after (save and except in District Number Four the Supervisor who shall take his seat for said District Number Four, on the first Monday of January, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, shall hold office for four years, but his successors shall hold office for three years only). when SEC. 5. Each of said Supervisors shall by elected at the Supervisors, the election (whether general or Presidential) which next elected. precedes the year on which his term of office commences, and in those years when there is no general or Presidential election the Supervisors shall call a special election for the Supervisor or Supervisors whose terms shall expire on the first Monday of the next January. tion of Supervisors. SEC. 6. Said Board of Supervisors shall receive for their Compensaservices the fees prescribed by an Act entitled "An Act to regulate fees of office and salaries of certain officers, and to repeal certain other Acts in relation thereto," approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy. SEC. 7. Except as is provided in this Act, said Board of Supervisors shall be governed by the provisions of the Political and other Codes of this State. SEC. 8. All Acts that conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 9. This Act shall take effect on and after its passage. CHAP. CXXXI.—An Act to authorize the Trustees of the Town The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Trustees of the Town of Hol- Trustees to lister, in San Benito County, is hereby authorized and issue bonds. empowered to issue the bonds of said Town of Hollister in the sum of ten thousand ($10,000) dollars, payable at any time after the first day of January, A. D. eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and to be paid within fifteen years thereafter, with interest thereon from date of issue at the rate of ten (10) per cent. per annum, principal and interest payable in gold coin only. Said bonds shall be issued in the denomination of five hundred dollars each, numbered consecutively, and shall be signed by the President of the Board of Trustees, and countersigned by the Town Clerk of said Town of Hollister. Interest coupons shall be attached thereto, and signed in like manner. R. M. Shack SEC. 2. Said Board of Trustees is hereby authorized and Bonds to be empowered to deliver said bonds in said sum of ten thousand delivered to ($10,000) dollars to R. M. Shackleford or his assigns, upon leford. said Shackleford or his assigns fully complying, to the satisfaction of said Board of Trustees, with the terms of charter ordinance number sixteen, passed and approved by said Bonds and coupons, Board of Trustees, and the President thereof, the twentyseventh day of September, eighteen hundred and seventyfive, entitled, "An ordinance in relation to supplying the inhabitants of the Town of Hollister with water.' SEC. 3. Said bonds and coupons shall be paid at the office where paid. of the Town Treasurer of said Town of Hollister; and when any bonds or coupons are paid, they shall be canceled by the said Treasurer, delivered to the Town Clerk, and destroyed by the Board of Trustees. The Town Clerk shall keep an accurate account of all bonds and coupons issued, and of all coupons and bonds redeemed and destroyed. Bond Inter est Fund. Surplus fund. Redemption Treasurer to redeem bonds, notice of. Fire department bonds. SEC. 4. Said coupons shall bear date of their issuance, and be numbered in the order in which they are to be paid. The first coupon shall be for interest from their date up to the first day of December next succeeding. SEC. 5. For the purpose of paying the interest on said bonds, the Board of Trustees of said town shall, at the time of levying town taxes for each year, levy a special tax on all the property in said town sufficient to pay the interest for one year on said bonds then outstanding. The special tax thus levied shall be assessed and collected as other town taxes are assessed and collected, and shall be set apart as a special fund, to be known as the " Bond Interest Fund," and out of said fund the coupons on said bonds shall be paid as they fall due. SEC. 6. If the amount realized from said special fund exceeds the amount required to pay the interest due in any one year for which it has been collected, the Board of Trustees may transfer such surplus to the Town General Fund. SEC. 7. In the year eighteen hundred and eighty-one (1881), and every year thereafter, as herein named, said Board of Trustees of said town shall levy, and cause to be collected, a tax sufficient to pay at least seven (7) per centum of said bonds, and before the year eighteen hundred and ninety-six (1896) shall levy sufficient tax to redeem the whole of said bonds, and the tax thus levied and collected shall be set apart as a special fund, and known as the "Redemption Bond Fund.' SEC. 8. On the fifteenth day of November, eighteen hundred and eighty-one (1881), and every year thereafter until said bonds are redeemed, the Town Treasurer shall give notice, by advertising in some newspaper in San Benito County, for two consecutive weeks, that he is prepared to redeem said bonds in such amount as there may be funds in the treasury derived from the tax required to be levied and collected by section seven of this Act. The Treasurer shall specify in said notice the number of bonds he is ready to redeem, in the order in which they are issued. After notice is thus given, the bonds designated shall cease to bear interest. SEC. 9. Said Board of Trustees of said Town of Hollister is hereby further authorized to issue the bonds of said town in a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, said bonds to be issued in all respects in same manner as designated for the issuing of bonds in "section one" of this Act, and the inter est coupons thereof; and said bonds shall be redeemed within the times and manner as said first-named coupons and bonds; and said Board of Trustees shall annually levy and collect sufficient tax, in the manner and time hereinbefore named, for the redemption of said interest coupons and, when due, for the redemption of said bonds. Said bonds shall be known as the Fire Department Bonds, and the said tax so collected shall be set apart and known as the "Fire Department Redemption Fund;" and said Town Treasurer shall redeem said interest coupons and said bonds in the same manner as. named for the redemption of said firstnamed coupons and bonds. SEC. 10. Said Board of Trustees of said Town of Hollister Trustees to is hereby authorized to sell any or all of said bonds, not sell bonds. exceeding said sum of five thousand dollars, either at private sale or after receiving proposals therefor; provided, said bonds shall not be sold for less than ninety-five cents on the dollar, gold coin. Said Board of Trustees shall have the right to reject any and all bids and offers for said bonds. SEC. 11. Said funds derived from the sale of said last- Proceeds of named bonds shall be set apart and used by said Trustees bonds, how exclusively for the purpose of erecting or purchasing a build- to be used. ing for town uses, and equipping a fire department for said Town of Hollister; and said Board of Trustees are hereby authorized to expend so much of said money so received from the sale of said bonds as may be necessary to construct or purchase said building and equip said fire department. SEC. 12. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CXXXII.-An Act to regulate fees in the County of [Approved March 6, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. In the County of Alameda the following fees, and none others, shall be collected by the officers herein named, for services as provided by this Act, and paid into the county treasury. Court. SEC. 2. The Clerk of the District Court, of the Third Fees of Clerk Judicial District, shall collect: For services performed by of District him before trial, including indexing and judgment by default, or dismissal of action, and the entering up of the same in any action or proceeding, seven dollars; for the trial, swearing the jury and witnesses, and for all proceedings subsequent to the trial, including the entry of judgment, to be paid by the party moving the same, five dollars. Said Clerk shall also collect as follows: For filing and entering papers on transfer of cases from other Courts, including indexing, three dollars; for transmission of files or transfer of cases to other Fees of Clerk of County Court. Fees of Clerk of Probate Court. Courts, two dollars; for administering and certifying oaths, except oaths administered at the trial to jury and witnesses, fifty cents; for certifying transcripts on appeal and exemplifications of record, besides the charges allowed in this Act for copying, fifty cents; for taking and certifying depositions, twenty cents per folio; for certifying under seal to the official character and signature of officers, fifty cents; for acknowledgment of deeds or other instrument, including all writing and the seal, for the first name thereto, fifty cents; for each additional name, twenty-five cents; for taking justification of sureties, fifty cents, and for taking testimony thereon, twenty cents per folio; for attending in his official capacity as a witness in a civil suit, within said county, two dollars, and for bringing the records of his office, fifty cents additional; for attending in his official capacity as witness in a civil suit outside of said county, and conveying any records of his office to the place of trial, five dollars, and he shall collect in addition thereto, for traveling to the place of trial, for each mile, twenty cents, and out of said sums he may pay his necessary expenses; for filing a transcript of judgment from any other Court, twenty-five cents; for recording the same, when required by law, twelve and one-half cents per folio; and for docketing the same, for each entry on docket, twenty-five cents; for drawing an affidavit, bond, or other paper, per folio, twenty cents. SEC. 3. The Clerk of the County Court shall collect: For all services performed by him in cases appealed from Justices' Courts, before trial, three dollars; for the trial and all subsequent proceedings, including final judgment, to be paid by the party moving the same, five dollars; for filing transcripts of judgment of Justices' Courts, for docketing the same and issuing execution thereon, two dollars; for recording certificates of incorporation, where recording is required by law, twelve and one-half cents per folio, and for filing the same, twenty-five cents; for recording the testimony and commitment upon examination of insane persons, when it is ascertained by the County or Probate Judge that the person committed has sufficient property wherewith to pay the expenses of his commitment, twelve and one-half cents per folio; for filing official bonds, twenty-five cents; for recording the same, where recording is required by law, twelve and one-half cents per folio; for filing and indexing certificates of partnership, fifty cents; for issuing marriage licenses, one dollar. The fees prescribed in the foregoing section, as far as they are applicable to the County Court, shall be collected by the Clerk thereof. In all cases in which the County Court has, or may have, original jurisdiction, the Clerk thereof shall collect the same fees as are herein allowed in cases appealed from Justices' Courts; and for all other services not herein enumerated the same fees shall be collected by the Clerk of the County Court as are herein allowed in the said District Court for similar services. SEC. 4. The Clerk of the Probate Court shall collect: For entering and indexing each action or proceeding in the Clerk's register of actions and in general index, twenty five cents; for filing each paper, ten cents; for writing and posting notices, for each copy, twenty-five cents; for making affidavit of posting notices, fifty cents; for issuing each notice for publication, twenty-five cents; for issuing each citation or subpoena, fifty cents; for issuing letters testamentary, or of administration, guardianship, or special administration, each fifty cents; and for recording the same, each fifty cents; for recording wills, bonds, orders of Court, and all other instruments required by law to be recorded, for each folio, twelve and one-half cents; for all certificates under seal, not herein enumerated, fifty cents; for filing and entering each claim against an estate in book of claims, twenty-five cents; for all other services the same fees as are allowed the Clerk of the District Court for similar services. The Clerk of the Probate Court shall be entitled to demand and receive, at the commencement of any action or proceeding in said Court, not to exceed fifteen dollars, to cover costs; and should the sum received by the Clerk be insufficient to cover all costs, he shall be entitled to demand and receive, from time to time, such further sum or sums as he may deem necessary to cover the costs to final termination of the action or proceeding; any excess of fees advanced in any action or proceeding in said Court shall, at the termination thereof, be returned by the Clerk to the party who advanced the same, on demand. Supervisors. SEC. 5. The Clerk of the Board of Supervisors shall col- Fees of Clerk lect: For all certificates under seal, fifty cents; for adminis- of Board of tering and certifying all oaths, except oaths administered to witnesses before the Board of Supervisors, and oaths to claims against the county, fifty cents; for each bridge or ferry license issued, one dollar; for all other services, the same fees as are allowed the Clerk of the District Court for similar services. SEC. 6. The Clerks of the several Courts, and the Clerk of Fees for oththe Board of Supervisors above named, shall receive no other er services. fees for any services whatever, performed by them in any action, case, or proceeding, except for copies of papers, record, or proceeding, furnished at the request of any person, for which they shall be allowed at the rate of twelve and one-half cents per folio; provided, that in all cases commenced in said County and District Courts previous to the time this Act takes effect, the same fees shall be collected by the Clerk as are prescribed in an Act entitled "An Act to regulate fees of office and salaries of certain officers, and to repeal certain other Acts in relation thereto," approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy; and said fees so collected shall be paid into the county treasury and apportioned to the Salary Fund of said county, as in this Act provided. SEC. 7. The word "folio," wherever the same may be "Folio" used in this Act, shall be understood to mean one hundred defined. words. excess of SEC. 8. In case of any violation of any of the provisions Penalty for of this Act the party receiving any fees not herein allowed receiving shall be liable to refund the same to the party aggrieved, fees. with treble the amount as damages, besides costs of suit, and |