in a separate fund, to be known as the "Anaheim School District Building Fund," and must be used exclusively in paying for the building and furnishing of said school house, in the improvement of the lot belonging to the district, and for the payment of such incidental expenses as are herein expressly authorized. The said moneys must be paid out on the warrant of the County Superintendent, drawn upon the order of the Board of Trustees, in the same manner as other school moneys are by him required to be paid. certain SEC. 3. Within three months after the issuance of any Election of bonds under the provisions of this Act, and thereafter in every officers. second year until all the bonds and the interest thereon are fully paid, the qualified electors of the Anaheim 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 district. The first election of said officers shall be held at such time and place as shall be designated by the Board of Trustees. All subsequent elections must be held at the same time as if by law required by the election of District Trustees, 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 elections 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 certificate of election to persons having received the highest number of votes cast; the 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 July in the second year after their election; and thereafter the term of said officers shall commence on the first Monday in July 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 of Los Angeles. Assessor. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the Assessor elected at the Duty of first election held in accordance with this Act, immediately after qualifying for his office, to commence making an assessment of all the property of said district, both real and personal, subject to taxation. In making all subsequent assessments after the first, during the continuance of the office of District Assessor, and until all the bonds shall be paid, the Assessor must commence making the assessment on the first Monday of March. Such assessment shall be made in the same manner as the assessment for State and county purposes, as required by law to be made, and said Board of Equalization. Interest and tax. District Assessor shall, within his district, have and exercise all the powers by law conferred upon County Assessors. The first assessment authorized by this Act shall be finished and the assessment roll delivered to the Board of Trustees of said district on the first Monday in September of the same year; every subsequent assessment after the first shall be finished and the assessment roll delivered to the Board of Trustees of said district on the second Monday of April in each year. SEC. 5. The Trustees, after receiving the assessment roll from the Assessor, must give five days' notice thereof, by posting notices in three public places in said district, and at such times and places as have been named in such posted notices they must sit as a Board of Equalization; their sessions as such must continue for at least three days and not more than eight days. During their session they must equalize said assessment, and for that purpose they have the same powers as the County Board of Equalization to make any changes in said assessment roll. SEC. 6. As soon as the work of equalization has been comredemption pleted, the Trustees must levy a tax upon the property in said district sufficient in each year to pay all the interest accruing on all the bonds issued under the provisions of this Act during the year, and all the expenses of collection of said tax; also, sufficient to create a redemption fund of not less than two hundred and fifty nor more than two thousand dollars annually. They shall also compute the rate to be levied as required by section eighteen hundred and thirtyeight of the Political Code, in relation to other district taxes, and said taxes when so levied shall be a lien upon all the property in said district upon which they are assessed, which lien shall attach in each year on the second Monday in May, and shall continue until the said taxes are fully paid, or until the property upon which the same has been assessed vests absolutely in a purchaser, under a valid sale for the satisfaction of such taxes. Collection of taxes. Power conferred on Collector. SEC. 7. As soon as the rate of taxation has been determined as provided in the preceding section, the Board of Trustees must place the tax list in the hand of the District Collector, who must then proceed to collect the tax, and within sixty days return the roll to the Board of Trustees with word "paid" marked opposite the name of each person or description of property from whom or on which he has received the tax, and he must also, at the same time, file with the Board of Trustees the County Treasurer's receipt for all the moneys by him collected, and the persons and property on the roll not by the Collector marked paid are delinquent. SEC. 8. For the purpose of collecting said taxes the District Tax Collector shall have and exercise within said district the same powers that by law are conferred upon the County Tax Collector. The District Tax Collector must pay over all the moneys collected to the County Treasurer, and make settlement therefor with the County Auditor in the same manner as the County Tax Collector is required by law to do in relation to State and county taxes. Treasurer. SEC. 9. The County Treasurer must keep all moneys paid Duty of him under the provisions of this Act in a separate fund, to be known as the "Anaheim School District Bond, Interest, and Redemption Fund," and the said moneys must be paid out by him to liquidate the interest accruing upon said bonds, upon presentation at the times herein specified of the coupons therefor, and for the redemption of bonds, upon presentation to him of the bonds ordered to be paid as hereinafter provided by the Trustee of the District, and the said. Treasurer must settle with the County Auditor for money received and disbursed by him under this section, in the same manner as he is required to settle for county moneys received and disbursed by him. of bonds. SEC. 10. Whenever there shall be five hundred dollars in Redemption said Interest and Redemption Fund in excess of the amount required to pay the interest for that year, the said Board of School Trustees shall give notice, by publication in some newspaper published in said County of Los Angeles, that sealed proposals directed to them for the surrender of the bonds of said school district will be received by them until a certain time, to be designated in said notice. On the day and at the place named in said notice they shall open all proposals received for the surrender of said bonds, and accept the lowest bids offered until they shall have accepted an amount sufficient to exhaust the money in said fund 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 Cancellaredeemed shall be canceled by writing the word "paid" across tion. the face of the bond, with the date of the surrender of the same, which shall be signed by the Chairman of the Board of Trustees. 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 the date of their issue, and the said School Trustees shall give the same notice. as is required by law in the case of redemption of county warrants, 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 date of such notice, said Trustees shall apply the money for the redemption of bonds next in order according to the number of their issue. In the year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, provided said bonds shall not have all been previously redeemed, there shall be levied and collected in said school district, in the manner herein before provided, an amount of money sufficient to redeem and pay all the said bonds then remaining unpaid. applicable. SEC. 11. Sections eighteen hundred and forty-five, eight- Political een hundred and forty-six, eighteen hundred and forty- Code made seven, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, eighteen hundred and fifty, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and eighteen hundred and fifty-two, of the Political Code of California, specifying the manner of col Vacancy; how filled. Compensation. Expenses; how paid. Sale of building authorized. lecting delinquent school tax, are hereby made a part of this Act, and the provisions thereof, except as otherwise specially provided in this Act, shall apply thereto. SEC. 12. In case any Assessor or Collector, elected under the provisions of this Act, shall refuse or neglect to qualify within ten days after his election, or having qualified, refuses or neglects to act, or in case of any vacancy from any other cause in either or both of said offices, the Board of Trustees must call a special election, giving at least five days' notice, to fill such vacancy. SEC. 13. The District Assessor and District Tax Collector shall each receive such compensation for his services as may be fixed by the Board of Trustees; provided, the cost of assessing and collecting shall not exceed one hundred and seventyfive dollars per annum. SEC. 14. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit the same person from holding both the office of District Assessor and District Tax Collector. SEC. 15. No other officers, except Assessor and Collector, charged with any duties under the provision[s] of this Act, shall be allowed or receive any compensation for such services. SEC. 16. The Board of Trustees are hereby authorized to pay out of any fund raised under this Act, or from any moneys remaining in the County School Fund at the close of the school year, the necessary expenses attending the preparation, advertisement, and sale of said bonds. SEC. 17. The Board of Trustees are hereby authorized to sell the present school buildings and school lot, on First South Street, whenever they may deem it best to do so, and to apply the proceeds of said sale to the defraying the expenses of building the new school house, or to the redemption of any outstanding bonds of the district. SEC. 18. From the time of the issuance of any bonds as herein before authorized, until their payment and redemption, the boundaries of said Anaheim School District, as now constituted and known, shall not be diminished. SEC. 19. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Payment of claim CHAP. CCCX.-An Act for the relief of J. B. Scott. [Approved March 22, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of Monterey County authorized. are hereby authorized and directed, in their discretion, to examine, settle, allow, and order paid out of the Current Expense Fund of said county to J. B. Scott a sum not to exceed the sum of eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars, for services rendered by the said Scott, as County Auditor of said county, in issuing, registering, and keeping an account of licenses of said county. SEC. 2. The Auditor of said county is hereby authorized and directed to audit said claim when so allowed by said Board of Supervisors, and the Treasurer of said county is authorized and directed to pay the same out of said Current Expense Fund of said Monterey County, SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. CCCXI.-An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Fresno County to build certain roads and bridges, and to issue bonds of said county for the construction thereof, and to provide for the payment of the same. [Approved March 22, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and thorized. SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the County of Issuance of Fresno are hereby authorized and directed to issue the bonds bonds auof said county, in such sums as may be required, for the construction and completion of certain wagon roads and bridges hereinafter mentioned, not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, payable on the first Monday in January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, with interest at the rate of seven per cent. per annum, payable on the first Monday in January, both principal and interest to be made payable in U. S. gold coin only. Said bonds shall be issued in denominations of five hundred dollars each, and shall be signed by the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, and countersigned by the Auditor of the county; interest coupons shall be attached, signed in like manner. SEC. 2. The bonds and coupons shall be payable at the When office of the County Treasurer of said county, and when any payable coupons are paid they shall be canceled by the Treasurer, and filed with the Auditor. Both Treasurer and Auditor shall keep an accurate account of the coupons redeemed. SEC. 3. Said coupons shall bear the date of their issuance, and the first coupons shall be for the interest from such date up to the first Monday in January next succeeding. SEC. 4. For the purpose of paying the interest on said Interest tax. bonds, the Board of Supervisors of said 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 for one year on all bonds then outstanding. In making such levy the Board of Supervisors shall not deem the value of the property of the county to be greater than it was shown. to have been by the assessment of the preceding year. The special tax thus levied shall be assessed and collected as other State and county taxes are assessed and collected, and shall be set apart as a special fund, to be known as the "Road |