The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1914-09-04

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Sec. 5. The term board as used herein
| unless otherwise qualified shall pc inter-
preted to mean the state reclamation
board created by this act.
Sec. 4. District when used in this act
| shall be interpreted to mean an irrigation
| district duly and regularly organized I'M
| der the laws of the state .,..,
Sec. 5. The terms sinking fund, irriga-
| ton fund and improvement FUND unless
| otherwise qualified, when used in TINS act
| shall be interpreted to mean quincy val
ley sinking fund, the Quincy valley III, IT.
| rigation fund and the Quincy Nahey I'LL
provement fund, respectively.
Sec. 6. The term state bonds unless
| otherwise qualified, when used IN TINS
| act shall be interpreted to mean the state
bonds issued under and by virtue OF THIS
act. ,
Sec T. There shall be and there hereby
| is created a state reclamation board con-
sisting of, ex-officio, the governor, state
| auditor, state treasurer, commissioner OF
public lands, and the state geologlst; tne
governor shall be chairman OF the BOARD
Sec. s. The board created by section
seven of this act shall have secretary to
| be appointed by it. who shall hold office at
its pleasure. The secretary shall Keep
| full and accurate minutes and accounts
of all transactions and proceedings OF the
board, ana perform such other duties as
may be required of him by the board lie
shall receive an annual salary or TWO
thousand five hundred dollars, to be paid
out of the irrigation fund created by
this act.
Sec. 8. 1t shall be the duty of the at
torney general to represent and appear FOR
the State of Washington and the board In
all actions and proceedings involving any
question under this act or under or In
reference to any act or order OF the board
or it's agents and to that end he is au-
thorized and required to institute, pros,
ecute and defend all proper actions and
proceedings.
Sec. 10. Said board shall organize
promptly after the taking effect of this
act upon it's ratification by the people,
and upon the call of the. governor as
chairman of said board; and it Is hereby
mediately after this act becomes opera
tive as aforesaid to call the board to-
gether
of this act as practicable the board shall
determine with practical detail the FEAST
biity of constructing the system of stor-
age and irrigation works contemplated by
this act. two-thirds vote by ayes and
hayes shall be necessary to sustain the
determination of feasibility. In reaching
the determination of feasibility the board
must make use of all examinations and
surveys heretofore made and hereafter
to be made by this state or the United
States and the board Is hereby authoriz-
ed to cause such examinations and sur
veys to be made by its engineers or other
agents, as it may deem proper; and the
board must, a reasonable time before
reaching it's determination of feasibility,
convene a board of not less than three
nor more than five civil and hydraulic
engineers each qualified by technical
training and practical experience, and of
high standing and reputation in his pro-
fession.. for the purpose of aiding the
board in reaching it's determination of
feasibility. and the board shall submit to
them all the facts bearing upon feasibility
and obtain from them their opinion in
writing as to the feasibility of the sys-
templated by this act and also to obtain
from them suggestions in writing as to
or any portion of it: and the board must
before reaching its determination of feas-
Utility, ascertain and determine and enter
upon. its permanent records the follow
% The quantity of water supply OBJ
tainable for the purpose of this act from
the source contemplated by this act;
.(9 The number of acres of good irrig-.
able land which can be properly irrigated
from, said water, supply or far as said
supply to be utilized by. this act;
of the system Of storage and irrigation
works provided for by this act including
the cos. of water rights for supply and
rights of ways and flooding rights;
90 That an irrigation district has been
duly and regularly organized under the
laws of this state. including within its
rigable land. to render the said system
feasible; the judgment of the board as
to the quality and irrigability of the land
shall be na n any conest tRe
board and the district, or the board and
any land owner in the district;
No) mat SAID irrigation QlStrlct is
ready, willing and able to contract with
the state. through said board, for the pur-
chase from the state of a perpetual water
rish to water wa from said t system su
irrigate the said irrigable lands included
in said district and for maintenance of
same; and has duly and regularly issued
interest at the rate Of not to exceed six
per centum per annum to be determined
| by agreement between the board and the
mi
| dollars and has delivered said bonds to
| the state through said board;
the land to be By put the
| TEN contemplated by this act;
| % The findings, conclusions, opinions
and suggestions of said board OF civil and
| 80 All other facts and all reasons, in
addition to the foregoing, upon which said
Sec. IL. The system of storage and ir-
rigaton works provided for in this act
must not be determined by the board to
| cost of the completion of said system ex-
ceeds forty million dollars. or the ascer-
tanned cost per acre to put the water up
said system exceeds one hundred dollars
| per acre, or if the conclusions of said
board of civil and hydraulic engineers
| are adverse to feasibility.
| Sec. 10. Before the board shall proceed
to make any Of the examinations or sur
veys mentioned in section eleven Of this
|
whatsoever it shall require said district
to duly and regularly issue its bonds to
the state in the principal amount of forty
million dollars payable in series as pro-
yided by irrigation district law. and to
| bear interest hereinbefore and herein
after provided and deliver the same to
| by the board to be delivered to the state
| treasurer. The state treasurer shall at
| any time, upon the written request of the
board sell said district bonds at not less
| interest
| in the same manner and subject to the
rules as provided for hereinafter for the
bonds are sold as aforesaid the proceeds
| of same shall be placed in the sinking
fund and the improvement fund in the
proportion hereinafter provided. If
said bonds are not sold then the state
| treasurer shall safely keep same and faith
fully collect the interest and principal as
| the same falls due and place the same in
the said two last mentioned funds in the
| proportion as hereinafter provided. If.
| after the completion of the construction of
| said system of storage, 1t is determined
| that said construction has not cost the
| full sum of forty million dollars then the
difference between said cost and said
the state to said district, either in the
said district bonds computed at their par
value. or in money; and If in money then
| that sum of money which said sum so re-
| turned has earned as interest for the state
while in the sinking fund shall also he
returned to said district.
Sec. IA. If the board reaches the de-
| termination in the manner provided by
| this act that the construction of said sys-
| tenn of storage and irrigation works is
not feasible then said board must by
resolution stop all further work and close
up its affairs, pay it's debts, and report
with it's findings and conclusions to the
next succeeding legislature.
Sec. Is: Upon the determination by the
| board, after full compliance with sections
| eleven and twelve of this act, that said
| system of storage and irrigation works
| is feasible, then the board is authorized
| and directed to contract in the name of
the state with the district as described in
| subdivisions five and six of section eleven
right for all the irrigable land within
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