unsold for the period of six months after having been offered for sale in the manner prescribed by the board of supervisors, the junior college board of the junior college district, for and on account of which such bonds were issued, may petition the board of supervisors to whom the proceedings were certified to cause such unsold bonds to be withdrawn from the market and canceled. Upon receiving such petition, signed by a majority of the members of said junior college board, the said board of supervisors shall fix a time for hearing the same, which shall not be more than thirty days thereafter, and shall cause a notice, stat. ing the time and place of hearing, and the object of the petition in general terms, to be published for ten days prior to the day of hearing, in some newspaper published in said junior college district, if there is one, and if there is no newspaper published in said junior college district, then in a newspaper published at the county seat of the county. At the time and place designated in the notice for hearing said petition, or at any subsequent time to which said hearing may be postponed, the said board of supervisors shall hear any reasons that may be submitted for or against the granting of the petition, and if said board shall deem it for the best interests of the junior college district named in the petition, that such unsold bonds be canceled, said board shall make and enter an order in the minutes of its proceedings that said unsold bonds be canceled; and thereupon said bonds and the vote by which they were authorized to be issued shall cease to be of any validity whatever.

ACT 1488.

TITLE 117.
COLORADO RIVER.

An act authorizing the governor of California to appoint a representative of the state of California to serve upon a joint commission composed of representatives of the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming and the United States of America, and constituted for the purpose of negotiating and entering into an agreement between the several states hereinabove mentioned and between said states and the United States of America, subject to the consent of congress, respecting further use and disposition of the waters of the Colorado river and streams tributary thereto, and fixing and determining the rights of each of said states and rights of the United States in and to the use, benefit and disposition of the waters of said stream and its tributaries. [Approved May 12, 1921. Stats. 1921, p. 85.]

The nature of the act sufficiently appears from its title.

ACT 1498.

TITLE 118.
COLTON HALL.

To provide for the appointment of a board of Colton Hall trustees, and for the leasing of the Colton Hall property, and providing for an appropriation for the preservation, protection, and improvement of said property. [Approved March 25, 1903. Stats. 1903, p. 435.] Duties and powers of trustees transferred to Department of Finance: See Pol. Code, § 360d.

Duties and functions of board transferred to Department of Finance: See Pol. Code, § 360d.

TITLE 119.

COLUSA COUNTY.

ACT 1508.

Protecting agriculture and preventing trespassing of animals. [Stats. 1871-72, p. 685.]

Amended 1873-74, p. 760. Modified, if not repealed, by the estray laws of 1897, p. 198, and of 1901, p. 603. See Acts 387 and 391.

АСТ 1509.

To develop agricultural interests and aid the construction of a canal in Colusa, Solano, and Yolo counties. [Stats. 1865-66, p. 451.]

АСТ 1510.

Approval of official bonds. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 77.]
Repealed 1877-78, p. 113.

АСТ 1511.

Fixing amount of official bonds in. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 569.] Repealed by County Government Act, 1897, p. 475, § 66. See Act 1864.

АСТ 1512.

To provide for the drainage of certain lands in the counties of Colusa and Yolo. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 1037.]

АСТ 1513.

АСТ 1514.

Partition fences in. [Stats. 1875-76, p. 207.]

Fees of office and salaries of certain officers, regulating and repealing prior acts. [Stats. 1873-74, p. 873.]

Repealed by the fee bill of 1895, p. 267, and by County Government Act, 1897, p. 452. See Acts 1864 and 2502.

АСТ 1515.

Fees and salaries of officers of. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 36.]

Repealed as to salaries by County Government Act, 1897, p. 555, § 196, and by fee bill of 1895, p. 267, as to the fees of the officers therein named. See Acts 1864 and 2502.

АСТ 1516.

Additional tax for judges' and district attorneys' salary fund. [Stats. 1871-72, p. 98.]

Probably rendered inoperative by the constitution, which abolished the office of county judge.

ACT 1517.

Justices of the peace in. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 782.]
Repealed by fee bill of 1895, p. 267. See Act 2502.

ACT 1518.

Public roads in. [Stats. 1871-72, p. 826.]
Repealed 1883, p. 5, c. X, § 2.

ACT 1519.

Yolo and Colusa counties, public road along boundary line between, establishing. [Stats. 1873–74, p. 213.]

АСТ 1520.

Establishing, maintaining and protecting public and private roads in. [Stats. 1873-74, p. 621.]

Amended 1875-76, pp. 401, 481; 1877-78, p. 327. Repealed 1883, p. 5, c. 10, § 2.

АСТ 1521.

Additional powers of supervisors. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 563.]

Repealed by County Government Act, 1897, p. 452. See Act 1864. АСТ 1522.

To confer certain powers on supervisors of. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 567.] Repealed by County Government Act, 1897, p. 452. See Act 1864. АСТ 1523.

Quieting title to certain lands in. [Stats. 1873–74, p. 818.] This act released to the United States government lands sold to actual settlers by the United States.

АСТ 1533.

TITLE 120.

COLUSA, TOWN OF.

Incorporating. [Stats. 1875-76, p. 669.]

Amended 1877-78, p. 248.

АСТ 1534.

Issuance of bonds for road purposes. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 369.]
Amended 1880, p. 9.

COMMERCE.

See tit. "Chambers of Commerce."

АСТ 1544.

TITLE 121.

COMMISSIONERS IN EQUITY.

For the appointment of commissioners in equity. [Stats. 1861, p. 183.] Repealed by Political Code and Code of Civil Procedure.

This act provided for the appointment of commissioners in equity to take testimony in equity cases.

АСТ 1554.

TITLE 122.

COMMISSIONERS OF TRANSPORTATION.

To create the office of commissioner of transportation, etc. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 969.]

Repealed 1909, p. 499.

Codified in part by §§ 369b, 369d, 369f, Penal Code: See Penal Code, §§ 369b, note, 369d, note.

The code commissioners say this act was repealed by the constitution of 1879. See Dyer v. Placer County, 90 Cal. 276, 278; Giesecke v. San Joaquin County, 109 Cal. 489.

ACT 1564.

TITLE 123.
COMMON LAW.

Adopting the common law. [Stats. 1850, p. 219.]
Re-enacted in Political Code, § 4468.

TITLE 124.
CONGRESS.

АСТ 1574.

To divide the state of California into congressional districts. [Approved March 11, 1891. Stats. 1891, p. 84.]

This act was superseded by the following act:

АСТ 1575.

To divide the state into congressional districts, and provide for the election of members of the house of representatives of the United States therein. [Approved March 23, 1901. Stats. 1901, p. 548.] Superseded by § 117 of Political Code.

АСТ 1585.

TITLE 125.

CONSERVANCY DISTRICTS.

An act to provide for the organization and government of conservancy districts for certain specified purposes; to provide for the issuance, sale and hypothecation of district bonds to pay the costs and expenses incurred in relation thereto, and to provide for the retirement of such bonds; to provide for the levying and collection of taxes to pay the annual installment of principal and interest on said bonds; to provide for levying and collecting special assessments for special benefits and to issue improvement warrants to represent such special assessments for special benefits; to provide for the effect and enforcement of such improvement warrants and the application of moneys derived from the enforcement thereof; and to provide a method of dissolving such districts.

[Approved May 16, 1919. Stats. 1919, p. 559. In effect July 22, 1919.] Amended in 1923. Stats. 1923, p. 14.

§ 1. § 2.

Title. Terms defined.

Conservancy districts established by board of supervisors. Pur

poses.

§ 3. Petition to establish district. Contents. Amendments. Evidence of ownership.

§ 4.

§ 5.

Bond.

Petition.

Notice of hearing. Jurisdiction of supervisors. Joint meeting.
Hearing of objections. Lands included in district.

6. Election. Notice. Candidates for director. Conduct of election. One vote for each acre. Fraction of acre. Joint ownership. Unknown owners. Proxies. Canvass. Powers of district.

7.

Recording of resolution establishing district.
Oath of director. President and secretary.
Quorum.

Duties of secretary.

Chief engineer. Attorney.

Plan for improvements. Use of former survey. Notice of hear-
ing on plan. Approval of state engineer. Adoption.
Power of directors.

Right to enter lands to make surveys, etc.

Powers of directors to perform work. Limitation on powers.
Letting of contracts.

§ 8.

§ 9.

§ 10.

§ 11.

§ 12.

§ 13.

§ 14.

§ 15.

§ 16.

Right of eminent domain.

Consent of health officers. Power to change watercourse, etc.
Moving dredge boat through bridge or grade.
Stream gauges, etc.

Co-operation with United States government, etc.
Appropriation of increased water supply. Application to use
waters appropriated. Rights of municipalities. Term of lease,
etc. Regulations for purpose of determining rates.

Rates

fixed by railroad commission. Determination of water rights, etc.

§ 24. Board of appraisers.

§ 25. Appraisal of benefits and damages. Appraisal of property for

Notice of hearing on appraisals. Description of lands.

Payment of preliminary expenses. Advance of funds by counties. Tax levy for incidental expenses. Urgency measure. § 36. Interest on unpaid warrants.

§ 37. Bond issue to complete works. Additional issues. Elections. Rate of interest. Form and sale of bonds. Payment, pledge and validity of bonds. Registry of. As investments. Bonds legal investments for savings and trust funds. Improvement warrants. Form of improvement warrant. Record of improvement warrants.