Author: California State Library

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-11

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 9781331176725

Excerpt from California Irrigation District Laws as Amended 1919 The past decade has seen a marked increase in the organization of irrigation districts in California. This has naturally been accompanied by, and in fact has also largely resulted from, fundamental improvements in the Wright Irrigation District Act as revised and re-enacted in 1897 and now by law designated the "California Irrigation District Act." The original Wright Act was plainly defective, among other particulars, in not providing for sufficient state supervision to prevent the organization of wholly speculative districts and districts for other reasons not justified or feasible; also in failing to give the state any control of irrigation district finances. During the eight years 1887 to 1895, immediately following the original enactment, each succeeding legislature passed amendments of more or less importance, but these did not correct the fundamental objections, either as to organization or financing. More important changes were made when the law was re-enacted in 1897 under the legislative leadership of Judge E. A. Bridgford. The essential purport of the law was not, however, altered by this re-enactment and the new act was in many of its provisions but a slight verbal revision of the old one. Radical changes, however, were made in the procedure for organization and for incurring indebtedness. These changes were planned virtually to stop new development under the law and for more than ten years that was their effect. The legislature that substituted the amended law also passed a funding act under which districts were permitted to discharge their indebtedness with new bonds. For the next four years the law was left unaltered, but beginning in 1901, and more particularly at each legislature from 1909 to 1919, amendments and supplementary acts have been adopted that have greatly changed and strengthened it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.