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CHAP. CCXLVII.-An Act authorizing the Mayor and Common Council of the City of San José to establish and provide for the maintenance of a Board of Health.

[Approved March 16, 1878.]

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

SECTION 1. The Mayor and Common Council of the City of San José may establish, by ordinance, a Board of Health therefor, to consist of five regular practising physicians, graduates of a medical college of recognized respectability. SEC. 2. The members of the Board hold their offices at the pleasure of the appointing power.

SEC. 3. The Board of Health of the City of San José has a general supervision of all the matters appertaining to the sanitary condition of the city, and make such rules and regulations in relation thereto as are not inconsistent with law.

SEC. 4. The Mayor is ex officio President of the Board. The Board must meet monthly, and at such other times as the President may direct. In the absence of the President, the Board may elect a Chairman who is clothed with the same power as the President.

SEC. 5. The Health Officer for the City of San José is elected by the Board of Health, and holds office at its pleas

He must be a graduate of some medical college in good standing, and must reside within the City of San José.

SEC. 6. The Health Officer may perform all acts which Quarantine Officers are usually authorized to perform, and he is the executive officer of the Board of Health.

SEC. 7. The Board of Health may locate and establish pest houses, and cause to be removed thereto and kept any person having a contagious or infectious disease, may discontinue or remove the same, and make such rules and regulations regarding the conduct of the same as are needful.

SEC. 8. The Board of Health must exercise a general supervision over the death records of the City of San José, and may adopt such forms and regulations for the use and government of physicians and undertakers and superintendents of cemeteries, as in their judgment may be best calculated to secure reliable statistics in the mortality in the city, and prevent the spread of disease.

SEC. 9. The Mayor and Common Council of the City of San José must, by ordinance or otherwise, provide for enforcing such orders and regulations as the Board of Health may, from time to time, adopt.

SEC. 10. All expenses necessarily incurred in carrying out the provisions of this article must be provided for by the Mayor and Common Council of the City of San José, who may make appropriation therefor out of the Special Street Fund if the same is sufficient; if not they may by taxation. provide a fund therefor.

SEC. 11. The Mayor and Common Council must fix the compensation of the Board of Health and the Health Officer.

CHAP. CCXLVIII.-An Act respecting the Hospital of the
County of Placer.

[Approved March 16, 1878.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

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SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the County of Provision Placer shall, within three months after the passage of this certain si Act, provide suitable accommodations at or in the hospital persons. of their county, or elswhere within or near the Town of Auburn, for indigent sick or otherwise dependent poor women of their county, and shall thereafter admit such women to their hospital, or to such other buildings or accommodations as may be provided for such purpose by said Board of Supervisors upon affidavit, or other proof satisfactory to the Clerk of the Board, of such indigent sickness or dependent poverty; and in order to carry this Act into effect, said Board of Supervisors are by this Act authorized, and it is made their duty, to levy all necessary taxes therefor, which taxes shall be levied in all respects as provided in Section 4046 of the Political Code, and collected as other taxes; and in the meantime, and until such accommodations shall have been provided, said Board shall order warrants drawn upon the "Hospital Fund" of their county, and in favor of such women as shall be reasonably necessary for their maintenance.

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

CHAP. CCXLIX.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Town of Martinez and to provide for the government thereof," approved April first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six.

[Appoved March 16, 1878.]

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

SECTION 1. Section two of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 2. The corporate limits of the Town of Martinez shall be as follows, viz.: Beginning at a Boundaries point three hundred feet due north of the point where the defined. fence dividing the lands of J. P. Jones and L. I. Fish touches the Straits of Carquinez; thence southwardly to and along said fence and continuing the same course to the line of the Homestead Tract of H. Bush; thence westwardly along the north line of Bush's Homestead Tract to the Arroyo del Ambre; thence southwardly along said arroyo to the center of G Street; thence westwardly along G Street to the western

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boundary of the Town of Martinez, as officially surveyed; thence northwardly following the westwardly boundary of the town plat [to] the northwest corner of block number twenty-six; thence in a northwestwardly direction and in a direct line to the southwest corner of block number one, half in the original survey of said town, and continuing in the same direction to a point in line with the present fence of William A. Piper on the line of the Rancho Cañada del Ambre; thence due north to a point in the Straits of Carquinez three hundred feet north of high water-mark; thence eastwardly by a line parallel with the railroad track to the place of beginning; provided, that this Act shall in no manner affect the title to real property below high water-mark. SEC. 2. Section seven of said Act is amended so as to read as follows: Section 7. The Board of Trustees shall have power to make such by-laws and pass such ordinances, not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States and of this State, as they may deem necessary; to preserve order; to prevent and remove all nuisances detrimental to health and comfort; to prevent horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, or goats from running at large in the streets or upon the inclosed grounds in said town; to protect property in the town from fire, and to appropriate money from the funds of the town for the purchase of hooks, ladders, buckets, axes, and other apparatus necessary to be used in extinguishing fires; and to punish the violation of any ordinance, passed pursuant to this section, by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.

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

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

This Act also regulates certain Acts in relation to the terms of the County and Probate Courts of certain counties.

Repeal.

CHAP. CCLI.-An Act to repeal an Act entitled "An Act to protect the public roads in Santa Clara County.'

[Approved March 18, 1878.]

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

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SECTION 1. The Act entitled " An Act to protect the public roads in Santa Clara County," approved March thirteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, is hereby repealed.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately upon its passage and approval.

CHAP. CCLII.-An Act to regulate the registration of voters, and to secure the purity of elections in the City and County of San Francisco.

[Approved March 18, 1878.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

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SECTION 1. The conduct, management, and control of Control of elections and matters pertaining to elections in the City and elections County of San Francisco is hereby taken from the Board of Supervisors and vested in a Board of five Commissioners, who shall consist of the Mayor, the Auditor, the Tax Collector, the City and County Attorney, and the City and County Surveyor of said city and county, which Board is hereby invested with all the powers, and charged with all the duties as to elections and matters pertaining to elections. now vested in said Board of Supervisors. The Mayor shall be ex officio President of the Board of Election Commissioners, and the Registrar of Voters hereafter provided for shall be ex officio Secretary of said Board, and shall give advice and information to said Board when required by them so to do. Said Board shall meet and organize within twenty days after the passage of this Act, or sooner if practicable.

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SEC. 2. The Board of Election Commissioners shall, as Election soon after each general election as convenient (not to exceed precincts ninety days), proceed to divide said city and county into election precincts, of which there shall be so many as shall be sufficient to make the number of votes polled at any one election precinct to be not more than three hundred nor less than two hundred, as near as can be ascertained; provided, that the first division of said city and county into precincts under this Act shall be made as speedily as the same can be done after the organization of said Board.

SEC. 3. There shall be a "Registrar of Voters" for the Registrar. City and County of San Francisco, to be appointed by the Governor of the State of California from among the citizens of said city and county, subject to confirmation by the Board of Election Commissioners. His salary shall be thirty-six Salary. hundred dollars per annum, payable out of the treasury of said city and county as other salaries are paid, and he shall be allowed a Clerk, who shall receive a salary of one hundred and fifty dollars per month, payable in the same manner; and such other necessary clerical assistance as shall be found necessary to the discharge of the duties of said office, to be allowed and authorized by the Board of Election Commissioners of said city and county. He shall have a suitable office provided for him by the said Board, and such allowance for stationery, printing, and incidental expenses as shall prove necessary. He shall give an official bond in Bond. the sum of ten thousand dollars, with two sureties to be approved by the County Judge, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duty.

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Powers and SEC. 4. The Registrar of Voters, when appointed and Registrar, qualified, shall be clothed with all the powers, discharge all the duties, and be liable to all the obligations and official consequences now belonging to, discharged by, or resting upon the County Clerk and Assessor of said city and county, with respect to the registration of voters and other matters pertaining to elections in said city and county, under the provisions of the Political Code of this State, so far as the same are not annulled by this Act. Said County Clerk, upon demand, shall transfer and deliver to said Registrar the Great Register, as well as other registers, records, books, documents, and things belonging or in anywise appertaining to the registration of voters, or other election matters in said city and county, and from thenceforward said Clerk and Assessor shall cease to be charged with any registration or election duties, and the same shall rest upon and be discharged by the Registrar.

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SEC. 5. Said Registrar shall keep his office open for business every day in the year (Sundays and legal holidays excepted), from nine o'clock A. M. till five o'clock P. M. He shall have the power to administer oaths to election officers and all other persons in the discharge of his duty.

SEC. 6. The Registrar shall constantly inform himself, Registrar. by examination and inquiry, as to the condition of the precinct registers and the legality of the names therein, or demanding to be placed thereon, and shall see that none but Illegal regis- legal voters are registered. Should the Registrar have reason to believe that any name or names upon the precinct register is improperly or illegally there, it shall be his duty forthwith to send a written or printed notice, by postal card or otherwise, to such person, directing the same to his address as found in the Directory, or in case his name is not in the Directory, then to the address of such person opposite the name on the register of the last preceding election at which such name was voted, requiring such person to show cause before the Board of Election Commissioners why said Commissioners shall not cancel said name. If such person fail for five days to appear and establish the legality of such name on the day fixed for the hearing, and on the certificate of the Registrar that notice and publication in accordance herewith has been made, the Board shall inquire into the case, and if it appears to the satisfaction of the Board that such name is improperly upon the precinct register, then said Board shall make and enter an order directing the Registrar to cancel such name or names. But the parties may appear before said Board at the hearing and show cause against said order, and if the Board finds them properly registered, or entitled to registry, an order shall be made accordingly, which shall be final. The Board may designate any one of the Commissioners to hear and determine such matters.

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SEC. 7. The Registrar shall keep in his office a list of all deaths occurring in said city and county of adult males, as well as of the deaths of such citizens as may come to his knowledge who may die elsewhere, to be alphabetically

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