from the aggregate assessed value of the property in the district as it appears on the assessment roll for the current year, and then dividing the sum voted by the remainder of such aggregate assessed value. The assessments so levied shall be computed and entered on the assessment roll by the secretary of the board, and collected at the same time and in the same manner as other assessments provided for herein; and when collected shall be paid into the district treasury for the purposes specified in the notice of such special election.

SEC. 41. The board of directors or other officers of the district shall have no power to incur any debt or liability whatever, either by issuing bonds or otherwise, in excess of the express provisions of this act; and any debt or liability incurred in excess of such express provisions shall be and remain absolutely void.

SEC. 42. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. 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.

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 or 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.

[Approved March 31, 1891; Stats. 1891, p. 235.]

SECTION 1. The board of directors of levee district number six, of Sutter County, are hereby authorized and empowered

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to prepare and provide bonds of said levee district, not exceeding the aggregate amount of fifteen thousand dollars, for the purpose of providing funds for the payment of funding the indebtedness of said levee district.

SEC. 2. The bonds shall designate the levee district by its corporate name; shall be issued in sums of not less than one hundred dollars; shall be made payable in twenty years after date; shall bear interest at the rate of six per cent per annum, interest payable annually on the first day of July of each year. The principal and interest shall be payable in United States gold coin, at the office of the county treasurer of Sutter County. The bonds shall be numbered consecutively, and bear the same date, although issued at different times; shall be signed by the chairman of the board of directors, and countersigned by the auditor of Sutter County, and shall express on their face that they are issued by authority of this act, stating its title and date of approval. Coupons for the interest shall be so attached to each bond that they may be detached without mutilating the bond, each of which coupons shall be signed by the chairman of the board of directors.

SEC. 3. The bonds, or any part thereof, may be sold under the direction of the board of directors to the person or persons who will pay the highest price therefor; provided, that no bond shall be sold for less than par in gold coin, and the purchaser whose bid shall be accepted shall pay the county treasurer, to the credit of said district, the amount of such bid in gold coin, and the treasurer shall receipt for the same; and such purchaser shall, upon delivery of such receipt to the county auditor, be entitled to receive the bonds so purchased; provided, that before delivery of such bonds the auditor shall detach therefrom all coupons for accrued interest; provided further, that the board of directors are hereby authorized and required to apply said bonds, valued at par, to the funding, by receiving in exchange at par all outstanding warrants which have been legally issued against said levee district, with interest on such warrants from date of their registration. In such funding, interest shall be allowed on such warrant to the first of July next ensuing, and the auditor shall remove from the bond, before delivery, all coupons for accrued interest to that date, which coupon shall be marked as canceled by adding the word "unpaid."

SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the auditor and treasurer, each, to keep a separate record of all bonds issued under the authority of this act, showing the date of issue, the number, amount, to whom issued, and whether for coin or for funding, with a description of the warrants funded.

SEC. 5. Said levee directors shall annually, and at the time of levying the taxes for other purposes of said district, levy a tax, in addition to all other taxes levied for said district, suffielent in amount to provide for the payment of the interest on the outstanding bonds of said district, and after two years an amount sufficient to pay one eighteenth of the principal of all bonds then sold and outstanding against said district; provided,

that no bonds shall be sold hereunder after the payment of the second year's interest.

SEC. 6. The funds levied and collected, as provided in the preceding section, for the payment of the principal and interest shall not be appropriated to any other purpose whatever.

SEC. 7. The treasurer of Sutter County shall, on the first day of July each year, pay the interest falling due on the bonds issued under this act out of the money for that purpose in his possession. Whenever there is in his hands any sum exceeding ($200) two hundred dollars collected for the purpose of redeeming the principal of said bonds, or whenever there shall at any time remain a surplus of two hundred dollars or more in the interest or sinking fund of said district, he shall advertise in some public manner, to be prescribed by the directors of said district, for thirty days, for sealed proposals for the redemption of said bonds; said advertisement specifying the day and hour when and the place where such proposals will be opened. At the time and place specified, the treasurer shall open said proposals in the presence of such persons as may be present, and shall redeem such bonds as are offered at the lowest rate to said levee district; provided, that no bonds shall be redeemed at more than par; provided further, that if proposals are not offered at par, or less, sufficient to exhaust the amount on hand applicable to redemption, the treasurer shall publish for ten days, in a daily newspaper published in San Francisco having general circulation in the state, that he will redeem bond or bonds of said district, commencing with the highest number and giving the amounts, and that at the expiration of thirty days from the date of the notice, if said bonds are not presented for redemption, the interest thereon will close, from and after which time no interest shall be allowed on such bonds. All bonds redeemed shall be by the treasurer marked "paid," and delivered to the auditor for cancellation. SEC. 8. This act shall take effect immediately.

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

[Approved March 31, 1891; Stats. 1891, p. 237.]

SECTION 1. All that certain territory in Sutter County, California, bounded as follows, to wit: Beginning at a point on the line of the levee, on the east side of Feather River, where the line between the lands of D. H. Redfield and of the estate of N. Algiers (as said lands were owned in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-one) intersects said levee; thence southeasterly, along said dividing line, to the southeasterly corner of said Redfield's land; thence south westerly and south, following the westerly boundary of levee district number two to the center of section twenty-five, in township twelve north, range three east; thence east forty chains to the quarter-section corner on range line between ranges three and four cast; thence south one hundred and twenty chains to the north bank of Auburn Ravine; thence south westerly, following said Auburn Ravine, to the point where the line between sections one and twelve in township eleven north, range three east, intersects

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said ravine; thence west, about one hundred and twenty
chains, to the corner common to sections two, three, ten, and
eleven in township eleven north, range three east; thence
north twenty chains; thence west, about one mile, to the east
bank of said Feather River; and thence up said Feather River,
following the bank of the same and the westerly line of said
levee, to the place of beginning,-containing six thousand
seven hundred and twenty-five acres, is hereby set apart and
erected into a levee district, to be known as levee district num-
ber six, of Sutter County.

SEC. 2. The board of supervisors of Sutter County shall, at
their first regular meeting after the passage of this act, cause
an election to be held at a point to be designated by said board
within the boundaries of said levee district number six for
the purpose of electing three directors, one assessor, and one
tax collector for said levee district number six. Notices of
such election must be posted in three public places in said dis-
trict for ten days before election; said notices shall name the
time and place of election, the name of the officers to be filled,
and also one inspector and two judges of election. At said
election, none shall be permitted to vote except the qualified
electors of the district. Said election shall be by ballot. The
returns, in accordance with the general election law now in
force, shall be made to the board of supervisors of said county,
which board of supervisors shall meet on the first Monday
after said election and canvass the said returns and declare the
result, and the county clerk shall issue certificates of election
to the persons so declared elected.

SEC. 3. The directors shall, each, within ten days after re-
ceiving a certificate of election, take the usual oath of office,
and file it in the county clerk's office, and they shall at their
first meeting decide, by lot, so that one shall go out of office on
the first Monday of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-two,
another on the first Monday of March, eighteen hundred and
ninety-three, and another on the first Monday of March, eigh-
teen hundred and ninety-four. At said first meeting they
shall elect a chairman and a clerk from their number, and a
majority shall be a quorum for transaction of business. The
board of directors are hereby constituted and declared to be
the legal representatives and successors of the board of super-
visors of Sutter County in all matters pertaining to levee dis-
triet number six, and they are hereby authorized to take
absolute charge, control, and possession of the levees of said
district number six, and to construct any other levees or
works of protection that they may deem necessary or proper
to protect any property in said district number six, and to re-
pair and strengthen the same; to make rules and regulations
for keeping said levees in proper condition; to examine them
in person, at all times; guard them against breaks; to have,
at all times, exclusive control and management of the same,
and to perform all duties and to be invested with all the pow
ers pertaining to said district number six heretofore devolving
on or invested in the said board of supervisors, except as herein
otherwise provided. All bills and accounts against said dis-

trict number six, either for valid contracts or just claims, shall be presented to said board of directors, and be by them approved or rejected; upon such approval, the clerk of said board of directors shall draw his warrant upon the county treasurer for the amount of any account thus allowed, and the treasurer is hereby authorized to pay warrants so drawn, out of any money in the fund of levée district number six not set apart for the payment of other indebtedness of the district; the clerk of the board of directors is hereby required to keep a warrantbook, and register all warrants drawn by him in the order of their issue.

SEC. 4. The term of office of directors is three years, except as provided in section three hereof, and of assessor and tax collector two years. Should a vacancy occur in the board of directors, it shall be filled by appointment by the remaining members, and the person so appointed shall hold the office for the unexpired term. Should a vacancy occur in the office of assessor and tax collector, it shall be filled by a special clection, to be conducted in all respects as elections provided for in the next section hereof.

SEC. 5. All elections, after the first herein provided for, for the election of officers of said district number six shall be held on the second Tuesday of December of each year, and the terms of the officers elected shall commence on the first Monday of March next ensuing; the board of directors are hereby required to post notices of such clection in three public places in said district number six, for ten days before election. Said notices shall specify the time and place of election, the offices to be filled, and name one inspector and two judges of election. Said election shall be by ballot, and the polls shall be kept open from one o'clock to five o'clock, P M. Returns, as hereinbefore provided, shall be made to the said board of supervisors, who shall, on the first Monday of January next ensuing, canvass said returns, and the county clerk shall issue certificates as provided in section two hereof.

SEC. 6. Every officer elected hereunder shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take the usual oath of office, and file the same in the county clerk's office. Within thirty days after his election, said assessor and tax collector shall enter into proper bonds, in an amount to be fixed by the said board of directors, payable to said levee district number six, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties. Said bonds shall be approved by and filed with said board of directors. All officers shall hold until their successors are elected or appointed and qualified. Said assessor and collector shall have, while in the discharge of their duties, all the powers and authority given by law, respectively, to county assessors and tax collectors.

SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of the district assessor, between the first Monday of March and the first Monday of July of each year, to assess all the real and personal property which was in the district on the first Monday of March of that year, at noon, and enroll the same in separate columns of the assessment