was duly assessed upon the property, specifying the same, and that all the forms of law, in reference to the equalization of the taxes and the levy thereof, had been duly complied with. SEC. 10. All officers shall perform such service as may Fees of offbe required of them under this Act, without the payment of cers named. fees in advance; but they may charge and receive, to the use of said city and county, such fees as are allowed for similar service in other cases; provided, such fees are collected of the defendant; and in no case shall the State or city and county be liable for services rendered under this Act. SEC. 11. This Act shall be in force and take effect from and after its passage. CHAP. DCVI.-An Act to authorize the compromise of certain litigation concerning a portion of the water-front of the City and County of San Francisco. [Approved April 3, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and to compro SECTION 1. The Governor, the Mayor of the City and Board of County of San Francisco, and the Board of State Harbor Arbitration Commissioners, are hereby authorized to act as a Board of mise. Arbitration, to compromise and settle with the claimants of the premises situate between Jackson and Pacific Streets, and outside of the line of the water-front of the City and County of San Francisco, as established by the Act of the Legislature, entitled "An Act to provide for the disposition of certain property of the State of California," approved March twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred fifty-one. The settlement and compromise must embrace the whole of the premises, or none. tlement, warrants. SEC. 2. Upon such compromise and settlement being made, Upon setand upon the execution and delivery to the Board of State Controller Harbor Commissioners of proper deeds of conveyance to the to draw State of California of the said premises, free of all incumbrances, and surrender of possession of the same to the said Board, they, or a majority of them, shall certify in writing, to the Controller of State, the amount to be paid to the several claimants, and the fact of the execution and delivery of such deeds and surrender of possession of the premises; and thereupon, the Controller must draw his warrant or warrants on the State Treasurer in favor of the person or persons named in said certificate, and on the presentation of such warrants to the State Treasurer, he shall pay the same out of the Payment, San Francisco Harbor Improvement Fund; and sufficient of from what said fund is hereby appropriated for that purpose. fund. SEC. 3. The said settlement and compromise, and the When deeds execution of the deeds and delivery of possession of the to be given. premises, shall be made within six months after the passage of this Act, or the authority thereby granted shall cease. SEC. 4. All proceedings for the recovery of the said premises must be stayed until the expiration of said six months. SEC. 5. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as a recognition by the State of California of any title in said claimants, or either of them, to any part of the said premises. SEC. 6. [This] Act shall take effect from its passage. Appropria tion of moneys for Commission. CHAP. DCVII.-An Act concerning the Burlingame Treaty. The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco are hereby authorized and empowexpenses of ered to appropriate, out of any moneys in the General Fund of said city and county not otherwise appropriated, a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, to be used in defraying the expenses of a delegation of citizens, irrespective of their political proclivities, to be appointed by the Mayor, and to be approved by said Board, to proceed to Washington, D. C., to solicit such action on the part of the Federal Government as shall modify the Burlingame Treaty, so as to prevent the immigration of certain classes of Chinese under its provisions, whose arrival in our midst is detrimental to the moral and material interests of our own people. SEC. 2. The Auditor of said city and county is hereby authorized to audit, and the Treasurer to pay, the amount. named in section one of this Act, in the same manner as demands on the treasury are audited and paid. SEC. 3. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. DCVIII.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] Salaries and mileage of CHAP. DCIX.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to fix the salaries and compensation of certain officers of Butte County, approved March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventyfour. [Approved April 3, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section two is amended to read as follows: Supervisors. Section 2. Each member of the Board of Supervisors shall receive the sum of five dollars per day for each day necessarily employed, and said member shall, in addition thereto, be allowed a mileage of thirty cents per mile, in traveling from the place of their residence to the Court-house; provided, that the per diem of any member of the Board of Supervisors shall not exceed six hundred dollars per annum, inclusive of their duties as ex officio Directors of the County Infirmary. fees of Re SEC. 2. Section three is amended to read as follows: Sec- Salary and tion 3. The County Recorder shall be ex officio County corder and Auditor, and shall receive a salary of three thousand dollars Auditor. per annum, payable quarterly out of the county treasury, for all duties required of him by law as County Recorder and ex officio County Auditor; provided, however, that the County Recorder may retain for his own use and benefit all the fees or compensation accruing to his office, from the searching of records, making abstracts of titles, and acknowledging of all instruments of writing which he is competent to make. Attorney, SEC. 3. Section eight is amended to read as follows: Sec- Deputy tion 8. The Board of Supervisors of Butte County are lary of hereby empowered to authorize the District Attorney of said county to appoint a deputy, who shall reside at Chico, and receiving, as a compensation for his services, a salary not to exceed fifty ($50) dollars per month, which shall be paid in the same manner as the District Attorney is now paid. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. DCX.-An Act to provide funds for road purposes in the County of San Luis Obispo. [Approved April 3, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and to issue SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors in the County of Supervisors San Luis Obispo are hereby authorized and directed to issue bonds. bonds of the said county to the amount of seventy thousand dollars, bearing interest at the rate of eight per cent. per annum, in sums of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars each. Said bonds shall be issued as follows, to wit: Twenty thousand dollars as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, twenty thousand dollars in ninety days after the issuance of the first bonds under this Act, and thirty thousand dollars in six months. after the issuance of the first bonds under this Act. The said bonds shall be signed by the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, and countersigned by the Auditor and Treasurer of said county. interest, SEC. 2. The said bonds shall be due and payable in the Bonds and gold coin of the United States, at the office of the Treasurer when of the said county, in the following order, to wit: the first payable. Coupons. Sale of bonds notice issue of bonds, in fifteen years, the second issue of bonds, in twenty years, and the third issue of bonds, in twenty-five years from the date of their issuance, respectively; and the said Board shall have the power to redeem the said bonds in the manner and at the times hereinafter described and mentioned. The interest on said bonds shall be due and payable in like gold coin as the said bonds, on the first day of January and July of each year, at the office of the Treasurer of the said county. SEC. 3. Coupons for the interest must be attached to each bond, and must be signed in the same manner as the bonds are required to be signed. Each of the said coupons shall be for the semi-annual interest on the bond to which it is attached, and must bear on its face the number of its bond, the date when it will be due, and the amount of interest to be paid. When the semi-annual interest upon a bond shall be paid, the coupon for the interest paid shall be detached and delivered to the Treasurer of the county, who must, after canceling the same, deliver it to the County Auditor and take his receipt for it, and the Auditor must file and safely keep in his office all coupons so delivered to him. SEC. 4. The said bonds shall bear the dates of their issuance, and the first coupon shall be for the interest from such date up to the first day of January or July next after their issuance. SEC. 5. The Board of Supervisors of the said county shall, to bidders. immediately after the several issues of bonds in pursuance with the provisions of this Act, advertise in all the newspapers printed and published in the said county, and in one daily newspaper printed and published in the City and County of San Francisco, for not less than one month, the fact of intention to offer for sale to the highest bidder, in gold coin, a specified amount of said bonds, and the said advertisement shall state particularly the time, place, number, and amount of bonds to be offered for sale. Upon the day named in the said advertisement, the said Board of Supervisors must meet to open and consider such bids or proposals as may have been made for the purchase of bonds, and must award the purchase of bonds to the highest bidder, in gold coin; provided, that if the bid of the highest bidder does not equal in amount all the bonds offered for sale, then, and in that case, the said Board may award the purchase of the remaining bonds, to be sold at that particular time, to the next highest bidder, in accordance with this section; provided, that no bonds may be sold for a less sum than ninetyfive per cent. of the par value of said bonds. The said Board may sell any portion of the said bonds at private sale, at a rate not less than ninety-five per cent. on the dollar par value, without giving public notice of such sale, but in case of any number of bonds being sold at private sale, a publication of the number of bonds sold, to whom sold, and the price received, must be published once, in at least one paper printed and published in said county. The bidder or bidders whose proposal is accepted by the said Board shall pay into the county treasury of the said county, in gold coin of the United States, the amount bid by them for the purchase of bonds, and shall take the County Treasurer's receipt for the money so paid, and upon the delivery of the said receipt to the Clerk of the said Board, they shall be entitled to receive the bonds purchased under their bids. applied. SEC. 6. The money derived to the said county from sale Proceeds of of bonds, in pursuance with the provisions of this Act, shall sales, how be paid into the county treasury to the credit of a special fund to be known as the "Special Road Bond Fund," and shall be used in the improvement and betterment of the public roads now in use in said county, as is more particularly specified in this Act, and for the laying out and building such new roads as are herein named, and for such other work as the said Board may consider necessary and expedient. SEC. 7. The Board of Supervisors of the said county are Bond sinkhereby authorized and directed to levy annually, at the time ing fund. and in the manner provided by the general revenue laws of this State for general county purposes, a tax on the assessed valuation of the property in said county sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds; and on and after the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, ten per cent. of the principal of said bonds; and the County Treasurer of said county is hereby directed to set apart, of the money so raised as aforesaid, an amount sufficient to pay the interest, and also an amount sufficient to pay, each and every year, on and after the said year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, A. D., a sum sufficient to pay one-tenth part of said bonds, and the money so set apart shall be designated and known as the "Special Road Bond Sinking Fund," and shall not be used in any other way or for any other purpose than above specified. SEC. 8. Not less than two weeks before the first day of Redemption January, A. D. eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and each of bonds, and every year thereafter, the Board of Supervisors of the said county shall give public notice, by publication in not less than one paper, printed and published in the said county, and in other papers, if in the opinion of the said Board such additional published notice is expedient or necessary, that they will redeem a specified amount of the bonds issued under the provisions of this Act. Said published notice shall invite sealed proposals for the surrender of bonds, in accordance with the said notice, at the time and place to be set forth in the said publication and notice aforesaid. The County Treasurer of the said county shall, in the presence of the Board of Supervisors and such other persons as may desire to be present, open the sealed proposals for the surrender of bonds, in accordance with the aforementioned published notice, and the said Board may accept only such bids as will redeem the greatest amount of said bonds; provided, that no bonds shall be redeemed at a higher rate than one hundred cents on the dollar. If, at the time set forth in the published notice mentioned in this section, no proposals have been offered for the surrender of bonds, in accordance with said notice, the said Board must give notice by publication, in the same manner as is provided for on notice of |