Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-07

said works, or any employe OF the Board OF
State Drainage Commissioners, of the Board
of Directors of any drainage district, or OF
the State Engireer's Department, who shall
be interested in any contract tor the construc-
ton of any such works in any drainage dis
trio shall be guilty of felony.
CITIES AND TOWNS INCLUDED.
Section IL. Any drainage district may in
clude within its boundaries any city, town or
municipal corporation, any levee or reclama-
ton district and the Board of Directors of
the district may purchase or condemn the
right Of way for any work necessary for the
proper drainage of said district; may pur-
chase or condemn material necessary for the
work may join, connect with, purchase or
condemn. levees, canals or any works con-
structed, and all such lands as may be by
them deemed necessary to complete the sys-
tenn or plan adopted, whether the same be
within or without the boundaIie of the dis
tlict, and may provide for connecting the
system of drainage of one district with that OF
another, or of several other districts And 1t
is hereby declared that the use of the property
/ (such as rights Of way, lands, bitches, etc.
which may be condemned, taken or appro-
/ priated under the provisions OF this section
and the succeeding section is public use, and
I that such appropriation is for the public
/ benefit.
Section 70. Whenever the Board of Direc-
tors for any drainage district cannot pur.
/ chase or procure the right of way, OF material
needed for construction; or procure the con-
] sent to Join OF connect with any existing
works; or purchase works already. con-
structed or purchase lands necessary Tor the
construction of works and the completion
of the system or plan adopted, from
the owners, the said Board of Directors may
in the name of the President of the Board
proceed to condemn the same under the PRO
/ visions of Title VII, Part III. of the Code of
| Civil Procedure, and amendments thereto
which are now kissing or may hereafter be
made
DIRECTION OF THE WORK.
| Section 13. All works carried ON under the
provisions of this Act shall be executed under
the direction of the State Engineer, and he
may appoint and remove at his pleasure an
assistant for each drainage district, who
shall be styled Resident Engineer, and whose
salary shall be fixed by the Board of Di-
rectors of the district. All work of the dis
trict shall be done under the immediate
supervision of the Resident Engineer; and
no work shall be paid for until accepted by
him, and approved by the State Engineer.
Section IA. To provide funds for the sys-
TEN of works contemplated by this Act and for
all expenses connected Herewith Except those
herein otherwise provided for), the Governor
Secretary of State and Acknowledgement shall
be ex officio members of and constitute a
Board of Trustees for issuing bonds for each
drainage district that may be organized I'M
der the provisions of this Act, in the manner
hereinafter provided. The Governor shall
be President of the Board. The Secretary of
the State Drainage Commissioners, as pro-
vided in Section l of this Act, shall be ex
officio Secretary of said Board of Trustees,
but shall receive no compensation for services
rendered as such, additional to that provided
for in Section 2 The Board shall procure
and adopt an official seal.
ISSUANCE OF BONDS.
Section Is. Immediately after the adoption
of the plans, specifications and estimates of
cost of any work, if it shall be determined to
proceed with the same, the Board of Directors
of the district shall file with the Board of
Trustees mentioned in Section IA, state.
ment showing the estimated cost of
the work, giving notice that they
have determined to proceed with such |
work, and requesting that bonds of that
drainage district be issued in pursuance with |
this Act. Said statement shall be filed in the
office of said Trustees, who shall thereupon
cause to be prepared bonds of that district to
an amount not exceeding the estimated cost |
of the proposed work. Each bond thus pre-
pared shall designate the humber of the drain
age district for which it is issued; shall state
on its face that it is issued by authority of
this Act; shall not be of less sum than
$500 shall be made payable twenty years
after date, which date shall be inscribed upon
its face shall bear interest at the rate of 6
per cent. per annum, payable semi-annuallY
on the 1st day of January and July of each
year both principal and interest shall be
made payable in gold coin of the United
States, at the office of the State Treasurer
it shall be signed by the President and the
Secretary of the Board of Trustees, and have |
attached the official seal of said Board, and
shall be countersigned by the President of
the Board of Directors of the district for
which it is issued To each bond shall be |
attached forty coupons for the interest, which |
may be removed without mutilation of the |
bond Each of these coupons shall contain |
the number of the bond to which it is at
tached, its own proper number from l to 40), |
the period for which it is the interest voucher,
and at its bottom the name of the President
of the Board of Trustees either written by |
him, engraved or autographed. The bonds
of each drainage district shall be numbered |
consecutively, and shall bear the same date,
except as otherwise provided in Sections q
and %. The Board of Trustees shall keep |
record of all such bonds issued, showing their |
number, date and amount, and shall prepare |
a copy of such record, which shall be filed |
with the State Controller. The Controller !
shall certify to the State Treasurer the num-
Der, amount and date of the bonds so issued, |
and the Trustees shall then deposit with the |
Treasurer the bonds so certified.
SALE OF BONDS.
Section 16. So soon as the bonds of any
drainage district are deposited with the State |
Treasurer, he shall advertise in three daily |
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shall be published in the city of San Fran |
cisco, one in the city of New York, and one
in some other city, at the Treasurer's discre-
ton, for time not less than thirty nor ex-
ceeding sixty days, that he will receive bids
for the purchase of all or any portion of said
bonds up to some day (which shall be twenty
days after the date of the last daily
advertisement hereinbefore provided for),
when the bids will be opened in
the presence of the Board of Trustees
and an award made to the highest
bidder or bidders, provided the bid or bids
shall not be less than ninety-fve per cent. of
par value, and the fractional part of the cou-
pom unmatured and not detached from the
bond 1t shall be the duty of the Board of
| Trustees to be present when these bids for
the sale of bonds are opened, which shall be
done at the Office of the State Treasurer, at
the specified time.
CONSTRUCTION FUND.
Section II. The State Treasurer shall re-
| ceive and place all moneys from the sale of
bonds of each district to the credit of a fund
to be known as the Construction Fund of
the particular Drainage District No. 1, 2, 8,
ETC., as the case may be, for which the bonds
were sold, and shall file, within five days af-
ter such sale, lists of bonds sold, showing the
numbers of the bonds sold and the amount
of money realized therefrom, one with
the State Controller, and one with the
Board of Directors of that district: accom-
panying said lists the Treasurer shall add his
sworn statement that the money for the bonds
so sold has been placed to the credit of the
fund before mentioned.
| Section Is. The State Engineer, in making
| his estimates of cost of works in any drain
age district, shall include the salaries and ex-
| penses of the Resident Engineer for such dis
| trict and those of his local assistants. He
| shall also include in such estimates the prob
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