two out of the School Fund of said Point Pleasant School District. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Road poll tax. Work on roads. CHAP. CLXXVI.-An Act to provide for the collection of road poll-taxes in the County of Marin. [Approved March 11, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Every male inhabitant of a road district in the County of Marin, over twenty-one and under fifty years of age, must pay the sum of two dollars annually to the Road Overseer of the road district in which he resides, to be known as the road poll-tax, or perform two days' labor upon the roads and highways of the district under the demand and direction of the Road Overseer thereof. SEC. 2. Each person appearing must actually work eight hours each day, to be credited to him by the Overseer; for every hour lost or idled away, he must be charged two hours. to be worked out on some other day, under notice from the Road Overseer. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Constable to take up animals. Sales of animals. CHAP. CLXXVII.-An Act to prevent hogs and goats running at large in the Town of Woodbridge, San Joaquin County. [Approved March 11, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for hogs or goats to run at large in the Town of Woodbridge, San Joaquin County. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the Constables of Elk Horn Township, San Joaquin County, to take up all hogs and goats found running at large within the limits of the town site of the Town of Woodbridge. SEC. 3. The Constables shall proceed to sell all such animals taken up under the provisions of this Act, by giving at least five days' public notice of such sale by posting notices on three public places within the town site where such animals are so taken up, and all moneys arising from such sale shall, after the expenses of taking up, keeping, and selling are paid, be paid by the Constables to the owner or owners of the animal or animals, on demand, if demanded within sixty days of the date of sale; otherwise it shall, at the expi ration of the said sixty days, be paid into the county treasury Proceeds, of San Joaquin County, and placed to the credit of Woods how used. School District, and become a part of the fund of said district. SEC. 4. Any Constable purposely refusing or neglecting Penalty for to take all hogs or goats running at large within the limits neglect. of the town site of Woodbridge, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars, and not more than twenty-five dollars. SEC. 5. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent persons from driving such animals through any of the public thoroughfares of said town. SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CLXXVIII.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] CHAP. CLXXIX.-An Act to provide a new Great Register for the County of Solano, and re-register the voters thereof. [Approved March 11, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and new Great SECTION 1. The Clerk of the County of Solano must, Clerk to within thirty days after the passage of this Act, procure a procure a new book or books for the registration of electors of said Register. county, to be known as the Great Register of the County of Solano, in which must be registered the names of all the qualified electors of said county, in the manner required by Chapter Three of Article Three of Title Two of the Political Code, except as in this Act otherwise provided. electors, SEC. 2. Upon the demand of any elector of said county Affidavits of whose name appears on the former Great Register thereof, when not and who shall show to the satisfaction of the Clerk or required. Assessor of said county that he is the person named therein, it shall be the duty of said Clerk or Assessor, and the deputy or deputies of said officers, to register or enroll the name of such person without registering the proof by affidavit, as provided in section one thousand and ninety-seven (1097) of the Political Code. tion certifi SEC. 3. Upon the demand of any naturalized citizen, resi- Naturalizadent of said county, whose name appears regularly registered cates, when upon the former Great Register thereof, and who shall show not required. to the satisfaction of the said Clerk or Assessor, or of their deputies, that he is the person therein named, his name shall be registered or enrolled without the production of his certificate of naturalization or proof of the loss of the same. Clerk to give notice to electors. Fees of Clerk. Former Register preserved. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the said Clerk to appear in person or by deputy at some public place in each of the several townships in said county, at least thirty days prior to the general election to be held on the seventh day of November, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, for the purpose of registering the names of the said electors, of which due notice of the time and place shall be given in such manner as the Board of Supervisors of said county may direct. SEC. 5. The Clerk shall be entitled to receive for his own use the sum of twenty (20) cents for each name registered by him or his deputies, for registration, which fees, with the cost of procuring the necessary lists and books, shall be a county charge. SEC. 6. The former Great Register must be preserved by the said County Clerk, but the same shall not be used for the purpose of any election after the first day of August, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect immediately, and all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. School Trus tees to call election. Elections, how called; purposes of. Election Judges. CHAP. CLXXX.-An Act to provide for the building of a schoolhouse in Pajaro School District, in the County of Santa Cruz. [Approved March 11, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Trustees of Pajaro School District, in the County of Santa Cruz, State of California, are hereby authorized, at any time within twenty months from and after the passage of this Act, to call one or more elections of the qualified voters of said district, to submit to them the question whether or not bonds of said district, to an amount not exceeding fifteen thousand ($15,000) dollars, shall be issued for the purpose of building and furnishing an additional school-house in said district, purchasing a site therefor, and for the purpose of electing an Assessor and Collector for said school district. SEC. 2. Each and every of said elections must be called by the posting of notices in three (3) of the most public places in said district, for at least twenty (20) days preceding the time of holding said election. Such notices must specify the time and place of holding the election, the amount of bonds proposed to be issued, and the purpose for which the money derived from the sale thereof is to be used, and the officers to be elected thereat. SEC. 3. Said Board of Trustees must appoint three Judges to conduct the election, and it must be held in all respects, as nearly as practicable, in conformity with the general election law of the State of California. .of. SEC. 4. At each and every election so called, the ballots Ballots, form must contain the words "Issuance of Bonds-Yes," or "Issuance of Bonds-No," and also, the name of any one person as Assessor, and one as Collector, or the same person may be elected to both offices. Trustees to advertise for SEC. 5. If a majority of the votes cast at any such election Result of are "Issuance of Bonds-Yes," the officers of the election election, must certify the fact to the said Board of Trustees, and also be notified of. certify the name or names of the person or persons having the plurality of the votes cast for Assessor and Collector, and the said Board of Trustees must thereupon issue certificates of election to such person or persons, and must, as soon as is expedient thereafter, cause to be advertised in one or more newspapers published in this State, a notice, for the period Trustees to of at least twenty days, that said Board will receive plans plans, etc. and specifications, at a time and place therein mentioned, for a school-house to be built in the Town of Watsonville, in said Pajaro School District, in said county, the Board reserving the right to reject any and all of the plans and specifications for the construction of said school-house, and in the event of the adoption of any plan and specifications presented, said Board may allow the architect or person so presenting the same, such compensation therefor as shall be reasonable. SEC. 6. Immediately after the adoption of the plans and Proposals specifications for said school-house, said Board of Trustees and bids, must cause to be advertised in one or more newspapers published in this State, a notice, for the period of at least twenty days, the said Board will receive sealed proposals and bids, at a time and place therein designated, for the building of said school-house in said Town of Watsonville, in said. school district, in accordance with the plans and specifications adopted, the Board reserving the right to reject any and all proposals and bids for the construction of said schoolhouse, which in its judgment may be too high in price; and in the event of the acceptance of any of the proposals and bid of any person or persons for the building of said schoolhouse, said Board must award the contract to build the Awarding of same to such person or persons, on his or their furnishing a good and sufficient bond, in double the amount of said bid, conditioned that he or they will perform said contract in a skillful and workmanlike manner, in strict conformity with the plans and specifications adopted, and within the time prescribed by said Board. Said bond must be approved by Bond of the County Judge of said Santa Cruz County. contract. contractor. employ SEC. 7. Said Board of Trustees may, if they deem it neces- Board to sary, employ an attorney-at-law, whose duty it shall be to attorney. advise them upon all matters arising under this Act, and to draw up the said contract for the erection of said schoolhouse; and they are hereby authorized to pay such attorney a reasonable compensation for his services. tendent of SEC. 8. Said Board may, in like manner, if they deem it Superinnecessary and proper, appoint a skillful person to superin- work." tend the construction of said building, or of any portion thereof, whose duty it shall be to see that the material used Trustees to select site. Trustees to issue bonds. Interest coupons. Redemption posals for. in the construction thereof is of the kind and quality contracted for; that the work thereon is done in a good and workmanlike manner; and, generally, that all the provisions of the contract, in relation to the erection of said building, are faithfully carried out; and said Board is hereby authorized to pay said Superintendent a reasonable compensation for his said services. SEC. 9. Said school-house shall be erected in the said Town of Watsonville, on such site as said Board of Trustees may select and purchase, or otherwise acquire the legal title to. SEC. 10. The said Board of Trustees is hereby authorized to issue the bonds of said district, in a sum not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars, to be styled "Pajaro School District Bonds," payable in annual installments of not less than one thousand dollars of the principal, on the second Monday of January of each year after the issuance thereof, until the whole of said bonds are paid. Said bonds shall bear interest from the date of their issuance, at the rate of ten per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, on the second Monday of January and of July of each year after their issuance. The principal and interest of said bonds shall be payable in gold coin, at the office of the County Treasurer of said county. Said bonds must be issued in denominations of one hundred or five hundred dollars each, and must be numbered consecutively, and signed by the Clerk of said district, by the Superintendent of Schools in said county, and countersigned by the County Treasurer of said county. Each of said bonds must have attached thereto coupons for the interest to accrue thereon. In the first coupon on each bond a sum must be inserted for the amount of interest to accrue on each bond from the date of issuance until the next date herein fixed for the payment of such interest. Each of the other coupons must have inserted therein a sum representing the full semiannual interest on each bond. Said coupons must be numbered on each bond, from one, consecutively, and must each be signed and countersigned in the same manner as the bonds. The District Clerk, County Superintendent of Public Schools, and County Treasurer of said county, must each keep a list of said bonds, showing the amount of bonds. issued, the date of issuance, their number, the sum for which each bond is issued, and the name of the person to whom issued, which list shall during office hours be open to the inspection of the public. Said bonds, from the time they are issued until paid, as herein provided, shall be a lien on all the property in said district as now constituted. SEC. 11. During the first week in December in each year, after the issuance of said bonds, the Board of Trustees shall cause to be advertised, for the period of at least two weeks, in some one or more newspapers published in said Town of Watsonville, a notice calling for sealed proposals from the holders of said bonds for the surrender of such an amount thereof as there may be money in the treasury to redeem. On the day specified in the notice, at twelve o'clock M., the Board of Trustees must meet at the office of the District |