The record-union., 1897-04-16
WHAT THE NEW LAWS ARE
INTENDED TO ACCOMPLISH.
NUMBER ELEVEN.

( Civil Procedure of California is hereby
amended to read as follows
J 963. An appeal may be taken to the
Supreme Court, from a Superior Court,
| in the following cases:
/. From a final Judgment entered in
an action, or special proceeding, COM
menced in Superior Court, or brought
| into d Superior Court from another
court.
,. From an order granting or refus-
| ing a new trial, or granting or dis
solving an injunction, or refusing to
grant or dissolve an injunction, or ap-
pointing a receiver, or dissolving or re-
| fusing to dissolve an attachment, or
changing or refusing to change the
place of trial, from any special order
made after final judgment, and from
such interlocutory judgment in actions
for partition as determines the rights
and interests of the respective parties,
and directs partition to be made.
}. From a judgment or order grant
ing or refusing to grant, revoking or
refusing to revoke, letters testamentary
or of administration, or of guardian
Ship or admitting or refusing to ad-
| nit will to probate, or against or in
lslNOl VI the Ndilullg VI d VIII, vi lC
voking the probate thereof; or against
| or in favor of setting apart property,
or making an allowance for a widow
or child; or against or in favor of di-
recting the partition, sale, or convey
ance of real property, or settling an
account of an executor, administrator,
| or guardian; or refusing, allowing, or
directing the distribution or partition
of an estate, or any part thereof, or the
payment of a debt claim, or legacy, or
diStributive share; or confirming or re-
fusing to confirm a report of an ap-
praiser or appraisers setting apart
homestead.
SWAMP LAND DRAINAGE
An amendment to the Act to provide
system of drainage for agricultural,
swamp and overfiowed lands will be
| interesting reading for parties resid-
ing or owning property in the over
| flowed districts. 1t is as follows:
Section l. Section of an Act to
amend an Act entitled AN Act to pro-
vide a system of drainage for agri-
cultural swamp and overfiowed lands,
approved March 3, 1881, by amending
Section 8 thereof, is hereby amended
so as to read as follows:
Section g. All the bitches and drains
, constructed under the provisions of this
Act shall be in charge of the Road
Overseer through whose district such
drains are constructed The Board of
Supervisors shall, at their meeting in
December of each year, advertise for
bids to keep all bitches and drains Gre
ated under the provisions of said Act
clean and free from all rubbish, and
graded to the original established grade
for the period Of one year. Said no.
tice shall be given by publication in
some paper of general circulation, pub
lished in said county, for at least two
months before the monthly meeting of
said board in January. At which time
the bids for doing said work shall be
opened and the contract awarded to
the lowest responsible bidder, whose
bid shall have been accompanied by a
certified check for at least p per cent
of his bid, and which shall be forfeited
to the county if he shall fail, refuse, or
neglect to file a bond, with two suffi-
cient sureties, payable to said county
within ten days. Any bidder to whom
any contract has been awarded, who
shall fail, refuse, or neglect to file the
bond required by this Act, shall be
awarded to the next lowest responsible
bidder, and so on until all bidders have
had an opportunity of complying with
their bid, and the certified check of
each bidder who shall have an oppor-
tunity to take such contract shall be
forfeited to the county, and each bid
der except the first shall file his bond
within ten days after receiving notice
that he has been awarded the con-
tract If all the bidders shall fail
refuse or neglect to file a bond and to
complete said work, the board shall
have power to enter into a contract
with any responsible party without ad-
vertising; provided, they shall have no
power to award the contract for
greater sum than % per cent. more
than the lowest bid received upon such
advertisement The amount of said
contract shall be levied against the
lands in accordance with the appor-
tionment when such ditch was orig
inally constructed, and shall be col
lected by the Tax Collector at the same
time and in the same manner as the
State and county taxes are collected.