The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1914-04-23


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est thereon to the Treasurer of What
com County for collection. All assess
ments or installments certified shall
be entered on the annual tax roll, of the
county for the current year against each
lot or parcel, so delinquent. and with the
| interest and penalty be collected as
other taxes, a separate account being
kept thereof, and If not paid within the
time fixed for the payment of sa d TIA :es,
lected, together with such additions
charges or penalties as are authorized 10
be charged and collected on other delln-
quent taxes and each lot OF parcel So
delinquent shall be sold for the amount
of such assessments with the interest,
penalty and costs at the time when and
by the same authority as lots and lands
are sold for such taxes.
Call and Payment of Warrants.
Sec. 10. 1t shall be the duty of the
Town Treasurer to call and pay in nu-
merical order such outstanding warrants
against any particular improvement
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 sucn fund, but not
sufficient to pay the whole of the next
succeeding outstanding warrant, he may
call in and pay such portion thereon as
shall exhaust the amount of such Iunu;
Providing, however, that the Town
Treasurer may call the warrants issued
to the contractor on estimates or the
Town Engineer. in any local improve
men, u,s,. ic., as soon as the Town Coun-
ell has, by resolution, or ordinance, fix
ed IA date for the issuance of bonds in
such local Improvement district.
Whenever the Town Treasurer shall
pay portion of any warrant as above
..tJvId,a, ne snail endorse upon such
warrant the date and amount OF such
payment and take receipt from the
holder thereof showing the number and
description OF sucn warrant ana tiie
date, and amount so paid, which receipt
the SAID Treasurer shall return wltn MS
report to the Town Clerk as voucher
for the money 50 paid
Record Of Petition for Local Improve
mentS.
Sec. l6. Whenever the Town Council
shall pass an ordinance ordering any
tnIproN eunent AMI such Improvement is
to be paid for in whole or in part by
special assessment upon the property
specially benefited the Town Clerk shall
forthwith record in u book to be kept
for that purpose the petition presented
by the property owners to the Town
Council, together with all endorsements
and other entries contained thereon and
the names in full OF all petitioners; said
books shall be endorsed Record of Pc
tltion Tor Local improvements and
shall be properly indeNed 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 Town
Clerk.
Ii any such petition for any improve
ment be lost destroyed, concealed mis-
laiu, or for any reason De not in the
proper place in the Town Clerks Office,
the record of such petition in the book
herein designated. or copy thereof Ger
titled by the Town Clerk, shall be re-
| ceived and treated for all purposes as of
equal force and effect as the original
petition.
Local Improvement Contracts.
Sec. Il. In letting all contracts for
public improvements the Town Council
shall provide therein that at least thirty
per cent t3OH) OF the amount due the
contractor on estimates shall be retain
ID to secure the payment of laborers
VINO nave performed work thereon, and
| material men who have furnished mate
| rails therefor. and such laborers and
material men shall, for thirty 500 days
after their work has been completed
have a lien such thirty per cent
i5oltJ so reserved for labor done and
materials furnished, which lien shall be
senior to all other liens, whetner by
Judgment attachment. or contract, anu
no Improvement shall be deemed COM
pleted until the Town Engineer suail
nave filed with the Town Clerk state
ment signed by Il majority OF the Coun-
ell declaring the same to have been
completed. The Town Council shall by
ordinance prescribe suitable means and
remedies Tor the preservation and en-
| fOrcement or the liens provided for in
this section.
during the time allowed by the Town
Council for the completion of the con-
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last day OF each MONTH issue an eSli-
mate of the amount of work completed
ftufinS the month by the contractor, but
EafteI the expiration OF the time allow Ell
10 completion OF said contract by the
Town Council no estimate Other than
the final estimate after the completion:
and acceptance OF the work shall be is
sued. Said final estimate issued By the
Town Engineer shall include, in addi-
ton to statement OF the amount of
money due the contractor. statement
u the amount OF money expended for
abstracts. advertising, etc, and shall in
clude engineering expense incurred
prior to the expiration OF the time al
lowed by the Town Council for the COM
ing expense incurred after the time al
lowed by the Town Council for the COM
pietion of the contract shall be borne
oy the contractor as a penalty for fail
ufe to complete the work within the
specified time.
The Town Clerk shall, on or abou:
the 25th day of the month following the
issuance of the estimate by the Town
Engineer deliver to the contractor mon
ey or warrants in an amount equal TO
| seventy per cent t7DH) of such esti-
mate. The thirty per cent (3OH) re-
auired 1,, to be held as a reserve 10 pro
period of thirty 600 days after the
final completion of the improvement,
shall at the expiration of such period,
warrants, so far as the same shall be
free from liens.
Such warrants shall be drawn against
the local improvement district fund I'M
der which the work is being done, and
shall bear interest at the rate of eight
per cent $50 per annum from date Of
issuance until redeemed, but such war
| rants shall not bear interest beyond d
| date one hundred twenty I20) days
after the time fixed in the proposal and
contract for the completion of the con-
| tract.
The Town Engineer shall Immediately
| file with the Town Clerk his final es-
| innate for any local Improvement. set
ting forth the total amount of said final