herein before authorized, until their payment and redemption, the boundaries of said Fresno City School District, as now constituted, shall not be diminished. SEC. 19. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CLXXIV.-An Act concerning road poll tax and hospital poll tax for Tehama County. [Approved March 9, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and tax. SECTION 1. Every male inhabitant of the County of Road poll Tehama, over twenty-one and under fifty years of age, must - annually pay a road poll tax of two dollars; provided, the same be paid between the first Monday in March and the first Monday in July, but if not paid prior to the first Monday in July then it shall be three dollars. SEC. 2. Every male inhabitant of the County of Tehama, Hospital over twenty-one and under sixty years of age, must annu- poll tax. ally pay a hospital poll tax of two dollars; provided, the same be paid between the first Monday in March and the first Monday in July, but if not paid prior to the first Monday in July then it shall be three dollars. SEC. 3. The road poll tax and the hospital poll tax shall Collection of be collected by the Assessor of Tehama County between the poll taxes first Monday in March and the second Monday in January of the ensuing year. SEC. 4. The Tax Collector of delinquent State and county taxes of Tehama County shall collect the road poll tax and hospital poll tax that may be delinquent on the second Monday in January of each year. tion of officers. SEC. 5. The Assessor and Tax Collector shall receive, Compensarespectively, the same compensation for collecting road poll tax and hospital poll tax as they do for the collection of the poll tax. Political SEC. 6. The provisions of sections three thousand eight Provisions of hundred and forty, three thousand eight hundred and forty- Code de one, three thousand eight hundred and forty-two, three applicable. thousand eight hundred and forty-three, three thousand eight hundred and forty-four, three thousand eight hundred and forty-five, three thousand eight hundred and forty-six, three thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, three thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, three thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, three thousand eight hundred and fifty, three thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, three thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, three thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, three thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, three thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, three thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, three thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, three thousand seven hundred and Disposal of moneys. fifty-eight, three thousand eight hundred and sixty, three thousand eight hundred and sixty-one of the Political Code are hereby made applicable to the collection of road poll tax and hospital poll tax in Tehama County. SEC. 7. All of the road poll tax and hospital poll tax collected by the officers in this Act authorized to collect the same, less their percentage, must be paid to the County Treasurer of Tehama County, for the County Road Fund and County Hospital Fund, respectively; provided, that in the Town of Red Bluff one-half of the road poll tax collected within the limits of said town shall be placed at the disposal of the Town Trustees of the Town of Red Bluff, to be expended by them in the improvement of the streets and alleys thereof. SEC. 8. All Acts or parts of Acts or laws in conflict with this Act shall not be applicable to Tehama County. SEC. 9. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Transcrib ized. CHAP. CLXXV.-An Act to provide for transcribing certain records in the County of Yuba. [Approved March 9, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the County of ing author Yuba are hereby authorized and empowered to have transcribed certain torn and mutilated records of said county, and to pay a fair and reasonable compensation therefor. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Debt legalized. CHAP. CLXXVI.-An Act to legalize the debt contracted in completing and furnishing the school house and fencing the school lot in Fairfield School District, in Solano County, and provide for the payment of the same. [Approved March 9, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The debt of one thousand and twenty-seven dollars incurred in finishing and furnishing the school house and fencing the lot in Fairfield School District, in the County of Solano, is hereby declared a legal debt and liability of said school district, to bear interest at ten per cent. per annum, and to be discharged by money derived from taxation of the property in the same, as hereinafter provided. Collector. SEC. 2. On the last Saturday in April, of the year eight- Election of een hundred and seventy-eight, in the same manner that rand School Trustees are elected, there shall be elected, by the qualified voters of said Fairfield School District, a District Assessor and Collector (the same person to perform the duties of both offices), who shall hold office until the purposes of this Act are completed. He shall give bond to the Bond. Trustees of said school district in the sum of five hundred dollars, for the faithful performance of his duties, and also file with them the oath of office as prescribed by law. Assessor. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the Assessor elected under Duty of the provisions of this Act to assess the taxable property in said Fairfield School District, between the first Monday in May and the first Monday in July, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and each and every succeeding year thereafter until the purposes of this Act are completed, in the same manner as other State and county taxes are assessed, and on the second Monday in July of said year file his assessment roll with the Trustees of said school district. SEC. 4. The Trustees of said school district, upon receiv- Equalizaing the assessment roll from the said Assessor, must proceed tion. in the equalization of the assessment, in accordance with the Political Code, where a tax is voted by the qualified voters in a school district to build a school house. SEC. 5. As soon as the equalization of the assessment, as Tax levied. provided for in section four of this Act, is completed, the Board of Trustees of said Fairfield School District must levy a tax on the persons or property named in the assessment roll, for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, an amount sufficient to pay seven hundred and fifty dollars of the debt legalized in section one of this Act, together with an amount sufficient to pay for the assessing and collecting the same, not to exceed seventy-five dollars, and for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine an amount sufficient to pay the balance of said debt, together with an amount sufficient to pay for assessing and collecting, not to exceed seventy-five dollars. SEC. 6. The taxes provided for in this Act shall be col- Taxes, how lected by the said School District Collector, at the time and collected. in the same manner as county taxes are collected, and in order to make the assessment and collection provided for in this Act, the said District Assessor and Collector is hereby invested with all the powers and subject to the same penalties as the Assessor and Collector of the said county, so far as said powers may be exercised within said school district. taxes. SEC. 7. The taxes provided for in this Act which shall collection of become delinquent must be returned and collected in the delinquent same manner, and by the same persons, as other delinquent county taxes are collected in the said county. SEC. 8. The money collected under the provisions of this Disposal of Act must be paid into the county treasury of said Solano money. County, and placed to the credit of the Fairfield School District Fund, and paid out on the order of the Trustees of said district for the payment of said debt. SEC. 9. This Act shall take effect immediately. Proceedings of Board ratified. CHAP. CLXXVII.-An Act to ratify and confirm certain proceedings of the Board of Trustees of Meridian School District, in the County of Sutter. [Approved March 9, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The action of the Board of Trustees of Meri- Stove-pipes to be CHAP. CLXXVIII.-An Act to protect the Towns of Fresno and Merced City against fire. [Approved March 9, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. It is unlawful for any owner or occupant of secured, etc. any house within the Town of Fresno, in the County of Fresno, as bounded on the maps thereof on file in the County Recorder's office in said county, to have any stovepipe passing through the sides, ceiling, or roof of such house without having such stove-pipe first inserted in a secure brick flue, or flue of some other non-combustible material. SEC. 2. The Board of Supervisors of said county shall, upon the application of any citizen of said town, appoint one of the Constables of the township in which said town is situate, whose duty it shall be, at least once every month, to inspect all houses within said limits of said town, and file with the Clerk of said Board his written report of his actions, and in case he find any stove-pipes passing through any part of any house therein without being first inserted in a flue as aforesaid, he shall notify the owner or occupant of such house to remove the same or build such flue forthwith; and if any Constable appointed to inspect houses. owner or occupant of such house fail or refuse so to do for one month thereafter, the Constable shall remove the same, and shall be entitled to recover from such owner or occupant a fee of five dollars; and such owner or occupant, if he or Misdeshe replace said stove-pipe without fixing a flue therefor, as above specified, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. meanor. be removed. SEC. 3. It shall also be the duty of such Constable to Combustible notify any owner or occupant of any lot or premises within materials to said town to remove therefrom any rubbish or other combustible material likely to become easily ignited from his or her premises; and in case he or she fail so to do within two days thereafter the Constable shall remove the same, and upon filing with the nearest Justice of the Peace his account for the necessary expenses of such removal, verified by his affidavits, stating the facts, he shall be entitled to recover the amount of such expenses, together with a fee of two dollars. SEC. 4. This Act shall apply to the Town of Fresno, in the County of Fresno, and Merced City, in the County of Merced. [SEC. 5.] This Act shall be in force from and after its pas sage. CHAP. CLXXIX.-An Act authorizing a tax for the payment The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of Alpine County Tax levied. shall annually levy a tax, not to exceed fifteen cents upon each one hundred dollars of taxable property in said county, which tax shall be collected in the same manner and at the same time as other taxes for county purposes, and when paid into the county treasury shall be set apart in a fund to be known as the Jurors' Fund. All warrants for the payment of jurors in criminal cases in Courts of record shall be drawn upon said fund, and no warrant against said fund shall be for a sum in excess of two dollars for each day's service rendered as such jurors. SEC. 2. All moneys remaining in said Jurors' Fund on Transfer of the first day of November, A. D. one thousand eight hundred moneys. and eighty-one, and every three years thereafter, shall be transferred to the General Fund of said county. SEC. 3. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. passage. This Act shall take effect from and after its |