lished notice, and the said Board may accept only such bids as will redeem the greatest amount of said bonds; provided, that no bonds shall be redeemed at a higher rate than one hundred cents on the dollar. If at the time set forth in the published notice mentioned in this section no proposals. have been offered for the surrender of bonds in accordance with said notice, the said Board must give notice by publication in the same manner as is provided for in notice of intention to redeem bonds, that they are prepared to redeem certain bonds, which bonds shall be designated in said notice by number consecutively, commencing at the lowest number of such bonds as are not redeemed; and no interest shall be payable on any bonds so published after thirty days from and after the date of the first published notice. SEC. 12. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Redemption tax. CHAP. CCXXXVI.—An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Trustees of the San Buenaventura School District, of the County of Ventura, in this State, to issue bonds for said district for the sum of ten thousand dollars," approved March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. [Approved March 16, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section ten of said Act is amended so as to read as follows: Section 10. In and for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine the Board of Supervisors of the County of Ventura shall levy and cause to be collected a tax sufficient to pay two thousand dollars of the said bonds; for the year eighteen hundred and eighty, sufficient to pay three thousand dollars of said bonds; for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-one, sufficient to pay five thousand dollars of said bonds, together with any interest that may have accrued thereon. The tax thus collected shall be set apart as a special fund and be known as the "School Bond Redemption Fund." For the purposes of this Act the Board of Supervisors are hereby directed to order an election for Assessor and Collector for said school district, at such time as the Board may designate; and the person elected to the office of Assessor may also be elected to the office of Collector. The assessment roll of the district, when completed, shall be returned to the Board of School Trustees of San Buenaventura School District, who shall proceed to equalize the same. So far as the same are consistent with the purposes of this Act, the provisions of Article Nineteen, Chapter Three, Title Three, Part Three, of the Political Code, are made applicable to and a part of this Act. The Assessor and Collector may hold office for three years, or until the purposes of this Act shall have been accomplished. CHAP. CCXXXVII.-An Act to confer additional powers upon the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, and upon the Auditor and Treasurer thereof, and to authorize certain appropriations of money by said Board. [Approved March 16, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and tion author SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the City and AppropriaCounty of San Francisco are hereby authorized to appro-ized. priate, allow, and order paid the several sums of money hereinafter mentioned: To expend a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars out of the General Fund, in addition to the amount now allowed by law, in making repairs to the county roads during the fiscal year 1877-78. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCXXXVIII.-An Act making the Sheriff of Butte County the Collector of business licenses therein, and fixing his salary therefor. [Approved March 16, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: License SECTION 1. The Sheriff of the County of Butte shall be sheriff made Collector of all business license taxes in and for said county, Collector. for the collection of which he shall receive a compensation which shall be equal to ten per cent. of the amount of money so collected by him. He shall be subject to all the duties and liabilities imposed by law on Tax Collectors, so far as the same relates to the collection of business license taxes. Before entering upon the duties herein provided he shall enter into a bond to the State of California, with two or more sureties, to be approved by the County Judge, in the sum of five thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties required of him by this Act, which bond shall be filed in the office of the Clerk of Butte County. SEC. 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCXXXIX.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] Compensa tion of cer CHAP. CCXL.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act in relation to the county officers of Santa Clara County, their fees and salaries, approved February 10th, 1876. [Approved March 16, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and. SECTION 1. Section two of said Act is hereby amended so tain officers, as to read as follows: Section 2. The county officers of the County of Santa Clara, in this section named, shall severally receive as compensation for their services the respective salaries by this section provided, to wit: The County Judge, an annual salary of three thousand dollars; the County Clerk,. an annual salary of two thousand dollars; the County Recorder, as County Recorder and ex officio County Auditor, an annual salary of two thousand dollars; the Sheriff, an annual salary of four thousand dollars; the County Treasurer, as County Treasurer and ex officio County Tax Collector, an annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars; the District Attorney, an annual salary of three thousand dollars; the Superintendent of Schools, an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars; each member of the Board of Supervisors, as member of the Board and ex officio Roadmaster of his respective Supervisor district, an annual salary of eight. hundred dollars. Fees of Board to prescribe number of deputies. SEC. 2. Section eight of said Act is hereby amended so asto read as follows: Section 8. The District Attorney of said county shall collect the following fees, to wit: In criminal cases, for each conviction of misdemeanor, where the punishment shall be by fine, eight dollars, which fees shall be payable out of the fines collected; in civil cases for all collections on bonds, undertakings, or recognizances, and for all collec-tions by action for the county, or for the State and county, other than taxes, eight per cent. of the amount actually collected and actually paid to the custodian of the fund collected; said per cent. shall not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars in any one case; for the collection of delinquent taxes, ten per cent. upon the amount due for taxes, if paid before judgment, and fifteen per cent. if paid after judgment, which amount shall be added to the taxes. and be paid by the party charged; in no event shall said percentage for the collection of taxes be paid by the county nor become a county charge. The fees in this section provided for shall be paid by said District Attorney into the Salary Fund of said county. SEC. 3. Section thirteen of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 13. The Board of Supervisors of said county shall prescribe the number of deputies or employés that each principal officer in this Act named shall employ, which number may be changed from time to time.. Salaries of The salaries of such deputies shall be paid as provided by section twelve of this Act, and shall not exceed the following amounts, to wit: The principal Deputy Clerk, Deputy same. Recorder, and Deputy Treasurer, each the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month, and each additional deputy, except Deputy Sheriffs, as hereinafter provided, one hundred dollars per month; principal Deputy District Attorney, one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month; Under Sheriff and principal Deputy Sheriff, each one hundred and fifty dollars per month; second Deputy Sheriff, one hundred dollars per month; all other Deputy Sheriffs, not to exceed the sum of forty dollars per month each, such compensation to be determined by the Board of Supervisors of said county; Bailiffs of Courts, not exceeding three dollars per day for each day's actual attendance on Court; Deputy Assessors, not exceeding four dollars per day for the time actually employed in the duties of the office, and in addition the percentage as provided in section five of this Act. SEC. 4. Section sixteen of said Act is hereby amended so Board to furas to read as follows: Section 16. The Board of Supervis- nish offices. ors of said county shall furnish all county officers in this Act named with an office in the Court-house building of said county, and no county officer except the County Judge and District Attorney shall be furnished or provided with an office elsewhere at the expense of said county. The Board of Supervisors shall also furnish to the various officers in this Act named the necessary stationery, fuel, and light for their respective offices, and shall from time to time examine the books, incomes, and business of said offices. SEC. 5. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCXLI.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to re-incorporate the City of San Jose," approved March seventeenth (17th), one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four (1874). [Approved March 16, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and public park. SECTION 1. Section sixty-seven (67) of an Act entitled Certain land "An Act to re-incorporate the City of San Jose," approved declared a March seventeenth (17th), one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four (1874), is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 67. All that certain tract or parcel of land situated and lying in the County of Santa Clara, and State of California, and being a portion of the Pueblo lands of the City of San Jose, and commonly known as the "City Reservation," and containing four hundred acres and fifty-five hundredths of an acre of land, as surveyed by J. J. Bowen, County Surveyor of Santa Clara County, March twentyeighth (28th) and twenty-ninth (29th), one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven (1867), is hereby declared a public park, and the Mayor and Common Council of said city are hereby authorized and empowered to pass such ordinances as may be necessary for the preservation of such reservation or park for public use; but said Mayor and Common Council shall have no power to sell or dispose of or alienate the said park or reservation; provided, however, that said Mayor and Common Council may lease the same for a term not exceeding ten years, upon such terms and conditions as they may deem proper; but such lease shall not authorize or permit any use or disposition of said park or reservation as to prevent the free use thereof, during the existence of such lease, by the people of said city, as a public park. SEC. 2. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect immediately on its passage and approval. Road CHAP. CCXLII.-An Act concerning the Santa Clara Avenue and certain public lands of the City of San José, in the County of Santa Clara. [Approved March 16, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The road within the County of Santa Clara declared a known and designated as the "Santa Clara Avenue," and public highway. Certain lands declared a leading from the corporate limits of the City of San José, at the eastern terminus of Santa Clara Street in said city, extending in an easterly direction to the public lands of said city upon Penetencia Creek, is hereby declared a public highway, to be under the control and supervision of the Board of Supervisors of said County of Santa Clara in all respects as other public roads and highways are now controlled by said Board of Supervisors in said county. SEC. 2. The tract of land, portion of Penetencia Reservation, so-called, heretofore selected on Penetencia Creek by public park. the Board of Commissioners and the Mayor of the City of San José, by authority of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the opening and improving of Santa Clara Avenue, in the County of Santa Clara," approved March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, shall be and remain a public park forever for public use, and shall be under the exclusive charge, control, and management of the Mayor and Common Council of the City of San José, who shall have the power to lease any portion or the whole of said park to such persons, upon such terms, and for such periods, not exceeding ten years, as they may deem advisable; provided, that said premises so leased shall be and remain open to the public free of charge; provided further, that all moneys received from leases made under the provisions of this section shall be |