Fund, then the same shall become a part of such fund as the Board of Supervisors may direct. SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect on the first Monday in April, 1878. Payment of claims. CHAP. DCXIV.-An Act to authorize certain payments by the [Approved April 1, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of State Harbor Commissioners are authorized to pay to Admiral John Rogers, U. S. Navy, Col. George H. Mendell, U. S. Engineers, and Prof. George Davidson, U. S. Coast Survey, an amount not exceeding one thousand dollars each for their services as Consulting Engineers, in the establishment of the new water front line of the Harbor of San Francisco. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from its passage. CHAP. DCXV.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] CHAP. DCXVI.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] Appropriation authorized. CHAP. DCXVII.-An Act to appropriate money for the relief of the sufferers by the late floods. [Approved April 1, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the Howard Benevolent Society of Sacramento. SEC. 2. The Controller must draw his warrant in favor of said association, and the Treasurer must pay the same. SEC. 3. This Act shall not be subject to the laws relative to the Board of Examiners, and shall be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. DCXVIII.-An Act to relieve the necessities of the San [Approved April 1, 1878.] WHEREAS, The Board of Supervisors of the City and County Preamble. The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and bonds. SECTION 1. The Mayor, Auditor, and Treasurer of the Issuance of City and County of San Francisco are hereby authorized and required to issue school bonds for school purposes in the total sum of forty-three thousand five hundred dollars. Said bonds shall be payable in twenty years from the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, and shall bear interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum, which interest shall be payable on the first day of July and January, in the City and County of San Francisco. Said bonds shall be signed by the Mayor, Auditor, and Treasurer of said city and county, and the coupons attached to said bonds shall be signed by said Treasurer. SEC. 2. The principal and interest of the said bonds shall Bonds paybe payable in gold coin of the United States of America, and able in what. the faith and credit of the City and County of San Francisco are hereby pledged for the redemption of said bonds and the payment of the principal and interest, in said gold coin of the United States of America, as set forth in this Act. SEC. 3. As soon as the said bonds are issued, the Mayor, Sale of Auditor, and Treasurer of the City and County of San bonds. Francisco are hereby authorized, if there is any money in the several sinking funds under their control, to deposit the said bonds in the treasury of the City and County of San Francisco, and take therefrom in lieu thereof a sum, in gold coin, equal to the face value of the bonds so deposited, and if there is not sufficient money in said fund, or if at any time there should be a need for the sum of money so withdrawn from the said funds, then the Mayor, Auditor, and Treasurer are authorized to sell the remainder or the whole of said bonds to replace the money so taken out of the funds. Upon sale of said bonds for the purposes herein named, notice of such proposed sale shall be given by publication in two daily newspapers published in said city, for the period of not less than thirty days. Such notice shall specify the total amount of the bonds to be disposed of, the rate of Special fund used for what. Principal and interest paid from what. interest which they draw, and the time for redemption thereof, at the time fixed and specified in said notice. All sealed proposals therefor shall be opened by said named officers, or a majority of them, and the sale awarded to the highest bidder, in U.S. gold coin; provided, that said highest bid amount to ninety-nine per cent. of the nominal or par value of said bonds. SEC. 4. The money obtained from the disposal of the bonds, as provided for in Section 3 of this Act, shall be a special fund, under the control of the Board of Education of the City and County of San Francisco, for the sole purpose of purchasing school lots within that portion of San Francisco bounded as follows: Howard Street on the north, Townsend Street on the south, Sixth Street on the west, and Fourth Street on the east. SEC. 5. The principal and interest of said bonds shall be paid, when due, by the Treasurer of the City and County of San Francisco, from moneys received from the lease of the school lot on the corner of Market and Fifth Streets, in said city and county, as provided for in an Act of the Legislature approved March 30th, eighteen hundred and seventy-four; and if at any time, through default in payment of rent or from other causes, said special fund shall be found insufficient to meet said interest or principal, it shall become the duty of the Board of Supervisors to pay the same out of the General Fund, and to levy a tax sufficient to meet the deficiency. SEC. 6. All Acts and parts of Acts, so far as they are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, are, for the purposes of this Act, are hereby repealed. SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect from and after its pas sage. Deputies allowed. Compensation. CHAP. DCXIX.-An Act to provide a sufficient number of deputies for the County Assessor of Santa Cruz County. [Approved April 1, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of Santa Cruz County must allow the Assessor thereof such a number of deputies, to be appointed by him, as will, in the judgment of the Board, enable the Assessor to complete the assessment within the time prescribed by law. SEC. 2. The Board must fix the compensation of the deputies so allowed, and such compensation must be paid out of the General Fund in the county treasury. The compensation must not exceed five dollars per day for each deputy for the time actually engaged, nor must any allowance be made but for work done between the first Monday in March and the first Monday in July of each year. SEC. 3. Section twenty of the Act entitled "An Act in Repeal. relation to the county officers of Santa Cruz County," approved March 30th, 1876, so far as the same is applicable to the County Assessor of Santa Cruz County, is hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and its passage. CHAP. DCXX.-An Act to confer additional powers on the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, in relation to accepted streets. [Approved April 1, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and from bene SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the City and Suspension County of San Francisco are hereby authorized and empow-fits. ered to suspend from the benefits of acceptance any portion of a street where the owner of the property fronting thereon shall hereafter fail to pay the assessments for the improvements which form the basis for acceptance by the corporate authorities. tendent to SEC. 2. The Superintendent of Streets shall keep a thor- Superinough record in his office and list all property where the keep record owner shall evade payment for the improvements which of property. form the basis for acceptance, and he shall make a careful record of the same in a book or books kept for that purpose, showing correctly the portion of frontage in each block where the owners have paid their assessments, and the portion where payments have been evaded. tendent to tures. SEC. 3. The said Superintendent of Streets shall also keep superina careful record of all expenditures hereafter made for repairs keep record and renewals upon accepted streets, charging to each block of expendiseparately the amount expended thereon, and in every block containing one or more lots hereby suspended for the benefits of acceptance, he shall charge up to each its due proportion per front foot of the whole cost, and the same shall become at once a valid lien upon the realty, and bear interest at the rate of ten per cent. per annum till liquidated by full payment into the city treasury; provided, that at the expiration of one year from the date of the expenditures, if the same is not paid, the same shall be marked "delinquent," and a list thereof shall be certified to the Tax Collector of the City and County of San Francisco, and said Tax Collector shall thereupon advertise the said property for sale to pay said delinquent assessment and interest due thereon, and the costs and charges of advertising the same, and six months thereafter shall execute a deed therefor, provided the said property shall not be redeemed; and if redeemed, fifty per cent. shall be added as a redemption fee therefor. Said certificate of sale and deed shall be in manner and form Property suspended stored; how. as the certificates and deeds provided to be executed by the Tax Collector on the sale of property for delinquent taxes, and shall be conclusive evidence of the validity of the assessment and of all prior proceedings, and shall be subject to be declared invalid by proof only that the assessment for which the property was sold had been paid prior to the date of sale. SEC. 4. Any piece of property which shall be suspended from benefits from the benefits of acceptance through the operations of may be re- this law, may, at any time, be restored to its lost privileges, and the street in front of it accepted, by payment to the contractor who did the work the amount of the assessment against such lot for the improvement of which it was suspended, and upon filing a receipt therefor in the office of the Superintendent of Public Streets and Highways. It may also be restored by payment of said sum into the treasury of the City and County of San Francisco. All payments and collections of money under this Act shall be placed in a special fund, to be designated as the "Special Street Fund." And each payment or collection must be entered in a book to be kept by the Treasurer for that purpose, showing the amount collected, a description of the lot, with the date of the contract and assessment for the non-payment of which said lot was suspended, and the name of the contractor doing the work, as shown by the books of the Street Commissioner. Contractor The contractor who did the work in front of any lot suspended for non-payment of his assessment, or his assigns, shall be entitled to receive from the Treasurer all moneys paid into the treasury, either voluntarily by the lot owner, or collected under the provisions of section three of this Act, from time to time, as the same shall be paid into the treasury, up to the amount due him on said invalid assessment, and when he has been fully paid said lot shall be released from its disabilities, and the street in front thereof shall be accepted. Nothing in this law contained shall be construed so as to give any person a claim against said city and county for any money, unless the same shall have been first collected and paid into the treasury, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, and to the extent of such payment only. No lot shall be liable to pay any sum beyond the amount of the assessment for work done to place the same in condition to make the same an accepted street. entitled to certain moneys. Lawful to accept portion of street. SEC. 5. It shall in future be lawful for the city authorities to accept any portion of a street, for future maintenance by the city, where it is clearly shown to their satisfaction that all the requisite improvements have been paid for by the owners of the property fronting thereon; but no portion of a street shall hereafter be accepted while the bills remain unpaid for the improvements which form the basis for acceptance. SEC. 6. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. |