old Court Board of Supervisors of Monterey County may, in their dis- Supervisors cretion, bargain, sell, and convey the land formerly occupied to dispose of by the old Court-house and the present Jail, etc., thereon, as pied by the a whole or in subdivisions, as they may deem most advan- house. tageous to said county; provided, however, that no private sale of the whole or any subdivisions thereof shall be valid or of any effect whatever, unless an order for such sale be made and entered, upon the minutes of said Board, by the votes of at least four-fifths of the members of said Board, and said minutes must also show who voted for and who against said order: and provided further, that if any sale be made of said property said Board shall reserve to said county the right to the possession and use of the same until said new Court-house and Jail shall be completed and accepted by said Board. The deed or deeds for said lots shall be executed by the Chairman and Clerk of said Board, and upon their delivery the consideration therefor shall be paid to said Clerk, who shall pay the same over to the Treasurer of said county, taking his receipt therefor, which shall be given to the Auditor of said county, and filed by him, and said amounts charged to the Treasurer; said Treasurer shall credit the amounts so received to the Court-house and Jail Fund. house Jail Bond SEC. 12. At the time of the making of the levy for county Courttaxes, the said Board of Supervisors shall annually levy a band special tax sufficient to pay the interest that will be due the Fund." following January on the then outstanding bonds issued under this Act, and in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and annually thereafter, until all of said bonds are paid. They shall, in addition to said tax for said interest, levy a further tax, which, after allowing for delinquences, etc., will produce each year a sum equal to one-tenth of the principal sum of the whole of the bonds issued under this Act; which said taxes shall be levied and collected in the manner provided by the general revenue law of the State for the levying and collection of other county taxes, and when so collected the same shall be set apart by the County Treasurer in a fund to be known as the "Court-house and Jail Bond Fund." paid from; SEC. 13. All payments, costs, and expenses of carrying this Expenses Act into effect, including the costs of plans and specifications, arre architects' fees, purchasing lots for construction, and furnish- matning. ing of said Court-house and Jail, improving the grounds, etc., shall be paid by warrants drawn upon the Court-house and Jail Fund, and when all of the aforesaid demands are paid any surplus remaining in said fund shall be transferred to the Current Expense Fund. redeem SEC. 14. Whenever, in any year after January first, one Treasurer to thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, there shall be in bonds. said Court-house and Jail Bond Fund a surplus of one thousand dollars or more, in addition to a sum sufficient to pay the interest due the following January, the Treasurer of said county shall publish a notice once a week for four successive weeks, in some newspaper in the county, and also one newspaper published in the City and County of San Francisco, which notice shall state that he is prepared to Treasurer to pay coupon redeem, on a day to be stated therein, bonds to the amount of said surplus in his hands, and that until such day, at twelve o'clock M., he will receive at his office sealed proposals for the surrender of bonds issued under this Act. On said day and at said hour he shall, in the presence of the County Clerk and others there present, proceed and open said bids, and shall redeem such bonds as may be offered at the lowest bid; but no bid above par and accrued interest shall be accepted. If no bid be put in at par or less, or if a sufficient amount of the bonds be not offered to absorb the said surplus on hand, then bonds to the amount of said surplus still on hand shall become due, and payable in the order in which they were numbered, commencing at number one, and said Treasurer shall give notice in like manner as above provided that such bonds, giving date, number, and amount, have become due, and will be paid on presentation, and the interest thereon shall cease from and after sixty days from the first publication of such notice. SEC. 15. Whenever any interest coupon or any bond has When due become due and is presented to the Treasurer, he shall pay it out of the Court-house and Jail Bond Fund, and no order, authority, or warrant shall be necessary to authorize the Treasurer to make the redemptions and payments required by this Act, and the delivery by him to the Auditor of the canceled bond or coupon shall be the Treasurer's sufficient voucher in the settlement of his accounts; and so much of any law contrary to the provisions of this section is hereby repealed. Treasurer to cancel bonds SEC. 16. When the Treasurer shall redeem or pay said and deliver bonds he shall cancel the same by writing across the face to Auditor. thereof these words, "Canceled and paid," giving the date thereof, and sign the same, and he shall also keep a record thereof, showing the number of the bond, its date, amount, from whom received, the amount he paid therefor, and when he paid it. Upon the semi-annual settlement of the said Treasurer with the County Auditor said Treasurer shall deliver said bond or bonds so paid and canceled to said County Auditor, who shall credit him with the amount so paid, and shall file and preserve said bond in his office as evidence of such payment and cancellation. Supervisors shall order money. SEC. 17. After the payment of all of the bonds issued transfer of under this Act, with the interest thereon, if there should still be any money in said Court-house and Jail Bond Fund, the Board of Supervisors shall, by their order, direct the said remaining funds to be transferred to the Current Expense Fund of the said county, and said Treasurer shall thereupon make such transfer. SEC. 18. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with any of the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 19. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. XXV.-An Act to fix the terms of the several Courts of record in the County of San Mateo. [Approved January 22, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and trict Court, County. SECTION 1. Regular terms of the District Court of the Time of Twelfth Judicial District, in and for the County of San holding DisMateo, shall be held on the third Monday in March, July, San Mateo and November, in each year, and continue until the business of the term is disposed of, or for such time as the Court may direct, and adjourned terms thereof may be held at such times as may be ordered by the Court; provided, that the opening of any term of said Court, in said county, shall not operate as a final adjournment of any term of said District Court in the City and County of San Francisco, but the court in terms of said Court in the City and County of San Francisco San Fran may be adjourned over for such time as shall be necessary may be adfor the purpose of holding said terms in the said County of San Mateo. cisco County journed. • County SEC. 2. Regular terms of the County Court of the County Time of of San Mateo shall be held on the second Monday in April, holding August, and December, in each year, and continue until the Court. business of the term shall be disposed of, or the term may be adjourned from time to time as the Court shall direct. Probate SEC. 3. Regular terms of the Probate Court, in the County Time of of San Mateo, shall be held on the Tuesday following the p holding second Monday in April, August, and December, in each Court. year, and each term shall continue from time to time, as the Court shall direct, until the opening of the next term. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAP. XXVI.—An Act to prevent hogs and goats from running at large within the limits of the town site of the Town of Weaverville, Trinity County, California. [Approved January 22, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and goats run SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for hogs or goats to run Hogs and at large within the limits of the town site of Weaverville, gat Trinity County. large. Constables SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the Constables for Weaver- Duties of ville Township, in said county, to take up all hogs and goats in Town of found running at large within the limits of said town site. Weaverville. SEC. 3. The Constables shall proceed to sell to the highest Constable to bidders all such animals taken up under the provisions of sell animals. this Act by giving at least five days' notice of such sale, by posting notices in three public places within said town site, and all moneys arising from such sale shall, after the expense of taking up, keeping, and selling are paid, be paid by the Constable to the owner or owners of the animal or animals upon demand, if demanded within thirty days from the date of said sale; otherwise, it shall, at the expiration of the said thirty days, be paid into the county treasury of Trinity County, and placed to the credit of the Weaverville School District, and become a part of the fund of said district. At any obtain ani- time before the day of sale the owner, or other person entitled to the possession of any such animal so taken, may have the same re-delivered to him on paying to the Constable his fees and expenses as aforesaid. How to mals. Constable may be fined. Animals to SEC. 4. Any Constable purposely refusing or neglecting to take up all hogs or goats running at large within the limits of the town site of Weaverville shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars and not more than twenty-five dollars. SEC. 5. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent be exempted persons from driving such animals through any of the public. thoroughfares of said town. SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Duty of CHAP. XXVII.—An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to provide for the payment of the debt due upon the Road Fund of Butte County, approved March twenty-seventh, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six. [Approved January 22, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section two of said Act is hereby amended so Supervisors as to read as follows: Section 2. It shall be the duty of the to levy special tax. Duty of County Treasurer to pay war rants. Board of Supervisors of Butte County, at their regular meeting for levying the taxes upon the property returned upon the assessment roll of Butte County for the fiscal year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight and one. thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, to levy a special tax upon the assessed property of said county of four cents upon each one hundred dollars of assessed valuation, which said tax shall be collected in the same manner and at the same time other taxes are collected, and when collected shall be paid into the county treasury as a special fund for the redemption of the balance of the Road Fund debt; and it shall be the duty of the County Treasurer, from the moneys collected from said special tax, to pay all outstanding warrants drawn by the several Road Overseers prior to the passage of the Act of which this Act is amendatory, upon the funds of the several road districts, in the order in which they have been presented for payment and indorsed, "not paid." Treasurer SEC. 2. Section three of said Act is hereby amended so as County to read as follows: Section 3. Any surplus remaining from to transfer said special tax, after the payment of the balance due of the surplus. Road Fund debt, shall be transferred by the County Treasurer to the General Road Fund of the county, and to be paid out by the Treasurer upon the warrants drawn by the Auditor on the order of the Board of Supervisors. SEC. 3. passage. This Act shall be in force from and after its CHAP. XXVIII.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] CHAP. XXIX.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to enforce the collection of poll taxes in the County of Calaveras, approved March twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventyfour. [Approved January 24, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and lected. SECTION 1. Section second of said Act is hereby amended Poll taxes, so as to read as follows: Section 2. County poll taxes and when colhospital poll taxes must be collected by the several Constables of Calaveras County between the second Monday in January and the second Monday of September in each year. assessed. SEC. 2. Section six of said Act is hereby amended so as Lien on to read as follows: Section 6. The amount of poll tax or property poll taxes, with fifty per cent. in addition thereto, constitutes from the second Monday in September a lien upon the property assessed to such person, and must be collected in the same manner and at the same time as taxes upon his property are collected. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. |