Clerk to consider the proposals received, and then must make an order for the redemption of the bonds offered for the least sum below their par value, to the extent of the money in the treasury for that purpose; provided, no bids for more than the par value of said bonds shall be received under any circumstances; provided, further, if upon the day specified in such notice no bids for the surrender of any bonds, or of a number insufficient to exhaust the money in the treasury available for the redemption, is received, then the said Board is hereby authorized and required to order to be paid such number of the outstanding bonds, the first on the list of the District Clerk, at their par value, as the money in the treasury applicable thereto will redeem, and within one week thereafter it shall cause said order to be published in one or more newspapers published in said Town of Watsonville for at least one week; and from the second Monday of January next after the publication of said order the bonds so ordered to be paid shall cease to bear interest. A copy of said order, certified by the District Clerk, must be delivered to the County Treasurer on or before the second Monday of January following, and on said day the County Treasurer must set apart in the treasury the sum mentioned in said order for the redemption of the bonds therein specified, and he must redeem such bonds if presented to him for payment within ten months from said date; and if not so presented, after the expiration of said ten months the County Treasurer must report such fact to said Board of Trustees, and said. Board may thereafter use said money in the treasury, so set apart as aforesaid, for the redemption of other bonds outstanding; and the bonds so ordered to be paid as aforesaid, which have not been presented for payment within said ten months, at the option of said Board of Trustees, need not be paid until all other outstanding and interest-bearing bonds have been paid. All bonds and bonds and coupons redeemed shall be canceled by the County Treasurer, and disposed of by him in the same manner as he is required to cancel and dispose of the county warrants redeemed by him. SEC. 12. For the purpose of obtaining funds to meet Trustees to any obligation incurred under the provisions of this Act, sell bonds. the said Board of Trustees is hereby authorized to convert said bonds into money by selling the same to the highest bidder, for cash, after advertising for at least twenty days in some newspaper published in this State, for sealed proposals to purchase said bonds. The said Board, in such advertisement, must reserve the right to reject any or all bids for the purchase of said bonds, which, in its judgment, may be too low in price; and provided, that none of said bonds shall, under any circumstances, be sold at a discount of more than ten per cent. The proceeds derived from the sale of said bonds must be paid into the county treasury, and must by the County Treasurer be kept in a separate fund, to be known as the "Pajaro School District Building Fund," and must be Building used exclusively in the building and furnishing of said Fund. school-house, and in the purchase and improvement of the lot on which the same is erected, and for the payment of such Assessor and Collector, term of office. incidental expenses as are herein expressly authorized. The said moneys must be paid on the warrant of the County Superintendent of Public Schools, drawn upon the order of the Board of Trustees, in the same manner as other school moneys are required to be paid. SEC. 13. The Assessor and Collector herein before provided to be elected by the voters of said school district, shall each hold his office until the second Monday in July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, and until his successor is elected and qualified. And at the time of the election of School Trustees for said school district, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and every two years thereafter, until all the bonds issued under the provisions of this Act, and the interest thereon, are fully redeemed and paid, the qualified electors of said school district shall elect an Assessor and Collector for said school district, whose term of office shall commence on the second Monday of July after their election, and each shall hold his said office for two years, and until his successor is elected and qualified; provided, that one and the same person may be elected to fill both of said offices, as the voters of said district may choose. Notice of such election must be given, officers to conduct the same must be appointed, and the same must be conducted in all respects as the law requires for the election of District Trustees, except in this that the officers conducting said election must, within three days thereafter, make return thereof to said Board of Trustees, and said Board must canvass said election returns, and must issue thereupon certificate or certificates of election to the person or persons having the Qualification highest number of votes cast. The person or persons elected and oath. to said offices must, within ten days after receiving his or their certificate of election, qualify by taking the oath of office and executing and filing with the District Clerk an official bond in such sum as may be fixed by the order of the Board of Trustees. Said bond must be executed in the same manner as other official bonds, and before filing must be approved by the County Judge of said county. Elections, how governed. Duties and powers of Assessors. Trustees to Board of tion. It shall be the duty of the District Assessor, immediately after his election as such Assessor, and thereafter on the first Monday in May of each year, during his continuance in office, to commence making an assessment of all the property in said district liable to taxation. Such assessment shall be made in the same manner as the assessment for State and county purposes is required to be made by law. And said District Assessor shall, within his district, have and exercise all the powers conferred by law upon County Assessors in this State. Said assessment, in each year, shall be finished, and the assessment roll delivered to the Board of Trustees of said district, on the first Monday of September of each year. SEC. 15. The Board of Trustees, after receiving the assessment roll from the Assessor, must give five days' notice thereof, by posting notices in three public places in said district, and at such times and places as have been named in such posted notices they must sit as a Board of Equalization; their sessions as such must continue for at least three days, and not more than ten days. During their session they must equalize said assessment, and for that purpose they have the same power as the County Board of Equalization to make changes in said assessment roll. As soon as the work of equalization has been completed, the Trustees must levy a Trustees to tax upon all the property in said district, sufficient in each levy tax. year to pay all the interest accruing on all the bonds issued under the provisions of this Act during the year, and to pay at least one thousand dollars of the principal of said bonds, together with the expenses of assessing, levying, and collecting the same. They shall compute the rate to be levied, as required by section eighteen hundred and thirty-eight of the Political Code of the State of California, in relation to other district taxes; and said taxes, when so levied, shall be a lien upon all the property in said district upon which they are assessed, which lien shall attach in each year on the first Monday in May, and shall continue until such taxes are fully paid, or until the property upon which the same has been assessed vests absolutely in a purchaser, under a valid sale, for the satisfaction of such taxes. roll. SEC. 16. Immediately after the levy of the taxes as afore- Assessment said, the District Clerk and Assessor must compute and carry out on the assessment roll the amount of taxes due from each person or parcel of property assessed, in the same manner as the law requires the Auditor to do in the county assessment, and at the same time at which the law requires the county assessment roll to be delivered to the County Collector, the Clerk of the district must deliver to the District Collector the said district assessment roll, duly certified by said Clerk, and he must take a receipt therefor from said Collector, and must charge him with the full amount of taxes due thereon, and said District Clerk must immediately forward a copy of said receipt, certified by him, to the County Auditor of said county. taxes, how SEC. 17. The District Collector, after receiving said assess- Delinquent ment roll, must collect the taxes due thereon from the per- collected. sons and property assessed, in the same manner and at the same time as the County Tax Collector is by law required to collect State and county taxes; and taxes remaining unpaid on said district assessment roll shall, in each year, become delinquent at the same time State and county taxes become delinquent, and on said delinquent taxes the same percentage shall be allowed, and they shall be collected in the same manner as delinquent State and county taxes. For the purpose of collecting said taxes, the District Tax Collector shall have and exercise within said district the same powers that by law are conferred upon the County Tax Collector. The District Tax Collector must pay over all moneys collected by him to the County Treasurer, and make settlement therefor with both the County Auditor and the District Clerk, at the same time and in the same manner the County Tax Collector is required by law to do in relation to State and county taxes. SEC. 18. The County Auditor, upon receiving the copy of Auditor to the Tax Collector provided for in section sixteen of this Act, keep account must charge the District Collector with the amount of the with Collector. Funds, how set apart. Trustees to sation of certain officers. taxes receipted for, in an account to be kept by him, and thereafter he must keep said District Collector's account, and must make settlement with him in relation to said district assessment roll, in the same manner he is required to charge the County Tax Collector and settle with him on account of State and county taxes, and upon receiving from said Collector the Treasurer's receipt for money paid him on account of such taxes, the County Auditor must charge the County Treasurer with the amount specified in such receipt. SEC. 19. The County Treasurer must keep all moneys paid him under the provisions of this Act in a separate fund to be known as the "Pajaro School District Bond Redemption Fund," and the said moneys must be paid out by him to liquidate the interest accruing upon said bonds, upon presentation at the times herein specified of the coupons therefor, and for the redemption of bonds, upon presentation to him of the bonds ordered to be paid as hereinbefore provided by the Trustees of said district, and the said Treasurer must settle with the County Auditor for the moneys received and disbursed by him under this section, in the same manner as he is required to settle for county moneys received and disbursed by him. SEC. 20. The District Assessor and District Tax Collector, fix compen for the services required of them under the provisions of this Act, shall receive such salary or compensation as the Board of Trustees may by order determine, but which, together or in the aggregate, shall not in any one year exceed the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, which shall be payable semiannually, on the second Monday in January and the second Monday in July, out of any moneys in the "Pajaro School District Bond Redemption Fund"; and on the second Monday of January and the second Monday of July of each year, the Trustees of said Pajaro School District shall audit the salary then due the said Assessor and Tax Collector, and order the same paid, and upon the filing of such order with him the County Superintendent shall issue his warrant for the amount therein specified, in the same manner as he is required to issue other school warrants; and upon presentation of said warrant the County Treasurer shall pay the salary of said Assessor and Collector out of the moneys in the said "Pajaro School District Bond Redemption Fund." District SEC. 21. No other officers, except the Assessor and Collector, charged with any duties under the provisions of this Act, shall be allowed or receive any compensation for such service. SEC. 22. From the time of the issuance of any bonds, as boundaries. herein before authorized, until their payment and redemption, the boundaries of said Pajaro School District, as now constituted, shall not be diminished. SEC. 23. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CLXXXI.-An Act to reincorporate the City of Santa [Approved March 11, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Powers SECTION 1. The corporation or body politic and corpo- corporate rate now existing and known as "The Inhabitants of the name. Town of Santa Cruz," shall remain and continue to be a granted. body politic and corporate, in name and in fact, by the name of the City of Santa Cruz; and by that name shall have perpetual succession, may sue and defend in all Courts and places, and in all matters and proceedings whatever; and may have and may use a common seal, and the same may alter at pleasure; and may purchase, receive, hold, and enjoy real estate and personal property, and sell, convey, and dispose of the same for the common benefit. The boundaries of the City of Santa Cruz shall be as follows: Beginning on the Bay of Monterey, at a point on the easterly Corporate side of the mouth of the San Lorenzo River; thence up the boundaries. easterly bank of said river to the middle line of Ocean Street; thence along the middle line of said street northerly to the middle of the Brancifort Creek; thence up the middle of said creek northerly to the southeasterly corner of the Rancho Carbonera; thence westerly along the boundary of the Rancho Carbonera and the Rancho Cañada del Rincon to the east boundary of the Rancho Refugio; thence along the boundary of the Rancho Refugio south to the Bay of Monterey; and from thence due south into the said Bay of Monterey a distance of three marine miles; from thence. easterly, and following the courses of the indentations of said bay, to a point due south and three marine miles from the mouth of the said Lorenzo River, the place of beginning; thence due north to the place of beginning. ment, in SEC. 2. The government of said city shall be vested in a City governMayor; a Common Council, to consist of four members; a w City Treasurer, who shall be City Collector; a City Assessor, vested. who shall be City Clerk; a Commissioner of Streets; and a Chief of Police, and such policemen as the Mayor and Common Council may appoint. The Mayor and members of the Common Council shall receive no compensation for their services; neither shall they, or either of them, or any subordinate officer of the city government, be interested, directly or indirectly, during their term of office, in any contract pertaining to any of the departments of the city; and all contracts in violation of this provision shall be absolutely void. SEC. 3. On the second Monday in April, A. D. one Charter thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, and biennially election. thereafter on the second Monday of April, a charter election. shall be held, at which the legally qualified voters of said city shall elect the several respective officers as hereinafter provided, viz: a Mayor and four Councilmen-one from |