Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-02-07
AUGUSTA LOCALS.
CITY COUNCIL.
Holds Special Meeting,
Monday Evening.
Commissioners Report Draft Of
Revised City Charter.
Amendments Offered to Revised Or
dances and Referred to Committee.

\ special meeting of the city council
was held at the city rooms. Monday
evening. for the purpose of taking final
action on the city charter and ordi-
mace, to take action regarding pending
tax cases and to provide funds for
meeting expenses of the same.
The boards met in joint convention
and l. y. Burleigh of the special COM
revise the city charter, presented a
draft of the charter as it would be pre-
sentei to the Legislature and explained
such changes as had been made, after
which the convention was adjourned.
In the way of concurrent business. the
t%o following amendments to the ordi-
ntres We're referred to the comittee on
enrolled ordinances:
In Board OF Aldermen. Feb. 6. 1908.
An ordinance relative to uneNpended
balances of appropriations.
Be it ordained by the city council OF
the city OF Augusta, as follows:
Section l. The unrXpended balances
of all appropriations at the end of each
municipal year shall be merged into one
fund. to BE- designated rs the emerSen-
cy fund. which FUND is hereby appro-
priated for the purpose of paying ma
turing bonded debt of the city, ana all
expenses in connection with the collec-
ton and settlement of tax claims.
Section > This ordinance shall take
effect March |. 1905.
In Board OF Aldermen. Feb. s, 1905.
An ordinance to establish and regu-
late the disposition of fees.
Be it ordained by the city council of
the city of Augusta. as follows:
Section l. The salary of the city
clerk is hereby established at 500 and
Section of Chapter VI of the Revised
Ordinances is amended accordingly.
Section - Chapter VI of the Revised
ordinances is hereby amended by add
ing thereto as Section 4. the following:
"Set ton 4. All city officers except as
provided in Chapter $40 of the Public
Laws of 1850. entitled AN Act relative
to criminal costs and expenditures in
the county of kennebes." shall account
for and pay over TO the city for its
use all fees received by them by virtue
Of their official positions
Section ,. This ordinance shall take
effect April |. 1898.
An order was passed directing that
the commissioners appointed to revise
the city charter include in their draft
of the same the following amendment
to Section of the present charter,
namely: Amend said section by insert
ing after the words (which warrant
shall state the provision under which
the same is drawn" the following;
"Provided. however, that the city
council may, by ordinance. create Il
fund consisting of the unepended bal
ance of all appropriations remaining at
the end Of each municipal year, and
may by such ordinance. define the pur-
poses Of such fund and such warrants
draw Ii by the mayor for such purposes
shall be valid"
And further ordered that said COM
nIiSSioners include in said draft the fol-
lowing provisions:
Section -. "The mayor and aldermen
of the city of Augusta shall have pow
or to Cause any or all of the streets of
said city to be sprinkled or watered
and may assess the expense thereof as
provided in the next section.
Seton --. The city council Of said
city shall by ordinance prescribe the
mode in which the Sprinkling or water
ing the streets of said city shall be as
sessal and also the mode in which the
said expense shall be collected, or Sc
cured by lien. upon the lots or parcels
of land specially benefited and the
manner in which such liens shall be
enforced. Provided, that the assess
nipnt shall be upon the lots or parcels
of land specially benefited and against
the owner thereof. or person in posses
sion. or against Whom the taxes thereon
shall be assessed, whether said person
to whom the assessment is 50 made
shall be the owner. tenant, lessee or
agent and whether the same is Occu-
pied 81 not"
The city council may, except rs in
this charter otherwise provided by or
dinanre provide a specific salary FOR
any or all city officers and may further
provide that amy officer whose salary Is
50 sreritied shall account for and pay
over to the city for its use all statutory
fees received by him by virtue off his
official position"
And be it further ordered that said
commissioners, who have already fully
explained to the city council the exist
ing changes and amendments of the
city charter. be and are hereby in
StruCted to draft an act revising and
sectioning the city charter and the
State laws, additional thereto and
amendatory thereof. or which should
properly be included in such draft, and
having first presented such draft to
Justice W. +. Whtehouse of the SUI
preme judicial court and having incor-
porated therein any suggestions made
by said justice for the purpose of rem
dering clear the intention and securing
the legality of such draft. to present
the same Immediately to the Legisla-
| tnre now sitting, to the end that a leg
| islative hearing may be had thereon,
and the charter amended.
| And further ordered. that all previous
| orders or parts of orders requiring the
submission of the completed draft of
| the charter to the city council before
presenting it to the Legislature for en-
| actment, be and the same are herby re
paled
| TIL meeting closed with the passage of
| the following order:
Ordered. That the mayor and city So
| Ii, itnr arc he, ehy ant horiZed and in