said offices: To the Under-Sheriff, fifteen hundred dollars per annum; to two Deputy Sheriffs, fifteen hundred dollars per annum each; to two Jailers, nine hundred dollars per annum each. Said salaries to be paid out of the Salary Fund of said county. SEC. 2. The County Auditor shall draw his warrant on the County Treasurer, on the first Monday of each month, in favor of said officers, as above set forth, for the preceding month. SEC. 3. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict herewith. are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. DCIX.-An Act granting relief to taxpayers whose lands have been sold to the State. [Approved April 1, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: of land sold SECTION 1. In all cases where real estate has been sold Redemption for delinquent taxes, and the State has become the pur- for taxes. chaser, and has not disposed of the same, the person whose estate has been sold, or his heirs, executors, administrators, or other successors in interest, shall, within one year after the passage of this Act, have the right to redeem such real estate by paying to the County Treasurer of the county wherein the real estate is situated, the amount of taxes due thereon at the time of such sale, with interest thereon at the rate of one per cent. a month, and also all taxes that were a lien upon said real estate at the time said taxes became delinquent, and also for each year since the sale, for which taxes on said land have not been paid, an amount equal to the percentage of State and county tax for the that year, upon the value of the said real estate as assessed for the year of the sale, with interest from the first day of January of each of said years, respectively, at the same rate; and also, all costs and expenses, and fifty per cent. penalty, which may have accrued by reason of such delinquency and sale, and the costs and expenses of such redemption, as hereinafter specified. The County Auditor shall, on the application of the Duty of person desiring to redeem, make an estimate of the amount. to be paid, and shall give him triplicate certificates of the amount, specifying the several amounts thereof, which certificates shall be delivered to the County Treasurer, together with the money; and the County Treasurer shall give triplicate receipts, written or indorsed upon said certificates, to the redemptioner, who shall deliver one of said receipts and certificates to the State Controller, and one to the County Auditor, taking their receipts therefor. The County Treasurer shall settle for the moneys received as for other State Auditor. Fee. and county moneys. The County Auditor shall be paid by the redemptioner, for making out said estimates, the sum of two dollars. Upon the payment of the money specified in said certificates, and the giving of the receipts aforesaid, by the Treasurer, Controller, and Auditor, any deed that may have been made to the State shall become null and void, and all right, title, and interest acquired by the State, under or by virtue of the tax sale, shall cease and determine. The receipts of the County Treasurer, Controller, and County Auditor may be recorded in the Recorder's office of the county in which said real estate is situated, in the Book of Deeds, and the record thereof shall have the same effect as that of a deed of conveyance. This Act shall not apply to school lands, where the full amount of one dollar and twentyfive cents ($1 25) per acre has not been paid to the State therefor. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAP. DCX.-An Act for the relief of the Oakland Guard, of Oakland City. [Approved April 1, 1878.] Preamble. WHEREAS, The military organization known as the Oakland Guard, unattached, Second Brigade, National Guard of California, sustained a great loss on the night of November 30th, 1877, through a total destruction, by fire, of their armory, containing arms, uniforms, and other military property owned by the individual members of said organization, to the amount of forty-three hundred dollars, and therefore pray that the relief herein stated may be granted, Appropria ized. The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of one thousand two hundred and tion author fifty dollars is hereby appropriated out of the State treasury, payable out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, to pay to the Oakland Guard, of the City of Oakland, as a relief to said organization for the total destruction of their armory, by fire, on the night of November 30th, 1877. SEC. 2. The Controller of State is directed to draw his warrant on the State treasury, payable as aforesaid, in favor of the Oakland Guard, of Oakland City, for the sum of one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, and the State Treasurer is directed to pay the same. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. DCXI.-An Act in relation to the House of Correction of the City and County of San Francisco. [Approved April 1, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and House of SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the City and MainteCounty of San Francisco are hereby authorized to maintain ance of and support in said city and county the institution now Correction existing therein, and known as the House of Correction, and authorized. to make additions thereto as the same may be required, and also to make all proper rules and regulations for the discipline, management, and employment of persons committed to said House of Correction by any Court of said city and county. SEC. 2. In making rules and regulations, as provided in the preceding section, the Board of Supervisors shall endeavor, as far as possible, to prevent crime, reform prisoners, and make the House of Correction self-supporting. House. SEC. 3. All persons appearing for sentence in the Police ImprisonJudge's Court, the City Criminal Court, or the Municipal ment in Criminal Court, of the City and County of San Francisco, who might be sentenced to imprisonment in the County Jail, or in the State Prison, may, instead thereof, be by the proper Court sentenced to imprisonment in the House of Correction, in said city and county, subject, however, to the provisions of the next section; and no person shall be sentenced to imprisonment in the House of Correction except under the provisions of this Act. sentence. of certain persons to SEC. 4. No person shall be sentenced to imprisonment Term of in the House of Correction for a shorter or a longer term than that for which he might be sentenced in the County Jail, or in the State Prison, and in no case whatever for a shorter term than three months, nor for a longer term than three years. No person who might be sentenced to impris- Prohibition onment in the State Prison shall be sentenced to imprisonment in the House of Correction, if he is more than twenty- imprisonfive years of age, if he has been once before convicted of a House. felony, or twice before convicted of petit larceny, nor unless, in the opinion of the Court, imprisonment in the House of Correction will be more for his interest than imprisoment in the State Prison, and equally for the interest of the public. The fact of a previous conviction may be found by the Court upon evidence introduced at the time of sentence. ment in made to work. SEC. 5. Persons imprisoned in the House of Correction Prisoners may be put to work on the public works and other property of the City and County of San Francisco, or may be employed at any other work, as the Board of Supervisors of said city and county may direct. And the said Board of Supervisors may, so far as a due regard to economy will permit, provide for the learning of trades by persons whose terms of imprisonment in said House of Correction are of sufficient length, Duty of Superintendent. Repeal. House deemed to be County Jail. and who have the capacity requisite therefor, and will work industriously thereat. SEC. 6. The Superintendent shall give his personal attention to the duties of his office, and shall reside at the House of Correction, and the Board of Supervisors shall provide therein room and board for him, and for the subordinates whose presence may be required in and about said house. SEC. 7. The third section of an Act entitled "An Act to utilize the prison labor and govern the House of Correction of the City and County of San Francisco," approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and all Acts and parts of Acts, so far as they are inconsistent with this Act, are hereby repealed; provided, that all offenses committed before this Act takes effect shall be inquired of, prosecuted, and punished in the same manner as if this Act had not been passed. SEC. 8. Every person who shall, at the time of the passage of this Act, be confined in the House of Correction under or by virtue of a sentence of imprisonment in the County Jail, may remain in the House of Correction till his term of imprisonment shall expire, and, so far as relates to him, the House of Correction shall be deemed to be the County Jail, and he shall be in the charge and keeping of the Superintendent, who shall have the same power over him that the Sheriff might exercise if he was in fact in the County Jail. While any such person shall be in charge of the Superintendent as above provided, the Sheriff shall be under no responsibility in regard to him; but nothing herein shall prevent the Sheriff from removing at any time any such person from the House of Correction to the County Jail. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to abolish or in any way to interfere with the government or control of the County or Branch County Jails of said city and county by the Sheriff of said city and county. SEC. 9. This Act shall take effect in 30 days from and after its passage. Council empowered CHAP. DCXII.-An Act to confer further powers on the Common Council of the City of Santa Barbara. [Approved April 1, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Common Council of said city, for the to purchase purpose of opening an avenue between State and Anacapa certain land. Streets, may purchase the land and improvements lying between State and Anacapa Streets, and New De la Guerra and De la Guerra Streets, on such terms as they shall deem advisable for the benefit of said city, and if terms cannot be agreed upon between said parties holding lands and improvements and the Common Council, then three Commissioners may be appointed by the said Common Council, who shall appraise said lands and improvements, and the same shall be paid for out of the General Funds of the City of Santa Barbara. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. DCXIII.-An Act imposing a tax on the issue of certificates of stock corporations. [Approved April 1, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for the Secretary of every Fee allowed. corporation in the State of California to demand and receive of any person requiring the issue to him of any certificate of stock in such corporation, a fee of ten cents in coin for each certificate, whether such certificate be the original issue or an issue on transfer, and such certificate shall not be delivered by the Secretary until such fee shall be paid. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of every such Duty of corporation, on the first Monday in January, April, July, Secretary. and October, of each year, to make returns, under oath, to the Tax Collector, or officer acting as Tax, Collector, of the number of certificates issued by the corporation of which he is Secretary, during the quarter preceding, and pay to such Tax Collector the sum of ten cents in coin for each and every certificate so issued by said corporation, except that in the City and County of San Francisco such returns and payments shall be made to the License Collector, or officer engaged in the collection of licenses in said city and county. Secretary SEC. 3. Such Tax Collector, or License Collector, is hereby Examinaauthorized and empowered to examine such Secretary, under tion of oath, as to the truth of said returns, and to examine, if nec- and books. essary, the books of such corporation, so far as they relate to the transfer of stock, or issue of certificates, and if the returns are not correct then he is authorized to commence an action against such corporation in any Court of competent jurisdiction, in the name of the people of the State of California, for a penalty of one hundred dollars for each certificate issued by such corporation and not so returned under oath, and several penalties may be joined in such action. SEC. 4. Any person violating the provisions of section Perjury. two of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and false swearing to any return provided in section two shall be deemed perjury. SEC. 5. All moneys collected under the provisions of this Disposal Act shall be paid by such Tax Collector, or License Collector, of moneys into the county treasury, and shall become a part of the General Fund, or if there shall in any county be no General |