CHAPTER 60. [S. H. B. 3.] COLUMBIA BASIN IRRIGATION PROJECT. AN ACT providing for the survey of the Columbia Basin Irriga- Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of created. SECTION 1. There is hereby created a commis- Commission sion, to be known as the "Columbia Basin Survey Commission", to consist of the state hydraulic engineer ex-officio, as chairman, and four members who shall be appointed by and removable at the pleasure of the governor. Each commissioner shall serve as such without compensation but shall be allowed his actual necessary expenses incurred in the performance of his duties. The governor shall appoint the members of said commission and the commission shall organize and select one of their number as secretary and enter upon the performance of their duties within thirty days after the taking effect of this act. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of said commission to make or cause to be made a survey of the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project and to prepare a compilation and report of the result of such survey and present the same to the proper department or departments of the federal government for consideration, and to recommend and urge the appropriation of funds for the carrying out of the project for the improvement of the Columbia River Basin by irrigation. The commission shall have the power to employ such persons as may be necessary to assist them in their work, and to expend such of the funds appropriated by this act as they may deem necessary for such purposes. Survey and report to government. Appropriation, $100,000.00. Emergency. SEC. 3. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act there is hereby appropriated out of the general fund the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00), or so much thereof as may be necessary. SEC. 4. This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety and the support of the state government and its existing public institutions and shall take effect immediately. Passed the House February 11, 1919. Appropria- Emergency. CHAPTER 61. DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION FOR NATIONAL GUARD AND AN ACT appropriating the sum of thirty-eight thousand dollars Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of SECTION 1. That there be and hereby is appropriated out of the military fund the sum of thirtyeight thousand dollars ($38,000.00) or so much thereof as may be necessary for the support of the National Guard and Naval Militia of Washington, for supplies, material and services, during the current biennium. SEC. 2. This act is necessary for the support of state government and shall take effect immediately. Passed the House January 28, 1919. Approved by the Governor March 3, 1919. CHAPTER 62. [H. B. 18.] COMPENSATION AND EXPENSES OF LABOR COMMIS- AN ACT relating to the compensation and expenses of the com- Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of SECTION 1. That section 6551 of Remington & Ballinger's Codes and Statutes of Washington be amended to read as follows: tion of com and Section 6551. The salary of the commissioner compensaof labor, provided for in this act, shall be three missioner thousand dollars ($3,000.00) per annum, and shall assistants. be allowed his actual and necessary traveling and incidental expenses; and any assistant of said commissioner of labor shall be paid for each full day service rendered by him, such compensation as the commissioner of labor may deem proper, but such assistant shall be paid not less than six dollars ($6.00) per day, and his actual necessary traveling expenses. SEC. 2. That section 6552 of Remington & Ballinger's Codes and Statutes of Washington be amended to read as follows: assistant missioner. Section 6552. The commissioner of labor shall Female appoint one female as assistant commissioner of labor comlabor, and such female assistant shall have charge, under the direction of the commissioner of labor, of the enforcement of all laws relating to the health, sanitary conditions, surroundings, hours of labor and all other laws affecting the employment of female wage-earners. She shall receive a salary of eighteen hundred dollars per annum and shall be tion. Duties and compensa allowed her actual and necessary expenses in the Passed the House February 10, 1919. Student fees. CHAPTER 63. [H. B. 104.] UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON STUDENT FEES. AN ACT relating to a system of student fees in the University Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of SECTION 1. That section 2 of chapter 66 of the SEC. 2. The board of regents of the University of Washington is hereby authorized to establish a system of student fees in the university and to modify the same from time to time, and to charge and collect the fees so established from students registering in the university. Said fees, so established, charged and collected to consist of the following: (a) General tuition fees to be paid by each student registering in the university. (b) Special tuition fees to include: law, short course, marine station, correspondence or extension, special or individual instruction, fees and such other special tuition fees as may be established by said board from time to time. These special tuition fees to be paid by each student registering for the special studies for which such special tuition fees are established. (c) Registration fees. (d) Student deposit, disciplinary, library, gymnasium, hospital or health fees, and such other fees as may be established by said board from time to time. These fees to be deposited or paid by each student required to deposit or pay same under rules to be prescribed by said board: Provided, That any honorably discharged soldier, Exemption sailor, marine or nurse who served during the war service. with Germany, shall be entitled to register and attend courses without the payment of any fees, except those in class (d) and special or individual instruction fees in class (b). SEC. 2. That section 3 of chapter 66 of the Laws of 1915 be amended to read as follows: for war credited to fund. Section 3. All general tuition and registration Fees fees mentioned in subdivision (a) and (c) of sec- building tion one of this act shall within sixty-five days from the collection thereof be paid into the state treasury and by the state treasurer shall be credited to the "University of Washington Building Fund" to be used exclusively for the purpose of erecting, altering, maintaining, equipping, or furnishing buildings constructed under said act of March 15, 1915, and acts amendatory thereto. SEC. 3. That section 4 of chapter 66 of the Laws of 1915 be amended to read as follows: credited to fund. Section 4. Said special tuition fees mentioned Fees in subdivision (b) and the fees mentioned in sub- revolving division (d) of section one of this act, shall be held by the board of regents as a revolving fund and expended by it for the purposes for which collected and be accounted for in accordance with existing law. SEC. 4. That section 5 of chapter 66 of the Laws of 1915 be amended to read as follows: Section 5. Fees mentioned in subdivision (c) Refunding of section one of this act are not returnable to the of fees. |