Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-29
HOME 10 BE LOCATED IN YA- VAPAI COUNTY AND ID
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A BILL FOR AN ACT TO ESTAB. LISH A HOME FOR AGED AND INFIRM ARIZONA PIONEERS.


 Section ]. That there shall be and IS hereby authorized in or near the City of Prescott, County of Yavapai. Ari. zona, an institution to be known as THE HOME FOR AGED AND IN FIRM ARIZONA PIONEERS.
 Section 2. Said institution shall be under the direct charge and manage ment of the Board of Control of the Ter ritory of Arizona, and said board may admit persons to said institution and provide for their comfortable mainte. nance and support therein when an ap. plicant shall present a certificate from the board of supervisors of the county in which he resides stating that he is entitled to receive the benefits of the home as provided herein.
 Section ,. Any person of good char acter who shall have been resident of Arizona for not less than twenty five years prior to the passage of this Act, and who shall have been active in the development of Arizona, and who shall have reached the age of sixty years or over, and who. because of ad- verse circumstances or failing health or other disability, shall be unable to properly provide for himself with the necessaries and ordinary comforts of life, shall be entitled to become an in mate of said home at the expense of the territory of Arizona. Any other person of good character who shall have been a resident of the territory of Arizona for not less than twenty five years, and who shall desire to en. ter said home, may he admitted thereto upon the payment of such reasonable sum per month for his care and main tenanee therein as the board of control may fx.
 Section A. The board of control is hereby authorized, directed and empow- cred, and it is hereby made the duty of said board of control, in ease the city of Prescott or some person, firm or corporation, shall donate to the ter. ritory of Arizona, lands for the uses and purposes of said home, suitable for an adequate and desirable site in or near said city, upon which the said home may be located, and shall convey said lands in fee simple to the terri tory of Arizona, to proceed. in case said land for said site shall be accepted by the said board of control, and not otherwise, to erect suitable buildings upon said site for the purposes afore- said, the cost of which said buildings together with the furnishing therefor, shall not exceed the sum of sixty thous- and dollars. No such building shall be constructed until after plans therefor have been submitted to-, and accepted by, the board of control, nor until bids for the construction of the same shall have been properly advertised for and the contract for such construction awarded to the lowest and best bidder.
 Section ,. That, for the purchase of suitable site, if one is not donated free of charge, and for the construction and erection of buildings, for the afore, said mentioned home, there shall be and is hereby levied, in addition to all taxes otherwise directed to be lev jed, tax of ten cents on each one hundred dollars of the assessed value of all real and personal property in the territory of Arizona, to be placed by the territorial treasurer in fund to be known as the "Pioneers' Home Fund v. The territorial auditor shall certify the rate of tax us above stated to the several boards of supervisors throughout the territory, and the said board of supervisors are hereby direct ed and required to enter such rate on the assessment rolls of their respective counties in the same manner and with the same effect as is provided by law in relation to other territorial and coun- ty taxes, The tax levied under the provisions or authority of this Act is hereby made lien against the propert, assessed, which lien shall attach on the first Monday in March in each year, and shall not be satisfied or removed until such tax has been paid.
 Section 6. After said buildings have been erected and constructed, and when the said buildings are ready for loccu- pancy by persons authorized by this Act to be inmates thereof, and after