The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-10-09

r with such material as the Mayor
and Council may hereinafter desig
, nate and select as hereinafter pro
vided according to the specification!
of the City Engineer, as hereinafter
! provided for, said avenues to be
{ paved for such width as the May
or and Council may hereinafter de-
termine, providing that the inter.
sections of the streets and alleys
, the pavement shall extend to the
property line of said streets anc
avenues so improved.
Section 2. 1t is necessary and
hereby ordered that Lincoln Avenue
and Kansas Avenue between the
, limits described in section one here
Of, be guttered, according to the
specifications of the City Engineer
of said city as hereinafter provided
for. The curb part thereof to be
five inches in thickness and the
gutter part thereof to be twenty
four inches more or less from the
back edge of said curb to the paw
ing line of such streets or avenues,
and the lot edges of such curbing
shall be set a distance from the
center line of such streets and ave-
nues as the Mayor and Council shall
hereinafter determine, provided,
that at the intersection of streets
and alleys said curb and gutter shall
return to the lot line of said streets
and avenues improved.
Section 8. On the passage and
publication of this ordinance the
Mayor and Council shall designate
three disinterested householders
who, after having taken an oath to
faithfully and impartially perform
their duties, shall within ten DAYS
after notification of their appoint
ment proceed to appraise the lots
and parcels of ground liable to tax
alton for such improvement, which
appraisement shall be returned to
the Mayor and Council at their first
regular meeting after the same
shall have been completed, and the
Mayor and Council shall thereupon
appoint a day and hold a special
all-day session for the purpose of
altering or equalizing said appraise-
ment If the same shall be deemed
unfair, due notice of which meet
ing shall be published in the official
city papers.
Section 4. The City Clerk is
hereby authorized to advertise for
bids for the construction of said
work, and the contract shall be let
to the lowest responsible bidder as
determined by the Mayor and
Council who shall have the right to
reject any and all bids.
Section 5. The costs and expense
of grading and improving in the
manner aforesaid, the areas and
SQUARES formed by the intersections
OF other streets and alleys with the
streets and avenues specified in sec
ton one of this ordinance, shall be
paid by a general tax upon all the
taxable property within the city of
Liberal
Section 6. The costs and ex-
pense of paving the aforesaid street
specified except the aforesaid
areas and squares, shall be taxed as
special assessment and levied ac-
cording to law upon the lots and
parcels of ground adjacent to the
said Improvements and chargeable
by law with the cost thereof, but
the payment of said cost and ex-
pense is hereby authorized to be
made in twenty equal annual in
stallments and for which INSTALL
ments improvement bonds of the
City of Liberal shall be issued and
paid as hereinafter provided, but
such bonds shall not be issued in
excess of the contract price.
Section T. For the payment of
the cost and expense of making the
improvements specified the City of
Liberal shall issue its improvement
bonds payable at the office of the
Fiscal Agent of the State of Kan
sas in twenty (20) equal annual !
installments, and bearing interest
at rate of not to exceed five 90 |
per centum per annum, payable
semi-annually upon all unpaid !
amounts, and such bonds shall |
have coupons attached representing
such interest upon said unpaid |
sums, and special assessments shall
be made each year to pay the in
stallments of the principal and in
terest of such bonds next thereafter |
maturing, and such assessments
shall be made upon the property
chargeable with the cost of such i'm
provement and which has not paid
its prorate part thereof, and shall |
be levied and collected in the same
manner as is provided by law for
the levying and collecting of special
assessments for such improvements
when no bonds are issued
Section s. That for the costs
of so much of said improvements as
are made payable out of the gen.
eral improvement fund of said city
the Mayor and Council may issue
bonds of the same tenor and effect
and under the same restrictions as
those hereinafter provided, and
such bonds and the interest thereon
shall be paid by the levy of a gen.
eral tax upon all the taxable prop
erty within the city.
Section 8. Before or upon the
completion of the Improvements
specified, and after thirty days no
tice to the property owners of the
of the assessment charge
able upon each lot and parcel of
ground, the Mayor and Council shall
issue in payment thereof the bonds
of the City of Liberal and may in