The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1914-07-10

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Sec. 3. The term board as used herein
unless otherwise qualir1ed shall be inter-
preted to mean the state reclamation
board created by this act
Sec. I. District when used in this act
shall be Interpreted to mean an irrigation i
district duly and regularly organized I'M
der the laws of the state.
Sec. ). The terms sinking fund, irriga-
ton fund and Improvement iund unless
otherwise qualified, when used in this act
shall be Interpreted to mean Quincy Val
ley sinking fund, the Quincy Valley IT.
rigation fund and the Quincy Valley i'm
provement fund respectively: ,,n,oss
Sec. 6. The term state bonds unless
otherwise qualified, when used in this
act shall be interpreted to mean the state
bonds issued under and by virtue of this
act.
Sec. l. There shall be and there hereby
| is created state reclamation board CON
sisting of, eX-officio. the governor state
auditor, state treasurer, commissioner OF
public lands, and the state geologist; the
governor shall be chairman of the board.
Sec. g. 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 and perform such other duties as
may be required of him by the board. He
shall receive an annual salary of 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 its 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 its ratification by the people,
| chairman of said board and it is hereby
| made the duty of the governor i'm
| mediately after this act becomes opera
| tive as aforesaid to call the board to-
| gether.
| Sec. H. AS soon after the taking effect
| of this act as practicable the board shall
| determine with practical detail the feast
| bility of constructing the system of stor-
| age and irrigation works contemplated by
| this act. A 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
| board must, a reasonable time before
| reaching it's determination of feasibility,
| convene 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 its 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-
| TEN of storage and irrigation works con-
| templated by this act and also to obtain
any desired notifications of the system
| or any portion of it; and the board must
| before reaching it's determination of feas-
| ibility, ascertain and determine and enter
| upon its permanent records the follow
| ing facts:
| % The quantity of water supply OBJ
tainabe for the purpose. of this act from
| the source contemplated by this act
| 90 The number of acres of good irrig-
able land which can be, properly irrigated
from said water supply or far as SAID
go The total cost of the completion
| of the system of storage and irrigation
works provided for by this act, including
| rights of ways and flooding rights;
| CD That an irrigation district has been
duly and regularly organized under the
| limits a sufficient quantity of good ir-
| rigable land, to render the said system
feasible; the judgment of the board as
| to the quality and irrigability of the land
| for the purpose of said determination
| shall be final in any contest between the
board and the district, or, the board and
|
| 90 That said irrigation district is
ready, willing and able to contract with
| the state, through said board, for the pur-
| chase from the state of a perpetual water
| right to water from said system suffi-
| cient, in the judgment of the board, to
| irrigate the said irrigable lands included
same; and has duly and regularly ISSUED
| its bonds payable to the state bearing
| interest at the rate of not to exceed six
| per centum per annum to be determined
| he 1rH nd ha
| district, in the amount of forty million
| dollars and has delivered said bonds tc
the state through said board;
(6) The cost per acre to put water
| upon the land to be irrigated by the sys-
| TEN contemplated by this act;
| % The findings, conclusions, opinions
| hydraulic engineers;
| go All other facts and all reasons, in
addition to the foregoing, upon which SAID
| determination of feasibility is based.
| Sec. II. The system of storage and ir-
| rigation works provided for in this act
| must not be determined by the board tC
| cost of the completion of said system ex-
| ceeds forty million dollars, or the ascer-
| tanned cost per acre to put the water up
| on the land to be irrigated by means OF
| 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
| act or contract any debts or liabilities
| whatsoever it shall require said district
| to duly and regularly issue it's bonds to
| the state in the principal amount of forty
| million dollars payable in series as pro-
| vided by irrigation district law, and to
| bear interest as herenbefore and herein
after provided and deliver the same to
| the board for the state and the same are
by the board to be delivered to the state
| treasurer. The state treasurer shall al
any time, upon the written request of the
| board sell said district bonds at not less
than par and accrued interest, If any
| in the same manner and subject to the
| rules as provided for hereinafter for the
| sale of the state bonds If said district
| bonds are sold as aforesaid the proceeds
| of same shall be placed in the sinking
| tund ana the improvement fund in the
proportion as 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. IT,
| after the completion of the construction OF
said system of storage. it is determined
| that said construction has not cost the
| tuIl sum of forty million dollars then the
| difference between said cost and said
| forty million dollars shall be returned by
| 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 be
| returned to said district.
Sec. II. 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 its findings and conclusions to the
next succeeding legislature
Sec. 10: 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
or this act, to furnish a perpetual water
right for all the irrigabie land within
said district for which there is a sufH-