President to administer oaths. existing indebtedness), and all moneys received from the sale of licenses for business within said Town of St. Helena, under the laws of this State, shall be paid by the Tax Collector of the county into the town treasury at the same time as is required by law for payment of other taxes into the county treasury; and he shall take the receipt of the Town Treasurer, and file the same with the County Auditor, who shall credit the Collector with the amount thereof; provided, that hereafter the Board of Supervisors of the County of Napa shall not impose or collect any road poll tax in said Town of St. Helena. SEC. 9. The President of the Board of Trustees of said town shall have power to administer oaths to sureties on bonds provided for in this Act, and the Act of which this is amendatory, and in all other cases in which oaths may be necessary or proper in the business before them. SEC. 10. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Boundaries of fire limits. Board of Fire Commissioners. Commissioners to call election. Notices posted. Notice to CHAP. DXIII.-An Act to supply the Town of Oroville with water for fire purposes. [Approved March 30, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The boundaries of the fire limits of the Town of Oroville are hereby established so as to include all of the territory situated within the limits of the town site of Oroville, as entered by Judge Safford, and known as the town site of Oroville. SEC. 2. T. W. Reece, Thomas Callow, and William Schneider are hereby appointed Commissioners, to be known as the Board of Fire Commissioners of the Town of Oroville, who shall serve without compensation. SEC. 3. The Board of Fire Commissioners in the Town of Oroville are hereby authorized and required, within twenty days after an agreement with the Oroville Water Company as to terms of attaching fire plugs or hydrants to their water pipes, to call an election and submit to the electors residing within the said fire limits the question whether a tax shall be raised for the purpose of furnishing further facilities for protecting the town against loss by fire. SEC. 4. Said election must be called by posting notices in three of the most public places in the Town of Oroville, for not less than fifteen days, and also, if there is a paper in the town, by advertising therein at least two issues. SEC. 5. Such notice must specify the time and place of specify what holding the election, and the amount required for each specific purpose; and the amount of money to be raised shall not exceed one per cent. of the assessable property within the said limits. appoint SEC. 6. The Board of Fire Commissioners must appoint Commisthree Judges to conduct the election, and it must be held in sioners to all respects, as nearly as practicable, in conformity with the Judges. general election law; provided, that no new register shall be required, nor legal ballot paper; provided further, that no compensation shall be paid said Judges. contain. SEC. 7. At such election the ballots must contain the Ballots; words, "Tax-Yes," or, "Tax-No," and also the name of who one person as Assessor, and one as Collector. The same person may be elected to both offices. The compensation for assessing and collecting the tax shall be fixed by the Board of Fire Commissioners, but shall not exceed one hundred and fifty dollars. returns. SEC. 8. The Judges of Election shall, within twenty-four Judges to hours after holding said election, make returns and certify make said votes, and the names of the person or persons voted for, to the said Board of Fire Commissioners, and within five days after the returns have been received by the Board of Fire Commissioners they shall count the votes, determine who has been elected, and forthwith issue certificates of election to the persons elected for Assessor and Collector. SEC. 9. The Assessor, on receiving his certificate of elec- Assessment tion, must forthwith assess, in the manner provided for to be made. County Assessor, all the taxable property in said town, and within thirty days return his roll, footed up, to the said Fire Commissioners. The said Fire Commissioners, upon receiving the roll, must deduct fifteen per cent. therefrom for anticipated delinquencies, and then by dividing the sum voted, together with the estimated cost of assessing and collecting added thereto, by the remainder of the roll, ascertain the rate per cent. required; and the rate so ascertained (using the full cent on each hundred dollars in place of any fraction) is hereby levied and assessed to, on, or against the persons or property named or described in the roll, and is a lien on all such property until the tax is paid; and the tax, if not paid within the time, shall be delinquent, and must be collected in the manner prescribed in sections one thousand eight hundred and forty-five to one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, both inclusive, Chapter Three, Article Nineteen, of the Political Code, which said sections are adopted as the provisions of this Act. tion. SEC. 10. The Board of Fire Commissioners, upon receiv- Board of ing the assessment roll from the Assessor, must give five Equalizadays' notice thereof by posting a notice in three public places in the said town, and sit for at least three days as a Board of Equalization, at such time and place as has been named in such posted notices; and they have the same power as County Boards of Equalization to make any changes in the assessment roll. delinquent SEC. 11. As soon as the rate of taxation has been deter- Taxes, how mined, as provided in the preceding sections, the said Board collected; must place the tax list or roll in the hands of the Collector, taxes. who shall then give notice by publication in some newspaper published within the Town of Oroville, that the said tax is now due and payable in his office, and unless paid within Treasurer to keep money. No compensation. Bond required. Commission to make connection with pipes. Record shall be kept. Election held. Commissioners to turn thirty days will be delinquent. He must proceed at once to collect the tax, and within thirty days return the tax list to the Board, 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 all the moneys by him collected, and the property on the roll not by the Collector marked "paid" is delinquent. SEC. 12. All moneys arising from the tax herein authorized to be levied and collected shall be kept by the Treasurer of Butte County, subject only to the said Board of Fire Commissioners. SEC. 13. The Treasurer of Butte County shall receive no compensation for the receipt and disbursement of moneys derived under the provisions of this Act. SEC. 14. The Collector must execute an official bond, in an amount to be fixed by the Board of Fire Commissioners. SEC. 15. The Board of Fire Commissioners are hereby directed and empowered to make all necessary arrangements for the purchase of rights of making connections with the pipes of the Oroville Water Company, for twenty or more fire plugs or hydrants, in such part of the town as they shall deem best for the common interest, and also for purchasing fire hose and carriages, subject, however, to the provisions herein before contained. SEC. 16. They shall procure all necessary books and blanks for the purpose of keeping a correct record of their proceedings, and they shall keep a record of all of their acts, of all moneys received and disbursed by them, which said books shall be open to public inspection at all times. SEC. 17. An election shall be held annually, on the first Monday of April, for the election of three Fire Commissioners, who shall take their office on the next succeeding Monday in the same month, and it shall be the duty of the Board of Fire Commissioners to give notice of such elections, by posting notices thereof in three public places in the town, for at least two weeks before the day of election. They shall also appoint the Judges of Election. SEC. 18. Each Board of Fire Commissioners shall, at the over books, expiration of their term of office, turn over to their successors all the books and documents belonging to the office of Fire Commissioners, taking their receipt for same. etc. SEC. 19. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 20. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. DXIV.-An Act to declare Smith River, in Del Norte [Approved March 30, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Smith River, in Del Norte County, is hereby River declared navigable for a distance of four miles above its navigable. mouth. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. declared CHAP. DXV.-An Act to fix the terms of the County and Probate Court of the County of San Mateo. [Approved March 30, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Regular terms of the County Court of the County County of San Mateo shall be held on the second Monday Court; in April, August, and December, in each year, and continue until the business of the term shall be disposed of, or the term may be adjourned, from time to time, as the Court may direct. when SEC. 2. Regular terms of the Probate Court of the County Probate of San Mateo shall be held on the Tuesday following the held. second Monday in April, August, and December, in each year, and each term shall continue, from time to time, as the Court shall direct, until the opening of the next term. SEC. 3. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. CHAP. DXVI.-An Act to divide the County of San Bernardino into Supervisor Districts, and to provide for the election and term of office of Supervisors in said county. [Approved March 30, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Districts SECTION 1. The County of San Bernardino is hereby Supervisor divided into three Supervisor Districts, as follows: The First defined. Supervisor District of said county shall embrace all that Districts defined. Supervisor part of said county described as follows: Beginning at the point on the southwestern boundary line of the County of San Bernardino where the Santa Ana River crosses said line; thence southeasterly along the said boundary line to the boundary line of the County of San Diego; thence northerly and easterly along the boundary line between the Counties of San Bernardino and San Diego to the southeast corner of township three south, three west, of San Bernardino base and meridian; thence north to the northeast corner of said township; thence west to the northwest corner of said township; thence north to the southeast corner of township one south, four west, of San Bernardino base line and meridian; thence west to the southwest corner of said township; thence to the center of the stream of the Santa Ana River at nearest point to said last township corner; thence southwesterly down the center of said Santa Ana River to the place of beginning. The Second Supervisor District of said county shall embrace all that part of said county described as follows: Beginning at the point on the southwestern boundary line of the County of San Bernardino where the Santa Ana River crosses said line; thence westerly along said boundary line to the southwest corner of said county; thence northerly along said westerly boundary line of said county to the point where said county boundary line crosses the township line between townships one and two north, of San Bernardino base line; thence east along said line between said townships to the northwest corner of township one north, range five west, of San Bernardino base line and meridian; thence south to the southwest corner of said township; thence east to the southeast corner of said township; thence southerly to a point on the southerly side of Slover Mountain at a station point on the westerly boundary line of the Rancho of San Bernardino; thence southerly along the westerly boundary line of said rancho to the center of the stream of the Santa Ana River; thence southwesterly along the center of the stream of said Santa Ana River to the place of beginning. The Third Supervisor District of said county shall embrace all that part of said county not included in Supervisor Districts first and second herein before described. Districts to elect SEC. 2. At the next general election held in said county, Supervisors, at which county officers are to be elected, and at the general election of county officers each two years thereafter, there shall be elected in and for said county, a Board of Supervisors, consisting of five Supervisors, as follows: One Supervisor shall be elected by the qualified electors of the First Supervisor District, one by the qualified electors of the Second Supervisor District, and three by the qualified electors of the Third Supervisor District in said county; all and each of whom shall hold office as such Supervisors of San Bernardino County for two years from and after the first Monday in January next after their election, and until their successors are elected and qualified according to law. Supervisors; how long to SEC. 3. The Board of Supervisors of said county shall hold office. remain as at present constituted, and the present Supervisors shall hold office as such until the first Monday in January |