TITLE 260. LEASES. ACT 1890. An act concerning confirming and ratifying leases and other contracts made by any officer or boards of officers of this state. [Approved March 23, 1901. Stats. 1901, 601.] The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. All leases for terminal facilities made or executed by any state officer or board of state officers to any person, persons or corporation within two years prior to th passage of this act and which shall be on file in the office of the secretary of state on or before February fifteenth, nineteen hundred and one, are hereby recognized, approved and ratified, and the terms, covenants and conditions thereof shall bind the parties thereto, their successors and assigns and the state of California. Sec. 2. The lease of the lands known as China basin in the city and county of San Francisco to the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway Company for terminal facilities, made on November twenty-first, nineteen hundred, by and between said company and the board of state harbor commissioners, is hereby approved and ratified, and the covenants, conditions and terms thereof shall bind the parties thereto, their successors and assigns, and the state of California. Sec. 3. All acts and part of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Sec. 4. This act shall take effect immediately. ACT 1895. TITLE 261. LEGAL TENDER. An act in relation to the currency of the United States. [Approved March 12, 1880; 1880, 8 (Ban. ed. 28).] Cal. Rep. Cit. 104, 689. Section 1. All legal-tender notes heretofore issued, or which may hereafter be issued, by the government of the United States of America, as legal-tender notes, shall be received at par in payment for all taxes due or to become due to this state, or to any county or municipal corporation thereof, and such notes shall be a legal tender for all debts, dues, and demands between citizens of this state. Sec. 2. All acts, and the provisions of any act or parts of acts, conflicting with this act are hereby repealed. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. ACT 1900. TITLE 262. For the creation of a commission for the promotion of uniformity of legislation in the United States, and to appropriate money for its expenses. [Approved March 9, 1897. Stats. 1897, 74.] Repealed 1901, 49. TITLE 263. АСТ 1905. LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTS. Senatorial and assembly districts, defining. [Stats. 1873-4, p. 366.] Amended 1880, 4. Repealed 1883, 58, 85, chaps. XXXIV, XLVII. Cal. Rep. Cit. 65, 578; 96, 292. АСТ 1906. To divide the state into senatorial districts, and to provide for the election of senators therein. [Stats 1883, p. 58.] To divide the state into assembly districts, and to provide for the election of assemblymen. [Stats. 1883, p. 85.] Repealed 1891, 71, chap. LXXXI. ACT 1908. To divide the state into legislative districts, and to provide for the election of assemblymen and senators in each district. [Stats. 1891, p. 71.] Superseded 1901, 535, chap. CXCIV. ACT 1909. To divide the state into legislative districts, and to provide for the election of senators and assemblymen therein. [Stats. 1901, p. 535.] An act to provide for the formation of levee districts in the various counties of this state, and to provide for the erection of levees, dikes and other works for the purpose of protecting the lands within such districts from overflow and to levy assessments to erect and construct and maintain such levees, dikes and other works and to pay the necessary costs and expenses of maintaining said districts. [Approved March 20, 1905. Stats. 1905, p. 327.] Section 1. Whenever the board of supervisors of any county in this state shall receive a petition signed by a majority of the land owners within any portion of said county, accompanied by a deposit sufficient to cover the cost of publication of all notices required by the first two sections of this act, which said portion of said county shall be specifically described and set out by metes and bounds in said petition, asking that said portion of said county be set apart and erected into a levee district for the purpose of protecting the lands embraced in said portion of said county from overflow from any river, stream or streams, or water course, the board of supervisors shall pass a resolution signifying its intention to erect and set apart said portion of said county into a levee district, for the purpose of protecting the lands therein from overflow and describing the exterior boundaries of the district of lands embraced therein and to be assessed to pay the damages, costs and expenses thereof. Such resolution shall also contain a notice to be published, which said notice shall be headed "Notice of intention of the board of supervisors to form a levee district," and shall state the fact of the passage of such resolution, with the date thereof, the bound aries of the district, and the statement that it is proposed to assess all properties embraced within such proposed levee district for the purpose of paying the damages, costs and expenses of erecting and repairing dikes, levees and other improvements to protect the said lands from overflow, and the necessary expenses of maintaining the said district and refer to the resolution for further particulars. Such notice to be given by the board of supervisors and signed by its clerk. Sec. 2. Such notice shall be published for a period of thirty days, in a newspaper published and circulated in said county and designated by said board of supervisors. Sec. 3. Any person interested, objecting to the formation of such levee district or to the extent of the district of lands to be affected or benefited by erection or repair of such dikes, levees or other improvements to protect the same from overflow, and to be assessed to pay the costs and expenses thereof, may make written objections to the same within ten days after the expiration of the time of the publication of said notice, which objection shall be deliv ered to the clerk of said board of supervisors, who shall indorse thereon the date of its reception, by him, and at the next regular meeting of said board of supervisors, or at an adjourned meeting, or a special meeting called for that purpose, after the expiration of said ten days lay such obJections before said board of supervisors, said board shall then fix a time for hearing of said objections not less than fifteen days thereafter, and direct its clerk to notify each person objecting of such day fixed for hearing, by depositIng a notice thereof in the postoffice at the county seat of such county, postage prepaid, addressed to such person objecting, which said notice shall be deposited in the postoffice not less than ten days before the day set for hearing. Sec. 4. At the time specified or to which the hearing may be adjourned, the board of supervisors shall hear the objections urged and pass upon the same. Such board may, in its discretion, sustain, in whole or in part, any or all of the objections made and filed, and may change or alter the boundaries of such district to conform to the needs of the district, and may in its discretion declare such levee district formed as a subdivision of such county, and shall designate such district by name as the Levee Dis trict of County." Sec. 5. If it shall appear to the satisfaction of the board of supervisors that it is the desire of a majority of the owners of land in such proposed district that the same should be erected into a levee district, and that it is just and proper, they may declare said territory a levee district for the above purposes, and record the same in a book to be kept for that purpose, giving the metes and bounds, and thereafter the board of supervisors shall be deemed to have acquired jurisdiction to purchase or receive by donation, in the name of the district, any real or personal property necessary to properly carry out the purposes of the formation of such district under the same rules as govern the purchase of property in the name of the county; and to do all things necessary for the formation of such district and the erection and repair of dikes, levees and other improvements to protect the lands within such district from overflow. Sec. 6. The board of supervisors of such county shall also have power to condemn land for the purposes of erecting dikes, levees, and other improvements for the purpose of protecting the lands embraced in such district from overflow, and for that purpose all of the provisions of part three, title seven, of the Code of Civil Procedure are hereby made applicable to the exercise of the right of eminent domain for such purposes or for any purpose necessary to the needs of such district when formed. If such district is created all expenses incurred in the formation of the same shall be a charge against such district and shall be paid as other claims against such district. Sec. 7. Having acquired jurisdiction as provided in the foregoing sections of this act, the board of supervisors shall immediately appoint three commissioners one of whom shall be an engineer, which said commissioners before entering upon the discharge of their duties shall take an oath to faithfully discharge the same, and said commissioners shall proceed to cause a survey of the contemplated improvements in the way of the erection or repair of levees, dikes, and other works for the benefit of the said district, and shall assess all damages which may be done to any land, owner or persons, by reason of the taking of land, property, or otherwise for the erection, or repair of such levees, dikes, or other works, and shall ascertain the names of all persons who waive, or claim, damages for the same. And in the event that said commissioners shall find it necessary to use any levee, or work or protection, which has heretofore been constructed by private enterprise, the said commissioners shall cause the said levee, or other work of protection, to be measured, or appraised and a value placed thereon, and shall ascertain the name of the owner, or |