Book excerpt: Excerpt from Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the Twenty-Second Session of the Legislature of the State of California, 1878, Vol. 4 The second section Of the Act of April third, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, is so framed that the Commissioners doubted their power even to hire an office in the city. Through the courtesy of the Engineer of the West Side Irrigation Commission they were allowed the privilege Of desk room, and held their meetings and deposited their books and papers in his Office. 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.