Members of Board not interested. Board to keep journal. Arrange ments for elections. No salary. Compensa tion of District Attorney. Second-Of proceedings respecting vagrants and disorderly persons, and they may issue such warrants of arrest as may be necessary to enforce such jurisdiction. SEC. 16. No member of the Board shall in anywise be interested in any contract or sale of anything belonging to said town or business ordered to be executed by said Board. SEC. 17. The Board shall keep a journal of their proceedings, and at the desire of any member shall cause the yeas and nays to be taken on any question before them and entered on the journal. Their proceedings shall be public, and their ordinances shall be signed by the President and Clerk, and published at least once in a newspaper printed in the town, if there be one; otherwise, posted in three conspicuous places in the town. SEC. 18. For the first election of Trustees, the Inspector and Judges shall be appointed by the said Board of Supervisors, and within three days after said election, the returns thereof shall be forwarded by such Judge and Inspectors to the Clerk of said Board of Supervisors, and said Clerk shall forthwith count the votes cast for Town Trustees and Town Assessor, and issue certificates of election to those having the highest number of votes for the offices for which they were respectively candidates. After the first election, the Trustees shall appoint the Election Boards and polling place or places, and the returns of each election shall be forwarded to the Clerk of the Board within three days thereafter. Within two days after receiving the returns of such election, the Board shall meet and canvass the returns, and enter in their minutes the names of the persons elected to fill the respective town offices for the ensuing year, and thereupon the Clerk of the Board shall issue certificates to the persons so declared elected. SEC. 19. The Trustees shall receive no salary or fee whatever as such Trustees. In case of a vacancy in the Board it shall be filled by the remaining Trustees, and the person so selected shall hold until the annual election of Trustees. SEC. 20. The District Attorney of Sutter County shall be ex officio Town Attorney of said town, and for his services shall receive such compensation as the Board, by ordinance or by resolution, may prescribe. SEC. 21. The town officers shall take and subscribe the oath required by law of county officers. SEC. 22. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. DIX.-An Act to provide for the extermination of squirrels in certain counties. [Approved March 30, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Fund. SECTION 1. The Boards of Supervisors of the Counties of Squirrel Los Angeles, Stanislaus, and Santa Barbara, are hereby authorized and directed to levy a tax of ten cents on the hundred dollars of the assessed property in said counties, the proceeds of which shall be set apart in the county treasury, and shall constitute a fund to be known as the Squirrel Fund, out of which all expenses provided for in this Act shall be paid; any amount remaining in said fund unexpended at the end of the fiscal year shall be transferred to the General Fund. SEC. 2. The several school districts, and the City of Los Squirrel Angeles, and the City of Santa Barbara, shall respectively districts. constitute squirrel districts. Squirrel tendent. SEC. 3. The Boards of Supervisors shall appoint one per- Supervisors son in each squirrel district, at such times and for such periods to appoint as it may deem necessary, whose duties shall be to superin- Superin-" tend the killing of squirrels in the district, to employ the necessary labor for the purpose, and such other duties as may be prescribed by the Boards. The person appointed shall be subject in all things to the direction of the Boards, and shall be removable at their pleasure. measures SEC. 4. The Boards of Supervisors shall, by orders entered supervisors in its minutes, prescribe the measures to be taken for the to prescribe extermination of squirrels in their respective counties, and and fix pay. shall fix the pay and prescribe the duties of the persons employed in said work, but the pay shall not exceed, for the Superintendents, two dollars and fifty cents, and for the other employés, one dollar and fifty cents per day for the time actually employed. The Boards shall also purchase the poison and other supplies necessary. SEC. 5. As often as may be necessary, the Boards shall fix Board to a day, for each district, on which the work of exterminating fix day. squirrels shall begin, and shall give at least ten days' notice to the Superintendents of Squirrel Killing of the district. Thereupon it shall be the duty of the Superintendents to procure the necessary poison, from the Supervisors if possible, and if not, from elsewhere, and to employ the necessary help for distributing the same, and on the day fixed, and days following, to cause the squirrels to be poisoned throughout the districts. The Superintendents and their employés are hereby authorized to enter upon private lands whenever and wherever may be necessary in the performance of their duties. Fund; how SEC. 6. Warrants upon the Squirrel Fund may be drawn Warrants on in anticipation of the levy and collection thereof for the Squirrel years eighteen hundred and seventy-eight and eighteen hun- drawn." dred and seventy-nine. SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Booms, CHAP. DX.-An Act to improve the stream known as Mad River and its north fork, in Humboldt County, and to facilitate the driving of logs therein. [Approved March 30, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. H. G. Vance, Nelson Young, and R. Gross, dams, etc., their associates, assigns, and successors in interest, are hereby to be con structed. Expense for improve regulated and collected. authorized to construct and maintain such side booms, wing dams, rolling dams, driving dams, shear boom, and other structures, in Mad River and its north fork, as may be necessary to facilitate the running and driving of logs therein, and to blast rock, remove sunken logs, drift-wood, trees, and other debris, and to improve the bed of said stream and its said north fork, so far as the same may be necessary for the purposes above mentioned, for the term of twenty years. SEC. 2. Said persons, their successors and assigns, shall ment; how use all reasonable exertions, drive all logs and other timber coming into said stream or its said fork into the booms of the Mad River Boom and Land Company with promptness and dispatch; and as compensation therefor, and for the expense incurred in the improvement of said stream and its said fork, they are hereby authorized to charge and collect, upon all logs and other lumber so driven by them from abreast of and above their said works, such tolls as shall be fixed and regulated by the Board of Supervisors of Humboldt County, and such tolls shall be a lien upon all such logs and other lumber, after they have been secured in the booms of said Mad River Boom and Land Company. Penalty for not remov ing logs. Penalty for placing logs in stream. SEC. 3. All persons are hereby prohibited from placing or causing to be placed in said stream or its said north fork, any log that will not float, or other obstruction to navigation. Any person violating the provisions of this section may be notified, in writing, to remove such obstruction by any person damaged thereby; and in case of neglect or refusal so to do, for the space of five days, it shall be lawful for such person or persons so damaged by such obstruction to remove the same, and the reasonable expense thereof, together with all damages caused by such obstruction, shall be a charge against the person or persons so neglecting, and the same may be collected as other debts are collected in this State. SEC. 4. All persons are hereby prohibited from placing or causing to be placed in said stream or its said fork, any log more than seven feet in diameter, and in case of a violation of the provisions of this section, such log may be split by the parties herein first above named, and the reasonable expense thereof may be added to the tolls due on such log, and shall become a part of such tolls. by landings. SEC. 5. No person shall construct or cause to be con- Obstructions structed any landing to be used by him, or so use the same as to obstruct said stream or its said fork, or the navigation thereof; and in case of a violation of the provisions of this section, the parties herein first named are authorized to remove such obstruction (if the same is not promptly done by the person or persons causing the same), and the reasonable expense thereof, together with all damages caused by such obstruction to the parties herein first named, may be collected by law from the owner or owners of such landing. commence SEC. 6. The parties herein first named shall commence Parties, work upon the improvements herein authorized within when to three months from the date of the passage of this Act, and work. shall prosecute the same with reasonable diligence until completed. SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. DXI.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to provide for the protection of lands from overflow, in the County of Yuba, approved March second, eighteen hundred and seventyfour. [Approved March 30, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and to call SECTION 1. Section three of an Act entitled an Act to Amended; provide for the protection of lands from overflow, in the Supervisors County of Yuba, approved March second, eighteen hundred special and seventy-four, is amended so as to read as follows: Sec- election. tion three. The Board of Supervisors must then, by an order fixing the time and place, and appointing officers therefor, call a special election, to be held within twenty days, in the district, for the election of three Directors, and one Assessor, and one Tax Collector, who must be owners of land in the district, and must give notice of such election by posting notices, stating the time, and place, and object of the election, not less than five days before the day appointed, in three of the most public places of the district. The election shall be conducted, as nearly as practicable, in conformity with the general election law of the State; provided, however, that no person shall be a qualified elector at any such election unless he be the owner of real or personal property within such district, upon which he is assessed for taxes for State and county purposes within said county. The officers of election shall, after counting the votes, immediately make and deliver certificates of election to the persons elected, who must, within ten days, take the oath of office and have the same indorsed upon the certificates, and enter upon the discharge of their duties; and in case any person elected Directors to meet. Directors to purchase and con erty. shall fail, for ten days after election, to qualify, his office shall be vacant. The officers so elected shall hold office for two years, and until their successors are elected and qualified. The Directors so elected shall, within ten days after their election, meet and from their number appoint a Chairman and a Clerk, and must, every two years thereafter, call an election of the qualified electors of the district, in the manner and for the election of the officers named in this section. In case any person elected under the provisions of this section shall fail to qualify, or a vacancy shall arise by death or otherwise, in any of the offices named, the Board of Supervisors shall appoint some freeholder of the district to fill the vacancy for the unexpired term. SEC. 2. Section eight of said Act is amended so as to read as follows: Section eight. The Board of Directors may condemn prop- tract, agree for, and purchase, or pay for the construction of, or acquire by condemnation, any canals, levees, embankments, or other necessary works already constructed, and the right of way for levees, embankments, canals, or other works necessary for the protection of the lands of the district, and for material for the construction, maintenance, and repair thereof, from lands outside of as well as within the limits of the district. The condemnation of property herein provided for must conform to and be in accordance with the provisions of Title Seven, of Part Three, of the Code of Civil Procedure, which said provisions are hereby made applicable for that purpose. Trustees to levy tax. Accounts; how paid. SEC. 3. Section nine of said Act is amended so as to read as follows: Section nine. The Board of Directors shall meet annually, on the third Monday of April, and must levy a tax sufficient for levee purposes, not to exceed, however, four per cent. upon all taxable property in said district. They shall also, as soon as practicable, adopt a mode of reclamation, and for that purpose may employ any competent engineer as soon as said mode of reclamation has been adopted. Plans and specifications of the same shall be filed by the Board of Directors in the County Clerk's office, if for the construction of new or additional works. SEC. 4. Section twelve of said Act is amended so as to read as follows: Section twelve. The Board of Directors, upon the delivery to them by the owner of a deed of conveyance, or a verified account of a person to whom compensation is due for the construction of any canal, levee, embankment, or other work necessary for the protection of the lands of the district, or for the right of way for any canal, levee, embankment, or other necessary work, or for the right to take materials for the construction, maintenance, or repair thereof, or when any section or specified portion of the work under contract shall have been completed and the work approved by them, shall approve the account therefor, if correct, and forward the same to the Board of Supervisors, with their certificate that the same is correct. The Board of Supervisors shall, if they find the account correct, order the County Auditor to draw, and the County Auditor must draw his warrant upon the County Treasurer for the amount of |