The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-03-13

construction, OF purchase and enlarge
ment OF the necessary aqueducts and
reservoirs, the laying of the mains and
pipes through the streets and alleys in
Dalles City, to make and estimate the
cost of the Water Works, and to perform
all other things for the purchasing and
extending or constructing, operating,
improving and maintaining of good and
substantial system of Water Works for
the use of the city for fire and domestic
purposes; prOUided however, that before
any of the bonds provided for by this
act shall be sold said board of water
commissioners shall cause notice to be
published in the Morning OregoniGn six
times week for at least four consecu-
tive weeks, and cause such notice to be
published in such other papers and for
such time as said board may direct, to
the effect that said bonds will, at IL time
named in said notice, be offered for sale
by said board, and inviting sealed bids
therefor and requiring each bidder to
name in his bid the lowest rate of inter-
est at which said bonds will be taken. at
not less than their face value, paying
cash in hand therefor proCided further
that the said council shall reserve the
right to reject any and all bids made in
in accordance with said notice and shall
except for cash in hand and at the par
value of said bonds, and at a rate of
interest not to exceed eight per cent per
annum.
Sec. 3. That section of the act men
toned in section l of this act be amend
ed so as to read as follows:
Sec. 6. The corporate authorities of
Dalles City are hereby authorized and
empowered for the purpose of paying the
interest on any water bonds of said city
legally issued in addition to the tax now
authorized by Dalles City charter to levy
annually the additional sum of one half
of one per cent. upon all of the taxable
property within said city; and said
board of water commissioners may pro-
vide for the collection of a water tax
from all the consumers of said water and
impose fines and penalties for refusing
or neglecting to pay the same, and es-
tablish the rate, time and manner in
which it shall be paid; and all moneys
collected and received under the provis-
| ions of this section shall be applied to
the payment of said bonds and inter
est and the maintenance of said water
works and for no other purpose whatso-
ever except as hereinafter provided;
| proUided, hOUerer, that after such bonds
and interests shall have been fully paid,
the board OF water commissioners shall
collect only such an amount from the in
habltants of the city as shall be sufficient
to maintain said water works in good re-
pair. And said board of water commits
| sioners is hereby empowered to adopt
all rules and regulations necessary or
proper to enforce their control and man.
agement of said water works and water
of said city, and to regulate the use and
consumption of said water.
Sec. 6. All moneys received by Dalles
City from the sale of any bonds of said
city legally issued or to be issued for
water purposes unexpended shall be
kept by the treasurer of Dalles City III a
seperate fund known as the water fund.
Sec. Z. 1t shall be the duty of the
said city treasurer to keep all funds that
may come to his possession in accor-
dance with the provisions of any of the
preceding sections of this act or of any
act OF which this is amendatory which |
shall be known and designated as the
water fund of Dalles City except such as
may be Immediately needed to pay run
ming expenses, or the principal or inter
est of the water bonds hereinbefore re- |
ferred and to loan said sum to RESPONSE /
Bile parties upon real estate security only
approved by a majority of said water
commissioners and the city attorney.
Such security shall be worth not less
than three times the amount of such
loan exclusive of i'm mproyements, and the |
/ title shall be approved by said city attor-
torney and it is further provided that
no loan shall be made for longer period
than one year from the making thereof, |
and at not less than eight per cent. per
annum.
Sec. s. That section of the act en-
titled .'An act to authorize Dalles City
to incur an Indebtedness of 900 for
the purpose of providing the city with
good and wholesome water, and for the
erection and construction or purchase of
such water works and reservoirs within
or without the limits of the city as may
be necessary convenient therefore and
provide for the issuing of bonds and the
payment of the principal and, interest
thereon" approved February 26, 1885,
be amended SO as to read as follows.
Sec. Z. The board of water commission
ers of Dalles city or its agents shall have
the right to enter upon any lands out
side of the limits of Dalles city for the
purpose of examining, locating and sur
veying the line of such canal, conduits,
pipes or mains, doing no unnecessary
damage thereby and whenever it shall
become nesessary for said board or Dalles
city to convey the water into said CITY
from any stream, river or creek as pro-
v1ded in this act, over or across the lands
of any person or persons, then the board
of water commissioners shall have power
to purchase the right-of-way over such
land and in the event that the owner
or owners of such land and the board |
shall be un able to agree upon the |
amount of damage to be paid by Da1les |
city, then it shall be lawful for Dalles |
city by said board of water commission
ers shall have power to purchase the
r1ght-ot-way over such land, in the event |
that the owner or owners of such land |
and the board shall be unable to agree |
upon the amount of damage to be paid |
by Dalles city, then it snail be lawful for |
Dalles city, by said board of water COM
miss1oners to appropriate SO much of
said lands for right-of-way as may be |
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