An act providing for appeals from orders of the board of supervisors forming or refusing to form reclamation or swamp-land districts, setting off lands from such districts, or including lands in such districts. or consolidating swamp-land or reclamation districts.

[Approved March 11, 1893; Stats. 1893, p. 174.] Section 1. Any person having an interest affected by any order of the board of supervisors of any county, approving or refusing to approve any petition for the formation of a reclamation or swamp-land reclamation district, or in any manner creating or consolidating such districts, or including in or excluding from such district, any lands, may, within thirty days after said order is made, appeal therefrom to the superior court of the county.

or

Sec. 2. Such appeal shall be taken and prosecuted in the manner prescribed by law and the rules of said superior court relating to appeals from inferior courts, and the matter shall be tried anew in said superior court. The judgment rendered in the superior court in such matter shall be final. Each superior court held in any county of the state in which there are any reclamation swamp-land reclamation districts shall make rules regulating appeals in the cases herein before mentioned; and the clerk of the board of supervisors shall, upon a notice of appeal and undertaking on appeal being filed with him, transmit the same, and all papers and documents used on the hearing before said board, to the clerk of the superior court in and for said county, who shall thereupon file the same without receiving any fee therefor.

Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Sec. 4. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. An act to provide for funding the indebtedness of levee district number six, of Sutter county, and to provide for the payment of such funded debt.

This act was approved March 21, 1891, and will be found in Statutes 1891, p. 235.

An act to define the boundary and provide for the government of levee district number six, of Sutter county, California.

[Approved March 31, 1891; Stats. 1891, p. 237.] This act was approved March 31, 1891, and will be found in the statutes of 1891, p. 237.

An act providing for the payment of all moneys in the state treasury to the credit of swamp land district funds to the treasuries of the counties wherein the said swamp-land districts are situated, and to provide for the control of the same by the auditor and treasurer of said counties, and prescribing the duties of the controller and treasurer in relation thereto. [Approved March 31, 1891; Stats. 1891, p. 243.] The purpose of the act appears from the title.

An act to provide for the funding and refunding of the indebtedness of levee and protection districts.

[Stat. Approved April 1, 1897; Stats. 1897; chap. cclxvi.]

The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. The board of directors or trustees of any levee or protection district having an outstanding indebtedness of not less than twenty thousand dollars, evidenced by bonds or warrants of such district, by a vote of two-thirds of all the members thereof, are empowered, if they deem it for the best interest of such district to fund and refund the same, or any part thereof, and issue bonds of such district therefor, in sums of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars each, having not more than twenty years to run, and bearing a rate of interest not exceeding seven per cent per annum, payable semi-annually, which bonds shall be substantially in the following form:

No.

(Name of district), in the county of state of California, for value received, promises to pay or order, at the office of the California, on

treasurer of said district, in

or before the first day of 19-, the sum of dollars, in gold coin of the United States, with interest at the rate of per cent per annum, payable at the office of said treasurer semi-annually, on the first day of and in each year, on presentation and surrender of the interest coupons hereto attached. This bond is issued by the board of of said district in conformity with a resolution of said board, dated the day of, eighteen hundred and, and under authority conferred upon said board by the provisions of an act of the legislature of California, entitled "An act to provide for the funding and refunding of the indebtedness of levee and protection districts," approved (insert date of approval of the act).

In testimony whereof, the said district, by its board of, has caused this bond to be signed by the chairman of said board, and attested by the auditor of county, with his seal of office at

tached, this --day of

Attest:

18-.

Chairman of said Board. Auditor of --county.

And the interest coupons shall be in the following form:

The treasurer of (name of district) will pay to the holder hereof, on the day of —1—, at his office in dollars, gold coin, for interest on bond of said district numbered

Sec. 2. Bonds issued under this act shall be numbered consecutively, signed by the chairman of the board of directors, or trustees, as the case may be, and delivered to the auditor of the county in which the levee or protection district is situated, who shall countersign the same and affix thereto his official seal, and shall by him be delivered to the treasurer of the district, who shall deliver to such auditor his receipt therefor, and said treasurer shall stand charged on his official bond with all bonds delivered to him and the proceeds thereof, and he shall sell the same or exchange them under the direction of the board of directors or trustees of such levee or protection district, on the best available terms, for any legal indebtedness of such district, but in neither case for a less sum than the face value of the bonds and all interest accrued thereon at the date of such sale or ex

change; and if any portion of such bonds are sold for money, the proceeds thereof shall be applied exclusively to the payment of liabilities existing against the district at the date last above named. When they are exchanged for bonds or warrants or other legal evidences of district indebtedness, the treasurer shall at once cancel such evidences of indebtedness by indorsing thereon the amount for which they were received, the word "canceled" and the date of cancellation. He shall keep a record of all bonds sold or exchanged by him, by number, date of sale, amount, date of maturity, the name and post office address of the purchasers, and, if exchanged, what evidence of indebtedness was received therefor, which record shall be open at all times for public inspection. No such bond shall be sold or exchanged for any indebtedness of the district except by the approval of the board of directors or trustees thereof.

Sec. 3. The board of directors or trustees shall cause to be assessed and levied each year upon the assessable property of the district, in addition to the levy authorized for other purposes, a sufficient sum to pay the interest on outstanding bonds, issued in conformity with the provisions of this act, accruing before the next annual levy, and such proportion of the principal, that at the end of five years the sum raised from such levies shall equal at least twenty per cent of the amount of bonds issued, at the end of nine years at least forty per cent of the amount, and at and before the date of maturity of the bonds shall be equal to the whole amount of the principal, and the money arising from such levies shall be known as the bond fund, and shall be used for the payment of bonds and interest coupons, and for no other purpose whatever; and the treasurer shall open and keep in his books a separate and special account thereof, which at all times shall show the exact condition of said bond fund.

Sec. 4. Whenever there shall be in the bond fund of such district a surplus of five hundred dollars or more, over and above the interest maturing before the next levy, the treasurer shall give notice for two weeks in one or more newspapers of general circulation, printed and published in the county in which such district is situated, stating the amount of such surplus, and that on the day and

hour named in such notice, sealed proposals will be received at his office for the surrender of bonds of the district, and shall at the time and place named open the proposals and accept the lowest bid; provided, that no bid shall be accepted for an amount exceeding the par value of such bonds with accrued interest; if bids are not offered at par, or less, sufficient to exhaust the amount on hand applicable to redemption, the treasurer shall publish for the same time and in the same manner a notice that he will redeem a bond or bonds of said district, giving the number or numbers thereof, and that if not presented for redemption within thirty days after the date of the first publication of such notice, the interest thereon will cease, and the amount due thereon will be set aside for the payment of such bond or honds whenever presented. If any such bond be not so presented, interest thereon shall cease, and the amount due thereon shall be set aside as specified in said notice. All redemption of bonds other than those voluntarily surrendered shall be made in the exact order of their issuance, beginning with the lowest or first number.

Sec. 5. This act shall take effect immediately.

TITLE 155.

LIBEL.

Acts relating to: See Code of Civil Procedure, appendix, title Libel, p. 861.

TITLE 156.

LIBRARIES AND READING-ROOMS.

An act to establish free public libraries and reading-rooms.

[Approved April 26, 1880; 1880, 231 (Ban. ed. 524).]

Consult the statutes of 1880 for the act.