Appoint

ment of attorney; duties of.

Election of
Police
Judge.

work; and such assessment shall constitute a lien on such real estate until paid. All work done under the provisions of this section to be let by contract to the lowest bidder.

SEC. 28. The Board of Trustees may appoint an attorney, and allow him for his services what they may be reasonably worth, and also such fees in cases of conviction for breaches of ordinances as the Board may fix. It shall be his duty to attend all meetings of the Board of Trustees, when required by the Board or any member thereof; to conduct on behalf of the town all prosecutions for breaches of ordinances of said town; to defend all suits brought against the town; to prosecute all actions brought for the recovery of debts, fines, forfeitures, and penalties accruing to the town, and give, when required by the Board, without fee, his opinion in writing, on matters relating to the duties of the several officers of the town, and the government and control thereof. SEC. 29. A Police Judge shall be elected at the election to be held on the first Monday in February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, and each year thereafter, and shall hold office for one year from and after the first Jurisdiction Monday in March succeeding his election. Such Police Judge shall have jurisdiction within said town of actions for fines, penalties, or forfeitures imposed for breaches of ordinances of said town; of proceedings respecting vagrants and disorderly persons, and of all actions, civil and criminal, arising in said town; the jurisdiction of said Police Judge shall be the same as given to Justices of the Peace by the general laws of the State; provided, that in the event of the absence or other inability of said Police Judge, either of the Justices of the Peace of Chico Township may act in his stead, and for the occasion be ex officio Police Judge; provided, that until a Police Judge shall be elected and qualified under this section the Board of Trustees may select and designate any Justice of the Peace of Chico Township to be ex officio Police Judge.

of same.

Proceedings,

this Act; how

SEC. 30 All proceedings and actions under this Act, or etc., under under any ordinances passed in pursuance thereof, shall be commenced. commenced by a complaint setting forth the cause of action, so as to enable the defendant to understand the nature of the offense charged and to answer the complaint. All such complaints shall be verified by the party making them. The answer to the complaint may be oral or in writing, and immediately after answering the matter shall be tried, unless for good cause shown an adjournment be granted. In all cases the defendant shall, on demand, be entitled to a trial by jury.

Disposal

of fines.

SEC. 31. No fine imposed under this Act shall exceed five hundred dollars, nor imprisonment exceed three months.

SEC. 32. The Police Judge shall pay over all fines collected by him for breaches of ordinances to the Town Treasurer, taking his receipt therefor. The Police Judge's salary shall be fixed by the Board of Trustees; provided, such salary shall not be greater than one hundred dollars per month.

SEC. 33. No member of the Board of Trustees shall be

ested in

directly or indirectly interested in any contract or sale of Trustees to anything belonging to said town, or any work or business be disinterordered to be executed by authority of said Board. For a contracts. violation of this section the member so offending shall be expelled from the Board.

ordinances.

SEC. 34. The Board of Trustees shall have power to fix a Penalty for fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and a term of violation of imprisonment not exceeding three months, as the penalty for violation of any town ordinance; provided, that whenever sentence of imprisonment is passed upon an offender, the Police Judge shall include in such sentence that such offender shall be subject to labor under the charge of the Marshal, in accordance with the provisions of an ordinance made for that purpose. The Police Judge shall also in any suit tax the costs thereof against the person so convicted, and the same may be collected by execution as in civil cases.

of office.

SEC. 35. This Act shall not have the effect of shortening Act not to the term of office of any persons holding office under the Act shorten term to which this is amendatory. All ordinances of said Town of Chico, made under the Act of which this is amendatory, shall be and remain in effect as the ordinances of said town as though made under this Act, so far as the same are in accordance and do not conflict with the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 36. All Acts or parts of Acts heretofore passed to incorporate the Town of Chico, and all Acts and parts of Acts conflicting with this Act, so far as they affect the Town of Chico, are hereby repealed.

SEC. 37. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

CHAP. CCCXLIV.-An Act supplemental to an Act entitled an Act to re-incorporate the City of Sonora, Tuolumne County, approved January twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight.

[Approved March 23, 1878.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

delinquent

SECTION 1. In case any property shall become delinquent Disposal of for said tax and shall be offered for sale for such delinquent property not tax, and there is no purchaser in good faith for the same, as purchased. provided by law, on the first day that the property is offered for sale, then when the property is offered thereafter for sale, and there is no purchaser in good faith of the same, the whole amount of the property assessed shall be struck off to the Trustees of the City of Sonora, for the benefit of said city, and the duplicate certificate shall be delivered to the City Clerk and filed by him in his office.

tax.

SEC. 2. The Trustees shall also, on or before the first Street poll Monday in April in each year, levy a street poll tax, not exceeding three dollars per capita, upon each and every able

bodied male inhabitant residing in said city, between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years, which tax shall be kept apart from the other of said city, and shall be expended under the directions of the Trustees only for the repair and improvement of the streets, bridges, sewers, and drains of When delin- said city. Said tax shall become delinquent on the first Monday of May in each year, and shall be collected by the Collector of said city at any time thereafter, in the same manner provided by law for the collection of State poll taxes.

quent.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect immediately.

Boundaries

CHAP. CCCXLV.-An Act to create an irrigation district, to be called "The West Side Irrigation District," embracing certain portions of the Counties of San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Merced, and Fresno.

[Approved March 25, 1878.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. All that certain territory situated in the of irrigation Counties of San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Merced, and Fresno,

district defined.

and bounded as follows, viz.: Beginning at a point on the official line between the Counties of Alameda and San Joaquin, State of California, at the intersection thereof with the line between the swamp and overflowed lands and high lands, which point is eight and ninety-five one-hundredths chains east of the corner of sections twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one, and thirty-two, in township one south, range four east, Mount Diablo meridian, and running thence along the said line between the swamp and overflowed lands and the high lands east seven and thirty-five one-hundredths chains; thence south fifty-seven degrees east eleven and fifty onehundredths chains; thence south eighty degrees east fourteen chains; thence south seventy-seven and one-fourth degrees east seventeen and twenty one-hundredths chains; thence south thirty-three and one-half degrees east eighteen and twenty one-hundredths chains; thence south sixty-eight degrees east twelve and fifty one-hundredths chains; thence south forty-eight degrees east fifty-six and eighty one-hundredths chains; thence south sixty-eight and one-fourth degrees east nineteen and seventy one-hundredths chains to the line between townships one and two south, range four east, eighteen chains east of the corner of sections thirtythree, thirty-four, three, and four; thence south forty-six degrees east sixty-one and sixty one-hundredths chains; thence south thirty-six chains; thence south thirteen and one-half degrees east forty-one and eighty one-hundredths chains; thence north sixty-five and one-half degrees east, nine and fifty one-hundredths chains; thence north forty

of irrigation district

nine and one-half degrees east fourteen and fifty one-hun- Boundaries
dredths chains; thence south sixty-four and one-half degrees afte
east forty-two chains; thence south fifty-two degrees east defined.
forty and fifty one-hundredths chains; thence south fifty-
eight degrees east sixty-five chains; thence north seventy-
five degrees east (at twenty-five and eighty one-hundredths
chains intersecting the lines between townships two south,
ranges four and five east, forty-two chains north of the south-
east corner of section eighteen) one hundred and seventy-
seven and seventy one-hundredths chains; thence east
thirty-six chains; thence north eight chains; thence north
eighty-three and one-fourth degrees east eighty-one and
eleven one-hundredths chains to the dividing line between
sections nine and ten, township two south, range five east;
thence south along said line ninety-one and forty-nine one-
hundredths chains to the common corner of sections fifteen,
sixteen, twenty-one, and twenty-two, township two south,
range five east; thence east two hundred and forty chains to
the northeast corner of section twenty-four, township two
south, range five east; thence south thirty-three degrees and
forty-one minutes east seven hundred and twenty-one and
eleven one-hundredths chains to the southeast corner of the
northeast quarter of section twenty-six, township three south,
range six east; thence east one hundred and twenty-six and
seventy-six one-hundredths chains; thence south fifty-four
and one-fourth degrees east six chains; thence south sixty-
five and one-fourth degrees east thirty-two and thirty one-
hundredths chains; thence east ten chains; thence south
thirty-six chains; thence south fifty degrees east forty-seven
and eighty one-hundredths chains; thence south seventeen
and one-half degrees east thirty-eight chains to the line
between townships three and four south, range seven east,
fifty-nine chains east of the corner to sections thirty-one,
thirty-two, five, and six; thence south forty-two degrees east
fifty-four and eighty one-hundredths chains; thence south
fifteen and eighty one-hundredths chains; thence south
forty-one and one-half degrees east thirty chains; thence
south forty-six degrees west twenty-six and eighty one-hun-
dredths chains; thence south fifteen and twenty one-hun-
dredths chains; thence south fifty-five degrees west sixteen
and fifty one-hundredths chains; thence south eleven and
one-half degrees east fifty-two and seventy one-hundredths
chains; thence south forty-eight degrees east ninety-one and
fifty one-hundredths chains; thence east twenty-one chains;
thence north seventy-three degrees east sixty-one and eighty
one-hundredths chains; thence east twenty-one chains;
thence south twenty-one chains; thence south thirty-five
degrees west thirty-seven chains; thence south nineteen and
one-half degrees west twenty-five and sixty one-hundredths
chains; thence south eighteen and one-half degrees east
twenty-seven chains; thence south eighteen chains; thence
south sixty-five degrees east forty-three and seventy one-
hundreths chains; thence south seventy and one-half degrees
east forty-one and seventy one-hundredths chains; thence
south six chains; thence south sixty-eight degrees east

Boundaries thirty-seven chains; thence south seventy-eight and oneof irrigation fourth degrees east forty-five and twenty one-hundredths defined. chains to the corner of sections twenty-five, thirty-six,

district

thirty, and thirty-one, on the line between townships four south, ranges seven and eight east; thence south seventyone degrees east twenty-six chains; thence south fortytwo degrees east fifty-six and seventy-eight one-hundredths chains; thence east twenty-two chains; thence south fortyfive degrees east (at nine and fifty one-hundredths chains intersecting the boundary line between the Ranchos El Pescadero and Del Puerto) forty and fifty one-hundredths chains to the first standard south, between townships four and five south, range eight east, twenty-nine chains east of the corner to sections thirty-one and thirty-two; thence south sixteen chains; thence south twenty-two and one-fourth degrees east forty-four and sixty one-hundredths chains; thence south twenty-eight chains; thence east twenty-three and twenty one-hundredths chains; thence south thirtythree and one-fourth degrees east fifty-six and fifty one-hundredths chains; thence east twelve chains; thence south sixty-six and one-half degrees east eleven chains; thence south twenty-three chains; thence south twenty-six degrees east thirty-two and ninety one-hundredths chains; thence south forty-nine and one-fourth degrees west ten chains; thence south eleven degrees east thirteen chains; thence south fifty-three degrees east thirteen and sixty one-hundredths; thence east fifteen and fifty one-hundredths chains; thence north four and fifty one-hundredths chains; thence east ten chains; thence south twenty-six chains; thence east two chains; thence south fifty-three degrees twenty and eighty one-hundredths chains; thence south seventy-eight and one-half degrees east twelve and thirty one-hundredths chains; thence south thirty and three-fourths degrees east forty-nine chains; thence south twenty-eight and one-fourth degrees west twenty-seven and seventy one-hundredths. chains; thence south three and one-fourth degrees east fiftynine chains; thence south forty-four degrees east twentynine chains; thence east six chains; thence south two and sixty one-hundredths chains; thence south forty-three and one-fourth degrees east thirty-four and fifty one-hundredths chains; thence south fifty-four degrees east seventy and forty one-hundredths chains; thence east twenty-four chains; thence south ten chains to the line between townships five and six south, range eight east, twenty-four chains east of the corner of sections thirty-five, thirty-six, one, and two; thence south nineteen degrees west nineteen and thirty onehundredths chains; thence south nineteen degrees east fortyfour chains; thence east nineteen chains; thence south twenty-five and three-fourths degrees east (at thirteen chains intersecting the boundary line between the Ranchos del Puerto and Orestimba) twenty-two chains; thence south fifty-six and three-fourths degrees east twenty and seventy one-hundredths chains to the line between townships six south, ranges eight and nine east, sixty-eight and seventy one-hundredths chains north of the corner of sections twelve,