Description. Deed. Granted for park purposes. twenty-seven (27) and twenty-eight (28), of section sixteen (16), township twenty-five (25) north of range fortythree (43) east Willamette Meridian, together with the streets between said blocks from the east to the west banks of the Spokane river. SEC. 2. The governor is hereby empowered, authorized and directed to execute and the secretary of state to attest a deed conveying to the city of Spokane, in the county of Spokane, State of Washington, all of said lands as in section one (1) described. SEC. 3. All of the lands described in section one (1) Passed the Senate January 31, 1913. Filed March 6, 1913. Became a law without signature of the Governor. CHAPTER 41. [H. B. 153.] RELATING TO JUSTICE COURTS. AN ACT relating to justices of the peace and constables in cities having a population of 50,000 or more inhabitants and providing for their election or appointment and fixing their salaries. Number of the peace. justices of Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington: SECTION 1. After the taking effect of this act, there shall be in cities of fifty thousand population two justices of the peace and two constables, and one additional justice and one additional constable in such cities for each additional fifty thousand population or a major fraction thereof, to be elected at the general election to be held in November, 1914, and quadrennially thereafter, whose term of office shall be for the term of two years from the second Monday of January following the election: Provided, There shall not be more than five justices in any city unless the same has a population of 300,000 or more: And provided further, That nothing in this act shall be con- amended strued to affect justices of the peace or constables or the offices of justices of the peace or constables in cities having a population of less than fifty thousand inhabitants. (Elections are quadren- years; original bill provided for elections biennially, but same was as shown.) Commissioners to SEC. 2. Whenever it shall appear to the board of county commissioners of any county containing a city of fifty appoint. thousand or more that such city is entitled to an additional justice and constable as provided in this act, the board of county commissioners are hereby authorized and directed immediately after this act goes into effect to appoint such additional justice and constable in such city, who shall hold office until his successor is elected and qualified at the next general election. SEC. 3. The salaries of such justices of the peace in all cities having a population in excess of 100,000 according to the census of the federal government last taken shall be eighteen hundred (1800) dollars per annum. Salaries. present see next (This is salary. section.) (For present salaries, see Rem.-Bal., $$ 6535-6 and Pierce's 287 $$ 5 Repeal. SEC. 4. The salaries of justices of the peace and constables hereafter elected or appointed shall be and remain the same as are now provided by law. SEC. 5. All acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Passed the House January 31, 1913. Passed the Senate February 26, 1913. to ch. 115, CHAPTER 42. ANNEXATION OF TERRITORY TO DRAINAGE DISTRICT. AN ACT providing for the annexation of territory to drainage districts organized under the provisions of sections 4137 to 4181 inclusive of Remington and Ballinger's Annotated Codes and Statutes of Washington. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington: SECTION 1. Any land which is in need of drainage, [Reference is adjoining any drainage district organized under the provisions of sections 4137 to 4181 of Remington & Ballin$$4137-4181; ger's Annotated Codes and Statutes of Washington, may be annexed to and included in such drainage district under the provisions of this act. L. 1895; Rem.-Bal., Pierce's Petition. Election. SEC. 2. Upon the presentation to the board of commissioners of such drainage district, of a petition signed by the owners of a majority of the acreage or area, of lands described in the said petition, and also a petition signed by at least ten freeholders of the said district, which petitions shall ask for the annexation to the said district of the lands described therein, and that the same may be made a part of said district, it shall be the duty of the said board of commissioners to call an election in the said district, and also in the said territory which it is proposed to annex thereto, for the purpose of submitting to the electors thereof the question of such annexation; notice of which election shall be given by the said board of commissioners, in both said district, and in the said territory to be annexed, the same as the notice required in the regular annual election of officers in said district. officers. SEC. 3. The said board of commissioners shall appoint Election an election board of three electors for the election to be held in the said district and another election board of three electors in the said territory to be annexed, for the election to be held therein. Returns. of result. SEC. 4. Return of such election shall be by the officers thereof made to the board of commissioners of said district forthwith, and such board shall as soon as practicable make canvass of the said returns, and if a majority of the votes cast at each of the said elections shall be in favor of the annexation of said territory, the said board of commissioners shall forthwith certify to the county auditor Certificate and also to the county assessor of the county wherein such district and such territory are located, the fact of such election, the result thereof, and a particular description of the territory annexed by such election, which certificate shall be filed and become a part of the records of the said auditor and the said assessor; and thereafter the said territory shall be taken to be and shall be annexed to, and be a part of the said district, and shall be liable to assessment for extensions and improvement of drains, and for the cost and expense of maintenance and repairs the same as other property in the said district, and for the purposes of such assessment, the maximum benefits derived to such annexed territory shall be conclusively presumed to be equal to but not greater than those of abutting property within the district as the same existed, before the said annexation. Passed the Senate February 17, 1913. Territory annexed. [For the organization of diking districts, see ch. 117, L. 1895; Rem. Bal., $$ 4091 CHAPTER 43. [S. B. 149.] AUTHORIZING CONSOLIDATION OF DIKING DISTRICT. AN ACT authorizing the consolidation of two or more contiguous diking districts, heretofore organized or which may hereafter be organized under the diking laws of the State of Washington. 4136 Pierce's Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington: Code, 1912, 151 § 1 et seq.] Petition. Notice of election. Ballot. SECTION 1. That any two or more contiguous diking districts heretofore organized or which may hereafter be organized under the diking laws of the State of Washington, desiring to consolidate into one district, may, upon petition signed by the owners of real property representing a majority of the acreage therein to the commissioners of their respective districts, effect such consolidation by the commissioners of said districts so desiring to consolidate giving thirty days' notice of an election for such purpose to be held in each of said districts, setting forth in said notice the date of said election, and the object of the same, said notice to be given and posted in the same manner as notice of the annual election of commissioners, as provided in the general diking law, and the further publication of the same for at least three successive issues in a weekly newspaper published in the county in which such districts are located, and of general circulation in said districts: Provided, That where there is no newspaper so published and circulated, the publication of the notice of said election may be dispensed with. SEC. 2. That at such election held pursuant to said notice, a printed ballot shall be furnished by the commissioners of said districts, having printed thereon: "For consolidation of Diking District No.... and No... (here insert numbers), to be known as 'Consolidated Diking District No.... (here insert number), of..... County, Washington." " ... (here insert name of county) And "Against consolidation of . . and No..... |