The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1921-06-21

THE COST THEREOF.
BE 1T ORDAINED by the Board
of Council of the City of Paris in
regular meeting assembled in the
City Hall in Paris, KY, on Thursday
night, May 26th, 1921, that pursuant
to the resolution heretofore adopted
by the Board of Council on May %,
1919, at to Tenth Street, and the
resolution of February 26th, 1920,
as to Main Street, and both of
which resolutions were published
as required by law, the following de-
scribed streets and parts of streets
in the City of Paris be improved by
the original construction of the road
ways thereof with virtrified brick,
asphalt, bitulithic, wood blocks, rock
asphalt, concrete paving or. other
type of paved streets, and by the
construction Of curbs and cutters on
both sides thereof except where the
same is already constructed In con-
formity with the plans and specifi-
cations for the proposed work, to-
wit: Tenth Street from East mar
gin of Main Street to Westmargin
of Pleasant Street and Main Street
from Bank Row to the bridge over
Stoner Creek.
2. That said improvements shall
be made according to plans and
specifications heretofore adopted by
the Board of Council of the City of
Paris.
8. That the cost of improving said
road ways shall be paid as follows,
to-wit: one-third of the total cost
thereof including the cost of the i'm
provement of the intersection with
other public ways including one-half
of the width Of the street being i'm
proved opposite other streets or al
legs which run into but do not cross
The street or alley so being improv-
ed, and all of that portion of any
street abutting upon property be-
longing to the City, and all the cost
of all improvements where the abut-
ting owner is a public school, ceme-
terry, county, State or United States.
shall be paid by the City of Paris
out of the general fund; and the re-
naming two-thirds of said cost and
the cost of all curbing and guttering
shall be made as the exclusive cost
of the owners of real estate abutting
on such improvements, to be ap-
portioned among and assessed upon
the lots or parcels of real estate
AUDITING feet, and tax shall be
levied upon such lots or parcels of
real estate for the payment of the
costs assessed thereon, which tax
shall be due and payable at the City
Treasurer's office upon the compile
ton of the work and acceptance
thereof by the Board of Council
provided, however, that the portion
assessed against the abutting prop
erty may be paid on the ten year
payment plan as provided by law.
4. Any such tax which is not
paid within thirty days after the
same becomes due and payable, un.
less the property owners shall have
exercised their option to pay fol
same on the ten year payment plan
as above provided shall have added
thereO penalty of ten per centum
of the amount of the tax, and there
shall be lien upon such lot or par.
eel of real estate for the part of the
cost of said improvement so assessed
thereon, and the same shall bear
interest at the rate of six per centun
per annum from the time of the
assessment until paid.
5. This ordinance shall nave two
readings before the Board of Coun
Gil, and ten days shall intervene be-
tween the first and second readings
Upon the final adoption of this or
dinance the improvement committee
is directed to advertise for bids fol
two consecutive weeks in the Bour
bon News and Kentuckian-C Citizen
newspapers published in Bourbon
County, Kentucky, being the officia
publications Of the City of Paris fol
the construction of said streets, ou
of each of the materials as hereir
provided.
Bids for said work shall be re
Iceived in open council on the 14tl
day of July 1921, at 500 O'Clock D
m. and said work shall be let to tn,
lowest and best bidder.
6. All bids shall be in writing ant
under seal upon blanks furnished b,
the City Engineer, and addressed t.
]. W. Hayden, Clerk of the City O.
Paris. Each bidder must accompan,
his bid with certified check pay
able to c. K. Thomas, City Treasurer
for an amount equal to 10 per cen
of the amount Of his bid, or by bid
der's bond in the sum of Two Thou
sand Dollars, conditioned that sucl
bidder, if awarded the contract, viii
enter into a written contract and
execute good and sufficient bono
conditioned for the faithful perform
ance Of said contract, within fifteer
days after the award is made. Il
the successful bidder shall fail t.