therefore, the common council of Phoenix do hereby apprcriate the said sum of s23.O34.75 for the payment of said vouchers out of the proceeds of the sale of the bonds of said city in the amount of s67,5OO issued for the purpose of aiding in the construction of said road and which fund is known and designated as the Roosevelt road fund. And the treasurer of said city is hereby authorized and directed to apply the said sum of $23,034.75 of said fund to the payment Of the several sums represented by said vouchers.