The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1914-07-24

maintenance agree to pay to the state
the total cost of the complete construc-
ton of said system of storage and ir-
rigation works in the manner provided by
this act, and in addition thereto to pay
the state the annual maintenance charg-
ed, at the times and in the manner and
amounts to be fixed and determined by
the board as soon as the state is ready
to supply water, and to pay to the state
the amount necessary to rebuild or re-
construct any destroyed or injured por-
ton in this section as above stated by
accident or act of God: Provided, that
after the bonds to be issued by the state
under this act are fully paid interest and
principal, said annual maintenance
charges shall be based upon the cost of
maintenance and operation including the
build and repair said works or any por-
ton of them.
Sec. 16. After said contract is entered
into and the said bonds of said irrigation
district in the amount stated in section
thirteen are delivered to the said board
and by it delivered to the state treasurer
said board shall have power and it is
hereby made it's duty to construct with
reasonable diligence said system of stor-
age and irrigation works and to maintain
the same. Said system to include stor-
age of water. in and about Lake We
natchee and Fish Lake in Chelan county,
and their inlets and in and about the
Wenatchee river and it's tributaries, by
means of one or more dams and the i'm
pounding and storage of water thereby
and the carriage of the water from thence
in a main conduit by route to be select
ed by the board to some point in the
Quincy Valley best adapted, in the judg-
ment of said board, for distribution of
the water upon said lands to be irrigated
and from thence through a number of
primary and secondary or lateral canals
and fumes, as will in the judgment of
the board, best serve the lands in Grant
Adams, Chean and Douglas counties,
all lands in the neighborhood of said sys-
tenn which can be feasibly served by said
system for the purposes of irrigation; and
the board shall have the right to develop
hydro electric power and employ and dis
pose of same for irrigation pumping or
for any other uses. provided only that
such power development is incidental to
the main purpose of said irrigation and
necessary to the best attainment of the
general objects of this act.
Sec. II. Said board is hereby granted
full and complete power of eminent do
main in the name of the state for purposes
of the acquisition and damaging of prop
erty for the construction and mainten-
ance of said system as a whole. and as
to each and all its parts and may proceed
under any existing laws for the condem-
nation of private property for public uses.
and said board is hereby granted full and
complete power to purchase and acquire
by donation or otherwise in the name of
the state all lands and waters and other
property including the right to damage
property and also including reservoir sites
and dam sites and water rights, necessary
for the construction, maintenance and
water or other property to be paid for out
of the irrigation fund.
Sec. IS. In addition to other powers
given in this act to said board it shall
have full power to manage and conduct
the business affairs pertaining to the con-
struction, maintenance, and operation of
said system and to make, execute and de-
liver all proper contracts to carry the
purpose of this act to a successful COM
pletion, and to employ and appoint chief
engineer and such other officers, agents
II .,
prescribe their duties and to fix their
compensation, and to discharge any Of
ficers agents or employees at will; or to
contract for definite period of service
Sec. 10. The chief engineer must be
qualified by technical training, and prac-
engineer and be of high standing and rep
utation in his profession. He shall have
charge of the construction of said sys-
tenn under the board and he must devote
his time exclusively to the prosecution of
the work contemplated by this act, and
shall accept no other employment of any
kind during the period of his engagement
Sec. 20. For the purpose of providing
a sinking fund for the payment Of the in
debtedness hereby authorized to be in
Cured by the said state reclamation board
for the construction of said system OF
storage and irrigation works in the coun-
ties of Chelan, Douglas, Grant and Adams
not e exeeed Of oy m6n ao at
state treasurer shalt, Immediately after
the taking effect of this act, prepare
bonds of the State of Washington, in
denominations of one hundred to one
thousand dollars each. in such proportion
of denomination as requested in writing
by the board The whole issue of said
bonds shall not exceed the sum of forty
million dollars, and said bonds bear inter-
est at rate not to exceed five per cent
UNI per annum from the time of the sale
thereof. respectively and both principal
interest shall pniu
of the United States of America Of pres
ent standard of value in ten series, as
years and nine months five per centun
of the whole amount of bonds; at the ex-
piration of eleven years and nine months
six per centum of the whole amount OF
bonds; at the expiration of twelve years
and nine months seven per centum of the
whole amount of bonds at the expira-
ton of thirteen years and nine months
eight per centum of the. whole amount
of bonds; at the expiration of fourteen
years and nine months nine per centum
of the whole amount of bonds; at the ex-
piration of fifteen years and nine months
ten per centum of the whole amount OF
bonds, at the expiration of sixteen years
and nine months eleven per centum OF
the whole amount of bonds; at the ex-
months thirteen per centum of the whole
amount of bonds; at the expiration OF
eighteen years and nine months fifteen
per centum of the whole amount of bonds
at the expiration of nineteen years and
nine months sixteen per centum of the
whole amount of bonds. Said bonds shall
bear the date of the second day of Au-
gust A. d. nineteen hundred and fifteen.
The interest ACQUIRING on such of said
bonds as are sold, shall be due and pay
able at the office of said state treasurer
or at the fiscal agency of this state in
New York city on the second day of Feb
ruary and on the second day of August
Provided, that the first payment in in
terest shah be made on the second day
of August, nineteen hundred sixteen on
so many Of said bonds as may have been
nineteen years and nine months from
the date of said bonds all bonds sold shall
cease to bear interest, and the treasurer
shall call in, forthwith pay and cancel all
outstanding bonds out of the moneys in
the sinking fund provided for in this act,
and he shall on the, second day of August
and destroy all said bonds heretofore sold.
All bonds issued shall be consecutively
numbered in the order of issue and shall
be signed by the governor and counter
signed by the state auditor and shall be
endorsed by the state treasurer, and each
shall have the seal of the state stamped
thereon.
Sec. 81. Interest coupons shall be at
tached to each of said bonds, so that such
coupons may be removed without injury
to or mutilation of the bond. Said cou-
pons shall be consecutively numbered and
shall be signed by the state treasurer:
Provided, that said signature may be en-
graved or autographed thereon, but no
interest on any of said bonds shall be
paid for any time which may intervene
between the date of said bonds and the
issue and sale thereof to the purchaser,
and the state treasurer must adjust and
remove the coupons so as to bring this
about. and the determination of the state
treasurer as to the time when interest be-
gins to run shall be final and binding
Sec %. The sum of five thousand dol
lars is hereby appropriated to pay the ex-
penses that may be incurred by the state
treasurer in having said bonds prepared
ana issued: and in advertising the sale and
the sale of the same. Said amount or so
much as shall be necessary shall be paid
out of the irrigation fund.
Sec. %. When the bonds authorized to
be issued under this act shall be duly
issued and executed, they shall be, by
the state treasurer. when directed by a
resolution of the board so to do, sold at