Bisbee daily review., 1906-03-10


 Shearer Avenue, have petitioned tho. City Council of said City to pave saidS parts of said Lower Main Street, How ell and Shearer Avenues for their full width with vitrified brick and con crete according to the established grade of said streets, and,
 Whereas, said City Council finds that Public interest and necessity de- mand that said streets be paved as aforesaid; @
 Now, therefore 1t is ordained by the said Common Council of the City of Bisbee. as follows, to-wit:
 Section l. That said parts of said Lower Main Street. Howell Avenue and Shearer Avenue be paved accord ing to said established grades with yitrified brick and hydraulic cement and broken stone concrete base, ac- cording to the plans and specifications on file in the office of the City Clerk of said City, said plans and specifea- uons being No. 1, which said specifi- cations were adopted by Ordinance No. 63. for Main St. and Brewery Ave, on the 2Sth day of June, 1905. and are hereby referred to and made a part of this ordinance as the plans and specifications for the paving herein provided for.
 Sec. 2. The contract to do said paving 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 new spaPerS as said Council may by resolution direct.
 Sec. 3. The cost of paving said parts of said streets as above men tiOned shall be estimated according to the whole length of said parts of said streets per running foot, and the said City shall be liable to the Con- tractor for one-ffrh of the actual total amount of the cost of paving said l streets as above mentioned. and the owners of the lots Bordering on said parts of said streets 10 be paved shall be liable | othe contractor for their proportion of the remaining cost in the ratio of the front lines of the lots owned by them to the whole improy- cd line, and in making the assessment i against such owners for said inn prOvements, the ground shall be as SesSed across the ground fronting or insmedia9ely abutting on said inn pavement back to le distance of fifty feet from said Jnt line, whether such land be sub' vided by plating or conveyance or l any other man her. All assessments where the ground to be assessed is held by more than one owner shall be in proportion of a fair cash value of each parcel. llE. ll Ina Nf hp to be determined by the City Engi- neer. and in case of a sale upon a pTecept. each parcel shall be offered and sold separately, beginning with the front parcel and so on, to the last or rear parcel.
 Sec. i. When such contract shall have been made and shall have been 1 in progress Of fuIfillment, the Com mon Council shall have power to f cause estimates to be made from time to time for the amount of work done l by the Contractor and to require such amount to be paid him. deducting a 1 reasonable percentage to secure the completion Of the contract until the
 whole shall be finished, and the Com mon Council shall have power to pre-
 scribe in said contract the time with 1 in which the whole shall be complet- ed, and such amounts shall be liens upon the grounds upon which they are I assessed to the same extent that
 taxes are a lien, and shall have the 1 same preference over other demands.
 Sec. 5. In case any owner or own 1 CTS of lots or parcels of ground on which such assessments have been made shall fail or refuse for the space of twenty days after the date of the ! estimate to pay the amount thereof
 Io be paid by such person Co such
 contractor, such assessment shall be
 collected as is provided in Section 5 of act No. 10 of the Session Laws , of the Twenty-secord Legislative As
 sembly of the Territory of Arizona. 1 being an Act entitled, Granting ts l incorporate cities and towns certain
 powers and privileges in addition to l those already vested in them by char i ter or general laws of this Terri i tory
 Sec. (. The City Clerk is hereby authorized to advertise for bids to do f said paving. in the Bisbee Daily Re view. for a period of ten days. Bids i or proposals for said contract shall be accompanied by a certified check in the amount of ten per cent. of the
 amount bid on said contract, as an as- surance that said bidder will enter into a contract with said City, accord ! ing to it's bid to do said paving; said
 check to be returned to said bidder should said City fail to enter into a contract with him according to his bid.
 ] Sec. '. This ordinance shall take Eeffect and be in force from and afCer { the date of it's passage by the Con-
 mon Council and Approval by the 1 Mayor.
 | Passed this 9th day of March, 1906. ] Adopted this Sth day of March.
 1906. JOHN s. TAYLOR, 1 Attest: Mayor.
 c. ". HICKS, Clerk.