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Fees of

the Peace.

a marriage, and returning a certificate thereof to the Justices of County Recorder, three dollars; for taking depositions, per folio, fifteen cents; for administering an oath, and certifying the same, twenty-five cents; for issuing a commission to take testimony, fifty cents; for taking an acknowledg ment of any instrument, for the first name, fifty cents; for each additional name, twenty-five cents; for all services and proceedings before a Justice of the Peace in a criminal action or proceeding, whether on examination or trial, three dollars; for all services connected with the posting of estrays, including the transcript for the Recorder, two dollars. In cases before Justices of the Peace, when the venue shall be changed, the Justice before whom the action shall be brought, for all services rendered, including the making up and transmission of the transcript and papers, shall receive two dollars, and the Justice before whom the trial shall take place shall receive the same fees as if the action had been commenced before him. All fees of Justices of the Peace, including those on trial and those on appeal, must be paid before the Justice shall be compelled to forward any papers on appeal. For all services appertaining to the Coroner's office, which the Coroner is unable to attend to, the Justice of the Peace shall receive the same fees as are allowed the Coroner for similar services.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Resolution ratified.

CHAP. CXIII.-An Act conferring additional powers upon the Board of Supervisors of Alameda County, and ratifying and confirming a resolution of said Board granting certain rights and privileges to the Berkeley Horse Railroad Company.

[Approved March 2, 1878.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The resolution of the Board of Supervisors of Alameda County, granting a franchise to the Berkeley Horse Railroad Company to lay down and maintain their track on the line of street known as Shattuck Avenue, and commencing at University Avenue and terminating at Cordonises Creek, is hereby ratified and confirmed, and the said railroad company shall have the right to use on said line of road such propelling power as the Board of Supervisors of said county shall order and direct; provided, such right or franchise, shall not, by the provisions of this Act, be deemed exclusive.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage.

CHAP. CXIV. An Act to provide for the payment of the claim of Harrison Roberts, Luis Ruggio, and C. S. Colvig for services rendered to the State by the capture of Cleodoveo Chavez, one of the associates of the bandit Vasquez.

[Approved March 2, 1878.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

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SECTION 1. The sum of two thousand one hundred and Approprianinety-nine dollars and forty-two cents is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the Controller is hereby required to draw his warrant in favor of Harrison Roberts, Luis Ruggio, and C. S. Colvig for said sum, in payment for services rendered by said Roberts, Ruggio, and Colvig, by the capture of Cleodoveo Chavez, an associate of the bandit Vasquez.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately.

CHAP. CXV.-An Act to amend section nine (9) of an Act entitled "An Act to separate the office of County Recorder from the office of County Clerk, and to regulate the salaries of certain officers of the County of Merced," (approved March twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four). (See Statutes of 1873-4, pp. 660-62 inclusive.)

[Approved March 2, 1878.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. That section nine (9) of an Act entitled "An Act to separate the office of County Recorder from the office of County Clerk, and to regulate the salaries of certain officers of the County of Merced," approved March twentysixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, be so amended compensaas to read as follows: Section Nine (9). The District Attorney shall receive a compensation of one thousand five hun- Attorney. dred dollars per annum, which shall be in full of all compensation for all services rendered by him, his deputies, or assistants, as District Attorney.

SEC. 2: All Acts or parts of Acts, so far as the same are in conflict with this Act, are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force, as to the salary and compensation of the said District Attorney, on and after the first Monday in March, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.

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liability on

a bond.

CHAP. CXVI.-An Act for the relief of John Rierden, B. H.
Kenney, and Patrick Donahue, and W. B. Jourden.

[Approved March 2, 1878.].

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. That John Rierden, B. H. Kenney, Patrick lieved from Donahue, and W. B. Jourden, of the City and County of San Francisco, be and they are hereby released and relieved from all liability on a certain bail bond in the sum of five thousand dollars, payable to the people of the State of California, dated and approved July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and conditioned for the appearance of one Philip Smith Allis, in whatever Court the charge in said bail bond mentioned should be prosecuted.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage.

Authorizing

certain

claims.

CHAP. CXVII.—An Act to provide for the payment of certain claims against the County of Santa Cruz.

[Approved March 2, 1878.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of said county are payment of hereby authorized to audit and allow all just claims against said county for the current expenses of said county for the fiscal year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven-eight, and the Auditor of said county is hereby authorized to draw warrants on the Treasurer of said county for all such allowances, and the Treasurer of said county is hereby authorized to register said warrants, as other warrants are registered, and to pay the same from the funds of said county for the fiscal year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight-nine, in the order of their registration.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately.

CHAP. CXVIII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act repealing article fourth of an Act entitled an Act to repeal the several charters of the City of San Francisco, to establish the boundaries of the City and County of San Francisco, and to consolidate the government thereof, approved the nineteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, and all Acts and parts of Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, and substituting this Act for said article four, approved April first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two.

[Approved March 2, 1878.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

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salary.

SECTION 1. Section twenty-one of said Act is hereby Duty of amended so as to read as follows: Section 21. The said SuperinSuperintendent of Public Streets, Highways, and Squares Streets. shall keep a public office in some convenient place, to be designated by the Board of Supervisors, and his office shall be kept open as in this Act required. He shall not, during his continuance in office, follow any other profession or calling, but shall be required to devote himself exclusively to the duties of his office. He shall be allowed not more than Deputies sixteen deputies, to be appointed by him, from time to time; allowed, and three of said deputies shall receive a salary of two hundred dollars per month each, and six of said deputies shall receive a salary of one hundred and fifty dollars per month each, and seven of said deputies shall receive a salary of one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month each. It Power of shall be lawful for the said deputies to perform all or any of deputies. the duties conferred by this Act upon the Superintendent of Public Streets, Highways, and Squares, under the direction of said Superintendent of Public Streets, Highways, and Squares, except the acceptance or approval of work done. The Superintendent of Public Streets, Highways, and Squares, or his deputies, shall superintend and direct the cleaning of all the public streets and the cleaning of all sewers in the public streets; and the expense of the same shall be paid out of the Street Department Fund, in the same manner as provided for the improvement of streets that have been finally accepted, as in this Act provided.

SEC. 2. All parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

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tion of fees

CHAP. CXIX.-An Act to regulate fees of office and salaries of officers in Modoc County.

[Approved March 2, 1878.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Fees and salaries shall be allowed to the offiand salaries. Cers of Modoc County hereinafter named, for their services rendered in discharging duties imposed upon them by law, as herein provided, and such officers may lawfully charge, demand, and receive the same, to be applied as hereinafter provided, in gold and silver coin of the United States, and all costs recovered in any suit or proceeding shall be paid in gold and silver coin.

Fees for docketing and costs.

Fees of Clerk

Court.

SEC. 2. No fees or other compensation shall be charged or received for certificate of declaration to become a citizen of the United States, and for making a record thereof, or for issuing a certificate of citizenship to become a citizen of the United States, or for making a record thereof.

SEC. 3. At the commencement of each suit, the Clerk shall be entitled to demand and receive from the plaintiff, in addition to the Judge's docket fee as prescribed by law, not to exceed the sum of ten dollars, to cover costs to the time of judgment, and from defendant, three dollars to cover costs for the same time. If, in the progress of the action, the sums allowed the Clerk should be found insufficient, he shall be entitled to demand from either party such further sum as he may deem necessary to cover costs to the time of judgment, including the entry thereof. Any excess of fees advanced by either party, on the determination of the action shall be returned by the Clerk to the party who advanced them, on demand.

SEC. 4. The Clerk of the District Court shall receive for of District entering each suit on the Clerk's Register of Actions, and for making the necessary entries therein, during the progress of the suit and of the trial and subsequent proceedings, for each folio, twenty-five cents; for issuing every writ or process, under seal, fifty cents; for issuing each subpoena for one or more witnesses, twenty-five cents; for entering every motion. or order, rule, default, dismissal, discontinuance, or non-suit, twenty-five cents; for filing each paper, twenty-five cents; for entering every case on the calendar and making a copy thereof for the bar for each term of the Court, fifty cents; for calling and swearing every jury to try cause, fifty cents; for receiving and entering each verdict of a jury, fifty cents; for entering every final judgment, for the first folio, fifty cents; for each subsequent folio, twenty-five cents; for making up and filing judgment roll, twenty-five cents; for entering judgment on judgment docket, twenty-five cents; for entering satisfaction or credit on judgment docket, fifty cents; for administering every oath or affirmation, and certifying the same, twenty-five cents; for a copy of any proceeding, record, or paper, per folio, twenty cents; for every

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