The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-03-06
Legal Notices
Ordinance No, IOs

with jackson street to the interSec.
ton of said Fifth street with Mar.
tin street; Champion street from
the easterly boundary line of Fifth
street to the easterIy boundary line
thereof with Sixth street: Sixth
street from the northerly boundary
to the southerly bound/ry line
thereof with Martin street, by prop
erly grading said streets between
the aforesaid points. and construct.
Ing drains on, over and along said
streets and constructing wooden
plank sidewalk four feet wide from
the northerly boundary line OF Fifth
| street with Jackson street to the
southerly boundary line of said
Fifth street with Martin street, al
specifications on file in the office
of the Clerk of said Town and In
accordance with Resolution No. 10i
of the Town Council of the Town
Of Steilacoom; adopting the said
Local Improvement District therefor
and providing for the payment OF
the costs and expenses thereof.
BE 1T ORDAINED BY THE
C0UMCIL OF THE TOWN OF
Section That Fifth street from
the intersection thereof with Jack.
son street to the intersection OF
said Fifth street with Martin street;
StTect tne edSItIiy
boundary line of Fifth street to the
easterly boundary line thereof with
Sixth street; Sixth street from the
northerly boundary. liie thereof
with Champion street to the south
ssrly.boundary line thereof with 1
Steilacoom, Pierce County. Wash
ington, be improved by srubbing
and properly grading said streets
between said points. and construct
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on, over and along said streets and
constructing a wooden plank side
walk four feet wide from the
northerly boundary line of said
Fifth street with Jackson street on
over and along said Fifth street to
the southerly boundary line of said
Fifth street with Martin street, and
that such other work be done as
may be necessary in connection
herewith, all in accordance with
prepared under the direction of the
Town Council and on file in the Of
flee of the Town Clerk of the
Town of Steilaeoom. which plans
and specifications are hereby
Section 2.-That the cost and ex-
pense of said Improvement includ-
ing all necessary and incidental ex-
penses. shall be borne by and assess
ed against the property included in
hereinafter created in accordance
with law, and the Town of Stella
COON, shall not be liable in any
manner for any portion of the cost
and expense of said Improvement.
Section 3.-That there is hereby
created and established a Local I'm
provement District called Local Inn
provement District No. s. which
said district is described as fol-
the termini Of said Improvement
abutting. adjacent. VAGINAL or proxi-
mate to such portion of said streets
and avenues to distance back of
the marginal lines thereof. as pro-
vided by law"
Section 4.-Bonds bearing inter-
est at the rate of seven per cent
per annum, payable on or before
five years from the date of this or
dinance, shall be issued in payment
provement, which bonds shall be
redeemed by the collection OF spe-
cial assessments to be levied and
assessed upon the. property within
said district, payable in five equal
the rate of seven per cent per an
mum, under the mode of payment
of Payment by Bonds" as provided
by Chapter 50 of the Laws of the
State of Washington, for 1911. Said
bonds shall be delivered to and ac-
copied by the contractor in redemp-
ton of warrants on said Local I'm
provement District Fund issued on
estimates of the aforesaid engineer
or other official directing said inn
provements for said Town. provided,
however. said Town may sell said
bonds and make such redemption
in cash.
Section 5.-Said bonds shall be is
sued against said district amount
ing in the aggregate sum equal to
the amount OF said assessment re-
naming unpaid at the time of their
issuance, but not in excess of the
cost and expense of said improve
ment, which bonds shall bear inter-
per annum from the date of their
Issuance. and shall be numbered
consecutively and be in denomipa-
lions of not less than 500 each, ex-
cept the first numbered bond which
may be more or less. If necessary;
said bonds shall be issued and dated
not less than thirty days after the
expiration of the time that said
assessments shall be paid without
interest, penalty or cost. and fixed
err that said assessment roll Is in
his hands for collections: all as is
provided by Chapter 80 of the Laws
of the State of Washington. for
Section 6.--Said bonds shall be ac-
cepted by the contractor at par in
full payment of said work, and said
contractor shall have no claim what
soever on account thereof against
the Town of Steilacoom except upon
said bonds, special assessments
made, and the fund created for the
payment of said work.
Section THAT the contract for
said Improvement shall be awarded
to the lowest responsible bidder;
and the Town Clerk Is hereby di-
rected to publish in the official pa
per of the Town of Steilacoom once
a week for two consecutive weeks,
a notice inviting bids for the con-
struction of said improvement ac-
cording to said plans and specifi-
cations and this ordinance, which
notice shall state where said plans
and specifications may be eXamin-
ed by prospective bidders: that said
bids Will be received by the Town
Council until 1880 y. m. on the 23rd
the Council shall proceed to open
and consider all bids received, re-
serving the right to reject any or
all of them.
Section 8.--That the successful
bidder to whom said contract shall
be awarded shall enter into a writ
ten agreement with the said Town
for the construction of said i'm
provement within ten days after the
awarding of said contract; and
that at the time of the entering
tractor shall execute a proper bond
with corporate surety, subject to the
approval of said Council. in the sum
equal to the contract price running
to said Town, conditioned for the
faithful performance of said con-