Bisbee daily review., 1905-07-07
ORDINANCE NO. s4.

ment of Main Street and 9 Part of
 Brewery Avenue in the City of Bis
 bee. Cochise County. Territory of
 Arizona, With Asphalt. and Preserib-
 ing the Method of Entering Into
 Contract Therefor. and for the Pay
 ment of the Contractor or Contrac-
 tors. aud Providing the Manner in
 Which Cost and Expenses of Paving
 Said Parts of Said Streets Shall Be
 Aportloned Among Property Hold
 CTS on Said Streets.
 Whereas. more than two-thirds of the resident owners of the line of lots or parts of lots situated on that part of Main street in said City of Bisbee described as follows. From the east ern side of the subway where the same fntersects said Main street adja- cent 10 lots twenty-nine and thirty (29 and 30). in Block Four (4), of the Bis bee townsite. to the south side of said subway at the northeast corner of the Bank of Bisbee building and the north west corner of the Copper Queen Store; and
 WHEREAS. more than two-thirds lof the resident owners of the line of .ots or parts of lots. situated on that rart of Brewery Avenue in said city described as foIiows: From a line where said subway intersects said Brewery Avenue to line drawn from f,e northeast corner of lot fifteen (15). h Block Three (3). to the northwest Eoorner of lot nineteen (19), in Block Two (2l, of said townsite, having pe- ltitioned the City Council of said city 10 pave said parts of said streets for their full width with asphalt, accord ing to the official grade of said Main street established by Ordinance No. A.. and according to the official grade of said Brewery Avenue established lby Ordinance No. 60: and.
 WHEREAS. said City Council finds that the public interest and necessity demand that said streets be paved as aforesaid:
 NOW, THEREFORE, it is ordained by said City Council as follows: Section l. That said parts of said Main street and said Brewery Avenue be paved according to said establish ed grade with asphalt wearing surface with a hydraulic cement and broken stone concrete base, according 10 the lpsans and specifications on file in the loffice of the City Clerk of said City, said plans and specifications being ] No. l. which said specifications were adopted by Ordinance No. 63, on the 18th day of June. 1905, and are here by referred to and made a part of this Ordinance.
 Sec. 2. The contract to do said pay i ing shall be let to the best bidder therefor after advertising 10 receive bids for the same. for ten days in the Bisbee Daily Review and such other newspapers as said Council may by resolution direct.
 l Sec. 3 The cost for paving sald streets as above mentioned shall be estimated according to the whole liength of said streets per running foot. and the said City shall be liable to the contractor for one-ffth of the actual total amount of the cost of paw ling said street as above mentioned, and the owners of the lots bordering on said parts of said streets to be paved shall be liable to the contractor for their proportion of the remaining cost 1 Iowned by them to the whole improved line. and in making the assessment iagainst such owners for said improve ments, the ground shall be assessed lacross the ground fronting or immedi- lately abuttfng on said improvement, back to the distance of fifty (50) feet from said front line, whether such ground be subdiyided by plating or conveyance CT in any other manner. All assessments, where the ground to lLe assessed is held by more than one icwneT, shall be in the proportion of a fair cash value of each parcel, less the value of the improvements. to be de. termined by the City Engineer, and in case of sale upon a precept each par icel shall be offered and sold separate ly beginning with the front parcel. land so on, to the last, or rear parcel.
 Sec. 1. When such contract shall have been in progress of fulfIlment. the Common Colincil-shall have power Ito cause estimates to be made from time to time for the amount of work done by the contractor and to require such amount to be paid to him, de i''1NAlHS a -SdSOuaDie percentage 10 Se- lcGre the completion of the contract lunt1 the whole shall be finished. and the Common Council shall have power lte prescribe iD said contract the time within which the whole shall be com fpleted, and such amounts shall be liens upon the grounds upon which lthey are assessed to the same extent
 that taxes are a lien. and shall have the same preference over other de. imsnds.
 Sec. 5. In case of any owners of lots CT parcels of ground on which such assessments have been maue shall fail or refuse for the space of twenty days after the date of the esti- lmste to pay the amount thereof to be Ipaid by such person to suchcontractor. isuch assessment shall be collected as Is provided in Section 5, of Act No. 10, Eof the Session Laws of the Twenty isecOnd Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona. being "An act entitled Granting to incorporated cit ies ard towns certain powers ard privileges in addition to those already lvested in them by charter or. general