"Santa Barbara Road District," as said property appears assessed upon the assessment roll of said Santa Barbara Road District for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and seventy-six-seven (1876–7) which shall in their judgment be sufficient to obtain the amount of twenty thousand dollars; and at the time of levying the county taxes for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and seventy-seven-eight (1877-8) to levy upon said property, in said road district, a special tax sufficient to obtain the amount of thirty thousand dollars, and such further amount as may be required to complete the previous amount of twenty thousand dollars, in case such sum has not been obtained from such tax. All taxes collected under the provisions of this section shall be paid into the county treasury, and must be by the Treasurer set apart as a special fund to be known as the "Santa Barbara District Road Fund;" and in case the sum of fifty thousand dollars shall not be obtained from said special taxes, the Treasurer must transfer from the General Fund of the county an amount sufficient to make up the deficiency. SEC. 4. Said "Santa Barbara District Road Fund" shall Funds, how be used and expended by said Board of Commissioners, and applied. they are hereby authorized and empowered to use and expend the same in laying out, constructing, grading, and improving public highways in said Santa Barbara Road District, leading into and from the City of Santa Barbara, as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act. Commis SEC. 5. For the purposes of this Act the Board of Com- Powers of missioners of the Santa Barbara Road District are hereby sioners. vested with all the powers of the Board of Supervisors of the county in reference to the laying out, altering, and discontinuing of roads and the condemnation of property for road purposes in said road district, and shall be guided and controlled in their action in the matter by the laws prescribing the duties of the Board of Supervisors. SEC. 6. The Board of Commissioners are authorized and empowered to elect a President of the Board; to prescribe the times and places of meeting of the Board, and to select a competent engineer, under whose direction and supervision said roads shall be laid out and constructed; to draw warrants upon said Road Fund for moneys expended in the performance of their duties as such Board of Commissioners, and to increase said Road Fund by voluntary contributions, or otherwise. The Clerk of the Board of Supervisors shall act as Clerk of the Board of Commissioners. Road Fund. SEC. 7. The warrants upon said Road Fund shall be signed Warrants on by the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners and countersigned by the Clerk. In no case shall warrants be drawn to exceed, with the interest, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or such further sum as may have been placed in said Road Fund by voluntary contributions, and otherwise. Warrants presented to the Treasurer and not paid for want of funds, shall bear interest from the time of presentment until notice of redemption, at the rate of one per cent. per month. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer, immediately upon his receiving to the credit of said Road Fund money sufficient. Assessor and Salaries. to pay one or more interest-bearing warrants, to give notice, by publication in a daily newspaper published in the City of Santa Barbara, that he is ready to redeem said warrant or warrants in the order of their issuance, specifying the same, and interest on the same shall cease from date of said notice. SEC. 8. An Assessor and Tax Collector, in and for said Santa Barbara Road District, shall be elected by the qualified electors of said district, at an election to be held at the various county polling-places in said district, on the first day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-six (1876); said election to be called, conducted, and returns thereof made in the same manner as provided by law for the election of county officers. Said Assessor and Tax Collector shall qualify in the same manner as the County Assessor and Tax Collector, and they shall hold office until the first Monday of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight (1878). SEC. 9. The assessment of property within said Santa Barbara Road District shall be made, and the taxes herein provided for collected, in the same manner as the county assessment is made and county taxes collected, and the County Assessor and County Tax Collector are eligible to the offices of Assessor and Tax Collector of the Santa Barbara Road District. SEC. 10. The Commissioners provided for in this Act shall receive, for their services as such, the same remuneration received by the Supervisors of the county. The compensation of the Assessor and Collector of the district, and the Clerk of the Board of Commissioners, and of the County Treasurer for his increased duties, shall be fixed by the Board of Supervisors of the county. The salary of the engineer selected by the Board of Commissioners shall be fixed by said Board of Commissioners. SEC. 11. This Act shall not be construed as to change or in any manner affect the established road districts, or the apportionment of the General Road Fund of the county. SEC. 12. This Act shall take effect immediately. Supervisors to appoint Inspector. CHAP. CCCLVI.-An Act for the appointment of Inspector of [Approved March 27, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. There shall be appointed by the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, on the first Monday in May, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, or as soon thereafter as practicable, one Inspector of Steamboilers and Steam-tanks, who shall hold office for the term of two years. The term Inspector, hereafter in this Act used, shall mean Inspector of Steam-boilers and Tanks for the City and County of San Francisco. SEC. 2. The Inspector shall have, at the time of his qualificaappointment, a Chief Engineer's certificate from United tion. States Inspectors. SEC. 3. The Inspector shall, upon application in writing Duties of of any owner or owners, inspect all stationary boilers and Inspector. steam-tanks used within the City and County of San Francisco, for generating steam to drive or work machinery, and, at least once in every year thereafter, he shall subject all boilers to the hydrostatic pressure, and shall satisfy himself, by thorough examination, that such boilers and tanks are well made, and of good and suitable material; that the arrangement for delivering the feed water is such that the boilers cannot be injured thereby, and that such boilers and machinery and the appurtenances may be safely employed in the service proposed in the written application without peril to life or property. In subjecting to the hydrostatic tests boilers usually designated and known as high-pressure boilers, the Inspector shall assume one hundred and twenty pounds to the square inch as the maximum pressure allowable, as the working power for a new boiler of forty-two inches diameter, made in the best manner of inspected American plates, are [one] fourth of an inch thick, and of a quality required by the law governing United States Inspectors of Boilers; and shall rate the working power of all highpressure boilers, whether old or new, according to their strength, compared with this standard, and in all cases the test applied shall not exceed the working power allowed in the ratio of one hundred and eighty pounds test pressure to one hundred and twenty pounds to the square inch working pressure. Should the Inspector be of the opinion that any boiler, by reason of its material or construction, will not safely allow so high a working pressure as is above described, he may, for reasons to be stated specially in his certificate, fix the working pressure of such boiler as he in his discretion may deem proper; provided, that the pressure so fixed shall not exceed two-thirds of the test pressure. license en SEC. 4. Every boiler shall be provided with a good, well- Inspector to constructed safety valve or valves, and shall also be pro-gineers. vided with a sufficient number of gauge-cocks. The Inspector shall license and classify engineers of stationary engines. It shall be unlawful to employ any person, or for any person to serve as engineer of any stationary engine, who is not licensed by the Inspector; and any one who violates this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and each day Misdeof such employment or service shall constitute a new offense. meanor. SEC. 5. Every engineer who receives a license shall, before entering upon his duties, make oath before the Inspector, to be recorded with his certificate, that he will faithfully and honestly, according to his best skill and ability, perform all the duties required of him by law. SEC. 6. If any licensed engineer shall refuse at any time. to admit into his engine-room any person whom the owner Inspector's fees. Inspector to notify owners of steamboilers to report. Bond of Inspector. Penalties and forfeitures.. may desire to place there for the purpose of learning the profession of engineer, his license shall be revoked upon proof, satisfactory to the Inspector, of such refusal. SEC. 7. The Inspector shall receive the sum of three dollars for every stationary boiler or tank so inspected by him, the sum to be paid by the person or persons, firm or company having the boiler in use; and for each engineer licensed the Inspector shall receive from the person so licensed the sum of two dollars. SEC. 8. Within fifteen days after his appointment and qualification, the first Inspector appointed under the provisions of this Act shall publish or cause to be published once a week for at least four weeks, in at least three daily newspapers printed and published in the City and County of San Francisco, a notice of his appointment, and requiring all persons owning or using any stationary steam-boiler or tank, situate within the said city and county, to report to him in writing the location of any and all such boilers or tanks owned or in use by him or them, and the business or purpose for which such boilers or tanks are used; and all such owners or users shall, within thirty days after the publication of said notice, make the report provided for in this section; and any person intending to erect or use any steamboiler or tank shall in like manner, and without notice, report to the Inspector the location and purpose of such steam-boiler or tank, so that the same may be inspected before being used. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 9. The Inspector shall give bonds in the sum of ten thousand dollars, with security to be approved by the Judge of the County Court of the City and County of San Francisco, and the said Inspector shall, by the Judge of said Court, be duly sworn or affirmed to perform the duties of his office, and that he will not accept any money, gift, gratuity, or consideration whatever, from any person or persons whomsoever, during his term of office, except such as shall be prescribed in this Act; and upon conviction of violation of such oath or affirmation before any Court of competent jurisdiction, he shall be subject to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and to undergo an imprisonment in the County Jail of said city and county not exceeding one year, both or either, at the discretion of the Court. SEC. 10. The Inspector shall provide all requisite apparatus, machinery, and stationery for carrying this Act into effect, to be approved by the Board of Supervisors, and paid for by the Inspector out of the moneys received by him for inspection and licenses. SEC. 11. The penalties and forfeitures which may be incurred for offenses against this Act may be sued for, prosecuted, and recovered by action, to be brought in any Court of competent jurisdiction by the Inspector, in the name of the people of the State of California, and the moneys collected in such action, less the costs and expenses incurred in the prosecution of such action, shall be paid over to the Treas urer of the City and County of San Francisco, and into the General Fund thereof. SEC. 12. This Act shall take effect on and after the first Monday in May, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. CHAP. CCCLVII.-An Act to authorize the City Council of the City of Oakland, Alameda County, to grant certain privileges to the Alameda, Oakland, and Piedmont Railroad Company. [Approved March 27, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and track. SECTION 1. The City Council of the City of Oakland, Granting Alameda County, State of California, are hereby authorized right to lay and empowered to grant to the Alameda, Oakland, and Piedmont Railroad Company the right or privilege to lay down a single track railway in such part of the roadway of Broadway Street, in said city, as the Council may direct, from the terminus of their present franchise, at the junction of Fourth Street and Broadway, to the junction of Seventh Street and Broadway, to run cars, drawn by horses, thereon, and to construct and maintain all proper and necessary switches and turning-tables, to be constructed under the supervision of said Council; provided, however, that such right or privilege is not to be granted, unless such City Council shall believe it to be for the best interest of the public, and that rights of individuals will not be impaired thereby. CHAP. CCCLVIII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act authorizing certain persons to improve a portion of King's River, and to erect booms thereon, approved March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. [Approved March 27, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section one of said Act is hereby amended so Franchise as to read as follows: Section 1. Jesse Morrow, Elias Jacob, granted. and John Southerland, their associates and assigns, are hereby authorized and empowered, at their own expense, to improve that portion of King's River, in the County of Fresno, lying and being between the confluence of the middle fork of said river and a point in King's River where the township line between township thirteen and fourteen south crosses said river, by removing therefrom all obstructions to the use of said river for floating timber, lumber, saw-logs, and wood down the same. The improvements of said river must be |