Excerpt from Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Sacramento River Drainage District to the Governor of California To His Excellency, William Irwin, Governor of California: We, the undersigned, the Board of Commissioners of the Sacramento River Drainage District, a Board appointed in accordance with a provision of the Legislature of the State of California, at its last regular session, entitled "An Act creating the Sacramento River Drainage District, to inquire into the practicability of and the cost of constructing certain works described therein, for the purpose of draining the surplus water of the Sacramento River, and the waters flowing from the Coast Range of Mountains on the west, into the tule basin to the west of the Sacramento River, and south of Knight's Landing into Suisun Bay," do herewith submit the following report of action had under said Act: The sum of $10,000 was appropriated by the Legislature out of the general funds of the State, and placed at our disposal for the purpose of making surveys and examinations to determine: first, the practicability of the certain works described in the Act; secondly, the effect the proposed works would have on the Sacramento River, Suisun Bay, and other navigable waters of the State; and thirdly, the cost of constructing said works. Agreeable to Section 2 of the Act, the Commissioners, after their appointments, organized, electing R. S. Carey, President, Christopher Green, Secretary, and appointing Isaac W. Smith, Chief Engineer, James C. Pierson, Assistant Engineer, on the 1st day of May, 1878. Under Section 6 of the Act, and agreeable thereto, an election was held on the 6th day of July, 1878, for the purpose of electing a Treasurer, resulting in a tie vote. No further action was had pending the decision of the Board, who took the matter under advisement. The expense of such election was paid from the moneys of the fund hereinbefore mentioned. Prior to June 1st, 1878, a surveying party, with James C. Pierson as Engineer in Charge, was organized, and placed in the field on June 1st, for the purpose of making the necessary surveys and examinations. Work was immediately commenced and unremittingly prosecuted up to the 5th day of November following, at which time the surveys were discontinued and the work of compiling the data thus obtained was commenced. 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.