Appropriation for repair of each one hundred dollars value of taxable property in the County of Placer, for road purposes, which tax shall be levied, assessed, and collected as other property taxes are levied, assessed, and collected, and when paid into the county treasury shall be apportioned to the General Road Fund of the county. SEC. 5. Section twenty-three of the above entitled Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 23. Whenbridges, etc. ever it appears to the satisfaction of the Board of Supervisors that there is not a sufficient amount of money in any of the several District Road Funds to keep and maintain the public roads, highways, or trails in any of said road districts in proper repair, or that it is necessary to construct or repair bridges therein, the Board shall have power to appropriate, from any money then in the General Road Fund, such sums as they shall deem necessary, and apply the same toward the construction or repair of bridges, the construction of, or the maintenance of the public highways in any one or more of the road districts of said county. Purchase of toll road. SEC. 6. Section twenty-four of the above entitled Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 24. Upon the purchase of any toll road the Board of Supervisors may direct a warrant to be drawn, payable out of the General Road Fund, for the price thereof; provided, that the price to be paid therefor shall, in no event, exceed the balance of money then remaining in the General Road Fund. SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect on and after the first Monday in March, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. Boundaries. CHAP. CVII.-An Act supplementary to and amendatory of an [Approved February 28, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section two of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 2. The boundaries of the Town of Red Bluff shall be as follows: Beginning at the southeast corner of section nineteen, township twenty-seven north, range three west, Tehama County, California, running east to the intersection of said line with Reed's Creek; thence down said creek to its junction with the Sacramento River; thence up the west bank of said river to a point where the section line, between sections nineteen and twenty, township twenty-seven north, range three west, intersects said river; thence north to the northeast corner of section nineteen; thence west twenty chains; thence south to Brewery Creek; thence up said creek about twenty chains to quarter section line; thence south about one chain to a stake; thence west twenty chains; thence south twenty chains; thence east twenty chains; thence south forty chains; thence east forty chains to place of beginning. SEC. 2. Section five of said Act is hereby amended so as Notice of to read as follows: Section 5. Two weeks' notice of such election. election for Trustees shall be given by the President and Secretary of the Board of Trustees by publication in such newspapers, in the Town of Red Bluff, as the Board may direct. Such notice shall designate the time and place of holding such election, and shall name one Inspector and two Judges of such election; provided, that if at any time the President and Secretary fail to give such notice, the electors of said town may meet on the morning of election day at the Town Hall in said town and appoint one Inspector and two Judges of such election, and the same shall be valid and binding as if notice had been published. The Duty of Trustees. SEC. 3. Section eight of said Act is hereby amended so as Assessor to read as follows: Section 8. There shall be elected at the elected. annual election held in said town for the election of Trustees, an Assessor, who shall be ex officio Tax Collector. Board of Trustees shall have the power, and it shall be their duty so to do, to appoint a Treasurer, Marshal, and the police force required, and to make such regulations governing the police force as they may deem necessary, and to provide for the payment of their salaries for services rendered. It shall Treasurer. be the duty of the Treasurer to receive all moneys due the town, to pay all warrants drawn by order of the Board, signed by the Secretary and countersigned by the President, and to keep an accurate account of all receipts and expenditures, and to present to the Board a full report of the financial condition of the corporation one month before the annual election, and at such other times as the Board may require. He shall give bonds in the sum of five thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties, and shall receive, as a compensation for his services, an annual salary of such sum as the Board may award him, not to exceed one hundred dollars. The Assessor and Collector shall collect Assessor. such taxes as may be levied by the Board of Trustees, and shall pay such taxes, less his commission (which shall be allowed by the Board), over to the Treasurer, taking his receipt for the same. He shall give bonds in the sum of five thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties. The Marshal shall collect and pay over to the Marshal. Treasurer all fines and costs levied and imposed by reason of a violation of an ordinance of the town, and for such purposes shall have the power conferred by law upon Constables. He shall arrest all persons against whom a warrant shall be directed, and delivered to him from any Justice of the Peace of the town, and may arrest, without a warrant, any person actually engaged in his presence in the violation of an ordinance, and shall receive such fees as shall be prescribed by the Board of Trustees, to be taxed by the Justice of the Peace having jurisdiction of such violation, against the defendant; provided, that in no case shall he receive greater Salary. Power of By-laws. Tax. Fire depart ment. Explosive materials. Nuisances. Animals large. fees than Constables are allowed by law for similar services. SEC. 4. Section ten of said Act is hereby amended so as First-To make by-laws and ordinances not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this State, and to pass all by-laws and ordinances necessary and proper, properly carrying into effect the powers in this Act given them. Second-To levy and collect annually a tax, not to exceed one per cent., on the assessment valuation of all property, both real and personal, owned within said town. Third-To impose and collect a road poll tax, not to exceed two dollars per annum, on and from each male inhabitant of said town of the age of twenty-one years and upwards. Fourth-To impose and collect a tax of not to exceed two dollars per annum on every dog owned within the limits of said town, and no other dog tax shall be collected in said Town of Red Bluff. Fifth-To establish and alter fire limits; to erect, purchase, or lease proper buildings for a fire department; to purchase, hold, and maintain one or more engines, and such apparatus and implements for the prevention and extinguishment of fires as may be necessary, and to establish, regulate, and control a fire department in said town. Sixth-To regulate the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, rosin, and other extremely explosive or combustible materials; to regulate the erection of steam-boilers and engines, and to prohibit the erection thereof in places deemed dangerous to the inhabitants of said town. Seventh-To determine what are nuisances; to prevent, remove, or abate the saine at the expense of the party causing such nuisance; to control and regulate soap and glue works, slaughtering houses, tanneries, and other offensive trades, and to provide for their exclusion or removal from the town limits or any part thereof. Eighth-To prevent any or all domestic animals from runrunning at ning at large within the limits of said town, either all or a portion of the time; to prevent the leaving of animals in any street or alley without securely fastening the same; to prohibit the fastening to, or otherwise destroying or injuring any fence, gate, building, lamp-post, hydrant, tree, or case around a tree, in said town, and to regulate and prohibit fast driving in any portion of the town. Health regulations. Pound and keeper. Ninth-To provide for the regulation and prevention of contagious diseases; to provide and enforce regulations for the protection of health and cleanliness; to control and regulate interments, and to provide for the prevention and summary removal of all filth and garbage. Tenth-To establish a pound and a Pound-keeper, and pre 1 scribe his duties and fees; to provide for a public sale by the Pound-keeper of such animals as shall be impounded; to provide and what animals shall be impounded; to provide. for the repayment to the owner, within the limited time, of the money arising at sale of impounded animals, less such costs as the Board may provide. Eleventh-To permit the laying of railroad tracks and the Laying of running of cars, drawn by horse or steam, thereon, making tracks. such prohibitions and restrictions as the safety of the town may demand, and to fix and regulate the rate of speed at which cars drawn, either by horse or steam, may be run within the town limits. Twelfth-To prevent the discharge of pistols, fire-arms, or cannons within prescribed limits. lations. Thirteenth-To establish, alter, and repair town prisons, Prison regu regulate the same, provide for the care, feeding, and clothing of town prisoners; to provide for the formation of a chaingang for persons convicted of crimes and misdemeanors, and their proper employment for the benefit of the town, and to provide for the arrest and compulsory working of vagrants. Fourteenth-To establish and regulate markets and market places. Fifteenth-To prohibit, and regulate, and suppress, or to fix, License tax. in their discretion, and collect a license tax on all dance houses, fandango houses, cock-fights, bull-fights, dog-fights, and all exhibitions and amusements which are against good morals and public decency, and to prohibit and suppress all houses of ill-fame or prostitution. Sixteenth-To fix and collect a license tax on all shows, Same. theatrical and circus performances, and all other performances where an admission fee is charged, or which may be held in a place where wines or liquors may be sold to the participators, and on all billiard tables and bowling alleys, and regulate and restrain the same. Seventeenth-To license, regulate, and fix the rate of license same. tax upon all kinds of business, employment, occupations, or trades of a lawful nature carried on within the town limits. The amount of license tax upon everything which the Board of Trustees are by this Act authorized to license, shall be fixed at the discretion of the Board of Trustees, and as they may deem the interests and good order of the town may require, but which shall not exceed the amount fixed by law for State and county purposes on business of like character. Eighteenth-To purchase or lease such real or personal property and to erect such buildings as may be necessary for town officers and a Town Prison, or for the interest of said town; to sell, convey, and mortgage the same when deemed necessary by said Board. Nineteenth-To construct and keep in repair pumps, aque- Waterducts, reservoirs, or other works necessary for supplying the works. town with water; to provide for the establishment, regulation, and maintenance of water-works, and to grant permission to lay water pipes in the streets of said town, with such Streets opened. restrictions and prohibitions as the interests of the town may demand. Twentieth-To provide for and regulate the lighting of the streets of said town. Twenty-first-To lay out streets and alleys; to declare any streets now open, or which may be hereafter opened, public streets; to determine the width and grade of all streets, alleys, and sidewalks in said town; to regulate and direct the planting of shade trees on the streets of said town, and provide for draining the same. Twenty-second-To provide for the improvement and repair of streets and the construction, improvement, and repair of sidewalks in the manner in this Act hereinafter provided. Twenty-third-To provide when and at what places on the streets of said town, crossings may be made; to remove the same and to regulate and prescribe the manner of construction thereof, and of what material the same shall be made. Twenty-fourth-To provide for inclosing, improving, and regulating all public grounds, at the expense of the town. Twenty-fifth-To provide for the good order of the town policemen, and appoint special policemen when deemed necessary. Special Condemna tion of property. Board of Equalization. Power of create in limited. Twenty-sixth-To provide for the numbering of all buildings facing on the streets of said town. Twenty-seventh-To order paid any final judgment against said town; but none of its lands or property of any kind or nature, taxes, revenues, franchises, rights, or interests shall be attached, levied upon, or sold, in or under any process whatever. Twenty-eighth-Such power to condemn private property for town use, and to dedicate property within its limits to public use as is conferred upon cities by the general laws of the State, or is or may be conferred upon said Trustees by special enactment. SEC. 5. Section eleven of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 11. The said Board of Trustees shall sit as a Board of Equalization, and shall be governed by the general laws of the State regulating the powers and duties of County Boards of Supervisors in similar proceedings. All taxes levied under the provisions of this Act are hereby made a lien against the property assessed, which lien shall attach on the day of the levy and shall not be satisfied or removed until such taxes are paid or the property has absolutely vested in a purchaser under sale for such taxes. SEC. 6. Section twelve of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 12. The Board of Trustees debtedness shall have no power to create any indebtedness exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars in the aggregate upon the credit of the town. Warrants shall not be drawn upon the Town Treasurer unless there be sufficient money to meet the same after paying the current expenses of the town and all demands legally due. The Board of Trustees shall have the further power, when they may deem essential the expenditure of a larger sum of money than is specified in this section as the limit of their power to contract indebtedness on |