The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1920-05-06

vided 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 such curb to the paving line
of such streets and avenues, and the
lot edges of such curbing shall be set
a distance from center lines of such
streets and avenues as the Mayor and
Council shall hereinafter determine;
provided, that at the intersection of
streets and alleys said curb and gut
ter line return to the rot line. of said
streets and avenues so improved.
Section 3. On the passage and
publication of this ordinance the
Mayor and Council shall designate
three disinterested householders who
after having taken an oath to faith
fully and impartially perform their
duties, shall within ten days after
notification of their appointment
proceed to appraise the lots and par
GELS of ground liable to taxation for
such improvement, which appraise-
ment shall be returned to the Mayor
and Council at their first meeting af-
ter the same shall have heen COM
pleted, and the Mayor and Council
shall thereupon appoint a day and
hold special session for the purpose
of altering or equalizing said APP
praisement if the' same shall be
deemed unfair, due notice of which
meeting shall be given in the official
city papers.
Section A. The City Clerk is here
by authorized before or after said APP
praisement and equalization, to ad-
vertise for bids for the construction
of said work, and the contract shall
be let to the lowest responsible bid
der as determined by the Mayor and
Council, the right being reserved to
reject any and all bids.
Section 5. The cost and expense
of grading and bringing to grade. the
streets and avenues aforesaid and of
improving in the manner aforesaid
the areas and squares formed by the
intersections of either streets and
alleys with \the streets and avenues
specified in section one of this ordin-
ance shall be paid by a general tax
upon all the taxable property within
the corporate limits of the City of
Liberal
Section g. The costs and expense
of improving the streets and avenues
specified, except the aforesaid areas
and squares, shall be taxed as speci-
al assessments and levied according
to law upon the lots and parcels of
ground adjacent to the said improve
ments and chargeable by law with
the costs thereof, but the payment
of said costs and expense is hereby
authorized to be made in twenty
equal annual installments and for
such installments improvement bonds
of the City of Liberal shall be issued
and paid as hereinafter provided, but
such bonds shall not be issued in ex-
cess of the contract price.
Section 7. For the payment of the
costs and expense of making; the i'm
provements specified the, City of Lib
eral shall issue its improvement
bonds payable at the Fiscal Agency
of the State of Kansas in twenty
(20) equal annual installments and
bearing interest at the rate of not to
exceed five and one half (51a) per
cent per annum, payable semi annu-
ally upon all unpaid amounts, and
such bonds shall have coupons at
tached representing such interest on
said unpaid sums, and special assess
ments shall be made each year to pay
the installments of the principal and
interest of such bonds next thereaf-
ter maturing, and such assessments
shall be made upon the property
chargeable with the costs of such i'm
provements and which has not paid
its pro rata part thereof, and shall be
levied and collected in the same man.
ner as is provided by law for the
levying and collecting of special as
sessments for such Improvements
where no bonds are issued
Section 8. That for the cost of so
much of said improvements as are
made payable out of the general i'm
provement fund of said city the May
or and Council may issue bonds of
the same tenor and effect and under
the same restrictions as those here
matter provided, and such bonds and
the interest thereon shall be paid by
the levy of a general tax upon all of
the property within the limits of said
city.
Section 8. Before or upon the
completion of the improvements
specified and after thirty days mott
fication to the property owners of the
amount of the assessment chargeable
upon such lot and parcel of ground
the Mayor and Council shall issue in
payment thereof the bonds of the
City of Liberal and may in their dis
erection deliver said bonds to the con-
tractor in payment for said improve
ments or sell the same to the high
est bidder and apply the proceeds
thereof in payment of said costs and
expense; provided that in no event
shall said bonds be sold or delivered
for less than their par value.
Section 10. This ordinance shall
take effect and be in force from and
after its passage and publication in
the official city papers.
Passed by the Council May a,
1920.
Approved by the Mayor May a,
1920.
W. V. GRIFFITH,
Mayor
Attest: L. L. HOLLAND,
tSeaD City Clerk.