subject to the approval of the owners of property within the district, to be known as "Palo Verde irrigation district," for the purpose of taking over the water rights and water system of the Palo Verde Mutual Water Company, a corporation, and of the stockholders thereof; the levees, properties and functions of the Palo Verde joint levee district of Riverside and Imperial counties, California; the properties and functions of the Palo Verde drainage district; and for the acquiring of such other properties, the construction of such other improvements and the doing of such other things as may be necessary for providing a unified and comprehensive method of supplying the irrigable low lands of Palo Verde valley comprised within the district with water for irrigation and domestic uses, reclaiming the swamp-lands, destruction of mosquito pests, and protecting all the lands within the district, and the water system, from flood waters of the Colorado river, and for maintaining, improving, expanding and operating and governing the entire irrigation, protection and reclamation systems through a single district organization; providing also for the assumption, funding and payment of the bond and other obligations of said Palo Verde Mutual Water Company and said levee and drainage districts, and for the issuance of bonds for all of the aforesaid purposes; and providing for the payment, funding and refunding of all such indebtedness; providing also for an election to determine whether this district shall be organized, and for the organization, management and control of the district through a board of trustees if the proposed district is organized; defining the powers and duties of the board, authorizing the district to sue and be sued, providing for the levy and collection of assessments to finance the acquisition of the properties, to carry on the construction work, maintenance and operation of the same, and for the payment of bonds and the expense of maintaining the district created hereby; providing also a means for dissolving said district. [Approved June 21, 1923. Stats. 1923, p. 1067.] ACT 3881. To create Modesto irrigation district. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 820.] ACT 3882. West Side irrigation district, creating. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 468.] ACT 3883. An act validating the formation and organization, and determining the boundaries of Imperial irrigation district in the county of Imperial, state of California. [Approved December 24, 1911. Stats. Ex. Sess. 1911, p. 119.] ACT 3884. An act to legalize bonds issued and to be issued and sold by Imperial irrigation district. [Approved March 26, 1915. Stats. 1915, p. 18.] This act validated bonds to the amount of three million five hundred thousand dollars issued by the directors and ratified by the people. ACT 3885. An act authorizing the Imperial irrigation district to acquire the irriga tion system and works of the California Development Company and its subsidiary company and successors in California and Mexico by condemnation or purchase, and, in case of purchase, to exchange bonds of said district for such irrigation system and works or for property interests therein. [Approved May 4, 1915. Stats. 1915, p. 343.] ACT 3886. Acts to recognize and declare valid irrigation districts. The following irrigation districts have been recognized and declared valid by legislative acts: Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation District. Stats. 1915, p. 74. Happy Valley Irrigation District. Stats. 1917, p. 906. Hotspring Valley Irrigation District. Stats. 1921, p. 75. Jacinto Irrigation District. Stats. 1919, p. 32. James Irrigation District. Stats. 1921, p. 76. Klamath-Shasta Valley Irrigation District. Stats. 1923, p. 193. Laguna Irrigation District. Stats. 1921, p. 75. La Mesa, Lemon Grove and Spring Valley Irrigation DistrictStats. 1915, p. 323. Lemoore Irrigation District. Stats. 1921, p. 73. Lindsay-Strathmore Irrigation District. Stats. 1917, p. 15. Madera Irrigation District. Stats. 1921, p. 76. (This act is unconstitutional: Miller & Lux v. Supervisors of Madera County, 189 Cal. 254, 208 Pac. 304.) Medano Irrigation District. Stats. 1921, p. 77. Mendota Irrigation District. Stats. 1923, p. 323. Merced Irrigation District. Stats. 1921, p. 80. Modesto Irrigation District. Stats. 1911, p. 262. Mojave River Irrigation District. Stats. 1923, p. 20. Naglee Burk Irrigation District. Stats. 1921, p. 73. Oakdale Irrigation District. Stats. 1911, p. 262; Stats. 1915, p. 56. Owens Valley Irrigation District. Stats. 1923, p. 134. Paradise Irrigation District. Stats. 1917, p. 13. Princeton-Codora-Glenn Irrigation District. Stats. 1917, p. 228. 303. Riverdale Irrigation District. Stats. 1921, p. 75. South San Joaquin Irrigation District. Stats. 1911, p. 262. Surprise Valley Irrigation District. Stats. 1921, p. 59. ACT 3887. TITLE 283. An act to provide for the gathering, compiling, printing and distribution of statistics and information regarding the Japanese of the state, and making an appropriation therefor. [Approved March 8, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 227.] This act provided for the gathering of statistics by the state labor commissioner and appropriated ten thousand dollars to carry out the purpose of the act. ACT 3888. An act to aid in the carrying out of the provisions of an act entitled, "An act to provide for the gathering, compiling, printing and distribution of statistics and information regarding the Japanese of the state, and making an appropriation therefor," making it the duty of certain officers to keep certain records and furnish such statistics and information. [Approved March 25, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 719.] This act required officers to keep records. ACT 3898. TITLE 284. JEWISH ORDER OF KESHER SHEL BARSEL. Concerning ancient Jewish order of Kesher shel Barsel. [Stats, 1867-68, p. 201.] Repealed, § 288, Civil Code. This act conferred corporate powers on the above order. ACT 3908. TITLE 285. JUDGES OF THE PLAINS. Concerning judges of the plains and defining their duties. [Stats. 1851, p. 515.] Amended 1857, p. 158; 1863, p. 497.] Continued in force by codes: Penal Codes, § 23, and Political Code, § 19. ACT 3918. TITLE 286. An act to provide for the payment of judgments against counties, cities, cities and counties, and towns. [Approved March 23, 1901. Stats. 1901, p. 794.] 31. Judgments against counties and municipalities, how to be paid. Duties of officers. § 2. § 3. § 4. Same. Judgments may be paid in installments. § 1. Judgments against counties and municipalities, how to be paid. All final judgments now existing or that may be obtained hereafter against any county, city and county, city, or town of the state of California, shall be paid by the treasurer of such county, city and county, or town, as hereinafter provided. § 2. Duties of officers. It shall be the duty of the county clerk to file with the auditor and to furnish the board of supervisors, town trustees, or other board or body authorized by law to levy taxes, a complete list of all existing final judgments against such county, city and county, city, or town, of record in his office, at least fifteen days before the day on which any tax levy must by law be made. § 3. Same. Judgments may be paid in installments. It shall be the duty of the auditor to examine and audit the final judgments so reported by the county clerk, and to certify the amount of such final judgments to the treasurer within five (5) days from the day on which such list of final judgments is filed with him. Thereupon, the board of supervisors, city council, town trustees, or other board of officers, as the case may be, having authority to levy taxes upon the taxable property of such county, city and county, city, or town, must include in the tax levy for the next fiscal year a rate or sum sufficient to pay all final judgments existing against such county, city and county, city, or town. The omission to include the amount of any existing final judgment in the tax levy for any year, shall not of itself invalidate the tax levy as made, but such omission or omissions must be included in the next tax levy; provided, that the board of supervisors or other board or officers having authority to levy taxes may provide for the payment of such final judgments when so audited by including in the tax levy for the next fiscal year an aliquot part or fraction of the amount of such judgments, and thereupon the treasurer shall pay to each judgment creditor a like aliquot part or fraction of the amount of the judgment of the creditor, and thereafter a like aliquot part or fraction of the amount of such judgments shall be levied and paid each successive year until the whole thereof shall be fully paid; but such fractional levy and payment shall in no case be less than one tenth (1/10) of the whole amount of such judgments. § 4. Act takes effect when. This act shall take effect immediately. This act is not unconstitutional as contravening § 18 of art. XI of the constitution in so far as it relates to judgments against cities which are not of the class coming within the prohibitive terms of said article and section: Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Deasy, 41 Cal. App. 667, 183 Pac. 243. It is not in conflict with the provisions of the San Francisco charter relating to the payment of judgments and the auditing and payment of demands: Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Deasy, 29 Cal. App. Dec. 1, 183 Pac. 243. It did not repeal by implication or expressly the act of 1897, p. 75 (post, Act 5175): Long Beach, City of, v. Lisenby, 180 Cal. 52, 179 Pac. 198. ACT 3919. An act prescribing how judgments which may be recovered against any city and county of over one hundred thousand population shall be paid. [Approved March 26, 1895. Stats. 1895, p. 163.] §1. Judgments against city and county over one hundred thousand population to be paid out of the general fund. § 2. Act takes effect when. § 1. Judgments against city and county over one hundred thousand population to be paid out of the general fund. All existing judgments against any city and county of over one hundred thousand population shall be paid by the treasurer of such city and county, out of the or any general fund thereof, after the same shall have been audited by the auditor, auditing officer, board, or other auditing officer or officers, and it is hereby made the duty of the board of supervisors and mayor of such city and county to include in the tax levy for any fiscal year a sum sufficient to pay existing judgments. § 2. Act takes effect when. This act shall take effect and be in force immediately after its passage. TITLE 287. ACT 3929. For the payment of the fees due to trial jurors who have served as such in the superior court of any county or city and county of this state, under the act of 1895. [Stats. 1901, p. 684.] ACT 3939. TITLE 288. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. Fixing the jurisdiction and providing the compensation of justices of the peace in cities and towns. [Stats. 1883, p. 63.] Superseded by Code of Civil Procedure, § 103, as amended 1901, p. 100. ACT 3940. An act to provide for the amount and the manner of payment of salaries of justices of the peace in counties of the tenth class for services rendered by them in criminal cases, and providing a |