East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-04-04

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and parcels Of land should pay on ac-
count Of the benefits to be derived
from such proposed improvement, and
the City Surveyor shall file such plans
and specifications and estimates in
the office Of the Recorder of The City
Of Pendleton. If the Council shall
find such plans. specifications and es-
Inmates to be satisfactory, 1t shall ap-
prove the same and shall determine
the boundaries of the district bene-
fitted and to be assessed for such i'm
provement and the action of the
Council in the creation of such an
assessment district shall be final and
conclusive. The Council shall by
resolution declare its purpose of max
ing such improvement describing the
same and including such engineers
estimates Of the probable total cost
thereof and also defining the boun-
daries of the assessment district to
be benefited and assessed therefor.
The action Of the Council in declaring
its intention to improve any street or
streets or any part or parts thereof.
directing the publication OF notice
thereof, approving and adopting the
plans and specifications and esti-
mates of the City Surveyor and de-
termning the district benefited and
to be assessed therefor, may all be
done in one and the same act.
60 The resolution Of the Council
declaring its purpose to improve the
street shall he published for a period
Of ten DAYS in some newspaper to be
designated by the Council, and there
shall also be published Herewith a
notice that the Surveyors estimate of
the proportion OF the cost of said
work TO be charged against each lot.
part Of lot and parcel Of land is on
file in the office Of the City Record
or, and copy Of such resolution, to-
eether with the report of the Sur
vcvor showing the probable percent
age Of benefit to he assessed against
ooch lot. part Of lot and parcel or
land within such district. shall he
Kept of record in the office Of the
City Recorder
(4D Within ten days from the date
Of the first publication of the notice
required to be published in the pre-
ceding section the owners of so per
cent or more in area of the property
within such assessment district may
| make and file with the city Recorder
a written objection or remonstrance
against such proposed Improvement,
and such objection or remonstrance
| shall be a bar to any further proceed
ing in the making Of such improve
ment for a period of six months, un-
| less the owners of one-half or more
| of the property affected as aforesaid
shall subsequently petition therefor.
(5) II no such objection or re-
monstrance be made or filed with the
Recorder within the time designated
the Council shall be deemed to have
| acquired Jurisdiction to order the i'm
provements to be made. and the
Council may thereafter by ordinance
/, provide for making such improve
ment, which shalr conform irf all par
ticulars to the plans and specifica
tions previously adopted.
(6) When the Improvement c
T any street is ordered the, Recor
E upon instruction from the Cor
: Council, shall Immediately invi'
: posals for making the same fter-
J cordance with ordinance
which proposals shall be ick ehu
, the presence of a majori ol Our
\ Common Council and TIA py 'ne
n awarded TO the lowest l'rIh nan
t bidder for either the Wen coulo
q improvement or such, 7 hau coin-
will not materially co.ost destroy
e. completion of the rerahul liiarhs vi
!. The Common Couneiht OF tne es-
= right TO reject any at Nooo "hich
received. If all p,drance carrleu
ii rejected the Comm too' was IN
harA mower nv rascLot Livermore !
ed, to order that 1alls upon the
or any portion the VINO had cloth-
under the directi Neariy all OF
counc,, by nurc,r badly damaged.
II and hiring the amounts TO- '"ch
Common CounNr OF the shop' is
or 10 nrov,d Jut states It is a con-
tion and suit
under theo Mr.. Webster. the fire
and to coy the fumes of the gas
the faiIling ignited by the boiler.
r,o,,es spread through the frame
T., IRE with incredible swiftness and
lie time the firemen arrived on
scene with their hose carts the
,hcture was a mass of fire. Their
York was made doubly difficult by
the explosion of n gasoline tank
which spread the flames after they
had been all but subdued. While at
work on ladder, Carl Leonard, one