Payne

— The petitioner seeks a writ of mandate directing the County Auditor of Los Angeles County, H. A. Payne, to countersign the bonds of the Los Angeles County Water Works District No. 9. The respondent Payne and the respondent Alleman, a taxpayer of the district, have appeared by demurrer, so that for the purposes hereof we may refer to the petition for the facts. It appears therefrom that on January 11, 1926, a petition for the formation of the water works district signed by the requisite number of freeholders was presented to the board of supervisors, together with the map and bond as required; that the board fixed February 8, 1926, as the time for the hearing of the petition and protests, if any; that notice thereof was given by the clerk by posting in three public places and also by publication in the “Compton News-Tribune” on January 19, 1926, and January 26, 1926. The County Water Works District Act (Deering’s Gen. Laws of 1923, p. 3784) requires that “The said clerk shall also cause a notice ... to be published at least once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation printed and published in the county in which the proposed district is located and…