The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-06
SOLICITOR SAYS ORDINANCE
is NECESSARY
FOR MAKING EXTRAORDINARY
PAYMENTS OF MONEY AND
INCREASING TAX LEVY.
Heretofore Matters Have Been Pass
ed by Vote of Council--Monthly
Meeting Held Thursday Night
Bills Paid.

Meeting Held Thursday Night
Bills Paid.
Saying that mot one cent of the
1913 tax levy could be collected if
the people of the borough refused to
pay" Solicitor Lee, caused the bor-
ough council to sit up and take no.
tice at the regular monthly meeting
in the city hall Thursday evening.
Mr.. Lee said that a mere motion to
the effect that the tax levy should
be raised to six mills for 1913 was
not sufficient and would not hold.
He declared that the people of the
borough would not have to pay one
cent of the tax unless an ordinance,
authorizing the increase in the tax
levy, be formally passed by the bor-
ough council and advertised in the
local newspapers or posted in con-
spicuous places about the borough.
He said that Judge Fuller of Lu-
zerne county, had made a ruling to
the effect that an ordinance made
by the borough council was neces-
sary for making tax levy and that
all extraordinary bills paid by the
council must also be done formally
by passing an ordinance. Ordinary
bills and debts can be ordered paid
by vote of the council but such eX-
penditures as the purchasing of fix
lures for the new postoffice should
have been done by ordinance and
the same should have been published
in the newspapers or posted around
the borough. The members present
were, President Caufield; Treasurer
Penwarden; Thos. Canivan, S. T..
Ham, F. w. Kreitner and G. H. Ret
tew. The treasurer's report sub
mitted and approved was as follows:
Amount on hand at last meeting,
$2,621.94; received during the
month, $261.50; paid out during
month, $1,910.61; balance on hand,
$1,572.S3.
Some of the business transacted
was the decision to notify property
owners, on Seventeenth street, east
of Main street, to lay. their walks
within thirty days or the council
would lay them and collect the
amount from the property holders.
The street committee were author
lied to buy crushed stone for repair
ing the crossings on Main street
Street Commissioner Weidner re-
| ported that the pipes leading to the
i fountain in the park were corroded
and obstructed the flow of the water.
He was authorized to put in new
pipe leading to the fountain.
The secretary was ordered to noti-
[ fly the property owners on Sixth
4 street to take out the cobblestones
4 over the walk between Church and
Main streets.
Property owners along Main
street will be notified to have their
sewer pipes and water pipes laid at
once in order that the paving can
be started as soon as possible. The
following bills were ordered paid:
Kraft & Conger, coal, 1890;
B. F. Haines, printing statement,
r $4,000; Herald Press Association,
printing statement, $4,000; Citizen
Publishing Co., same, $4,000; F.
Rickert, team and labor, $34.20;
]. Goodline, 1910; Patrick McClem-
ons, $3.50; ]. Buckley, $3.50; VIM.
Donnelly, $11.25; L. Weidner, $22;
c. Hartung, $2.25; H. Knorr, $16.-
so; B. McGarry, $S.75; G. Rabbit,
$500; T. Castle, $1,000; l.. Weld
ner, team, $500; j. Decker, $685.;
NJ L. Braman, $22.2O; F. Varcoe,
$1.76; John Canivan, $50; Levi De-
Groat, $4,000; H. c. L., H. & P. Co.
$260.16; Bell Telephone Co., S3.40.
Total, $695.23.