The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-05-31

ment, or installment, together with pen.
atty and interest accruing to date of
sale, and for the costs of such sale.
Certificates of sale shall be executed
and delivered by the treasurer to the
purchasers at such sale, and assessment
deeds shall be executed and delivered
by him to the persons thereunto en-
titled. All steps and proceedings re-
CURED to be done in connection with
such sale. certificates of sale and ass
essment deeds shall be had and con-
Quoted according to law.
Section II. Foreclosure. Whenever
the condition of any local Improvement
district shall be such that the CITY
Council shall deem it necessary and ex-
pedient to provide for the foreclosure
OF any or all property appearing there
IN for unpaid and delinquent assess
ments and unpaid and delinquent install
ments thereof. the City Council NAV
pass an ordinance therefor, authorizing
and directing the City Attorney to in
stitute proceedings in foreclosure
against all the property described in
said roll, upon which assessments, or
lnstallments thereof, are levied and are
delinquent and unpaid. Thereafter all
further proceedings shall be had and
conducted in the manner provided by
law. =.
Section IS. Call and Payment OF
Warrants. 1t shall be the duty of the
City Treasurer to call and pay in
numerical 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 outstand-
ing warrant, he may call in and pay
such portion thereof as shall exhaust
the amount of such funds.
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 receipt from the
holder thereof, showing the number and
description of such warrant and the
date and amount SO paid, which receipt
the said Treasurer shall return with
his report to the City Clerk as a
voucher for the money so paid.
Section 10. Record of Petition for
Local Improvements. 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 forthwith record in
a book to be kept for that purpose the
petition presented by the property
owners to the Committee on Public I'M
provements ana the City Council, to-
gether with all Endorsements and other
entries contained therein and the names
in full of all the petitioners; said books
shall be Endorsed "Record of Petitions
for Local Improvements and shall be
properly indexed so as to indicate 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 i'm
provement be lost, destroyed, concealed,
mislaid, or for any reason be not in the
proper place in the City Clerk s office,
the record Of such petition in the book
herein designated, or a copy thereof
certified by the City Clerk shall be re-
ceived and treated for all purposes as
of equal force and effect as the origi
nal petition.
Section 20. Local Improvement Con-
tracts. In letting all contracts for
public Improvements the Committee on
Public Improvements shall provide
therein that at least twenty coy per
cent of the amount due the contractor
on estimates shall be retained to secure
the payment of laborers who have per-
formed work thereon, and material men
who have furnished materials therefor,
and such laborers and material men
shall for sixty (6O) days after their
work has been completed, have a lien
on such twenty (2OR) per cent so re-
served for labor done and material fur
nished, which lien shall be senior to all
other liens, whether by judgment, at
tachment or contract, and no improve
ments shall be deemed completed until
the Committee on Public Improve
ments shall have filed with the City
Clerk statement signed by majority
of them declaring the same to have
been completed.
During the time allowed in the con-
tract the City Engineer shall, on the
last day 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 Engi-
neer 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
expenses incurred after the time fixed
in the contract for its completion shall
be borne by the contractor as pen
atty for failure to complete the work
within the specified time.
The City Clerk shall, on or about the
25th day of the month following the
issuance of the estimate by the City
Engineer, deliver to the contractor
money, warrants or bonds in an amount
equal to 80 per cent of such estimate.
In case warrants are issued, they shall
be drawn against the Local Improve
ment District Fund under which the
contract is being done and shall bear
interest as follows:
IF under the HImmediate Payment