Repeal. SEC. 7. An Act entitled "An Act to regulate the use of artesian wells and to prevent the waste of subterranean waters in Santa Clara and Los Angeles Counties," approved March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and all other Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. [8.] This Act shall not apply to artesian wells in the County of San Bernardino. SEC. 9. This Act shall take effect and be in force on and after the first day of July, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. CHAP. CLIV.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] Amount of CHAP. CLV.-An Act to fix the amount of the bond of the Tax [Approved March 9, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The bond of the Tax Collector or ex officio bond fixed. Tax Collector of Marin County shall be fixed from time to time by the Board of Supervisors of said county in such sum as the Board may deem necessary; provided, that such bond shall not be fixed in a less sum than fifty thousand dollars, nor in a greater sum than one hundred thousand dollars. Duty of SEC. 2. The Board of Supervisors of Marin County shall, at their next regular meeting after the passage of this Act, make an order fixing the amount of the bond of the Tax Collector of said county, and the Tax Collector of said county shall, within thirty days after said order, give a bond in the sum fixed by the Board of Supervisors of said county, with sufficient sureties, and approved by the proper officers of Marin County, as provided by law. SEC. 3. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, so far as they apply to the County of Marin. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CLVI.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] CHAP. CLVII.-An Act legalizing the State and county tax and assessments in the County of Nevada, in eighteen hundred and seventy-seven and eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. [Approved March 9, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. No irregularity, informality, or error in the Assessment description of the property, or other informality in the legalized. assessment for State and county taxes made by the Assessor in the County of Nevada, for the years eighteen hundred and seventy-seven and eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, if it can be ascertained by competent evidence what is intended, shall invalidate such assessment, but the same, notwithstanding such informality, irregularity, or errors, are hereby made good and valid, and the acts of the County Board of Equalization of said Nevada County in raising or reducing any and all of such assessments for said years are hereby ratified and confirmed. Collector. SEC. 2. The Tax Collector of the County of Nevada must, Duty of immediately after the passage of this Act, pay into the county treasury of said county all moneys paid to him under protest, to be immediately apportioned to the State and county according to law. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. CLVIII.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] CHAP. CLIX.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] CHAP. CLX.—An Act regulating the powers of the Boards of [Approved March 9, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Boards of Supervisors of the County of Employ Placer shall not have the power to employ any attorney or counsel to prosecute or defend any action or proceeding in ment of attorney. which the county is a party or interested, without the written consent of the District Attorney. SEC. 2. All Acts and parts of Acts, so far as they conflict with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Outstanding warrants, how funded. Bonds prepared. Presenta tion warrants. Bonds issued. CHAP. CLXI.-An Act to fund certain indebtedness of Tulare County. [Approved March 9, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the County of Tulare are hereby authorized to fund all outstanding warrants legally drawn prior to November the twenty-ninth, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, on the Treasurer thereof, payable out of the Road Fund of said county, by issuing bonds in payment thereof, payable in fif teen years from the first day of January, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, bearing interest at the rate of seven per cent. per annum, payable annually on the first day of January in each year. SEC. 2. Within sixty days after the passage of this Act the Board of Supervisors of said county shall cause bonds for said warrants to be prepared of the denomination of five hundred dollars each. Every holder of county road warWar of road rants legally drawn prior to the twenty-ninth day of November, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, may present the same to said Board of Supervisors within six months from the passage of this Act, in order that the same be canceled, and bonds to the amount of such warrants, with interest thereon, issued in lieu thereof to the holder. It shall be the duty of said Board of Supervisors to issue bonds for said warrants; said bonds to be styled Tulare County Road Fund Bonds, and shall be signed by the Chairman and Clerk of said Board of Supervisors, and countersigned by the Auditor and stamped with the seal of his office. Said bonds shall also have coupons attached for the interest. The first coupon shall be for the interest accrued up to the first day of January, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and the others for one year's interest each thereafter, consecutively numbered, and bear on its face the number of its bond, the date when it will be due, and the amount of interest to be paid, and shall be signed in like manner as the bonds. The warrants for which bonds shall be issued shall be canceled immediately after issuing bonds therefor. Cancella tion. Interest tax levied. SEC. 3. For the purpose of paying the interest on the bonds, the Board of Supervisors shall, at the time of levying the State and county taxes for each year, levy a special tax on all taxable property in the county sufficient to pay the interest on all bonds then outstanding as the same shall fall due. The tax thus levied shall be assessed and collected as other county taxes are, and set apart as a special fund, to be known as the Road Bond Interest Fund, and out of this fund the coupons on the bonds shall be paid as they become due and payable. SEC. 4. All bonds issued under the provisions of this Act shall bear the date of their issuance, numbered one and upwards, consecutively, and may be paid by said county at any time after ten years from the first day of January, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, in the manner hereinafter provided. SEC. 5. In and for the year eighteen hundred and eighty- Redemption nine, and each year thereafter until the whole of the bonds tax. are paid, the Board of Supervisors shall levy and cause to be collected a special tax sufficient to pay twenty per cent. of the whole issue of the bonds herein provided for; and the tax thus levied and collected shall be set apart as a special fund, to be known as the Road Bond Redemption Fund, and used exclusively for the payment of said bonds. SEC. 6. The Clerk of the Board of Supervisors and the County Auditor and Treasurer shall each keep a register of all bonds issued under the provisions of this Act, showing the number and denomination of said bonds, the date of their issue, and to whom issued. made. SEC. 7. The bonds provided for in this Act shall be paid Payment of in the order of their number, and all coupons and bonds, bonds, how when paid by the Treasurer, shall be canceled and returned to the Auditor in the same manner that county warrants are. SEC. 8. The bonds and coupons shall be made payable at the Treasurer's office of Tulare County. advertise. SEC. 9. Whenever there is money in the treasury to pay Treasurer to any of the bonds, as provided for in section five of this Act, the Treasurer shall advertise in some newspaper published in said county that he is ready to pay certain bonds, designating them by number. Said notice shall be for four weeks, and if the bonds described in said notice is not presented for payment within sixty days from the first publication of such notice the interest thereon shall cease. SEC. 10. All necessary expenses attending the printing Expenses, and preparation of the bonds provided for in this Act shall how paid. be paid out of the old Road Fund, if there is a sufficient amount in said fund, if not, then the balance may be paid out of the County General Fund of said county. SEC. 11. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Publication ments. CHAP. CLXII.-An Act to define the powers of the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, with reference to contracts. [Approved March 9, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Advertisements published by order of the of advertise Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, calling for bids, shall be published in three daily papers (including the official paper), for a period not less than five days. All bids shall be received under such guarantees, or deposits of money, and subject to such conditions as the Board of Supervisors may prescribe. SEC. 2. Contracts shall be awarded to the lowest bidder. SEC. 3. If, for any cause, the said Board of Supervisors reject the lowest bid, the said Board shall re-advertise for proposals de novo. SEC. 4. This Act to take effect on the sixtieth day after its passage. CHAP. CLXIII.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] CHAP. CLXIV.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] CHAP. CLXV.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] CHAP. CLXVI.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] CHAP. CLXVII.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] |