The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1914-09-11

der the laws of the state.
Sec. 5. The terms sinking fund, irriga-
otherwise qualified, when used in this act
shall be interpreted to mean Quincy VAL
ley sinking fund, the Quincy Valley ir-
provement fund.- respectively.
Sec. g. The term state bonds unless
otherwise qualified, when used in this
bonds issued under and by virtue of this
act.
Sec. I. 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 geologist; the
governor shall be chairman of the board.
Sec. 8. The board created by section
seven of this act shall have secretary to
be appointed by it, who shall hold office at
it's 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. 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. 9. 1t shall be the duty of the at
torney general to represent and appear for
the State of Washington and the board in
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
proceedings.
Sec. 10, Said board shall organize
promptly after the taking effect of this
act. upon its ratification by the people,
and upon the call of the governor as
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-
sether.
Sec. II. 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. y 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-
veyS to be made by its engineers or other
agents, as it may deem proper: and the
board must a reasonable time before
reaching its 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 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 ana irrigation WORKS con-
templated by this act and also to obtain
from them suggestions in writing to
any desired notifications of the system,
or any portion of it; and the board must
before reaching it's determination of feas-
Utility, ascertain and determine and enter
upon its permanent records the follow
ing facts:
% The quantity of water supply OBJ
tainable for the purpose of this act from
the source contemplated by this act;
90 The number OF acres of good irrig,,
"A IA fad
from said water supply or far as said
supply to be utilized by this act;
80 The total cost of the completion
of the system, of storage and irrigation
works provided for by this act, including
the cost of water rights for supply and
rights of ways and flooding rights;
t4 That an irrigation district has been
duly and regularly organized under the
laws of this, state, including within it's
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 irrigabiity of the land
for the purpose of said determination
board and the district, or the board and
any land owner in the district;
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 sufii-
clent, in the judgment of the board, to
irrigate the said irrigable lands included
in said district and for maintenance of
same; and has duly ard 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
by agreement between the board and the
district, in the amount of forty million
dollars and has delivered said bonds to
the state through said board;
Co ~, The cost PEI, . acre to put water
TEN contemplated by this act;
60 The findings. conclusions. opinions
and sugg estions OF said board of civil and
hydraulic engineers;
90 All other facts and all reasons, in
addition to the foregoing. upon which said
discrimination 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 to
be feasible if, either, the total ascertained
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. IL. 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
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 hereinbefore 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 at
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. Ii said district
bonds are sold as aforesaid the proceeds
OF same shall be placed in the sinking
fund and the improvement fund in the
proportion as hereinafter provided, Il
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 ii is determined
that said construction has not cost the
full 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
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 its debts, and report
with its 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 |
of this act, to furnish a perpetual water |
right for all the irrigable land within |
said district for which there is a suffi- |
Gent quantity Of water available from |
the system contemplated, and to furnish |
water each year in sufficient quantity |
in the judgment of the board to irrigate |
tain said system of storage and irrigation |
said lands lest ment toned and to main |
tain said system of storage and irrigation