Town of Hume, including Villages of Vossburg, Wiscoy and Fillmore. Extra cost due to condemnation proceedings and other legal expenses, say, 50 per cent. 168,623 NOTE.-Land in Village of Fillmore sells in small lots on Main St., at rate of $2,400 per acre. Land in Village of Fillmore sells in small lots on side streets at rate of $1,200 per acre. Best farm land away from village sells for $100 per acre. Ordinary good farm land away from village sells for $75 per acre. Town of Granger. Total number dwellings Total number minor buildings connected. Total number churches Total number schoolhouses Total number stores Total number other buildings Total number all buildings. Estimated present market value.... Extra cost due to condemnation proceedings and other legal expenses, say, 50 per cent.... Total Town of Portage. Total number of dwellings. Total number minor buildings connected. Total number churches Total number schoolhouses Total number stores Total number of other buildings Total number all buildings.. Estimated present market value. Extra cost due to condemnation proceedings and other legal expenses, say, 50 per cent.... GARY UNIVERSITY APPENDIX D. LAW DIRECTING THE STATE WATER SUPPLY COMMISSION TO MAKE STUDIES FOR WATER POWER DEVELOPMENT. CHAP. 569, LAWS OF 1907. AN ACT authorizing and directing the state water supply commission to devise plans for the progressive development of the water powers of the state for the public use, under state ownership and control, and making an appropriation therefor. Became a law, July 12, 1907, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. After the passage of this act, the state water supply commission is authorized and directed to devise plans for the progressive development of the water powers of the state under state ownership, control and maintenance for the public use and benefit and for the increase of the public revenue. § 2. The commission shall proceed at once to collect information relating to the water powers of the state and shall devise plans for the development of such water powers, as it deems available and may devise plans for the development of such other water powers as shall be brought to its attention by the mayor of any city, the president of any village, a supervisor of any town or the chairman of the board of supervisors of any county, by a petition verified and filed with it, praying for the development of such water powers. Each such petition shall show and set forth the public purposes to be served by the development therein proposed, and the commission may subpoena the petitioner or petitioners and such other persons as may be deemed desirable to appear be [239] fore it and to testify under oath, which oath may be administered by any member of the commission, as to the statements made in the petition and as to other matters relating to the subject thereof. § 3. The commission shall present a report to the governor and the legislature on or before the first day of February, in the year nineteen hundred and eight, showing the progress made in its investigation, and shall, if practicable, complete its investigations to such extent as will enable it to devise a comprehensive and practical plan for the general development of the water powers of the state, and shall, if practicable, make the final report of such plan to the governor on the first day of February, in the year nineteen hundred and nine. The governor shall, if practicable, submit the said final report with his own recommendations, if any, relating thereto, to the legislature on or before the twentieth day of March, nineteen hundred and nine. In addition to the number provided by law, two thousand copies of the reports of the commission and the recommendations of the governor shall be printed. 4. If any plan devised by the commission shall include the construction of a dam or dams upon any river or water course, the commission shall ascertain and report as nearly as practicable, the water storage capacity in cubic feet of the reservoir created by each such proposed dam, the recorded rain fall on the watershed above such proposed dam, and the maximum, minimum and average flow of water, per second, in cubic feet during each month in the year at the point where it is proposed to locate such dam. They shall, as nearly as practicable, estimate the water horse power which would be developed at such proposed dam, the probability of selling such water power, and the probable gross and net revenues from both direct and indirect sources which would be derived from the sale of such power at such proposed dam. It shall also state the relation of such gross and net revenues to the total cost of the construction, annual maintenance and depreciation, including the cost of necessary lands and riparian rights, and cost of acquiring them, and after deducting the annual cost of maintenance and depreciation, the net revenues which would be annually derived therefrom, and the length of time in which such net revenues would pay off the whole cost of construction lands and riparian rights with the interest thereon. The commission may include such other matters as it shall deem proper, in its report to the legislature. § 5. The reports of the commission shall specifically designate and recommend what work in their opinion, should be first undertaken and what work should be thereafter undertaken in the order of the importance thereof to the state. § 6. In order to determine the probable gross revenues, the rate of charge for the use of the water horse power under contract for sale shall be based upon the aggregate cost of the development, including the land and riparian rights of the single project, the cost of its superintendence, maintenance and depreciation, and the aggregate water horse power available from that single project, and such rate of charge shall be so adjusted that it will produce a net revenue sufficient to pay, in addition to all costs of superintendence, maintenance and depreciation, the interest upon the bonds as the same shall become due and the principal of said bonds at their maturity. § 7. Surveys, plans, maps, calculations and estimates of cost may be made to determine the feasibility of any specific project for water-power development. § 8. All final surveys, plans, maps, calculations and estimates made pursuant to the provisions of this act shall be made with the same accuracy that would be requisite if the work and project so surveyed had been ordered to be done, and all surveys, plans, maps, calculations and estimates relating thereto shall be preserved for record and reference. § 9. The commission in its reports shall treat the general plan it shall devise and recommend for the development of the water power of the state as one state project and shall treat the specific and separate schemes of development as parts of the whole in order that the legislature and the people may have before them at once the most complete and comprehensive statement of the possibilities of the water power of the state and detailed as well as the aggregate cost of the development in such general plan proposed to be made. 10. The commission in its final report shall also include the draft of a bill for a general law providing for carrying its recom |