The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-07
After an Irregularity Had
Been Found, Plat Is
Filed With Auditor
COUNCIL PASSES
A NEW ORDINANCE
Everything Had Been Fixed
UP When Mistake Was
Discovered.

After the city engineer and city
council had approved and adopted the
plat of the proposed addition; after the
annexing the territory to the city Of
WaIIa WalIa; after Mayor Eueere Tau
sick had attached his signature to the
ordinance the startling discovery was
made that the proceedings to bring
Stones addition into the city by ordi-
nance is wholly illegal through the
failure to file with the county auditor
the plat of such addition as required
by law. Section 104 Of the city charter
expressly provides.
whenever any addition to said city
shall be plated and recorded in the
office of Walla Walla county, as requir4
ed by law, then, and in that case,
the city of Walla Walla shall have
power by ordinance to include such
addition within the corporate limits
thereof; provided, always, that such
addition is joined to the already estab-
lished boundaries of said city"
General surprise was exr PRESSED yes
terday afternoon when the discovery
was made that there had been a tech
nicality in the proceedings, and al
though the statement was made that
everything was in accordance with
the charter, the city council last night
in adjourned meeting, lost no time in
reconsidering their action in giving the
ordinance final passage, and the meas
ure was again given passage, with the
certain knowledge that the plat had
been recorded with sthe county auditor
as provided by the charter.
Mistake Is Rectified.
The ordinance rectifying the mistake
Of the city council was introduced by
the judiciary committee and passed or
suspension of the rules. Previous tt
it's passage City Attorney J. c. Hur'
spool, who drew up the ordinance il
the first instance, said in explanation
This addition was annexed by thu
council, but it has since been dis
covered that the plat Of the addition
was not recorded as provided by law
! and as there has been some question
raised as to the legality Of the pro
ceedings of the council in annexins
the addition before the plat was re
corded, it has been deemed best to re
introduce the ordinance and pass it {
second time"
Discovered Mistake Yesterday.
The first intimation that there hat
been illegality in the proceedings con
nected with the passage of the ordi
nance annexing Stones addition wa.
given yesterday afternoon, and for
time there was no little CONSERVATION
among the various city officials VIII
were informed of the fact. Effort
were at once set on foot to see If tn
mistake counld be rectified, and afte
due consideration it was thought tha
passage Of the ordinance a sedon'
time after the plat had been recorde
would redeem any error that Nigh
have been made in the first place.
Through some chance the necessft
of filing the plat of the proposed addi
ton with the county auditor previou
| to the annexation of the addition b
THE city was overlooked, and the ordi
nance was passed by the council an
signed by Mayor Tausick before tn
error came to light.
> Cloud On Title.
| According to those who were awar
of the discrepancy in the proceeding
the action of the council in annexin
= the territory by ordinance, before til
plat was recorded with the count
auditor would have placed cloud Q
> the title Of every lot contained therein
; The city, according to a recent decisio
in the case of the Dement, compan
would have no authority to supp
water for the addition, as it would |
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