Trustees. or which may hereafter be possessed by any reclamation district formed under the general laws of this State. The Duties and duties and powers of the Trustees of said district shall be powers of the same as are, from time to time, prescribed and conferred by the Political Code of this State on the Trustees of other reclamation districts. SEC. 3. The land owners of said district may, from time Adoption of to time, adopt and amend by-laws for their government, in by-laws. the manner prescribed in the Political Code. -SEC. 4. C. W. Clark, William Johnston, and Joseph Sims Trustees are hereby appointed and declared to be the Trustees of said appointed. district; they shall hold their offices for two years, whereupon the land owners in said district shall, in the manner provided in their by-laws, elect three Trustees for the government of the district and the management of its affairs. SEC. 5. The Trustees of said district, in case they can compensaadvantageously use, for the purposes of reclamation, any tion allow work heretofore done, and for which no payment has been persons for made, may, in their discretion, allow to the persons who work done. caused such work to be done, and paid for it, a fair and just compensation therefor, to be paid for in the same manner as other work done for the district; provided, that if any levees are accepted and paid for by said Trustees, all the levees within said District No. Two Hundred and Fifty-four protecting said district shall be valued, accepted, and paid for by said Trustees, in manner as above provided. SEC. 6. Except as herein otherwise provided, said district Control of and its officers shall be controlled by the Political Code of district. this State, and shall possess all the powers given by that Code to other reclamation districts and their officers. SEC. 7. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. DLXVIII.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] CHAP. DLXIX.-An Act to create and organize Reclamation District Number Two Hundred and Five, and to define its boundaries and provide for its government. [Approved April 1, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and clared and SECTION 1. That part of the County of Sacramento, in Reclamation the State of California, embraced within the following district de boundaries, to wit: Commencing on or near the east bank of boundaries the Sacramento River, at a point on the east bank of the Sacramento River twenty-five chains below the west end of defined. Powers given to district. Election of the Pierson Levee; thence running in a northeasterly direction to the highest point on the niound commonly known as the Odell Mound; thence following the line of said mounds. northerly to the southeasterly corner of the said Pierson Levee, on the Snodgrass Slough; thence northerly and northwesterly parallel with said levee, and one hundred feet easterly from the easterly base thereof, to Hensley Slough, near the upper end of Randall Island; thence down said slough and the Sacramento River at low water mark to a point opposite the place of beginning, and thence to the place of beginning, is hereby constituted a reclamation district of said State, to be hereafter known as "Reclamation District Two Hundred and Five." SEC. 2. Said part of Sacramento County, and the owners of the lands therein, shall hereafter, for all the purposes of reclamation and of the protection of said lands from overflow by water, be a body politic and corporate, under the name of "Reclamation District Two Hundred and Five," under which name they shall hereafter make contracts, and shall sue and be sued; and they shall also possess all the powers that are now possessed or which may hereafter be possessed by any reclamation district formed under the general laws of this State. SEC. 3. On the first Monday in each month of May, after the passage of this Act, the land owners of said district shall elect from their number three Trustees for its government, who shall hold their office until their successors are duly elected. In the election of Trustees, each land owner shall be entitled to one vote for each acre of land owned by him, and the three persons receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected. The Board of Supervisors of the County of Sacramento shall designate the place where the first election under this Act shall be held, and appoint the Powers and officers thereof. The duties and powers of the Trustees of said district shall be the same as are, from time to time, prescribed and conferred by the Political Code of this State on the Trustees of other reclamation districts. duties of Trustees. Adoption of by-laws. Action for condemna SEC. 4. The land owners of said district may, from time to time, adopt and amend by-laws for its government, in the mode prescribed by the Political Code. SEC. 5. As soon as practicable, the Trustees shall cause an action to be commenced in the District Court of said tain lands. county, in the name of said reclamation district, for the tion of cer condemnation of such lands as may be necessary for the construction and maintenance of proper levees for the reclamation of said district. By such action, the levees now built in said district may be condemned for the use of the district, and if so condemned, there shall be awarded to each of the owners thereof such sum as the levee owned by him is reasonably worth for the purposes of reclamation, except as herein otherwise provided. Title Seven, of Part Three, of the Code of Civil Procedure of this State, shall constitute the rules of proceeding and decision in such action. The payment of district shall have three months, after final judgment in such action, to pay the sums of money awarded by the Court Time allowed for award. to the owners of the property condemned. by what. SEC. 6. Except as herein otherwise provided, said recla- District mation district and its officers shall be controlled by the controlled Political Code of this State, and shall possess all the powers by that Code given to other reclamation districts and their officers. SEC. 7. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. DLXX.-An Act to provide for the improvement of the [Approved April 1, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and priation SECTION 1. The sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby Approappropriated out of the General Fund, in the State treasury, authorized. for the improvement of the avenues and walks leading to and about the grounds of the State Capitol; said improvement to be conducted under the direction of the State Capitol Commissioners, in such manner as their judgment dictates. SEC. 2. This Act takes effect immediately. CHAP. DLXXI.-An Act relative to the Board of Supervisors of Sacramento County. [Approved April 1, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and claims. SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the County of Allowance Sacramento must audit and allow all claims and indebted- of certain ness of any kind or character, not to exceed the sum of $2,100, incurred for levee repairs and wing dams, made under the superintendence of Daniel Flint, in the years 1877 and 1878, between the City of Sacramento and the Town of Freeport, prior to the 8th day of February, 1878. SEC. 2. As soon as such allowance is made, the Auditor of said county must draw his warrant on the Treasurer of said county, in favor of the claimants, respectively, for the amounts allowed, and the Treasurer of said county must pay the same, upon presentation, out of any moneys in the General Fund in said county. SEC. 3. This Act shall be in force and effect from and after its passage. Title to CHAP. DLXXII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act for the relief of purchasers of State lands," approved March 27th, 1872. [Approved April 1, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section one of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section one. When application has cant; when. been made to purchase lands from this State, and payment lands vested in appli Proviso. made to the Treasurer of any county of this State, in whole or in part, and a certificate of purchase, or a patent, has been issued to the applicant, the title of the State to said lands is hereby vested in said applicant, or his assigns, upon his making full payment therefor; provided, that no other application has been made for the purchase of the same lands prior to the issuance of said certificate of purchase; provided further, that this Act shall not apply to school lands, except to the amount of three hundred and twenty acres to any one purchaser, nor shall it be construed to remedy any defect in any application, or the issuing of any certificate other than that of payment in the wrong county, nor otherwise to conflict with or limit the provisions of the Act hereby amended. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its approval by the Governor. Boundaries of district defined. CHAP. DLXXIII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to define the boundary, provide for the care, strengthening, and repairing of the levee, and for the payment of the indebtedness of Levee District Number One, of Sutter County," approved March 20th, 1874. [Approved April 1, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section one of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section one (1). Said Levee District Number One shall be bounded as follows: Commencing at a point on the levee built by said district where the southern boundary of said district intersects the levee; thence northerly along the line of said levee, following the meanders thereof, to the northern boundary of Schuessler's vineyard, on the south side of Yuba City; thence east along the northern boundary of said vineyard to the bank of Feather River; thence northerly up the bank of said river to the Feather River bridge; thence northerly along the line of the levee to the northern boundary line of section number ten, township number fifteen north, range three east, Mount Diablo meridian; thence west to the northwest corner of said section number ten; thence south to the northeast corner of section number twenty-one; thence west to the northeast corner of section number twenty; thence south to the south- CHAP. DLXXIV.-An Act for the relief of A. D. Splivalo, [Approved April 1, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and ty granted. SECTION 1. That Augustus D. Splivalo, J. H. Coleman, Release and Juan de Toro, of the City and County of San Francisco, from liabili State of California, be and they are hereby released and relieved from all liability on a certain bail bond, in the sum of five thousand dollars, payable to the people of the State of California, dated and approved March 10th, 1873, and conditioned for the appearance of one Auguste Ducommun in whatever Court the charge in said bail bond mentioned should be prosecuted. SEC. 2. That Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAP. DLXXV.-An Act conferring further powers upon the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco. [Approved April 1, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and authorized SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the City and Bord County of San Francisco is hereby authorized and empow- to make ered to cut, and fill, and grade to the official grade, as here certain improvements. |