nished to or retained by the chief of what is filed at the permanent office of said bureau, and except memoranda made by him, shall be public records and shall be filed with and recorded and kept at the permanent office of said bureau, except as herein otherwise provided. § 8. Papers kept confidential. Any and all persons receiving service from said bureau, as herein provided, may by request in writing filed with the bureau have all their personal papers and correspondence temporarily kept private and confidential, but said papers and correspondence shall become public records whenever the said board or the legislature shall so order or said written request is withdrawn. § 9. Unexpended balance available. The unexpended balance of the moneys heretofore appropriated for the support and salaries of the legislative counsel bureau by an act entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the government of the state of California for the sixty-seventh and sixty-eighth fiscal years," approved May 19, 1915, is hereby made available to carry out the provisions of this act. [Amendment of May 31, 1917. In effect July 30, 1917. Stats. 1917, p. 1401.] АСТ 4260. An act providing for an investigation by the legislative counsel of laws relating to roads, streets, highways and bridges, and for the submission of a report thereon to the governor for presentation to the legislature. [Approved March 25, 1919. Stats. 1919, p. 18. In effect July 22, 1919.] § 1. Report on road laws by legislative counsel. § 1. Report on road laws by legislative counsel. The legislative counsel is hereby directed to investigate and study the existing laws of this and other states relating to roads, streets, highways and bridges, and to prepare a report, accompanied by a draft of an act or acts, codifying and perfecting the laws of this state relating thereto. Such report shall be printed by the superintendent of state printing and shall be submitted to the governor on or before the first day of November in the year 1920, and shall be presented by him to the legislature at the opening of its forty-fourth session. ACT 4270. TITLE 317. LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTS. Senatorial and assembly districts, defining. [Stats. 1873-74, p. 366.] Amended 1880, p. 4. Repealed 1883, pp. 58, 85. See Acts 4271, 4272. АСТ 4271. To divide the state into senatorial districts, and to provide for the election of senators therein. [Stats. 1883, p. 58.] Repealed 1891, p. 71. See Act 4273. ACT 4272. To divide the state into assembly districts, and to provide for the election of assemblymen. [Stats. 1883, p. 85.] Repealed 1891, p. 71. See next act. АСТ 4273. To divide the state into legislative districts, and to provide for the election of assemblymen and senators in such districts. [Approved March 11, 1891. Stats. 1891, p. 71.] Superseded 1901, p. 535. Repealed January 2, 1912 (Stats. Ex. Sess. 1911, p. 140). See Pol. Code, § 78. ACT 4274. To divide the state into legislative districts, and to provide for the election of assemblymen and senators therein. [Approved March 21, 1901. Stats. 1901, p. 535.] Repealed January 2, 1912 (Stats. Ex. Sess. 1911, p. 140). See Pol. Code, § 78. ACT 4284. TITLE 318. 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. Amended 1907, p. 333; 1911, p. 1212; Stats. 1905, p. 327.] 1917, p. 824. Stats. 1907, p. 333. Amendment of act of 1905 relating to the formation of levee districts. Term of publication. § 1. § 2. Petition to supervisors for formation of levee district. Objections to formation of district. Time for hearing. Declaration of supervisors. Resolu Notice of election of trustees. Who may vote. Conduct of election. Board of trustees must keep office. Powers of trustees. Yearly estimate of costs. Report to board of supervisors. Duty of county assessor. Annual tax levy. Disposition of moneys collected. Payment of claims. Construction must be by contract; exception. Sealed bids. When county may contribute to expenses. § 12. § 13. § 14. Bond of trustees. § 15. § 16. Power to condemn land. Not to supersede other acts. Land in different counties may form a levee district. Declaration forwarded to all supervisors of counties represented. Division of estimate among counties. § 23. Applicable to assessors and supervisors of each county. § 24. § 25. Treasurer of county in which petition was filed to be repository of funds. See "Protection Districts"; "Reclamation Districts"; "Swamp and Overflowed Lands." § 1. Amendment of act of 1905 relating to the formation of levee districts. 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, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: [Amendment approved March 16, 1907. Stats. 1907, p. 333.] § 2. Petition to supervisors for formation of levee district. Resolution of intention. Publication of notice. 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 sections 2 and 3 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 watercourse, 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 boundaries 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 expense 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. Petitions shall be heard in the order of filing. [Amendment approved March 16, 1907. Stats. 1907, p. 333.] § 3. Term of publication. 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. [Amendment approved March 16, 1907. Stats. 1907, p. 334.] § 4. Objections to formation of district. Time for hearing. 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 delivered 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. [Amendment approved March 16, 1907. Stats. 1907, p. 334.] § 5. Hearing. 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 must declare such levee district as petitioned for formed as a subdivision of such county, and shall designate such district by name as the "- Levee District of County." [Amendment approved March 16, 1907. Stats. 1907, p. 334.] 66 § 6. Declaration of supervisors. 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. [Amendment approved March 16, 1907. Stats. 1907, p. 334.] § 7. Notice of election of trustees. Who may vote. Conduct of election. Within ten days after the board of supervisors have declared the territory a levee district and recorded the same as provided in section 5 of this act, the board of supervisors must give notice of an election to be held in the said district, for the election of three eligible persons, who shall be property owners in said district and who shall constitute when elected and qualified, the board of trustees of the district for the management of the affairs thereof, and who shall hold office for two years next succeeding their election, and until their successors are elected and qualified. The notice calling such election shall not be less than one month, and at such election every qualified elector in said district whose name shall appear on the last preceding assessment-roll of the county and having been assessed on property within the boundaries of said district, shall be entitled to vote, and a majority of votes cast at such election shall elect. The board of supervisors must appoint a time and place for holding such election. The notice of such election shall be given by publication for not less than one month, in a newspaper in the County where such district is situated. For the purpose of such election the board of supervisors of the county in which said district is situated must appoint from the qualified electors and property owners of said district, one inspector and two judges of election for such district; but in case the board of supervisors fail to appoint, or the persons appointed, fail to attend at the time and place appointed for such election, the voters present at the time and place of opening the polls may appoint the board or supply the place of the absent member thereof. Each member of the board of election must before entering upon his duties, be sworn to faithful performance thereof by some officer authorized to administer oaths. The board of election must canvass the votes cast, and issue certificates of election to the persons elected, and must place the ballots when canvassed in an envelope, and forward the same sealed to the clerk of the board of supervisors. Any legally qualified voter may challenge any vote, and the board of election shall determine, by the oath of the parties or otherwise, as they may think proper, whether or not the person challenged is entitled to vote, and in case of challenge, either one of the board of election is hereby authorized to administer oaths. The polls shall be open from 10 A. M. until 4 P. M. In case of vacancy in the board of trustees, the board of supervisors shall by appointment fill such vacancy. Similar elections shall be held every two years from and after the date of the first election, and shall be called in the same way as the first election. [Amendment approved March 16, 1907. Stats. 1907, p. 335.] § 8. Board of trustees must keep office. Powers of trustees. Yearly estimate of costs. Report to board of supervisors. The board of trustees must keep an office in or near the district for the transaction of the business thereof, and the books, maps, papers, records, contracts and other documents pertaining to the affairs of the district must be open for inspection to any person interested at all times. From and after the election and qualification of said trustee said district shall be deemed organized and shall have power to sue or be sued. The board of trustees shall have power to elect one of its members president thereof, to employ engineers and others, to survey, plan, locate and estimate the cost of the works and improvements necessary, in the way of erection or repair of levees, dikes and other works for the benefit of said district; to thereafter and at any time in its discretion modify or change said original plan or plans or to adopt any new supplemental or additional plan or plans, when in its judgment the same shall become necessary; to acquire by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, rights of way, and the right to take material for the construction of all works necessary for the accomplishment of the objects of the district including drains, levees and embankments, and to construct, maintain and keep in repair all works, requisite and necessary to that end; and to do all other acts and things necessary or required for the protection of the lands in said district from the overflow of any river, stream, streams or watercourse, and to employ the service of any person legal or otherwise which in the judgment of said board of trustees may be necessary to the welfare of the district. The said board of trustees shall each year estimate the total cost for all purposes of erecting, constructing or repairing levees, dikes or other works, and doing the necessary things for the protection of the lands and property within said district from the overflow of any river, stream, streams or watercourse, and maintain the same for one year, including all damages awarded to any person by reason of the erection or construction of any of said levees, dikes or other works for protec |