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ORDINANCE NO. 1823.
(Published in the Salina EveninP Journal March
) 1915.)
An ordinance providing for the paving, curbing, guttering and
excavating of Bishop Street, in the city of Salina, Kansas, between
the west line of Ninth street and the east line of Thirteenth street,
and providing for the cost thereof and the manner of payment.
WHEREAS, by resolution duly adopted on the 18th day of January,
1915, the mayor and council de&lared that it was necessary to pave
Bishop street within the limits' above and hereinafter defined; and
WHEREAS, said resolution was published for more than five consecu-
tive days in the Salina Evening Journal, a daily newspaper published in
the city. of Salina; and, "
WHEREAS, a majority of the resident owners of property liable to
assessment and taxation for the cost of said improvements did not, within
twenty days from the last publication of such resolution file with ,
the city clerk of said city their protest against such improvements or
the making thereof; therefore,
Be it ordained by the Mayor and Councilmen of the City of Salina:
Section 1. it is necessary and hereby ordered that Bishop street,
as the same may be hereafter widened and extended, in the city of Salina,
Kansas, between the west line of Ninth street and the east line of Thir-
teenth street extended, be paved with such material as the`mayor and
council may hereafter designate and select, as hereinafter provided,
according to the specifications of the city engineer of said city here-
inafter provided for, said street to be paved for such a width as the
mayor and council may hereafter determine; Provided that at the inter-
sections of streets and alleys such paving shall return to the lot line
of said street so improved.
Sec. 2. It is necessary and hereby ordered that said Bishop
street, between the limitlt defined in section one hereof, be curbed and
guttered on both sides thereof with cement curb and gutter, according
to the spec ifica-t ions of the city engineer of said city,, hereinafter
provided for, the curb part thereof to be six inzhes in thickness and
the gutter part thereof to be thirty inches, more or less, form the
back edge of such curb to the paving line of said street and the lot
line of such curbing shall be set such a distance from the center line
of said street as the mayor and council shall hereafter determine; Pro-
vided, that at the intersections of streets -and alleys said curb and
gutter shall return to the lot line on said street improved.
Sec. 3. For the work and improvement herein provided for, the
city engineer of Salina shall make and file with the city clerk, on or
before the 1st day of June, 1915, complete plans and specifications for
the paving of said street with asphaltic -concrete, asphalt, brick -block,.
and vitrified vertical side wire cut brick paving block pavement all on
a four or five, inch concrete base with asphalt and sand filler for 'both
of such brick pavements, and for curbing and guttering of said street
with cement curb and gutter, , substantially•as hereinbef ore described;
and on or before said last named date said city engineer shall file with
the city clerk estimates of the cost~ of such curb and gutter and of such
paving and excavating of such street with the different kinds of paving.
material aforesaid.
Sec. 4. That after such plans and specifications shall have been
made and prepared by the city engineer and filed with the city clerk as
aforesaid, the mayor and council may advertise for the reception of .bids
for the paving of said street with the different kinds of street paving
material named and specified in the preceding section hereof, and for
the curbing and guttering of said street, and after the receipt.of such
bids or proposals the mayor and council shall select from the different
kinds of such paving material the kind with which said street shall be
pawed, and they may and are hereby authorized to let a contract for the
paving of said street with the material so selected, and for the curb-
ing and guttering of said street, ito the most satisfactory and responsible
bidder for the kind and character of pavement which shall be determined
upon by said mayor and council, said mayor and council reserving the
right to let the contract or contracts for the paving; and excavating
separately from the curbing and guttering or let the contract for all such
improvements to one party, and to reject any and all bids.
Sec. 5. After the passage and publication of this ordinance the
mayor and council shall appoint three disinterested householders, who
after having taken an oath to faithfully and impartially appraise all
lots and pieces of ground liable to taxation and assessment for the
costsof the improvements herein provided for, shall, within ten days
after having been notified of their appointment, proceed to appraise said
lots and pieces of ground liable to assessment and taxation, as aforesaid,
without regard to the buildings or improvements thereon, and after mak-
ing said appraisement shall return the same to the mayor and council at
the first meeting thereof after such appraisement shall have been com-
pleted, and after said appraisement is returned to the mayor and c onnc it
said mayor and council shall designate a time for holding a special cess=
ion for the purpose of hearing complaints and equalizing said appraisement,
of which special session due notice shall be given in the official city
paper; and at such special session the mayor and council shall, if they
deem it just and proper, alter or change such appraisement.
See. 6. For the purpose of paying for the work and improvements
in.this ordinance provided the mayor and council are hereby authorized
and directed to issue bonds of the city of Salina in an amount not to
exceed the cost of such improvemets, and to run for a period of ten years
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and payable in ten equal anntial-linstallements, together with interest
not to exceed five per cent per anhum, which bonds shall be made pay-
able at the fiscal agency .of the State of Kansas, and for the purpose
of paying principal and interest on said bonds as they severally be-
come due and payable the mayor and council shall by ordinance apportion
and assess against the lots and pieces of ground in the taxing district
of such improvements special assessments covering the cost of sdid im-
provements and the apportionment therein contained shall hold good for
all the installments that are. to be collected from the specific proper-
ty chargeable with said improvements. Such assessment and apportion-
ment ordinance shall contain the total amount of tax apportioned to
each tract, piece and parcel of land within the taxing district and
shall state the number. of annual installments in vihich.such tax is to
be collected.; and thereafter the city clerk shall annually, at the same
time other taxes are to be certified, certify to the county - clerk of
Saline county, Kansas, a full list of all property liable for the cost
of such work and improvements', together with the respective amounts due
on each of said tracts, pieces and parcels of land, which amounts shall
include the annual installments and and the interest on all unpaid
balances for one year at the rate of five per cent per annum, and such
amount so certified shall be collected as other taxes are collected;
Provided that for the purpose of defraying the cost of improving the
squares and areas formed by the crossing of streets and alleys as well
as where the improvement is through or adjacent to property of the city,
for which the city would be liable, the assessments shall be made a-
gainst all the taxable property of the city.
Sec. 7. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and
after its publication once in the Salina Evening Journal.
Passed and approved, March lst, 1915.
(SEAL) V. E. Niquette.
Attest: Mayor.
Chas, E. Banker,.
City Clerk.
STATE OF KANSAS )
COUNTY OF SALINE ) SS.
CITY OF SALINA )
I hereby certify that the above and foregoing is
a true and correct copy of an ordinance passed by the Council and approv-
ed by the Mayor of the City of Salina, March 1st, 1915; and a record of
the vote on its. final adoption is found on pale Journal No. 8.
City Clerk.