Veto message, continued. District given in my objections to the appropriation for District Agricultural Society Number One. The item, "For aid to District Agricultural Society Number Sixteen, two thousand dollars." This item is objected to and not approved for the reasons given in my objections to the appropriation for District Agricultural Society Number One. The item, "For aid to District Agricultural Society Number Seventeen, two thousand dollars." This item is objected to and not approved for the reasons given in my objections to the appropriation for District Agricultural Society Number One. The item, "For aid to District Agricultural Society Number Eighteen, three thousand dollars." This item is objected to and not approved for the reasons given in my objections to the appropriation for District Agricultural Society Number One. The item, "For aid to District Agricultural Society Number Nineteen, one thousand five hundred dollars." This item is objected to and not approved for the reasons given in my objections to the appropriation for District Agricultural Society Number One. The item, "For aid to District Agricultural Society Number Twenty, one thousand five hundred dollars." This item is objected to and not approved for the reasons given in my objections to the appropriation for District Agricultural Society Number One. The item, "For aid to District Agricultural Society Number Twenty-one, four thousand dollars." This item is objected to and not approved for the reasons given in my objections to the appropriation for District Agricultural Society Number One. The item, "For aid to District Agricultural Society Number Twenty-two, three thousand five hundred dollars." This item is objected to and not approved for the reasons given in my objections to the appropriation for District Agricultural Society Number One. The item, "For aid to District Agricultural Society Number Twenty-three, three thousand dollars." This item is objected to and not approved for the reasons given in my objections to the appropriation for District Agricultural Society Number One. The item, "For aid to District Agricultural Society Number Twenty-four, three thousand dollars." This item is objected to and not approved for the reasons given in my objections to the appropriation for District Agricultural Society Number One. The item, "For aid to District Agricultural Society Number Twenty-five, three thousand five hundred dollars." This item is objected to and not approved for the reasons given in my objections to the appropriation for District Agricultural Society Number One. The item, "For aid to District Agricultural Society Number Twenty-six, two thousand five hundred dollars." This item is objected to and not approved for the reasons given in my objections to the appropriation for District Agricultural Society Number One. The item, "For aid to District Agricultural Society Number Twenty-seven, three thousand dollars." This item is objected to and not approved for the reasons given in my objections to the appropriation for District Agricultural Society Number One. The item, "For aid to District Agricultural Society Number Twenty-eight, four thousand dollars." This item is objected to and not approved for the reasons given in my objections to the appropriation for District Agricultural Society Number One. The item, "For aid to District Agricultural Society Number Twenty-nine, two thousand dollars." This item is objected to and not approved for the reasons given in my objections to the appropriation for District Agricultural Society Number One. The item, "For aid to District Agricultural Society Number Thirty, two thousand dollars." This item is objected to and not approved for the reasons given in my objections to the appropriation for District Agricultural Society Number One. The item, "For aid to District Agricultural Society Number Thirty-one, two thousand dollars." This item is objected to and not approved for the reasons given in my objections to the appropriation for District Agricultural Society Number One. The item, For aid to District Agricultural Society Number Thirty-two, two thousand dollars." This item is objected to and not approved for the reasons given in my objections to the appropriation for District Agricultural Society Number One. The item, "For aid to District Agricultural Society Number Thirty-three, two thousand dollars." This item is objected to and not approved for the reasons given in my objections to the appropriation for District Agricultural Society Number One. The item, "For aid to District Agricultural Society Number Thirty-four, one thousand five hundred dollars." This item is objected to and not ap proved for the reasons given in my objections to the appropriation for District Veto Agricultural Society Number One. message, continued. The item, "For aid to District Agricultural Society Number Thirty-five, two thousand dollars." This item is objected to and not approved for the reasons given in my objections to the appropriation for District Agricultural District Society Number One. AgriculThe item, "For aid to District Agricultural Society Number Thirty-six, tural three thousand dollars." This item is objected to and not approved for the Societies. reasons given in my objections to the appropriation for District Agricultural Society Number One. The item, "For aid to District Agricultural Society Number Thirty-seven, one thousand five hundred dollars." This item is objected to and not approved for the reasons given in my objections to the appropriation for District Agricultural Society Number One. The item, "For aid to District Agricultural Society Number Thirty-eight, two thousand dollars." This item is objected to and not approved for the reasons given in my objections to the appropriation for District Agricultural Society Number One. The item, "For aid to District Agricultural Society Number Thirty-nine, two thousand dollars." This item is objected to and not approved for the reasons given in my objections to the appropriation for District Agricultural Society Number One. The item, "For aid to District Agricultural Society Number Forty, three thousand five hundred dollars." This item is objected to and not approved for the reasons given in my objections to the appropriation for District Agricultural Society Number One. The item, "For aid to District Agricultural Society Number Forty-one, one thousand five hundred dollars." This item is objected to and not approved for the reasons given in my objections to the appropriation for District Agricultural Society Number One. The item, "For aid to District Agricultural Society Number Forty-two, two thousand dollars." This item is objected to and not approved for the reasons given in my objections to the appropriation for District Agricultural Society Number One. The item, "For aid to District Agricultural Society Number Forty-three, one thousand five hundred dollars." This item is objected to and not approved for the reasons given in my objections to the appropriation for District Agricultural Society Number One. The item, "For aid to District Agricultural Society Number Forty-four, two thousand dollars." This item is objected to and not approved for the reasons given in my objections to the appropriation for District Agricultural Society Number One. JAMES H. BUDD, Governor. CHAPTER CCXLIII. An Act making an appropriation to pay the claim of Clement Bennett, for reporting in the case of Southern Pacific Company vs. The Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of California. [Approved April 1, 1897.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and claim of Bennett. SECTION 1. The sum of ($1,233.80) twelve hundred and Appropriathirty-three dollars and eighty cents is hereby appropriated to tion to pay pay the claim of Clement Bennett, for services as official Clement reporter in the case of the Southern Pacific Company vs. The Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of California (the claim 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. Designation of road districts. CHAPTER CCXLIV. An Act for the establishment of a uniform system of road government and administration in the counties of the State of California. [Approved April 1, 1897.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and ARTICLE I. ROAD DISTRICTS. SECTION 1. Every road district must be designated by the name and style of " Road District (using the name of the district), of County (using the name of the county in which said district is situated)"; and in that name the district may sue and be sued, and hold and convey property for the use and benefit of such district. All road districts now existing in any of the counties of this State are hereby recognized and continued in existence, but the same may hereafter Supervis- be changed as in this Act provided; and it is hereby made the duty of the Boards of Supervisors in the several counties of this State in which road districts do not now exist, to subdivide such counties into road districts as by law now provided, immediately after this Act takes effect, and whether any petition therefor is presented by freeholders or not. No city or incorporated town shall be subdivided into road districts, or included within any road district, but the streets and highways thereof shall be laid out and maintained by and be under the jurisdiction of the municipal authority thereof, as is now or may hereafter be provided by law. ors must subdivide counties into road districts. When may be established. When boundaries may be changed. SEC. 2. No new road district shall be formed in any county at any other time than between the first day of October and the first day of March next succeeding, nor at any time unless one fourth of the freeholders, residents of such proposed new district, present a petition to the Board of Supervisors of the county setting forth the boundaries of the proposed new district, and asking that the same be established as a road district; provided, that new road districts may be established at any time between the date when this Act shall take effect, and the first day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, upon the petition of one fourth of the freeholders, residents of such proposed new district, presented to the Board of Supervisors of the county, setting forth the boundaries of such proposed new district, and asking that the same be established as a road district. SEC. 3. The boundaries of a road district or road districts may be changed only between the first day of October and the first day of March of the year next succeeding, and then only upon petition by at least one fourth of the freeholders residing in each district affected by the proposed change of boundary or boundaries to the Board of Supervisors of the county, setting forth the proposed change of boundary or boundaries and the reasons therefor; provided, that two or more road districts lying contiguous may at any time be united into one road district, whenever a petition signed by a majority of the electors residing in each of such districts shall be presented to the Board of Supervisors of the county, asking that such road districts be so united. formation SEC. 4. Whenever a petition is filed with a Board of Super- Hearing visors, as in this Act provided, asking for the formation of a petition for new district, such board shall, if in session, or if not in session, of district. then at its next regular meeting, fix a day for hearing the same, and must give notice of the time and place of such hearing by causing notices thereof to be posted within the boundaries of such proposed new district as follows: One of such notices shall be posted in a conspicuous place at each school-house, if any, in such proposed new district, and one of such notices shall be posted in a conspicuous place at each post office, if any, in such proposed new district; provided, that such notice shall be posted in at least three conspicuous places in such proposed new district; and provided further, that if such proposed new district is to be formed out of the territory of any existing district or districts, the clerk of the Board of Supervisors shall send, by registered mail, a copy of such notice to each trustee of each road district in which is contained the whole or any part of the territory that is to compose such proposed new district. two or SEC. 5. Whenever a petition is presented to the Board of Uniting Supervisors of any county, asking for the uniting of two or more dismore existing districts into one district, as in this Act provided, tricts. such Board of Supervisors shall, if in session, or if not in session, then at its next regular meeting, fix a day for hearing the same, and must give notice of the time and place of such hearing by causing notices thereof to be posted in at least three public places in each of the districts sought to be united, one of which said notices shall be posted in a conspicuous place at each school-house, if any, in each of such districts, and one of said notices shall be posted in a conspicuous place at each post office, if any, in each of such districts; and such board. shall further require the clerk thereof to send, by registered mail, a copy of such notice to each of the trustees of each of the districts so sought to be united into one district. aries. SEC. 6. Whenever a petition is presented to the Board of Changing Supervisors of any county, asking for a change in the bound- boundaries of any district or districts, as in this Act provided, the Board of Supervisors shall, if in session, or if not in session, then at its next regular meeting, fix a day for the hearing of the same, and must give notice of the time and place of such hearing by causing notices thereof to be posted in at least three public places in each of the districts affected by the proposed change of boundaries, one of which notices shall be posted in a conspicuous place at each school-house, if any, and one of Notices, contain. which such notices shall be posted in a conspicuous place at each post office, if any, in each of the districts affected by the proposed change of boundaries; and such board shall further require the clerk thereof to send, by registered mail, a copy of such notice to each of the trustees of each of the districts affected by such proposed change of boundaries. SEC. 7. The notice required by this Act to be given of the what shall hearing of petitions for the formation of any new road district, or for the uniting of two or more road districts into one district, or for the change in the boundaries of any district or districts, shall contain a statement of the time and place when and where such petitions will be heard, and a brief and substantial statement of the boundaries of any proposed new district, or of the change of boundaries of any existing district or districts; provided, that when the petition is for the uniting of two or more districts into one, in lieu of the statement of the boundaries thereof, it shall be sufficient to state the names of the districts so proposed to be united. Such notices as are required hereby to be posted shall be posted for at least three weeks prior to the date in such notices stated for the hearing, and such notices as are required to be sent by registered mail shall be so mailed at least three weeks prior to the date therein fixed for the hearing of the petitions therein named. Duty of Board of Supervis ors, on petitions. SEC. 8. The Board of Supervisors must, on the day fixed for the hearing of any petition for the formation of a new district, or for the uniting of two or more districts into one district, or for the change in the boundaries of any existing district or districts, or on any subsequent day to which any such petition may be postponed or continued, hear the evidence and act upon such petition. If the board, after such hearing, establishes a new district, or grants changes in the boundaries of any existing district or districts, it may do so in accordance with the original prayer of the petition, or by making such modifications as may by it be deemed proper or wise, after a full and fair hearing of the matter; but a petition for uniting two or more districts must be granted without modification, or must be denied. ARTICLE II. Elections for road trustees. Number. ELECTIONS FOR ROAD TRUSTEES. SEC. 9. An election for road trustees shall be held in each road district on the last Saturday in May of each year, at a place in each district to be designated by its board of road trustees. 1. The number of road trustees for each road district shall be three. Each road trustee shall receive, as full compensation for the services required of him by law or by virtue of his Compensa office, twenty-five dollars per annum, to be allowed by the Board of Supervisors and paid out of the funds of the district available for the fiscal year in which the service is rendered; provided, that neither the whole nor any part of such compen tion. |