Page images
PDF
EPUB

Overseer to prepare statement.

tion.

drawn on the proper Road Fund by order of the Board of Supervisors.

SEC. 14. On or before the first Mondays of February and August, in each year, each Supervisor or Deputy Road Overseer shall prepare a full statement of the labor performed in his district, the tools, teams, implements, or materials hired or purchased, the amount of money paid out, to whom, and for what paid; also the amount and number of days' service by him actually performed in the discharge of his official duties, when, where, the character of the work, and that the same was actually necessary, all of which particulars shall Compensa be verified by his oath. Said Supervisors, when acting as Road Overseers, and said deputy, shall be allowed, for all services performed in the discharge of their duties, when necessarily performed, a sum not exceeding three dollars per day, as the Board may allow; but said Supervisor and said deputy shall not receive payment for services performed in the same parts of a district. The Supervisors, severally, shall have charge of and be responsible for all tools and implements purchased for or belonging to his district, and his statement shall embrace an inventory of the same, a duplicate of which, together with all such tools, utensils, and other property, he shall deliver to his successor, or to some person designated by the Board of Supervisors to receive them.

Demands

against

SEC. 15. No demand against any Road Funds shall be Road Funds, allowed, except on special contract, and according to the terms thereof, except at said regular meetings of the Board in February and August of each year, nor then allowed to said Supervisor or Deputy Road Overseer unless said semiannual reports hereinbefore provided for shall have been presented by them and approved by the Board of Supervisors.

Duty of Auditor.

Duty of Tax Collector.

SEC. 16. It shall be the duty of the Auditor, in preparing the duplicate assessment lists provided for by law, to provide a separate column in which shall be carried out the road poll tax as provided in said original roll.

SEC. 17. It shall be the duty of each Tax Collector and Treasurer to keep their books in such a manner as to show how much in each and every separate Road Fund is on hand; and the Treasurer shall pay all road moneys out upon warrants drawn upon the proper Road Fund, by order of the Board of Supervisors, and in no other manner. All road taxes now due or levied under any other law shall be collected and disposed of under the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 18. The provisions of this Act shall not authorize the collection of any road poll taxes from the inhabitants of any incorporated city or town in said San Benito County.

SEC. 19. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed so far as they affect the County of San Benito.

SEC. 20. This Act shall be in force and take effect from and after its passage.

CHAP. CCXXVI.-An Act amendatory to an Act entitled an Act to provide for the maintenance and construction of roads and highways in the County of Mariposa, approved March thirtyfirst, eighteen hundred and seventy-six.

[Approved March 16, 1878.]

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

SECTION 1. Section six of said Act is amended so as to Duty of read as follows: Section 6. It shall be the duty of the Board Supervisors. of Supervisors of said county, at their regular meeting in August, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and on each regular meeting in the month of August of each subsequent year, to advertise for bids for the keeping of the roads of the various road districts in good and efficient repair for the. period of three years from the time of the awarding of such contract. Each bid shall be accompanied by two sureties for the faithful performance of the contract, subject to the approval of the said Board of Supervisors. Such bids or Advertiseproposals shall be advertised by the Board of Supervisors in ment. some paper published in Mariposa County, for the period of thirty days, and such advertisement shall clearly designate the roads for which contracts are to be given. At the next Opening regular meeting of the said Board of Supervisors, in Novem- of bids." ber following, the said Board shall proceed to open the bids, and shall award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder; "provided," that the Board shall have the right to reject any and all bids if, in their judgment, they are too high; in which case, in any road district or districts when no bid has been made, or when any or all bids have been rejected, the Board shall appoint some suitable person to do the requisite work, or supervise this performance, at a salary of three dollars per diem for such time as he is actually engaged in said labor, and the Board may authorize the employment of such assistance as in their judgment they may deem necessary.

Assessor.

SEC. 2. Section ten shall be amended so as to read as fol- Power lows: Section 10. The Assessor of Mariposa County is conferred on hereby authorized and empowered to act as the Road Poll Tax Collector for said county. He shall receive as compensation fifteen per cent. on the amount collected.

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

Terms of

Court.

CHAP. CCXXVII.—An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to create the Twenty-first Judicial District, approved February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six," by changing the dates of holding terms of Court in said district.

[Approved March 16, 1878.]

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

SECTION 1. Section three of an Act entitled an Act to
create the Twenty-first Judicial District, approved Febru-
ary fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, is hereby
amended so as to read as follows: Section 3. In the Twenty-
first Judicial District the terms of the District Court shall
be held as follows: In the County of Modoc, on the first
Monday of May, August, and November; in the County of
Lassen, on the third Monday of May, August, and Novem-
ber; in the County of Plumas, on the second Monday of
March, first Monday of June, September, and December.
SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its pas-
sage.

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

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

Extension

of time granted.

CHAP. CCXXX.-An Act granting certain privileges to the
North Beach and Mission Railroad Company.

[Approved March 16, 1878.]

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

SECTION 1. The time for the North Beach and Mission Railroad Company, the assignee of the franchises hereinafter mentioned, to lay and complete the several railroads which it is authorized to construct, equip, and maintain, in the City and County of San Francisco, under the franchises granted by the Acts entitled as follows: An Act to provide for street railroads within the City and County of San Francisco, approved April the seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one; and an Act to grant to certain persons the right of way for a railroad track within the corporate limits

of the City and County of San Francisco, and to run horse cars thereon, approved April the seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one; and by the several Acts amendatory of and supplementary to said Acts and each of them, is hereby extended for a further period of two years; provided, the extension of time hereby granted shall not be construed to impair the rights of any other street railroad franchise heretofore granted.

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

CHAP. CCXXXI.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the location, construction, and maintenance of public roads in the County of Nevada," approved March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two.

[Approved March 16, 1878.]

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

Commis

SECTION 1. Section three of said Act is hereby amended Duty of to read as follows: Section 3. Each Commissioner in his sioner. district, in September, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and every two years thereafter, shall lay off and divide the public roads by sections, which he shall number in a book to be called a Road Book. He shall distinctly specify therein what he shall deem necessary for the improvement and keeping in good repair the public roads and highways; and when the Commissioners shall have so laid off the roads, as aforesaid, he shall submit his report to the Board of Supervisors on the first day of their regular session in October, a majority of whom shall have power to modify or amend, and who shall give their written assent to the report so amended or modified, which shall be the warrant of the Road Commissioner, and his guide in the performance of his duties; and the Road Commissioner shall, within ten days thereafter, give public notice for at least one week by publication in the newspaper having the contract for doing the county printing, or by posting of notices in the township where such work is to be done, or by both such publication and posting, as the Road Commissioner of each district may determine, in which notice shall be designated the time and place for the inhabitants of the county to meet in their respective townships at the principal town in the township designated by the Commissioner in the notice aforesaid, at which time and place it shall be the duty of said Commissioner to attend and sell out at public sale, for the term of two years, each section or subdivision of said public road, lying within said township, to the lowest bidder; but the Commissioner shall have power to refuse such bid if he shall deem the same too high; and if any section shall remain unsold on account of no bid having been made for the same, it shall be lawful for the said

Commissioner thereafter to let out such section or sections at private contract; provided, that the said Commissioner shall not be directly or indirectly interested in taking or keeping in repair any section or sections so let out as aforesaid; and provided also, that not more than the yearly proportion of such purchase or contract shall be paid in any one year; and be it further provided, that no Commissioner shall sell, by public or private contract, any section or sections of the public highways for a longer term than two years.

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

Appropria

tions authorized.

CHAP. CCXXXII.-An Act to increase the appropriation for the support of the Hospital and Alms-house in the City and County of San Francisco, etc.

[Approved March 16, 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 County of San Francisco are hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate, allow, and order paid out of the General Fund the several sums of money hereinafter mentioned, to wit:

First-To expend a sum not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars per month for the support, care, and maintenance of such persons as may be admitted to the City and County Hospital and Alms-house, which shall be in lieu of all sums now authorized by law to be expended for such purposes.

Second-To allow and order paid out of the General Fund a sum or sums, not to exceed in the aggregate fifteen thousand dollars, for the purpose of paying demands for hospital and alms-house purposes which may be allowed in excess of the present appropriation for said purposes during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven-seventyeight.

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

« PreviousContinue »