Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1889-05-25

additional water, such sums or rates as the
Board of Reclamation Commissioners shall
| designate; which sum, so paid, shall consti-
| tute a part of the Reclamation Fund, and
shall be available for demands against said
! fund.
| SEC. o. Whenever the Board Of Reclama-
ton Commissioners deem the reorganization
or division of any district advisable for in
ternal improvements contemplated by this
| Act. they shall have power to make such
changes and establish such additional rules
for the government thereof, as will not con.
lict with prior rights. as now recognized by
| law.
SEC. 10. The Board shall have power to
purchase or rent such lands for reservoir
sites, or bitches, as they deem best, whether
within or without the boundaries of this
State.
SEC. H. The Board of Reclamation Com
nissioners, on petition Of ten or more per
sons interested in irrigating bitches, in any
district in this State, petitioning for issuance
of bonds of said district for reclamation
purposes, said Board shall, al the next gen.
eral election, submit the question, together
with amount of bonds to be issued, to the
voters of said district; and, if carried at
said election, the said Board shall issue and
dispose of said bonds under such rules and
regulations as they may adopt, the proceeds
thereof to be placed in the Reclamation
Fund of the district, and made available for
reclamation purposes.
SEC. IL. The Board shall advertise for
and receive bids, upon the work to be done,
as soon as the Surveyor General can have
surveys, maps, plans, specifications and esti.
mates of the same in readiness for adoption
by the Board and inspection by builders,
and shall fix time when they will open
bids and award contracts, which shall not
be done on less than four weeks notice
thereof, which said notice shall be given for
said time by publication in one newspaper
| in the Reclamation District where the work
is to be done, or by posting notices.
! SEC IS. The terms Of contracting may
be to pay monthly, as the work progresses,
on the estimate of the Surveyor General or
engineer of the amount of work done, 10
per centum Of its contract value, reserving
10 the district or State 80 per centum OF its
value thereof to insure its faithful compile
ton according to coatract, when full pay
ment shall be made, including the retained
per centum.
/ SEC. ID. The Board shall FIX definite
day for the final completion OF any canal,
dam, or other improvement, and require all
contracts to be done and completed on or
before that day, and shall in any agreement
reserve the right of forfeiture to the State or
district of any retained per cenum, and to
award the contract of any person or persons
who, in the opinion of the Surveyor eneral
confirmed by the Board, fails to make such
monthly progress as will insure the compile
ton Of any such work so undertaken or con-
tIacted for on the day named.
SEC. IS The Board of Reclamation shall,
upon organization as herein provided, be
authorized, empowered and directed 10 con-
| struct a canal, ditch or other proper work
at, from or upon the most desirable and
practical point on any river or water way in
the State, or that can be procured-the said
point 10 be hereafter selected by said Board
| to connect with, and 10 be connected with
for the purpose of milling or rrigating the
arabic lands Situate, lying and being in the
accessible vicinity of such selected river or
water way; and the said canal, ditch or
other work shall be built or established upon
grade or plan in accordance with the con-
6guration and necessities Of the shortest and
most feasible route and safe carriage OF the
requisite volume of water required to irri
gate the lands within the scope of said ditch
or work.
cHc I6. The total cost Of said canal,
ultch or wo.I shall not exceed 500, 900 and
the cost thereof is Aereby limiled to that
sum
SEC. II. The Board of Reclaln.,ion shall
audit and certify to the State Board OF E.-
aminers the several amounts that may be
come due from time to time for work and
labor done, services or material furnished in
and about the location and building of canals
and other works of reclamation that may be
carried on, built and completed under the
Board, and when approved by the State
Board Of Examiners, the Controller shall
audit the same and draw his warrant on the
State Treasurer for the several amounts oil
such claims, 10 be raid out Of the Reclama.
lion Fund Of the State OF district.
SEC. rs. The elective members of the
Board shall be paid their necessary travelling
expenses, and they shall receive no other
compensation foi their personal services.