performance of such contract, that such failure shall work a forfeiture of such bond.

proposals.

SEC. 5. On the first day of the next regular meeting of Supervisors said Board after such advertisement, said Board of Super- to consider visors shall, in public, open all proposals, and shall proceed to consider the same, in connection with the plans and specifications accompanying each, and shall award the contract for the construction of said bridges to the lowest responsible bidder or bidders, due regard being always had to the merits of the plan and specifications accompanying said bids; provided, that said Board may, in their discretion, reject any and all bids received; and provided further, that no party to whom a contract for building said bridges, or either of them, may have been awarded, shall have the right to sub-contract the work of building said bridges, or either of them, to any other person or persons, under penalty of a forfeiture of his or their bond.

contractor.

SEC. 6. The person or persons to whom the contract for Bond of the construction of said bridges, or either of them, may be awarded, shall file a good and sufficient bond, with two or more sureties, in double the sum of their respective bids, to be approved by the Board of Supervisors of said county, having been first submitted to the inspection of the District. Attorney of said county. Said bond shall be conditioned to the effect that said obligors will well and truly, and in a good and workmanlike manner, cause said bridges to be constructed and completed on or before the first day of November, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, in accordance with the plans and specifications accompanying the respective proposals, as adopted by said Board of Supervisors.

SEC. 7. Whenever the Board of Supervisors shall be Supervisors notified of the completion of said bridges, or either of them, to inspect they shall proceed to inspect the same, and if said bridges so inspected by them are found to be completed in accordance with the plans and specifications thereof, they shall be received by them, and upon the acceptance thereof, the said Money; Board of Supervisors shall allow the accounts for the con- how paid. struction of said bridges, and the Auditor of said county shall draw his warrants in amounts from one hundred to five hundred dollars, as may be convenient, upon the Treasurer of said county, payable out of the "Special Bridge Fund" created by this Act; and all said warrants shall be treated as to payment by said Treasurer as provided by Article Three, of Chapter Three, of Title Two, of Part Four, of the Political Code.

Bridge

SEC. 8. The said "Special Bridge Fund," created by the "Special provisions of this Act, may, except as pledged by section one Fan," how of this Act, be used by the said Board of Supervisors of said used. county, as provided by the provisions of Article Seven, of Chapter Two, of Title Six, of Part Three, of the Political Code.

SEC. 9. All Acts and parts of Acts, in so far as the same may conflict with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed.

SEC. 10.

This Act shall take effect and be in force from

and after its passage.

School district reëstab

of.

CHAP. CCCCLXXXVII.-An Act to reëstablish "Court-house
School District," in the County of Sonoma.

[Approved March 30, 1878.]

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

SECTION 1. "Court-house School District," in the County lished; of Sonoma, is hereby reestablished as a common school disboundaries trict, within the following described boundaries, to wit: Beginning at the northeast corner of Morgan's addition to the Town of Santa Rosa; and running thence westerly along the north line of said addition to the land of S. T. Coulter's; thence northerly to the southeast corner of the land of T. Jennings; thence west on the south line of Jennings' land to the land of T. N. Peugh; thence southerly along the east line of said land to the "Green Valley Road;" thence west along said road to the west line of the Rancho Cabesa de Santa Rosa; thence southerly along said line to the Sebastopol Road; thence easterly along said road to the northeast corner of the lands of John McMinn; thence southerly along McMinn's east line to the south line of the Rancho Cabesa de Santa Rosa; thence easterly along said line and deflecting so as to include the land formerly owned by W. B. Atterbury to the east line of the land formerly owned by J. J. Linville; thence along the eastern boundary of said land to the land of B. Hoen; thence so as to include the lands of B. Hoen to the southeast corner of the land of William Farmer; thence along said Farmer's east line to Santa Rosa Creek; thence down said creek to a point nearest the end of the old cemetery lane; thence to and along said lane to the most northern point of the land of M. L. McDonald; thence southerly along the western boundary of said land to the land of Henderson Wilson; thence along the northern and western boundary of said Wilson's land to the southeast corner of the land of J. Ridgeway; thence westerly to the place of beginning. The government of said school district shall be vested in a Board of Education, composed of five Directors, who shall be elected as follows, viz.: On the last Saturday in June, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, there shall be elected, by the qualified voters of said district, five School Directors, three of whom shall hold their office for two years, and two for one year; and thereafter there shall be annually elected, on the last Saturday in June, alternately, two and three School Directors, to take the place of those whose terms have expired; the term of office to be in each case for two years and until their successors are elected and qualified. Said Board of Education shall meet and qualify within ten days after their election is duly ascertained and

Board of

Education, duties of; meetings.

declared, and after qualifying, as provided in the revised school law of the State of California, shall elect from their number a President and a Secretary, and shall hold meetings monthly thereafter, and at such other times as the Board may determine. A majority of all the members elect shall constitute a quorum to transact business, but a less number may adjourn from time to time. The Board may determine the rules of its proceedings. Its sessions shall be public, and its records shall lie open to public inspection. The Board shall also have power to fill all vacancies occurring in the Board until the then next ensuing annual election. The corporate name by which said school district shall sue or be sued shall be "The Board of Education of Court-house School District.".

Education.

SEC. 2. The said Board of Education shall have sole power: Power of First-To establish and maintain public schools, and to Board of establish school districts, and to fix and alter the boundaries thereof.

Second-To employ and dismiss teachers, janitors, and School Census Marshals, and to fix, alter, allow, and order paid their salaries and compensation, and to employ and pay such mechanics and laborers as may be necessary to carry into effect the powers and duties of the Board, and to withhold, for good and sufficient cause, the whole or any part of the salary or wages of any person or persons employed as aforesaid.

Third-To make, establish, and enforce all necessary and proper rules and regulations, not inconsistent with law, for the government and progress of public schools within the said district, the pupils therein, and the teachers thereof, and for carrying into effect the laws relating to education; also, to establish and regulate the grade of schools.

Fourth-To provide, for the school department of said school district, fuel and lights, water, blanks and blank books, printing, and stationery, and to incur such other incidental expenses as may be deemed necessary by said Board.

Fifth-To build, alter, repair, rent, and provide school houses, and furnish them with proper school furniture, apparatus, and proper school appliances, and to insure any and all such school property.

Sixth-To receive, purchase, lease, and hold in fee, in trust for said school district, any and all real estate, and to hold in trust any personal property that may have been acquired, or may hereafter be acquired, for the use and benefit of the public schools of said district; provided, that no real estate shall be bought, sold, or exchanged, or expenditures incurred for the construction of new school houses, without the unanimous consent of the Board of Education; and provided further, that the proceeds of any such sale or exchange of real estate shall be exclusively applied to the purchase of other lots or the erection of school houses.

Seventh-To grade, fence, and improve all school lots, and in front thereof to grade, sewer, and plank or pave and repair streets, and to construct and repair sidewalks.

Power of
Board of

Eighth-To sue for any and all lots, lands, and property Education. belonging to or claimed by the said school district, and to prosecute and defend all actions at law or in equity necessary to recover and maintain the full enjoyment and possession of said lots, lands, and property, and to employ and pay counsel in such cases; and further, to do any and all acts necessary thereto.

Assessor and Collector shall be elected;

duties of, etc.

Board of Equalization.

Duties of

Directors as
Board of
Equaliza-
tion.

Ninth-To determine, annually, the amount of money required for the support of the public schools of said district, and for the redemption of the bonds of said district, and payment of the interest thereon, in addition to the amount received from the State and county; and for the purpose of. raising the amount so required, the Board of Education shall have power to levy, annually, a tax not to exceed twenty-five cents on each one hundred dollars, upon all property subject to taxation, within the limits of said school district, which tax shall be sufficient to pay all expenses of assessing and collecting, and to pay the interest on the outstanding bonds of said school district, and to pay the principal of such of the bonds as may annually become due, and other indebtedness of said district.

SEC. 3. At every annual election for School Directors in said district, there shall be elected a District Assessor and Collector; the Assessor may also act as District Collector. The Assessor's duty shall be to assess, between the first day of July and the first Monday in September (in the manner provided for County Assessors and assessments), all the taxable property in said district, and before the third Monday in September return the roll, footed up, to the Board of Directors. Before entering upon the discharge of their duties, the Assessor and Collector shall give bonds, payable to the people of the State of California, in the sum of five thousand (5,000) dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties. In case the Assessor neglects or refuses to qualify, within fifteen days after his election, or having qualified, refuses to act, or in case of any vacancy from any other cause, the Board of Trustees must order an election to fill the vacancy.

SEC. 4. The Directors, upon receiving the assessment roll from the Assessor, must give five days' notice, by posting a notice in three public places in the district, or by publication in a daily newspaper, and sit for at least three days as a Board of Equalization, at such time and place as has been named in said notices; and they have the same powers as County Boards of Equalization to make any changes in the assessment roll. All assessments made by the District Assessor shall conform, as nearly as practicable, with the State and county assessments.

SEC. 5. The Directors, after they have adjourned as a Board of Equalization, must sit as a Board of Education, and after deducting ten per centum from the assessed value on the assessment roll for anticipated delinquencies, and then by dividing the sum ascertained to be needed for the purpose mentioned in section two of this Act, together with the estimated cost of assessing and collecting added thereto, by

the remainder of the roll, ascertain the rate per centum required. The Secretary of the Board of Education of said. school district must then compute and enter in a separate money column in the assessment roll the respective sums, in dollars and cents (rejecting all fractions of cents), to be paid as a tax on all property therein enumerated, and foot up the column, showing the total amount of such taxes, and the column of the total value of the property in the district, as corrected by the Board of Equalization; and the rate of tax so ascertained is hereby levied and assessed to or against the persons or property named or described in the roll, and is a lien on all such property until such tax is paid; and the tax, if not paid within the time limited by section six of this Act for its payment, shall be delinquent, and ten per centum shall be added thereto.

verify assess

SEC. 6. As soon as the rate has been fixed by the Board, Secretary to and the tax determined, as provided in the preceding sec- ment by tion, the Secretary of the Board of Education shall verify oath. said assessment roll by his oath, which shall be substantially as follows: I, Secretary of the Board of Education of Court-house School District, in Sonoma County, do swear that this assessment roll of the taxable property of said school district was received from the Assessor of said district; that it now conforms to the requirements of the Board of Equalization; that I have reckoned the respective sums due as taxes, and have added up the columns of valuations and taxes, as required by law; and said Secretary shall deliver the said assessment roll to the School District Tax Collector, who shall proceed to collect the tax, and within sixty days return the roll to the Board of Education with the word "paid" marked opposite the name of each person or description of property from whom or on which he has received the tax; and he must also, at the same time, file with the said Board the County Treasurer's receipt for the moneys by him collected, and the persons and property on Delinquent the roll, not by the Collector marked "paid," are then delin- taxes. quent, and the Secretary of the Board of Education shall make out and certify the delinquent list, and deliver it to the District Attorney of Sonoma County, who shall proceed to collect said delinquent tax in pursuance of the provisions of the Political Code, from section eighteen hundred and forty-six to eighteen hundred and fifty-two, both inclusive. SEC. 7. The Tax Collector of said district shall pay over Collector to all moneys collected by authority of this Act to the County my money to Treasurer, who shall place the same to the credit of Courthouse School District, and out of such funds shall pay the coupons of the bonds of said district and the principal sums, when due; and out of the surplus, if any, he shall pay, in pursuance of law, any other indebtedness of said district.

Treasurer.

SEC. 8. The District Assessor and Collector shall receive Compensasuch compensation for their services as may be fixed by the Assessor and Board of Trustees; provided, that the cost of assessing and Collector. collecting shall not exceed two hundred and fifty dollars annually.

SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of the Board of Education