CHAP. CCCXXXV.-An Act fixing the fees and compensation of the District Attorney of the County of San Luis Obispo. [Approved March 23, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Attorney. SECTION 1. The District Attorney of the County of San Salary of Luis Obispo shall receive a salary of one thousand dollars District per annum, payable out of the county treasury of said county as now required by law, and also such other fees and commissions as are now provided by law, which shall also be a charge against the said county, to be audited and allowed as other claims against the said county. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCCXXXVI.-An Act for the relief of the bondsmen of [Approved March 23, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and liability. SECTION 1. The sureties upon the official bond of W. W. Release from Hill, late Treasurer of the County of Fresno, are hereby released from any and all liability upon or by reason of said bond, or upon or by reason of a certain judgment rendered by the District Court of the Thirteenth Judicial District, in and for the County of Fresno, on the sixth day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, in a certain action therein, wherein the County of Fresno was plaintiff and Jesse Morrow and others (the said sureties) were defendants; provided, the said sureties shall, within one year from the Proviso. passage of this Act, pay into said Court such an amount of money as, with the amounts already paid, shall equal the sum of thirty-one thousand three hundred and thirteen dollars and twenty cents in U. S. gold coin, with legal interest on such part thereof as has not been paid from the passage of this bill to the time of the payment of the same. payment is SEC. 2. If the payment provided for in section one of this Judgment Act be made as therein provided, then and in that case it satent is shall be and is hereby made the duty of said plaintiff in said made. action, and of said Court, to satisfy said judgment, and cancel said bond, by order duly entered and made in said Court, and upon the records thereof, and from and after such payment the said judgment shall have no force or effect, and shall cease to be a lien upon or a charge against said sureties or their property, and they and each of them shall be released from any and all liability upon or for said bond. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect from its passage, and all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Terms of CHAP. CCCXXXVII.-An Act to fix the terms of the County and [Approved March 23, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The regular terms of the County and Probate Courts, in and for the County of Modoc, shall be held at the county seat of said county on the third Monday in February, the third Monday in April, the third Monday in June, the third Monday in August, and the third Monday in November in each year. SEC. 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on and after its passage. Payment of claim CHAP. CCCXXXVIII.-An Act to authorize the Board of Trustees of Truckee School District, Nevada County, to pay certain claims. [Approved March 23, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Trustees of Truckee School District, authorized. Nevada County, are hereby authorized and required to draw their order on any money belonging to the School Fund of said district for the amount due Gussie Haller for services as teacher in the public school of said district, and the County Superintendent of Public Schools for Nevada County is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrant therefor, upon the fund of said school district, and the County Treasurer of Nevada County is hereby directed to pay said warrant out of the proper fund. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. CCCXXXIX.-An Act to authorize the construction of a wagon road from Downieville, in Sierra County, to a point about two miles east of Forest City, in said county. [Approved March 23, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and authorized. SECTION 1. William Wilbourn, or his assigns, is hereby Construction authorized to construct a wagon road, not to exceed eighty of toll-road feet in width, commencing at Downieville, in Sierra County, thence running south in the nearest and most practicable way to intersect Freeman's Toll-road at a point about two miles east of Forest City, in said county; and the said grantee, or his assigns, shall be authorized to collect tolls on said road for a period of twenty years from the completion of said road. SEC. 2. The Supervisors of the County of Sierra shall Tolls from time to time regulate the tolls to be collected on said regulated. road. SEC. 3. Said road shall be surveyed and completed within two years after the passage of this Act, and shall not hinder or obstruct nor interfere with any other traveled road in said county. made appli SEC. 4. Title Five, of the Civil Code, in relation to wagon Civil Code road corporations, is hereby made applicable to this Act, so far as the same does not conflict with the provisions of this Act. SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. cable. CHAP. CCCXL.-An Act to authorize the construction of a wagon road from Sardine Creek, in Sierra County, to the head of Mohawk Valley, in Plumas County. [Approved March 23, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and of toll-road SECTION 1. William Wilbourn, or his assigns, is hereby Construction authorized to construct a wagon road, not to exceed eighty authorized. feet in width, commencing at or near where the Sierra Valley and South Fork Turnpike crosses Sardine Creek; thence running north by the way of Thompson's Ridge, in the nearest and most practicable way, to the head of Mohawk Valley, in Plumas County; and the said grantee, or his assigns, shall be authorized to collect tolls on said road for a period of twenty years from the completion of said road. SEC. 2. The Supervisors of the Counties of Sierra and Tolls Plumas shall from time to time regulate the tolls to be col- regulated. lected on said road. When completed. Civil Code cable. SEC. 3. Said road shall be surveyed and completed within two years after the passage of this Act, and shall not hinder, or obstruct, nor interfere with any other traveled road in said counties. SEC. 4. Title Five, of the Civil Code, in relation to wagon male appli- road corporations, is hereby made applicable to this Act, so far as the same does not conflict with the provisions of this Act. SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Duties and compensation of Clerk. Surplus; where paid. CHAP. CCCXLI.-An Act amendatory of and supplementary to an Act to regulate fees of office and salaries of officers in Modoc County, approved March second, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. [Approved March 23, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section five of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 5. The County Clerk must charge and collect for all services performed by him, or any of his deputies or assistants, as County Clerk or as ex officio Clerk of the Courts of record, County Auditor, County Recorder, or Clerk of the Boards of Supervisors, Equalization, and Canvassers, the fees, commissions, percentages, and salaries prescribed by this Act, and he may appropriate and retain for his own use, from such fees, commissions, percentages, and salaries, three thousand dollars per annum, if such sum shall accrue therefrom, which shall be in full compensation for all services rendered by him and his deputies and assistants in pursuance of law, as County Clerk and ex officio Clerk of the Courts of record, County Auditor, County Recorder, and Clerk of the Boards of Supervisors, Equalization, and Canvassers; provided, that if in any one year said fees, commissions, percentages, and salaries allowed by this Act shall exceed the sum of three thousand dollars, said Clerk shall pay the surplus over three thousand dollars to the County Treasurer for the use of the County General Fund. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force on and after its passage. CHAP. CCCXLII.-An Act to authorize the construction and maintenance of a bridge across the Tuolumne River, at the Town of Modesto. [Approved March 23, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and authorized. SECTION 1. Thomas D. Harp, John W. McCarthy, and Construction George Perley, and their heirs and assigns, are hereby author- of toll-bridge ized and empowered to build, erect, construct, and maintain a public toll-bridge across the Tuolumne River, at the Town of Modesto, in the County of Stanislaus, and State of California, at a point on said river to be selected by said parties, within two miles of the railroad bridge, opposite the Town of Modesto, and the right of way for said bridge across said. river at such point is hereby granted to them. ments of SEC. 2. The said toll-bridge shall be constructed in a good Requireand substantial manner and of the most durable materials, bridge. and shall have a draw-opening of sufficient dimensions to admit the passage of all boats, crafts, and vessels plying upon said Tuolumne River; and the said Thomas D. Harp, John W. McCarthy, and George Perley, and their heirs and assigns, shall, at all times, keep said draw in good working order and condition, and shall allow any boat, craft, or vessel to pass at any time; and said Harp, McCarthy, and Perley, their heirs and assigns, and each of them, shall be liable for any damages that may accrue by neglect or inattention to their duties as prescribed in this Act, to be recovered in any Court of competent jurisdiction. SEC. 3. The said Thomas D. Harp, John W. McCarthy, When to be and George Perley, their heirs and assigns, shall build, erect, completed. and construct said toll-bridge within three years after the passage of this Act; and upon the completion thereof, said parties, their heirs and assigns, shall be authorized and empowered to charge and collect toll for the use of said bridge for the period of fifty years, and may maintain said bridge during said period for that purpose; and the Board of Supervisors of the County of Stanislaus shall have power and jurisdiction to fix and establish the rate of toll to be so charged and collected thereon. kept. SEC. 4. The owners of said toll-bridge may regulate the scale of tolls, speed of travel, riding or driving, upon said bridge, and etc., to be they shall keep in some conspicuous place, on each end of the bridge, a bulletin board which shall contain the scale of tolls and rate of speed allowed on said bridge. or transfer; how made. SEC. 5. Any assignment or transfer of said bridge, or the Assignment franchise herein granted, or any interest therein, or in the right to charge and collect tolls on said bridge, shall be by instrument in writing, signed by the party assigning or transferring the same, or by his agent thereunto lawfully authorized and acknowledged, and recorded in the office of the County Recorder of the County of Stanislaus. SEC. 6. Said bridge and the franchises herein granted Bridge shall be liable to execution, subject to taxation, and descend execution. liable to |