АСТ 2868. To provide for the presentation and cancellation of unlocated school land warrants. [Stats. 1893, p. 181.] АСТ 2869. Authorizing the governor and surveyor-general to sell and convey certain lands. [Stats. 1891, p. 251.] Citations. Cal. 114/112. This act authorized the sale of certain lands to the claimants and occupants thereof. ACT 2870. Justice, John D., to cure defects in application of, to purchase lands. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 535.] ACT 2871. To authorize certain persons to remove improvements placed upon public lands after said lands have become private property. [Stats. 1867-68, p. 708.] Declared unconstitutional: Collins v. Bartlett, 44 Cal. 372. ACT 2872. To enable purchasers of state lands to redeem them where their titles have been or may hereafter be foreclosed for nonpayment of interest. [Stats. 1881, p. 65.] Citations. Cal. 115/333; 144/425. ACT 2873. An act granting rights of way for lines, roads, structures, levees, canals and excavations to the United States, over the public lands of this state. [Approved March 21, 1907. Stats. 1907, p. 848.] § 1. A right of way is hereby granted over the public lands of this state, and over any public land which may hereafter become the property of this state, to the United States, for all telegraph, telephone, power or light lines, roads, railroads, tramways, dikes, levees, dams, mounds, embankments, tunnels, ditches or canals, or other works, structures or excavations requiring rights of way built, erected, excavated or constructed under the provisions of the act of Congress, approved June 17, 1902, relating to irrigation and reclamation. § 2. All patents or conveyances of such lands which may hereafter be located or filed on shall be issued subject to the rights of way herein provided for. АСТ 2874. An act validating the title to lands selected by the state in lieu of surveyed school sections situated within the exterior boundaries of national reservations created by proclamation of the President of the United States and vesting the title of the state to such surveyed school sections in the United States. [Approved April 24, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 1091.] §1. The selection of all lands heretofore made by the surveyor general from the government of the United States in lieu of surveyed school sections situated within the exterior boundaries of national reservations created by proclamation of the president of the United States and which have been listed to the state of California and also all such selections which are now pending before the land department of the United States, when listed to the state, are hereby declared to be good and valid and to vest the title of the United States and the state when said state shall have issued its patent therefor, to such lands in the applicant, his successors or assigns, for whom such selection was made, and the title of the state of California in and to such surveyed school sections so used as bases for such indemnity selections shall vest in the United States at the date of such listing to the state and the title of the said state shall be deemed to be released and quitclaimed to the said United States at the time of such listing to the state as aforesaid. §2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. АСТ 2875. An act to authorize the settlement of an existing controversy between the United States of America and state of California, and making an appropriation to carry out the provisions of said act. [Approved March 21, 1907. Stats. 1907, p. 840.] This act was passed to settle a claim by the United States that 40,000 acres of the public domain in excess of the just amount had been listed to the state. АСТ 2876. An act to authorize the state of California to release and convey to the United States such portions of the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections of land contained in the Cleveland national forest, formerly San Jacinto forest reserve (and referred to in that certain act entitled "An act to authorize the settlement of an existing controversy between the United States of America and the state of California, and making an appropriation to carry out the provisions of said act," approved March 21, 1907) as may remain after the settlement referred to in said act has been consummated, for the purpose of reimbursing the United States for lands surrendered to it by the state and which said lands so surrendered were thereafter sold and patented by said state. [Approved March 20, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 578.] Gen. Laws-66 ACT 2876a. TITLE 403. PUBLIC MUSEUMS. An act to provide for the establishment and maintenance of public museums of natural and historical objects within municipalities of the fourth, fifth, and sixth class. [Approved March 20, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 547.] ACT 2877. TITLE 404. To authorize the common councils and boards of supervisors of the sev eral cities, counties, and cities and counties in this state to levy taxes for the maintenance of public parks having an area of over ten acres each within their respective limits. [Approved March 8, 1887. Stats. 1887, p. 52.] ACT 2878. To enable incorporated "cities and counties" and "cities" and "towns," to acquire, maintain and improve public parks and boulevards. [Approved March 19, 1889. Stats. 1889, p. 361.] Citations. Cal. 132/374, 375; 151/574; 153/292, 293, 295. "See Oakland v. Thompson, 34 Cal. Dec. 91."-Code Commissioners' Note. ACT 2879. To provide for the maintenance and support of the public parks heretofore created within the various cities and cities and counties of the state, and to amend the existing acts in relation thereto. [Approved March 14, 1889. Stats. 1889, p. 143.] Amended 1893, pp. 79, 343. ACT 2880. Authorizing the commissioners of any public park in this state, and especially the park commissioners of Golden Gark Park, in San Francisco, to accept donations and bequests in aid of the improvement and embellishment of their respective parks, and to invest the funds derived therefrom. [Approved March 9, 1885. Stats. 1885, p. 38.] ACT 2881. To authorize cities and towns owning public parks outside of their limits, to lay out, construct, and maintain roads, streets, and boulevards from the boundaries of such cities or towns to, into, and through such parks, and to acquire lands for that purpose. [Became a law, under constitutional provision, without governor's ap proval, March 1, 1897. Stats. 1897, p. 45.] АСТ 2882. To extend the jurisdiction and authority of cities and towns over parks owned by them situated beyond the limits of such cities and towns, and over streets and avenues leading to the same. [Became a law, under constitutional provision, without the governor's approval, March 1, 1897. Stats. 1897, p. 47.] ACT 2883. Giving the consent of the state of California to the reservation of certain lands by Congress. [Approved March 14, 1891. Stats. 1891, p. 107.] This act granted the consent of the state to forest reservations. АСТ 2884. An act to provide for the acquisition by municipalities of land for public park or public playground purposes by condemnation, and for the establishment of assessment districts and the assessment of property therein to pay the expense of acquiring such land. [Approved April 22, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 1066.] ACT 2885. An act to authorize the governor to accept on behalf of the state the grant of certain lands in Butte county. [Approved March 22, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 666.] This act authorized the state to accept a grant of lands in Butte County by Annie E. K. Bidwell for a park. TITLE 405. PUBLIC WORKS. Hours of labor on: See tit. "Hours of Labor," ante. АСТ 2888. Creating a commissioner of public works, defining his duties and powers, prescribing his compensation and making an appropriation. [Stats. 1893, p. 345.] Amended 1897, p. 26. Repealed 1899, p. 157; 1900, p. 20. АСТ 2889. Creating a commissioner of public works, defining his duties and powers and fixing his compensation. [Stats. 1899, p. 157.] Superseded by 1900, p. 20. АСТ 2890. An act creating a commissioner of public works, defining his duties and powers, and fixing his compensation. [Approved February 9, 1900. Stats. 1900, p. 20.] Repealed 1907, pp. 215, 223. АСТ 2891. An act providing for the appointment of an auditing board to the commissioner of public works, authorizing and directing him and them to perform certain duties relating to drainage, to purchase machinery, tools, dredges, and appliances therefor, to improve and rectify water channels, to erect works necessary and incident to said drainage, to condemn land and property for the purposes aforesaid, making certain acts a felony, and making an appropriation of money for the purposes of this act. [Approved March 17, 1897. Stats. 1897, p. 171.] Amended 1900, p. 21; 1901, p. 91. Repealed 1907, pp. 215, 224, Citations. Cal. 125/415. ACT 2892. An act authorizing the commissioner of public works to obtain a right of way for a canal to divert the waters of Mormon channel into the Calaveras River, to maintain condemnation suits therefor, and making an appropriation to pay for said right of way and the costs and expenses of obtaining the same. [Approved March 25, 1903. Stats. 1903, p. 476.] See Act 2393a. АСТ 2893. To provide for, insure, and maintain preference in the appointment, employment, and retention in the public service, and upon public works of the state of California, of honorably discharged ex-Union soldiers, sailors, and marines of the war of the rebellion. [Approved March 31, 1891. Stats. 1891, p. 289.] ACT 2893a. An act to furnish, grant, convey and relinquish to the United States of America the right of way in San Joaquin county now (or hereafter) obtained by the commissioner of public works under an act of the legislature, approved March 25, 1903, entitled "An act authorizing the commissioner of public works to obtain a right of way for a canal to divert the waters of Mormon channel into the Calaveras River, to maintain condemnation suits therefor, and making an appropriation to pay for said right of way, and the costs and expenses of obtaining the same," and under the laws of the state of California relating to such matters, for the purpose of the construction and completion of such right of way by the United States of America of a diverting canal east of the city of Stockton from the Mormon channel to the Calaveras River and along the channel of the Calaveras River to the San Joaquin River, pursuant to an act of Congress of June 13, 1902, and to subsequent acts of Congress relating thereto, and to authorize the commissioner of public works and the governor of the state to execute conveyances thereof, and to authorize and direct the secretary of state to countersign |