tices of the Peace within their townships, whenever so required, and, within said County of Alameda, execute, serve, and return all process and notices directed or delivered to them by a Justice of the Peace of the township in which such Constable or Constables have been duly elected, or by any competent authority therein. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Direction of CHAP. LXXXVII.-An Act relative to executions from Courts of Justices of the Peace of the several townships of the County of Alameda. [Approved February 25, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. All executions that issue from Courts of Jusexecutions. tice of the Peace, located in any township of the County of Alameda, must be directed to and served by the Sheriff of the county, or a Constable of the township in which the Justice's Court is held. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Police Payment of made. CHAP. LXXXVIII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for a Police Contingent Fund," approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. [Approved February 25, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. An Act entitled "An Act to provide for a Police Contingent Fund," approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco shall annually set apart from the General Fund, in the treasury of said city and county, the sum of seven thousand two hundred dollars, to be called the Police Contingent Fund. Sec. 2. The Police Commissioners of the City and County money, how of San Francisco, or a majority of them, are hereby authorized to allow, out of the Police Contingent Fund of said city and county, any and all orders signed by the Chief of Police of said city and county; provided, that the aggregate of said orders shall not exceed the sum of seven thousand two hundred dollars per annum. Treasurer. Sec. 3. The Auditor of said city and county is hereby Duty of authorized to audit, and the Treasurer of said city and Auditor and county to pay out of the Police Contingent Fund, any and all orders so allowed by the Police Commissioners, not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of seven thousand two hundred dollars per annum. Sec. 4. At the end of each fiscal year any sum remain- Money ing in the Police Contingent Fund, upon which no order returned. shall have been allowed, shall be returned to the credit of the General Fund. CHAP. LXXXIX.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] CHAP. XC.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to sepa- [Approved February 25, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section six of said Act is amended to read as salary of follows: The County Assessor shall receive a salary of one Assessor. thousand dollars a year and six per cent. on all personal property taxes collected by him and paid into the county treasury, and the percentage allowed by law on all poll taxes collected by him and paid into the county treasury, which shall be in full of all compensation for all services rendered by him as County Assessor, Collector of poll taxes, and Collector of taxes on personal property; provided, that the Board of Supervisors may appoint Deputy County Assessors, as now allowed by law. SEC. 2. Section four of said Act is amended to read as Salary of follows: The Sheriff shall receive a salary of four thousand Sheriff. dollars per annum and six per cent. on all personal property taxes, not secured by real estate, collected by him, and the percentage allowed by law on all poll taxes collected by him as Tax Collector from and after the first Monday of July in each year, which shall be in full of all compensation for services rendered by him, his deputies, or assistants, as Sheriff, Jailor, and Tax Collector. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force on and after the first Monday in March, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. CHAP. XCI.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] Repeal of CHAP. XCII.-An Act to repeal an Act entitled an Act to create a special road district in the County of Santa Barbara, and to provide a Road Fund for said district, approved March twentyseventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. [Approved February 25, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. An Act entitled an Act to create a special road district in the County of Santa Barbara, and to provide a road fund for said district, approved March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force on and after its passage. CHAP. XCIII.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] CHAP. XCIV. [See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] Salary of deputy. Report of fees collected. CHAP. XCV.-An Act entitled an Act to appropriate funds for the use of the County Clerk of San Diego County to pay deputies. [Approved February 25, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of San Diego County are hereby required to audit and allow to the County Clerk of said county, as salary for the Deputy County Clerk, the sum of one thousand dollars per annum, to be paid in gold coin out of the Salary Fund of the county, in the manner and upon the conditions hereinafter specified. At each regular session of the Board of Supervisors the County Clerk shall make a full report of all the fees collected and charged by him, as Clerk of Court, for the three months preceding. Whenever it shall appear from such report that the aggre gate fees of the County Clerk, collected and charged by virtue of his office as Clerk of the District, County, and Probate Courts, equals or exceeds the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars for the three months reported, no allowance shall be made; but when the sum of fees so collected and charged falls below seven hundred and fifty dollars, for the period of three months, then the Board of Supervisors shall audit and allow to said County Clerk such a sum as, taken in connection with the sum of fees reported, will not exceed seven hundred and fifty dollars per quarter of three months; prorided, that such allowance shall not exceed two hundred and fifty dollars for any one term of three months. to issue warrant. SEC. 2. The Auditor is hereby required to issue his war- Auditor rant on the County Treasurer, payable out of the Salary Fund, in favor of said County Clerk, for such sum as the Board of Supervisors may allow by virtue of this Act, and the County Treasurer is hereby required to pay the same. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first Monday in March, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight. CHAP. XCVI.-An Act to change the name of a town in Amador [Approved February 25, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The name of the Town of Fiddleton, in the Name SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on the first Monday of May, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight. changed. CHAP. XCVII.-An Act to fix the compensations of Road Overseers of the Counties of Alameda and San Mateo, and in relation to the road poll tax thereof. [Approved February 25, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Overseers. SECTION 1. Each Road Overseer of the Counties of Ala- Compensameda and San Mateo shall receive, from moneys coming into ton of Road their hands belonging to his road district, the sum of three dollars for each day's service performed by him, to be credited and allowed by the Board of Supervisors; provided, that in the County of Alameda the Road Overseer shall not Road poll tax. Collection of tax. Tax receipts. Powers conferred on seers. receive a compensation to exceed three hundred dollars per annum. SEC. 2. Every male inhabitant of a road district within the Counties of Alameda and San Mateo, over twenty-one and under fifty years of age, must annually pay a road poll tax of two dollars; provided, the same be paid between the first Monday in January and the first Monday in July in each year; but if not paid prior to the first Monday in July, then it shall be three dollars. SEC. 3. The road poll tax must be collected by the Road Overseers in the counties herein named, without any fee or compensation for collecting the same, except as provided in section one of this Act. SEC. 4. The Board of Supervisors of the Counties of Alameda and San Mateo shall cause to be printed, respectively, of two and three dollar receipts, a sufficient number for the use of the Road Overseers; provided, the style of such blanks be changed every year; and further provided, that the said Board of Supervisors may pass all ordinances requisite to carry the provisions of this Act into full effect. SEC. 5. All the powers and authority conferred under the Road Over- laws of this State on Assessors, or any other officer authorized to collect State poll tax, are hereby conferred on the Road Overseers of the Counties of Alameda and San Mateo. SEC. 6. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect from and after its pas sage. Assessor to appoint deputies. CHAP. XCVIII.-An Act relating to the Assessor's office of El [Approved February 25, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Assessor of El Dorado County is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint one or more deputies, whose compensation shall be fixed by the Board of Auditors of said county and paid out of the Current Expense Fund of said county; provided, however, that the aggregate compensation in any one year, for all such deputies, shall not exceed the sum of one thousand dollars. SEC. 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act, now in force, are hereby repealed, so far as they relate to the Assessor of El Dorado County. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. |