the City and County of San Francisco, donate and transfer its property, real and personal, to any such city or town for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a public library and reading-room within the meaning of this Act; and as a condition, and in consideration of any such donation, such proprietors may at their option nominate and appoint as honorary Trustees, without salary, a number equal to those appointed or authorized to be appointed by such municipal authorities respectively as in this Act provided. Such honorary Trustees, by a majority vote, may fill all vacancies that may occur in their number, and they respectively shall have an equal voice with the other Trustees in the direction, management, and control of such libraries after such donation and transfer shall be made and accepted. SEC. 8. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. CCLXVII.-An Act to reimburse the County of Placer The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Controller. SECTION 1. Whereas, the County of Placer during the Preamble. fiscal years A. D. 1872-3 and 1873-4 did duly expend, in extraordinary expenses, in the collection of the taxes due this State for the said fiscal years, the full sum of nineteen hundred sixty-four dollars, for which said county is equitably entitled to be reimbursed; wherefore, it shall be Duty of the duty of the Controller of State, at the next regular or quarterly settlement to be made with him, next after the passage of this Act, by the County Treasurer of Placer County, on account of taxes then due or to become due to the State treasury from said County Treasurer, to allow as a credit to said County Treasurer the sum of nineteen hundred and sixty-four dollars, and the said credit shall be in full discharge of the obligation of said County Treasurer to pay said sum into the treasury of said State. SEC. 2. Upon the completion of the settlement, and the credit given as provided in section one of this Act, it shall be the duty of the County Treasurer and Auditor of said County of Placer to immediately deposit and transfer to the credit of the General Fund of said county the said sum of nineteen hundred and sixty-four dollars. SEC. 3. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCLXVIII.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] CHAP. CCLXIX.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] CHAP. CCLXX.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] Appropriations authorized. CHAP. CCLXXI.-An Act for the encouragement of agriculture and other industries. [Approved March 18, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION. 1. There is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand dollars, for the State Agricultural Society; the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, for the Upper Sacramento Valley Agricultural Society; the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, for the San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Society; the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, for the Golden Gate District Fair Association; the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, for the Sonoma and Marin District Agricultural Society; the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, for the Northern District Agricultural Society; the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, for the Napa and Solano District Agricultural Society; the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, for the Santa Clara Valley Agricultural Society; the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, for the Southern District Agricultural Society; the sum of one thousand dollars, for the Plumas, Lassen, and Modoc District Fair; one thousand dollars, for the Monterey County Agricultural Society; one thousand dollars, for the El Dorado County Agricultural Society; and one thousand dollars for the Siskiyou County Agricultural Society, for each of the years eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. Upon the presentation of the certificate of the President and Secretary of either of the societies named above to the State Controller, that such sums have been expended in premiums in accordance with the provisions of this Act, at a fair held during the year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight and in eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, the Controller shall draw his warrant on the Treasurer in favor of such society for the amount appropriated to such society, and the Treasurer shall pay the same. The money so drawn by each society shall be used for the purpose of paying premiums for the different kinds of live stock, and the various agricultural, mineral, mechanical, and manufacturing products of this State, and for no other purpose; and no part whatever shall be given in any contingency in purses for horse racing. Directors. SEC. 2. The Directors of each of the above named socie- Duty of ties, except the State Agricultural Society, shall each year report to the State Board of Agriculture the name and postoffice address of each of the officers of such society, on or before the first day of May; and on or before the first day of December of each year they shall report to said Board of Agriculture the transactions of said society, including the list of articles exhibited and for which premiums were awarded, the amount of receipts and expenditures of the year, and the objects for which the expenditures have been made, the new industries inaugurated, and new products produced, and any and all other facts showing the development of the resources of the district embraced in such society, which they may deem worthy of such report. SEC. 3. The State Board of Agriculture shall report Duty of annually, on or before the first day of February, to the Gov- State Board. ernor of the State, the full transactions of the State Society, including the facts and statistics collected and information gained on the subjects for which it exists; also, including the report from each of the above named societies, or so much thereof as said Board may deem of value for publication. SEC. 4. The Governor shall cause five thousand volumes Report to be of said report of the State Board of Agriculture to be printed printed. each year at the expense of the State, the cost not to exceed one dollar per volume, and paid for as other public printing, and delivered to the State Agricultural Society for general distribution. SEC. 5. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCLXXII.-An Act supplementary to and amendatory of an Act entitled "An Act to regulate and limit the payment of money out of the treasury of the City and County of San Francisco," approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. [Approved March 18, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and of provisions SECTION 1. The provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to Suspension regulate and limit the payment of money out of the treasury of a certain of the City and County of San Francisco," approved Febru- Act. ary twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, are hereby suspended for and during the months of March, April, and May, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and no longer; provided, that any money expended or liabilities created or contracted for during said months of March, Extension of April, and May, in excess of what is permitted by said Act, shall be deducted from the amount that may be lawfully expended or liability created or contracted for during the same fiscal year, in such manner that at the end of such fiscal year there shall be no deficit. SEC. 2. The provisions of said Act, from and after the provisions. first day of June, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, shall extend to and include all departments of the municipal government of said city and county, except the new City Hall and Golden Gate Park Commissioners, as to all moneys expended or obligations created or contracted for purposes or against funds that by law are authorized to carry on such departments as running annual expenditures; and the officers, Directors, Commissioners, or others having the power to make such contracts or disbursements, shall be liable to all the duties, obligations, and penalties as to all such funds and contracts and disbursements resting upon the Supervisors and others named in said Act to which this is supplementary. When provisions of SEC. 3. In case of any great public calamity or danger, Act may be such as earthquakes, conflagrations, pestilence, invasion, suspended. insurrection, or other great and unforeseen emergency, the provisions of said Act may be suspended, as to any lawful contract, authorization, or expenditure necessary to avert, mitigate, or relieve such evil; provided, that such expenditure, contract, or authorization, shall be passed by the unanimous vote of all the Supervisors, Directors, Commissioners, or other officers, and entered in the journals and approved by the Mayor, the Auditor, and the Treasurer, and the notice of the emergency must be recited in the resolution authorizing such action. Expenditure, etc., to receive unanimous vote. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect immediately. Board of CHAP. CCLXXIII.-An Act to fix the bonds of the county officers of Ventura County. [Approved March 19, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The bonds of the Sheriff, Clerk, and ex officio to fix bonds. Recorder, and Auditor, Assessor, Tax Collector, or ex officio Not to be raised or lowered. Tax Collector, Treasurer, District Attorney, Coroner and ex officio Public Administrator, Surveyor, and Supervisors of the County of Ventura, shall be fixed from time to time by the Board of Supervisors of said county; provided, that the amount of the official bonds fixed upon by the Board of Supervisors shall not be raised or lowered after being once fixed upon, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, during the time for which said officers have been or may be elected, in such a sum as the Board may deem necessary certain for that county; provided, that no one of said bonds of the Bonds not to Sheriff, Clerk and ex officio Recorder and Auditor, and exceed Assessor, shall be fixed in a less sum than ten thousand amounts. dollars ($10,000), nor in a greater sum than fifteen thousand ($15,000) each; of the Tax Collector or ex officio Tax Collector, and Treasurer, in a less sum than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), nor in a greater sum than eighty thousand dollars ($80,000) each; of the District Attorney, and Coroner and ex officio Public Administrator, in a less sum than five thousand ($5,000), nor in a greater sum than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) each; of the Surveyor and Supervisors, in a less sum than two thousand dollars ($2,000), nor in a greater sum than five thousand dollars ($5,000) each. Supervisors; amount of SEC. 2. The Board of Supervisors of Ventura County Board of shall, within thirty days after the passage of this Act, meet when to at their usual place of meeting in said county. At such meet to fix meeting they shall make an order, fixing the amount of the bonds." bond of the Sheriff, Clerk and ex officio Recorder and Auditor, Assessor, Tax Collector, Treasurer, District Attorney, Coroner and ex officio Public Administrator, Surveyor, and Supervisors of said county, according to the provisions of this Act; and the said officers of the said county, as above Bonds, when enumerated, and each of them shall, within twenty days to be given. after said order, and within twenty days after any order made by the Board of Supervisors of said county fixing their respective bonds or either of them, give a bond in the sum fixed by the Board of Supervisors of said county, with sufficient sureties, and approved by the proper officers in said county, as provided by law. repealed. SEC. 3. All Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with the Acts provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, so far as they apply to the County of Ventura. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCLXXIV.-An Act to provide for the payment of certain coupons upon bonds issued by "The Central Pacific Railroad Company," and known as "State Aid Bonds." [Approved March 19, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and lost coupons. SECTION 1. The Treasurer of the State is hereby directed to Amount to pay to the Bank of California the sum of two hundred and be paid on forty-five dollars, being the amount of coupons number twenty-five, due January first, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, upon "State Aid Bonds" numbered respectively twelve hundred and thirty-one (1231), three hundred and eighteen (318), three hundred and fifty-six (356), three hundred and fifty-seven (357), six hundred and thirty-six (636), six hundred and thirty-seven (637), and six hundred and |