| Show ILLEGAL ordinances A MORNING anti ly contemporary has baa a reference to the illegality of a certain ordinance in relation to street paving and to the regrettable reg retable consequences of its ita unsoundness the ordinance passed by the city council authorizing certain street paving to be e jone on first south street Is not the only illegal one pawed passed during the present administration the whole sewer ordinance is invalid for one reason if no other it was never read in open session prior to the final vote upon it A memer member remarked that it was a very long ordinance that the reading of it would consume a great amount of time and that the committee had examined it carefully and found it all right on the strength of this assurance and without being amended or even read this important ordinance was passed by a thumbs up process if it were ever to be tested in court and these facts facto were to be properly shown that ordinance would we believe beset aside as courts cannot properly tolerate such a reckless method of enacting legislation an examination of the minutes of session after session of the present city council will show an astonishing amount of illegal procedure the ordinance in relation to pound keepers was pawed passed in defiance of recent judicial decisions upon that very subject and failures to conform to formalities required by law for the protection of public funds and inte reste reits have often occurred in short much of the work that has been performed by the present council could be destroyed by properly conducted contests in the courts but what else could be expected A legal record was hardly to be looked for from a body largely composed of usurpers usurp ers |
