I x
| «reefs at points effected by such
I .nnre of grade, a notice headed
I «Nolic« of Change of Grade” in
I letters not less
than
one
I characters state that such a resolu-
I tion has been passed by the Common
I I Council.
,he date tbere°f. and the
change of grade proposed, and the
I lime within which written objections
I or remanstrances against the same
I may b« made- An affidavit shall be
I filed with the City Recorder of the
Tillamook Headlight, October A, I p 14
IT
I posting of said notice, stating therein
I the date when, and the places where
I the same had been posted, and the
publication of said notice shall be
proved in the came manner provided
by law f°r tbe proof of publication of
matters received to be published.
Section 29: At any time within 20
days after |he first publication of the
resolution provided for in the preced­
ing section, the owners of more than
one-half of the property affected by
sech change of grade may make and
file with the City Recorder a written
objection or remonstrance against
the same, and said objection or re­
monstrance shall be a bar to any fur­
ther proceedings thereto for a period
of six months, after which, if the
Common Council proposes to change
said grade the same proceedings shall
be had as in the first instance.
Section 30: If no such written ob­
jection or remonstrance be filed with­
in the time designated, or if the com­
mon council finds that such objection
or remonstrance is not legally signed
by the owner* of more than one-half
of the property affected by the pro­
posed change of grade, the Common
Council shall be deemed to have ac­
quired jurisdiction to change by or­
dinance the grade as described in the
resolution previously adopted.
Section 31: When the grade of any
street has once been established, and
iny permanent building or improve­
ment has been constructed on any
lot abutting said street, or affected by
such change of grade, the owner or
owners of any such permanent build­
ings or imprevements during the time
designated for filing objections or
remonstrances, may file with the City
Recorder a claim of damages by
reason of such proposed change of
grade, and such claim shall describe
the land upon which such buildings
or improvements stand, and an es­
timate of the value of said buildings
or improvements, and of the damages
which said change of grade will
cause thereto, and said claims, and
ill statements contained therein, shall
be sworn to by the party or parties
owning said buildings or improve­
ments and the land, or by their agents
or local representatives. Thereafter
the Common Council shall appoint
three disinterested freeholders of
Tillamook City, Oregon, having the
nme qualifications as viewers for the
opening, laying out, and establishing
of streets, to estimate and determine
the damages that will be sustained by
the owners of buildings or improve­
ments affected by such change of
grade, and to assess the benefits ac­
benefited j
cruing to the property
f
by such change
of _
grade,
_
" •
The
shall
be
appointed
viewers
t..
ind they shall qualify, and notice of
heir meeting, and of the filing of
their report, shall all be done in the
same manner as similar acts and pro­
ceedings are done in the opening
ind laying out and establishing of
streets. The said yiewers shall in­
clude as a part of the benefits assess­
ed the amount of their compensations
for services, which shall be the sum
of $3.00 each for each day actually
engaged in said service, but in no
case shall the amount of such assess­
ment of benefits exceed the actual
benefit to the lot or parcel of land,
or other real property so assessed,
deducting therefrom any damages or
•juries to the same which are less
than said benefits. Nor shall any
damages be awarded for any building
erected prior to the establishment of
the grade which is proposed to be
changed, and no award of damages to
tny person shall be greater than the
amount claimed and sworn to by said
person as hereinbefore provided, and
if in the judgment of said viewers the
whole amount of said damages and
compensation of viewers shall exceed
the actual benefits to the specific prop
'tty subject to assessment, they shall
to indicate in their report. The said
viewers shall make a report of their
findings of benefits and damages to
the Common Council, and the same
shall be heard, considered and adopt­
'd, and the assessments of benefits
shall be levied, docketed and collect­
'd, and kept in a separate fund. An
appeal from said report may be taken
and the findings of the jury in such
cases shall be final and conclusive in
the same manner, to the same extent
and with the same effect as provided
“ the opening, laying out, establish-
mg and changing of street. When
inch assessment is fully collected the
Common Council may change the
trade of the street, and warrants
shall be drawn upon the special fund
so provided in favor of the person en­
titled to damages. But if after the
collection of any assessment as here­
in provided the Common Council
11 not change the grade. of any
•treet, the amounts of any assessment
so collected shall be refunded to the
Person or persons paying the same
or. to
their
legal
represent-
•tives or successors in interest as to
J**d matter. Provided, the Common
Council may pay from the general
*»nd of the city the whole or any
Hrt of the damages so assessed.
Section 32: Whenever it shall ap­
pear to the Common Council that
street improvement bonds issued un-
yer the provisions hereof will not
or . —
any 7 itasun
reason sen
sell at par, anu
and the
common Council shall deem it ex-
I'dient, on the faith and credit of
* HlaniOnk City
iTltxr as a •* whole,
«..I szx I a to guar-
r
lillamook
J"*w payment of such street im-
Fovement bawds, it may in the ordi­
nance authoring /the issuance of
«id bonds, based upon assessments
r, benefits to property benefited
yerebv, provided that the payment
, *u«b street improvement bonds
be guaranteed by Tillamook
f a
anY deficit in any special
nd to redeem said bonds shall in
la 7".’ be pa’d out
tbe general
i 2 ii Tillamook City at maturity of
/*d bonds, the Common Council may
such guarantee to be inserted
l ’’’’■h improvement bonds, provided
**'«vtr that any ordinance authoriz-
!?g ’r»fh guaran,ee sba11 be ««biect to I tainity the boundaries and termini of • peal and the onlv oneoion
nance providing for such guarantee. 1 private
o t K
- ion of th«
aPP1r1oPria,ed
Section 33: r7 obllgat,on «»«»"<* for such purpose and i*. speckdiv
bv^llamook
noti­
fy Tillamook City on account of the fying all persons claiming damages
issuance
of
street
imnrAv»™.»,
u..
_
,
.
«.miming
uamages
issuance of street improvement bonds by reason of the appropriation
of
as herein provided for shall be deem­ such property to file their claim for
ed or taken to be within or any part such damages with the Recorder be­
be-
of the limitations imposed by this fore the time so appointed for the
Charter or by law upon the amount meeting of the viewers, and the
Re-
of indebtedness which may be incur­ corder shall also send by mail, post
­
red by Tillamook City either by war­ paid, a copy of such notice to each
rants or general bonds.
of the property owners whose prop­
Section 34: Whenever an assess­ erty is proposed to be appropriated,
ment for opening, altering or improv­ or to the agent of such owner when
ing a street or construction, recon­ the postoffice of such owner or agent
struction or repair of a sewer or for is known to him, but if such post­
any local improvement which has office address be unknown, then such
been or may hereafter be made by notise shall be directed to such ow ner
Tillamook City, Oregon, is or shall be or agent at Tillamook, Oregon. The i
defective, insufficient, or inadequate, published notice herein provided for !
or has been orshell be hereafter set shall be deemed conclusive notice to '
aside, annulled, declared or rendered all owners of property whose proper- .
void or its enforcement refused by ty shall be appropriated for such pur­
any court of this State or any federal pose.
court having jurisdiction thereof,
Section 4: The Recorder shall, at
whether directly or by virtue of and least five days before the date set out
decision of such court or when the for such meeting, cause said viewers
common council shall be in doubt as to be notified of their appointment,
to the validity of such assessment or and of the time and place of such
any part thereof, the common council meeting, and said viewers shall meet
may by resolution make a new assess­ at the time and place designated, and
ment or re-assessment upon the lots shall then be sworn to faithfully dis­
01 blocks or parcels of land which charge the duties assigned them.
have been benefited to the extent of They shall then, or on any subse­
their respective and proportionate quent day on w'hich they may adjourn
shires of the full value thereof. Such (which adjournment shall not exceed
re-assessment shall be based upon the one week at a time) proceed to view
special and peculiar benefit of such the proposed street or change, and
improvement to the respective par­ to determine and assess how much,
cels of land assessed at the.time of if any, less valuable the lands, or any
its original making. Interest thereon part thereof through or over which
from the date of delinquency of the the proposed street is to be opened
original assessment may be added at laid out, established, or changed, will
the discretion of the common council. be rendered thereby; and shall also
Such re-assessment shall be made in ascertain the respective interest of
an equitable manner as nearly as may all persons claiming to be the owners
be in accordance with the law in force of the lands or other property afore­
at the time it is made, but the com­ said, or of the improvements thereon,
mon council may adopt a different or to have any interest in such lands,
plan of apportionment of benefits or improvements, and the damage
when in its judgment essential to se­ which each of said ow’ners, respect­
cure an equitable assessment. The ively, will sustain, but the right and
proceedings required by the Charter title of such owners of such improve­
of Tillamook City, Oregon, to be had ments shall not be affected by such
prior’to the making of the original proceedings, and the appropriation of
assessment shall not be required to such lands, if such owner shall with- I |
be done again in case of re-assess- in 60 days after the appropriation of
ment. Sush re-assessment shall be such lands shall be completed, or
made and shall become a charge upon within such further time as the Coun­
the property upon which the same is cil shall allow therefor, remove such
laid, notwithstanding - the omission, improvements from such lands. Other
failure or neglect of any officer, body wise such improvements shall become
01 person to comply with the provis­ and be the property of Tillamook
ions of the Charter of Tillamook City City. Said viewers shall also make a
Oregon, or connected with or relat­ I just and equitable estimate and as­
ing to such improvement and assess­ sessment of the value of the benefits
ment and notwithstanding the pro­ and advantages of said proposed
ceedings of the common council or street or change to the respective
any officer, contractor or other per­ owners and other persons interested
son connected with such work may in all lands or other property which
have been irregular or defective, said viewers shall deem specially
whether such irregularity be jurisdic­ benefitted by such opening, laying
tional or otherwise. The common out, establishing or change.
Said
council shall appoint a time and place viewers shall thereafter, at their ear­
not less than twenty days distant liest convenience, report the assess­
when it will meet for the purpose of ment for damages and benefits as in
making such re-assessment. The City this Section required to the Common
Recorder shall give ten days notice Council, but any failure to state the
by one publication in a newspaper name of any owner, or mistake in
published in Tillamook City, Oregon, the name of owner , or a statement
of the time and place fixed by the of a name other than that of the true
common council for making such re- owner, in such report, or in the or­
assessment. At the time appointed dinance adopting such report or in the
therefor, unless at some time the docket of city liens where the same
common council shall adjourn until a is entered, or in any notice required
future time or day for such purpose by this Charter, shall not render void
or appoint another time therefor, and nor in any way affect the lien of such
in such event at such adjourned or assessment upon the property assess­
ed. The viewers shall receive as com­
meeting,
the common
1
further
make pensation for their services, the sum
shall proceed
to 1
council
such re-assessment in the manner of $3.00 each for each day actually
pi escribed. At the time of making rendered in such service, to be paid
such re-assessment
the common by the city and charged as costs, and
council Shall give an opportunity to assessed as part of the benefits by
any property owner to appear in per­ said viewers.
Section 5: Upon the filing of said
son or by council and be heard in ref­
erence thereto. After having made report of viewers with the Recorder,
such re-assessment,
the common he shall immediately cause a notice
council shall declare the same be res­ to be published for a period of two
olution and the same shall be a final weeks in a newspaper published in
determination of the regularity, vali­ Tillamook City, Oregon, of the filing
dity and correctness of the re-assess- of said report, giving the date not’
nient except as herein otherwise pro­ less than 20 days from the date of the
vided. Such re-assessment shall be first publication of said notice, when !
entered in the Docket of City Liens the same will be considered by the
and shall be enforced and collected Common Council, describing with
in like manner as ordinary assess- ■ convenient certainty the boundaries
ments for improvements are enforced of the district assessed by the view- j
and collected under the Charter of ers in said report, and notifying all
Tillamook City, Oregon. All sums persons interested to present in writ­
paid upon the former assessment ing their objections to said report, if
shall be credited to the property on any they have, and said objections
account of which the same were paid if any there be, together with said re- 1
port shall be heard and determined
as of the date of such payment.
by the Council at the time specified
in said notice, or at such other time
II
as the hearing thereof may be ad- '
A MEASURE
To amend Article VIII of the Char­ journed to. It shall also be the duty !
of the City Recorder forthwith to
ter of tillamook City, Oregon.
Be it enacted by the people of Till­ send by mail, postpaid, a notice of
each assessment, stating the date
amook City, Oregon as follows:
Sestion 1: The Common Council when the same will be considered by
of Tillamook City is authorized and the Council, and directing all persons
empowered within the limits of Tilla- interested to present in writing their
to »aid report, if any they
mook City, whenever it may deem objection*
have, to the owner(if known) of
it expedient, to open, lay out, «<•»- each lot, or part thereof, or tract of
lish, widen, alter, extend,
* ‘ vacate or land assessed, any part of which is
close streets, and to appropriate and appropriated for the proposed street
condemn private property therefor, or to the agent of such owner when
and to assess any special benefit aril* the post office address of such owner
matters and to
ing from iuch
or agent is known to him, and if such
make the same a lien against prope- postoffice address be unknown to him |
ty benefitted.
then such notice shall be directed to
Section 2: Whenever the Common such owner or agent at Tillamook
Council shall deem it expedient to City, Oregon. If such report shall ap­
lay out, and establish, or widen any pear'to the Council to be in all re- ■
street, it shall direct the City Survey- spects reasonable and just, it may be
or to survey such street, or change adopted by ordinance embodying
therein as the case may be, and to such report. Or if it shall appear to
make a report thereof containing a the Council that the damages or ben­
plat of the survey of such street or efits as*essed be unreasonable, un­
change, showing the boundaries there just or insufficient in any respect, the
of and of that portion of each lot or Council may send the same back to
tract of land to be appropriated tor the viewers for further consideration,
such street or change, which report and the viewers may alter and revise
shall be made to the Common Coun­ the same as they shall deem just and
cil within ten days from the time the again report the same to the Council
same is ordered, unless the Counci who may thereupon adopt or reject
grant further time. Should the Coun­ the same., or the council may appoint
cil deem said survey, plat and report new viewers with like powers, duties
satisfactory, it shall adopt ‘be ia®e and obligations as the first viewers
by ordinance embodying such report. to make such assessment* and awards
Section 3: Thereafter and within and to report the same to the Coun­
60 davs from the adoption of such cil, which shall have the same power
report, the Council shall appoint over such report as over that of the
three disinterested freeholders of
_
Tillamook City to view »“«h propos­ original
Section 6: The owner or owners
ed street, or change, and to make of any lot, tract or part thereof
an assessment of damages and bene­ to be appropriated as 1 aforsaid, or of
fit« as provided in the next i°,,ow'"g the improvements
ip’rovements t thereon • r any
section, and shall assign a day and 1’"—L, having an interest
therein, or
person
and shall any berson against whom an assess
place for
— them
— — to meet,
cause a notice to be gi ■tven by publt- ment or benefit has been made, may
cation for at least four successive appeal to the Circuit Court of the
weeks in some newspaper . published State of Oregon, for Tillamook Coun­
in Tillamook Ci«/.»»P®®*®*^ ty from such report and assessment
of such viewers, with their names and of damages and benefits. Any num­
the time and place for them> to m« e , ber of person* may join in such ap-
and specifying with convenient cer
x- 4
<,UiSt,On °
question
of f the excess of damages
°.ver benefits and the excess of bene­
fits over damages suffered and re­
ceived by each person joining in such
appeal.
Sectoin 7: An appeal shall be tak­
en by serving a notice of appeal with­
in 20 days from the adoption of the
report of the viewers by the Council
upon the Mavor, Recorder or Attor­
ney of the city, and filing an under­
taking with one or more sureties who
shall possess the qualifications of
bail upon arrest in civil action, and
shall justify in like manner, condi­
tioned that the appellant will pay all
costs and disbursements that may be
awarded against him on appeal, not
exceeding $ too.00.
together with
proof of service of such notice in the
office of the Clerk of the Circuit
Court.
Section 8: The City shall be con­
sidered the plaintiff, and suuch appeal
shadd be conducted and be heard and
determined, and the judgment there­
on enforced as far as practicable, in
the same manner as an action at law
The jury shall view the proposed
street, the property to be appropriat­
ed, and the property against which
cd,
benefits are assessed, and the evi-
dence of damages and benefits may
be introduced by the city and the ap­
pellants, but the issue, testimony and
verdict upon such appeal shall be
confined to the parties appealing, and
the jury shall not ressess and dam­
ages of benefits not appealed from.
The jury in making the reassessment
of damages or benefits, shall, inits
determination of the same, be gov-
erened by the same laws as in this
charter provided for the action of
viewers. The verdict of the jury shall
be a final and conclusive determi­
nation of such assessment, unless the
judgment rendered in such case shall
be reversed or modified on appeal. An
appeal to the Supreme Court of the
State may be taken from such judg­
ment in the same manner as from
other judgments of such Circuit Court
and with like effect.
Section 9: If any appellant fails to
recover greater damages, or to se­
cure a more favorable assessment of
benefits, as the case may be, then
were assessed by the viewers, judg­
ment shall be rendered against him
and his sureties on appeal for his pro­
portion of the costs of such appeal to
be paid pro rata according to the re­
spective amount of damages and ben­
efits assessed. The same fees and
costs shall be taxed and paid upon
such appeal as are allowed in other
actions.
Section 10: In all actions, suits and
proceedings concerning the opening
laying out, establishing or changing
of streets under the provisions of
this Charter, all proceedings had for
that purpose shall be presumed to
have been regularly and legally tak­
en, until the contrary is shown.
Section 11: The Council at the ex­
piration of the time limited for ap­
peal, if no appeal be taken, or immed­
iately after judgment is rendered on
appeal, if appeal is taken, if it shall
deem it advisable to open, lay out
establish or change said street in pur­
suance of said reports or judgment,
shall by resolution direct the Re­
corder to enter in the docket
of city liens the respective sums
damages
so
of benefits
over
lot or
assessed, upon each particular
.
parcel of land, and the names of the
owners or other parties in interest in
the lands or other property benefitted
and assessed in like manner as as-
assessments for street improvements
are entered in said city lien docket and
when so docketed said sums shall be
a lien or charge upon the estate and
interest of the respective owners and
parties interested in said land or other
property and also the said owners
and other persons interested, as afore
said, shall be respectively and seve.r-
ally liable to pay said assessments
excess
so assessed
and said
shall be paid to the Treasurer of the
City of Tillamook within ten days
from the time of entering
. _ the same
on the docket of city liens, or the
same shall be deemed delinquent; and
thereupon shall be collected in like
manner as provided for the collection
of other delinquent assessments by
this Charter, provided that if all the
property upon which assessments are
due and delinquent is not sold at any
sale, proceedings may be begun for
a subsequent sale immediately after
the returns of sale is made. All
moneys arising from such assessment
of benefits shall be kept in a seperate
fund and be applicable to the satis­
faction of the excess of damages
over benefits assessed to the owners
and other persons interested in the
property taken or damaged for the
purpose of laying out, e tablishing
or changing the street in the matter
in which such benefits are assessed
and for the payment of the expenses
incurred by the city for surveying,
advertising and viewers in said pro-
ceedings.
Section 12: Whenever the full
amount of the assessments of benefits
as entered in the docket of City Liens
is paid into the City treasury warrants
shall be drawn for that purpose, for
the amount of excess of damages or
the excess of damages and costs
assessed, and when said warrants
therefor are drawn and ready
,
to the parties en­
for ______
delivery
titled to the same, such property shall
be appropriated for the purpose of
such street and not otherwise; pro­
vided that no process of any court
shall issue to compel any appropri­
ation for damages or the issuing of
warrants for the same.
And unless
such assessments are collected, and
said warrants are so drawn and ready
for delivery within nine month* after
the termination of the time limited
for appeal, if no appeal be taken, or
within nine months form the rendi­
tion of final judgment on appeal, if
an appeal be taken, all act* and pro­
ceeding under such survey and view
shall be null and void, provided that
the Common Council may order the
whole amount of damages allowed,
or such part thereof as it may deem
ptoper, to be paid out of the general
funds of the city, or may order the
same to be *0 paid temporarily, and
that the general fund be reimbursed
for said payments from the apecial
fund provided for that purpose when
the same shall be collected. __
The Recorder si all not deliver any It
warrant for damages on account of i
the opening or widening of a street
until the person in whose favor such
warrant is drawn shall have exhibit­
ed to him satisfactory proof that
there are no prior liens on the land
appropriated which may be affected
by such appropriation.
Section 13: And when said war­
rants are drawn and ready for deliv­
ery to the parties entitled to the same
the property required for public use
as shown in the report of the City
Surveyor shall be deemed appropri­
ated for the purpose of the street, and
the Council shall by resolution de­
clare such street to be opened, laid
out. established or changed, and with­
in thirty days after the adoption of
said resolution the City Surveyo’r
shall file for record with the County
Clerk of Tillamook County, a copy
of said resolution, and an accurate
plat of said street and of the proper­
ty so appropriated for public use.
Section 14: The Council i.:auy pro­
vide by ordinance any regulations as
to the manner of opening, laying out,
establishing or changing street, not
in conflict with this Charter, ai.d may
provide by ordinance anything con­
venient and necessary for the effect­
ual carrying out of the spirit and in­
tention of this Charter.
operative and shall be approved by
the affirmative vote of three-fourths
of all the members elected to the
Common Council taken by ayes and
noes, and also approved by the May­
or.
Section 2: The Common Council
may provide for the submission to
the legal voters of Tillamook City
for their approval or rejection any
ordinance or charter provision, or
amendment, without a petition there­
for, and may provide for the calling
of special elections to vote upon any
ordinance or charter amendment re­
ferred to the legal voters of the Citv
by petition or otherwise, but no such
election shall be held without 15 days
notice thereof being first riven by
publication in two or more consecu­
tive weekly issues of some newspeper
published in l illamook City, Oregon,
which notice shall contain the full
text of the measure to be voter upon
at said election,” together with ' the
fprm in which said question will be
submitted upon the official ballot for
voting thereon, and said election
shall be held within thirty days from
the date of the first publication of
said notice.
Like notice shall be
given vf the submission of any ques­
tion which is to be voted upon at any
general election held in Tiil.imcok
City, Oregon.
III .
A MEASURE.
To amend the Charter of Tillamook
City, Oregon, by adding thereto
an Article lo be known as Ar­
ticle XII
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEO­
PLE OF TILLAMOOK CITY,
OREGON AS FOLLOW S:
Section 1: The Charter of Tilla­
mook City, Oregon, is hereby amend­
ed by adding thereto an article to be
known and designated as Article XII,
to read as follows:
ARTICLE XII
Section 1: It shall be the duty of
the Mayor, whenever necessary, to
procure blank bonds of suitable
___________
de-
sign, and cause the same to be prop­
erly prepared in amounts of not less
than $100.00 each, made payable with­
in a period of not to exceed twenty
years, with interest payable either an­
nually or semi-annually as may be
directed by the Common Council. All
such bonds shall have designated
thereon "Water Bonds”, "Street Im­
provement Bonds”, "General Bonds,”
or otherwise as the case may be.
None of said bonds shall in any event
be sold otherwise than for cash, nor
shall they be sold for less than the
par value thereof, and tne rate of in­
terest thereon shall not exceed six
per cent per annum.
Section 2: No bonds of any char­
acter shall ever be issued upon the
faith and credit of Tillamook Citv,
except after the passage of an ordi­
nance by the Common Council auth-
orizing the same, which ordinancc
shall always be subject to the power
of the referendum reserved to the
legal voters of Tillamook Citv, pro­
vided that the Common Council upon
the passage of such ordinance may
provide for its submission to the peo­
ple for rejection or adoption, and
provided also that if any ordinance
shall be passed or adopted by the
Common Council authorizing the issu­
ance of bonds for any purpose, and
the same shall be aproved by the
Mayor, or if disapproved by him pass­
ed over such disapproval and if the
power of the referendum be not
thereupon invoked, the issuance of
such bonds shall be deemed authoriz­
ed without any election called for
that purpose, except that in case the
Common Council shall by ordinance
piovidc for the issuance of street im­
provement bonds without any guar­
antee of the payment thereof in
whole or in part out of the general
funds of Tillamook City, such ordi­
nance shall not be subject to the pow­
ers of the referendum.
Section 3: All bonds issued by Till­
amook City shall reserve the right
to the city to take up and cancel any
or all of said bonds upon payment of
the face thereof with accrued interest
to the date of such payment, at or af
ter five years from the date of such
bond, which right of redemption is
hereby vested in Tillamook City.
Such bonds shall be redeemed by
consecutive numbers, commencing
with the lowest number unpaid, and
notice of the intention of the City to
redeem any bonds shall be published
in two consecutive weekly issues of a
newspaper published in Tillamook
City, Oregon, by the City Treasurer,
within one month prior to the pro­
posed redemption, which shall be con­
clusive notice to the holder of said
bond or bonds, and interest on such
bond or bonds shall cease after the
date fixed in such notice for redemp­
tion.
V
A MEASURE.
To ammend'the Charter of Tilla­
mook City. Oregon, by adding there­
to an Article to be known as Article
XIV providing for the refunding of
the outstanding warrant indebtedness
of Tillamook City, Oregon, and run­
ning expenses for 1914.
BF. IT ENACTED BY THE PEO­
PLE OF TILLAMOOK CITY,
OREGON, AS FOLLOWS.
Section 1 : The Charter of Tilla-
moog City, Oregon, is hereby amend­
ed by adding thereto an Article to be
known as Article XIV providing for
the refunding of the outstanding war­
rants of Tillamook City, Oregon
which amendment shall read as fol-
lows:
ARTICLE XIV.
Section 1: The Common Council
of Tillamook City, Oregon, is hereby
authorized to issue general bonds of
Tillamook City, Oregon, upon its
faith and credit, to the amount not ex­
ceeding $70,000, and to apply the pro­
ceeds from the sale of such bonds to
the discharge and payment t of the
outstanding city warrants of
1 Tilla-
mook City, Oregon, and for neces-
1
sary running expenses of said I city
for the year 1914.
Provided, how-
ever, that no part of said proceeds
shall be used for the payment in
whole or in part of any such warrants
which have heretofore, or may herc-
after be issued without any consider-
ation therefore having been received
by said Tillamook City.
Section 2: None of the bonds here­
by authorized shall be sold otherwise
than for cash in exchange for out­
standing City warrants, and in no
event fur any less Ilian tin par value
thereof, but the holder of any s
warrants, the payment of which
not prohibited by the
this Article, may exclia
rants, with the consent of the Com­
mon Council, for said bonds, said
bonds to be taken at par with accrued
interest and the said warrants to be
put on the same basis.
Section 3:
l he bonds he reby
authorized shall only be issued after
the passage of an ordinance by the
Common Council
authorizing the
jauie, and said bonds shall be payable
within a period of not to exceed
twenty years, to bear interest at the
rat of not more than six per cent,
per annum, payable annually or semi­
annually as the ( omnion Council
may determine, with the right thcre-
in reserved to Tillamook City r to re­
deem and cancel any or all of said
bonds upon payment of the face
thereof with accrued interest to the
date of such payment at or after five
years front the date of such bond,
Such bonds shall be redeemed by
commencing
consecutive numbers,
with the lowest t number, and notice
of the intention of the City to redeem
any such bonds shall be published for
two consecutive issues of a news­
paper published in Tillamook City,
Oregon, by the City Treasurer, with­
in one month and not less than ten
days prior to the time fixed for the
redemption, which shall be conclu­
sive notice to the holder of such bond
or bonds, and interest thereon shall
cease after the date fixed in said
notice for redemption.
IV
A MEASURE
To Amend the Charter of Tillamook
City, Oregon, by adding there­
to an Article to be known
as Article X 111
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEO­
PLE OF TILLAMOOK CIT Y,
OREGON AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1: The Charter of Tilla­
mook City, Oregon, is hereby amend­
ed by adding thereto an Article
known as Article XIII, which
read as follows:
ARTICLE XIH.
Sectoin 1: The initiative and refer­
endum power* rc»erved to the people
of Tillamook City by the constitution
of the State of Oregon a* to all local
special and municipal legislation of
every character in and for said I ilia
mook City shall be exercised a. may
be provided for by the Common
Council of Tillamook City, Oregon,
subject to the provision* of »aid con­
stitution. provided, however, that no
ordinance of Tillamook City, Oregon,
shall go into effect within les* than
thirty day* after its passage by the
Common Council and approval by
the Mayor, uoles* the same shall be
pasted over bi* veto, and in that case
it shall not take effect and becom«
operative until thirty days after such
final passage, except measure* neces­
sary for the immediate pre*ervatoin
of the peace, health or *afety of the
City, and no such emergency measure
shall become immediately operative
unless it shall state in a separate sec­
tion the reason* why it is necessary
that it should become immediately
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pose on acceptable real estate *<cui-
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