Bisbee daily review., 1905-07-12
ORDINANCE NO. s4.

Brewery avenue III tue Nllf- o- Dtn-
 bee, Cochise County, Territory of
 Arizona, With Asphalt. and Prescrib-
 ing the Method of Entering Into q
 Contract Therefor. and for the Pay
 ment of the Contractor or Contrac-
 tors, and Providing the Manner in
 Which Cost and Expenses Of Paving
 Said Parts of Said Streets Shall Be
 Aportioned 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 intersects said Main street adja- cent to lots twenty-nine and thirty (2s and 3Ol. 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-thi-ds of the resident owners of the line of lots or parts of lots. situated on that rart of Brewery Avenue in said city described as follows: From . line where said subway intersects said Brewery Avenue 10 a line drawn from the northeast corner of lot fifteen 1S), In Block Three f3), to the northwest corner of lot nineteen (19). in Block Two CD. Of said townsite, having pc titioned the City Council of said city to 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. 47. and according to the official grade of said Brewery Avenue established by Ordinance No. GO; and.
 ] WHEREAS. said City Council finds that tho public interest and necessity demand that said streets be paved as aforesaid
 | NOW. THEREFORE, it is ordained by said City Council as follows:
 Section 1. 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 TO the plans and specifications on file in the office of the City Clerk of said City, said plans and specifications baing No. l, which said specifications were adopted by Ordinance No. 63, on the 2Sth day of June. 1905, and are here 5 by referred to and made 9 part of this Ordinance.
 Sec. ?. The contract to do said pay ! ing shall be let to the best bidder therefor after advertising to receive
 bids for the same, for ten days in the
 Bisbee Daily Review and sGch other newspapers as said Council may by resolution direct.
 Sec. ,. The cost for paving said streets as above mentioned shall be estimated according to the whole length of said streets per running foot, and the said City shall be liable to the contractor for one-fifth of the actual total amount of the cost of pay 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 fol their proportion of the remaining cost in the ratio of front lines sf the lots iowned by them to the whole improved fine, and in making the assessment against such owners for said improve
 ments, the ground shall be assessed
 across the ground fronting or immedi
 lately abutting on said improvement
 back to the distance of fifty (5O) feel : from said front line, whether suci ground be subdlvided by plating ol
 conveyance CT in any other manner All assessments, where the ground t be assessed is held by more than ont owner, shall be in the proportion of { fair cash value of each parcel, less thG value of the improvements, to be de termined by the City Engineer. and 1T case of a sale upon a precept each. par eel shall be offered and sold separate ly, beginning with the front parcel
 and so on, to the last. or rear parcel Sec. f. When such contract shal have been in progress of fuifillment the Common Council shall have powel !, to cause estimates to be made iron
 time to time for the amount of worl done by the contractor and to requir, | such amount to be paid to him, de ducting 8 reasonable percentage to SC |, cure the completion of the contrac until the whole shall be finished. an, : the Common Council shall have powe to prescribe in said contract the tirnl
 within which the whole shall be com pleted, and such amounts shall b liens upon the grounds upon whicl :, they are assessed to the same exten that taxes are a lien, and shall hay the same preference over other de mands.
 Sec. ,. Tn case of any owners o : lots or parcels of ground on whicl I such assessments have been mau
 shall fail or refuse for the space o twenty days after the date of the est /, mate to pay the amount thereof to b paid by such person to such contractor ]. such assessment shall be collected a l is provided in Section ,. of Act No. 1(
 of the Session Laws of the Twenty ! second Legislative Assembly of tli s Territory of Arizona, being "An ao P entitled Granting to incorporated cii [ ies and towns certain powers az e ,~-i,-slo.z1.e f- ,Tdffr0~ fo 4hOca a1~no q