be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction punished accordingly; provided, that nothing in this Act shall be construed to interfere with the right of any elector to erase or insert any name or proposition upon said ticket, if done in writing.

vignette.

SEC. 4. Hereafter all tickets, in addition to the matters Additional provided for in section eleven hundred and ninety-one of the matter on Political Code, and immediately above the word "For," as specified in said section, shall show the name or number of the district, ward, or precinct where the same is to be used, and if such name or number is not contained in the party vignette (as it must be if one is used), then the same shall be printed in capital letters, so as to take up not more than two inches of space, which in all cases shall be added to the lengths of the ticket as established by said section of the Political Code: provided, that the provision of this section shall not be compulsory except in the City and County of San Francisco.

CHAP. CXXXVIII.-An Act for the relief of George C. Knox.
[Approved March 7, 1878.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

WHEREAS, George C. Knox was on the first Monday in May, Preamble.
eighteen hundred and seventy-four, in accordance with the
provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to promote irrigation
in the County of Los Angeles," passed March tenth, eight-
een hundred and seventy-four, appointed by the Board of
Supervisors Superintendent of Irrigation for the County of
Los Angeles, and duly qualified as such, and performed
the duties of said office until the expiration of his term,
on the first Monday in March, eighteen hundred and
seventy-six; and whereas, the said George C. Knox was,
at the general election in the year eighteen hundred and
seventy-five, elected to fill the said office for the ensuing
term, to wit, from the day last named to the first Mon-
day in March, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and
duly qualified and performed the duties of his office during
the said term; and whereas, the Board of Supervisors have
neglected to fix the amount of the salary of said office,
and the said George C. Knox has in consequence received
no compensation for his services in said office; therefore:
SECTION 1. It is enacted that the Board of Supervisors of Board to fix
the County of Los Angeles shall fix the amount of the salary salary.
of said office for the said terms, to wit, from the first Mon-
day in May, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, to the first
Monday in March, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, at
such sums as the services rendered were reasonably worth,
and that the salary and mileage of the said George Č. Knox,
as Superintendent of Irrigation, for the said terms, as fixed

by the said Board, shall be paid out of the treasury of the County of Los Angeles.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately.

Duty of Superintendent.

Same.

Same.

Apportionment of school moneys.

Repeal.

CHAP. CXXXIX.-An Act to provide for the distribution of school moneys in the County of Contra Costa.

[Approved March 8, 1878.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The School Superintendent of Contra Costa County must apportion all State and county school moneys as follows:

First-He must ascertain the number of teachers each district is entitled to, by calculating one teacher for every one hundred census children, or fraction thereof of not less than fifteen census children, as shown by the next preceding school census.

Second-He must ascertain the total number of teachers for the county, by adding together the number of teachers assigned to the several districts.

Third-Five hundred dollars shall be apportioned to each district for every teacher assigned it; provided, that to districts having ten and less than fifteen census children shall be apportioned three hundred dollars.

Fourth-All school moneys remaining on hands after apportioning five hundred dollars to each district having fifteen census children or more for every teacher assigned it, and after apportioning three hundred dollars to districts. having less than fifteen census children, must be apportioned pro rata to the census children in each district in excess of twenty census children.

SEC. 2. An Act entitled an Act to provide for the distribution of school money in certain counties, approved March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, is hereby repealed so far as its provisions relate to Contra Costa County.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight.

CHAP. CXL.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to fix the salaries of certain officers in Mendocino County, approved February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.

[Approved March 8, 1878.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

Recorder.

SECTION 1. Section four of said Act is hereby amended so Salary of as to read as follows: Section 4. The County Recorder for all County services required of him by law, or by virtue of his office, to include all deputies and clerk hire, shall receive the sum of two thousand dollars per annum; provided, that for all services performed by said Recorder as provided in section forty-two hundred and forty-three of the Political Code, and for all services performed by him that might be performed by a Notary Public, he may collect the fees allowed by law and retain the same to his own use and benefit.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of March, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-eight.

CHAP. CXLI.—An Act for the relief of the School Department of the City of Oakland.

[Approved March 8, 1878.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

to be levied.

SECTION 1. The Common Council of the City of Oakland Special tax may, at its discretion, at the same time that the general taxes are levied, levy a special tax for the years one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight and one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, of a sum not to exceed ten cents each year on every one hundred dollars of taxable property of said city, which shall be levied and collected as other taxes are levied and collected, for the purpose of liquidating the present indebtedness of the school department of said city, and for the purchase of real estate, and for the erection of school buildings.

SEC. 2.

This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

CHAP. CXLII.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes].

Duty of Council.

Additional

created.

CHAP. CXLIII.-An Act to authorize the Common Council of the City of Eureka, in Humboldt County, to sit as a Board of Equalization.

[Approved March 8, 1878.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The Common Council of the City of Eureka shall have power, and it shall be their duty, to meet at least once each year as a City Board of Equalization of taxes. Such meetings shall be held at such times and place, and for such length of time, as the Common Council may by ordinance provide.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

CHAP. CXLIV.-An Act to create an additional Contingent
Fund for Trinity County.

[Approved March 8, 1878.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of Trinity County are fund to be hereby authorized and empowered to, in each year, set aside from any money in the county treasury, belonging to the General Fund of said county, the sum of five hundred dollars, in addition to the present Contingent Fund; said amount to be known as the "Additional Contingent Fund of Trinity County," and shall be subject to the order of said Board of Supervisors, to be used for any county purposes, in the discretion of said Board.

Provisions

only applicable to

portion of county.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

CHAP. CXLV.- An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to extend an Act concerning hogs found running at large in the Counties of Marin, Sacramento, San Francisco, Alameda, Stanislaus, Yuba, and Santa Clara, approved April twentyfirst, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, approved April eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, by repealing the Act so far as it relates to Trinity County, except the town site of the Town of Weaverville, in said county.

[Approved March 8, 1878.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section one of an Act to extend an Act concerning hogs found running at large in the Counties of

Marin, Sacramento, San Francisco, Alameda, Stanislaus, Yuba, and Santa Clara, approved April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, approved April eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, is hereby amended so that its provisions shall not be applicable to Trinity County, except within the town site of the Town of Weaverville, in Trinity County.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

CHAP. CXLVI.-An Act to incorporate the Town of Felton, in the County of Santa Cruz, State of California.

[Approved March 8, 1878.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The inhabitants of the Town of Felton, County Town of of Santa Cruz, and State of California, are hereby constituted Felton. a body corporate and politic under the name and style of the Town of Felton, and by that name they and their successors shall be known in law, have perpetual succession, and be invested with all the rights and privileges conferred upon them by this Act.

SEC. 2. The area of the Town of Felton shall be a square, Boundaries. having three-fourths of one mile for a side, and its center five feet east of the southwest corner of Bennett Street and Baldwin Avenue, as laid down on town plat by T. W. Wright, now on file in the office of the County Clerk of said county. The sides of said square run respectively north, south, east, and west; provided, that the east line, running south from the northeast corner, shall not cross the Zayante River, but follow down the center of said river until the line crosses the county road below the Eagle Fuse Works, situated on said river, and thence follow along said road until it reaches the original line, and thence in a south direction.

SEC. 3. The officers of the Town of Felton shall be a Town Board of three Trustees, a Recorder, Assessor, Treasurer, officers, Clerk, and Marshal.

SEC. 4. The corporate powers of the Town of Felton shall Corporate be vested in the Board of Trustees. Any two of said Board powers. shall constitute a quorum, and one may adjourn from day to day and compel the attendance of the absent members in such manner and under such penalty as the Board previously, by ordinance, may have prescribed.

officers.

SEC. 5. The Trustees shall be elected by the people to Election of serve for the term of one year, and until their successors shall have been elected and qualified. The Town Treasurer, Assessor, Clerk, Recorder, and Marshal, shall be elected by the qualified electors of said town. The election for Trustees shall be held on the second Saturday in April. The