CHAP. XCIX.-An Act repealing section four of an Act extending the provisions of an Act concerning hogs found running at large in the Counties of Colusa, Tehama, Butte, Sonoma, and Napa, to Modoc County, approved March twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, so far as the same relates to that portion of Modoc County known as Adin Township. [Approved February 25, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and exempted Act. SECTION 1. Section four of an Act extending the provis- Township ions of an Act entitled an Act relating to hogs found run- from proning at large in the Counties of Colusa, Tehama, Butte, visions of an Sonoma, and Napa, approved March twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, so as to be made applicable to Modoc County, approved March twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, is hereby repealed, so far as the same relates to Adin Township, County of Modoc. SEC. 2. This Act shall be in force and effect from and after its passage. CHAP. C.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] CHAP. CI.-An Act to regulate and limit the payment of money The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and of money SECTION 1. It shall not be lawful hereafter for the Board Expenditure of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, or any committee, officer, or Board having power to authorize or contract liabilities against the treasury of said city and county, to authorize, allow, contract for, pay, or render payable, in the present or future, in any one month, any demand or demands against said treasury, or any of the funds thereof, which shall in the aggregate exceed one-twelfth part of the amount allowed by laws existing at the time of such contract, authorization, allowance, payment, or liability, to be expended within the fiscal year of which said month is a part. If at the beginning of any month any money remains unexpended in any of the funds set apart for maintaining the municipal government of the City and County of San Francisco, and which might lawfully have been expended violation of section one the preceding month, such unexpended sum or sums may be carried forward and expended, by order of the Board of Supervisors, in any succeeding month. Contracts in SEC. 2. All contracts, authorizations, allowances, payments, and liabilities to pay, made or attempted to be made made void. in violation of section one of this Act, shall be absolutely void, and shall never be the foundation or basis of a claim against the treasury of said city and county. And all officers of said city and county are charged with notice of the condition of the treasury of said city and county and the extent of the claims against the same. Duty of Superinten lic Streets. SEC. 3. It is hereby made the duty of the Superintendent dent of Pub- of Public Streets, Highways, and Squares of said city and county to keep an exact account of all street work upon accepted streets, as well as every other expenditure chargeable to or payable out of the Street Department Fund, or expended under the supervision of said Superintendent, in any manner whatsoever, and for that purpose he shall have the power to demand and receive from every other city and county officer detailed statements in writing, when necessary to keep said account; and it is hereby made the duty of any and all officers to furnish said Street Superintendent said statements when demanded. Such account so kept by said Superintendent shall show every contract for street work and authorization of expenditure from their incipiency through the various stages of their progress to completion, with the amount to be paid for the same, so far as the same is capable of exact estimation, and when not, a sworn estimate of the probable cost. Said account shall be kept constantly posted up to date, so that it can be known exactly at any time what part or proportion of the monthly sum allowed by this Act and existing laws has been contracted for, paid, or rendered liable to pay in the present and future. SEC. 4. Whenever at any time the contracts performed or penditure. unperformed, lawful claims due or to become due, exceed the amount that can lawfully be expended during any one. month, the Superintendent of Streets shall give notice, in writing, to the Auditor and Treasurer of said city and county, and also the Board of Supervisors, by notice in writing, served upon the Clerk of said Board. Notice of the fact that the legal limit of expenditure for the month has been reached, and that no more claims can be lawfully contracted, shall be posted in a conspicuous place in the Street Superintendent's office by said officer, and in the office of the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors by said Clerk. Notice of limit of ex Liability for failure or neglect. SEC. 5. Any failure or neglect on the part of the Superintendent of Public Streets and Highways to comply with any of the provisions of this Act shall render him liable personally, and upon his official bond, to any contractor or other person suffering damage by his said failure or neglect. SEC. 6. All Supervisors, as well as the Auditor and any other officer authorizing or aiding to authorize, or auditing, violation of or allowing any claim or demand upon or against said treasury, or any fund thereof, in violation of any of the provis Liability for aiding claims in this Act. ions of this Act, shall be liable in person, and upon their several official bonds, to the contractor damaged by such illegal authorization, to the extent of his loss by reason of the non-payment of his claim. SEC. 7. The Treasurer paying any claim authorized, Treasurer allowed, or audited in violation of this provision, shall be liable. liable on his official bond to refund the same to the city and county treasury. SEC. 8. This Act shall take effect and be in force on and after the first day of the month succeeding its passage. CHAP. CII.-An Act to repeal an Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of the County of Colusa to approve official bonds of the county and township officers of said county, approved February eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight. [Approved February 27, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors Repeal of of the County of Colusa to approve official bonds of county Act. and township officers of said county, approved February eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAP. CIII.-An Act supplemental to and amendatory of an Act entitled an Act to facilitate the construction of a canal for the improvement of Oakland Harbor, approved April third, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. [Approved February 28, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the County of Transfer of Alameda are hereby authorized and empowered to direct the money. Treasurer and Auditor of said county to transfer the sum of twenty-six thousand seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and twenty cents from the Canal Fund to the General Fund of said county. SEC. 2. Section three of the Act referred to is amended to Damages read as follows: Section 3. Upon the certificate of the awarded. United States District Attorney for California, that on proceedings for condemnation damages have been awarded to the claimants of said lands, and that the decree concerning the same has become final, the Supervisors of Alameda County shall direct the Auditor of said county to draw his warrant upon the County General Fund in such sum as shall be necessary to realize the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars in United States gold coin, in favor of the Clerk of the Court in which such proceedings for condemnation were had for the damages so awarded, and the Treasurer of said county shall pay the warrant, with legal interest, in United Conversion States gold coin; provided, that if the damages be made payinto lawful able in lawful currency of the United States, said Board of Supervisors shall direct such warrant to be drawn, and said Auditor shall draw such warrant, for such sum in United States gold coin as will purchase, at then current rates of premium or discount, the said sum of twenty-five thousand dollars in lawful currency of the United States, and the said Clerk of said Court shall convert the same into lawful currency and pay the same to the parties entitled under the decree of condemnation. of money currency. SEC. 3. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect immediately. Authorizing of booms. CHAP. CIV.-An Act to authorize Mad River Boom and Land [Approved February 28, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Mad River Boom and Land Company are construction hereby authorized to construct and maintain booms, for the purpose of holding logs, on what is known as "Big Lagoon," and in the sloughs leading to the same, in the northern part of Humboldt Bay, for the term of twenty years. Extension of time. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CV-An Act supplementary to an Act entitled an Act to provide for the construction of a railroad from the Bay of San Luis Obispo, in the County of San Luis Obispo, to Santa Maria, in the County of Santa Barbara. [Approved February 28, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The time limited by section one of the said Act for the completion of said railroad is hereby extended for four (4) years from and after the passage of this Act. CHAP. CVI.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act concerning roads and highways in the County of Placer," approved March twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. [Approved February 28, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and masters. SECTION 1. Section five of the above entitled Act is hereby Duty of amended so as to read as follows: Section 5. It shall be the Road duty of each Roadmaster to have charge of, maintain, and keep in repair all public roads, trails, highways, and bridges in his district, and none other. He shall cause suitable guide-boards to be erected at the junction of important roads and trails, purchase materials and lumber for any necessary work on the highways of his district, and shall perform such other work in the construction, repair, and maintenance, and opening of new roads and trails as may be required by any order or ordinance of the Board of Supervisors; but there shall not be expended in any road district, by the Roadmaster thereof, during any year, more money than is collected for said district during such year, except upon the order of the Board of Supervisors, as provided for in section twenty-three of this Act. streets. SEC. 2. Section thirteen of the above entitled Act is hereby Width of amended so as to read as follows: Section 13. All public roads established under the provisions of this Act shall be made to conform to section lines as nearly as possible, and shall, except when otherwise specially ordered (for cause shown, both to be entered in their minutes) by the Board of Supervisors, be sixty feet in width, except in towns and villages where they may be made to conform to the streets and alleys therein. All public trails shall be four feet in Trails. width, and the width of any private road shall not exceed forty feet. Treasurer. SEC. 3. Section twenty-one of the above entitled Act is Duty of hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 21. The County County Treasurer shall place to the credit of each road district all moneys received by him, as apportioned by the Auditor to said District Road Funds, and shall pay out the same on the warrant of the Auditor, which warrants shall be based upon allowances made by the Board of Supervisors. The Board of Supervisors shall have the authority, Transfer of in their discretion, to direct the County Treasurer, on the money. first Monday in March in each year, to transfer any and all moneys then remaining in any of the District Road Funds, after all outstanding demands against the same have been paid, to a fund to be called the "General Road Fund," hereinafter provided for. for road purposes. SEC. 4. Section twenty-two of the above entitled Act is Property tax hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 22. At the time of making the levy of State and county taxes of each year, the Board of Supervisors of Placer County may, in their discretion, levy a property tax, not to exceed twenty cents on |