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1823 Improve Bishop StreetTPAY i� 1 1 227 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 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 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.