Brigden

Plaintiffs, having recovered a judgment against the county of Los Angeles for a sum of money, brought this proceeding in the superior court to compel the supervisors of said county and the other disbursing officers named, to audit, allow, and pay the amount of said judg ment from the general fund of the county. Mandate was decreed agreeable to the prayer of the complaint and the defendants have appealed. - The judgment-roll alone constitutes the record on appeal.

In 1912 the board of supervisors of Los Angeles County, acting under authority of an act to provide for the improvement of channels of innavigable streams and watercourses, as the same was approved in 1895 (Stats. 1895, p. 247) and amended in 1911 (Stats. 1911, p. 446), adopted a resolution by which a district was described under the name of Fair Oaks Protection District, and proceeded, further to have surveys made and to provide for the doing of certain work and the assessment of the cost thereof against the property within said district. However, the board of supervisors did not proceed regularly with its action, but let con-' tracts for work before commissioners had been appointed. Such procedure was not in accordance…