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

Taxes applied under

CHAP. XIX.-An Act supplemental to an Act entitled an Act to provide for the maintenance of the indigent sick of Siskiyou County, approved April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.

[Approved January 22, 1878.]

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

SECTION 1. All taxes levied and collected for the maindirection of tenance of the indigent sick and hospital purposes of SiskiSupervisors. you County, in that portion of Siskiyou County which was

Duties of Tax Collector.

Separate

Hospital
Fund.

acquired from the former County of Klamath, shall, when collected, be applied solely under the direction and in the discretion of the Board of Supervisors of said county, and may be disbursed within such territory to the maintenance of the resident indigent sick of said portion of Siskiyou County.

SEC. 2. The Tax Collector shall keep a separate account of all such taxes collected, and report the amount to the County Auditor and County Treasurer when the same is paid into the county treasury.

SEC. 3. All such taxes when collected shall be set apart by the County Auditor and County Treasurer for and constitute a separate Hospital Fund to be called the Klamath Hospital Fund, which shall be used solely for the resident indigent sick of said portion of Siskiyou County named in section one.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect immediately.

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

Trustees to

draw order

CHAP. XXI.-An Act to authorize the County Treasurer of El Dorado County to pay Edward Hunt the sum of two hundred dollars out of the School Fund of said county.

[Approved January 22, 1878.]

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

SECTION 1. The Trustees of Cold Spring School District, on County County of El Dorado, are hereby authorized to draw their order on the County Superintendent of Schools of El Dorado

Superin

tendent.

County for the sum of two hundred dollars, in favor of Edward Hunt, for the purpose of paying said Hunt for teaching school in said district during the months of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and January and February, eighteen hundred and seventy-six.

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SEC. 2. The County Superintendent of El Dorado County, County on the receipt of the order mentioned in section one, shall draw Superina warrant upon the County Treasurer of El Dorado County, draw order against the School Fund of said Cold Springs School District, urer. to pay said sum of two hundred dollars to said Edward Hunt. SEC. 3. The County Treasurer of El Dorado County is hereby authorized to pay said warrant mentioned in section two.

SEC. 4.

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

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

CHAP. XXIII.-An Act to legalize the incorporation of the Town of Anaheim.

[Approved January 22, 1878.]

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

SECTION 1. The incorporation of the Town of Anaheim, Acts dein the County of Los Angeles, in accordance with an order clared valid. of the Board of Supervisors of said Los Angeles County, made at a regular session of the said Board, began and held at the Court-house in Los Angeles, on the sixth day of December, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-six, the same order or decree having been made by virtue of an Act of the Legislature of the State of California, passed on the nineteenth day of April, A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty-six, is hereby declared a valid and legal incorporation, and all acts done, elections held, and taxes levied by virtue of said order or decree, are hereby declared of full force and effect.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately.

Supervisors

to erect

buildings.

Power of

to make contracts.

CHAP. XXIV.-An Act to provide for the purchase of a site and the erection of a Court-house and Jail thereon in the County of Monterey.

[Approved January 22, 1878.]

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

SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the County of Monterey are hereby authorized and required to erect a County Court-house and Jail in Salinas City, in said county, and in their discretion to purchase a site whereon to erect it, furnish said building, and grade and otherwise improve said site.

SEC. 2. The said Board of Supervisors may, with or withSupervisors out advertisement, etc., adopt plans and specifications of and for said Court-house and Jail, and shall have power and authority to do and perform all acts and things which may be necessary or requisite to fully carry out the provisions and objects of this Act; and so much of any law as is contrary to the provisions of this section is hereby repealed; provided, that contracts for the erection of said Court-house and Jail shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder in the manner provided by law; and provided further, that said Board shall have power to reject any and all bids.

Supervisors to invite sealed proposals.

Requirements.

Awarding of

contract.

Bond of contractor.

SEC. 3. The said Board of Supervisors, after they shall have adopted plans and specifications for said Court-house and Jail, shall deposit the same with the Clerk of said Board for the inspection of builders, and shall cause to be published for at least thirty days, in two newspapers, one published in Monterey County, and one in the City and County of San Francisco, an advertisement, inviting sealed proposals for the erection and construction of said Court-house and Jail, and requiring said bids to be accompanied by a certified check in favor of Monterey County, payable to the order of the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, for five per cent. of the amount of the respective bids, as security that the person or persons so bidding will, if said contract is awarded to him or them at the price so bid, within twenty days after said contract shall be so awarded, enter into a written contract with said county for the construction of said buildings, and will, at the same time, secure the performance of said contract by a good and sufficient bond, in the sum of forty thousand dollars, with two or more sureties, to be approved by said Board of Supervisors.

SEC. 4. Within one week after the expiration of the time. stated in said advertisement for the reception of said bids, said Board of Supervisors shall meet to open and consider said bids, and shall in public open, declare the same, and award said contract to the lowest responsible bidder, who shall execute the contract and file the bond, as hereinafter required; provided, that said Board shall have power to reject any and all bids.

SEC. 5. The person or persons to whom said contract shall be so awarded, shall, within twenty days from the date of such

award, execute and file with the Clerk of said Board of Supervisors a contract and a bond in the sum of forty thousand dollars, with two or more sureties, to be accepted and approved by said Board, conditioned to the effect that said contractor will well and truly, and in a workmanlike manner, cause the Court-house and Jail to be constructed in accordance with said plans and specifications of said contract, and completed and delivered in one year from the date of said contract. If the bidder to whom said contract is awarded fails to execute said contract and bond and deliver the same as aforesaid, the said Board of Supervisors may, in their discretion, award said contract to the next lowest bidder or re-advertise for bids.

to employ

contract.

SEC. 6. Said Board of Supervisors are hereby authorized Supervisors to employ some suitable attorney-at-law to draw up the con- attorney to tract and bond mentioned in the preceding section, which draw up contract, among other things, must provide that no more than seventy-five per cent. of the contract price shall be paid as the work progresses, and that the remainder thereof shall be held and retained as additional security for the performance of said contract, and shall not become due or be paid until said buildings are fully completed and accepted by the said Board of Supervisors by an order entered upon their minutes.

not subject

to lien.

SEC. 7. Neither the buildings, etc., constructed under the Buildings provisions of this Act, nor the lands upon which the same are situated, shall be subject to the lien of any contractor, sub-contractor, mechanic, laborer, lumber man, or any other person, for any labor, lumber, materials, or other thing done or furnished in and about the construction of said Court-house, etc., and the person or persons performing such labor or furnishing said materials shall be conclusively presumed to have had full notice of this provision, and to have agreed to waive any right or claim to any lien which they might otherwise have been entitled to.

bonds.

SEC. 8. For the purpose of providing means for the erec- Supervisors tion and construction of said Court-house and Jail, furnish- to issue ing the same, grading and otherwise improving said site, etc., the Board of Supervisors of Monterey County are hereby authorized and empowered to have prepared, and to issue at one time, or from time to time, the bonds of said county to be known as "Court-house and Jail Bonds," to such an amount, not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of sixty thousand dollars, as said Supervisors may deem necessary and proper, pledging the faith of said county that on or before the first day of January A. D., one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, it will pay, in gold coin of the United States, at the office of its Treasurer in said county, a sum of money to be therein stated, which shall be one hundred dollars or some multiple thereof, and that it will also, on the first day of January of each year, at said office, pay interest thereon in like gold coin at the rate of seven per cent. per annum, upon the delivery to said Treasurer of the coupon for the interest then due, and each of said bonds shall contain a clause reserving to the county the right to

Who to prepare said

how.

pay said bond at its option at any time after the expiration of ten years from its date, and that the interest thereon shall cease after the expiration of sixty days from the publication of a notice in a newspaper in Salinas City, and one in the City of San Francisco, that the county is prepared to and will pay the bond; provided, that said notice shall not be given until after the expiration of said ten years.

SEC. 9. That said bonds shall be prepared by the Clerk of bonds, and the Board of Supervisors of said county, and shall be numbered consecutively, and be numbered, recorded, and signed by him, and shall then be signed by the Chairman of said Board of Supervisors and authenticated by the seal of the County Court of said county, and shall be then registered by the Auditor and Treasurer of said county, such register showing the number, date, and amount of each bond, and to whom it was issued. Each bond shall have attached to it coupons for the annual interest. Each of said coupons bearing the number of its bond, the date when said coupon will be due, the amount to be paid, and the number of its series, in the order of becoming due, making the coupons first due number one; said coupons must be signed by the Treasurer of said county.

The Court

house and Jail Fund, how provided for.

SEC. 10. The bonds hereby authorized and directed to be issued shall be issued from time to time, as may be deemed proper, as the same may be required to pay for the materials furnished, work done, etc., etc., in and about said Courthouse and Jail; said bonds shall be sold under the direction. of the Board of Supervisors of said county, for gold coin, to the person or persons who will pay the highest price therefor; provided, said price shall not be less than ninety-six cents on the dollar; and the purchaser whose bid shall be accepted shall pay into the county treasury, within ten days from the date of the award to him or them, the amount so bid by him or them, and the Treasurer shall receipt for the same, and set apart the money so received in a fund, which shall be known as the "Court-house and Jail Fund." Upon the delivery of said receipts to the Clerk of the said Board of Supervisors, the said purchaser or purchasers shall be entitled to receive the bond or bonds purchased by him or them. Said Clerk shall file said receipt, and copy the same into the record required to be kept by him of said bonds, and shall date and deliver said bonds; provided, however, that said bonds shall not be sold until after said Board of Supervisors shall have given at least thirty days' notice in three newspapers, one published in Salinas City, and two published in the City and County of San Francisco, of the time and place when and where the bids will be received and opened, and the terms and conditions that must accompany said bids, and no bid shall be considered unless accompanied by a certified check in favor of Monterey County, and payable to the order of the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, for at least ten per cent. of the total amount bid; and provided further, that said Supervisors shall have the right to reject the whole or any part of the bids received.

SEC. 11. At any time after the passage of this Act the said.

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