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Transcript of Records
Auxiliary
Water _ Bonds
CITY OF
ASHLAND, OREGON
Issue $175,000
Statement of Bonded Indebtedness
City of Ashland, Oregon
WATER BONDS.
Issued July 1, 1905, 4 72 due July
1, 1920 $ 23,000.00
Issued July 1, 1909, 5%............ $50,000.00
Paid July 1, 1913 $ 5,000.00
Paid July 1, 1914.. 5,000.00
Cash in sinking fund this date...... 1,624.52 11,624.52 39,375.48
$5,000 falls due on the first day of
July, 1915 and 1916. -
Balance of $30,000 due 1929. _
Net earning of water plant 1913,
$17,992.71.
These water bonds being paid out
of profits from plant.
ELECTRIC LIGHT BONDS.
Issued September 1, 1908, 4Y2%..... $50,000.00
Due annually, beginning September
1, 1910, $2,500.
Paid annual installments 1910, 1911,
1912, 1913 $10,000.00
Cash in sinking fund 5,183.23 15,183.23 34,816.77
Issued January 1, 1909, interest 4 %
due 1930, optional after ten years
from date 30,000.00
Issued July 1, 1910, interest 5%, due
1930, optional after July 1, 1920 25,000.00
Net earning of light plant 1913...... 11,874.45
Installment bonds being retired out of plant earnings.
MISCELLANEOUS BONDS TO BE MET BY DIRECT LEVY.
Payable in installments of one-tenth each year.
Street intersection, original issue.... $80,000.00
Outstanding at this date $47,500.00
Septic tank bonds, original issue..... 12,000.00
Outstanding at this date........ 7,000.00
Fire protection bonds, original issue.. 6,000.00
Outstanding at this date........ 5,000.00
Sewer bonds, issued 1904, 41/2c/l,,, pay-
able $1,000 per year, original
issue 20.000.00
Outstanding at this date 13,000.00
$72,500.00
Less cash on hand in sinking, funds.. 5,000.00 67,500.00
Total bonded indebtedness this date $219,692.25
Auxiliary water bonds now offered.... $175,000.00
Total bonded debt including this
issue .........................................$394,692.25
SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT BONDS.
Lien against abutting property.
Total outstanding at this date $191,036.82
Less cash on hand in improvement sinking fund 8,720.18
Net special improvement debt $182,316.64
Being paid by special improvement assess-
ment against abutting property at the rate of
one-tenth each year.
The city of Ashland hqs never defaulted in
interest or principal,
I, C. H. Gillette, the duly elected, qualified and acting Recorder of the
city of Ashland, Oregon, hereby certify that the above is a true and com-
plete statement of the bonded debt of the city of Ashland, Oregon, and
that the said city has no warrant indebtedness.
Ashland, Oregon, July 25, 1914. C. H. GILLETTE, Recorder.
Population, 1910 census........... 5,020
Population, 1914 (estimated) 6,000
Assessed valuation, 1913 $2,880,640.00
Assessed valuation, 1914 (estimated) 3,000,000.00
Actual property valuation 5,000,000.00
First two interest payments in the total sum of $8,750 have been set
aside for the purpose.
Transcri*pt of Records
CITY OF ASHLAND, OREGON
Insofar as they relate to the matter of issuing $175,000
in Auxiliary Water Bonds
Ashland, Oregon, May 22, 1914.
Meeting called to order at 8 o'clock on above date pursuant to adjourn-
ment, Mayor presiding.
Roll call. Present, Councilmen Cunningham, Ashcraft, Werth,
Beaver, Ware and Cornelius.
Under the head of Petitions the following petition was presented:
Petition of legal voters of the City of Ashland presented, asking that
a bond election be called for the purpose of voting the sum of $175,000
for the purpose of providing money to construct, build and install an
auxiliary water system to be owned by the City of Ashland, Oregon, and
to be operated by said city, or by any board or boards of commissioners
that may hereafter be created for the purpose; to extend pipe lines from
any spring or springs, or other water supply, either within or without the
incorporated limits of said city and to any points or places in or about said
city, and to purchase all water rights, rights of way, lands, equipment,
material, labor and supplies necessary thereto, was presented and read,
together with a verification by the Recorder certifying to the genuineness
of the signatures in the number of 373, being a sufficient and legal num-
ber thereto, as follows:
WARNING.
It is a felony for anyone to sign any initiative or referendum petition
with any name other than his own, or to knowingly sign his name more
than once for the same measure, or to sign such petition when he is not
a legal voter.
INITIATIVE PETITION.
To C. H. Gillette, City Recorder of Ashland, Oregon:
We, the undersigned citizens and legal voters of the City of Ashland,
respectfully demand that the following proposed o-dinance shall be sub-
mitted to the legal voters of the City of Ashland, Oregon, for their ap-
proval or their rejection at a special city election to be held on the 9th
day of June, 1914, and each for himself says: I have personally signed
this petition; I am a voter of the State of Oregon, and the City of Ash-
land; and that my residence and street number are correctly written after
my name.
ORDINANCE NO.
An ordinance providing for the issuance of auxiliary water bonds of the
City of Ashland, Oregon, in the sum of one hundred and seventy-five
thousand ($175,000.00) dollars, for the purpose of constructing,
building and installing an auxiliary municipal water system to be
owned by the City of Ashland, Oregon, and to be operated by said city
or by any board or boards of commissioners that may hereafter be
created for such purpose; to extend pipe lines from any spring or
springs or other water supply, either within or without the incor-
porate limits of said city and to any points or places in or about said
city, and to purchase all water rights, rights of way, land, equipment,
material, labor and supplies necessary thereto.
The People of the City of Ashland do Ordain as Follows:
SECTION 1.
That there are hereby authorized to be issued the bonds of the City
of Ashland, Oregon, to the amount of one hundred and seventy-five thou-
sand ($175,000.00) dollars, in denominations of one thousand ($1,000.00)
dollars, numbered consecutively from one to one hundred and seventy-five,
both inclusive, and to be known as "Auxiliary Water Bonds." Said bonds
shall be dated the first day of July, 1914, and shall be signed by the Mayo,
and countersigned by the Recorder, and shall bear interest evidenced by
coupons attached thereto at the rate of five (5) per cent per annum, pay-
able semi-annually, and both principal and interest of said bonds shall be
paid at the City Treasurer's office in the City of Ashland, Oregon.
SECTION 2.
Such auxiliary water bonds shall mature in forty-five years from the
date thereof; provided, that the first twenty-five of such bonds, numbered
from one to twenty-five, both inclusive, shall each be redeemable at the
option of the City of Ashland, upon the payment of the face value thereof
with accrued interest to date of payment at any semi-annual coupon-paying
period, at or after ten years from the date thereof; that the next twenty-
five of said bonds numbered from twenty-six to fifty, both inclusive, shall
each be redeemable at the option of the City of Ashland, upon the payment
of the face value thereof with accrued interest to date of payment at any
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semi-annual coupon-paying period, at or after fifteen years from the date
thereof; that the next twenty-five of said bonds, numbered from fifty-one
to seventy-five, both inclusive, shall each be redeemable at the option of
the City of Ashland, upon the payment of the face value thereof with
accrued interest at the date of payment at any semi-annual coupon-paying
period, at or after twenty years from the date thereof; that the next twenty-
five of said bonds numbered from seventy-six to one hundred, both inclu-
sive, shall each be redeemable at the option of the City of Ashland, upon
the payment of the face value thereof with accrued interest to date of pay-
anent at any semi-annual coupon-paying period, at or after twenty-five
years from the date thereof; that the next twenty-five of said bonds num-
bered from one hundred and one to one hundred and twenty-five, both
inclusive, shall each be redeemable at the option of the City of Ashland,
iipon the payment of the face value thereof, with accrued interest to date
of payment at any semi-annual coupon-paying period, at or after thirty
years; that the next twenty-five of said bonds, numbered from one hundred
and twenty-six to one hundred and fifty, both inclusive, shall each be re-
deemable at the option of the City of Ashland, upon the payment of the
face value thereof, with accrued interest to date of payment at any semi-
annual coupon-paying period, at or after thirty-five years; that the next
twenty-five of said bonds, numbered from one hundred and fifty-one to one
hundred and seventy-five, both inclusive, shall be redeemable at the option
of the City of Ashland upon the payment of the face value thereof with
accrued interest to date of payment at any semi-annual coupon-paying
period at or after forty years and before forty-five years from the date
thereof. And notice stating that certain bonds are to be taken up and
canceled, and that the interest thereon shall cease at the interest-paying
period next following, shall be published in a newspaper printed and pub-
lished and of general circulation in Jackson county, Oregon, not less than
three times during the month preceding said semi-annual coupon-paying
period, and after the said semi-annual coupon-paying period, interest upon
the bonds designated in said notice shall cease.
SECTION 3.
The Common Council shall sell such bonds, or so much thereof as may
1_:e necessary, at the highest price obtainable, but for not less than par and
accrued interest, for the purpose of providing money to construct, build
and install an auxiliary municipal water system to be owned by the city
of Ashland, Oregon, and to be operated by said city or by any board or
boards of commissioners that may hereafter be created for such purpose;
to extend pipe lines from any spring or springs or other water supply,
either within or without the incorporate limits of said city and to any
points or places in or about said city, and to purchase all water rights,
rights of way, land, equipment, material, labor and supplies necessary
thereto.
SECTION 4.
The bonds hereby authorized shall be registered respectively by num-
t,er and denomination of each in the Bond Register kept by the Recorder
of said city, and said bonds shall be in substantially the following form:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
STATE OF OREGON,
CITY OF ASHLAND,
AUXILIARY WATER BONDS.
No. $1,000.00
Know all men by these presents, That the City of Ashland, in the
County of Jackson, State of Oregon, for value received hereby agrees and
promises to pay the bea°er the sum of One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars
in gold coin of the United States of America, on the presentation and sur-
render of this obligation on the 1st day of July, 1959, without grace, with
interest thereon from the date hereof until redeemable at the rate of five
(5) per cent per annum, payable semi-annually, in like gold coin on the
l st day of July and January of each year on the presentation and surren-
der of the proper coupon hereto annexed. Principal and interest payab!r~
at the office of the Treasurer of the City of Ashland, Oregon.
This bond is one of a series of one hundred and seventy-five bearing
even date herewith and numbered consecutively from one to one hundred
and seventy-five, both inclusive, and amounting in the aggregate to the sum
of One Hundred Seventy-five Thousand ($175,000.00) Dollars, issued by
the City of Ashland, Oregon, for the purpose of providing money to con-
struct, build and install an auxiliary water system to be owned by the
City of Ashland, Oregon, and to be operated by said city or by any boar:
or boards of commissioners that may hereafter be created for such pur-
pose; to extend pipe lines from any spring or springs or other water su~i-
ply, either within or without the incorporate limits of said city and to an:-
point or places in or about said city, and to purchase all water rights, rights
of way, land, equipment, material, labor and supplies necessary thereto.
The authority for such issue is derived from Section 3 of Article VII of the
Charter of said city, and is in compliance with the majority vote of the
electors of said city at a special election duly called and held on the 90
Clay of June, 1914.
And it is hereby recited and certified that all the acts, conditions and
things required to be done precedent to and in the issuing of this bond
necessary to make the same legal and valid have been prof erly done, hap-
pened and been performed in regular and in due form and tim as required
by law, and that the total indebtedness of said City of Ashland, including
this issue of bonds, does not exceed the limit prescribed by law.
This bond is redeemable at the office of said Treasurer at the option
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of the City of Ashland, upon the payment of the face value thereof, with
accrued interest to date of payment at any semi-annual coupon-paying
period, as provided in Section 2 of Ordinance 572, special reference being
made thereto and the said section being made a part hereof.
For the fulfillment of the conditions of this obligation the faith and
credit of the City of Ashland are hereby pledged.
In witness whereof, this bond has been signed by the Mayor and
attested by the Recorder of said City of Ashland, and the corporate seal of
the City of Ashland hereto affixed, as of the 1st day of July, 1.914.
Mayor.
Attest:
Recorder of the City of Ashland.
COUPON.
No. $25.00
The City of Ashland will pay to the bearer Twenty-five ($25.00)
Dollars in gold coin of the United States of America, at the office of the
Treasurer of said city, on the 1st day of July-January, 19.., being six
months' interest on Auxiliary Water Bond No. unless said bond is
sooner redeemed as herein provided, which redemption will render this
coupon void.
Mayor.
City Recorder of Ashland.
SECTION 5.
The Mayor and Recorder of the City of Ashland, Oregon, are hereby
authorized and required to snake and execute in behalf of said city, the
Auxiliary Water Bonds specified in this ordinance to the amount of One
Hundred Seventy-five Thousand ($175,000.00) Dollars, and the Recorder
shall advertise such bonds for sale, and the same shall be scld for the
1-11ighest price obtainable, but for not less than par and accrued interest at
five (5) per cent per annum from July 1st, 1914, said advertising to be
published in a newspaper of general circulation in Jackson county. Oregon,
and in such other publication or publications as in the judgment of the City
Recorder will secure the best results, inviting sealed bids for said bonds.
SECTION 6.
This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force from and after
the date of issuance of the proclamation of the Mayor of said city, declar-
ing the result of the special election held thereon as provided by law.
[Here follows 22 pages of names of petitioners, no page containing
more than 20 names, and certified to by persons circulating same as
follows.]
State of Oregon,
County of Jackson.
I, Bert R. Greer, being first duly sworn, depose and say that Julia
R. McQuilkin, John R. Casey, Donald M. Spencer, Russell D. Riley, Gwin
S. Butler, James P. Sayle, George Whelpley and W. J. Moore signed this
sheet of the foregoing petition and each of them signed his name thereto
in my presence. I believe that each has stated his name, residence and
street number correctly and that each signer is a legal voter of the City
of Ashland. BERT R. GREER.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of May, 1914.
G. F. BILLINGS,
[SEAL] Notary Public for Oregon.
State of Oregon,
County of Jackson. ss.
I, Bert R. Greer, being first duly sworn, depose and say that W. H.
McNair, Bert R. Greer, Berley M. Shoudy, T. K. Bolton, Pearl M. John-
son, G. C. Jenkins, Louis J. Orres, Wm. O. Dickerson, Elsie Dickerson,
Ora E. Deibert, W. B. Holmes, H. P. Holmes, Stuart Saunders, Mrs. A.
H. Russell, John R. Wick, Robert P. Neil, H. G. Gilmore, W. H. Day,
Thomas H. Simpson and G. G. Eubanks signed this sheet of the foregoing
r.etition and each of them signed his name thereto in my presence. I
believe that each has stated his name, residence and street number cor-
°-ectly and that each signer is a legal voter of the City of Ashland.
BERT R GREER.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of May, 1914.
G. F. BILLINGS,
[SEAL] Notary Public for Oregon.
State of Oregon, t
county of Jackson,
I, Bert R. Greer, being first duly sworn, depose and say that W. M.
Barber, H. L. Norwood, S. C. Gunters, Emil Peil, C. E. Sams, A. L. Strick-
land, Herbert G. Eastman, Helene S. Casey, William Greenfield, Thos.
E. Hadfield, Mrs. Walter Everton, Floyd Dickey, Simon R. Morris, Mrs.
Alice Applegate Peil, Mrs. Louise Perozzi, D. Perozzi, George H. Ganiere,
Julian P. Johnson, Frank Jordan and W. B. Penniston signed this sheet
of the foregoing petition and each of them signed his name thereto in my
presence. I believe that each has stated his name, residence and street
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number correctly and that each signer is a legal voter of the City of Ash-
land. BERT R. GREER.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of May, 1914.
G. F. BILLINGS,
[S'EALI Notary Public for Oregon.
State of Oregon, ss.
County of Jackson.
I, J. P. Dodge, being first duly sworn, depose and say that John S.
Parson, William H. Smith, Ellen S. Smith, John M. Beaver, Geo. T. Wat-
son, G. W. Mathes, Howard Ewer, W. Newell Wright, Mrs. W. Newell
Wright, S. S. Dories, E. A. Hildreth Jr., Geo. N. Uile, Raleigh C. Goodman,
F. G. Allard, Chas. Van Buskirk, G. A. Culy, C. H. Blaker, John F. Blair,
Roy S. Hale and G. F. Billings signed this sheet of the foregoing petition
and each of them signed his name thereto in my presence. I believe that
each has stated his name, residence and street number corrctly and that
each signer is a legal voter of the City of Ashland.
J. P. DODGE.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of May, 1914.
ETHEL L. DAVENPORT,
[SEAL] Notary Public for Oregon.
State of Oregon, ss.
County of Jackson.
I, J. P. Dodge, being first duly sworn, depose and say that E. T. Mer-
rill, Mary E. Merrill, W. M. Poley, H. Hosler, Julius Hart, G. H. Billings,
Louise W. Conner, W. W. Ussher, Louis Dodge, Will M. Dodge, Chas. I?,
Rose, T. W. Acklin, Delia M. Acklin, N. Maude Halley, L. S. Brown, H.
S. Palmerlee, James R. Croxall, Minnie Lane, B. E. Whitmore and C. L.
Loomis signed this sheet of the foregoing petition and each of them signed
his name thereto in my presence. I believe that each has stated his name,
residence and street number correctly and that each signer is a legal voter
of the City of Ashland. J. P. DODGE.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of May, 1914.
ETHEL L. DAVENPORT,
[SEAL] Notary Public for Oregon.
State of Oregon, ss.
County of Jackson.
I, J. P. Dodge, being first duly sworn, depose and say that Mary S.
Dodge, Elizabeth Galbraith, James Galbraith, Geo. A. Briscoe, Florence
A. Briscoe, Grace Engle, Angie L. Engle, J. B. Saunders, Wm. Alvin
Schwimley, Nora I. Schwimley, J. D. Mars, W. W. Wilson, H. A. Barney,
J. S. Espey, F. H. Walker, Herman Mattern, Henry J. Boyd, Carl E. Hilty,
M. Abbott and W. M. Van Dyke signed this sheet of the foregoing petition
and each of them signed his name thereto in my presence. I believe that
each has stated his name, residence and street number correctly and that
each signer is a legal voter of the City of Ashland.
J. P. DODGE.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of May, 1914.
ETHEL L. DAVENPORT,
[SEAL] Notary Public for Oregon.
State of Oregon, ss.
County of Jackson.
I, Ray A. Minkler, being first duly sworn, depose and say that Mary
E. C. Butler, A. Butler, Ray A. Minkler, Alice E. Stubbs, I. E. Vining,
Chas. P. Christenson, Leslie Ray Phillips, Edna G. Hadley, Lettie Allen,
*'alter Hash, Laura Farmer, Edith G. Rasor, Edwin Thornton, H. E.
Morthland, Carrie R. Minkler, D. L. Minkler, M. S. Van Lear, Geo. W.
Seager, J. H. Cooke and H. O. Frohbach signed this sheet of the foregoing
petition and each of them signed his name thereto in my presence. I
believe that each has stated his name, residence and street number cor-
rectly and that each signer is a legal voter of the City of Ashland.
RAY A. MINKLER.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of May, 1914.
F. S. ENGLE,
[SEAL] Notary Public for Oregon.
State of Oregon, ss.
County of Jackson.
I. J. H. Provost, being first duly sworn, depose and say that J. H.
Provost, P. S. Provost, T. T. Provost, L. A. Provost, E. G. Embree and
William H. Flagg signed this sheet of the foregoing petition and each of
them signed his name thereto in my presence. I believe that each has
stated his name, residence and street number correctly and that each
signer is a legal voter of the city of Ashland. J. H. PROVOST.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of May, 1914.
G. H. BILLINGS,
[SEAL] Notary Public for Oregon.
State of Oregon, ss.
County of Jackson.
I, Clark Bush, being first duly sworn, depose and say that J. W. Mc-
Coy, A. J. McCallen, Clark Bush, E. V. Carter, Mrs. S. F. Mills, H. C.
Amery, J. T. Sayle and J. E. Steele signed this sheet of the foregoing
petition and each of them signed his name thereto in my presence. I
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believe that each has stated his name, residence and street numbr cor-
rectly and that each signer is a legal voter of the City of Ashland.
CLARK BUSH.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of May, 1914.
J. W. McCOY,
[SEAL] Notary Public for Oregon.
State of Oregon, ss.
County of Jackson.
1, Moor C. Edgington, being firts duly sworn, depose and say that
Mrs. Agnes Herndon, Mrs. Nancy J. Smith, Mrs. Geo. M. Kramer, Mrs. John
Ru.ger, Mrs. Etta Lamkin, Mrs. Elizabeth Bush, Winnie A. Embree, Ida
B. Veghte, Mrs. Lere Beach, Mrs. L. A. Mashburn, Miles B. Pinian, H. S.
Evens, Augusta F. Bagley, Mrs. O. H. Johnson, Mary E. Drew, Minnie Sei-
bert, Minda DeWitt, Pauline Settles, Maggie Beagle and Tola Poxiston
:signed this sheet of the foregoing petition and each of them signed his
nan-ie thereto in my presence. I believe that each has stated his name,
residence and street number correctly and that each signer is a legal voter
of the City of Ashland. MOOR C. EDGINGTON.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of May, 1914.
O. L. YOUNG,
[SEAL] Notary Public for Oregon.
State of Oregon, ss.
County of Jackson.
1, Moor C. Edgington, being first duly sworn, depose and say that
G. W. Crews, R. H. Drew, C. W. Chesnut, C. W. Banta, F. G. McWilliams,
Moor C. Edgington, R. P. Edgington, J. W. Abbott, G. W. Benedict, M.
Morgan, F. L. Putman, Mrs. P. H. Hargadine, Mrs. Mary F. Casey, James
L. Gault, Mrs. H. H. Gellett, Mrs. Dora Gault, A. Belle Anderson, F'. D.
Wagner and J. E. Gowland signed this sheet of the foregoing petition and
each of them signed his name thereto in my presence. I believe that each
has stated his name, residence and street number correctly and that each
signer is a legal voter of the City of Ashland.
MOOR C. EDGINGTON,
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of May, 1914.
O. L. YOUNG,
[SEAL] Notary Public for Oregon.
State of Oregon, ss.
County of Jackson.
1, Moor C. Edgington, being first duly sworn, depose and say that
W. R. Yockey, Chas. B. Wolf, Mary L. Whitney, Margaret N. Hamaker,
Earl Roach, W. E. Pierson, Chas. Spindler, Levi N. Stevens, Bessie M.
Harrington, D. D. Norris, A. C. Briggs, Loi ena A. McNair, J. L. Harner,
Mrs. J. L. Harner, Elsie B. Harner, T. T. Reader, J. B. Fellow, Gertrude
Biede, Helene Biede and F. B. Sanger signed this sheet of the foregoing
petition and each of them signed his name thereto in my presence. I
believe that each has stated his name, residence and street number cor-
r-ectly and that each signer is a legal voter of the City of Ashland.
MOOR C. EDGINGTON,
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of May, 1914.
O. L. YOUNG,
[SEAL] Notary Public for Oregon.
State of Oregon,
County of Jackson. ss.
1, Moor C. Edgington, being first duly sworn, depose and say that
W. H. Gowdy, O. L. Young, Clyde R. Dean, D. A. Applegate, C. F. Bates,
D. D. Good, Miss M. Wenner, Mrs. S. E. Cox, Millie Lowe, Mrs. B. R. Greer,
Mrs. Isa Thornton, Elizabeth Wagner, Anna A. Wagner, Bay L. Sherwin,
Eugene A. Sherwin, E. J. Van Sant, L. L. Angle, Jas. Archibald, F. H. C.
1/likelson and Mrs. May Austin signed this sheet of the foregoing petition
and each of them signed his name thereto in my presence. I believe that
each has stated his naive, residence and street number correctly and that
each signer is a legal voter of the City of Ashland.
MOOR C. EDGINGTON.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of May, 1914.
O. L. YOUNG,
[SEAL] Notary Public for Oregon.
County of Jackson. ss. .
State of Oregon,
I, W. W. Ussher, being first duly sworn, depose and say that J. E.
Weaver, W. C. Sanderson, C. F. Shepherd, H. V. Richardson, E. N. Butler,
F. F. Whittle. A. E. Kinney, W. B. Beebe, E. T. Staples, G. W. Stephen-
son, G. O. Jarvis, W. A. Freeburg, W. E. Newcombe, H. W. Barron, W. E.
Blake, Lydia McCall, F. Roy Davis, G. M. Grainger, A. L. Irwin and John
M. Miller signed this sheet of the foregoing petition and each of them
signed his name thereto in my presence. I believe that each has stated
his name, residence and street number correctly and that each signer is a
legal voter of the City of Ashland. W. W. USSHER.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of May, 1914.
G. H. BILLINGS,
[SEAL] Notary Public for Oregon.
State of Oregon, ss
County of Jackson.
1, W. W. Ussher, being first duly sworn, depose and say that Charles
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F. Harrington, J. A. Kohagen, Mrs. F. F. Whittle, W. C. Mitchell, H. L.
Whited, Henry J. Carter, Mrs. I. Jenkins, Mrs. T. W. Sanford, R. R. Had-
field, S. B. McNair, Anna E. Hargrove, Mattie Woodward, A. H. Pracht,
Mrs. E. J. Sexsmith, Frank J. Shinn, J. M. Wagner, Clyde Costolo, G. B.
Skeen, C. B. Watson and W. H. Mowat signed this sheet of the foregoing
petition and each of them signed his name thereto in my presence. I
believe that each has stated his name, residence and street number cor-
rectly and that each signer is a legal voter of the City of Ashland.
W. W. USSHER,
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of May, 1914.
G. H. BILLINGS,
[SEAL] Notary Public for Oregon.
State of Oregon, ss.
County of Jackson.
1, C. H. Vaupel, being first duly sworn, depose and say that N. G.
Bates, C. H. Chaney, Nels Thompson, T. M. Lynch, A. C. Nininger, O. J.
Stone, N. B. Emery, Lula Johnson, H. O. Butterfield, A. L. Lamb, C. H.
Vaupel, E. L. Swinson, G. M. Lowe, Chas. Robertson, F. L. Camps, J. G.
Hurt, E. J. Sexsmith, Wm. Sowerby, J. K. Reader and J. L. Barnthouse
signed this sheet of the foregoing petition and each of them signed his
name thereto in my presence. I believe that each has stated his name,
residence and street number correctly and that each signer is a legal voter
cf the City of Ashland. C. H. VAUPEL.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of May, 1914.
J. W. McCOY,
[SEAL] Notary Public for Oregon.
State of Oregon, ss.
County of Jackson.
I, C. L. Cunningham, being first duly sworln, depose and say that
H. McGee, S. F. Songer, Robert Casey, J. N. Dennis, F. G. Swedenburg,
C. D. Wood, J. A. Lemery, H. P. Wilcox, C. E. Lane, F. W. Moore, Edith
N. Moore, Bessie Wilcox, Mary U. Wood, R. E. Barney, Mrs. H. A. Bar-
ney, Mrs. F. G. Swedenburg, Mrs. Mabel Cunningham, Mrs. Effie P. Brown,
Mrs. Lettie M. Trask and C. L. Cunningham signed this sheet of the fore-
going petition and each of them signed his name thereto in my presence.
I believe that each has stated his name, residence and street number cor-
rectly and that each signer is a legal voter of the City of Ashland.
C. L. CUNNINGHAM.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of May, 1914.
F. S. ENGLE,
[SEAL] Notary Public for Oregon.
State of Oregon, ss.
County of Jackson.
I, B. E. Whitmore, being first duly sworn. depose and say that Thomas
W. Hudson, C. Ganiere, Amy Ramsay, Celia F. Wright, Ezra Finley, Alice
Finley, Melissa C. Ashcraft, Alfred H. Tracy, Virginia C. Shaw, Anna E.
Tracy, Fred B. Tracy, Villa A. Seager, Lorena E. Choate, Josephine F.
Whitmore, Emily B. Farrar, G. W. Pellett, J. H. Farrar, Bertha Barnhill,
O. H. Barnhill and Matilda J. Barnhill signed this sheet of the foregoing
petition and each of them signed his name thereto in my presence. I
believe that each has stated his name, residence and street number cor-
rectly and that each signer is a legal voter of the City of Ashland.
B. E. WHITMORE.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of May, 1914.
G. F. BILLINGS,
[SEAL] Notary Public for Oregon.
State of Oregon,
County of Jackson. 1 ss.
I:. C. L. Loomis, being first duly sworn, depose and say that J. P.
Dodge, Harry Van Dyke, Nellie L. Loomis, Ina H. Dodge, Ella S. Merrill,
Frank R. Merrill, P. Fowles, Felix E. Moore, Mrs. S. T. Gregg, J. M. Dens-
more, E. N. Smith, Jas. C. Beagle, G. H. Milam, Nellie Morton, Wm. Nel-
son, O. F. Carson, Blanche E. Hicks, Florence T. Gordon, :firs. W. E. Da-
huff and Mrs. Ruth L. Parish signed this sheet of the foregoing petition
and each of them signed his name thereto in my presence. I believe that
each has stated his name, residence and street number correctly and that
each signer is a legal voter of the City of Ashland. C. L. LOOMIS.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of May, 1914.
ETHEL L. DAVENPORT,
[SEAL] Notary Public for Oregon.
State of Oregon,
County of Jackson. (ss.
I, V. O. N. Smith, being first duly sworn, depose and say that V. O.
N. Smith, F. S. Engle, Ethel L. Davenport, A. M. Peeves, S. Penniston,
G. W. Gregg, O. A. Pohland, H. F. Pohland, Ruth Van Dyke, D. S. Powell,
W. E. Moor, J. O. Rigg, J. N. Nisbet, J. S. Jordan, H. R. Lamkin, F. E.
Walters, Fredericka Mattern, J. C. Baughman, Lottie L. Pelton and Hattie
J. Smith signed this sheet of the foregoing petition and each of them
signed his name thereto in my presence. I believe that each has stated
his name, residence and street number correctly and that each signer is
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a legal voter of the City of Ashland. V. O. N. SMITH.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of May, 1914.
ETHEL L. DAVENPORT,
[SEAL] Notary Public for Oregon.
State of Oregon, ; ss.
County of Jackson.
I, David M. Brower, being first duly qualified by affirmation, depose
and say that David M. Brower, Delia Brower, Nellie Brittson, Joshua
Young, Artesia C. Owen, Sadie J. Irwin, Charles Stennett, Tabitha S. Sten-
nett, Manly M. Brower, Bertha D- Brower, L. J. Trefren, George H. Yeo,
V. E. Johnson, Fred E. Rosecrans, Wm. E. Kelsey, Maud Rocho, J. F.
Rocho, Abraham S. Moyer, John H. Baron and F. H. Hall signed this sheet
of the foregoing petition and each of them signed his name thereto in my
presence. I believe that each has stated his name, residence and street
number correctly and that each signer is a legal voter of the City of Ash-
land. DAVID M. BROWER.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of May, 1914.
L. J. TREFREN,
[SEAL] Notary Public for Oregon.
State of Oregon,
County of Jackson. ~ ss.
I, Jas. E. Martin, being first duly sworn, depose and say that Geo.
M. Roberson, F. F. Rogers, H. G. Butterfield, D. T. McKercher, Chas. C.
Crouch, M. J. V. Taverner, M. E. Taverner, Mrs. Lydia Lamb, Mrs. E. P.
Hughes, Augusta C. Pohland, Jas. E. Martin, Jas. F'ewel, John E. Martin,
F. M. Decker, Geo. Taverner, J. E. Crowson, Mrs. J. E. Crowson, Mrs.
Lucy W. Wilson, Jessie E. Dodge and R. M. Shepherd signed this sheet of
the foregoing petition and each of them signed his name thereto in my
presence. I believe that each has stated his name, residence and street
number correctly and that each signer is a legal voter of the City of Ash-
land. J. E. XILARTIN.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 22nd day of May, 1914.
L. J. TREFREN,
[SEAL] Notary Public for Oregon.
Recorder's Office,
Ashland, Oregon, May 22, 1914.
This is to certify that I, C. H. Gillette, the duly elected, qualified and
acting Recorder of the City of Ashland, County of Jackson, State of Ore-
gon, have examined the foregoing petitions and have verified each and
every name thereon, that 1 find thereon legal registered voters of the
City of Ashland aforesaid in the number of 373, and other names to the
number of 2 9, some of whom I know to be legal voters of said city. 1
further certify that there is a sufficient number of legal voters to justify
action by the City Council of said city in acting thereon. Given under
my hand and the official seal of the City of Ashland this 22nd day of
May, A. D. 1914. C. H. GILLETTE, Recorder.
Mr. Ware offered the following resolution:
"A resolution providing for a special election of the qualified electors
of the City of Ashland, Oregon, to be held on the 9th day of June, 1914.
"Whereas, Under authority granted to the City Council by and
under Section C. of Ordinance 357, which was duly approved on the 18th
day of August, 1908, authorizing the Council of the City of Ashland to
call special elections, and
"Whereas, There is filed with the City Recorder a petition praying
that an ordinance providing for the issuance of Auxiliary Water Bonds
of the City of Ashland, Oregon, in the sum of $175,000.00 for the purpose
of raising money to be expended in the manner and for the purposes in
said ordinance set out, be submitted to the electors of said city for
approval or rejection, as in said petition prayed in manner and form as
follows, to-wit:
[Here read Ordinance appearing on pages 1, 2 and 3 of this trans-
cript. ]
Now, therefore, it is resolved that a special election of the qualified
electors of the City of Ashland is hereby called and appointed to be held
on Tuesday, the 9th day of June, 1914, for the purpose of voting upon the
foregoing ordinance and for their approval or rejection.
The following are designated as the voting places of each of the wards
of the said city for said special election:
FIRST WARD-Voting place, Fourth street fire station building.
SECOND WARD-Voting place, McCarthy Hall, corner Granite and
Main streets.
THIRD WARD-Voting place, City Hall.
And the following named persons are hereby appointed judges of
election:
FIRST WARD-Judges, G. W. Benedict, Manly Brower, W. S. Sten-
nett.
SECOND WARD-Judges, Ira Shoudy, Guy C. Prescott, O. C. Tiffany.
THIRD WARD-Judges, W. H. Gowdy, E. J. Arant, Blanche Hicks.
The two judges last named in each of said wards shall also act as
clerks of election.
The polls shall be open from 9 o'clock in the forenoon until 6 o'clock
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in the afternoon and said election will be conducted in accordance with
City Ordinance No. 357, and Article 4 of the Charter of said city, and the
General Laws of Oregon as far as practicable.
The City Recorder is hereby directed to give notice of such special
election and to appoint all judges of election by publication in a newspaper
published in the City of Ashland and of the proposed ordinance to be
voted upon and by posting such notices in each of the wards of said city
at least ten days prior to said election, as required by laws and ordinances
governing in the premises.
Whereas, in consequence of the limited time allowed in which to make
such publication of said proposed ordinance and the necessity of supplying
the inhabitants of the City of Ashland with a medicinal water at the earli-
est time possible, it is the judgment of the Common Council that an emer-
gency exists and that it is necessary for the public safety, peace and health
of the people of the City of Ashland that this resolution shall become im-
mediately operative, after its adoption by the Council and approval by the
Mayor.
Mr. Ware moved that the rules be suspended and the resolution
adopted. Roll call: Ayes, Cunningham, Ashcraft, Werth, Beaver, Ware
and Cornelius. Against, none. Thereupon, the Mayor declared the reso-
lution adopted.
To all of which I hereby certify.
C. H. GILLETTE, City Recorder.
I hereby approve the foregoing resolution this 23rd day of May, 1914.
O. H. JOHNSON, Mayor of Ashland.
NOTICE OF SPECIAL CITY ELECTION.
Recorder's Office,
Ashland, Oregon, May 25, 1914.
Notice is hereby given that on the 22nd day of May, 1914, an Initia-
tive Petition was regularly filed with the City Recorder of Ashland, Ore-
gon, demanding that there be submitted to the legal voters of said city,
for their approval or rejection, the hereinbelow proposed ordinance, and
the Recorder has duly verified the number and genuineness of the signa-
tures to said petition and found the same to be in proper form and to con-
tain more than 15 per cent of the votes cast for Mayor at the city election
held December 17, 1912. Said petition was duly presented to the Common
Council of the City of Ashland, Oregon, at a regular adjourned meeting,
held on the 22nd day of May, 1914, and there was then duly passed a
resolution in pursuance of said Initiative Petition and call and in pursu-
ance of the ordinances of the City of Ashland and the General Laws of the
State of Oregon, whereby said City Council did by unanimous vote, with
the approval of the Mayor, call a special election to be held on the 9th
day of June, 1914, for the purpose of submitting to the legal voters of
the City of Ashland, Oregon, for their approval or rejection on the 9th
day of June, 1914, the hereby proposed ordinance.
And notice is hereby given in pursuance of the foregoing premises
that a special election will be held for the purpose of submitting to the
legal voters of the City of Ashland for their approval or rejection, on the
9th day of June, 1914, the following proposed ordinance:
[Here read Ordinance appearing on pages 1, 2 and 3 of this trans-
cript. ]
The ballot title and number of such measure will be as follows:
PROPOSED BY INITIATIVE PETITION.
An ordinance providing for the issuance of Auxiliary Water Bonds of
the City of Ashland, Oregon, in the sum of One Hundred and Seventy-five
Thousand ($175,000.00) Dollars, for the purpose of constructing, building
and installing an auxiliary municipal water system, to be owned and oper-
ated by the City of Ashland, Oregon, or by any board or boards that may
hereafter be created for such purpose.
VOTE YES OR NO.
100 Yes.
101 No.
For the said special city election of June 9, 1914, for the submission to
the legal voters of the City of Ashland, Oregon, of the foregoing ordinance,
the following voting places and judges of election have been appointed by
the Common Council of said city:
FIRST WARD-Voting place, Fourth street fire station building.
FIRST WARD-Judges, G. W. Benedict, Manly Brower, W. S. Sten-
nett.
SECOND WARD-Voting place, McCarthy Hall, corner Granite and
plain streets.
` SECOND WARDJudges, Ira Shoudy, Guy C. Prescott, O. C. Tiffany.
THIRD WARD-Voting place, City Hall.
THIRD WARD-Judges, W. H. Gowdy, E. J. Arant, Blanche Hicks.
The two judges last named in each ward shall also act as clerks of
election.
The polls will be open from 9 o'clock in the forenoon until 6 o'clock
in the afternoon. C. H. GILLETTE, City Recorder.
State or Oregon, ss.
County of Jackson.
I, Chas. F. Greer, being first duly sworn, say that I am the manager
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of the Ashland Tidings; that said Ashland Tidings is a semi-weekly news-
paper, published and issued semi-weekly and regularly at Ashland, in
Jackson County, State of Oregon, and is of general circulation in said
county and state.
That the notice of election, which the one above attached is a true
and correct copy, was published in said paper once a week for three weeks,
being published three times; tbP first on the 25th day of May, 1914, and
the last on the 8th day of June, 1914.
That said notice was published in the regular and entire issue of
every number of said paper during the said period and times of publica-
tion, and that the said notice was published in the newspaper proper and
not in a supplement. CHAS. F. GREER.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9th day of June, 1914.
G. F. BILLINGS,
Notary Public for Oregon.
In the matter of an ordinance for the purpose of creating a fund of $175,-
000.00 to build, construct, install and operate an Auxiliary Water
System.
State of Oregon,
County of Jackson, ~ ss'
I, C. H. Gillette, being first duly sworn, depose and say that I am
and at all times herein mentioned have been the duly elected, qualified
and acting recorder of the City of Ashland, Oregon; that ten days imme-
diately preceding the election held on the 9th day of June, 1914, in the
above entitled matter I posted an election notice, a copy of which is hereto
attached, on the bulletin board at the city hall; another copy of said notice
I posted on the front of the Fourth street fire station, and a third copy
1 posted at the entrance of the McCarthy building on Granite street, each
of which notices were posted in public places at the designated voting
places in the City of Ashland, Oregon, and were so posted tnat all passers-
by could read the same.
[Notices here referred to being a copy of "Notice of Special Election"
appearing on page 8 and copy of ordinance appearing on pages 1, 2 and
3 of this transcript.]
1 also caused to be distributed eight days immediately preceding said
election, two thousand copies of said notice to the voters of said city, which
notices were so distributed as to give the greatest publicity to each and
every voter of said city of said election. C. H. GILLETTE.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 10th day of June, 1914.
W. J. MOORE,
[SEAL] Notary Public for Oregon.
Talley sheet of the Special City Election held in the First Ward of
the City of Ashland, Oregon, on the 9th day of June, 1914, containing the
number and answer of each measure voted on, the ballot title of each
measure voted on and the total number of votes cast for and against each
measure.
An ordinance providing for the issuance of auxiliary water bonds of
the City of Ashland, Oregon, in the sum of One Hundred and Seventy-Five
Thousand ($175,000.00) Dollars, for the purpose of constructing, build-
ing and installing an auxiliary municipal water system to be owned by the
City of Ashland, Oregon, and to be operated by said city or by any board
or boards of commissioners that may hereafter be created for such pur-
pose; to extend pipe lines from any spring or springs or other water sup-
ply, either within or without the incorporate limits of said city and to
any points or places in or about said city, and to purchase all water
rights, rights of way, land, equipment, material, labor and supplies neces-
sary thereto.
No. Total Vote Received.
100 YES 372
101 NO 109
State of Oregon,
County of Jackson, ss.
City of Ashland.
We hereby certify that at the foregoing election and polling place,
each of the answers received the number of votes set opposite thereto, as
above specified.
G. W. BENEDICT, Chairman.
MANLY M. BROWER, Judge and Clerk.
WILL STENNETT, Judge and Clerk.
Tally sheet of the Special City Election held in the Second Ward of
the City of Ashland, Oregon, on the 9th day of June, 1914, containing the
number and answer of each measure voted on, the ballot title of each
measure voted on and the total number of votes cast for and against each
measure.
[Here reads same ballot title as in First Ward.]
No. Total Vote Received.
100 YES 382
101 NO 65
State of Oregon,
County of Jackson, ` ss.
City of Ashland.
We hereby certify that at the foregoing election and polling place,
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each of the answers received the number of votes set opposite thereto, as
above specified.
IRA SHOUDY, Chairman.
G. C. PRESCOTT, Judge and Clerk.
O. C. TIFFANY, Judge and Clerk.
Tally sheet of the Special City Election held in the Third Ward of
the City of Ashland, Oregon, on the 9th day of June, 1914, containing the
number and answer of each measure voted on, the ballot title of each
measure voted on and the total number of votes cast for and against each
measure.
[Here reads same ballot title as in First Ward.]
No. Total Vote Received.
100 YES 452
101 NO 134
State of Oregon,
County of Jackson, ss.
City of Ashland.
We hereby certify that at the foregoing election and polling place,
each of the answers received the number of votes set opposite thereto, as
above specified.
W. H. GOWDY, Chai/man.
E. J. GRANT, Judge and Clerk.
BLANCHE E. HICKS, Judge and Clerk.
Recorder's Office,
City of Ashland, sc.
County of Jaclison,
State of Oregon.
I, C. H. Gillette, the duly elected, qualified and acting Recorder of
the City of Ashland, Oregon, hereby certify that on the 10th day of June,
A. D. 1914, I duly canvassed the votes cast for and against an ordinance
proposed by initiative petition at a special election of the legal electors
of said city held on the 9th day of June, A. D. 1914, the ballot title of such
proposed ordinance being as follows:
"PROPOSED BY INITIATIVE PETITION.
"An ordinance providing for the issuance of auxiliary water bonds of
the City of Ashland, Oregon, in the sum of One Hundred Seventy-Five
Thousand ($175,000.00) Dollars for the purpose of constructing, building
and installing an auxiliary municipal water system to be owned by the
City of Ashland, Oregon, and to be operated by said city or by any board
or boards of commissioners that may hereafter be created for such pur-
r•ose; to extend pipe lines from any spring or springs or other water sup-
ply, either within or without the incorporate limits of said city and to any
points or places in or about said city, and to purchase all water rights,
rights of way, land, equipment, material, labor and supplies necessary
thereto.
That such canvass was made in the presence of all members of the
Council, Chairman Cunningham presiding (in the absence of the Mayor),
of said City of Ashland, Oregon, and that I found the votes cast for and
against said ordinance proposed by initiative petition, to be as set forth
on the sheet following and attached hereto; that said canvass of returns
of said special election was duly made in compliance with the general laws
of the State of Oregon. Charter and ordinances of the City of Ashland,
as in such case made and provided.
[SEAL] C. H. GILLETTE, Recorder.
ABSTRACT OF THE VOTES CAST AT A SPECIAL ELECTION HELD IN
THE, CITY OF ASHLAND, OREGON, ON THE 9TH DAY OF JUNE,
1914, IN THE THREE WARDS OF THE CITY OF ASHLAND ON A
PROPOSED ORDINANCE BY THE INITIATIVE PETITION OF
WHICH THE BALLOT TITLE WAS AS HEREIN SET FORTH:
"BALLOT TITLE
"PROPOSED BY INITIATIVE PETITION.
"An ordinance providing for the issuance of auxiliary water bonds of
the City of Ashland, Oregon, in the sum of One Hundred Seventy-Five
Thousand ($175,000.00) Dollars for the purpose of constructing, building
and installing an auxiliary municipal water system to be owned by the
City of Ashland, Oregon, and to be operated by said city or by any board
cr boards of commissioners that may hereafter be created for such pur
nose; to extend pipe lines from any spring or springs or other water sup-
ply, either within or without the incorporate limits of said city and to
any points or places in or about said city, and to purchase all water rights,
rights of way, land, equipment, material, labor and supplies necessary
thereto."
First Ward. Second Ward. Third Ward. Total Vote.
100 YES 372 382 452 1206
101 NO 109 65 134 308
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true abstract of the votes cast
at the special city election held on the 9th day of June, 1914, in the City
of Ashland, Oregon, for and against the measure voted on thereat and of
which the ballot title was as above set forth.
[SEAL] C. H. GILLETTE, Recorder.
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Ashland, Oregon, June 10, 1914.
Meeting called to order by Chairman Cunningham in absence of the
Mayor. Roll call. Present, Councilmen Cunningham, Asheraft, Werth,
Beaver, Ware and Cornelius.
The Council next proceeded to a canvass of the returns of the special
city election held on the 9th day of June, 1914, in accordance with the
law and ordinance in such case made and provided, as follows:
Whereas, A special city election was held in the City of Ashland on
the 9th day of June, 1914, at which was submitted to the qualified electors
of the said City of Ashland, for their approval or rejection in accordance
with the law in such case made and provided, a proposed ordinance of the
City of Ashland, Oregon.
The ballot title of which proposed ordinance was in words and figures
as follows, to-wit:
PROPOSED BY INITIATIVE PETITION.
ORDINANCE NO. 572.
"An ordinance providing for the issuance of Auxiliary Water Bonds
of the City of Ashland, Oregon, in the sum of one hundred and seventy-
five thousand ($175,000.00) dollars for the purpose of constructing, build-
ing an installing an auxiliary municipal water system to be owned by the
City of Ashland, Oregon, and to be operated by said city or by any board
or boards of commissioners that may hereafter be created for such pur-
pose; to extend pipe lines from any spring or springs or other water sup-
ply, either within or without the corporate limits of said city and to any
points or places in or about said city, and to purchase all water rights,
rights of way, land, equipment, material, labor and supplies necessary
thereto."
Now, therefore, at this time, to-wit, June 10, 1914, the returns of
said election having been all received by the City Recorder of said City of
Ashland within the time and in the manner provided by law, and the con-
ditions precedent provided by law to a canvass having been all complied
with, in the presence of Mr. Cunningham, chairman of the Council, pre-
siding in the absence of the Mayor and of all the members of the Common
Council, did the said Recorder proceed to make a canvass of the votes cast
for and against said proposed measure at the said special election, the
result of which canvass, after having been duly made, was ascertained to
be as follows:
In favor of said proposed ordinance proposed b yan initiative petition:
First Ward 372 votes
Second Ward 382 votes
Third `'yard 452 votes
Against said proposed ordinance proposed by initiative petition:
First Ward 109 votes
Second Ward 65 votes
Third Ward 134 votes
Whole number of votes cast in favor of said proposed ordinance pro-
posed by initiative petition, 1,206.
Whole number of votes cast against said proposed ordinance proposed
by initiative petition, 308.
Majority rotes cast in favor of said proposed ordinance proposed by
initiative petition was 898.
After the ascertainment of the result of said election as above set
forth by the canvass thereof made by the City Recorder in the presence
of the Common Council, Chairman Cunningham presiding, a canvass of
said returns was then made by the Common Council sitting as canvassing
',oard, and after a due and regular canvass thereof the said Common
Council determined the result of such canvass to be the same as that here-
inabove shown by the Recorder's canvass.
A PROCLAMATION BY THE MAYOR OF ASHLAND, OREGON.
Whereas, in conformity to the law in such cases made and provided,
a special election of the qualified electors of the City of Ashland, Oregon,
was held on the 9th day of June, 1914, at which was submitted to said
electors, for their approval or rejection, the following proposed ordinance:
ORDINANCE NO. 572.
[Here read Ordinance appearing on pages 1, 2 and 3 of this trans-
cript. ]
And whereas, a canvass of the returns of said special election was had
on the 10th day of June, 1914, in the manner provided by law, and the
result thereof ascertained to be as follows:
In favor of said proposed Ordinance No. 572 to be determined by said
canvass as herein recited, to-wit: Whole number of votes cast for and
against said proposed Ordinance No. 572 by the people at said special elec-
tion was 1,514, the whole number of votes cast in favor of said ordinance
was 1,206, the whole number of votes cast against said ordinance 308,
defective ballots none.
Now, therefore, I, O. H. Johnson, Mayor of the City of Ashland, Ore-
;on, hereby declare the results of said special election to be determined
by said canvass as above recited, and I further declare the said proposed
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Ordinance No. 572 as approved by a majority of those voting thereon to
be in full force and effect from and after the date hereof.
Dated at Ashland, Oregon, this 11th day of June, A. D. 1914.
O. H. JOHNSON,
Mayor of Ashland, Oregon.
Attest: C. H. GILLETTE, Recorder.
State of Oregon, ss.
County of Jackson.
I, Chas. F. Greer, being first duly sworn, say that I am the manager
of the Ashland Tidings; that said Ashland Tidings is a semi-weekly news-
paper, published and issued semi-weekly and regularly at Ashland, in Jack-
son County, State of Oregon, and is of general circulation in said county
and state.
That the mayoral proclamation, of which the one above attached is
a true and correct copy, was published in said paper for one issue, being
published one time, on the 15th day of June, 1914.
That said notice was published in the regular and entire issue of
every number of said paper during the said period and times of publica-
tion, and that the said notice was published in the newspaper proper and
riot in a supplement. CHAS. F. GREER.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 16th day of June, 1914.
G. H. BILLINGS,
Notary Public for Oregon.
State of Oregon, ss
county of Jackson.
I, Charles F. Greer, being first duly sworn, say that I am the man-
ager of the Ashland Tidings; that said Ashland Tidings is a semi-weekly
newspaper, published and issued semi-weekly and regularly at Ashland,
in Jackson county, state of Oregon, and is of general circulation in said
county and state.
That the notice of which the one hereto attached is a true and correct
copy, viz:
"NOTICE OF SALE OF AUXILIARY WATER BONDS.
"Recorder's Office,
"Ashland, Oregon, June 22, 1914.
"Sealed proposals will be received by the undersigned up to 6 o'clock
in the afternoon of the 21st day of July, 1914 (and not later), and the
same will be opened and considered by the Common Council of the City
of Ashland, Oregon, on the same day and date at 8:30 o'clock in the even-
ing of said 21st -day of July, 1914, for the purchase of the following bonds
of the City of Ashland, issued in accordance with an ordinance proposed
by an initiative petition and voted on by the people of said city on the
9th day of June, 1914, in accordance with the general laws of the State
of Oregon and the Charter and ordinances of the City of Ashland as in
such cases made and provided, to-wit:
"One hundred and seventy-five bonds dated July 1st, 1914, bearing
interest at the rate of 5% per annum, interest payable semi-annually at
the office of the Treasurer of said city, numbered one to one hundred and
seventy-five, both inclusive, said bonds to be of the denomination of one
thousand dollars each, and mature in forty-five years from date thereof.
"The first 25 of said bonds will be optional and payable from and
after ten (10) years from date thereof, and 25 of said bonds will (in
consecutive order) become optional and payable each five years thereafter
up to and including the 35th year.
"These bonds will be sold to the highest and best bidder for not less
than par and accrued interest from date of issue to date of delivery of
such bonds.
"Bids must be accompanied by a certified check for an amount equal
to 2% of the face value of the bonds bid for, payable to the City of Ash-
land, Oregon, which, in case the successful bidder fails, neglects or refuses
to take and pay for said bonds as proposed in bid, shall be forfeited to
said city as liquidated damages for such refusal or failure.
"Bids may be submitted for any or all of said issue, the numbers of
bonds bid for being specified in the bid. The Council reserves the right
to reject any or all bids. All bids must be addressed to `City Recorder,
Ashland, Oregon,' marked `Proposals for purchase of Auxiliary Water
Bonds.' C. H. GILLETTE, Recorder."
was published in said paper twice a week for two weeks, being published
two times; the first on the 22nd day of June, 1914, and the last on the
29th day of June, 1914.
That said notice was published in the regular and entire issue of
every number of said paper during the said period and times of publication,
and that the said notice was published in the newspaper proper and not
in a supplement. CHAS. F. GREER.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 30th day of June, 1914.
G. F. BILLINGS,
[SEAL] Notary Public for Oregon.
State of Oregon, ss.
County of Jackson,
I, C. H. Gillette, the duly elected, qualified and acting City Recorder
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of the City of Ashland, Oregon, do hereby certify that the total number
of votes cast for Mayor at the last preceding general election held on the
17th day of December, 1912, was 1,798.
Recorder.
State of Oregon, ss
County of Jackson.
I, C. H. Gillette, the duly elected, qualified and acting Recorder of
the City of Ashland, Oregon, do hereby certify that the following named
persons are the duly elected, qualified and acting officers of the City of
Ashland, Oregon, whose term of office continues from the 1st day of
January, 1913, to the 1st day of January, 191.5, viz: O. H. Johnson,
Mayor; A. M. Beaver, Councilman, Third Ward; Louis Werth, Council-
man, First Ward; P. L. Ashcraft, Councilman, Second Ward, and C. H.
Gillette, Recorder; and the following named persons, whose term of office
continues from the 1st day of January, 1914, to the 1st day of January,
1916, viz: R. P. Cornelius, Councilman, First Ward; J. B. Ware, Council-
man, Third Ward, and C. Cunningham, Councilman, Second Ward.
Recorder of the City of Ashland, Oregon.
CITATIONS-AUTHORITY.
AN ACT
To amend an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled `An Act to
incorporate the City of Ashland, Oregon, and define the power thereof,'
filed in the office of the Secretary of State February 21, 1889, and
the Acts approved February 25, 1895, amending the same," filed in
the office of the Secretary of State October 14, 1898.
Be it enacted by the people of the State of Oregon; and
Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon:
Section 1. The act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled `An act
to incorporate the City of Ashland, Oregon, and define the power thereof,'
filed in the office of the Secretary of State February 21, 1889, and the
acts approved February 25, 1895, amending the same," be and the same
ore hereby amended so as to read as follows:
ARTICLE 1.
Section 1. Section 1 of Article 1 shall be and the same is hereby
amended to read as follows:
Section 1. All that district embraced within the boundary lines de-
scribed as follows, to-wit: Beginning at the corner common to sections
J. 10, 15 and 16 in township 39 south, range 1 east of the Willamette Me-
ridian in Jackson County, Oregon, thence south twenty chains; thence west
one hundred and twenty chains; thence north seventy chains; thence west
'fifteen chains; thence north to the southerly boundary line of the Oregon
and California Railroad right of way; thence southerly along the said south
houndary line to a point where said line intersects a line drawn east and
west twenty chains south of the no: th line of section 5, in said township
and range; thence east to the east line of section 4, and thence south on
said east line of sections 4 and 9 to the place of beginning, shall be and
the same is hereby constituted the City of Ashland, and the present and
future residents of said district shall be and are hereby constituted a mu-
nicipal corporation, by the name of "The City of Ashland," and by that
name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, prosecute and defend
in all courts of justice, and in all actions, suits or proceedings whatsoever;
may have and use a common seal and may alter the same at pleasure, may
purchase, or acquire by the exercise of eminent domain, lease, hold, or
receive property, real and personal, within and beyond the limits of the
city, for the construction and maintenance of water-ixorks to supply the
city with water, and for the construction of gasworks and 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 the said city for public 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 benefit of the city; provided, that any and all waterworks and water
rights now owned, or which may hereafter be acquired by the said city,
or any property now owned, or which may hereafter be acquired by said
city for the purpose of supplying the inhabitants thereof with water, shall
never be rented, leased, sold or otherwise disposed of; nor shall said city
ever grant any franchise to any person or corporation for the purpose of
supplying the inhabitants of said city with water, but the right to furnish
the inhabitants thereof with water, shall forever be vested in the City of
Ashland, with the full power and authority to condemn, purchase, appro-
priate and own the waters of any stream, or spring, for the purpose of
Supplying the water system, and to do any and all things necessary, proper
or convenient ir. the premises to give the most efficient and effectual water
service to the said city without in any way impairing its right to any exist-
ing water, waterpower, or water right now owned by it, or which may
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hereafter be owned by the said city; and may make any and all arrange-
rnents and ordinances deemed by the City Council of said City of Ashland
pertinent and proper for the preservation and security of such water, and
the effectiveness of such water systems; provided, the uses and appropria-
tions heretofore made to and by said city, and the water rights heretofore
purchased by said city, shall be and the same are hereby vested in said
municipality, with the right to exact and collect compensation of the users
of water from such water system; PROVIDED FURTHER, THAT ALL
REVENUES ARISING FROM THE SALE OF WATER, WATERPOWER
OR THE COLLECTION OF WATER RENTS SHALL BE SET APART AS
A FUND FROM WHICH TO PAY--FIRST, ALL NEEDFUL EXPENSES
TN REPAIRING, RENEWING AND EXTENDING SAID WATER SYSTEM
AS NECESSITY THEREFOR SHALL ARISE, AND FOR THE PAY-
MENT OF THE INTEREST ON THE WATER BONDS OF THE
CITY OF ASHLAND AS THE SAME SHALL ACCRUE; AND,
SECOND, OF THE RESIDUE OF SUCH WATER RENTS AND REV-
ENUES A SINKING FUND SHALL BE CREATED TO BE KEPT INVIO-
LATE AND TO BE APPLIED IN THE DISCHARGE OF THE WATER
BONDS OF SAID CITY WHEN THE SAME SHALL BECOME DUE, AND
SAID FUNDS SHALL BE USED FOR NO OTHER PURPOSE. The City
Council shall, at its first regular meeting after the adoption of this pro-
vision, enact suitable ordinances for the purpose of carrying the same into
effect. The said City of Ashland shall have all the general powers pos-
sessed by municipal 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 in all the
authority thereof shall have perpetual succession.
Section 3 (9). Inasmuch as there is urgent need for the correction
of the present law, this act shall take effect and be in force from and after
its approval by the Governor.
Passed the Senate January 19, 1903.
Passed the House January 27, 1903.
Approved January 30, 1903.
Filed in the office of the Secretary of State January 31, 1903.
ARTICLE VII.
Charter of the City of Ashland, Oregon, Adopted by Vote of the People
on October 26, 1.908.
Section 2. The Common Council by a two-thirds vote of the Council
at any regular or adjourned meeting, shall have the power within the lim-
its of the City of Ashland to annually ordain and levy taxes on the taxable
property of the city made taxable by law for county and state purposes,
riot to exceed fifteen mills on the dollar on the assessed valuation in any
year for the expenses of the city; and also in such further amount as may
be necessary for payment of interest or principal on any bonded intedbted-
ness now existing or hereafter to exist against the city *
Section 3. * * * * And shall issue bonds of the city for other
purposes when duly voted and required by a majority vote of the electors
of said city.
City Ordinance No. 357.
An ordinance to amend City Ordinance No. 312, entitled "An ordinance to
provide for carrying into effect in the City of Ashland, Oregon, the
Initiative and Referendum powers reserved to the legal voters of
municipalities by Section 1 of Article 4 of the Constitution of the State
of Oregon, and to enact and amend their municipal charters reserved
to the legal voters of cities and towns by Section 2 of Article 11 of
the Constitution of the State of Oregon and providing for a penalty
for violation of this Act," approved April 2nd, 1907.
The People of the City of Ashland do Ordain as Follows:
SECTION 1.
That City Ordinance No. 312, entitled "An ordinance to provide for
carrying into effect in the City of Ashland, Oregon, the Initiative and
Referendum powers reserved to the legal voters of municipalities by Sec-
tion 1 of Article 4 of the Constitution of the State of Oregon, and to enact
and amend their municipal charters reserved to the legal voters of cities
and towns by Section 2 of Article 11 of the Constitution of the State of
Oregon and providing a penalty for violation of this act," approved April
2nd, 1907, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:
Section 1. The following shall be substantially the form of the peti-
tion for any ordinance or amendment to the charter proposed by the Initia-
tive:
WARNING.
It is a felonry for anyone to sign any Initiative or Referendum petition
with any name other than his own, or to knowingly sign his name more
than once for the same measure, or to sign such petition when he is not
a legal voter.
INITIATIVE PETITION.
To Recorder of the City of Ashland, Oregon:
We, the undersigned legal voters of the City of Ashland, in the County
cf Jackson, State of Oregon, respectfully demand that the following pro-
posed ordinance (or amendment to the city charter) shall be submitted
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to the legal voters of the City of Ashland for their approval or rejection
at the regular (or special) city election to be held on the
day of A. D. 19...., and each for himself says: I have
personally signed this petition; I am a legal voter of the City of Ashland,
my residence and street number are correctly written after my name.
NAME. RESIDENCE. ST. NUMBER.
(Here follows twenty numbered lines for signatures.)
[Section 2 refers to referendum only.]
SECTION 3.
Each and every sheet of every such petition containing signatures
shall be verified on the back thereof, in substantially the following form
by the person who circulated such sheet- of said petition, by his or her
affidavit thereon, and as a part thereof:
State of Oregon,
County of Jackson, ss.
City of Ashland.
I . being first duly sworn, say that
(here shall be legally written or typewritten the name of the signers of
the sheet) signed this sheet of the foregoing petition and each of them
signed his name thereto in my presence; I believe that each has stated
his name, residence and street number correctly, and that each signer is
a legal voter of the City of Ashland (signature and postoffice address of
affiant).
Subscribed and sworn to before me this day
o;? A. D. 19. (Signature and title of officer
-:nd his residence.)
Every such sheet for petitioners' signatures shall be attached to a
Full and correct copy of the title and text of the measure so proposed by
the Initiative petition, but such petition may be filed with the City Recorder
in numbered sections for convenience in handling, and Referendum peti-
tions shall be attached to a full and correct copy of the measure on which
the Referendum is demanded and may be filed in numbered sections in
like manner. Not more than twenty signatures on one sheet shall be
counted.
When any such Initiative or Referendum petition shall be offered for
filing, the City Recorder, in the presence of the Mayor and the person
offering the same for filing, shall detach the sheets containing the signa-
tures and affidavits and cause them all to be attached to one or more
printed copies of the measure so proposed by Initiative or Referendum peti-
tions.
Provided, all petitions for the Initiative and for the Referendum and
sheets for signatures shall be printed on pages 7 inches in width by 10
inches in length, with a margin of one and three-fourths inches at the top
for binding; if the aforesaid sheet shall be too bulky for convenient
binding in one volume, they may be bound in two or more volumes, those
in each volume to be attached to a single printed copy of such measure;
the detached copies of such measure shall be delivered to the person offer-
ing the same for filing. If any such measure shall, at the ensuing election,
be approved by the people, then the copies thereof so preserved, with the
sheets and signatures and affidavits and a certified copy of the Mayor's
proclamation declaring the same to have been approved by the people, shall
be bound together in such form that they may be conveniently identified
and preserved.
SECTION 4.
The forms herein given are not mandatory, and if substantially fol-
lowed in any petition it shall be sufficient, disregarding clerical and tech-
nical errors.
Not more than twenty signatures shall be signed to one sheet of a
petition, and a, full and correct copy of the title and text of the measure
proposed by the Initiative petition, and a full and correct copy of the
measure on which the Referendum is demanded, shall be attached to each
sheet or aggregate of sheets circulated for signatures by each person, and
such full and correct copy of the title and text of the measure shall be
shown to the voter before his signature is attached.
SECTION 5.
The City Recorder shall accept for filing any petition for the Initiative
or for the Referendum, subject to verification of the number and genuine-
ness of the signature and the voting qualifications of the persons signing
the same by reference, to the registration book in the office of the County
Clerk of Jackson County, Oregon, and if a sufficient number of qualified
voters are found to have signed such petition, lie shall file the same within
ten days after presentation thereof to him, and the City Attorney or the
City Recorder acting as City Attorney in case no city attorney has been
appointed shall thereupon prepare a ballot title for such measure.
The ballot title shall be printed with the number of the measure on
the official ballot. In making such ballot title the City Attorney or the
City Recorder, as the case may be, shall, to the best of his ability, give a
true and impartial statement of the purpose of the measure and in such
language that the ballot title shall not be an argument for or liable to
create prejudice against such measure. Any person who is dissatisfied
with the ballot title provided by the City Attorney or the City Recorder,
as the case may be, for any such measure, may appeal to the Common
Council, asking for a different title and giving the reasons therefor, and
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why the title prepared by the said City Attorney or City Recorder is im-
I-Toper, and tha Council may approve the ballot title prepared by the City
Attorney or Recorder, or may, by resolution, prescribe another ballot title
therefor, and the ballot title so approved or prescribed by the Council shall
be the title placed upon the ballot.
Such ballot title shall in no case exceed seventy-five words, and shall
not resemble, in so far as possible, any other ballot title filed for any
measure to be submitted at the same election.
The affirrnative of the first measure shall be numbered 100 and the
negative 101 in numerals, and the succeeding measures shall be numbered
1.02, 103, 104, 105 and so on. It shall be the duty of the Recorder to print
said ballot titles and numbers upon the official ballots.
Measures referred to voters by petition shall be designated "Referen-
dum ordered by petition of the people." Measures proposed by Initiative
petition shall be designated "Proposed by Initiative petition." Charter
amendments submitted by the Council without Initiative petitions shall be
designated "Charter amendments submitted to the voters by the Council."
SECTION 6.
Petitions for proposed ordinances or charter amendments by the Initia-
tive, and petitions for submitting ordinances by the Referendum, shall be
filed with the signatures and verifications complete with the Recorder of
the City of Ashland not later than the sixtieth day before the next regular
city election at which such proposed ordinance or amendment is to be sub-
mitted or referred to the voters, and the Recorder shall, after verifying the
number and genuineness of the signatures, forthwith, and not later than
twenty days before the election, cause the full text and ballot title and
number of each measure to be printed in a newspaper of general circula-
tion, published in the City of Ashland, for two consecutive publications,
provided thgt such petitions may call for a special election at which such
proposed ordinance or charter amendment by the Initiative, or ordinances
can which the Referendum is demanded are to be :submitted, and in such
cases the Common Council shall call a special election to be held not earlier
than the fifteenth day and net later than the thirtie-ch day after the filing
of such petition with the City Recorder; and provided, further, that the
Common Council may call a special election at any time at which amend-
ments to the city charter, proposed by a resolution of said Common Council.
,nay be submitted to the legal voters of said city, but notices of such elec-
tion and appointment of judges of election shall be -,iven by publication in
a newspaper published in the city, or by conspicuously pouting a notice in
each of the wards of said city, not less than ten days prior to the election.
SECTION 7.
Where a special election is called either on petition for proposed ordi-
nances, charter amendments by the Initiative, or for submitting ordinances
by the Referendum or on charter amendments proposed by resolution of
the Common Council, the Recorder shall publish such proposed ordinance,
referendum measure, or charter amendment with the ballot title and num-
ber in full in a newspaper published in the City of Ashland, for two consec-
utive publications thereof within the ten days immediately preceding the
special election at which said proposed ordinance, referendum measure or
charter amendment is to be voted upon.
SECTION 8.
Referendum petitions against any ordinance passed by the Common
Council shall be signed by a number of legal voters equal to ten per centum
of the votes cast for Mayor at the last preceding city election; the petition
shall be filed with the City Recorder within ten days after the passage and
approval of any ordinance. No ordinance shall take effect and become
operative until ten days after its passage by the Council and approval by
the Mayor, or passage over the veto of the Mayor, except measures neces-
sary for the immediate preservation of the peace, health or safety of the
city; and no such emergency measure shall become immediately operative,
unless it shall state, in a separate section, the reasons why it is necessary
that it should become immediately operative, and shall be approved by
a. majority of all the members elected to the Council and also approved
by the Mayor.
SECTION 9,
An amendment to the Charter of the City of Ashland may be proposed
and submitted to the legal voters of the city by resolution of the Common
Council without an Initiative petition, but the same shall be filed with the
Recorder for submission not lat r than sixty days before the election at
which it is to be voted upon. The Recorder shall publish such proposed
charter amendment with the ballot title and number in full in a newspaper
published in the City of Ashland for two consecutive publications thereof
not later than twenty days before the election at which su:h amendment
is to be voted upon. Ballot title of such amendment shall be prepared by
the City Recorder and shall contain not more than one hundred twenty-five
(125) words, but nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or
modify the right of the Common Council to call a special election at any
time on any amendment to the charter proposed by resolution of said Com-
mon Council as provided by Section 6 of this ordinance.
SECTION 10.
Ordinances or amendments to the charter of the City of Ashland,
Oregon, proposed by Initiative petitions shall be signed by a number of
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legal voters equal to fifteen per cent of the vote cast for Mayor at the last
preceding city election.
SECTION 11.
The laws of the State of Oregon providing for carrying into effect the
Initiative and Referendum in respect to municipal legislation shall be fol-
lowed in the City of Ashland, Oregon, in every other particular except as
in this ordinance provided.
SECTION 12.
Whereas, It is important and essential that the people of the City of
Ashland shall be permitted to vote on certain amendments to the charter
of said city at as early date as practicable, in order to facilitate certain
public improvements for the benefit of said city and that the work on such
public improvements may be prosecuted speedily before the winter season
shall commence, it is the judgment of the Common Council that an emer-
gency exists and that it is necessary for the public safety, peace and health
of the people of the City of Ashland that this ordinance shall become imme-
diately operative.
Therefore, this ordinance shall take effect and be in force immediately
upon its adoption by the Council and approval by the Mayor.
The foregoing ordinance was adopted at an adjourned regular meet-
ing of the Common Council of the City of Ashland, Oregon, under a sus-
pension of the rules, two-thirds voting in favor thereof on the 18th day of
August, 1908, by a vote of five in favor thereof and none against the same.
To all of which I hereby certify.
M. F. EGGLESTON, City Recorder.
City Recorder.
I hereby approve the foregoing ordinance this, the 18th day of August,
1908. W. F. LOOMIS, Mayor.
Mayor.
THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH THE FUNDS ARISING FROM THE SALE
OF THESE BONDS ARE TO BE USED.
(Extract from Article XX, Section 5, of the charter of the City of Ash-
land, Oregon, adopted by vote of the people June 21, 1914; said pro-
vision creating a water commission, defining its powers and appro-
priating funds.)
Section 5. "There are hereby appropriated the proceeds which may
be realized from the sale of the $175,000.00 bond issue voted by the
people of Ashland for the purpose of constructing, installing and main-
taining said auxiliary water plant, and which shall be used for such pur-
poses only; the said proceeds shall be deposited by the said Treasurer in
a specific fund, separate and apart from other city funds; and said funds
shall be paid out by said City Treasurer only upon special, itemized vouch-
ers of the said Springs Water Commission, which vouchers shall be issued
under the seal of said commission, signed by the Chairman and Secretary
thereof, and shall show for what issued, to whom issued, and amount
paid for each item thereon enumerated; and the said vouchers shall not
be paid until countersigned by the payee in such manner that the voucher
shall stand for a receipt from said payee to the Treasurer for the amount
so paid."
I, C. H. Gillette, the duly elected, qualified and acting Recorder of
the City of Ashland, Oregon, do hereby certify that I have carefully
checked the printed sheets hereinbefore attached and numbered from one
to z consecutively and find them to be true and correct copies of the
proceedings of the Common Council of the City of Ashland, as shown by
the records of my office, which have to do with the matters pertaining to
the issuance of $175,000.00 in auxiliary water bonds authorized by vote
of the legal electors of the City of Ashland, Oregon, on June 9th, 1914.
I further certify that I have carefully checked the appended printed
sbeets purporting to be legal citations from the laws of the State of Ore-
gon, and from the charter and ordinances of the City of Ashland as here-
tofore herein printed, and find them to be true and correct copies of said
laws, charter and ordinances as represented.
Dated at Ashland, Oregon, this `day of August, 1914.
Recorder of the City of Ashland, Oregon.