Special tax.

and where payable, of each and every bond executed, issued or sold under the provisions of this act.

SEC. 8. There shall be levied each year upon the taxable property of such city or town, as the case may be, in addition to the tax for other purposes in said city or town, a tax sufficient to pay the interest on such bonds as the same accrues, and before seven years prior to the maturity thereof, an annual sinking fund tax sufficient for the payment of said bonds at maturity, which taxes shall become due and collectible as other taxes.

SEC. 9. If the council of any city or town which has issued bonds under the provisions of this act shall fail, neglect or refuse to make the levy necessary to pay such bonds and interest coupons at maturity, and the same shall have been presented to the treasurer of such city or town, and payment thereof refused because of such failure, neglect or refusal to make such levy, the owner may file such bond, together with all unpaid coupons, with the auditor of the county in which such city or town is situated, taking his receipt therefor, and the same shall be registered in the auditor's office of such county in like manner and form as the same was originally registered by the treasurer of the city or town issuing the same; and the county commissioners of such county shall, at their next session thereafter at which they shall levy the annual county tax, and each annual levy thereafter, add to the county tax to be levied in said city or town a sufficient rate to realize the amount of principal and interest past due and to become due prior to the next annual levy, and the same shall be collected as part of the county tax and paid into the county treasury and passed to the credit of such city as a bond tax, and shall be paid by the treasurer of the said county, on warrants drawn by the county auditor as the payments mature, to the holder of such bond, as shown by the register of the county auditor, until the same shall be fully satisfied and discharged; Provided, That nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or postpone the right of any holder of any such bonds to resort to any other remedy which such holder might otherwise have.

SEC. 10. The provisions of this act shall not be con

struction of this act.

strued as applying to borrowing money and issuing bonds Limit of conby any city or town for the purpose of supplying such city or town with water, artificial light and sewers, or either or both or all such water works, artificial light or sewers, where the works for supplying such water, light and sewers shall be owned and controlled by such city or town; but in all things relating to such named purposes, the provisions and amendments thereto of an act entitled "An act authorizing cities and towns to construct internal improvements and to issue bonds to pay therefor, and declaring an emergency," which said act was approved March 26, 1890, shall be and remain in full force and effect.

SEC. 11. The provisions of this act shall not be construed as in any manner applying to cities of the first class.

SEC. 12. That sections thirty-nine, one hundred and twenty, one hundred and twenty-one, one hundred and fifty-seven and one hundred and fifty-eight, of an act entitled "An act providing for the organization, classification, incorporation and government of municipal corporations, and declaring an emergency," which act was approved March the 27th, 1890, be and the same are hereby re- Repealing pealed; and all other acts and parts of acts in conflict with any of the provisions of this act are also hereby repealed.

clause.

SEC. 13. There being no law in this state authorizing cities and towns to borrow money and issue negotiable bonds for municipal purposes, other than those for sewer, water and light, and many needed municipal purposes are being seriously delayed thereby, an emergency exists; Emergency. therefore, this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its approval by the governor.

Approved March 7, 1891.

Board of fish commissioners.

Location of hatchery.

Duty of fish commissioner.

Payment of expenses.

Appropriation.

CHAPTER CXXIX.

[H. B. No. 262.]

ESTABLISHING A STATE FISH HATCHERY.

AN ACT to establish a state fish hatchery, and making an appropriation therefor.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington:

SECTION 1. The governor, state treasurer and fish commissioner are hereby created a board of fish commissioners ex-officio, whose duties shall be as hereinafter prescribed, and for the performance of which duties they shall receive no extra compensation, save and except their actual expenses while engaged in the work hereinafter prescribed.

SEC. 2. The fish commission, as created in section 1 of this act, shall, on or before the first day of September, A. D. 1891, acquire such an amount of land by donation or purchase, upon the banks of the Okanogan, Methow or Similkameen rivers, as may be necessary to erect a state fish hatchery.

SEC. 3. The fish commissioner of the State of Washington shall have charge and control of such hatchery under the direction of the board of fish commissioners herein created, and shall have power to employ such labor as may be necessary to carry out the full intents and purposes of this

act.

SEC. 4. All accounts for expenses incurred in the erection. of such hatchery, and otherwise, shall be audited and approved by said board of fish commissioners, and when so audited and approved the state auditor is instructed to issue his warrants in payment therefor, and the state treasurer is directed to pay the same out of any funds appropriated or accruing for this purpose.

SEC. 5. For the purposes of this act the sum of fifteen thousand ($15,000) dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved March 7, 1891.

CHAPTER CXXX.

[H. B. No. 263.]

RELATING TO PAYMENT OF SALARIES OF STATE OFFICERS.

AN ACT relating to the payment of salaries of state officers. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington: SECTION 1. The salaries of all state officers shall hereafter be paid monthly on the last day of each month, as provided by law.

SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with [this] act are hereby repealed.

Approved March 7, 1891.

CHAPTER CXXXI.

[S. B. No. 180.]

RELATING TO INDEBTEDNESS OF CITIES AND TOWNS. AN ACT to enable cities and towns to validate certain warrants and other obligations and evidences of indebtedness on the part of such cities and towns issued by the corporate authorities thereof in excess of their legal authority, and declaring an emergency to exist.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington:

SECTION 1. Any city or town now having a corporate existence in this state may ratify in the manner prescribed in this act, the attempted incurring of any indebtedness of such city or town by the issuing of warrants, making of contracts or creations of other evidences of indebtedness on the part of such city or town by the corporate authori ties thereof at any time prior to the passage of this act, when the only ground of the invalidity of such indebtedness so to be ratified is that, at the time of such attempted incurring thereof, the same, together with all other then existing indebtedness of such city or town, exceeded one and one-half per centum of the taxable property in such

city or town, ascertained by the last assessment for city or town purposes previous to the attempted incurring of such indebtedness, and that such indebtedness was so attempted to be incurred without the assent of three-fifths of the voters therein voting at an election held for that purpose.

SEC. 2. Whenever the city council or other legislative body of any such city or town shall deem it advisable that the ratification authorized by this act shall be obtained, the corporation shall provide therefor by ordinance, which shall specify separately the amount of each distinct class of such indebtedness so to be ratified, the date or period of the attempted incurring by the corporate authorities of each separate class thereof, and the general nature of the indebtedness comprised in each such distinct class, and shall provide for the holding of an election for that purpose, of which thirty days' notice, to be provided for in such ordinance, shall be given in the official newspaper or newspapers of such city or town at which the attempted incurring Submitting to of such indebtedness shall be submitted to the voters in such city or town for ratification or disapproval. Each distinct class of such indebtedness so specified shall be the subject of a distinct vote in favor of or against the ratification thereof, and such vote shall designate the class of indebtedness referred to by the description thereof used and the amount specified in the ordinance.

vote.

In case of excess of author

ity.

SEC. 3. If at an election held as provided for in section two of this act three-fifths of the voters in such city or town voting at such election shall vote in favor of the ratification of any distinct class of such indebtedness, specified in the ordinance providing for such election, then such indebtedness so ratified shall thereby become and is hereby declared to be validated and a binding obligation upon such city or town when the only ground of the previous invalidity of such indebtedness is that, at the time of the incurring thereof so ratified, the same, together with all other then existing indebtedness of such city or town, exceeded one and one-half per centum of the taxable property in such city or town, ascertained by the last previous assessment for city or town purposes: Provided, That neither anything in this act contained, nor the vote cast at any such