A.J.

Plaintiff brought this action to recover from the defendants the sum of $953.11, the amount of an assessment levied against the land of the defendants lying within Reclamation District No. 150.

The act of March 20,1874 (Stats. 1873-1874, p. 867), under which the plaintiff was organized as a reclamation district, provides that immediately after the passage of the act the u owners of land in Swamp Land District No. 150, consisting of what is known as Merrit Island, in Yolo County, may proceed to elect trustees and make and record by-laws, .... and they shall thereafter proceed in the work of reclamation, as provided in said code, with the modifications herein contained.” Under this act the land-owners organized the district by electing trustees and making and recording by-laws. A notice was *53 given on the seventh day of April, 1874, that a meeting for the purposes stated would be held on the eighteenth day of April, and at the time and place mentioned in the notice all the land-owners in the district met and elected trustees and adopted by-laws. This is all the act required, so far as the organization of the district is concerned, and the points made by the appellant seeking to…