Bills to be submitted to Board of Examiners before allowed. notice of such meeting, by posting at least three notices in SEC. 5. The money paid into the treasury, under the sec- SEC. 6. The Board of Trustees of said Scott's Valley School District, before allowing any bills for the building of a school house, for furnishing the same, and improvement of the premises upon which such school house may be located, shall submit the same to the County Judge, to the Superintendent of Common Schools, and the District Attorney of said County of Siskiyou, who are hereby constituted a Board of Examiners for the purpose of examining such bills. If the Board of Examiners approve of the bills presented, they shall indorse their approval thereon, when the Board of Trustees shall draw their order on the County Treasurer, payable out of the "Scott's Valley School District Building and Improvement Fund," and no order shall be drawn for any bill or account unless it have the approval of the said Board of Examiners, or a majority of them. SEC. 7. This Act is hereby exempted from all Acts or parts of Acts that may be in conflict with it. SEC. 8. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. Taxes to be levied for maintenance of sick. CHAP. CCCCIV-An Act to provide for the care and mainte- [Approved March 28, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the County of SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCCCV.-An Act to confer additional powers upon the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, and upon the Auditor and Treasurer thereof, and to authorize certain appropriations of money by said Board, to pay certain deficiencies in the General Fund of said city and county. [Approved March 28, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and of claims SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the City and Payment County of San Francisco is hereby authorized and empow- authorized. ered to appropriate, allow, and order paid out of the General Fund of said city and county, the following sums, which have heretofore been incurred by said city and county in excess of the allowances allowed by law: First-For the "Post" Publishing Company, for public printing and advertising, seven hundred and thirty-one dollars and twenty-five cents. Second-For the San Francisco "Call" Publishing Company, for public printing and advertising, six hundred and seventy-six dollars and sixty-five cents. Third-For the "Bulletin" Publishing Company, for public printing and advertising, eight hundred and thirty-two dollars. Fourth-For F. McCrellish and Company, for public printing and advertising, six hundred and fifty-five dollars and twenty-five cents. Fifth-For Morse [Moss?] and Company, "Daily" Examiner, for public printing and advertising, nine hundred and eighty dollars and seventy-five cents. Sixth-For Chas. de Young and Company, for public printing and advertising, fourteen hundred and sixty-one dollars and seventy-five cents. SEC. 2. The Board of Supervisors of said city and county is hereby authorized to allow and order paid out of the General Fund to the parties entitled thereto, the sum of fiftythree hundred and thirty-seven dollars and sixty-five cents, being the amount now due for public printing and advertising up to March first, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventyeight, to persons and corporations mentioned in section one, and for which no appropriation has been made; and the Auditor of said city and county is hereby authorized and empowered to draw his warrant therefor on the Treasurer of said city and county, payable out of the General Fund, and in favor of the person, persons, or corporations entitled, and the Treasurer is hereby authorized and empowered to pay the same out of the General Fund of said city and county. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAP. CCCCVI.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] Road poll tax. Work to be done on certain thoroughfares. CHAP. CCCCVII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act in relation to highways in the County of Solano, approved March 16, 1876. [Approved March 28, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section seven of an Act entitled an Act in relation to highways in the County of Solano, approved March 16, 1876, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section seven (7). Every male inhabitant of a road district, over twenty-one and under fifty years of age, must perform two days' labor annually, to be known as road poll tax, upon the roads and highways of the district, under the demand and direction of the Roadmaster thereof, or pay said Roadmaster a commutation fee of two dollars. The several Roadmasters shall return all four dollar road poll tax receipts now in their possession, and shall be credited with the amount so surrendered, and new receipts, of the denomination of two dollars, shall be prepared and issued. Any person having heretofore paid his road poll tax for 1878, may have two dollars refunded to him out of the Road Fund of his district, upon presentation of his road poll tax receipt to the County Treasurer. SEC. 2. There shall be added to said Act a new section, to be numbered thirty-nine, and which shall read as follows: Section thirty-nine (39). The Board of Supervisors of said county may, and it is hereby made their duty to, order an equitable amount of work to be done by the Roadmaster of the proper road district in the main traveled thoroughfares of any and all incorporated cities or towns in said county. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Unlawful to catch fish. CHAP. CCCCVIII.-An Act to prohibit the destruction of fish in [Approved March 28, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. It shall not be lawful for any person to catch, take, or destroy any fish of any kind in the body of water known as Lake Chabot, in the San Leandro Creek, in Alameda County, belonging to the Contra Costa Water Company, without permission of the owner or owners thereof. SEC. 2. It shall not be lawful to take, kill, or destroy any catching fish brook or speckled trout, salmon, or salmon trout, or any other species of fish in San Leandro Creek and its branches or tributaries, or in any of the streams or water-courses of Time of defined. said county, between the first day of October of each year and the first day of April of the following year. SEC. 3. Any person violating the provisions of this Act Misdeshall be guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. meanor. CHAP. CCCCIX.-An Act to prevent the destruction of deer on [Approved March 28, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Every person who shall hunt, pursue, kill, or Misdedestroy any male or female deer or fawn within three miles meanor. of the summit of Monte Diablo, in Contra Costa County, for the period of four years from the date of the passage of this Act, is guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. CCCCX.-An Act to provide funds for the school department of the Town of Alameda. [Approved March 28, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and authorized. SECTION 1. The Board of Trustees of the Town of Ala- Sale of bonds meda are hereby authorized to issue and sell school bonds to an amount not exceeding thirty thousand (30,000) dollars, payable in twenty (20) years from the date of issuance of said bonds, in gold coin of the United States of America, and to bear interest at a rate not to exceed six (6) per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, on the second day of January and the first day of July in each year, in like gold coin. SEC. 2. Said bonds shall be in sums not less than five Denominahundred (500) dollars nor more than one thousand (1,000) dollars, and shall be signed by the President of the Board of Trustees and the Treasurer of said town, and shall have coupons affixed thereto for the interest, and shall be signed by said Treasurer. tion of bonds. made. SEC. 3. The Board of Trustees shall, at a regular meeting Sale of of said Board, cause to be entered upon the records thereof, bonds; how an order directing the sale of a specified amount of said bonds, and the day and hour of such sale, and shall cause a copy of such order to be inserted in a newspaper published in said town, and in two daily newspapers published in the Proceeds of sale; where paid. Interest tax. Redemption of bonds. City and County of San Francisco, for at least twenty days, and shall annex to said order a notice that sealed proposals will be received by said Board for the purchase of said bonds on the day and hour named in said order. The said Board, at a regular meeting thereof, shall publicly open all sealed proposals received by them, and shall award said bonds to the highest bidder; provided, that said Board may reject all bids; and provided further, that no bonds shall be sold for less than par in gold coin. SEC. 4. The amount of bonds sold, and their number and dates, shall be entered upon the records of said Board, in a book to be kept for that purpose, and upon the regular minutes of said Board. SEC. 5. The proceeds of the sale of said bonds shall be paid into the town treasury, to the account of the School Building Fund, and shall be used for the sole purpose of purchasing lots and erecting school buildings, and making permanent improvements on school property; but no part of the moneys raised under this Act shall be used to repair buildings. No money shall be paid out of said fund, except on the order of the Board of Education, at a regular meeting thereof, signed by the President thereof, and countersigned by the Clerk and the Auditor of the Town of Alameda. SEC. 6. After any of said bonds are sold, and until all bonds sold are redeemed, the said Board of Trustees shall levy and collect, annually, at the same time and in the same manner as other town taxes are levied and collected, a tax on all the real and personal property in said town, sufficient to pay the interest on all of said outstanding bonds. Said tax, when collected, shall form the "School Bond Interest Fund," and all moneys remaining in the treasury belonging to the said fund, after all interest has been paid, shall be applied to the redemption of bonds, as hereinafter provided. SEC. 7. The Board of Trustees shall, each year, after the lapse of ten (10) years from the issuance of said bonds, levy a tax not to exceed in each year five (5) cents on each one hundred (100) dollars of all taxable property in said town, which, when collected, shall constitute the "School Bond Redemption Fund," and whenever there shall be in said fund the sum of two thousand (2,000) dollars or more, the said Board shall advertise in a newspaper published in the Town of Alameda, and one newspaper published in the City and County of San Francisco, for twenty (20) days for sealed proposals for the redemption of said bonds, and in one week from the expiration of the time of such publication the said Board, at a regular meeting thereof, shall open the sealed proposals, and shall pay the bonds offered at the lowest price, as far as the money in said "School Bond Redemption Fund will extend; provided, that no bonds shall be paid at more than their par value and accrued interest; but if sufficient bonds to consume the fund are not offered for redemption, the said Board shall advertise, as aforesaid, for a period of thirty (30) days, of its intention to pay said bonds to the extent of the fund on hand, commencing with the lowest numbered bond outstanding, which said numbers shall be |