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Probation

officer,

be appointed.

CHAPTER XXXV.

An act to amend an act entitled "An act to establish a Code of Civil Procedure," approved March 11, 1872, by adding a new section thereto, to be numbered one hundred and thirty-one, relating to the powers and duties of the courts of the state in the appointment of probation officers, and defining the duties and powers of such officers.

[Approved February 23, 1903.]

The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. A new section, No. 131, is added to Part I, Title I, Chapter VII, Article II, of the Code of Civil Procedure of the State of California, to read as follows:

131. 1. The judges and justices of the courts having when may original jurisdiction of criminal actions in this state shall, from time to time, if in their judgment the interests of justice will be promoted thereby, appoint a person or persons from among the officers of any charity organization, society, associated charities, or any strictly non-sectarian charitable association, or from among the citizens, either men or women, to perform the duties of probation officer, as hereinafter described, within the jurisdiction and under the direction of said court; to hold such office during the pleasure of the judge or justice making such appointment.

Expenses a county charge.

Duties of probation officer.

2. No probation officer appointed under the provisions of this section shall receive compensation for service as such probation officer; provided, however, that the probation officer shall be allowed his necessary expenses, and the same shall be a charge upon the county in which the court appointing him has jurisdiction, and the said expenses shall be paid out of the county treasury upon a warrant therefor issued by the said

court.

3. Every probation officer so appointed shall, when so directed by the court, inquire into the antecedents, character, history, and offense of persons over the age of sixteen years arrested for a crime within the jurisdiction of the court appointing him, and shall report the same to the court. It shall be his duty to make such report of all cases investigated by him, of all cases placed in his care by the court, and of all other duties performed by him in the discharge of his office, as shall be prescribed by the court or judge making the appointment, or his successor, or by the court or judge assigning the case to him, or his successor, which report shall be filed with the clerk of the court, or where there is no clerk, the justice thereof. He shall keep a complete and accurate record of each case committed to his care, or investigated by him, in suitable books; also a record of the conduct of the person committed to his care during such term of probation, which record shall be

a part of the records of the court, and shall at all times be open to the inspection of the court, or any person appointed by the court for that purpose, as well as of all magistrates and the chief of police or other head officer of police, unless otherwise ordered by the court.

the court.

4. He shall furnish to each person released on probation Report to committed to his care a written statement of the terms and conditions of his probation, and shall report to the court, judge, or justice appointing him, any violation or breach of the terms and conditions imposed by such court on the person placed in his care.

5. Such probation officer shall have, as to the person so Powers. committed to his care, the powers of a peace officer. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

CHAPTER XXXVI.

An act to create and establish two new reclamation districts of this state, to be known, respectively, as Union Island Reclamation District No. 1, and Union Island Reclamation District No. 2, embracing within their respective territorial_limits a portion of Union Island, in San Joaquin county; to define the boundaries of such districts, and provide for the organization and government thereof, and to dissolve all other reclamation districts in conflict therewith.

[Approved February 23, 1903.]

The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

Union Isl

and Reclamation

No. 1.

SECTION 1. All that portion of Union Island, in San Joaquin county, embraced within the boundaries in section two of this act set forth, and the owners thereof, are hereby constituted District and declared to be a reclamation district of this state, to be known and designated as Union Island reclamation district number one, for the purpose of protecting the land within such boundaries from overflow of water, and effecting and maintaining a complete and permanent reclamation thereof. Under that name, said district, when organized as hereinafter in this act provided, may contract, sue and be sued, and perform its other functions.

aries.

SEC. 2. The boundaries of said Union Island reclamation Bounddistrict number one are as follows: Commencing at a point on the northern edge of the canal, commonly known as, and called by way of distinction, the Grant Line canal, where the same would be intersected by a line parallel with, and four hundred feet distant west from, the outer or western base of the Elk Ridge cross levee, at its southern extremity, and running from that point east, along the northern edge of said canal, to the eastern extremity thereof, and to the west berm of a levee con

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mation

District
No. 2.

necting the levee on the northern bank of said canal with the levee known as the Wing levee; thence along the west berm of said connecting levee, and on the same line through the said Wing levee, to the outer or southern base of said Wing levee; thence following the course of said Wing levee, along its outer base to the intersection thereof with the south base of a levee connecting said Wing levee with Middle river, at the place where the county bridge across said river, known as the Mowry bridge, is situated, and following the south base of said connecting levee to the left bank of Middle river; thence following the edge of the left bank of said Middle river, down stream, to the point where such bank would be intersected by a line parallel with, and four hundred feet distant west from, the west base of said Elk Ridge cross levee at its northern extremity; thence in a general southerly direction, following the course of said Elk Ridge cross levee on a line parallel with, and four hundred feet distant west from the west base thereof, to the southern end of that levee, and thence on the same line continued to the point of beginning.

SEC. 3. All that other portion of said Union Island embraced and Recla- within the boundaries in section four of this act set forth, and the owners thereof, are hereby constituted and declared to be a reclamation district of this state, to be known and designated as Union Island reclamation district number two, for the purpose of protecting the land within such boundaries from overflow of water, and effecting and maintaining a complete and permanent reclamation thereof. Under that name, said last mentioned district, when organized as hereinafter in this act provided, may contract, sue and be sued, and perform its other functions.

Boundaries.

District by-laws.

Board of trustees, election

of and powers.

SEC. 4. The boundaries of said Union Island reclamation district number two are as follows: Bounded on the northwest by the canal connecting Old river with Middle river, known as and called by way of distinction the North canal, the east end of which canal is in section thirty-six, of township one north, range four east, and the west end in section eight, of township one south, range four east; on the north by Middle river; on the east by the west line of said Union Island reclamation district number one; on the south by the canal known as, and commonly called by way of distinction, the Grant Line canal; and on the west by Old river.

SEC. 5. Immediately after the passage of this act, the owners of the land embraced in each of the aforesaid districts, or those of them owning a majority in acreage thereof, shall adopt, sign, and file for record, by-laws for the government and control of the affairs of said districts respectively, in the mode and as provided by section thirty-four hundred and fifty-two of the Political Code of this state, and may in like manner, from time to time thereafter, amend the same.

SEC. 6. The management of the affairs of each of said districts shall be vested in a board of trustees, composed of three eligible persons owning land in the district, to be elected by the landowners of the district under and in pursuance of

the provisions of section thirty-four hundred and ninetyone of said Political Code, and in accordance therewith; who, when so elected and qualified, shall constitute such board of trustees, and shall hold office for the term of two years next succeeding their election, and until their successors shall be elected and qualified. All such elections shall be called by the board of supervisors of San Joaquin county in like manner as if a petition for the formation of the district had been presented to that board. In case of vacancy in the board of trustees of either of said districts, said board of supervisors shall, by appointment, fill such vacancy. The rights, powers, privileges, authority, and duties of the board of trustees of each of the said districts shall be the same as are now or may be hereafter conferred upon and prescribed for the board of trustees of reclamation districts under the provisions of said Political Code. The first election for trustees of each of said districts shall be called by said board of supervisors immediately after the adoption of by-laws.

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SEC. 7. In the adoption or amendment of by-laws and the Infants, election of trustees, as well as in other respects, the land within sented. either of said districts belonging to the estate of any infant owner may be represented by the guardian of the estate of such infant, and that belonging to the estate of any deceased owner, by his executor or administrator. At any such election they shall, as such representatives, be entitled to vote either in person or by proxy, and shall be eligible to the office of trustee. If elected to that office they shall vacate the same whenever, during its term, they shall cease to be such guardian, executor, or administrator.

Code to

govern.

SEC. 8. Except as in this act otherwise provided, each of Political said districts, and its board of trustees, and the landowners of each of said districts, shall be controlled and governed by the Political Code of this state, and shall possess the same rights, powers, privileges, and authority now or hereafter given by said code to reclamation districts formed under its provisions, and to the board of trustees and the landowners of such reclamation districts.

SEC. 9. Immediately upon the organization of the districts Conflictby this act created, all other reclamation districts in conflict tricts dising distherewith shall be and are hereby declared to be thereupon solved. dissolved and abolished, and whatever rights may have been acquired or may be possessed by any such conflicting districts in or to any levee or portion of levee now existing on or near the margin of the land embraced in either of the districts hereby created, shall, upon such organization, vest in the district so organized which shall embrace such levee or portion of levee within its boundaries.

SEC. 10. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Form of school bonds.

CHAPTER XXXVII.

An act to amend section 1885 of an act entitled "An act to establish a Political Code of the State of California," approved March 12, 1872, relating to the issue of bonds of school districts.

[Approved February 26, 1903.]

The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section eighteen hundred and eighty-five of an act entitled "An act to establish a Political Code of the State of California," approved March twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

1885. The board of supervisors by an order entered upon its minutes shall prescribe the form of said bonds and of the interest coupons attached thereto, and must fix the time when the whole or any part of the principal of said bonds shall be payable, which shall not be more than forty years from the date thereof.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Municipal officers, election

of.

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

An act to amend section seven hundred and fifty-two of an act entitled "An act to provide for the organization, incorporation and government of municipal corporations," approved March 13, 1883.

[Approved February 26, 1903.]

The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section seven hundred and fifty-two of the act the title of which is recited in the title hereof, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section 752. The members of the board of trustees, and of the board of education, and the city clerk, city attorney, assessor, and terms marshal, treasurer, and recorder shall be elected by the qualified electors of said city at a general municipal election, to be held therein on the second Monday in April, nineteen hundred and three, and on the second Monday in April of each fourth year thereafter and shall hold office for the period of four years from and after the Monday next succeeding the day of such election, and until their successors are elected and qualified; provided, that a general municipal election shall be held in said provision, city on the second Monday in April, nineteen hundred and five, for the election of successors to the members of the board of trustees and of the board of education whose terms of office expire during said year, and said successors shall hold office

Special

election.

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