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real and personal property taxable in said city and county, to be assessed, levied, and collected at the time and in the manner provided for the assessing, levying, and collecting of other municipal taxes.

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SEC. 11. The Mayor, to be confirmed by the Board of Mayor to Supervisors of said city and county, shall have power to t appoint three Water Commissioners, and to fix their com- missioners. pensation, who shall have full and complete management of the real estate, water, and water-works provided for and acquired under this Act, and who shall hold office for the term of four years and until their successors shall be appointed. Said Water Commissioners may appoint competent and reliable persons to supervise and carry into effect, to the best possible advantage to the inhabitants of the City and County of San Francisco, the provisions of this Act. They may fix the salary and term of office of such appointees, Salaries to under such orders and resolutions as the Board of Supervis- be fixed. ors of said city and county may from time to time adopt.

SEC. 12. The Board of Supervisors of said city and county Collection of may, by ordinance, after such purchase, pass such rules and water rates. regulations as, in their judgment, may be proper, to provide for the collection of water rates and water dues, and in case default be made in the payment of such water rates, to cut off the supply from consumers who shall make default in the payment thereof; to prevent any interference with the mains, reservoirs, sources of supply, and pipes of the waterworks; to prevent any impure, deleterious, or foul matter from being dumped or thrown into any water-course or water supply connected with such water-works, or the conduct of any business, art, or trade which by drainage may injuriously affect the water supply, and to prevent the erection or maintenance of any nuisance that may affect the same.

possession.

SEC. 13. Said City and County of San Francisco shall not When city be permitted to take possession, unless with consent of owner may take or owners, of any real estate, water, or water rights hereby authorized to be acquired, until the compensation agreed upon or determined, as hereinafter provided, shall have been paid, either to the person, persons, or corporation determined to be entitled thereto, or deposited with the Treasurer of said City and County of San Francisco, who shall hold the same subject to an order of the Judge of the County Court, to pay the amount so deposited to the party or parties entitled thereto.

SEC. 14. Said city and county is authorized to lay down City to lay and maintain mains and water-pipes in the peninsula, and down pipes. in the streets and highways of said city and county, and do all things necessary to maintain and carry on a complete system of water-works. If any person or persons, company or corporation, shall bring water within the corporate limits of said city and county, such person or persons, company or corporation, shall have the right to lay down mains, pipes, maintain water-works, and supply the inhabitants of said city and county, conditioned that the person or persons, company or corporation, shall place all the streets in which such mains, pipes, and works are laid, in good order and condi

Electors to vote on

purchase.

Form of

ballots.

tion, and comply with all the requirements and regulations in that particular of the Board of Supervisors.

SEC. 15. Within thirty days after said Commissioners question of have agreed upon the amount to be paid for the rights acquired under the provisions of this Act, the Board of Supervisors of said city and county shall order a special election upon said question, to be held in said city and county, within a period of not less than thirty (30) days from and after the date of making such order. Said order shall be published in at least three of the daily newspapers in said city and county, for said period of thirty days, and shall state the time when said special election shall be held, and the question to be voted upon at such election. Said Board of Supervisors shall make all necessary provisions therefor. Said election shall be governed by and conducted under the general election laws of this State, so far as the same are applicable thereto. Said Board shall cause two sets of tickets, equal in numbers, to be printed with the following words, "The purchase of Water Rights"-Yes, on one set of tickets, and the words. "The purchase of Water Rights"No, on the other set of tickets, and the majority of all the votes cast at such special election shall be final and conclusive upon the question; and if a majority of all the votes cast shall be against the proposed purchase of water rights, then no further proceedings shall be had under such proposed purchase, but said Commissioners shall have the right, and it shall be their duty to again proceed, under this Act, to negotiate, agree upon terms, and submit the same to the people; a sufficient number of said tickets shall be furnished at each polling-place in said city and county, by persons appointed for that purpose by the Board of Supervisors. The persons so appointed shall be required to remain in the vicinity of their respective polling-places from the opening to the closing of the polls, and shall be sworn to faithfully discharge the duties devolving upon them under this section. The failure of the first or any subsequent attempt to acquire proceedings property under this Act, for the purposes herein named, at any stage of the proceedings, shall not operate to extinguish the power of said city and county to acquire water rights, water-works, and property for the purposes, and in the mode and manner herein provided; but new proceedings may be had for the purposes, and in the mode and manner prescribed in this Act, and by the authorities herein provided, as often as may be necessary, until a sufficient supply of pure fresh water shall be secured for the use of the inhabitants of said city and county.

If voters

reject, new

to be had.

SEC. 16. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

CHAP. CCCLXII.-An Act to confer further powers upon the Superintendent of Public Streets, Highways, and Squares, of the City and County of San Francisco.

[Approved March 28, 1876.]

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

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spector

SECTION 1. The owners of the majority of front feet in any Superintend block of the City and County of San Francisco may, within point Infive days after the award of any contract for paving, sewering, get work. piling, and capping on such block, select and recommend in writing to the Superintendent of Public Streets, Highways, and Squares of said city and county, a competent person as Inspector, to superintend the construction or improvement of each and every sewer, and of piling and capping, or repiling and recapping, paving and repaving, and thereupon it shall be the duty of said Superintendent to appoint the person so selected as such Inspector; and the person so selected and appointed shall make oath before the said Superintendent to faithfully perform his duties as such Inspector. In case such owners shall fail or neglect, for the period of five days after the award of any contract, to select and recommend a person as Inspector as aforesaid, the said Superintendent shall appoint a competent person as such Inspector. It Duty of shall be the duty of such Inspector to remain on the work Inspector. continuously during the performance thereof, and to see that the contract for any such work is strictly fulfilled in every respect, and in case of any departure from said contract, it shall be his duty to report the same to the said Superintendent of Public Streets, Highways, and Squares. The Inspector salary. shall be allowed, for his time actually employed in the discharge of his duties, compensation not to exceed five dollars per day, to be paid by the contractor before the issuance of the assessment, and included therein as part of the expenses of the improvements therein mentioned.

SEC. 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this. Act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect from and after its pas-. sage.

CHAP. CCCLXIII.-An Act in relation to the Superintendent of
Schools of Del Norte County.

[Approved March 28, 1876.]

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

SECTION 1. The Superintendent of Schools of Del Norte Salary of County shall receive a salary of two hundred and fifty dol- Surin lars per annum, payable quarterly out of the General Fund

tendent.

of said county; provided, that no extra compensation shall be allowed by the Board of Supervisors of said county to the said Superintendent of Schools for traveling expenses, in visiting any school district in said county.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after the fifth day of April, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-six.

Tax Collect

licenses.

CHAP. CCCLXIV.-An Act in relation to the collection of licenses in Mariposa and Merced Counties.

[Approved March 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 Tax Collector of ors to collect Mariposa and Merced Counties to apply, in person or by deputy, to each and every person in his respective county who is liable to pay a license, under the provisions of Chapter Fifteen of the Political Code, and to collect and receive from each of said persons the sum due as said license; and said Tax Collector shall receive, and shall be allowed, the amount of ten per cent. upon the whole amount collected by him for such licenses, and shall receive for such collection no other compensation.

Fees.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately.

Claim to be allowed.

CHAP. CCCLXV.-An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of the County of Mariposa to pay a certain claim.

[Approved March 28, 1876.]

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

SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the County of Mariposa are hereby authorized to allow the claim of David Eganhoff, late Superintendent of County Schools, for the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars, and the County Auditor is hereby directed to draw his warrant in favor of David Eganhoff for said sum, and the Treasurer is directed to pay the same.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately.

CHAP. CCCLXVI.-An Act to provide for the construction of a wagon road from Grizzly Bluff to Camp Grant, in Humboldt County.

[Approved March 28, 1876.]

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

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SECTION 1. For the purpose of aiding in the construction of Supervisors a certain wagon road hereinafter provided for, the Board of bonds. Supervisors of Humboldt County may, at any time within six months after the passage of this Act, issue the bonds of said county for the sum of ten thousand dollars, payable on When the first day of January, A. D. eighteen hundred and ninety- payable. six; said bonds to bear interest at the rate of nine per cent. per annum, payable annually, on the twentieth day of January, both principal and interest payable in United States gold coin only. Said bonds shall be issued in denominations of five hundred dollars each, to be numbered consecutively, and shall be signed by the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors and countersigned by the Auditor of said county. Interest coupons shall be attached, signed in like manner. SEC. 2. The bonds and coupons in this Act provided for Record of shall be paid at the office of the County Treasurer, and when so paid shall be canceled by the Treasurer and filed with the Auditor. Both Treasurer and Auditor shall keep an accurate account of the bonds and coupons so redeemed. Said coupons shall bear the date of their issuance, and be numbered in the order in which they are to be paid. The first coupons shall be for interest from their date up to the twentieth day of January next succeeding.

bonds.

SEC. 3. For the purpose of paying the interest on said Special inbonds the Board of Supervisors of said county shall, at the terest tax. time of levying county taxes for each year, levy a special tax on all property in said county sufficient to pay the interest for one year on all bonds in this Act provided for, then outstanding. The special tax thus levied shall be assessed and collected as other State and county taxes are assessed and collected, and shall be set apart as a special fund, to be known as "Road Bond Interest Fund Number Three," and out of said fund the coupons on said bonds shall be paid as they fall due; provided, that if the amount realized from said special fund exceed the amount required to pay the interest due, in any one year for which it has been collected, the Board of Supervisors shall transfer such surplus to the County General Fund.

tax.

SEC. 4. In and for the year eighteen hundred and eighty- Bond resix, the Board of Supervisors of said county shall levy and emption cause to be collected a tax sufficient to pay five per cent. of the whole amount of bonds issued under the authority of this Act; in and for the year eighteen hundred and eightyseven, sufficient to pay five per cent. of the whole issue; in and for each of the years eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, eighteen hundred and

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