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SEC. 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage..

Salary of
Assessor.

CHAP. CCXII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to fix the compensation of the Assessor of Inyo County, approved February twenty-eighth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy

six.

[Approved March 14, 1878.]

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

SECTION 1. Section first of said Act is hereby amended soas to read as follows: Section 1. The salary of the Assessor of Inyo County shall be twelve hundred dollars per annum,. and shall be paid as follows: six hundred dollars on the first Monday in May, and six hundred dollars on the first Monday of August of each year.

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

Fees of office.

CHAP. CCXIII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act concerning county officers of Lake County, and to regulate the fees and salaries thereof, approved March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six.

[Approved March 14, 1878.]

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

SECTION 1. Section ten of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 10. All officers mentioned in this Act who are authorized to collect fees shall, before performing any service for which they are required by this Act to charge and collect any fees, shall demand and collect from the party requiring such service the amount of fees they are required to charge and collect, and in case the exact amount of said fees cannot be ascertained before the performance of the service, they shall demand and receive from such party such reasonable amount, as a deposit, as in their judgment shall be sufficient to cover the amount of said fees; provided, that no fees shall be demanded in advance for any services rendered Lake County, nor for any services rendered executors or administrators of the estates of deceased persons, nor for any services rendered guardians of the persons or estates Duty of Pro- of minors or incompetent persons; provided further, it shall bate Clerk. be the duty of the Probate Clerk to keep an account of all services rendered executors, administrators, or guardians,

and collect all fees therefor as provided for by the probate laws of this State, and to pay the same into the county treasury.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately.

CHAP. CCXIV.-An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors
of San Diego County to transfer certain funds of said county.
[Approved March 14, 1878.]

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

funds.

SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the County of Application San Diego are hereby authorized and empowered, whenever of surplus they may deem it for the best interest of the county so to do, to apply any surplus funds there may be in the Hospital Fund of said county to the payment of the incidental expenses of the Court-house and Jail of said county.

certain

moneys.

SEC. 2. The Board of Supervisors of said County of San Transfer of Diego are hereby authorized and empowered, whenever they may deem it for the best interest of said county so to do, to order the transfer of the Swamp Land Fund of said county to the Contingent Fund thereof, which said transfer of said. Swamp Land Fund to said Contingent Fund shall be deemed a loan from the said Swamp Land Fund to the Contingent Fund of said county.

SEC. 3. Whenever it shall become necessary to repay the Repayment amount so loaned from the said Swamp Land Fund to the of loan. said Contingent Fund, the said Board of Supervisors shall cause a warrant to be drawn upon said Contingent Fund for the amount so loaned, and said warrant shall be a preferred claim upon said Contingent Fund over and above all warrants outstanding against said fund, and shall be paid out of the first money or moneys received in said Contingent Fund. SEC. 4. This Act to be in force from and after its passage.

CHAP. CCXV.-An Act authorizing the Board of Supervisors of the County of Stanislaus to provide means for the payment of certain indebtedness of said county.

[Approved March 14, 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 Issuance of Stanislaus is hereby authorized to issue the bonds of said bonds.

tion.

county for a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, payable in twelve years, in manner as follows: Ten per centum of the total amount issued on the second Monday in January of each year from and after the second year after their issuance. Said bonds shall bear interest from the date of their issuance at the rate of eight per centum per annum, interest payable semi-annually on the second Mondays of January and July in each year after their issuance. The principal and interest of said bonds shall be payable in United States gold coin, at the office of the County Treasurer of Denomina said county. Said bonds must be issued in denominations of five hundred dollars each; they must be numbered consecutively, and signed by the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of said Stanislaus County, and by the Auditor and Treasurer of said county. Each of said bonds must have attached thereto coupons for the interest to grow due thereon. Each of said coupons must be numbered consecutively, and signed in the same manner as the bond; and each coupon must represent the full semi-annual interest, except the first, which must represent the interest to accrue upon said bond from the date of its issuance until the next following pay-day. The Clerk of the Board, the County Auditor, and County Treasurer of said county, must each keep a list of said bonds showing the amount of bonds issued, their number, the date of their issuance, and the person to whom issued; which list, during office hours, shall be open to the inspection of the public. Said bonds, from the time of their issuance and until they are paid, herein provided, shall constitute a lien upon all property in said county. SEC. 2. The principal and interest to grow due on said bonds shall be paid out of the Road Fund of said county; how made. and the Board of Supervisors in estimating the amount of taxes to be levied for road purposes, in each year, shall take into consideration the amount necessary to make the payment herein before required, and add the amount to the sum estimated as being necessary to meet the current demands upon said fund, and establish the tax at a rate sufficient to raise such aggregate sum.

Certain officers to keep list of bonds.

Payment of principal and interest;

Sale of bonds.

SEC. 3. The Board of Supervisors of said county are hereby authorized to sell said bonds for gold coin to the highest bidder, after advertising for at least twenty days in one newspaper published in said county, and in one daily newspaper in the City of San Francisco, for sealed proposals to purchase such bonds. The Board, in such advertisement, may reserve the right to reject any or all bids which in its judgment may be too low in price; and provided, that none of said bonds, under any circumstances, shall be sold at less than par.

SEC. 4. The money derived from the sale of bonds shall be paid into the county treasury and credited to the County Road Fund.

SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage.

CHAP. CCXVI.-An Act to ratify and validate a certain contract of the City and County of San Francisco.

[Approved March 13, 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 City and Resolution County of San Francisco having, on the seventh day of Feb- published. ruary, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-six, duly passed a resolution known and numbered resolution number 8326 (new series), of which the following is a copy, to wit: Resolution No. 8326 (new series). Resolved, That the Committee on Water and Water Supplies be and is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into a contract with John F. Swift, Esq., to act as special counsel for this city and county, in defending suits brought by the Spring Valley Water-works for payment of demands and claims for water furnished and to be furnished for municipal purposes, and in all litigation to determine the right of the city and county to the free use of water for all municipal purposes; conditioned, that the sum of $5,000 shall be paid as a retainer for his services, and that fifteen per cent. on the first $100,000 saved the city and county, and ten per cent. upon all other sums saved, shall be paid for his services to be rendered in said litigation; provided, that in no event shall such compensation in the aggregate exceed the sum of $25,000; also provided, that no payments shall be made until said contract is first approved and ratified by the Legislature of this State. And the Clerk is hereby directed to advertise this resolution as required by law. In Board of Supervisors, San Francisco, Feb. 7th, 1876, adopted by the following vote: Ayes-Supervisors Drucker, Edwards, Bryan, Wise, Shine, Hayes, Strother, Boyce, Roberts, Gibbs, McDonald. Excused from voting-Supervisor Eaton. John A. Russell, Clerk. And the Committee on Water and Water Supplies of said Board of Supervisors having afterwards, to wit, on the 12th day of February, 1876, acting for said city and county, in pursuance of said Resolution No. 8326 (new series), duly entered into a contract with said John F. Swift, Esq., whereby the said Swift agreed to act as special counsel for the City and County of San Francisco in defending suits brought by the Spring Valley Waterworks against said city and county for payment of demands. and claims for water for municipal purposes, and in all liti gation to determine the right of said city and county to the free use of water from said water company for all municipal purposes, and said Committee on Water and Water Supplies, acting for said city and county, having duly agreed that said city and county should pay said Swift for his said services the compensation provided for in said resolution, and the said Swift having performed the services agreed to by him in his said contract, thereby saving directly to said city and county more than three hundred and fifty thousand dollars up to this date, besides securing the right to said city from said

Contracts ratified.

Payment of claim

company of receiving free water for municipal purposes, for which services he has not been paid, in whole or in part, and cannot be paid until said contract is ratified and confirmed by the Legislature of the State; it is hereby enacted and provided, that said Resolution No. 8326 (new series), and the said contracts are and each of them is hereby ratified, confirmed, and rendered valid and binding upon said City and County of San Francisco, and said Board of Supervisors are authorized. hereby authorized and directed to allow and pay out of the General Fund of said city and county, to said John F. Swift, the money named in said resolution and contract, as the same shall become payable according to the terms of said contract, amounting in the aggregate to twenty-five thousand dollars, U. S. gold coin, and no more. And the Auditor of said city and county shall audit the same upon said fund, and the Treasurer shall upon presentation pay the same in gold coin out of said fund; provided, that nothing herein shall be construed to allow said John F. Swift to receive any part of the percentage compensation provided for in said contract until the Supreme Court shall have finally decided in favor of the city the suit under which the same shall be claimed.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately.

Appropria

tion authorized.

CHAP. CCXVII.-An Act for the relief of John A. Odell.
[Approved March 14, 1878.]

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

SECTION 1. The sum of thirteen hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, in the Folsom Branch State Prison Fund, to pay the claim of John A. Odell for services rendered as Superintendent of the Branch State Prison at Folsom, during the years one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six and one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.

SEC. 2. The Controller of State is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant in favor of said John A. Odell for the said sum of thirteen hundred dollars, and the Treasurer of State is hereby directed to pay the same.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect immediately.

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