The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-09-02
Order For Town Election

OIQGI TOT lOWIl ElGGllUn
At a meeting of the Board of Commits
sioners of the Town of HendersOnville
held on the 18th day of August, 1909 the
following resolution and ordinance was
passed:
Be it ordained by the Board of Commits
sioners of the town of Hendersonville that
Whereas a petition has been filed be-
fore said Board in the following language:
ITO The Board of Commissioners of
The Town of Hendersonville, N. c..
I'VE. the undersigned citizens, property
owners, and residents of the town of Hen
Jacksonville, respectfully represent that
there are many property owners on the
cross streets and back streets who are
public spirited and enterprising to the ex-
tent thatthey desire their streets lmprOv-
ed as provided by the town charter, and
are willing and anxious to have their side
walks paved with cement the proper width
and with the character of material and
workmanship fused on Main street, the
cost of which to be charged to their prop
erty as provided by law. This, we thinks
is necessary to protect the town as a sum
mer resort, and ABSOLUTELY necessary to
build it into a winter resort.
Therefore your petitioners pray your
Honorable Board to at once perfect and
adopt a General scheme that will cOntem-
plate said improvements on all streets, to
be paid for by the town with money OBJ
tanned from the issuance OF bonds, and
the sale thereof, in the outset, the cost OF
which to be charged to the abutting prop
erty, to be collected back by annual as
sessments to meet said bonds and the in
tereSt at maturity.
w., ooHS%;ODoro fl1rfhor rnnrocpnt that
there are now a large per cent of property
owners who are anxious to have this work
90 forward and are ready and willing to
have the cost of said Improvements char
ged to their propertY,and that this senti-
ment is so general that your petitioners
believe that the greatest difficulty will be,
not to find parties willing to have their
property taxed for this improvement as
rapidly as the work can be done, but to
find people willing to wait for said i'm
provementS; that the perfection and ex-
ecutiOn of a well planned scheme for the
improvement of the streets will cost the
tax payers nothing in the end, but will so
enhanse the value of the property as to
more than double the present revenue
Wherefore your petitioners respectfully
ask your Honorable Board to grant their
petition at the earliest possible moment
so that visitors who are here now may be
well impressed with what our town is soon
to be-"
from which it has been found, and deter
mined by the Board by careful examina-
ton that more than One-fourth of the
qualified voters of said town had sub
scribed their names thereto, and from
which it further appears that more than
twelve of said subscribers are free holders
and actual owners of real estate located
in said town, and it is further found and
Judged finally that said petition is a
sufficient compliance with the law to
jnstify this order, and whereas said pc
tition asks the said Board to adopt a
scheme whereby the sidewalks on all
streets in said town may be laid with &C.
ment with material and work of the
quality used on Main street and whereas
it is further asked in said petition that the
said scheme should embrace the idea and
requirement that the said work shall be
done and performed as provided by Sec.
6, Chap. 81 of the Private laws of 1901,
as well also as Sec. 9 of said Chapter, to
the extent that the said cement sidewalks
shall be put dow or caused to be put
down as required by said chapter, j. e..
that the Commissioners shall, when said
act has been complied with, determine
the extent and character of the work to
be done by the various owners of proper
ty AUDITING on said streets; and after Civ
ing the notice REQUIRED by law, proceed to
make said sidewalks and charge the cost
thereof to the AUDITING property to be
n paid for by the owners, either in cash or
at the option of the owner in ten equal
annual installmentS, with 6 per cent in
terest per annum, payable Semi-annually,
said payments to constitute a sinking
fund, to be invested under a rigid rule in
gilt edge, approved securieties payable at
times and dates in advance of the matur-
ity of the interest and principal of the
bonds hereinafter provided for, and where
as it is necessary for the town, through its
properly constituted officers, to borrow
money as authorized by law, to make said
improvements, and whereas this a only
be a~dvantageously done by issuing bonds
from time to time as the work progresses
in sufficient amounts to meet the payment
of such bills as may be made and allowed
by the said town with contractors to do
said work, and whereas it is not known
and can not at this time be ascertained
lust what amount of money will be re-
, uuired to do the work contemplated by
this order, and whereas it is believed to
} be safe and expedient to rely upon the
} people to keep III Office only such men as
will be able IT, carry out this scheme with
fidelity, ara good judgment,
1t is thereto e ordered. ordained and
determined by the Board Of Commission
ers OF the town OF H~endersonville in due
and lawful session at the Town Hall IN
said town this 18th day of August. 1903,
that the said town can and will proceed
with the said work mentioned, set