The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-09-20
Bond Registry.

Sec. 10. The City Treasurer shall
keep in his office register of all bonds
issued. He shall enter therein the local
| improvement fund district number for
which the same are issued, and the date,
and the amount, and the number of each
| bond, and the term of payment.
Sec IL. When the Improvement shall
| be ordered and payment therefor made
without the issuance of bonds, the City
| Council shall cause warrants to be is
sued in payment of cost and expense
thereof, which warrants shall bear in
| terest at the rate of eight per cent Is
per cent? per annum, and shall be pay
able only out of the special fund TO be
provided for under the local improve
ment district under which the same are
issued.
Call and Payment of Warrants
Sec -. 1t shall be the duty of the
| City Treasurer to call and pay in nu-
| merical order such outstanding war
rants against any particular improve
ment fund as he may be able to pay with
the money on hand credited to such
fund and whenever he shall have money
on hand to the credit of such fund, but
| not sufficient to pay the whole of the
next succeeding outstanding warrant,
he may call in and pay such portion
thereof as shall exhaust the amount of
| such fund
Whenever the City Treasurer shall
pay portion of any warrant as above
provided, he shall indorse upon such
warrant the date and amount of such
payment and take a receipt from the
holder thereof, showing the number and
| description of such warrant and the date
and the amount so paid, which receipt
| the said Treasurer shall return with his
report to the City Council as a voucher
| for the money so paid
Record of Petition for Local Improve
| ment.
Sec 10. Whenever the City Council
| shall pass an Ordinance ordering any
| Improvement, and such Improvement is
to be paid for in whole or in part by
special assessment upon the property
specially benefited. the City Clerk shall
for that purpose the petition presented
| by the property owners to the City
Council, together with all Endorsements
and other entries contained thereon and
| the names in full of all the petitioners;
said books shall be indorsed Record of
| Petition for Local Improvements" and
shall be properly indexed so as to indi-
cate the pages on which the petition for
each Improvement can be found and
shall remain in the office of the City
| Clerk.
IF any such petition for any improve
ment be lost destroyed. concealed. mis-
laid or for any reason be not in the
proper place in the City Clerks office,
the record of such petition in the book
certified by the city Clerk, shall be re-
ceived and treated for all purposes as of
| equal force and effect as the original
petition.
Local Improvement Contracts
| Sec IA. In letting all contracts for
| public improvements, the city Council
may provide therein that at least thirty
| per cent $50 per cent? of the amount
due the contractor on estimates shall
be retained to secure the payment of
| laborers who have performed work
| thereon, and material men who have fur
nished material therefor and such la
| borers and material men shall for thir-
ty 600 days after their work has been
completed, have lien on such thirty
per cent $50 per cent? so. reserved for
| labor done and materials furnished.
which lien shall be senior to all other
liens whether by judgment, attachment.
| or contract and no improvements shall
be deemed completed until a majority
| of the City Council shall have signed
and filed with the Clerk declaration
| to that effect.
tract the City Engineer shall. on the
| last dav of each month. issue an esti-
| mate of the amount of work completed
| during the month by the contractor, but
shall after date set for completion of
| the contract. furnish no estimate other
| than the final estimate issued after the
completion of the work.
Said final estimate issued by the City
| Engineer shall include, in addition to a
statement of the amount of money due
| the contractor, a statement OF the
amount of money expended for alb
stracts. advertising and engineering
prior to the date set for the compile
| ton of the contract. All engineering
| expense incurred after the time hxed
| in the contract for its completion shall
be borne by the contractor as a penalty
| for failure to complete the work within
the specified time.
| Opening Bids; Acceptance and Rejec-
lions; Letting Contract; Return Of
Checks; Forfeitures; No Remission
| Sec Is. At the time and placed
named. such bids shall be publicly OPP
ened and read; no bid shall be rejected
for informality. but shall be received II
it can be understood what is meant
/ thereby. The Council shall proceed to
determining the lowest bidder. and may
| let such contract, to such bidder. or
If in its opinion. all bids are too high.
it may reject all of them and readver-
| tise. or may proceed to do the work
under its own supervision by day
| work" and in such case all checks shall
| be returned to the bidders by the City
| Clerk, but If the contract be let, then,
| and in such case, all checks shall be
| returned to the bidders except that of
| the successful bidder. which shall be
| into for making such Improvement be-
tween the bidder and the City in ac-
cordance with such bid, and the duly
approved and accepted bond therefor be
| filed in the office of the City Clerk. If
the said bidder fails to enter into such
contract in accordance with his bid
| within ten (10) days from the date at
which he is notified that he is the sue
| cessful bidder, the Clerk shall stamp
across the face of the certified check:
| FORFEITED to the City of Leavenworth
| City Clerk" and shall deliver said check
to the City Treasurer. who shall de-
posit in the City Treasury to the credit
| of the local improvement fund and the
| Council may readvertise for proposals
for such work; and neither the Clerk
nor the Treasurer nor the City Council
shall have the power to remit such
| forfeitures.
City's Contribution to be Specified in
Ordinance.
| Sec. 16. Every Ordinance ordering