until one year after said disability is removed to redeem said property by paying the whole bid and all subsequent taxes and interest. All moneys collected in this behalf, except costs and charges, shall, without delay, be paid to the Treasurer of the county for the use of the district in which the tax was levied and the date thereof shall be entered opposite the proper name or property in the delinquent list, which shall be open to public inspection. SEC. 21. The County Auditor, upon receiving the copy of Duty of the receipt of the Tax Collector provided for in section Auditor. eleven of this Act, must charge the District Collector with the amount of the taxes receipted for in an account to be kept by him, and thereafter he must keep said District Collector's account, and must make settlement with him, in relation to said district assessment roll, in the same manner as he is required to charge the County Tax Collector and settle with him on account of State and county taxes; and, upon receiving from said District Collector the Treasurer's receipt for moneys paid him on account of such taxes, the County Auditor must charge the County Treasurer with the amount specified in said receipt. Treasurer. SEC. 22. It shall be the duty of said County Treasurer to Duty of place all moneys paid into the county treasury by virtue of this Act to the credit of said school district, and the same shall be subject to the warrant of the School Superintendent drawn upon the order of the said Trustees, and shall be used by said Trustees only for the purpose of paying the expenses of assessing and collecting said tax, the interest on said bonds, and for their redemption as herein before provided. SEC. 23. The said School Trustees are hereby authorized Proceeds of and empowered to use the said bonds, or the money realized bonds to be from the sale thereof, for the purchase of a suitable site, and the erection thereon of a suitable building for public school purposes in said district, and for painting and furnishing the same, and for no other purpose. used; how. bonds. SEC. 24. The said bonds shall be sold by the said School Sale of Trustees to the person or persons offering the highest price therefor; provided, said bid shall not be less than ninety-five per cent. of the par value thereof; and provided further, that said Trustees may use said bonds, in whole or part, directly in payment for any and all the expenses incurred in purchasing land for a site, or the erection, painting, and furnishing said school building, if they deem it for the best interest of said school district so to do. For the purpose of selling said bonds, it shall be the duty of said School Trustees to advertise the same for sale for at least two weeks, in one newspaper printed in said County of Butte, and in one newspaper printed in the City and County of San Francisco, inviting proposals for the purchase thereof; and the purchaser whose bid shall be accepted shall pay into the County Treasurer the amount bid by them, and upon the production of the County Treasurer's receipt thereof they shall be entitled to receive from said Trustees the bonds so purchased. Whenever there shall be one thousand dollars in Redemption said Interest or Redemption Fund in excess of the amount of bonds. Cancellation. Salary of Tax Col lector and Assessor. Errors may required to pay the interest for that year, the County Treasurer, under the order of said School Trustees, shall give notice, by publication in some newspaper printed in said County of Butte, that sealed proposals directed to him for the surrender of the bonds of said school district will will be received by him until a certain time, to be designated in said notice. On the day and at the place named in said notice, he shall open all proposals received for the surrender of said bonds, and and accept the lowest bids offered, until he shall have accepted an amount sufficient to exhaust the money in said funds not then required for the payment of said interest; provided, that no bid for more than par value shall be accepted, nor any bid, unless the bonds to be surrendered accompany such bid. All bonds so redeemed shall be canceled by writing the word "paid" across the face of the bond, with the date of the surrender thereof, which shall be signed by the said County Treasurer. Should no bids be received for par value or less, the money in said fund shall be used for the redemption of said bonds according to their number and date of their issue, and the said County Treasurer shall give the same notice as is required by law for the redemption of county warrants of Butte County, and after thirty days from the date of said notice the bonds proposed to be redeemed shall cease to draw interest; and if any such bonds. shall not be presented for redemption within three months from the date of such notice said Treasurer shall apply such money for the redemption of bonds next in order, according to the number of their issue. In the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, provided said bonds shall not have all been previously redeemed, there shall be levied and collected in said school district, in the manner hereinbefore provided, an amount of money sufficient to redeem and pay all the said bonds then remaining unpaid. Each of the officers herein named shall be responsible on his official bond for all acts performed by him under the provisions of this Act. SEC. 25. The District Assessor and District Tax Collector, for the services required of them under the provisions hereof, shall receive salaries as follows: The District Assessor the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars per year, and the District Collector the sum of one hundred dollars per year. The Trustees of said school district shall, on the first Monday in January and July, in each year, audit and draw their order upon the School Superintendent, who shall draw his warrant on the County Treasurer in favor of said Assessor and Collector for the salaries due them, which shall be paid by said Treasurer out of any money in said treasury derived from the tax provided for in this Act. Should a vacancy occur in either of said offices of Assessor or Collector, the same shall be filled, until the next annual election of School Trustees in said school district, by appointment made by the Board of School Trustees of said district, and then by election. SEC. 26. Omissions, errors, or defects in form in any origbe corrected. inal or duplicate assessment book, or delinquent list, when it can be ascertained therefrom what was intended, may, with the written consent of the District Attorney, be supplied or corrected by the Assessor, at any time prior to the sale for delinquent taxes, and after the original assessment was made. SEC. 27. Taxes must be paid in gold and silver coin of the United States. on account of SEC. 28. No assessment or act relating to assessment or Assessments collection of taxes under the provisions of this Act is illegal not illegal on account of error or informality, nor because the same was errors, etc. not completed within the time required herein; and in any suit or proceeding had under any of the provisions hereof, or in relation hereto, this said Act and every part hereof must receive a liberal construction, to the end that errors, omissions, or informalities in any of the proceedings had hereunder, not amounting to want of jurisdiction, shall not vitiate or render void or voidable any proceeding had hereunder, and when an action is brought as herein provided, for taxes correctly imposed as the property of a particular person, or sold under the provisions of this Act, no misnomer of the owner or supposed owner, or other mistake relating to the ownership thereof, shall affect such action or sale, or render either void or voidable. SEC. 29. No other officers, except the District Assessor and Collector and District Attorney, charged with any duties under the provisions of this Act, shall be allowed to receive any compensation for such services. to remain SEC. 30. From the time of the issuance of any bonds, as Boundaries herein before authorized, until their payment and redemp- the same. tion, the boundaries of said Dockery School District, as now constituted, shall not be diminished. The revenue to be raised for the payment of principal and interest of the bonds herein provided for shall be raised exclusively by taxes, to be levied upon the property within Dockery School District, as now defined by the Board of Supervisors of Butte County. SEC. 31. This Act shall take effect and be in force on and after its passage. CHAP. CCLXXXV.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act, approved February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventyfour, to provide for the building of a school house in the Merced School District, in the County of Merced, State of California. [Approved March 19, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section nine of said Act is hereby amended officers so as to read as follows: Section 9. Within three months elected. after the issuance of any bonds under the provisions of this Act, and thereafter in every second year until all the bonds Time of election. Term of office. and the interest thereon are fully paid, the qualified electors of said Merced School District shall elect one District Assessor and one District Tax Collector; provided, that it shall be competent for said electors, at such election, to elect to such offices any elector of said county. The first election of said officers shall be held at such time and place as may be designated by the Board of Trustees. All subsequent elections must be held on the last Saturday in April, and notice of such election must be given, officers to conduct the same must be appointed, and the same must be conducted in all respects as the law requires for the election of District Trustees, except in this, that the officers conducting said election must, within three days thereafter, make return thereof to said Board of Trustees, and said Board must canvass said election returns, and must issue thereupon certificates of election to the persons having received the highest number of votes cast. The term of office of the persons so elected at the first election shall commence upon their reception of a certificate of election, and qualifying as herein provided, and shall continue until the first Monday in May in the second year after their election, and thereafter the term of said officers shall commence on the first Monday in May after their election, and continue for two years, and until their successors are elected and qualified. The persons elected to said offices, within ten days after receiving their certificates of election, must qualify, by taking the oath of office, and executing and filing with the District Clerk an official bond in such a sum as may be fixed by the order of said Board of Trustees. Said bond must be executed in the same manner as other official bonds, and before filing must be approved by the County Judge of said county; provided, that if either the County Assessor or the County Tax Collector, or both, are elected to the respective offices of District Assessor and Collector, no additional bond shall be required of them, but they shall be liable on their official bonds as County Assessor and County Tax Collector for the faithful discharge of the duties devolving upon them under the provisions of this Act. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Right granted. CHAP. CCLXXXVI.-An Act to grant to George E Isaacs, and his assigns, the right to supply the inhabitants of the Town of Merced with fresh water. [Approved March 19, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The right is hereby granted to George E. Isaacs, and his assigns, to lay down suitable water pipes in the Town of Merced, in the County of Merced, in the State of California, for the purpose of supplying the inhabitants of said town with pure and wholesome water, and for that purpose to make all such excavations on and through all such highways and streets as may be necessary therefor; and whenever such excavations shall have been made and the pipes laid in the places so excavated the said grantee, or his assigns, shall forthwith fill up the same so as to restore such streets, highways, or passages, to as good condition as they were in when said excavations were commenced. SEC. 2. The right to lay down and maintain such water pipes in said streets, highways, and passages shall continue in said grantee, and his assigns, for the term of twenty-five years; provided, this Act shall not be so construed as to give any exclusive right or privilege to said George E. Isaacs. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCLXXXVII.-An Act in relation to the office of Sheriff of the City and County of San Francisco. [Approved March 20, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: appointed. SECTION 1. In addition to the deputies now allowed by Extra depulaw, the Sheriff of the City and County of San Francisco ties to be may appoint four deputies-one to act as Bailiff of the Probate Court of said city and county, and wait upon the Grand Jury; one to act as Assistant Bailiff of the Municipal Criminal Court of said city and county; and two to act as office deputies. Said deputies shall receive a salary of one hundred and fifty dollars per month each. vested in SEC. 2. The authority to appoint Deputy Jail-keepers, in certain the City and County of San Francisco, not to exceed sixteen authority in number, shall vest in and be exercised by the Sheriff of Sheriff. said city and county. Said deputies shall receive a salary not to exceed one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month each. SEC. 3. The said Sheriff shall be allowed the sum of one Salary of hundred and fifty dollars per month to defray his expenses Sheriff. for counsel and attorney's fees. SEC. 4. The salaries and moneys provided to be paid by this Act shall be paid by the Treasurer of the City and County of San Francisco, out of the General Fund of said city and county, upon the audit of the City and County Auditor, who is hereby directed to audit the salaries and moneys hereby provided. expenses. SEC. 5. The said Sheriff may retain, out of the moneys Sheriff received by him from this State, for the transportation of allowed persons committed to the Asylum for the Insane, and prisoners delivered at the State Prison, the actual expenses incurred by him in the transportation of said persons to |