The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1911-03-02
GOVERNOR VETOES
BONDING BILL

The bill permitting counties to bond
for the construction of permanent high
ways went down befroe the veto AK of
Governor Oswald West along with the
other three good roads bills which had
been passed by the legislature. The
following is the bonding act with the
forms for petition, notice of elections
and ballots omitted, as it finally passed
both houses representing compromise
between the roads association and
grange:
Sec. /. Bonds may be issued by any
county in this State for the purpose
of raising money to be used for the
construction of permanent roads in
that county as hereinafter provided.
Sec. 2. Whenever number of regis
tered voters of county equal to one
tenth the greatest number of votes
cast in that county at the next pre-
ceeding general elecion, shall petition
the county court as hereinafter provid-
ed asking that special election shall
be called for the purpose of submitting
to the voters of that county the ques-
tion of issuing bonds for the purpose
mentioned in Section one of this Act,
such county court shall call such
special election and submit such ques-
tion to the legal voters of such county
as hereinafter provided.
Sec. 8. The petition mentioned in
section two shall set out the amount of
bonds proposed to be issued, the length
of time they shall run, and the maxi
mum rate of interest they shall bear.
The petition shall specify in addition
thereto, the beginning and terminus of
such road or roads as are to be per-
manently improved, provided that
such improvement shall begin at the
market place or market places, or a
road leading thereto, specified as the
beginning of such road or roads and
continuously extended to the terminus
of such road as specified, unless the
funds sooner be exhausted. If more
than one road is named in the petition,
the petition shall name the amount of
money to be expended upon each road.
Each petitioner must sign his own
name to the petition and his postoffice
address must be noted opposite his
name.
Sec. 4. The petition mentioned in
section three shall be filed with the
county clerk and thereafter presented
to the county court at a regular session
thereof. The county court shall ex-
anime the petition as soon as it is so
presented, and if the court is satisfied
that the petition substantially conforms
to the requirements of section three
of this act and contains the names and
postoffice addresses of the requisite
number of legal voters as required by
section two of this act, The county
court shall then make an order direct
ing that a specal election shall be call
ed and held in that county for the pur-
pose specified in the petition at time
to be then fixed by the court, which
shall not be more than forty days after
the date of making the order. If the
count court shall determine either that
the petition does not substantially
conform to the requirements of section
three, or that it does not contain names
and postoffice addresses of the requi-
site number of legal voters as required
by section two it shall make an order
declaring that fact and particularly
designating the defects and refuse tc
order a special election. Within ter
days after the entry of such order any
one or more of the petitioners may
appeal to the circuit court in the same