Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-05-05
A FAIR PROPOSITION.
A Display of Good Faith That All
Will Appreciate.

Will Appreciate.
There is now need of comment |
on what appears below. Yester-
day petition was circulated here
and at the time the paper reach
ed US the following gentlemen
named in the water bill as COM
missioners had signed it: F. L.
Miller, J. R. Smith, E. Wood
ward, w. S. McFadden, B. F.
Irvine, P. Avery S. L. Kline,
and there was no reason to doubt
but all members would sign. The
following is the paper signed and
it speaks for itself:
Whereas, By act of the legis-
lature OF 1905 the City of Cor
wallis was authorized and en-
powered to construct or purchase,
keep, conduct, maintain, and op-
crate water works within and
without said city, of a kind in
said act described, etc., and
Whereas, Said act tamongother
things provided for a committee
of 10 taxpayers and residents of
said city and provided for a COM
mission to carry said act into eff
feet and providing for the perpet-
; uation of said committee and
commission, and
Whereas, Thereexistsa strong
desire among the residents OF said
city to have said committee and
3 commission chosen by the quail
. flied voters thereof and we the
, undersigned members of said COM
mittee desiring to labor in har-
mony with the residents of Cor
wallis for a better water system
3 and the upbuilding of the city,
} and believing that the people
3 should have a voice in the selec-
' ton of said committee and COM
! mission, therefore be it
Resolved, That we will favor
and join in a request to eu1
y representatives in the Legislature
of the state of Oregon at the
ensuing session thereof following
a this date, to amend the act o.
J. said legislature of the year 1905
: to make the water committee O.
said city to consist of four or siz
> members instead of ten; tha
= four or six of the ten committee.
J. men now created by said act shall
is be elected by lot tom among
d and by present committee to con
d stitute the "water commission
IS in the amended act, who shall
8 act as such commissioners re
e spectively for I, 2, 3, q, S, or
years or until the ensuing genera
% election of said city following
n and that the qualified voters O
IS the City of Corvallis shall elec
~ by ballot at each ensuing cit,
- =, election from and after tn
70 amended act a water commits
,e sioner to serve fo1 the term of
ut or E years from the date of hi
election and qualification as sue
10 commissioner; ano in case of tn
v. death or resignation of any mem
,g Der of said water commission
y the mayor of said city shall ar
he point a water commissioner
IS: serve until the next annus
ID election following such death c
: resignation, at which electio
70 the qualified voters shall elect
water commissioner to serve fe
the same term as the commission
'e er whose term he is elected
90 Fill. Be it further
~ Resolved, That the bonds t
" be issued by said city under tt
ID present act shall contain a pr
sr- vision to the effect "That tn
he bond is issued subject to sue
9. change as to the number an
lis personnel of the water commissic
of said city as may in the futu
r., be enacted by the legislature
a the State of Oregon.
ill :.