The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1914-10-02

StructiOn.
Sec. g. The term board as used herein
unless otherwise qualified shall be 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 this act
shall be Interpreted to mean Quincy VAL
rigation fund and the Quincy valley i'm
provement fund, respectively
Sec. 6. The term state bonds unless
act acts shall be Interpreted to mean the state
bonds issued under and by virtue Of this
act.
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. s. The board created by section
seven of this act shall have a 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
shall receive an annual salary of two
thousand five hundred dollars, to be paid
out of the irrigation fund created by
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
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
and upon the call Of the governor as
chairman of said board, and 1t is hereby
made the duty Of the. governor i'm
medately after this act becomes opera
tive as aforesaid to call the board to-
gether
Sec. II. AS soon after the taking effect
determine with practical detail the FEAST
bility of constructing the system of stor
age and irrigation works contemplated by
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
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 1t may deem proper; and the
board must, a reasonable time before
reaching its 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
fession,. for the purpose Of aiding the
board in reaching its determination OF
feasibility, and the board shall submit to
| and obtain from them their opinion in
writing as to the feasibility Of the sys-
tenn 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
ibility, ascertain and determine and ente,
ing facts:
~ The quantity Of water supply OBJ
the source contemplated by this act;
GO. The number Of acres Of good irrig.
able land which can be properly irrigated
supply to be utilized by. this act;
.(3C The total cost Of the completion
Of the system Of storage and irrigation
the cost Of water rights for supply and
| rights Of ways and flooding rights;
| 90 That an irrigation district has beer
laws of this state. including within iti
limits a sufficient quantity Of good ir-
| rigable land. to render the said system
to the quality and irrigability of the land
shall be final in any contest between the
any and o%aer IN the Or
90 That said irrigation district 1,
ready, willing and able to contract will
the state, through said board. for the pur-
| chase from the state OF perpetual water
right to water from said system SUN.
| cient, in the judgment of the board, tc
irrigate the said irrigable lands included
| in said district and for maintenance OF
same; and has duly and regularly issued
it's 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
dollars and has delivered said bonds tc
| the state through said board;
co. The cost per acre to put water
upon the land to be irrigated by the sys.
tenn contemplated by this act
o saS
| hydraulic engineers;
| go All other facts and all reasons. ir
sa he d IS T Sase sale
| Sec IL. The system Of storage and ir-
| rigation works provided for in this act
must not be determined by the board tc
| be feasible If, either, the total ascertaineG
| 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 II the conclusions Of said
board of civil and hydraulic engineers
Sec. Is. Before the board shall proceed
to make any Of the examinations or sur
yeys 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
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
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. II any,
| in the same manner and subject to the
| rules as provided for hereinafter for the
sale OF the state bonds. II said district
of same shall be placed in the sinking
fund and the improvement fund in the
proportion as hereinafter provided. II
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. II,
after the completion of the construction OF
said system OF storage, 1t Is determined
full sum Of forty million dollars then the
difference between said cost and said
forty million dollars shall be returned by
said district bonds computed at their par
value, or in money; and II in money then
that sum Of money which said sum so re-
turned has earned as interest for the state
returned to said district.
Sec a. II 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. 10. Upon the determination by the
board. after full compliance with sections
eleven and twelve Of this act. that said
is feasible. then the board Is authorized
and directed to contract in the name of
the state with the district as described in
of this act, to furnish a perpetual water
right for all the irrigable land within