§1. It shall be lawful for boards of directors of irrigation districts, organized or existing under or by virtue of an act of the legislature, entitled "An act to provide for the organization and government of irrigation districts, and to provide for the acquisition or construction thereby of works for the irrigation of lands embraced within such districts and also, to provide for the distribution of water for irrigation purposes"; approved March 31st, 1897; to provide for the payment of assessments levied in accordance with the provision of said act, in two installments.

§ 2. The directors of any such irrigation district may, whenever they shall so determine, and must upon a petition in writing, signed by a majority of the assessment payers within such district, pass a resolution providing that thereafter all assessments, except special assessments provided for by section 34 of said act of 1897, shall be payable in two installments, and in said resolution shall specify when such payments may be made.

§3. Such resolution must be passed before the first Monday in August, and cannot be rescinded to take effect during any year after the first Monday of March in that year.

§ 4. Whenever the board of directors of such irrigation district shall have so determined, thereafter one-half of the assessments levied within such district shall become delinquent at 6 o'clock P. M. on the last Monday of December, and one-half thereof shall become delinquent at 6 P. M. on the last Monday of June next thereafter, provided that where an assessment has been levied as provided in section 34 of said act the whole of such assessment shall become delinquent on the last Monday in December.

§5. When provision is made, as herein provided, for the payment of said assessments in two installments, the publication of the delinquent list provided for in said act, shall not be made before the first day of July, but must be made on or before the first day of August, and except as otherwise herein provided all of the provisions of said irrigation act or acts not inconsistent with this act relative to the assessment, payment and collection of assessments, notice of assessments, publication of delinquent list, and sale for delinquent assessment, and all other provisions relative to such assessments shall be applicable, and the only effect of this act shall be to permit the payment of such assessments in two installments, and to postpone the notice of sale and sale provided for in said act until after the first day of July, and when sale is made at the time herein specified it shall have the same effect as though made at the time and in the manner specified in said act of

1897.

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 commis. sioner and appropriated $10,000 to carry out the purpose of the act.

ACT 1734.

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.

TITLE 243.

ACT 1736.

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.

TITLE 244.

ACT 1741.

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 Code, § 23, and Political Code, § 19.

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.]

§1. 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. 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. 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. This act shall take effect immediately.

ACT 1747.

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. 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. This act shall take effect and be in force immediately after its passage.

Apparently restricted to existing judgments.

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.
This act appears in full in Code of Civil Procedure, Appendix, p. 862.

ACT 1758.

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 method of ascertaining the population of the townships for the purpose of this act and to provide a cashier in the office of the tax collector, and a file clerk in the office of the county clerk, and repealing all laws in conflict therewith.

[Approved March 19, 1903.

Stats. 1903, p. 217.]

§1. In counties of the tenth class justices of the peace shall receive as compensation, for the services required of them by law, the following monthly salaries to be paid each month as salaries of other county officers are paid, which shall be in full for all services rendered by them in eriminal cases:

In townships having a population of six thousand and over, ninety dollars per month.

In townships having a population of two thousand and less than six thousand, seventy-five dollars per month.

In townships having a population of one thousand five hundred and and less than two thousand, fifty-five dollars per month.

In townships having a population of eight hundred and less than one thousand five hundred, thirty-five dollars per month.

In townships having a population of five hundred and less than eight hundred, twenty dollars per month.

In townships having a population less than five hundred, fifteen dollars per month.

In addition to the above salaries each justice of the peace shall collect, for his own use, in civil cases, such fees as are now or may hereafter be allowed by law.

§ 2. The population of townships shall, for the purpose of this act, be determined by multiplying the number of voters registered in such township at the last preceding election, by five.

§ 3. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

§ 4. In the office of the county tax-collector of counties of the tenth class there shall be a cashier to be appointed by and hold office at the pleasure of the county tax-collector, and the compensation of such cashier shall be nine hundred dollars per annum.

§ 5. In the office of the county clerk of counties of the tenth class a filing clerk shall be appointed by and hold office at the pleasure of the county clerk, and the compensation of such filing clerk shall be nine hundred dollars per annum.

§ 6. sage.

This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its pas

Compare § 4239, Political Code, relating to salaries in counties of tenth class. ACT 1759.

An act to provide for the employment of a clerk by certain justices of the peace and to pay the salaries of such clerk. [Approved April 15, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 906.]

§ 1. In cities of this state, where there are two justices of the peace, one of whom is the city justice of said city, and who is paid a salary and who is provided with a clerk and courtroom by said city and the other justice known as the township justice and whose compensation in civil cases is by fee and who is paid a salary by the county, in lieu of fees for all criminal cases that the district attorney may try or examine in said township justice's court, the justice of the peace in and for said township justice's court is hereby entitled to and may appoint a clerk subject to the approval of the board of supervisors of the county to properly keep the records of his court and to do and perform such other work as the justice of said court may assign to such clerk.

§ 2. The clerk of said township justice's court shall be paid an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars, to be paid monthly by the county in which said justice's court shall be located; said clerk's salary shall be audited, allowed and paid as the salaries of county officers are audited, allowed and paid.