The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-13
ORDINANCE NO. SS7

An ordinance authorizing and providing for
the issuance Of Improvement bonds of he City
q Lakeland, Florida, in the sum Of Eleven
and Twenty-one Cents ts11,5672l).
Whereas the City Commission Of the Ci.y
Of Lakeland, Florida, under and by virtue OF
Its charter and The amendments thereto, and
the rights given under the general law of tile
{ Sta.e Of Florida, determined by resolutions
and ordinances duly passed on December sti.
and January 25th, 1917, to grade, curb and
pave the following parts OF streets hereinafter
enumerated, and ordered said work to lie done,
and
Whereas the City Commission and the Com.
missioner Of Public Improvement did by prop
er proceeding contract for and cause to be
J constructed such street Improvements, and
Whereas said parts Of streets have been com
pleted and duly accepted by the City rngineer
and Commissioner Of Public Improvement. and
qualifications Of completion and total cost
thereof haze been made by the Commissioner
Of Public Improvement on the following streets
East Lime street, from Massachusetts avenue
TO Ingrahm avenue; East Orange street, from
Indiana avenue to Ingraham avenue: and
South 1ngraham from Orange street to Lime
street. and
whereas the Commissioner of Public In
provement and the City Commission have given
notice to the property owners affected by such
Improvement by advertisement in the akelaud
Evening Telegram in its issue of October 18th
to October 22nd 1918, in compliance with the
charter Of the City Of Lakeland as amended.
citing the owner or owners or other persons in
teersted In said lots, to appear before the City
Commission and the Commissioner Of Public
Improvement on the 26th day Of October.
1918, at 30 p. m. to present such complaints
as they may have, II any, against the assess
ment Of such property for such improvement,
and
whereas the City Commission did meet on
t1n atI do nf fnha N q
D. m, at the time and place specified in the
advertisement aforesaid, and no legal reason
was shown, nor was any objection or complaint
interposed by any person or persons against
the certfcation Of the cost for said improve
ment, and
Whereas on the 26th day Of October, 1918
the said meeting was thrown open TO hear ali
legal reasons against the assessments OF the
lots and blocks upon said streets aforesaid, and
no objections having been made the said City
Commission duly passed resolution, author
q izing and ordering that certificates Of indebt-
edness be issued against the property abutting
upon said streets, and
Whereas said certificates of indebtedness have
been issued against said property as described
for the amounts specified. and that the sale
certificates have been recorded in a specia
book known as Lien Book for Street Improve
ments, with description Of the prOpert,
against which said certificates are a lien, ant
Whereas on said date said City Commission
/. declared said certificates to be lien agains
said property for the amounts therein specified
and
Whereas the said City Commission accepted
said streets and the completion Of the i'm
pr0vements thereof, and the said certificates o
4 indebtedness against the property AUDITING upol
said streets, and their issuance was in sal,
resolution ratified and confirmed, and is nov
ratified and confirmed and the said certificate
have been deposited in the City Treasury o
4 the City Of Lakeland, and were on said date
and now are declared lien against the prop
erty therein mentioned, and
Whereas the total amount of the cost o
said work was as follows:
On South Ingrahm avenue, from 0rang
street to Lime street. one Thousand Foul Hur
bred Sixteen Dollars ($l,4l6.00). and the Cit
Of Lakeland's 0ne-thrd proportion thereof wa
Four Hundred Seyenty-two Dollars (S47200)
and the property owners two-thirds pr0portiO
Of said cost is Nine Hundred Forty -four Dol
lars (s944..00). On East Lime street. froI
Massachusetts, TO Ingrahm avenue, Nine Thou
sand Three Hundred Seventy nine Dollars an
Seventeen Cents ($9S7917), and that the Cit
Of Lakeland's 0ne-third proportion thereof wa
Three Thousand One Hundred Twenty six Dol
lars and Thirty nine cents ts3 1880, an
that the property owners two thirds propot
tion Of said cost is Six Thousand Two Hun
bred Fifty-two Dollars and Seventy eight Cent
t$6, 252. TS). and the cost OF paving East Orang
street. from Indiana to Ingrahm avenue wa
/ Six Thousand Five Hundred Fifty-iye Dollar
and Sixty-five Cents ($6,55565l. and that tn
City Of Lakeland's one-third proportion OF til
said cost Is Two Thousand One Ilundrc
B Eighty-fve Dollars and Twenty-Five Cent
sls2. 1922, and that the amount aSsesse
against the abutting property owners is Fou
Thousand Three Hundred Seventy Dollars an
Forty-t three Cents (S43i0 43). and that tn