Land at end how acquired. Misdemeanor. as other property; and no other bridge or ferry shall be established within one mile above or below said bridge without the consent of the owners thereof. SEC. 7. Said Thomas D. Harp, John W. McCarthy, and George Perley, their heirs and assigns, are hereby authorized and constituted agents for the State of California to take such proceedings as are prescribed by the Code of Civil Procedure of this State, to acquire sufficient land at either end of said bridge to rest the same upon, and on which to erect such toll-houses and other appurtenances as may be necessary to the maintenance of said bridge, including the right of way for roads leading to and from said bridge. And said bridge so constructed and said roads shall be public high ways. SEC. 8. Any person riding or driving over said bridge faster than the speed allowed by said bridge owners, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof before any Justice of the Peace, shall be fined in any sum not less than five nor more than twenty dollars and costs of prosecution. SEC. 9. This Act shall take effect on and after its passage. Town of Limits defined. CHAP. CCCXLIII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The corporation or body corporate now existing and known as the Town of Chico shall remain and continue to be a body politic and corporate under the name and style of the Town of Chico, and by that name shall have perpetual succession and by that name may sue and defend in all Courts, make contracts, purchase, receive, and hold property, sell, convey, or authorize the disposition of the same, and by that name may do any and all acts which are granted under this Act. The said Town of Chico may have a common seal. SEC. 2. The corporate limits of the Town of Chico shall be and remain as heretofore known of said Town of Chico, as follows: Commencing at the westerly end of First or Front Street, where Oak Street intersects it, and following the north side of Front Street to its intersection with Sierra Avenue; thence along the north side of said avenue to Orient Street; thence along the east side of Orient Street in a southerly direction to the center of Little Chico Creek, at a point opposite Humboldt Avenue; thence down and along the center of Little Chico Creek to a point opposite Oak Street, and thence along and with the west side of Oak Street to the place of beginning. SEC. 3. The corporate powers of said town shall be vested Governin a Board of Trustees to consist of five members. ment. On the first Monday of February of each year Election of there shall be elected from and by the qualified electors of Trustees. said town the successors of the Trustees then in office and whose terms are about to expire, and the term of office of such successors shall be three years from and after the first Monday of March next succeeding their election. In case Vacancy; any vacancy shall occur in said Board of Trustees the same how filled. shall be filled by a vote of the majority of the remaining members of the Board, and said appointee shall hold his office until the next election for Trustees, when said office shall be filled for the unexpired term, by election. All elections under this Act shall be held and conducted in accordance with the general election laws of this State. election to be given. SEC. 5. Two weeks' notice of the election for Trustees shall Notice of be given by the President and Secretary of the Board of Trustees, by publication in such newspaper printed in the Town of Chico as the Board may direct; such notice shall designate the time and place of holding such election, and shall name one Inspector and two Judges of Election for each precinct or ward in said town; provided, that if at any time the President and Secretary shall fail to give such notice, the electors of said town may meet on the morning of election day, at the usual voting places in said town, and appoint Inspectors and Judges of Election, and may hold said election, and the same shall be as valid and binding as if notice had been given as herein provided. canvass re turns, etc. SEC. 6. Within ten days after said election, the Trustees Trustees to shall meet and canvass the returns of said election, and shall declare the result of the same, and the Secretary of the Board shall immediately issue and cause to be delivered to each and every Trustee, so declared elected, a certificate of his election. Before entering upon the duties of his office, each Trustee and each officer of said corporation shall take the usual oath of office. duties of. SEC. 7. The Board of Trustees shall choose a President President; from their number. It shall be the duty of the President to powers and preside at all meetings of the Board of Trustees, to exercise a general supervision over the acts of the other officers of the corporation, and to countersign all warrants drawn upon the treasury by order of the Board of Trustees. He shall have power to enforce order and decorum at the meetings of the Board, and may punish by fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding twenty-four hours, or by both fine and imprisonment, offenses against the regulations of the Board; said fines may be collected as other fines are for breach of ordinance. They shall also Secretary; elect a Secretary of the Board, not of their number, whose duties of." duties shall be to keep the papers and documents of the Board and to file them in his office under appropriate heads; to attend all the meetings of the Board and keep a correct Salary. Marshal elected. Duties of Marshal. Bond. Duty of No compensation. Power of journal of its proceedings, and a record of its ordinances; to sign all warrants issued in pursuance of the orders of the Board, and in a suitable book provided for the purpose keep an accurate account of all such warrants; the ordinances shall be numbered in the order of their passage and suitably indexed. He shall keep the seal of the corporation and be ex officio Town Clerk. He shall receive as salary such sum per annum as the Board of Trustees shall allow him, not to exceed the sum of five hundred dollars. SEC. 8. There shall be elected at the annual election for Trustees for the Town of Chico, a Marshal. The Board of Trustees shall have power and it shall be their duty to appoint a Treasurer and the police force required, and to make such regulations governing the police force as they may deem necessary, and to provide for the payment of their salaries for services rendered. The Marshal shall be ex officio Assessor and Collector, and shall collect such taxes as may be levied by the Board of Trustees, and shall pay such taxes, less his commissions (which shall be allowed by the Board), over to the Treasurer, taking his receipt therefor. He shall collect and pay over to the Treasurer all fines and costs levied and imposed by reason of a violation of an ordinance of the town, and for such purpose shall have the power conferred by law upon Constables. He shall arrest all persons against whom a warrant shall be directed and delivered to him from any Justice of the Peace or Police Judge of the town, and may arrest without a warrant any person actually engaged, in his presence, in the violation of an ordinance. He shall give bonds in the sum of two thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties, and shall receive as compensation one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month, and said salary shall be provided for by the Board of Trustees out of the General Fund of the town. He shall receive no other compensation for his services than that provided for in this Act. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to receive all moneys due the town, to pay all warrants drawn by order of the Board, signed by the Secretary and countersigned by the President, and to keep an accurate account of all receipts and expenditures, and to present to the Board a full report of the financial condition of the corporation one month before the annual election and at such other times as the Board may require. He shall give bonds in the sum of five thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties, and shall receive as compensation for his services an annual salary of such sum as the Board may award him, not to exceed one hundred dollars per annum. SEC. 9. A majority of the Trustees shall constitute a quorum to do business. They shall be allowed no compensation for their services. SEC. 10. The Board of Trustees shall have power: First-To make ordinances for the government of said town not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this State. Second-To levy and collect annually a tax not to exceed one per cent. on the assessment valuation of all property, Power of both real and personal, owned within said town. Third-To impose and collect a road poll tax, not to exceed two dollars per annum, on each male inhabitant of said town of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, and no other road poll tax shall be collected within the limits of said town. Fourth-To impose and collect a tax, not to exceed two dollars per annum, on every dog owned within the limits of said town, and no other dog tax shall be collected in said town. Fifth-To establish and alter fire limits; to erect, purchase, or lease proper buildings for a fire department; to purchase, hold, and maintain one or more fire engines, and such apparatus and implements for the prevention and extinguishment of fires as may be necessary, and to establish, regulate, and control a fire department in said town. Sixth-To regulate the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, rosin, and other explosive or combustible materials; to regulate the erection of steam-boilers and engines, and to prohibit the erection thereof in places deemed dangerous to inhabitants of said town. Seventh-To determine what are nuisances; to prevent, remove, or abate the same at the expense of the party causing such nuisance; to control and regulate soap and glue works, slaughter houses, tanneries, and other offensive trades, and to provide for their exclusion or removal from the town limits or any part thereof. Eighth-To prevent any or all domestic animals from running at large within the limits of said town either all or a portion of the time; to prevent the leaving of animals in any street or alley without securely fastening the same; to prohibit the fastening to or otherwise destroying or injuring any fence, gate, or building, lamp-post, hydrant, tree, or case around a tree in said town, and to regulate and prohibit fast driving in any portion of the town. Ninth-To provide for the regulation and prevention of contagious diseases; to provide and enforce regulations for the protection of health and cleanliness; to control and regulate interments, and to provide for the prevention and summary removal of all filth and garbage. Tenth-To establish a pound and Pound-keeper, and prescribe his duties and fees; to provide for a public sale by the Pound-keeper of all animals that shall be impounded; to provide when and what animals shall be impounded; to provide for the repayment to the owner within a limited. time of the money arising at sale of impounded animals, less such cost as the Board may provide. Eleventh-To permit the laying of railroad tracks and the running of cars drawn by horse or steam thereon, making such prohibition and restrictions as the safety of the town may demand, and to fix and regulate the rate of speed at which cars drawn either by horse or steam may be run within the town limits. Twelfth-To prevent the discharge of pistols, fire-arms, fireworks, or cannon within prescribed limits. Trustees. Power of Trustees. Thirteenth-To establish, alter, and repair town prisons and regulate the same; to provide for the care, feeding, and clothing of town prisoners; to provide for the formation of a chain-gang of persons convicted of crimes and misdemeanors, and their employment for the benefit of the town, and to provide for the arrest and compulsory working of vagrants. Fourteenth-To establish and regulate markets and market places. Fifteenth-To prohibit and suppress all houses of ill-fame and prostitution, dance-houses, fandango houses, cock-fights, bull-fights, dog-fights, and all exhibitions and amusements which are against good morals and public decency. Sixteenth-To fix and collect a license tax on all shows, theatrical and circus performances, and all other performances where an admission fee is charged, or which may be held in a place where wines or liquors may be sold to the participators; and on all billiard tables and bowling alleys, and to regulate and restrain the same; provided, that no license imposed under this clause shall exceed twenty dollars per quarter. Seventeenth-To regulate and fix the rate and collect a license tax upon all kinds of business, employments, trades, or occupations of a lawful nature, carried on within the town limits; provided, that no license imposed by the Board under this clause shall exceed fifty dollars per quarter of three months, excepting the hotel license, which shall not exceed twenty-five dollars per quarter. Eighteenth-To prohibit and suppress gambling, and to provide a penalty, not exceeding five hundred dollars fine, or six months imprisonment, for a conviction under the ordinances made for such purpose. Nineteenth-To purchase or lease such real or personal property, and to erect such buildings as may be necessary for town officers and a town prison, or, for the interests of said town, to sell, convey, or mortgage the same when deemed necessary by said Board.' Twentieth-To construct and keep in repair pumps, aqueducts, reservoirs, or other works necessary for supplying the town with water; to provide for the establishment, regulation and maintenance of water-works, and to grant permission to lay water pipes in the streets of said town, with such restrictions and prohibitions as the interests of the town may demand. Twenty-first-To provide for and regulate the lighting of the streets of said town. Twenty-second-To lay out streets and alleys; to declare any streets now open, or which may be hereafter opened, public streets; to determine the width and grade of all streets, alleys, and sidewalks in said town; to regulate and direct the planting of shade trees on the streets of said town, and to provide for draining the same. Twenty-third-To provide for the improvement and repair of streets, and the construction, improvement, and repair of sidewalks, in the manner hereinafter provided in this Act. |