CHAP. CLVI.-An Act to provide for funding the indebtedness of Levee District Number Two of Sutter County. [Approved March 9, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and certain in SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of Sutter County Supervisors is hereby authorized and required to fund all the outstand- to fund ing indebtedness of Levee District Number Two of said debtedness. county, which shall have accrued prior to the first day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy six, and standing in the shape of unpaid warrants, duly and legally drawn, and issued for the construction or repairing of levee along Bear and Feather Rivers, or either of such rivers, and payable out of said Levee District Number Two Fund. Said warrants How paid. shall be funded by issuing in payment thereof bonds payable in twenty years from the first day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, bearing interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum, payable annually, on the first day of March of each year. to prepare bonds. SEC. 2. The Treasurer of said county shall prepare bonds Treasurer to an amount equal to the indebtedness of said district, which has accrued for the construction and repairs of said levees up to the first day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. Said bonds shall each be in an amount of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, and shall bear interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum from the first day of March, eighteen hundred and seventysix, and shall be payable on the first day of March, eighteen. hundred and ninety-six, at the office of the County Treasurer of said county. The interest on said bonds shall be payable Interest. annually, the first payment to fall due March first, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven. SEC. 3. Said bonds shall be signed by the President of Bonds, how the Board of Supervisors, countersigned by the County signed, etc. Auditor, indorsed by the County Treasurer, and attested by having the county seal impressed thereon. This Act shall not be so construed as to render the said County of Sutter liable for the payment of said bonds, or any part thereof, either principal or interest, which shall be expressed on the face of each of said bonds. examine SEC. 4. The Auditor and Treasurer of said county shall Auditor and examine the original books of records of warrants issued Treasurer to prior to the first day of March, eighteen hundred and warrants. seventy-six, for constructing or repairing said levees, or either of them, payable out of the funds of said district, and fund all unredeemed warrants legally issued for said purpose before said date, and entered in said books; but they shall fund no other indebtedness or warrants whatever. SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of said Auditor and Treasurer Record of each to keep a separate record of all such bonds as may be bonds, issued under this Act, showing the number, amount, and date of each bond, and to whom it was issued. Interest coupons. Expense of preparing bonds. Surrender of warrants. Treasurer to SEC. 6. Coupons for the annual interest shall be attached to each bond so that they can be removed from the bond without mutilating it. They shall each be signed by said Auditor and Treasurer. When any interest shall be paid upon any of said bonds, the County Treasurer shall detach the coupons for such interest, and cancel the same, and deliver the same to the County Auditor, taking his receipt therefor. The Auditor shall file and carefully preserve the same in his office. SEC. 7. The County Treasurer shall pay, out of any money in his hands belonging to said district, the expenses incurred in preparing said bonds and coupons, but the sum so paid shall not exceed one hundred dollars. SEC. 8. Within two months after the passage of this Act, any person holding any warrant or warrants entitled to be funded under this Act, shall, upon presentation and surrender thereof to the Treasurer of said county, receive, in exchange therefor, an equal amount in the bonds herein provided for. SEC. 9. The County Treasurer shall keep a book in his keep record. office in which he shall make an entry of each warrant or bond redeemed by him, from whom received, and in what manner redeemed. Cancellation warrants. SEC. 10. The President of the Board of Supervisors and of bonds and the County Auditor must, at least once in every three months, examine all bonds and warrants redeemed under this Act, and ascertain that the same have been properly registered, and must cause the same to be so canceled as to prevent a reissue thereof. Special tax. Annual bond tax. SEC. 11. There shall, for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and annually thereafter, be levied, assessed, and collected a special tax in said district, to be called Levee District Number Two tax, which tax shall be levied on all the taxable property in the district; shall be payable in gold coin; shall be sufficient in amount to provide for the payment of the interest on all said bonds, and after two years from the passage of this Act, shall also be levied sufficient to provide funds for the final payment of the principal on said bonds. Said special tax shall be levied, assessed, and collected under the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to define the boundary and provide for the government of Levee District Number Two of Sutter County." SEC. 12. After the expiration of two years there shall be levied annually in said district, under the provisions of this Act, an amount of tax sufficient to pay the annual interest, and also one-eighteenth of the principal of the bonds issued under the provisions of this Act, which amount shall be applied to the extinguishment of the bonds, giving preference to those who will offer to surrender them at the lowest offer. SEC. 13. The funds levied and collected, as provided in the preceding section, for the payment of the principal and interest on said bonds, shall not be appropriated to any other purpose whatever. SEC. 14. The Treasurer of Sutter County shall, on the Treasurer to first day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and pay interest. annually thereafter, pay the interest falling due on the bonds issued under this Act, out of the "Levee Fund" of said dis Whenever there is in his hands any sum exceeding two hundred dollars, collected for the purpose of redeeming the principal of said bonds, or whenever there shall at any time remain a surplus of two hundred dollars, or more, in said "Levee Fund," he shall advertise in some public manner, to be prescribed by the Director of said district, for the space of at least thirty days, for sealed proposals for the redemption of said bonds; said advertisement specifying the Redemption day and hour when and the place where such proposals will of bonds. be opened. At the time and place specified the Treasurer shall open said proposals in the presence of such persons as may be present, and shall redeem such bonds as are offered at the lowest rate to said levee district; provided, that no bond shall be redeemed at more than par. SEC. 15. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CLVII.-An Act to provide for the improvement of the streets of the City of Sacramento. [Approved March 8, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and of Street Divisions. SECTION 1. For the purpose of convenient designation, Boundaries those certain streets of the City of Sacramento between I and L, Front and Eleventh Streets, and all of Second Street south of the north line of L Street, and north of the south line of O Street, and its north extension to Broad Street, and Broad Street, from its intersection with the north extension of Second Street, to the Sacramento and Yolo bridge; and all of I Street, from Front Street to the east line of Seventh Street, shall be known as Street Division "A." And those certain streets contained within the line commencing at the northeast corner of Third and L Streets, and following the north line of L Street to the northeast corner of Tenth and L Streets, and then running south with the east line of Tenth Street to northeast corner of Tenth and N Streets; thence east with the north line of N Street to the east line of Twelfth Street; thence south with the east line of Twelfth Street to the north line of R Street; thence west with the north line of R Street to its intersection with the east line of Front Street; thence north with the east line of Front Street to south line of L Street; thence east with the south line of L Street to west line of Second Street; thence north with the west line of Second Street to north line of L Street; thence east with the north line of L Street to the place of beginning (excepting that portion of Second Street hereinbefore pro Powers of City Trustees defined. Same. vided to be in Division "A"), shall be known as Street Division "B." And those certain streets contained within a line commencing at northwest corner of Seventh and I Streets, and thence running north with the west line of Seventh Street to its intersection with the north line of E Street; thence east with the north line of E Street to the west line of Twelfth Street; thence north with the west line of Twelfth Street to the south line of B Street; thence east with the south line of B Street to the east line of Twelfth Street; thence south with the east line of Twelfth Street to the north line of J Street; thence east with the north line of J Street to the east line of Fourteenth Street; thence south with the east line of Fourteenth Street to the south line of L Street; thence west with the south line of L Street to the east line of Tenth Street; thence north with the east line of Tenth Street to the north line of L Street; thence east with the north line of L Street to the west line of Eleventh Street; thence north with the west line of Eleventh Street to the south line of I Street; thence west with the south line of I Street to the east line of Seventh Street; thence north with the east line of Seventh Street to the north line of I Street, and thence to the point of beginning, shall be known as Street Division “C." SEC. 2. The Board of Trustees of the City of Sacramento shall have power to cause any street or section thereof, not less than a block, in Street Division "A," to be planked, paved, graveled, or macadamized, unless a majority of the owners of property on any block, before the making of the order, by petition designate which they prefer, and their preference shall in that event be adopted; and the said Board of Trustees shall have power to cause any street in Street Divisions "B" and "C" to be well rounded up and graveled, unless a majority of the owners of property on any street, not less than a block, by petition before the order is made, designate macadamizing, paving, or planking; provided, that if, before said order to gravel is made, a majority of the property owners on any street or portion of a street, of not less than one block in extent, shall petition said Board of Trustees in writing to have said street or portion of a street graveled for a width of not less than twenty feet in the center of such street, the Board shall order the said work to be so done. SEC. 3. The Board of Trustees shall have power, upon the presentation of a petition signed by a majority of the property owners on any street in Street Divisions "B" and "C," of not less than two continuous blocks, to cause the sidewalks of the streets in Street Divisions "B" and "C," in sections not less than two blocks, to be increased in width to twentyfour feet on each side, and to fix and determine the height and position of the curb line, and the manner of constructing, and the materials with which said curb shall be constructed, and to compel the owners of the property fronting on said streets, by the modes hereinafter prescribed, to extend their sidewalks to said curb line, or to evenly grade and fill from the outer edge of the sidewalks now provided by law on to the new curb line, and also to keep the same clean and free from weeds and properly sown with grass seed; provided, however, that in so much of M Street as lies in Street Division "B" the sidewalks shall be increased to a width of twentyfive feet on each side, and at the intersection of each street the sidewalks shall be rounded at the corners so as to permit easy access to and egress from said streets. And said Board of Trustees shall have power to cause the streets in which it shall have ordered the sidewalks to be widened as aforesaid, to be graveled or macadamized. to whom SEC. 4. The entire cost and expense of improving the Expenses of streets and sidewalks, or sections of streets and sidewalks, in Street Divisions A, B, and C, shall be assessed against and assessed. paid by the property fronting thereon, the entire cost and expense to be estimated and borne by each block separately, and in proportion to the frontage, and at a rate per foot sufficient to pay the entire cost and expense of the work on each block. The cost of improving the intersections of the streets. improved under this Act, and including the street crossings, shall be paid by the city, except that portion hereafter provided to be paid by railroad companies having tracks thereon. And the Board of Trustees thereof are hereby authorized to estimate in each year the probable sum necessary for the foregoing purposes, and to include the same in the annual tax levy; and the sum thus collected shall be a Special Street Fund, and shall be used for no other purpose. Railroad companies having a track or tracks in any of the streets in the aforesaid Divisions "A," "B," or "C," shall pay and be assessed for the cost of improving the portion of the street embraced between the rails of their respective tracks, and the same shall be a lien against the franchise and railroad of such companies from the date of such assessment, and may be collected in the same manner as other assessments provided for by this Act; provided, however, the amount assessed against a railroad company, having a track or tracks in any of the streets improved under this Act, shall be deducted from the assessment against property fronting thereon. SEC. 5. Whenever said Board of Trustees shall resolve to Awarding improve the streets, or any of them, in Street Divisions A, B, of street or C, it shall enter on its minutes a resolution to that effect, describing the street or section thereof to be improved, and the manner in which it shall be done, and shall publish such resolution of intention in some daily newspaper, for the period of ten days; and if, at the end of said ten days, the said Board does not rescind its resolution, or modify the same (which it shall have power to do), it shall cause a notice to be posted at the Court-house door of said city, and inserted in one of the daily newspapers of said city, inviting sealed proposals for the work contemplated, briefly describing it, and requiring that each bid shall be accompanied with a certified check in a named amount, or a bond in a named amount, signed by at least two sureties, payable to the City of Sacramento, in the event of the contract being awarded to such bidder, and his failure within five days after such award to enter into a contract with said city to do the pro |