Report Of The Sewer Commissioners Upon A Sewer Tax For The City Of Brockton

Author : Brockton; Sewerage Commissioners
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ISBN 13 : 9781331966760
Total Pages : 106 pages
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Download or read book Report of the Sewer Commissioners Upon a Sewer Tax for the City of Brockton, 1894 written by Brockton; Sewerage Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report of the Sewer Commissioners Upon a Sewer Tax for the City of Brockton, 1894: Transmitting the Report of the City Engineer Upon the Subject of Sewer Assessments Gentlemen: - In pursuance of an order requesting the Sewerage Commissioners to report, through the Joint Standing Committee on Sewerage and Drainage, to the City Council, some system of sewer assessments, the undersigned have the pleasure of offering the following recommendations: - First: That one-fourth of the total sewerage debt be raised by an assessment upon land abutting sewers. Second: That two-thirds of the yearly cost, including maintenance, be raised by rental. Third: That the remainder be paid by the general tax. Fourth: That to accomplish these results the accompanying draft of an ordinance, subject to the City Solicitor's opinion, be adopted. Draft of an Ordinance. "Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Brockton as follows: - "Section I. That an assessment shall be made upon the owners of abutting estates, by a fixed uniform rate based upon the estimated cost of the entire system, of fifteen cents ($0.15) a lineal foot of frontage of such estates on any street or way where a sewer is constructed, and of three mills ($0.003) square foot according to the area of such estates within a fixed depth of 125 feet from such street or way; but no area shall be assessed more than once. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.