08/31/1915 Board of Public Works Minutes

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Assessments of ten dollars and more against each lot, if deferred, are to be paid in ten equal annual installments, with interest at the rate of Six per cent per annum. A bond or bonds will be issued to the contractor to the amount of such deferred assessments in pro rata payment for such improvement. Under no circumstances shall the City of South Bend be, or be held responsi- ble for any sum or sums due from said property owner or olmners for said work, , or for the collection of the same, or for the payment of any bond, bonds, certificates or certificates, issued to said contractor in paymentnfor such work except for such moneys as shall have aetu- ally been received by the City from, the assessments for such improvement, or such moneys as said City. is by said entitled Act and a,menmdents and supplements thereto required to pay. All proeeed.ings had, and work done in the making of said improvement, assessment of property, collection of assessments and issuance of bonds therefor, shall be as provided for in said above nntitled Act, and Acts an'endatory thereof and supplemnta,l thereto,* Be It Further resolved, 'That the Board of Public Works fixed the 21st. day of August,1915 at the hour of 7:45 P.14. at the office of the Board of Public Works of this City, as the time end place for the public consideration of said proposed, improvement, at which said Board. df Public Works will hear all persons interested or *lose property is liable to be assessed for said improvement, and will decide whether the benefited to the property liable to be assessed for said improvement will equal the estimated cost thereof. Be It Further Resolved$ That notice of the time and place of such public consideration be published and mailed in the manner provided by law. Notice of this resolution sall be published on the 26th. day of August,1915 and on the 2nd. day of September 1915 in the South Bend Daily Tribune. Adopted this 24th'. day of August,1915. BOARD OFNTPUBLIC MRKS. The Board had up for discussion the heating contract, submitted by the �St. Joseph Heating Company. President. Wednesday August 25th.,1915, The Board met in special session at 10:00 A.M. Mr. Rice absent. Mr. Lewis F. Meyers, Attorney for the Chicago Lke Shore & South Bend Ry. Company met with the Board, and agreed as attorney for the above mentioned company that .the distance between the south edge of walk and the north rail of the Chicago, Lake Shore do South Bend Foy. Company tracks should be Ten (101) feet on La Salle Avenue at the corner of La Porte. The curb to be Fifteen (151) from the north line of the trackunt it it intersects the pr_esPnt curb, and the space between the new curb and the present pavement should be paved properly by said company. President.