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Tillamook CHARTER AMENDMENTS. Headlight, July 23, owned by him within such time after the passage of the ordinance there for as the Common Council may deem proper, not exceeding 60 days, In order to cure a number of defects in the present and if such improvements be not City Charter and provided for the present floating in made by the owner within such time, Common Council may thereupon debtedness of the city, the Council have had the Citv the proceed to provide for the same by Attorney prepare a number of amendments to the char contract or otherwise as hereinbefore ter. In order that a general discussion of the matter 1 luthorized. Section 8: If the Common Council may be had and anyone who wishes may offer sugges shall desire to have such improve ments or any part thereof made, or tions, before the amendments are voted on, the Council the furnishing of materials therefor have ordered these published and the amendments pro done by contract, it shall direct the Recorder to give notice by publicat posed, and the Resolution for their publication, are pub ion not for less than three publica lished in the following : tions in the city official paper, in viting proposals for making said im Resolved, by the City Council oi paper. The City Engineer, within provements, or furnishing said mater the city of Tillamook: three days from the first publication ials, and may give such other notice That a measure to amend article 7, of said resolution, shall cause to be i inviting such proposals as it may a measure to amend article 8, a meas conspicuously posted at each end of : deem expedient, provided that not ure to add article 12, a measure to the line of the contemplated im ! less than 20 days time shall be given add article 13, a measure to add ar provement a notice which shall con I from the date of the first publication ticle 14, to the Charter of the city of tain in legible characters a copy of ; of said notice for the submission of Tillamook, prepared and submitted the resolution of the Common Coun I proposals thereunder. The Common to the council in conformity with the cil, and the date of its adoption, to- 1 Council shall have the power to recommendations of F. R. Beals, iretn r wi n a rtatsme it >t t e time . award the contract or contracts for Mayor, in his message, be published within which objections and remon said improvement, and to impose in two issues of the Tillamook Her strances thereto may be filed, and , such conditions upon the bidders in ald and in two issues of the Tilla the resolution published in the city 1 regard to bonds and securities and mook Headlight; and that the legal official newspaper shall also have i guarantees of the good faith and re- voters, citizens and taxpayers of Till published in connection therewith a I sponsibilitv of bidders for insuring amook City be invited to make and notice giving the information stated ' the faithful completion of the work file with the Recorder, within sixty in the notice to be posted by the City J in strict accordance with the specifi- days, objections and suggestions in Engineer. Proof of the publishing of j cations therefor, and to make all rules relation thereto for the benefit of the said notices shall be made by the affi and regulations in the letting of con council before the passage thereof, davit of the City Engineer, as to the tracts that may be considered by the and before submission to the voters notices posted by him, and of the Common Council as advantageous to for adoption or rejection; and the printer of the newspaper in which the City, and as a part of said regula costs of such publication be paid out Speh notice is published, as to the tions they may require that the con publication thereof, which affidavit tractor, or contractors, agree to main of the general fund. shall be filed with the City Recorder, tain and keep in repair all improve All engineering expenses, cost of ad ments made under said contract for A MEASURE period of time (not exceeding TO AMEND ARTICLE VII OF vertisement, cost of superintendency such and other incidental costs and ex 10 years) as the Common Council THE CHARTER OF TILLA penses necessary to carry into effect may determine. MOOK CITY. OREGON. Section 9: Such contract or con the resolutions and ordinances au Be it Enacted by the People of thorizing the improvement, shall be tracts shall only be let to the lowest Tillamook City, Oregon, as follows: included in the estimate of the entire responsible bid, for either the whole of Sectionl: Article VII of the Char cost and in the assessment upon the said improvements or such part there ter of Tillamook City, Oregon, is property benefitted by such improve of as will not materially conflict with hereby amended so that the same ment, except as to such part thereof the completion of the remainder shall read as follows: as the Common Council may in thereof, but the said Common Coun ARTICLE VII. said resolution and ordinances pro cil shall have the right to reject any Section 1: The term “street” as vide shall be paid out of the general and all proposals received by it if used in this Article shall be con funds of Tillamook City. they shall be deemed unreasonable strued to mean any street, avenue, Section 5: Within 20 days from or excessive, or which do not con boulevard alley or lane, or any public the date of the first publication of form to the rules of the Common road which is now or may hereafter the said notice required to be pub Council relative to the matter of re be opened or dedicated to public use. lished as provided for in Section 4 ceiving proposals and letting con- Section 2: The term “improve” of this Article, the owners of two- tiacts for street work, and provided, and "improvement” as used in this Ar thirds or more of the area of the further, that no such contract shall' ticle shall be construed to include all property within such improvement be let for a price in excess of the grading or re-grading, paving or re district may make and file with the City Engineer’s estimate of the cost paving, planking or re planking, ma Recorder a written objection to, or thereof plus 5 per cent. cadamizing or re-macadamizing, remonstrance against said improve Section 10: It shall be the duty of graveling or re-graveling, and all ment, and said objection and remon the Common Council to fix the time manner of bridge work and roadway strance shall be a bar to’any further in which every such improvement improvement or repair, and all man proceedings in the making of such shall be completed, and it may ex ner of constructing and repairing improvements for a period of six tend such time should the circum sidewalks, cross-walks, gutters, curbs, months. Provided, that if any such stances warrant. The Common Coun manholes, culverts, sewers, drains objection or remonstrance shall be cil shall have power and authority to and tunnels within any of the streets signed by the agent or attorney of make all written contracts, to receive in Tillamook City, or any part of any property owner, there shall be and approve all bonds authorized by any such street. Section, to provide for filed with the recorder within the this Section 3: The Common Council, time provided for such objection, or the proper inspection and whenever it may deem it expedient, remonstrance, the written authority supervision of all work done under is hereby authorized and enpowered for the signing of such objection or the provisions of this Article, and to to order the whole or any part of the remonstrance, and otherwise such do any other act necessary to secure streets of the City to be improved, signatures shall be disregarded. the faithful carrying out of all con to determine the character, kind and Section 6: If no such objection or tracts and the making of improve extent of such improvement, to *levy remonstrance properly signes as afor ments in strict compliance W'ith the and collect an assessment upon all said be made and filed with the City ordinances and specifications there- lots and parcels of.land specially ben- Recorder within the time designated, 'for. Section it: Whenever any street efitted by such improvement, to de the Common Council shall be deem fray the whole or any portion of the ed to have acquired jurisdiction to improvement is completed in whole cost and expense thereof, and to de order the improvement to be made, or in part to the satisfaction of the termine within the limits hereinafter and it may be thereafter, and within City Engineer, he shall file a certi specified what lands are specially ’three months from the date of the ficate of the completion and his ap benefitted by such improvement, and final publication of its previous reso proval of such work so completed the amount to which each parcel or lution, by ordinance provided for the with the Recorder, who shall there tract of land is benefitted. Provided, making of said improvement, which after publish notice of such comple however, that whenever the owners shall conform in all particulars to the tion for not less than two puplica- in fee of two-thirds or more of the plans and specifications previously tions in the city official newspaper, àrea of the property upon which an adopted. When the Common Coun stating therein when the acceptance assessment for improvement will be cil shall have so provided for the of the same will be considered by made shall petition the Common making of an improvement as afor the Common Council, which time Council to order improvements to be said, Tillamook City shall be deemed shall be not less than ten days from made upon any of the streets of the to have appropriated and acquired the date of the first puplication of City, specifying the particular por ownership of all earth above grade, said notice, and at that time, or at tions thereof upon which the improve and within the street lines for said any time prior thereto, any owner of ment is desired, it shall be mandatory improvement, and no private owner any interest in, or the agent of any upon the Common Council to pro ship shall thereafter be claimed in property within the assessment dis ceed with the making of such im said earth. The Common Council trict of said improvement may appear provement in the manner prescribed shall have power and authority in and file, or make objections to the in this Article. Provided further, providing for any street improvement acceptance of said improvements, and that if said ow’ners of said propor also to provide for placing in the said objections shall be considered tion of said property shall in and by street where said improvement is to and the merits thereof determined by their petition agree upon the char be made, all necessary surface pipes the Common Council, and if it ap acter of improvement which they de for water, gas, heat, power, sewerage pears that said work or improvement sire to have made and the material or any other purpose, and all con has not been completed in accordance to be used therein, the Common duits for electric wires and other pur with the specifications and contracts, Council shall be bound by the selecr poses that are or may hereafter be the Common Council shall require tion so made, and in causing plans necessary. The Council may also the same to be completed before ac and specifications and estimates of provide a certain time after any cepting it. Whenever any work or the cost thereof to be made, the same street improvement is made during improvement is accepted by the Com mon Council the Recorder shall en shall be made upon the basis of the which it shall not be torn up or dis- dorse the approval of the Common character of improvement so select 1 turbed, and shall also have power and authority to provide that no opening Council on the certificate of the City ed. after the assessment Section 4: Whenever the Common of any street shall be made without Engineer, is and made and docketed, the Council shall deem it expedient, it first obtaining permit therefore, and therefore Mayor and Recorder shall draw war may, or upon petition presented in the Common Council shall have rants on the fund created for said im power to prescribe and enforce all conformity with Section 3 of this Ar provements in favor of the parties en ticle, it must provide as in this Arti rules regulating the opening of street titled thereto. When any work or surfaces in all streets of the city cle prescribed for the improvement improvement shall have <ieen let or of any street by proceeding in the which it may deem necessary to se performed by contract, the same cure the replacing of the street in following manner: shall be paid out of the funds receiv- It shall require the City Engineer good condition. And the Common edfrom assessments made as in this to prepare and present to said Com Council shall further have the power Article provided, or out of funds de mon Council plans and specifications and authority, whenever the grade of rived from the sale of bonds issued for the improvements desired, and any street has been established, to upon application of the owners of estimates of the work to be done, and authorize the owner or owners of any property assessed for said improve the probable cost thereof, and the property thereon to cut down or fill ment, and no payments shall be made engineer shall file such plans, speci up such street in front of said prop upon any such contract except out of fications and estimates in the office erty according to such grade under the funds provided by assessment and of the City Recorder. If the Com the supervision of the City Surveyor by bonds issued in conformity with mon Council shall find such plans, or City Engineer, at the expense of the provisions of this article. specifications and estimates to be such owner or owners. In giving such Section 12: W'hen the whole of the satisfactory, it shall approve the authority the Common Council may improvements covered by any one same and shall determine the bound impose such terms and conditions as ordinance therefor shall have been aries, of the district benefitted and may be necessary to secure the de fully completed and accepted by the to be assessed for such improvement, posit of earth or other matter exca Common Council, the Common Coun and the action of the Common Coun vated from the street upon any part cil shall then cause the cost of such cil in creating such assessment dis thereof which may need to be filled, work or improvement to be appor trict shall be final and conclusive. and to charge fees for such permits tioned to the property affected there Thereupon the Common Council to cover any expense incurred by the by within the improvement district shall, by resolution, declare its pur City in the survey and inspection of established therefor as required by pose of making such improvement, the work to be done. Section 7: Immediately after the the ordinance authorizing the same, describing the same and including in the manner following: said estimate of the probable total Common Council shall have deter Each lot, or tract, or part thereof, cost thereof, and also defining the mined by ordinance to proceed with within the limits of said improve boundaries of the assessment district any improvement or work as herein ment district abutting upon any street to be benefited thereby and assessed before provided, the City Council improved, shall be liable for the full therefor, which district shall be des may proceed to make the whole or cost, or the proportion thereof here ignated as "Local Improvement Dis any part of such improvements, or inafter mentioned, or making said trict No.————.” The action of the may proceed to let by contract the improvement upon half of the street Common Council in declaring its in furnishing of all material for the in front of and abutting upon said tention to improve any street or making of such improvements, and lot, tract or part thereof, and also streets, or any part or parts thereof, to have the labor in making such im for a proportionate share of the cost directing publication thereof, approv provements performed under the of improving intersections of two of ing the plans and specifications and direction and control of the City the streets bounding the block or estimates aforsaid, and determining Engineer. Or, the Common Council tract in which such lot, tract or part the district benefited and to be ass may cause all or any part of such im thereof is situated, but th«- said total essed thereby, may all be done in one provements to be made by contract cast shall be apportioned in accord and the same resolution. The reso in the manner provided in this Ar- ance with the following plan: lution of the Common Council declar- tide, provided, that the. Common Said local improvement district Purpose to make such improve- Council mav. in its discretion, permit shall, for the purpose of ascertaining the owner of any part of the property ' h« kept of record in the the amount to be assessed against Recorder, and suall which is to be assessed for the cost each seperate lot, tract or parcel of of such improvement, to make the three consecutive land, or other property or part there city official news- improvement in front of the property 1041. of within said district, be divided into subdivisions, or zones, parallelling the margin of the street to be im proved. Said subdivisions to be num bered respectively First, Second and Third. The First subdivision shall include all the lands within the dis trict lying between the street margin and lines drawn parallel therewith and 35 feet therefrom. The Second subdivision shall include all lands ly ing within the district lying between lines drawn parallel with and 35 and 70 feet respectively, from said street margin. The Third subdivision shall include all lands within the district lying between lines drawn parallel with and 70 and ¡05 feet respectively from such street margins. Provided, however, that should the property abutting upon the street or streets to be improved be divided into blocks of less than 210 feet, the improvement district shall not, unless specially provided by resolution establishing the same, extend further back than to the center of any such block, and the said subdivisions shall be pro portionately reduced in size as to such part of said improvement dis trict, unless the resolution establish ing said district shall provide that said subdivision shall be of the full width herein originally provided for. Provided further, that in case of the construction or repair of sidewalks the Common Council may in estab lishing the local improvement dis trict there for provide that the total cost thereof shall be assessed to and charged against the lots or tract im proved fronting and abutting upon that portion of said streets where said sidewalks are to be constructed or repaired, in which case no part of the cost shall be charged or assessed against any other property than that immediately fronting and abutting upon said street so improved. The rate of assessment per square foot in each subdivision shall be fixed on the basis that the special benefits conferred on a square foot of land in subdivisions First, Second and Third respectively are related to each other as are the numbers 55, 30 and I5)jre- spectively, and shall be ascertained in the following manner: The product of the number of square feet in subdivision First, Sec ond and Third respectively, and the numbers 55, 30 and 15 respectively, shall be ascertained, and their sum taken, which sum shall be divided in to the total cost and expense of such improvement. The products of the resultant quotient and the numbers 55, 30 and 15 respectively shall be the separate rates of assessmigit per square foot for subdivisions First, Second and Third respectively. The total assessment thus ascertained against each separate lot, or part of lot, tract or parcel of land, or other property within such district, shall be apportioned as the amount to be levied and assessed against each separate lot or part of lot, tract, par cel of land or other property respec tively. Provided however, that the Common Council may, in its discre tion, at the time of establishing any local improvement district, further provide that any portion of the cost of the making of such improvements, or any specified part thereof, shall be paid out of the general fund of Tillamook City. Section 13: After such apportion ment shall have been made of the en tire cost and expense of such im provement, the Common Council shall give notice of the time and place for hearing objections thereto by publication for two consecutive weeks in a weekly newspaper pub lished in Tillamook City, which time shall not be less than 15 days nor more than 30 days, from the date of such notice, and at the time and place fixed in such notice, or at such other time as the hearing may be adjourn ed to, the Common Council shall hear and determine all objections to the apportionment of the cost of such street improvements, and upon such hearing may make such changes therein as shall be necessary to make such apportionment equitable and just. Section 14: After the hearing pro vided for in Section 13 in this Article, and after making such changes in the apportionment as are therein provid ed for, and when the same shall have been fully determined by the Com mon Council, the Common Council shall declare and assess the same by ordinance upon the property benefit ed, which shall be described therein, and each lot, part of lot, of parcel of ground shall be assessed with its pro portionate share of such cost as here inbefore provided, anil said assess ment shall be final and conclusive, and the said ordinance shall further direct the Recorder to enter a state ment of the said assessed cost in the docket of city liens as provided for in this Article. Section 15: The docket of city liens is a book in which must be en tered by the Recorder the following matters in relation to assessments for the improvement and repair of streets, and the construction and re pair of sewers and drains, and the benefits and damages assessed for opening, widening, straightening, and extending streets, and changing the grades thereof: First, the number or letter of the lot assessed, and the let ter or number of block in which it is situated, and if a separate assessment is made upon a part of a lot, or tract of land, a particular description of such part of lot of tract; Second, the name of the owner thereof, or that the owner is unknown if such be the case; Third, the sum assessed upon each lot or part thereof, or tract of land or part thereof, and the date of the entry thereof; Provided, however, that a failure to enter the name of the owner, or a mistake in the name of the owner in such entry, or the entry of a name other than the true owner, shall not render void or vitiate such assessment or in any way effect the lien of Tillamook City or the proper ty described in such lien docket. Section 16: The docket of city liens is a public writing, and from the date of the entry therein of an assess ment upon a lot, or part thereof, or a tract or parcel of land, or a part thereof, the same so entered is here by declared to be a tax levied upon, and a lien upon and against such lot, or part thereof, or tract of parcel of land, which lien shall have priority over all other liens or incumbrances thereon, except taxes imposed under authority of the State or of the Unit ed States, and any sum or sums of money assessed for improvement or repair of a street, or benefit assessed for opening, widening, straightening or extending any street, or for a change of the grade thereof, or for the construction or repair of a sewer or drain, entered upon such lien docket shall be collected in the manner liejp inafter prescribed. Section 17: Notice shall be given by the City Recorder to the owner or owners of any such lot or part there of, or tract cr parcel of land, of the entry of such assessment in said lien docket, specifying the amount there of, within five days a’fter the entry thereof in said docket, which notice shall be given by mail if the postof fice address of the owner or his agent is known, and if unknown by address ing the same in the name of the own- ,er at Tillamook City, Oregon, and also by publishing the notice thereof in one issue of a weekly newspaper published in Tillamook City. Section 18: Whenever the owner of any such lot or part thereof, or tract or parcel of land upon which an assessment has been levied and docketed as herein provided for, shall desire, he may within thir ty days after notice of such assess ment is first published apply to the City Recorder of Tillamook City to pay said assessment in installments as hereinafter provided, and there after ro warrant to enforce the col lection of such assessment shall issue or be enforced, except as provided by this article in such cases. Section 19: If within 30 days from the date of the entry of such assess ment in said lien docket the whole or any portion of the sum assessed upon a lot or part thereof, or tract or par cel of land, remains unpaid, and such owner shall not have applied t for leave to make payment in install ments as hereinafter provided, upon order of the Common Council a war rant for the collection of the same shall be issued by the Recorder di rected to the marshal of Tillamook City. Whenever such assessment shall have been paid to the City- Treasurer, who is hereby authorized and designated as the person to re ceive the same, the Treasurer shall issue a duplicate receipt for said pay ment and file one copy thereof with the City Recorder, and the Recorder shall upon receiving said duplicate receipt immediately cancel said lien upon said docket of city liens by en tering upon the face thereof an entry of the satisfaction of such assessment signed by himself in his official ca pacity. Section 20: Such warrant shall, for the purpose of making sale of such real property upon which assess ments are delinquent and unpaid, be deemed and held as an execution against said real property for the amount of said assessment with in terests and costs, and the Marshal shall, within 60 days from the receipt of said warrant, sell the property therein described. Such sale shall be at public auction to the highest bid der for cash in hand, and shall take place at the front door of the build ing in which x the Common Council holds its sessions, and the Marshal shall give notice of such sale by pub lication thereof once a week for four consecutive and successive weeks in a weekly newspaper published in Till amook City, and by posting such notice for a like period of time in not less than three public places in said city. Such notice of sale shall contain a description of the lot, or lots, or parts thereof, tracts of parts thereof, naming the block in which the same is situated, that the same is to be sold for said delinquent as sessment, with the amount of said assessment, interest and costs to date of sale, including cost of advertise ment, due upon each lot or tract or part thereof, together with the name of the owner or reputed owner, or that the owners are unknown as the same appears upon said docket of city liens, and shall also specify the time and place of sale, and that the lots, or parts thereof, of tracts of land described therein will be offered for sale to satisfy the assessments, in terest and costs due upon each tract, lot or parcel of land, or part thereof, and each lot, tract or parcel of land, or part thereof shall be sold separat ely. Providing however, that all de linquent assessments assessed in one ordinance may be included in one notice, and all such sales shall be made between the hours of 9 o’clock a m. and 4 o’clock p.m. Provided fur ther, that said sale may be postponed in like manner as now provided by the laws of Oregon for the adjourn ment of sales of real property upon execution. Section 21: The Marshal execut ing such warrant shall immediately issue a certificate of sale to the purchaser for the property sold, stat ing therein that the sale is made sub ject to redemption, and that a deed will be issued thereon at the expira tion of the time for redemption if no redemption be made prior to said date. Within one year from the date of the sale the owner, or his succes sor, or any person having a lien by judgment, decree or mortgage upon the property sold, or any part there of, may redeem the same by the pay ment of purchase money and twenty per cent thereon, with interest upon the purchase money from the date of the sale to the time of redemption at the rate of 6 per cent per annum, and the amount of any taxes which the purchaser his heirs or assigns may have paid upon said property, with interest thereon at the legal rate from the date of such assessment, to be paid to the CityRecorder for the purchaser. Notice of redemption shall be given as now provided for by the laws of the State of Oregon for the redemption of real property from sale upon execution. Section 22: A redemption as pre scribed in the foregoing Section dis charging the property from the ef fect of sale upon such assessment, and if made by the owner or his suc cessor in interest, the ownership of said property is thereby restored to such owner or his successor in inter est, but if made by a lien creditor the amount paid for the redemption shall thereafter be deemed to be a part of his judgment, decree, mortgage or other lien as the case may be, and shall bar interest, and may be inforc- Section 23: After the expiration of one year from the date of the certificate of sale issued by the Mar shal if no redemption shall have been made the then acting Marshal shall execute and deliver to the puicbacci, his heirs or assigns, upon application therefor, a surrender of such certifi cate a deed of conveyance of the pro perty sold, reciting the description of the same as described in the docket of city liens, the amount paid, the name of the owner, or that the name of the owner is unknown, the date of doecketing the lien, and that the pro- pert'. was sold for delinquent assess ed ' for street improvements, or for opening, laying out, widening, straightening, extending or changing grade of streets, or construction ot sewers, or drains, as the case may be, and that said assessment was due and unpaid at the time of sale, and that no redemption had been made. Such deed shall de executed conformably to the laws of the State of Oregon so as to make it legible for record, and the same shall operate to convey to the purchaser a fee simple title to the said property free and clear of all in cumbrances, except for taxes as men tioned in Section 16 of this Article. Upon the delivery of such deed the Marshal shall file a certificate of sale with the Recorder, and it shall be a public record. Upon delivery of such deed all of the proceedings required or directed by this Article in relation to the making, levying and docketing of sttch assessments and the sale of the property <or the satisfaction thereof, shall be presumed to be reg ular, and such deed shall be priina facie evidence of the regularity of all proceedings required to be had under the provisions of this Article and of title in the grantee. Section 24: In any action, suit or proceeding instituted in any court for the recovery of any lands sold for any assessment under the provisions of this act, the party claiming to be the owner as against the holder of the deed from the Marshal, must, with his complaint or answer as the case may be, pay into the court the a- mount of the purchase money for which the particular tract of land or lot sought to be recovered was sold, together with 20 per cent thereof additional, and also interest on said purchase money from the date of sale to the date of the institution of such suit at the rate of six per cent per annum, together with all the costs and expenses of sale and of record ing the said deed, and also any and all taxes the purchaser may have paid on said property with the legal •interest thereon from the date of payment thereof for the benefit of the holder of said deed, his heirs or assigns, in case his or their title un der such deed shall fail in said action, suit or proceeding. Provided further^ that the person claiming title under the deed of the Marshal shall have judgment against the party claiming against said deed for such amount as the court may adjudge reasonable for the bringing or defending of any such action, suit or proceeding, re gardless of the result of such suit, action or proceeding, or whether he be plaintiff or defendant therein. Section 25: Whenever any lot or tract or part thereof sold for delin quent assesments as herein provided brings more than the amount of the assessment ami all costs and charges of collection, the surplus shall be paid to the City Treasurer, and the person executing such warrant shall take a seperate receipt for such surplus and file the same with the Recorder on return of payment of the warrant, and the Common Council shall order •such surplus paid to the person or persons entitled to the same, on de mand, upon receiving satisfactory proof that such person is the one en titled to receive such surplus. Pro vided further, that whenever any property is offered for sale for delin quent assessments as herein provid ed, if a sufficient amount is not paid therefor to pay such assesment to gether with all costs and expenses of sale in connection therewith, the Mayor of Tillamook City is hereby empowered and authorized to bid for and in behalf of said city the amount of such assessment, together with said costs and expenses assessed thereon or charged against said prop erty or each part or parcel thereof, ami if there be no higher or better bidder such land, lot or parcel of land or part thereof, shall be sold and be come the property of said city, sub ject to redemption as hereinbefore provided, to be paid for by warrant of th'- city upon the general funds thereof. Whenever the city shall ac quire title to any such property the same may be sold by order of the Common Council at such price, and on such terms as it may seem proper. Section 26: All of the provisions of Sections 3245 to 3253, both inclu sive, of Lord’s Oregon Laws, are hereby made expressly applicable to all assessments for street improve ments under the provisions of this Article. Provided, however, that in all.such cases the application to pay by installments provided for in Sec tion 3245 of Lord'. Oregon l aws may lie made within 30 days after notice of assessment is first publish ed instead of within to days as in said section provided. Anil provided further, that interest on all unpaid installments shall be paid semi- annu ally by the property owners, or other persons required to make such pay ment, instead of annually as provided in Section 3249 of said Lord's Oregon Laws. Section 27: For all of the purposes of this Article the Surveyor of Tilla mook City shall be deemed to be the City Engineer, and the Common Council is authorized to employ such assistants for the Surveyor as may lie necessary to enable him to proper ly perform any and all of his duties arising under this Article or other- W150. Section 28: 1 lie Common Council of I illamook C ity is hereby author ized and enpowered to establish by ordinance the grade of any street within Tillamook City when such grade has not been established, and may require from the City Engineer all maps and data it may deem necs- sary in relation thereto. After the grade of any street has been estab lished by the Common Council the same may be by the Common Coun cil thereafter changed pursuant to the following provisions: V\ henever it shall be deemed ex pedient tv change the grade of any