The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-06
THE NEW CHARTER.
An Act To Incorporate Dailes City
and to Define its Powers
Be 1t enacted by the Legislature assembly
of the State of Oregon:
CHAPTER I.


CHAPTER 1.
OF THE INCORPORATION, POWERS AND
BOUNDARIES OF THE CITY.
Section 1. The inhabitants of Dalles
CITY, Wasco county, Oregon, and their
successors within the limits hereinafter
prescribed, are hereby created body
corporate by the name and style OF
DalIes City, and by that name shall
have perpetual succession, sue and be
sued, plead and be impleaded, defend
and be defended in all courts of justice,
and in all suits, actions or proceedings,
and may purchase, lease, receive and
hold property, both real and personal,
either within or without the limits OF
said city, for any kind of public build
ings, or public works, or public improve
ments, or for city parks or cemeteries, or
for hospital purposes or work houses or |
houses of correction, or for the erection,
construction or maintenance OF water
works, dams, bitches, fumes, reservoirs,
pipes, aQueducts or water rights, to sup !
ply the city with water; or for the con-
struction or maintenance of roads, ways
and approaches to the city. OF for the
erection, construction or maintenance OF
a bridge across the Columbia river, and
for such other purposes as may be for
the best interests of said city; and shall
have the right to charge and collect toll
on any such bridge as may be erected
under this act, for the use and benefit OF
the city, and may control, sell, lease Or
dispose of any property owned by it for
any purpose, any such sale to be for the
use and benefit of the city.
Sec. 2. Dalles City, as incorporated
by this act, shall also have right, power
and authority to appropriate any private
real property, water, water courses,
waterways and water or riparian rights
or franchises of every name and nature,
to or for its public or municipal uses and
purposes, or for the general use of the
people or inhabitants of said city, and
the same may be entered upon, surveyed
and selected in the mode and manner
prescribed by any of the laws or statutes
of the State of Oregon. for the appropria-
| tiOn of lands for corporate purposes or
uses, and thereafter said city may proceed
10 make such appropriation in the mode
and manner prescribed by any such laws
or statutes, and to have the compensation
therefor determined, and not otherwise,
except that the compensation shall be
paid by deposit of money in court
wherein such proceedings are had, OF the
amount of such compensation rendered
or paid.
Sec. 8. Dalles City shall have and use
a common seal and may alter and change
the same or adopt new one at pleasure.
Sec. 4. All property, both real and
personal, and all rights and franchises
belonging to or used in Dalles Oity, as
hereinafter created, established and
bounded, shall, on the passage of this
act, become and be the property of and
be vested in Dalles City, as created and
established by this act, and said city may
control and lease, sell or dispose of the
same for the common benefit; prorided,
that where the moneys arising from the
sale or disposal of any property, real or
personal, have by act of congress or of
the legislative assembly of the state of
Oregon, or by the terms of the grant
under which it is held, be the same
public or private, been declared to be a
special fund created for particular pur-
poses, said fund shall be diligently cared
for and shall only be used for the pur-
pose for which it was created; and if in
any case the city has heretofore used any
fund SO set apart for any such purpose,
for some other purpose, then said city
shall be and is hereby authorized to
bond itself for sufficient sum TO replace
such misappropriation, the amount re-
ceived from such bonding to be at once
turned over to and become a part of the
fund so designated and to be used and
applied only as therein provided.
Sec. 5. For the purpose of enabling
Dalles City to return to the proper fund
l any money heretofore misappropriated
g deem outstanding warrants, said Dalles
, City is hereby authorized and empow-
cred to issue its bonds, not to exceed IN
) the aggregate the sum of $50, 900 face
3 value over and above and not including
the 500, 900 of bonds heretofore issued
and sold, for the erection, construction
l or purchase of water works for said city
f provided, that said bonds shall not be
S sold for less than their face value, mol
: bear greater rate of interest than SIX
per cent per annum, payable annually
: the bonds SO issued and sold to be re
: deemed within twenty years thereafter
t and in amount not more than 81 900 no
q less than 800 each and proUided further
that no bonds shall be issued or sold un
der this section except under express
It direction of the city council by writer
n resolution therefor and provided further
that all such bonds shall be first signet
by the mayor and countersigned by tn
recorder, or, upon their refusal, to b
V signed by at least five councilmen of SAT-
o city, and said council shall direct hoy
said bonds may be advertised and sold
= Sec. 6. The corporate limits of Dale
1t City shall be as follows, to wit: Com
Ie mencing at the middle of the channel c
h the Colum bia river, at point due mort
!. of the mouth of Mill creek; theme
l. easterly and up the middle of the mai
Is channel of the Columbia river one mile
l. thence due south one mile; Cnenc
r westerly to the southeast corner of tn
Fort Dalles military reservation theme
y westerly and along the south boundar
! line of said military reservation to tn
IS intersection of the east line of the south
sr west quarter of the southwest quarter
d section 4, in township l north, of rang
of 13 east; thence north to the northeas
III corner of said southwest quarter of soutl
" west quarter; thence west along tn
Of U17o ,
ct southwest quarter to the section lin
le between sections four a. and five (5
ID said township and range; thence mort
To ON said section line to the township liz