Duty of ing and assisting the State Engineer, two consulting engineers, acquainted with hydraulic engineering, and of good standing in their profession, who shall receive not exceeding three thousand dollars a year each, and who shall join with the State Engineer in making his final report. Eleven. In addition to the compensation herein stated, the engineers shall be entitled to their actual reasonable expenses of travel while engaged on the duties prescribed by this Act. Twelve-The State Engineer shall make monthly reports, at the close of each calendar month, of the operations of his office in the preceding month, and shall therein mention the operations contemplated in the next ensuing month. On the first of October of each year he shall make to the Governor an annual report of operations during the past year. Thirteen-The Governor is authorized to appoint a Secretary, who shall keep the records of the office of the State Engineer, and who shall, under the direction of the Engineer, and subject to such regulations as the Controller of State shall establish, make the disbursements required by this Act. The Secretary shall be required to give bonds for the faithful disbursements of the money, in the sum of ten thousand dollars, and shall receive a compensation of twentyfour hundred dollars per annum. Fourteen-The State Engineer may employ such assistants in the execution of his duties as may from time to time be required, the number of persons and the rates of compensation being approved by the Governor. Fifteen-The office of State Engineer shall be in the State Capitol building. Sixteen-For the purposes of this Act, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, or so much of it as may be necessary to cover the expenses of the operations of two years, beginning May first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight (1878), is hereby appropriated. Seventeen-On January first, eighteen hundred and eighty (1880), the State Engineer shall report to the Legistature a full statement and history of his operations up to that date, the condition of the inquiry, the important facts that have been ascertained, either accurately or approximately, and the deductions or recommendations which have been justified by the inquiry in regard to the principles which ought to govern in the irrigation of lands, and in relief of the rivers when in flood, with such practical recommendations as he may see fit. SEC. 5. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCCCXXX.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] CHAP. CCCCXXXI.-An Act to provide for transcribing the [Approved March 29, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The County Clerk of El Dorado County is Duty of hereby authorized and directed to procure for the purpose, Clerk. and transcribe and enter in the same from the Great Register of El Dorado County, the names of the qualified electors of said county, which entry shall show: First-The name at length. Second-Age (omitting fraction of years). Fourth-The place of residence. Fifth-If naturalized, the time and place of naturalization. Sixth-The date of the entry in the original Great Register. Each name must be numbered in the order of its entry. SEC. 2. The Clerk shall be allowed for his service in Fee. making such transcription the sum of twelve cents per name, payable out of the Current Expense Fund of said county. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCCCXXXII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act concerning county officers in Yolo County, and to regulate the fees and salaries thereof," approved March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. [Approved March 29, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and officio Clerk SECTION 1. Section one of said Act is hereby amended so County as to read as follows: Section 1. The County Clerk shall Clerk ex be ex officio Clerk of the District, County, and Probate of what. Courts, of the Boards of Supervisors, Equalization, and Canvassers, Auditor, County Sealer of Weights and Measures, and Clerk of the Board of Swamp Land Commissioners. The Sheriff shall be ex officio Tax Collector. SEC. 2. Section three of said Act is hereby amended so as Salary of to read as follows: Section 3. The salary of the Sheriff Sheriff. shall be five thousand seven hundred dollars per annum. In addition to his salary, he may retain for his own use the mileage received by him in civil actions, the amounts allowed him by the State for the transportation of prisoners to the State Prison, and of insane persons to the Insane Asylums, all amounts received by him from counties other than Yolo County for services performed for such counties Salary of in criminal proceedings, and the amount of all fees and percentage received by him, as Tax Collector, for the collection of licenses; and the provisions of this Act, relative to paying over his fees, shall have no application to the amounts authorized to be retained by him under the provisions of this section. The above allowances shall constitute the entire compensation of the Sheriff in such office or as ex officio Tax Collector, including the services of all his deputies or Jailers. SEC. 3. Section five of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 5. The salary of the County Treasurer shall be two thousand dollars per annum, which shall be the only compensation received by him or any of his deputies, except that he may retain for his own use the mileage allowed him by the State for traveling to the Capital to make his settlements. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first Monday in March, eighteen hundred and eighty. Transfer of surplus funds to supply deficiency. CHAP. CCCCXXXIII.—An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the County Treasurer of El Dorado County to transfer certain funds," approved March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. [Approved March 29, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section one of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section one (1). On the first Monday in November, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and on the first Monday in November, in each year thereafter, the County Treasurer shall, after the close of his official business on that day, estimate the amount of warrants, if any, then outstanding, against each of the several funds, viz., the "Salary Fund," "The Current Expense Fund," and the "Hospital Fund;" and should there be a surplus in one or more of said funds, more than sufficient to pay the warrants outstanding against such fund or funds, respectively, he shall transfer such surplus to either of such funds in which there may be a deficiency, and if there be a deficiency in more than one of said funds, then such surplus shall be transferred to the fund in which the greater deficiency shall exist. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCCCXXXIV.-An Act relative to the Board of Trustees of the City of Sacramento. [Approved March 29, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and authorized SECTION 1. The Board of Trustees of the City of Sacra- Board mento are hereby authorized, at any regular or special meet- to levy tax. ing hereafter to be held, to levy, for the fiscal year commencing on the first Monday in April, 1878, on all the taxable property in said city, for city purposes, a tax amounting in the aggregate to two dollars and twenty cents on each one hundred dollars in assessed value of said property; said tax to be levied and the proceeds thereof to be apportioned as follows: For the General Fund, 40 cents on each $100; for the ApportionContingent Fund, 5 cents on each $100; for the Paid Fire ment of tax. Department Fund, 28 cents on each $100; for the Fire Department Bond and Interest Fund, one cent on each $100; for the School Fund, 30 cents on each $100; for the Police Fund, 15 cents on each $100; for the Fowle Bond Redemption Fund, 12 cents on each $100; for the Special Water-works, 5 cents on each $100; for the Funded Debt Sinking Fund, 20 cents on each $100; for the Street Intersection Fund, 5 cents on each $100; for the Street Repair Fund, 10 cents on each $100; for Street Sprinkling Fund, 12 cents on each $100; for the Levee and Drainage Fund, 27 cents on each $100; for the Sewer Repair Fund, 10 cents on each $100 provided, that none of the said Sewer Repair Fund shall be used in building or repairing wooden sewers in said City of Sacramento; provided further, that the Tax Collector of the City of Sacramento shall receive $960 per annum for all services rendered in collecting the city taxes for the years 1878 and 1879, payable out of the General Fund of said City of Sacramento when the said taxes become delinquent in said years. SEC. 2. The said Board are also authorized to levy, for the fiscal year commencing on the first Monday in April, 1879, on all taxable property in said city, for city purposes, a tax amounting in the aggregate to two dollars and twenty cents on each one hundred dollars in assessed value of said property, said tax to be levied, and the proceeds thereof to be apportioned as provided in section one for the levy and apportionment of the tax therein provided for. Auditor for assessment SEC. 3. The Auditor is hereby allowed until the 25th day Time of April, 1878, to extend and certify the assessment roll of allowed to said city for the fiscal year commencing on the first Monday extending in April, 1878. The Auditor, in extending said assessment roll. roll, need not specify the amount or rate of tax for any or either of the funds mentioned in section one, but it shall be sufficient to insert the total tax and total rate under the appropriate headings. So far as the said extensions shall be completed at the date of the passage of this Act, the Auditor and Tax Collector of said City of Sacramento may each and both disregard the entries so made thereon, under the headings for particular funds, and the assessment roll shall stand and have the same force and effect as if said entries had not been made; and said assessment roll is hereby declared valid in every respect. SEC. 4. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. Provisions of Act certain counties. CHAP. CCCCXXXV.-An Act to amend an Act approved April first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, entitled "An Act to extend the Act of April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and fiftysix," approved April first, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. [Approved March 29, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section one of an Act entitled "An Act to extended to extend the Act of April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and fifty-six," is amended so as to read as follows: Section one (1). The Act concerning hogs running at large in the Counties of Marin, Sacramento, San Francisco, Alameda, Stanislaus, Yuba, and Santa Clara, approved April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, and amended March fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, to extend to the Counties of Yolo, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, San Joaquin, San Bernardino, Sutter, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Los Angeles, and Tuolumne, is hereby extended and made applicable to the Counties of Placer, Plumas, and Lassen. SEC. 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCCCXXXVI.-[See volume of Amendments to the Receiving hospital authorized to be con structed. CHAP. CCCCXXXVII.-An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Alameda County to establish a receiving hospital in the City of Oakland. [Approved March 29, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of Alameda County are hereby authorized and directed to establish and main |