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An ordinance providing for the paving, curbing, guttering and
excavating of Washington Avenue, from the west side of
Ninth Street to the east side of Tenth Street in said City,
specifying the manner of construction and providing for
the cost thereof and the manner of payment.
WHEREAS, two parallel streets in the City of Salina, to -
wit: Ninth Street from Walnut Street to Prescott Avenue and Tenth
Street, from Walnut Street to Prescott Avenue have been graded,
curbed, guttered and paved, and,
WHEREAS, Washington Street in said City is an intervening
street connecting Ninth Street and Tenth Street between the paved
portions thereof,
NOW THEREFORE, Be it ordained by the Mayor and Councilmen
of the City of Salina:
Section 1. That it is necessary and hereby ordered that
Washington Street , from the west line of Ninth Street to the
east line of Tenth Street in said City, be excavated, paved,
curbed and guttered with such material as the Mayor and Council-
men shall hereafter select and designate. Such paving shall. be
of such width as the Mayor and Council shall hereafter determine
and shall extend to the lot line of such streets at the inter-
section of such streets with any other street or alley.
Sec. 2• It is.necessary and hereby ordered that Washing-
ton Street, from the west line of Ninth Street to the east line
of Tenth Street in said City, be curbed and gut-tered on both
sides thereof with cement curbing and guttering; the curbing
part to be six (6) inches in thekness and the guttering thereof
to be forty-two (42) inches in width from the back edge of such
curb to the lot line of such streets. The lot line edge of such
curb and gutter shall he set such distance from the center of
said streets as the Mayor and Council shall hereafter determine,
Provided, however, that at the intersection of such streets
with any other street or alley such curbing and guttering shall
return to the lot lines on such streets.
Sec. 3. All excavating, rolling and grading for the prop-
er construction of such paving, curbing and guttering shall be
done and such paving, curbing and guttering shall be laid and
constructed on the established grade of said streets as hereto-
fore or hereafter established by the ordinances of the City of
Salina.
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Sec. 4. The City Engineer shall prepare the necessary,
plans and specifications and estimates of cost for the making
of the improvements herein provided for and shall file the same
with the City Clerk forthwith..
Sec. 5, The Mayor and Council shall hereafter by ordinance
determine the kind of paving, curbing and guttering to be placed
on the above described streets, and shall let a contract for
the construction of such paving, curbing and guttering to be
placed on the above described strets to the most responsible and
satisfactory bidder or person.
Sec. 6. After the passage and publication of this ordin-
ance the Mayor and Council shall appoint-three.disintorested
householders of the City, who, after having taken an oath to
faithfully and impartially appraise all lots and pieces of ground
liable to assessments and taxation for the cost of said improve-
ments, shall, within ten days after having been notified of their
appraisement, proceed to appraise said lots and pieces of ground
liable to assessments without regard to the improvements thereon,
and after the making of said appraisement, shall return the same
to the Mayor and Council, and after such appraisement is returned
to the Mayor and Council, the said Mayor and Council'shall designate
a time for holding a special session for -the purpose 6f hearing
complaints and equalizing -said appraisements, of which special
session, due notice shall be.given in the official City paper,
and at said special session the Mayor and Council shall, if they
deem it.just and proper, alter or change such appraisement.
Sec. 7. For the purpose of paying for such paving, curb-
ing, guttering and excavating, -the Mayor and Council are hereby
directed and authorized to issue bonds of the City of `'alina, in
au amount not to exceed the contract price therefor, and to run
for such a period of time as the Mayor and Council shall determine,
not to exceed, however, ten years from the date of such bonds,
and to be payable in equal amounts each year during the life of
such bonds, together with interest not to exceed the rate of five
per cent per annum, -which bonds shall be payable at the fiscal
agency of the State of Kansas, and for the purpose of paying the
principal and interest on such bonds as they severally become due,
the. Mayor and Council shall each year during the life of such
bonds, levy assessments against the lots and pieces of ground lia-
ble for taxation for the improvements herein provided for, in the
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amount sufficient to pay the principal and interest for that year;
Provided, however, that for defraying the cost of paving and exca-
vating the squares and areas formed by the crossing of streets and
alleys as well as where the improvement is through or adjacent to
City property, for which the City would be liable, the assessment
shall be made against all the taxable property of the City, and-
the
nd-the City Clerk shall certify said asessments, as they are sever-
ally made, to the County Clerk of Saline County, Kansas, at the
same time and in the same manner as other taxes are certified,
and said assessments shall be liable to the same penalties; pro-
vided, that the Mayor and Council shall by ordinance apportion
and assess the special assessments aforesaid against the lots and
pieces of'ground in the taxing districts aforesaid, which assess-
ment and apportionment shall hold good for all the installments
that are to be collected from the specific property chargeable
with said improvements.
Sec. 8. This ordinance shall take effect and be in full
force from and after its publication once in the official City
paper.
Passed and approved this 17th day of December, 1917.
Edd Mathews,
(SEAL) Mayor.
Attest;
Chas. E.°Banker,
City Clerk.
STATE OF KANSAS )
SS.
COUNTY OF SALINE )
I, Chas.' E. Banker, City Clerk of the city of
Salina, Kansas, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is
a true and correct copy of Ordinance No. 2122, passed by the Coun-
cil and approved by the Mayor of the'city of Salina, Kansas, De-
cember 17th, 1917; and a record" of the vote 'on its final adoption
is found on Page of Journal No.- 9. Said ordinance was pub-
lished in the Salina Daily Union December 22nd, 1917.
City Clerk.
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