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and to provide for the payment thereof," passed April twentyfourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four.

newspaper.

SEC. 2. Immediately thereafter the said Board of Fund Shall adver Commissioners shall advertise in some newspaper published tise in some in Solano County, and also in a newspaper published in the City and County of San Francisco, once a week for four weeks, stating therein that said bonds will be paid on presentation to the Treasurer of Solano County, and if not Not to bear presented within thirty days from the first publication of thirty days. said notice, said bonds will cease to bear interest.

interest after

bonds out of

cancel same.

presented

SEC. 3. The Treasurer shall pay said bonds and the inter- Shall pay est thereon out of the moneys set apart as aforesaid, upon moneys set their presentation, and shall cancel the same by writing the apart and cancellation across the face thereof, with its date signed by him as Treasurer. SEC. 4. If said bonds shall not be presented for payment If bonds not and cancellation at the expiration of the period of four within four weeks from the first publication of said notice, then the weeks, to be moneys set apart for the payment of said bonds, as provided interest. in the first section of this Act, shall remain in the treasury to discharge such bonds when presented, but said bonds shall draw no interest after the expiration of such publication.

paid without

sented in

deemed to

SEC. 5. If said bonds shall not be presented for payment If not preand cancellation within two years next after the time men- two years tioned in such notice for presentation thereof, then the same shall be shall be deemed to be satisfied and paid, and no action shall be satisfied. be maintained thereon, and the moneys set apart for the Money, payment thereof shall be transferred to the General Fund to General of said county.

transferred

Fund.

CHAP. XXXIV.-An Act to empower the Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles County to authorize the appointment of a District Attorney for said county, and to authorize his pay

ment.

[Approved January 28, 1876.]

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

Attorney.

SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles Deputy County are hereby empowered to authorize the District District Attorney of said county to appoint a Deputy District Attorney at a salary not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars Salary of. ($150) per month, the Deputy so appointed subject to the approval of the Board of Supervisors of said county.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after the first day of March, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventysix (1876).

To transfer

money in

CHAP. XXXV.-An Act to provide for the transfer of certain road moneys in Placer County.

[Approved January 28, 1876.]

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

SECTION 1. The County Auditor and County Treasurer of Road Fund Placer County are hereby authorized and directed to transfer all moneys now in the "County Road Fund" to the "County General Road Fund."

to General

Road Fund.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately.

California
Reports to be

State.

CHAP. XXXVI.—An Act to authorize the Secretary of State to furnish the County Judge, County Clerk, and District Attorney of Modoc County with certain laws of the State of California.

[Approved January 28, 1876.]

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

SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State furnished by to procure and furnish three copies of the reports of the Secretary of Supreme Court of California, from volume one to volume forty, inclusive, of said volumes, to the County of Modoc, to be distributed as other laws of this State, as follows: One copy to the office of County Judge; one copy to the office of District Attorney, and one copy to the office of County Clerk.

SEC. 2. Any expense necessarily incurred in carrying into effect the provisions of this Act shall be audited, and shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of any funds not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage.

Bonds of Tax

Fresno,

CHAP. XXXVII.-An Act to fix the bonds of the Tax Collectors of Fresno, Tulare, and Kern Counties.

[Approved January 28, 1876.]

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

SECTION 1. The bonds of the Tax Collectors or ex officio Collectors of Tax Collectors of Fresno, Tulare, and Kern Counties, shall Tulare, and be fixed from time to time by the Board of Supervisors of each of said counties, in such a sum as the Board may deem necessary for that county; provided, no one of said bonds

Kern.

shall be fixed in a less sum than fifty thousand dollars. ($50,000) nor in a greater sum than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000).

SEC. 2. The Board of Supervisors of each of said counties shall, at the next meeting after the passage of this Act, made an order fixing the amount of the bond of the Tax To fix Collector in each of said counties, according to the provis- amount of ions of this Act, and the Tax Collector of each of said counties shall, within thirty days after said order, give a To be given bond in the sum fixed by the Board of Supervisors of that in thirty county, with sufficient sureties, and approved by the proper officers in each of said counties, as provided by law.

days.

sistent,

SEC. 3. All Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with the Acts inconprovisions of this Act are hereby repealed, so far as they repealed. apply to the Counties of Fresno, Tulare, and Kern.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect immediately.

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CHAP. XXXVIII.-An Act fixing the bonds of the County
Treasurers of the Counties of Mariposa, Tuolumne, and Cala-

veras.

[Approved January 28, 1876.]

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

visions of

SECTION 1. The Counties of Mariposa, Tuolumne, and Exempt Calaveras are hereby exempt from the provisions of section from profour thousand one hundred and twenty-two of the Political Section 4122, Code, as amended by the Act of the Legislature approved Political March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, so far as the same relates to the County Treasurers of the Counties of Mariposa, Tuolumne, and Calaveras. The official bond Penalty of of the Treasurers of the Counties of Mariposa, Tuolumne, bonds. and Calaveras shall be in the penal sum of twenty-five thousand dollars.

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

CHAP. XXXIX.-An Act to provide for the payment of the indebtedness registered against the General Road Fund of Sutter County.

[Approved January 28, 1876.]

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

tax.

SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the County of shall levy Sutter shall levy annually at their sessions, when the tax is by them levied for county purposes, a tax not to exceed

To be collected as

other taxes are.

To pay warrants on General

twenty cents on each one hundred dollars of taxable property of said county, for the then current year, as listed by the Assessor.

SEC. 2. Said tax must be annually collected by the same officers, and in the same manner as other State and county taxes are collected.

SEC. 3. Said tax shall be applied to the payment of the warrants registered against the General Road Fund of said Road Fund. county, in the order of their registration.

When to cease.

SEC. 4. When all warrants now registered against said fund are paid, and redeemed, this Act shall cease and determine, and any moneys remaining in the fund hereby created, Money to be after the redemption of said warrants, shall be used for road purposes in said county, in the discretion of said Board. SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect immediately.

used for road

purposes.

County Jail.

CHAP. XL.-An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Modoc County to erect a jail, and to issue the bonds of the county therefor.

[Approved January 29, 1876.]

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

SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors of Modoc County to cause to be erected a suitable building, at the county seat of said county, for a County Jail, and the said Board of Supervisors are hereby fully empowered, after having exhausted the funds not otherwise appropriated in the building fund of said county, in payment for the construction thereof, to issue the bonds of the county, payable in one and two years, bearing interest at the rate of ten per cent. per annum, for the balance of the cost of the construction of said jail; provided, however, that the cost of the construction of said jail shall not exceed the sum of exceed three three thousand dollars.

To issue bonds.

Cost not to

thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict herewith, so far as they are in conflict, are hereby repealed.

CHAP. XLI.-An Act to authorize the electors of the County of Tehama to vote on the question of continuing in force an Act of the Legislature commonly known as the "stock law."

[Approved January 29, 1876.]

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

SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of Tehama County are hereby authorized to meet at the Court-house, in said

county, on the seventh day of February, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and then and there cause to be published a notice to the electors of said county of an election to shall call take place on the last Saturday of February, eighteen hun- election. dred and seventy-six, at which election shall be submitted the question of the repeal of the Act of the Legislature entitled "An Act to protect agriculture and prevent the trespass of animals in Tehama County." The ballots to be used at Ballots. said election shall be the uniform size and kind now provided by law, upon which shall be written or printed either the words "For repeal of stock law," or, "Against repeal of stock law." Said election shall be conducted the same as elections for State and county officers, except that the Board of Supervisors shall meet within five days after said election shall canto canvass the returns; provided, said returns have, within vass the five days, been forwarded to and deposited in the office of the County Clerk of said county.

returns.

statement

SEC. 2. Immediately upon ascertaining the result of said shall certify election, the County Clerk of said county shall make out a to the statement of the vote of the several precincts of said county, Legislature. and certify the same, and forward such statement to the Legislature.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

CHAP. XLII.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.]

CHAP. XLIII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act for the incorporation of the Town of Wheatland, approved March thirteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.

[Approved January 29, 1876.]

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

penalties for

ordinances.

SECTION 1. Section ten of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 10. The Board of Trustees Imposing of may impose and appropriate fines, forfeitures, and penalties, fines and for breaches of their ordinances, and may provide for the breaches punishment of breaches of the same; but no fine shall be of city imposed in any case of more than five hundred dollars, nor imprisonment for a longer term than three months. All violations of said ordinances shall be prosecuted in the name of the people of the State of California, and any Justice of the Peace having his office in said town shall have jurisdiction over all violations of said town ordinances, and may hold to bail, fine, or commit to prison, offenders, in accordance with the provisions of such ordinances, and he

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