Carmichael

This is an original application for a writ of mandamus directing respondent to draw his warrant for the sum of five thousand dollars in payment of petitioner’s claim against the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District, allowed by the state reclamation board and approved by the state board of control.

October 23, 1919, the reclamation board adopted “Plans and Estimates of Cost for Feather River Project and Assessment Number Seven. ’ ’ These plans provided for the acquisition of rights of way and the construction of a levee through petitioner’s and other lands and for the removal from the rights of way of buildings thereon, including two large barns on the right of way through petitioner’s land, and estimated the cost of removing the barns at four thousand, dollars.

The rules adopted by the reclamation board January 29, 1918, among other things, provide: “The executive department shall be under the immediate direction of the general manager who shall report directly to the board. He shall have charge of all the administrative and operative work of the reclamation board and the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District. -. . . He shall be the representative of the board in…