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assigns, to issue and deliver to the applicant so entitled a pass entitling the said applicant to use said road free of toll for one year, and such pass shall be renewed each year thereafter, so long as the person to whom the same was issued shall continue to possess the qualifications entitling persons to the free use of said road, as provided by this Act. For every violation of the provisions of this section, said parties, their associates and assigns, shall forfeit an amount equal to three times the sum of all tolls paid by the injured party during the time such pass shall have been denied and withheld, to be recovered by civil action in any Court of competent jurisdiction in this State.

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

CHAP. DXCI.-An Act supplemental to an Act entitled "An Act to create an irrigation district to be called the West Side Irrigation District," approved April third, eighteen hundred and seventy-six.

[Approved April 3, 1876.]

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

appoint

SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the Governor, imme- Governor to diately after the passage of this Act, to appoint three compe- commistent Commissioners, who shall perform the duties hereinafter sioners. imposed upon them.

ers to exam

ine and

SEC. 2. As soon as practicable after the appointment of commissionsaid Commissioners, they shall proceed to make a careful examination of the district referred to in said Act, between survey Tulare Lake and the Town of Antioch, and shall cause to be district. made a thorough topographical survey of said proposed canal, and shall definitely locate the same from the point of beginning to the point of termination; they shall accurately determine the extent, limits, and exterior boundaries of said district, and shall make accurate plats and charts of said districts, and of the line of the proposed canal; they shall specify the dimensions and grade of said proposed canal, and make an accurate estimate of the cost of constructing the same. They shall make a full report, in detail, of the mat- To report to ters herein specified, and file the same with the Governor on or before the first day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, with such plats and charts as may be necessary for a full understanding of said report. Said report shall be Publication published in at least one newspaper published in each of the of report. counties in which any portion of said district is located, for at least thirty days preceding the election hereinafter provided for.

Governor.

ers to order

SEC. 3. After the filing of said report, the Commissioners Commissionshall order an election to be held in said district, at the time, election. in the manner, and for the purposes mentioned in section three of the Act to which this Act is supplemental; all the

ers.

Provisions

repealed.

Powers of powers and duties conferred upon the Board of CommisCommission- sioners whose appointment is provided for in section two of said Act, and not in conflict with the provisions of this Act, are hereby conferred upon the Commissioners appointed by virtue hereof; provided, that so much of said section three of said Act to which this Act is supplemental as requires an election to be held within sixty days after the passage of said Act, is hereby repealed; and provided, that at said election to be held on the first Tuesday in May, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, the ballots shall contain, in addition to the names of the persons to be voted for, the words "Tax-Yes," or "Tax-No." If a majority of those voting on the question of said tax shall vote "Tax-No," the Board of Commissioners shall so proclaim it, and no further proceedings shall be had under this Act or the Act to which this Act is supplemental; but if a majority of those voting on said question Commission- shall vote "Tax-Yes," the Commissioners shall so proclaim when to have it, and shall proceed as in said Act provided, and all plats, jurisdiction. maps, and charts of said canal, and of the district, shall be delivered to the Commissioners elected at such election.

Form of ballots.

ers elected,

Commission

ers may employ assistants.

Board to consult engineer.

SEC. 4. The said Commissioners provided for in this Act may employ one chief engineer and such additional surveyors, draughtsmen, and other assistants as they may deem necessary, who shall each be paid a reasonable compensation, to be agreed upon by them and the Commissioners.

SEC. 5. The said Commissioners, before making their report, must call in for consultation some member of the United States Engineer Corps, or if none can be obtained, then some other competent engineer, and must submit to him the maps and charts made, and may pay him a reasonable compensation for his services.

SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage.

Supervisors

to allow

claim.

CHAP. DXCII.-An Act for the relief of Michael Purcell.
[Approved April 3, 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 City and County of San Francisco are hereby authorized to order paid to Michael Purcell the sum of two thousand and fifteen dollars, with legal interest on the said amount remaining due and unpaid to said Michael Purcell, on the contract to clean the streets in District Number One, being that portion of the City of San Francisco bounded on the north by line of Market Street, on the west by the westerly line of Eighth Street, and on the south and east by the Bay of San Francisco, as per contract on file in the office of the Superintendent of Public Streets and Highways in said City and County of San Francisco; provided, that before making any order or appro

priation under this Act, the said Board of Supervisors shall be satisfied, after careful investigation, that the said claim is equitable and just.

rant.

SEC. 2. The Auditor of said City and County of San Auditor to Francisco is hereby authorized and directed to audit the draw warsaid sum, with legal interest thereon, as above specified in section one, and to issue his warrant therefor to Michael Purcell; thereupon, and upon the presentation of the said warrant to the Treasurer of the City and County of San Francisco shall pay the said warrant, as other indebtedness of the said City and County of San Francisco, in United States gold coin, to the above said Michael Purcell, in person, as in section one of this Act.

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

CHAP. DXCIII.—An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco to make provision for any deficiency in the Street Department Fund of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five-seventy-six.

[Approved April 3, 1876.]

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

for defi

SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the City and Supervisors County of San Francisco are hereby authorized and empow- to provide ered, in estimating the amount required for the Street De- ciency. partment Fund for the fiscal year eighteen hundred seventysix-seventy-seven, to include in said estimate any amount, not to exceed in the aggregate the sum of fifty thousand dollars, that may remain due or unpaid for street work performed or contracted for on accepted streets during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five-seventy-six, and in the same manner and at the same time as other taxes in said city and county are levied, to make such levy upon the taxable property of said city and county for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-six-seventy-seven as may be sufficient to pay off all unpaid and outstanding demands upon the Street Department Fund during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five-seventy-six, and all estimated expenditures upon the Street Department Fund during the fiscal year eighteen hundred seventy-six-seventy

seven.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately.

Reclamation

missioners

rates of as

sessment.

CHAP. DXCIV.-An Act amendatory of and supplemental to an Act entitled an Act amendatory of and supplemental to an Act entitled an Act to provide for the funding the outstanding indebtedness of the reclamation and levee districts of the State, approved March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, approved March twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.

[Approved April 3, 1876.]

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

SECTION 1. Section three of an Act amendatory of and Fund Com- supplemental to an Act entitled an Act to provide for fundto estimate ing the indebtedness of the reclamation and levee districts of the State, approved March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, approved March twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 15. The Reclamation Fund Commissioners shall, on the first Monday of March, and every year thereafter until the said bonds are all paid, estimate the rate of assessment which it shall be necessary to levy on the aggregate of amounts charged on the tracts or lots described in the said list or lists, in order to raise the amount sufficient to pay the interest that is due or to become due in the ensuing year, and such parts of the principal of the said bonds as is hereinafter provided; and they shall transmit a certificate to the Auditor or Auditors of the counties in which the district is situated, stating the rate of assessment to be levied upon the amount charged on each tract or lot described in the list filed in his office, and directing him to prepare, within ninety days, a copy of said lists, and to enter thereon, opposite to each tract or lot therein described, the amount of assessment to be collected from the owner or claimant of each of said tracts or lots at the rate indicated; provided, the Auditor of Sutter County shall have sixty days after the passage of this Act to prepare a copy of the lists for Levee District Number Five, and to enter the amount of assessments levied for the district by the Reclamation Fund Commissioners on the first Monday of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and shall, within the said sixty days, sign the same and file it in the office of the County Treasurer, who shall note on said lists the date of filing; and the assessment shall thereafter be due and payable, and shall be collected, in the same manner as though the lists had been filed with the County Treasurer at the proper time in eighteen hundred and seventy-five; provided, that nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to legalize any assessment or delinquent assessment heretofore made in District Number Five, Sutter County, nor in any reclamation or levee district in any county in this State, nor shall this Act be so construed as to legalize any order of the Board of Supervisors, or Board of Funding Commissioners, or any act of the Assessment Commissioners in District Number Five, Sutter County, nor in any district in this State.

Auditor to prepare lists.

Collection.

SEC. 2. Coupons shall be received by the County Treas

be taken in payment.

urer in payment for the assessments levied to pay the inter- Coupons to est on outstanding bonds, provided said coupons shall be due or become due within the fiscal year for which the assessment was levied; and in case assessments are paid in coupons, the County Treasurer shall turn them over to the State Treasurer, who shall cancel them in the same manner as if he had redeemed them.

SEC. 3. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed, and this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

CHAP. DXCV.-An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles County to locate and build a bridge across the Los Angeles River, in the City and County of Los Angeles, and to levy a tax for payment of the costs of the same.

[Approved April 3, 1876.]

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

to construct

SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles Supervisors County are hereby authorized and empowered to locate and bridge. construct a good and substantial bridge, of sufficient width and strength to admit the passage of heavily-laden freighted wagons and teams, across the Los Angeles River, in the City and County of Los Angeles, at a point below the mouth of the Arroyo Seco, at or near the termination of San Fernando Street on the west bank, of the termination of Downey Avenue on the east bank, of said river; and upon such plan and of such materials, with substantial abutments, as the said Board of Supervisors shall determine, but at an expense not to exceed six thousand dollars ($6,000); provided, that Expense not the said bridge shall only be constructed and paid for in the to exceed. manner hereinafter provided.

SEC. 2. Before proceeding to the construction of the said Plans, etc. bridge, the said Board of Supervisors shall cause to be prepared, and shall adopt, plans and specifications for its construction, and shall deposit the same with the Clerk of said Board for the inspection of bidders; and shall cause to be published, for at least twenty days, in some daily newspaper of general circulation in the City and County of Los Angeles, Proposals for an advertisement inviting sealed proposals for the construction of such bridge. Said sealed proposals shall be addressed to the Clerk of said Board, and shall contain a bid for the construction of said bridge according to the plans and specifications adopted by said Board, and shall state the names of the proposed sureties, and be accompanied by their written consent to become sureties, in case of acceptance of their bid.

work.

SEC. 3. Within one week after the expiration of the time Awarding of specified in the said advertisements for the presentation of contract. said proposals, the said Board of Supervisors shall meet, and, having declared the time for receiving bids closed, in

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