SEC. 9. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAP. CCCII.-An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Marin County to levy a special tax, and to appropriate the moneys collected thereunder to the construction of a wagon road in said county, and to transfer certain funds. [Approved March 20, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and authorized thorized to use moneys SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of Marin County, Special tax at the time and in the manner provided by law for levying to be levied. the annual taxes for county purposes, and in addition to the tax which said Board are already authorized to levy, are hereby empowered for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and seventy-eight and eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine and eighteen hundred and eighty, eighteen hundred and eighty and eighteen hundred and eighty-one, to levy an annual property tax of five cents on each one hundred dollars in value of taxable property in Marin County, which said property tax shall be annually assessed and collected at the same time, and in the same manner, and by the same officers as other State and county taxes are levied, and assessed, and collected, and when so collected, shall be paid into the county treasury, and set apart as and for the " Bolinas Bay and Fairfax Road Fund." SEC. 2. Said Board of Supervisors are hereby authorized Board auto use the moneys that may accumulate in the Bolinas Bay and Fairfax Road Fund in procuring a right of way for and in the construction of a wagon road leading between Bolinas Bay and the county road at or near Fairfax Station; such road may be constructed on the line as heretofore surveyed by Hiram Austin, County Survey[or] of Marin County, or upon such other line or route as by said Board may be selected, and to the end of a speedy and economical completion of said wagon road. The Board of Supervisors are hereby authorized to draw warrants against said Bolinas Bay and Fairfax Road Fund, and to concert, agree, and contract for a right of way for, and to construct, cause to be constructed, or contract for the construction of said road, at such times and upon such terms and conditions as said Board shall deem for the best interest of Marin County; provided, that no greater sum of money shall be expended in the construction of said road than is derivable under the provisions of this bill; and provided further, that all contracts shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder, and after full and general public notice of the time, place, and terms of the letting such contract or contracts. SEC. 3. It shall not be compulsory upon the Board of Board to Supervisors to contract for, or cause to be constructed, said use option. road; on the contrary, said Board may decline to act in whole or in part under the provisions of this bill, if, after inquiry and investigation, the Board of Supervisors shall adjudge the cost of constructing said road to be in excess of the value and benefits to Marin County, and in case of failure to construct said road, all moneys which may come into the Bolinas Bay and Fairfax Road Fund shall be transferred to the General Fund of Marin County. SEC. 4. The said Board of Supervisors are hereby authorized, at any time after the passage of this Act, to order the Treasurer of Marin County to transfer the money now in Road Fund Number Four, of said county, for the purposes of and to establish said fund to be known as the Bolinas Bay and Fairfax Road Fund; and the said Treasurer shall, upon the order of said Board of Supervisors, transfer the said money upon his books, and it shall be the duty of said Board of Supervisors to provide by order for the repayment of the sum of money so transferred from any money collected under the provisions of this bill, or from the General County Fund, whenever such moneys are required for actual payment under the provisions of the law creating said Road Fund Number Four. SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Salary of certain officers. CHAP. CCCIII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to [Approved March 20, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section eight of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 8. The salary of each Commissioner shall be one hundred dollars per month; the salary of the Secretary shall be two hundred dollars per month; the salary of the Architect shall be two hundred and fifty dollars per month; the salary of the Superintendent shall be two hundred and fifty dollars per month. The salaries herein provided shall be in full compensation for all services rendered under this Act, and no other or greater compensation shall at any time be allowed or paid to either of the officers herein named. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAP. CCCIV.-An Act to promote the sanitary condition of towns and villages in Fresno County. [Approved March 20, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. It is unlawful for any person, being a resident Unlawful act within any town or village, incorporated or unincorporated, defined. which contains ten or more dwellings, to have or allow on his, her, or their premises, or permit to accumulate upon the half of any street or alley contiguous thereto, any filth or rubbish, or have any deposit of excrement or other filth upon either, or to permit such premises to become in any manner filthy or in an unhealthy condition. Board SEC. 2. Upon the application of any resident of any such Duty of town or village, if unincorporated, the Board of Supervisors of the county wherein the same is situate shall define and place of record in their minutes the limits and boundaries thereof; said Board shall appoint one of the Constables of the township wherein such town or village is situate, and notify him of his appointment, to carry out the provisions of this Act as hereinafter specified. Constable. SEC. 3. It is the duty of such Constable, when so ap- Duty of pointed, to inspect the premises of every street, alley, or vacant lot within the limits of the town or village for which he is appointed at least twice during each month, upon the first and third Mondays thereof, and in case that he find that any premises, or the half of any streets or alleys contiguous thereto, have upon them any filth or rubbish, or any deposit of excrement or other filth, he shall give written notice to the owner or occupant of such premises to remove the same; and in case the same be not removed within three days thereafter, he shall cause it to be done and such premises thoroughly cleansed in the manner directed by the Health Officer of the county, if there be one, at the expense of the owner or -occupant, including his fee of two dollars for each premises so cleansed by him; and it is the duty of such Health Officer to give written directions to such Constable as to how he shall cleanse premises, and such Health Officer shall at the request of any citizen examine any premises and require such Constable to cleanse the same and see that such cleansing is properly and efficiently done. SEC. 4. If said expenses and fee be not paid on presenta- May maintion of his itemized account therefor, the Constable may tain action. maintain action therefor, including a reasonable attorney's fee, to be fixed by the Court; and from the execution in such action no property of the defendant shall be exempt. SEC. 5. If the Constable cannot find the owner or occupant of any premises within the limits of the town for personal service of the notice herein before mentioned, such notice may be served by posting the same upon some conspicuous place on such premises. SEC. 6. For every failure or refusal of the Constable or failure of duty. Penalty for Health Officer to perform any of their duties under this Act, they shall respectively forfeit fifty dollars, to be recovered by action, one-half to be paid to any person bringing such action, and the other half into the County Indigent Sick Fund. The sureties of the Constable shall be liable for such penalty, but the Health Officer shall not, in the performance of his duties, be required to go beyond the limits of the town wherein he resides. SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect immediately, and shall apply only to the County of Fresno. Sale of bonds. tion. CHAP. CCCV.-An Act authorizing the Board of Supervisors of the County, of Mono to issue bonds for the construction of a wagon road from Antelope Valley to the Town of Benton, in said county. [Approved March 20, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the County of Mono are hereby authorized to issue and sell the bonds of said county, not exceeding in the aggregate twenty thousand dollars, payable on the first Monday of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, in gold coin of the United States, and to bear interest at the rate of ten per cent. per Denomina- annum, payable annually in gold coin on the first Monday of March. Said bonds shall be issued in denominations of fifty and one hundred dollars each, and numbered from one' upward, consecutively, one-half of the whole amount to be in each of said denominations, and shall be signed by the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, the County Auditor, and the County Treasurer of said county. Coupons for the interest shall be attached to each bond and signed by the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors and the County Treasurer. Duty of Auditor. SEC. 2. The County Auditor shall keep an accurate account of the number and amount of each bond, and shall make out a list of the said bonds, giving the number and amount of each, and deliver a certified copy thereof to the County Treasurer, retaining the original on file in his office. The County Treasurer shall keep the said copy on file in his office. SEC. 3. The bonds and coupons shall be payable at the office of the County Treasurer, and when any coupons are paid they shall be canceled by the said Treasurer and filed with the County Auditor, and both Treasurer and Auditor shall keep an accurate account of the coupons redeemed. SEC. 4. Said coupons shall bear the date of their issuance, and the first coupons shall be for the interest from said date up to the first Monday of March next succeeding, and each of the others shall be for the interest for one year, payable on the first Monday of March. SEC. 5. For the purpose of paying the interest on said Interest tax. bonds, the Board of Supervisors of said Mono County shall, at the time of levying the county taxes for each year, levy a special tax on all property in said county, sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds for one year on all bonds then outstanding, except on coupons No. one, and that shall be for an amount sufficient to pay the interest from the date thereof until the first Monday of March next succeeding. The special tax thus levied shall be assessed and collected as the other State and county taxes are assessed and collected, and the money arising from said tax shall be set apart as a "special fund," to be known as the "Road Bond Interest Fund," and out of said fund the coupons on said bonds shall be paid as they fall due. SEC. 6. If the amount collected from said special tax shall exceed the sum due on the said coupons on the first Monday of March of each year, then the Board of Supervisors shall transfer such surplus to the County General Fund. SEC. 7. In and for the year one thousand eight hundred Redemption and eighty-two, and annually thereafter, in addition to the tax. interest tax, there shall be levied an amount sufficient to pay twenty per cent. of the bonds issued under and by virtue of this Act, until the whole amount of said bonds are paid. The Board of Supervisors shall make the said levy, and the same shall be collected as other State and county taxes are collected; and when collected shall be set apart as a special fund for the payment of said bonds, and shall be known as the "Road Bond Redemption Fund." SEC. 8. On the first Monday of March, one thousand Redemption eight hundred and eighty-three, and each year thereafter of bonds. until all the bonds are paid, the Treasurer of the county shall make out a statement of the amount of money in the Road Bond Redemption Fund of the county, and shall advertise, according to number, the said amount in some newspaper published in the county, for four consecutive weeks, or if there is no newspaper published in said county, then by posting notices in three public places within said county, notifying the holders of said bonds to present them for payment according to numbers, commencing at No. one and giving the highest number to be paid, until the money in the fund is paid out; and each succeeding year commencing at the lowest number unpaid, until all the bonds are paid. SEC. 9. All bonds not presented for payment within thirty days after the notice is completed by the Treasurer, shall cease to bear interest from the date such notice is completed, and all unpaid coupons shall be delivered up with the bonds. at presentation of the same for payment, and if not so delivered up shall be void and worthless, unless due and unpaid before notice was given. SEC. 10. The Board of Supervisors shall have power to Power of sell the bonds issued under the provisions of this Act for Board. |