Appropria claim CHAPTER CCXIX. An Act making an appropriation to pay the claim of Geo. E. Lawrence, for services rendered the State of California, at the funeral of the late Lieutenant-Governor Millard. [Approved March 31, 1897.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of forty-six dollars and fifty cents is tion to pay hereby appropriated to pay the claim of Geo. E. Lawrence, for services rendered by him at the funeral of the late LieutenantGovernor Millard (this account having been approved by the State Board of Examiners). Geo. E. SEC. 2. The State Controller is hereby authorized to draw his warrant for the amount herein specified, and the State Treasurer is directed to pay the same. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect immediately. Appropriation for deficiency, CHAPTER CCXX. An Act making an appropriation to pay the deficiency in the appropriation for "repairs to the capitol building and furniture, etc." [Approved March 31, 1897.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to pay the deficiency in the appropriation for repairs to "repairs to capitol building and furniture, etc." (the same having been approved by the State Board of Examiners). capitol, etc. SEC. 2. The State Controller is hereby authorized to draw his warrant for the amount herein specified, and the State Treasurer is directed to pay the same. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect immediately. Appropriation to pay claim of John F. Kidder. CHAPTER CCXXI. An Act making an appropriation to pay the claim of John F. [Approved March 31, 1897.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of four hundred and eighty dollars is hereby appropriated, to pay the claim of John F. Kidder, Debris Commissioner, for traveling expenses incurred from August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, to December twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, both dates inclusive (the same having been approved by the State Board of Examiners). SEC. 2. The State Controller is hereby authorized to draw his warrant for the amount herein specified, and the State Treasurer is directed to pay the same. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER CCXXII. An Act making an appropriation to pay the claim of Clement Bennett, for reporting in the case of The Southern Pacific Company vs. The Board of Railroad Commissioners. [Approved March 31, 1897.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and claim of Bennett. SECTION 1. The sum of eight hundred and ninety-three Appropriadollars is hereby appropriated, to pay the claim of Clement on to pay Bennett, for services as reporter in the case of The Southern Clement Pacific Company vs. The Board of Railroad Commissioners (the same having been approved by the State Board of Examiners). SEC. 2. The State Controller is hereby authorized to draw his warrant for the amount herein specified, and the State Treasurer is directed to pay the same. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER CCXXIII. An Act making an appropriation to pay the claim of James V. [Approved March 31, 1897.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and claim of SECTION 1. The sum of two hundred and seven dollars and Appropriaseventy-five cents is hereby appropriated out of any money in tion to pay the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the claim J.V. Hicks. of James V. Hicks against the State of California (the same having been approved by the State Board of Examiners), and the State Controller is hereby authorized to draw his warrant for the same, and the State Treasurer is directed to pay the same. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. Appropria Charles CHAPTER CCXXIV. An Act making an appropriation to pay the claim of Charles [Approved March 31, 1897.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of six hundred and seventy-five tion to pay ($675.00) dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the claim of Charles Nelson, arising upon a judgment recovered by him against the State of California, in the City and County of San Francisco, on May twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, duly entered in the Superior Court of said city and county on June second, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. SEC. 2. The Controller is hereby authorized to draw his warrant in favor of Charles Nelson for the principal sum of said judgment and the interest thereon from date of its rendition until the drawing of said warrant, and the Treasurer is directed to pay the same out of the appropriation made by this Act. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect immediately. Division of CHAPTER CCXXV. An Act entitled an Act to form agricultural districts, to provide for formation of agricultural associations therein, and for the management and control of the same by the State, and to repeal all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act. [Approved March 31, 1897.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The several counties of this State are divided and State into classified into agricultural districts, and numbered as follows, agricul tural districts. to wit: The Counties of San Francisco and Alameda shall constitute Agricultural District No. 1. The County of San Joaquin shall constitute Agricultural District No. 2. The County of Butte shall constitute Agricultural District No. 3. The Counties of Sonoma and Marin shall constitute Agricultural District No. 4. State into agricul The Counties of San Mateo and Santa Clara shall constitute Division of Agricultural District No. 5. The County of Los Angeles shall constitute Agricultural tural District No. 6. The County of Monterey shall constitute Agricultural District No. 7. The County of El Dorado shall constitute Agricultural District No. 8. The County of Humboldt shall constitute Agricultural District No. 9. The County of Siskiyou shall constitute Agricultural District No. 10. The Counties of Plumas and Sierra shall constitute Agricultural District No. 11; provided, that the first fair held in the Eleventh Agricultural District after the passage of this Act shall be held in Sierra County; the next fair in Plumas County, and thereafter said counties shall so alternate in holding such fairs. The Counties of Lake and Mendocino shall constitute Agricultural District No. 12. The Counties of Sutter and Yuba shall constitute Agricultural District No. 13. The County of Santa Cruz shall constitute Agricultural District No. 14. The County of Kern shall constitute Agricultural District No. 15. The County of San Luis Obispo shall constitute Agricultural District No. 16. The County of Nevada shall constitute Agricultural District No. 17. The Counties of Mono, Inyo, and Alpine shall constitute Agricultural District No. 18. All that portion of Santa Barbara County lying east of the Gaviota and south of the Santa Ynez Mountains, shall constitute Agricultural District No. 19. The County of Placer shall constitute Agricultural District No. 20. The Counties of Fresno and Madera shall constitute Agricultural District No. 21. The County of San Diego shall constitute Agricultural District No. 22. The County of Contra Costa shall constitute Agricultural District No. 23. The Counties of Tulare and Kings shall constitute Agricultural District No. 24. The County of Napa shall constitute Agricultural District No. 25. The County of Amador shall constitute Agricultural District No. 26. The Counties of Shasta and Trinity shall constitute Agricultural District No. 27. The Counties of San Bernardino and Riverside shall constitute Agricultural District No. 28. districts. Division of The County of Tuolumne shall constitute Agricultural DisState into trict No. 29. agricultural districts. Directors. The County of Tehama shall constitute Agricultural District No. 30. The County of Ventura shall constitute Agricultural District No. 31. The County of Orange shall constitute Agricultural District No. 32. The County of San Benito shall constitute Agricultural District No. 33. The County of Modoc shall constitute Agricultural District No. 34. The Counties of Merced and Mariposa shall constitute Agricultural District No. 35. The County of Solano shall constitute Agricultural District No. 36. All that portion of Santa Barbara County not included in Agricultural District No. 19 shall constitute Agricultural District No. 37. The County of Stanislaus shall constitute Agricultural District No. 38. The County of Calaveras shall constitute Agricultural District No. 39. The County of Yolo shall constitute Agricultural District No. 40. The County of Del Norte shall constitute Agricultural District No. 41. The County of Glenn shall constitute Agricultural District No. 42. The County of Lassen shall constitute Agricultural District No. 43. The County of Colusa shall constitute Agricultural District No. 44. SEC. 2. Where two or more counties shall constitute an agricultural district, each county shall be represented in the district board of directors by at least two resident citizens, as directors in said board; provided, that when by reason of the formation of a new agricultural district, a director of one district becomes a resident of another, his term of office as director will expire in sixty days after the formation of the Consolida- new agricultural district. Whenever the board of directors of two or more agricultural districts shall, by a majority vote of each board, elect to unite, the said several districts may associate as one district, and hold a fair in any of said districts, and may for such purpose draw the appropriation for all of said districts, and expend the same for said fair. tion of districts. Formation tions. SEC. 3. Any fifty or more persons, representing a majority of associa of the counties within any one of the districts above constituted, may form an association, for the improvement of the material industries within such district, and when so formed, the association shall be known and designated by the name of- Agricultural Association, and by such name and style shall have perpetual succession, and shall have power and |