Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-04-26

be paid until countersigned by the
payee in such manner that the vouch-
er shall stand for a receipt from said
payee to the treasurer for the amount
so paid.
Section Z. The council shall exact
from each of the commissioners of
said Springs Water Commission
good and sufficient bond in such sum
as the council may deem necessary,
conditioned upon the faithful per-
formance by said commissioners of
the powers and duties herein con-
ferred and imposed and to the effect
that said commission will honestly
and promptly account for all funds
coming under it's control under the
provisions hereof. The expenses for
obtaining and carrying said bonds
shall be paid out of the funds so ap-
propriated by Sections and 5 of
said Article Xxx. ,u
The commissioners shall enter into
no contract or issue any voucher in
excess of the sum hereby 'appropri-
ated for the construction Of an auXil-
iary water system and the other pur-
poses specified in Sections and 8
of Article Xxx of the charter of said
city as herein amended, and no con-
tract or other obligation, together
with the total of all contracts and OBJ
legations previously entered into,
shall exceed the amount of funds
herein appropriated for the purpose,
it being the intent hereof to keep the
expenditures made by said commits
sion entirely within the said appropri-
alton, and any contracts entered into
or any voucher issued therefor in ex-
cess of said appropriation shall not
be a charge against said fund or the
city of Ashland, but may be recovered
upon the bond of said commissioners
by proper civil procedure.
All contracts shall be made in the
name of the city of Ashland and all
contractors shall be required to fur
nish good and sufficient surety bonds,
conditioned upon the faithful per-
formance of their contracts.
Payments to contractors may be
made from time to time as the work
progresses, on the estimates, but at
no time shall such payments exceed
the work actually performed, and in
no case shall more than S5 per cent
of the contract price be paid until
the work is fully completed and ac-
cepted.
Section g. That during the eXpend-
iture of the funds from said bond is
sue, as provided in Sections and
of Article Xxx of the charter of said
city, as herein amended, the said
Springs Water Commission shall file
with the city council on the first
Tuesday of each month thereof an
itemized statement of all expendi-
lures made by the commission during
the preceding month, showing for
what the expenditure was made, and
each item thereof, the total amount
and to whom paid, which itemized
statement shall be published by the
commission for the information of
the public; and when required by the
council the Springs Water Commits
sion shall make a detailed statement
of all amounts expended in said con-
struction and of all properties ac-
quired for said purpose, for the in
formation of the council and the pub
lie, and such statement shall be
spread upon the permanent records
of the city; and thereafter monthly
iNpOi 10 bO ihduC.
AS such reports and itemized state
Inents are from time to time filed by
said commission with said city coun-
Gil said council shall audit and pass
upon the same, but neither said COM
mission nor said commissioners nor
their bondsmen, respectively, shall be
liable for any of said funds honestly
expended in carrying out the pro-
visions of said Sections 4 and 5, as
herein amended. When all of said
fund so appropriated by said bond
issue shall have been expended in ac-
cordance with said Sections and 5,
as amended herein, said commission
shall make its final report to said
council, which shall approve such OF
such expenditures as have been hon
estly made in the carrying out OF the
purposes expressed in said Sections
4 and 5, as so amended. When all
of said funds appropriated by said
Sections 4 and 5, as so amended here
in, shall have been expended and the
report showing such expenditures
has been filed by said commission,
the city council shall have power by
resolution or ordinance to approve
the expenditure Oh all VI any pdll vi
the funds handled by said commission
hereunder and to eXonerate said COM
missioners and their bondsmen, re-
spectively, but the failure of such
council so to act shall not be con-
strued to make such commissioners
or their sureties liable If they other
wise would not be liable under the
provisions hereof.
Section 10. The said commission
ers shall serve without compensation;
provided, that upon the expenditure
of all funds appropriated in Sections
4 and 5, as amended herein, and the
filing of the report hereinabove pro-
vided, the city council may, In its
discretion. audit and recommend the
payment of such compensation to
each commissioner as it may deem
reasonable for the services rendered,
the same to be paid out Of any money
unexpended of the proceeds OF the
said $175,000 bond issue.
Section II. The Springs Water
Commission having heretofore filed
with the city council its account oil
the disbursements of so much of the
} funds in its hands as have already
been expended as shown by its report
: filed with the City Recorder on April
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