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the Bear Creek and Bun-ell orchards, and now offer
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n reasonable terau.
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r young orchard, or both bearing and young orohard,
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years past.
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CITY NOTICES.
PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, There were duly submit
ted to the voters of the city of Med
ford, Oregon, ut a special election
duly he-Id on May 10, l'J09, suid elec
tion having been duly culled and due
notice thereof having been given, the
following amendments to the char
ter of the city of Medford:
I A churter amendment of the
churter of the city of Medford, Ore
gon, umcndiug section twenty-five
(2) of .said charter.
II A churter amendment of the
charter of the city of Medford, Ore
don, providing for ihe levying of as
sessments on property benefited
thereby, for laying wnter mains in
the streets of said city, nnu provid
ing for the payment of such assess
ments in installments, anil for the is
suance of water main bonds by said
cilv, irrespective of any limitation or
restriction contained in said charter
on the power of said city to issue
bonds or other evidences of mdebt
cdness, and providing for the terms
and conditions of said bonds.
Ill A charter amendment to the
chnrtor of the city of Medford, Ore
gon, providing for assessing real es
tate for the cost of sprinkling streets
on which said real estate fronts in
certain instances.
IV A charter amendment of the
charter of the city of Medford, Ore
gon, providing for the right of said
city to take possession of real es
tate sought to be appropriated and
condemned pending the action for
such appropriation and condemnn
tion, upon making a deposit into
court.
V A charter amendment of the
charter of the city of Medford, Ore
gon, providing for the assessment for
special benefits of property in said
city owned by any school district of
the state of Oregon or by the city of
Medford.
And Whereas, on said 10th day of
May, 1909, the city recorder of the
city of Medford, Oregon, in my pres
ence did canvass the vote given for
und against said amendments to the
churter of the city of Medford, Ore
gon, respectively;
And Whereas, it was iiscertained
and determined upon such canvass
that there were 160 votes cast tor
and 50 votes cust against suid
amendment numbered I; and 183
votes cust for, and 50 votes cast
against amendment numbered II;
and 168 votes cast for, und 60 votes
cast against amendment numbered
III; and 167 votes cust for, and 61
votes cust against amendment num
bered IV; und 174 votes cast for.
and 53 votes cast against amend
ment numbered V, now I, W. H. Can
on, as mayor of the city of Medford,
Oregon, in obedience to und by vir
luc of the power vested in me by
law, do hereby muke und issue this
proclamation to the people of the
city of Medford, Oregon, und do an
imuuce and declare that the wholi
number of votes cust in the city of
.Medford at said election for and
against the said amendments to the
charter of the city of Medford was
as hereinbefore staled; und that said
amendments to the charter of the city
of Medford each und all received the
affirmative majority of the total
number of votes cast thereon and en
titled to be counted under the provi
sions of law; und said amendments
to the charter of the city of Medford
hereinbefore mentioned and each
thereof shall be und are in full force
and effect from the date of this proc
lamation, and the following is the
full text of each of said amend -
meats :
AMENDMENT I.
A rhiuier ninciiddinciit of the char
ter of the city of Medford, Oregon,
.unending t'clioit twenty-five (25) of
nul charter.
The citv of Medford doth ordain
us follows :
Section 1. That section twentv-
five (25 1 of the charter of the citv
of Medford be amended so as to read
as follows:
Section 25. The eitv council shall
have power and authority, within the
limits of the citv of Medford, to en
act all ordinances and adopt all reg
ulations, uot inconsistent with the
constitution and laws of the state of
Oregon as shall be needful or requi
site to maintain and establish the
peace, good order, health, cleanli
ness, prosperity and eeneral welfare
of the city.
1. To assess, levy and collect poll
road taxes within said limits and
within the Kaiits of any road district
of which said city may bo a part, and
'to levy taxee for oity purposes aeon
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all property made taxable by the
laws of the state of Oregon ; also to
lory such special benefit assessments
upon real estate for opening, widen
ing, extending, improving or sprink
ling uuy street or for laying any
sewer or water mum and lor any
other improvement as they may doom
just and equitable.
2. To borrow money, incur indebt
edness, issue warrants and negotia
ble bonds in the manner and to the
extent in this act provided, and not
otherwise.
3. To open, vacate, alter, grude
and improve streets and alleys, and
cause the same to be sprinkled, sur
vey lots, blocks, streets and alleys
and establish their boundaries and
name and number streets and alleys.
4. To divide the city into wards
and change the same at will, provided
a change in the wards of the citv
null not i.c made oftonei than once
in two years.
5. To regulate slaughter houses
and provide for their exclusion from
the city or any part thereof, and to
prohibit the deposit or accumulation
of filth, garbage or refuse of any
kind in any part of the oity.
6. To establish hospitals within
or without the eity, adopt quarantine
regulations, remove or quarantine
persons afflicted with contagious or
infeotious diseases and to adopt and
enforce such regulations as may be
necessary or proper to prevent the in
troduction or spread of such diseases.
7. To declare by ordinance what
shall constitute a nuisance, regulate,
prohibit or abate the same and to
make the expense of abating the same
a lien upon the property where the
nuisance existed.
8. To establish fire limits and pro
vide what kind of buildings can be
erected within said limits and to de
termine what repairs may be made
to buildings therein, and to condemn
and remove therefrom dangerous or
unsafe buildings and to prevent the
erection of new or the repair of old
buildings therein, and to condemn and
remove therefrom dangerous or un
safe buildings and to prevent tht
erection of new or the repair of old
buildings without having first ob
tained a permit from the council.
9. ' To provide for the establish
meat, equipment and maintainenee of
a fire department or fire company.
10. To provide water for the use
of the inhabitants of the city and to
that end own, buy, sell, lease or con
tract for property within or without
the oity, to buy, sell, or contract for
water to be furnished by third per
sons to the oity or to the inhabitant
thereof, and to control and regulate
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12. To construct and maintain
sewers, drains, gutters and when nec
essary, to continue, construct ana
maintain the same outside suid city
and to control and regulate the use
thereof.
13. For the purpose of carrying
out any of the powers hereby granted,
to appropriate and condemn any real
estate, within or without the city of
Medford. in the manner provided by
statute for the appropriation and
condemnation of private property for
corporate or public purposes, una
iwithout any election or vote of the
voters or taxpayers of said oity be
ing called or held thereon.
14. To regulate and control the
storage of gun powder and other ex
plosive and conbustible materials, the
use of oil or gns tor lighting or hent-ins-
purposes, and to regulate, control
or abate the use of flues and chim
neys or other apparatus which may
be dangerous in causing fires, and to
regulate the manner of building par
titions and party walls and to regu
late or prohibit the sale or use of fire
crackers, bombs, rockets, etc.
15. To regulate and prohibit the I
running at large of domestic animals
and the discharge or use of firearms.
16. To regulate the rate of speed
of all trains, cars, locomotives, vehi
cles and horses.
17. To prevent und restrain riots,
noise, disorderly conduct and disor
derly assemblages and to prohibit the
carrying of concealed weapons.
18. To regulate or prohibit the
passage of any steam, traction or
other engine or motor upon the
streets, or any bicycle, tricycle or
tandem upon the sidewalks.
19. To license, tax, regulate or
prohibit bar rooms, drinking shops,
billiard rooms, bowline alleys, dance
houses and all places where spiritu
ous, malt or vinous liquors are sold
or kept for sale, irrespective of any
general law of the state on this sub
ject enacted by the legislature or by
the people at large, provided that no
license for the sale of spirituous, malt
or vinous liquors shall be granted for
anvlessamount than is or may bepro
vided by the general laws of the state
in force at the time of the granting
thereof, and further provided, that
aid oity shall not at any time license
drinking shops, or other places where
intoxicating liquors are sold, to soil
intoxicating liquors on Sunday. ' '
, 20. To prohibit any person from
soiling or giving away any malt,
spirituous or vinous liquors to any
person uuder the age of twenty-one
yoars, and to prevent the owner or
keeper of any place where such liq
uors ore sold or kept for -sale from
permitting any person under the age
of twenty-one years to come into or
remain in any such place.
21. To prohibit the selling or giv
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wtreetR mid allevs. crosu walk 1
walks and Sewers nnd make the ea'-
inereox u cmim uguinsi adjattt
property in such proportion as 4
be just. ,
31. To control the construct,.
location and operation of street a!
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lines nnu iia iuo juven ui lure inert:
on.
32. To provide for holding
elections, and prescribe the quauW
tions of voters. ... f(
33. To provide an advisory hoe
of equalization, to sit in conjunct
with the county board ot equalmtj
when considering the city assessing
34. To purchase, take held u
sell real estate when sold for an; it.
sessment for munioioal . unrmt.
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vided that no purchase, sale or lease
of any water plant or water system
shall be made by the council until the
same shall have been authorized by a
vote of the qualified voters of the citv
at an election held for that purpose.
11. To provide electrio or other
lights for said city and its inhabi
tants .and to that end own, buy, sell
and lease or contract for property
or contract with third persons to fur
nish the same to the citv or to its
inhabitants and to regulate und con
trol the same and the use thereof,
provided, that uo purchase, sale or
lease of any light plant or system
shall be made bv the council until the
same shall have been authorized by
a vote of the qualified voters of the
citv at an election held for that purpose.
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drunken person or any person in the
habit of becoming intoxicated, and
to define who is such person and to
designate who are such persons.
22. To restrain and prohibit bawdy
houses and houses of ill fame and
punish the keepers and inmates thereof.
2p. To define and prohibit gaming
or gambling, to suppress bouses or
places where gambling is carried on
or permitted, and to punish such per
sons keeping such houses or places
und persons for gambling; and to li
cense, regulate and prohibit nickel-
iu-the-slot machines, or any other
chemes of chance, and to puuish per
sons operating or using tha same.
24. To define vagrancy and to
provide for the punishment, support,
restraint and employment of vagranta
and paupers.
25. To provide for the closing of
saloons and all places where iutoxi
eating liquors are sold or kept for
sale, on Sundays.
26. To license, tax and regulate
auctioneers, peddlers, street veudors,
brokers, pawnbrokers and dealers in
second hand goods
27. To license and tax mercantile
and business houses, hotels, livery
stables, harbor shops, eating houses,
commercial travelers and the selling
of goods bv sample and all other
branches of business which in the
judgment ot the council should be
licensed.
' 28. To control and regulate the
manner of constructing and repairing
sidewalks, curbing, awuings, and ad
vertising signs, compel the owners of
adiacent property to construct and
repair the same, and make such work,
construction or repair a charge upon
such property, and provide for the
collection thereof.
29. To regulate, control or prohi
bit the erection of electric light, tele
graph, telephone or other poles or
wires upon or over the streets or al
levs or public narks or buildings of
said citv and the laving nf water or
other pipes nnd sewers.
30. To remove all obstructions
from the highways, streets, alleys,
sidewalks, and sewers, and to provid
for the construction, grading, filling,
repairing, and cleaning uo of each
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35. To license, tax and reeuli'
theatrical exhibitions and other sin
or public amusements.
36. To regulate or prohibit l
driving of live stock through anjot
of the citv, and to prevent crnelhf
animals. fc,
37. To provide for the oollecbl'
and disbursements of money to vlirS
the city may become entitled, incl-ik pi
ing poll road tax within the road if !
trict of which said oity may h : (
part, and to appropriate moneys Ij.
the payment of lawful claims ma w
the citv; provided that any meti
of the council who shall vote ton
thorize the creation of any indebW. J
ness against the city, which indent
ness in addition to that already if i"
isting shall amount to a sum in eittf
of the legal limit of indebtedness!
said oity, shall be personally liuv
for such increase. ' 1
38. To provide for the ereebi
oontrol and repairs of such buil
as may be necessary for oity
poses.
39. To provide punishment by
imprisonment and bard labor, for
violation of any city ordinance,
no fine shall exceed $100, audit
teem of imprisonment or hard law
exceed fifty days ; and, where a ft
and costs are imposed, the pen!
adjudged to pay the same ma?
imprisoned one day for each $21
fine and costs, or kept at hard law
one day for each $2.00 of said fit
and costs, if he fuil or refuse toi
the same.
40. To regulate the practice w
other proceedings of the recordii
oonrt. '
41. To control, and regulate 1
lighting and heating of all halls
other buildings where publie meetix
are held or permitted and provide
nnfnrcp refutations in re?ard to
means of ingress and egress to if
hulls or other buildings and to c$ 4
or abate such buildings when theyjr
deemed unsafe.
42. No franchise or contit
shall be grauieo pv me cuv eons
for a longer period than ten yean
AMENDMENT II.
A churter amendment of
the charter of the city of Medfif
Oree-on. providing for the levyinii
assessments on property benefit
thereby, for laving water mains
the stoeets of said citv, and pre!
iug fof the payment of such assei
ments in installments, and for the
suance of water main bonds
said oitv irrespective of any lud
tion or restriction contained in
charter on the power of said citil
issue bonds or other evidences ofjj (
debtedness, and providing for
terms and conditions of said bond
The people of the City of Medf
do ordain as follows:
Section 1. That the chart ol
city of Medford, Oregon, be and
same is hereby amended bv adc.
thereto the following:
Section 116. Whenever the
council shall intend to lay any w
mains in any street of the citT
Medford the cost of which is to
assessed to the property frontinE
said street, it shall bv resolution I
clare such intention. Said resolmr
shall describe the sir.e of the fi
posed main and shall designate I
portion of the street along J
the same is to be laid; it shall de'
the intention of the council to as'
the cost thereof on the prop'
fronting on said street in propotj
to the frontage of said propertv. 1
shall fix a time and place at l
the council will meet and hear
protests against the lnyine ot ft
water mains and the assessro'
the cost thereof on the prop
fronting said street.
Said resolution shall be punk
three times in a dailv in!!1
priuted, published and of eeneral
oulation in said citv. the last ol'1
publications shall be made not T
than ten nor mnre than twentv ff
before the date of said meetin:f
said resolution shall be posted ''Tt
period of ten days in five pu( f
conspicuous places in said citT- t
Section 117. At said meetiiJ
council shall first hear all WT
against the laving of said
main and the assessing of thecj
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