shall not be a member of the board, and shall thereupon provide for the time and place of holding its meetings, and the manner in which its special meetings may be called. All meetings of the board of directors, whether regular or special, shall be open to the public. A majority of the board of directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The board of directors shall establish rules for its proceedings.

§ 5. Office. Ordinances and resolutions. Compensation. The board of directors shall select an office and place of business within the distriet, and the said board of directors may hold sessions in any county within the district in the chambers of the boards of supervisors of each county, if suitable for the purpose, or such other suitable place as they may designate. Such meetings shall only be held for the purpose of considering local questions affecting the particular county in which the same are held or a group of counties which are conveniently located with respect to said place of meeting. The board of directors shall act only by ordinances or resolutions. The ayes and noes shall be taken upon the passage of all ordinances and resolutions, and entered upon the journal of the proceedings of the board. No ordinance or resolution shall be passed or become effective without the afirmative votes of at least a majority of the members of the board. The enacting clause of all ordinances passed by the bridge and highway district shall be in these words "Be it ordained by the board of directors of bridge and highway district as follows:". All resolations and ordinances shall be signed by the president of the board of directors, and attested by the secretary. Each of the members of the board of directors shall receive for his attendance at the meeting of the board twenty dollars, and his necessary traveling expenses, and shall receive no other compensation. No director, however, shall receive pay for more than three meetings in any one calendar month.

§ 6. General manager, auditor and secretary. The board of directors shall at its first meeting, or as soon thereafter as practicable, appoint by a majority vote a general manager, an auditor and a secretary. No director shall be eligible for the office of general manager, or any other of the subordinate officers, except president or vice-president of the board of directors. The general manager, auditor, secretary and subordinate officers shall receive such compensation as the board of directors shall determine, and shall serve during the pleasure of the board.

§7. General manager's powers and duties. The general manager shall have full power and authority to employ and discharge all subordinate officers, employees and assistants at pleasure, prescribe their duties, and shall, subject to the board of directors, fix their compensation. He shall have full charge and control of the construction, maintenance and operation of all works of the district, and shall be the executive officer thereof. The general manager shall report to the board of directors in accordance with such rules and regulations as they may adopt. The board of directors shall outline rules of policy, approve plans, and vote or withhold appropriations to carry the same into effect.

§ 8. Attorneys and other officers. The board of directors shall appoint an attorney and all subordinate officers not provided to be appointed by the general manager, and shall fix their salaries; such subordinate officers to serve at the pleasure of the board.

§ 9. Validity of incorporation. No informality in any proceeding not substantially affecting adversely the legal rights of any citizen shall be held to invalidate the incorporation of any bridge and highway district, and any proceedings wherein the validity of such incorporation is denied shall be commenced within three months from the date of the certificate of incorporation; otherwise said incorporation and the legal existence of said bridge and highway district, and all proceedings in respect thereof, shall be held to be valid and in every respect legal and incontestable.

§ 10. Powers. Any bridge and highway district incorporated as herein provided shall have power,

1. Succession. To have perpetual succession.

2. Suits. To sue and be sued, except as otherwise provided herein, by law, in all actions and proceedings in all courts and tribunals of competent jurisdiction.

3. Seal. To adopt a seal and alter it at pleasure.

4. Property. To take by grant, purchase, gift, devise or lease, and to hold, use, enjoy and to lease and dispose of real or personal property of every kind within or without the district necessary to the full exercise of its powers.

5. Operative property. To acquire, or contract to acquire; to construct under contract, or by its own employees, bridges, abutments, rights of way, roads, tunnels, railroads, streetcar lines, interurban lines, telephone and telegraph lines, foot paths, viaducts, toll gates, toll houses, subways, and all other forms of property necessary or proper to the construction, operation, maintenance or supervision of its works, and to construct, maintain and operate, or construct or operate any of the foregong classes of property, and all machinery or other property useful or necessary to construct, maintain, operate or otherwise make use of toll bridges and highways for the benefit of the district, and to complete, add to, repair or otherwise improve any of such property acquired by it as herein authorized.

6. Rights of way. Charges. To acquire by purchase, gift or condemnation, or to lease of and from the government of the United States, from this state, or from any person, firm or public or private corporation, with the privilege of purchasing or otherwise, lands, rights of way, or rights in, over or across lands or waters necessary or proper for the construction or operation of bridges, and the approaches thereto, as herein provided; also to fix and collect tolls, charges, rentals and other rates of income for the purpose of meeting the obligations of the district and repaying the same, and disposing of the surplus to the various counties within the district, as hereinafter provided.

7. Eminent domain. To have and exercise the right of eminent domain and in the manner provided by law for the condemnation of private property for public use, to take any property necessary for the construction of such bridges, or the approaches thereto, or the

highways leading thereto, whether such property be already devoted to the same use or another public use, or otherwise, and may condemn any existing highway, right of way or any portion thereof by whomsoever owned. In any proceeding relative to the exercise of such right the district shall have the same rights, powers and privileges as the state of California. In the case of condemnation or property by the district, the district may take possession and use said property as provided by section one thousand two hundred fifty-four of the Code of Civil Procedure.

8. Debts. To borrow money, incur indebtedness and to issue bonds or other evidences of such indebtedness; also to refund or retire any indebtedness or lien that may exist against the district or any property thereof.

9. Levy of taxes. To cause taxes to be levied for the purpose of paying running expenses, the organization expenses and the investigation expenses of the district before the issuance of bonds, and after the issuance of bonds to cause taxes to be levied for the purpose of paying any obligation of the district. Any of said taxes shall be levied and collected in the manner hereinafter provided.

10. Contracts. To make contracts, to employ labor, and all kinds of employees, whether skilled or unskilled, for the purpose of carrying on the business of the district, and to do all acts necessary for the full exercise of the foregoing powers.

11. Condemnation proceedings. In case of condemnation proceedings the board shall proceed in the name of the district.

12. Rules, regulations, agreements, etc. To establish all necessary rules, regulations or conditions under which the property of the distriet may be used by the public and to fix and collect all charges for the use thereof, and to enter into contracts with public or private persons, officers or corporations, whereby the facilities constructed by the district may be made use of, by such persons, officers, or corporations, and at the tolls, charges or for the consideration fixed by such contracts.

§ 11. Board to exercise powers. The powers herein enumerated shall, except as herein otherwise provided, be exercised by the board of directors, above provided for and appointed as prescribed herein. § 12. Duties of officers. Official bonds. The president shall sign all contracts on behalf of the district, and perform such other duties as may be imposed by the board of directors.

The secretary shall countersign all contracts on behalf of the district a perform such other duties as may be imposed by the board of directors. The secretary shall give his full time during office hours to the affairs of the district.

The auditor shall be charged with the duty of installing and maintaining a system of auditing and accounting that shall completely at all times show the financial condition of the district. He shall draw warrants to pay the demands made against the district when such demands have been first approved by the general manager, and the

auditing committee, consisting of at least three members of the board of directors, and passed by the board.

The engineer shall have, under the direction of the general manager, full charge of the constructions and of the works of the district, and the attorney shall have full charge of the legal matters appertaining to said district, and shall be the legal advisor to the board of directors, to the general manager, and to all of the officers of the district.

The board of directors must also designate the depositary, which shall be a bank of good standing, and may also designate other banks as branch depositaries to have the custody of the funds of the district, all of which depositaries or branch depositarics shall give security sufficient to secure the district against possible loss, and shall pay the warrants drawn by the auditor for demands against the district under such rules as the directors may prescribe.

The board of directors may also prescribe that the funds of the district be deposited in the state treasury of the state of California, either in whole or in part, and the said state treasurer is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to receive the same and pay the same out upon the warrants of the district, under such rules as the directors may prescribe.

Official bonds. The general manager, secretary, auditor, engineer, and attorney, and all other officers or assistants of said district who may be required to do so by the board of directors, shall give such bonds to the district, conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties, as the board of directors from time to time may provide.

§ 13. Plans, data, etc. After the organization of the district it shall be the duty of the board of directors, the general manager, and all of the officers thereof, to prepare, plans, both engineering and financial, for the purpose of putting into operation the project for which the district has been organized, and to secure the necessary data, contracts, agreements, plans and specifications for the prosecution of such work as will enable them to put the matter before the voters at an election held for the purpose of authorizing the bonds of the district.

§ 14. Tax levy. Collection. Lien. The board of directors shall in the month of July of each year determine the amount necessary to be raised by taxation, and shall fix a rate of taxes to be levied which will raise the amount of money required by the district, not exceeding, however, the rate of ten cents on each one hundred dollars of assessed valuation when the purpose of such taxes is to supply funds for investigating the project prior to the issuance of bonds and the payment of the officers and employees of the district prior to the time when the works of the district are earning revenue, and within a reasonable time previous to the time when the boards of supervisors are required by law to fix their tax rates, to certify to the boards of supervisors of each county within the district, or having a portion of its territory within the district, the rates so fixed with a direction that at the time and in the manner required by law for the levying of taxes for county purposes such board of supervisors shall levy and collect a tax in addition to such other tax as may be levied by such board of supervisors at the rate so fixed and determined, and it is made the duty

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of the officer or body having authority to levy taxes within each county or city and county to levy the tax so required,

Collection. and it shall be the duty of all county or city and county officials charged with the duty of collecting taxes to collect such taxes in the time, form and manner as county or city and county taxes are collected, and when collected to pay the same to the district ordering its levy and collection, and such payments shall be made through the secretary of the district, and paid into the depositary thereof, or into the state treasury to the credit of the district.

Lien. Such taxes shall be a lien upon all property within the territory comprising the district, and of the same force and effect as other liens for taxes, and their collection may be enforced by the same means as provided for the enforcement of liens for county taxes; No taxes for new projects. provided, that no taxes shall be levied by the board under the provisions of this section for the purpose of earrying out new projects after the original project for which the district was formed has been completed.

§ 15. Bond election resolution. Notice. Conduct of election. Whenever the board of directors deem it necessary for the district to incur a bonded indebtedness it shall, by resolution so declare and state the proposition to be submitted to the electors, the purpose for which the proposed debt is to be incurred, the amount of debt to be incurred, the maximum term the bonds proposed to be issued shall run before maturity, which shall not exceed forty years, and the maximum rate of interest to be paid, which shall not exceed six per centum per annum. The proposition to be submitted to the electors shall contain a statement that interest, to be paid upon such bonds, during the period of construction of the works of the district and before any revenue is obtained therefrom shall be payable out of the principal sum realized from the sale of the bonds, which is hereby declared to be a capital charge.

Date of election. The board of directors shall fix a date upon which an election shall be held for the purpose of authorizing said bonded indebtedness to be incurred. It shall be the duty of the board of directors to provide for holding such special election on the date so fixed and in accordance with the general election laws of the state so far as the same shall be applicable, except as herein otherwise provided.

Notice of election. Such board of directors shall give notice of the holding of such election, which notice shall refer to the resolution adopted by the board of directors of the bridge and highway district and shall specify the precincts or consolidated precincts in each county or portion of a county or city and county which are adopted for the purposes of such election, the location of the balloting places, and the names of the officers selected to conduct the election, who shall consist of one inspector and two judges in each precinct. Such notice shall contain only the reference to the precincts, polling places and election officers in the county in which it is published and shall be published for two weeks in at least one newspaper and not more than three newspapers published in each county or portion of a