Arizona republican., 1902-03-06
NO.

If majority of the legal votes cast at said election shall be in favor of such proposition, it shall be deemed and taken that said proposition has been accepted and thereupon said county of Maricopa and it's board of supervisors and board of water storage commissioners shall be authorized to exercise all the powers herein con- ferred in the manner and for the pur- poses in this act provided.
 SECTION ?.
 Within twenty (2O) days after the filing of said petition and at least thirty (30) days. prior to the date fixed for said bond election, the governor of Arizona, the district judge of Maricopa county, and the chairman of the board of supervisors of Maricopa county. or a majority of them, acting jointly. shall appoint a commission composed of five (5j electors and freeholders of said county. to be known as the board i of water storage commissioners of Maricopa county, Arizona, not more | than three (3) of whom shall be of the same political party. Three (3) of said i commissioners so appointed shall serve until January 1st, 1907, or until their successors are elected and qualified, i the other two @ commissioners so ap- pointed shall serve until January 1st | 1905, or until their successors are elect | ed and qualified. Thereafter the term i of office of water storage commission CTS shall be three (3) years. or until their successors are elected and quail | fled. An election for the purpose of electing water storage commissioners ] to fill the places of those whose terms are expiring shall be held on the last Monday in November previous to the date on which the commissioners | terms shall expire. At such election only qualified voters who have property listed for taxation in Maricopa county shall be entitled to vote, and said cleo 1 ton, except as to the qualifications of voters as herein specified shall other wise be held and the result determined ! in the manner as provided by law for conducting general elections and deter mining the result thereof in said Mari copa county. Said board of water storage commissioners so first appoint ed shall qualify and organize as a board within thirty (30) days after notification of their appointment and ] thereafter on the first day of January succeeding their election. and shall elect a president from among its num- Der, also a secretary who may or may not be a member of said board. Each commissioner shall receive for time actually employed Eight dollars (sS.00) per day during the construction of storage works, and Five dollars (s5.00) per day thereafter for time actually employed, also his necessary travelling expenses. For the faithful performance of his duty each member of said board shall give bonds to said Maricopa county in the sum of Twenty Thousand dollars ($2O, 100000 until said storage works are completed and thereafter in the sum of Five Thousand dollars
 (s5, ,00O.OO) and the secretary in such sum as said board of water storage commissioners shall fix. All said bonds shall be approved by and filed with the
 board of supervisors of said Maricopa county and, if surety company bonds
 the necessary expense incurred in ob-
 taining the same shall be considered a part of the regular expenses of the
 board of water. storage commissioners and paid by it. All vacancies occa- stoned by death. resignation or other
 disability shall be filled by appoint ment by the remaining members of said
 board of water storage commissioners and the chairman of the board ot supervisors of said Maricopa county.
 SECTION g.
 The county of Maricopa. in the ter ritory of Arizona, through its board of supervisors. is hereby authorized. em- powered and directed to issue the
 bonds of said county. after the same have been duly authorized by the qual- flied electors as hereinbefore provided
 in the aggregate sum of Two Million Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand dol lars ($2.250, 100000 or so much thereof as has been heretofore duly certified