Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-01-28

Ineh'e North SIX hundred and sixty
feet to the South boundary limo of
the Boulevard; thence North Sc de-
greco 13 minutes west along the
South boundary line of the Boule-
ward twenty-five hundred and ten
feet; thence South twelve hundred
and fifteen feet; thence West along
the South boundary of donation land
claim number fcrty-five, township
thirty-nino South of Range one East
OF the Willa.1ettc Meridian, Jackson
County, Oregon, siz hundred and four
ana elght-telths feet to the Southwest
corner of said donation land claim
number forty-five; thence South elev-
en- hundred and seventy feet; thence
West fifteen hundred and twenty-five
feet to the place OF beginning, shall
be and the same Is hereby constituted
tho City OF Ashland, and the present
and future residents of said district
shall be and are hereby constituted a
municipal corporation by the name of
the CITY Of Ashland" and by that
name may sue and lie sued, plead and
be impleaded, prosecute and defend,
in all courts of justice and in all ac-
tions, suits or proceedings whatso-
ever; may have and use common
seal, and may alter tho same at pleas
ure; may purchase or acquire by ex-
ercise of eminent domain, lease, hold
or receive real or personal property
within and Syond the limits of the
city, for the construction and main
tenance of watCrworks to supply the
city with water, and for the construc-
tion OF gasuorks or other works to
supply the city with light; and for
the construction of street railways,
and any and all Other public utilities
which after submission to the people
OF the said corporation shall by them
be deemed advantageous to said cor
poration; and for such purpose or
purposes may take private property
within the limits OF said city for pub
lie use, and within and beyond the
limits of said city for the purpose of
supplying it with water, and may
lease, sell or dispose of any of the
above described property for the ben
eft of the city, provided that any and
all water and waterworks and water
rights now owned or which may here
after be acquired by said city, or any
property now owned or which may
hereafter be acquired by said city for
the purpose OF supply ing the inhabit-
ants thereof with water shall never
be rented, sold or otherwise disposed
of; nor shall said city ever grant any
franchise to any person or corpora
tion for the purpose of supplying the
inhabitants of said city with water,
but the right to furnish the inhabit-
! fhnrnnf ,h
be vested in the City Of Ashland, with
full power and authority to condemn,
purchase, appropriate and own the
water of any stream or spring for the
purpose of supplying the water sys-
TEN, and to do any and all things nee
essary, proper or convenient in the
premises to give the most efficient
and eifectual water service to the said
city without In any way impairing its
right to any existing water, water
power or water right now owned by
it, or which may hereafter be owned
by It, or which may hereafter be
owned by the said city; and may
make any and all arrangements and
ordinances deemed by the City Coun-
ell of said City OF Ashland pertinent
and proper for the preservation and
security of such water and the eff
fectiveness OF such water system; pro-
vided the uses and appropriations
heretofore made to and by said city
and the water rights heretofore pur-
chased by said city shall be and the
same are hereby vested in said mu-
nicipality, with the right to exact and
collect compensation of the users Of
water from such water system; pro-
vided, further, that all revenues aris-
| ing from tho sale of water, water
power, or the collections of rent shall
be set apart as |: fund from which to
pay, first, all needful expenses in re-
pairing, renewing and extending said
water system as necessity therefor
shall arise and for the payment of the
interest on the water bonds of the
! City of Ashland, as the same shall ac-
crue; and second, of the residue Of
such water rents and revenues a sink
ing fund shall be created to be kept
inviolate and to be applied to the dis
charge of the water bonds of said
city when the same shall become due
and said water funds shall be used for
no other purpose. The City Council
shall, at its first regular meeting after
the adoption OF this provision, enact
suitable ordinances for the purpose
of carrying the same into effect. The
said City of Ashland shall have all
the general powers possessed by mu-
nicipal corporations under the statute
laws of this state, and of common law
not inconsistent with the state law,
and in addition thereto shall possess
all powers hereinafter specifically
granted, and all the authority thereof
shall have perpetual succession.
The ballot title and number of such
measure shall be as follows:
Measure Submitted TO the Voters by
the Common Council.
An Act to amend Section of Arti-
Gle / of the Charter of the City of
Ashland, Oregon, changing the
Northwesterly boundary line of said
city to conform to the Southerly line
of the Pacific Highway on the route
marked Line A" as delineated and
designated on the map as surveyed,
staked and plated by the State High
way Engineer from where said survey
enters the present city limits, South
easterly to and along the North line
of the city pavement as laid in 1919,
to a point on the Northerly side
thereof as indicated by said survey;
thence North 81 degrees 45 minutes
East to the present North boundary.
Vote YES or NO
100 Yes.