The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-06-30

Municipal court reported for the
week ending May 27 and June 3rd,
showing $500 and s124OO paid the
| city treasurer, was read and on motion
and second was accepted and ordered
filed.
! RESOLUTION.
The following resolution was in
| troduced by alderman Smart who
moved it's. adoption: w.
+ RESOLVED that the City Engineer
of the city of Bemidji be and he is
hereby directed to Immediately prepare
| proper certificates directed to the
County Treasurer of Beltrami County
providing for the cancellation of
| special assessment tax on lots twelve
! G2) and thirteen (13) block four (4)
original townsite, on the ground and
for the reason that the improvement,
to-wit: a sidewalk along said lots, for
| the construction of which such asses
ment was levied, was never built by
the city.
! And be it further Resolved that the
| City Engineer be and he is hereby in
| structed to prepare proper certificates
directed to the County Treasurer of
Beltrami providing for the cancellation
eleven G1) and twelve Q2) block
enght (8) and on lots thirteen Q3)
fourteen 04 and fifteen (15) block
| nine (9) Second addition to Bemidji,
| on the ground and for the reason that
the cost of laying said sewer along
! SAID property was paid for by the
| owners thereof.
On call of ayes and hayes, a major
ity of the council having voted in favor
thereof, the resolution was duly de-
clared carried.
Approved June 9Th, 1911.
! ~'9' ." ]. G. PARKER,
Mayor.
| Alderman Bailey offered the fol-
| lowing resolution and moved it's ad-
| option.
WHEREAS, it satisfactorily appears
| that special election was duly held
IN the City of Bemidji in the County
| of Beltrami and State of Minnesota, on
| the 31st, day of May 1911 and that
| at such election the proposition. con-
tanned IN that certain resolution of this
| governing body thereof, relative to the
! issuance of certain bonds to the State
| of Minnesota, adopted at meeting
| thereof held therein on the 1st, day Of
May 1911, received majority of the
| ballots cast thereat:
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOL-
WE'D that the bonds Of said city of
Bemldji be and and they are hereby
| issued to the State Of Minnesota in
accordance Herewith, and that the
| treasurer of said city of Bemidji be and
| is hereby authorized and directed to
make application to the State of Min
nesota and to the said Board of In
vestment for a loan thereon in Accord
ance herewith; that the Mayor and
@ city t Clerk of said City of Bemidji be
and they are hereby authorized and
dlrected to sign, execute and deliver
| to the State Of Minnesota such bonds
When countersigned by the treasurer
issued under and virtue thereof. upon
the payment to said treasurer of the
principal sum thereof, and that the
Mayor and City Clerk and all other
officers are hereby fully authorized and
directed to make, execute and deliver
lne necessary papers and furnish
all necessary infOrma ton in connection
with the issuance of the foregoing
bonds and the application to said State
TO purchase the same, as may be re-
qulred by the State Board of Invest
ment, which motion being duly second
ed by alderman Smart member there
or was put to vote and it appearjnp
that majority of the quorum present
mad voted in favor thereof, it was thus
declared carried.
Approved June 9Th, 1911.
J. c. PARKER
Mayor
ordinance No. 54-Amending section
one of chapter SO designating the fire
limits was read second time No
amendments being offered.
ordinance No. 55-An ordinance
creating an active patrol and license
district was read the first time.
Report on Septic Tank.
Report of consulting engineer J. r.
carroll on septic tank was made az
follows; Summarized BRIEFLY the con-
divisions are as follows: -
The bottom of the tank is leaking
the required thickness of concrete not
having been set in place.
The walls just below the water line
seem to be sound and Of good quality
or concrete, but leaking some places.
Whlch places are around the wires used
In Icing the forms together.
Practically all the concrete about the
level of the water line is verv had
and must be removed before the work
progresses further o.. ~
The spillway at the outlet end is
oadly cracked and out of place. For
tunately the concrete cover has not vet
been set in place.
From .he examination am of the
opinion the tank can be repaired and
put in service. 1st. The bottom must
first of all be made water tight and
OF the thickness required by the plans
before any work is done on the walls.
IND. The concrete in the walls, where
defective, particularly just below and
above the water line, must be taken out
ana replaced by new concrete, which
replacing must be done in small Sec
tons at time, allowing sufficient time
for the new concrete, when set in place
to harden, before the adjacent section
is removed: taking the nrooal1fiov, -