CHAP. CCCXV.-An Act relating to road districts and Road [Approved March 23, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Overseers. SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of Sierra County Supervisors shall have supervision and control of the road districts in to appoint the county, and may change the boundaries thereof or establish new districts whenever deemed necessary. The Board shall, at its regular meeting in November in each year, or whenever a vacancy occurs, appoint an Overseer for each road district, upon petition of property tax-payers thereof, with power to remove for cause. The Road Overseers at present in office shall hold their respective offices until the first Monday in November, eighteen hundred and seventysix, and until their successors are appointed and qualified. The final report and settlement of the Road Overseers shall be made to the Board of Supervisors on the first Monday in November in each year, or whenever required by the Board. Subdivision one of section twenty-six hundred and forty-seven of the Political Code shall not apply to the County of Sierra. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCCXVI.-An Act amendatory of and supplementary to an Act entitled an Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Lake County to issue bonds of said county to pay a judgment recovered against said county in the Sixth Judicial District Court in and for Yolo County, in the State of California, on May sixth, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, approved March fourteenth, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six. [Approved March 23, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and be canceled SECTION 1. Section two of said Act is amended so as to Bonds and read as follows: Section 2. Said bonds, when so prepared, coupons to shall have attached unto them coupons for interest, which when paid. said interest shall be paid annually; and upon the payment of any of said bonds, or the interest thereon, as hereinafter provided, it shall be the duty of the County Treasurer of said County of Lake to take possession of such bond or coupon, and to mark the same with the word "Canceled" and the date of such cancellation, and to preserve the said canceled bond or coupon in his office, nor shall he pay any such bond or coupon until it shall be surrendered for payment and cancellation. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. Supervisors bridge. CHAP. CCCXVII.-An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of the County of Stanislaus to purchase the toll-bridge across the Stanislaus River at Knight's Ferry. [Approved March 23, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the County of to purchase Stanislaus are hereby authorized to purchase from the Stanislaus Bridge Company the toll-bridge of said company crossing the Stanislaus River at Knight's Ferry, at a cost not exceeding fourteen thousand dollars. When tolls may be abolished. Toll Collect SEC. 2. From the time of such purchase said bridge shall become the property of the County of Stanislaus, and the said Board of Supervisors are hereby authorized and empowered to charge and collect such rates of toll as they may from time to time fix by the action of said Board, until the sum arising therefrom, over and above the cost of collecting the same, shall amount to the sum of ten thousand dollars, from and after which time said bridge shall be declared a free bridge, and no further tolls shall be charged; provided, that at any time, if they deem that the interest of the public and the people of the county would be subserved thereby, said Board of Supervisors may order the collection of tolls to cease, and declare said bridge to be a free bridge. SEC. 3. Said Board of Supervisors shall appoint some or, bond of suitable person to collect the tolls charged for crossing on said bridge, and to perform such other services in connection with the management of said bridge as may be required by said Board; such person, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, shall give a bond in the sum of two thousand dollars, for the faithful discharge of his duties, subject to the approval of and to be filed with said Board. Duties of Salary. SEC. 4. The person appointed collector of tolls shall faithfully collect all tolls chargeable for crossing said bridge, in accordance with the rates established by said Board, from all persons crossing or using said bridge, and keep a faithful and itemized account of such collection; on the first day of each regular term of said Board, he shall present to said Board a full and complete abstract of his account, showing the amount collected by him during the period then ended, which account shall be verified by his oath in such form as the said Board may prescribe, and after the said account has been examined and approved by said Board, he shall pay the amount collected by him to the County Treasurer. SEC. 5. The person appointed collector of tolls shall receive a compensation to be fixed by the Board of Supervisors of said county, not, however, to exceed the sum of fifty dollars per month, which compensation, when so fixed, shall be in full for all services rendered by him under the provisions of this Act; such compensation shall be audited and allowed by said Board at each regular meeting, the same as other county charges, and when so audited and allowed, shall be paid by the County Treasurer out of the Road Fund of said county. bonds. SEC. 6. The said Board of Supervisors are hereby author- Supervisors ized, to enable them to procure the necessary means to make t the purchase herein authorized, to issue the bonds of said county for the sum of fourteen thousand dollars, payable in annual installments of one thousand dollars of the principal on the second Monday in January, in each and every year after their issuance, until such bonds are fully paid and redeemed; and the same shall bear interest from the date of their issuance, at the rate of eight per cent. per annum, such interest payable annually, at the same time as the principal, both principal and interest to be paid at the office of the County Treasurer of said county, and in the gold coin of the United States exclusively; provided, all of said bonds shall when be redeemed within fourteen years of their issuance. redeemed. SEC. 7. Said bonds shall be issued in denominations of sale of five hundred dollars each, each with fourteen coupons bonds. attached thereto, expressing the amount of interest to accrue on such bonds; said bonds and coupons shall be issued, signed, attested, numbered, recorded, registered, canceled, and may be sold by the Board of Supervisors in the same manner as was provided by law for the bonds and coupons issued under the provisions of an Act entitled an Act to provide for the erection of a Court-house and Jail in the County of Stanislaus, approved February first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two (Stats. 1871-2, p. 40); provided, the Board of Supervisors of said county may sell any or all of said bonds at par, without advertising. SEC. 8. All moneys received by the county, and all moneys authorized to be paid under the provisions of this Act, shall be paid into and out of the General Road Fund of said county. road tax. SEC. 9. In addition to the taxes now authorized to be Levy of levied for road purposes in said county, for the purpose of redeeming the principal and interest of said bonds as the same become due and payable, said Board of Supervisors are hereby authorized to levy an additional tax for road purposes, not to exceed five cents on each one hundred dollars of the taxable property of said county. of redemp SEC. 10. The Treasurer of said county shall, on or before Treasurer to the first day of December in each year, advertise in a news- give notice paper published in the County of Stanislaus, for two consec- tion. utive weeks, calling for bids for the surrender, cancellation, and payment of two of said bonds; the bids so received by him shall, on the second Monday in January, be opened by said County Treasurer and County Auditor, at which time the bid of the person offering to surrender two such bonds for the least sum below their par value shall be received, and the two bonds so offered to be surrendered shall be paid and canceled; provided, no bid offering to surrender any of said bonds above their par value shall be considered by said officers; provided further, that if no bids are received, said Auditor and Treasurer shall declare the two bonds then standing first in number on the register kept by the County Treasurer payable, and the holder of said bonds, if known to him, shall be personally notified of such fact by the County Treasurer, and if not so known, then such owner shall be notified by an advertisement in a newspaper published in said county, for two weeks, calling for a surrender of such bonds; and from the time of the order the interest on the bonds so declared payable shall cease. SEC. 11. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Misdemeanor. Same. Same. Same. Same. Penalty. Counties exempt. CHAP. CCCXVIII.-An Act to prevent persons passing through inclosures and leaving them open, by tearing down fences, or otherwise, and to prevent hunting upon inclosed lands in the State of California. [Approved March 23, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Every person who shall open any gate, bars, or fence of another, for the purpose of passing through, and shall willfully leave the same open, without the permission of the owner, is guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 2. Every person who willfully opens, tears down, or otherwise destroys any fence on the inclosed land of another, is guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 3. Every person who willfully enters upon the inclosed land of another for the purpose of hunting, or who discharges fire-arms, or lights camp-fires thereon, without first having obtained permission of the owner or occupant of said land, is guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 4. Every person who willfully, carelessly, or negligently, while hunting or camping upon the inclosed land of another, kills, maims, or wounds an animal, the property of another, is guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 5. Every person who, upon departing from camp, willfully leaves the fire or fires burning or unextinguished, is guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 6. Every person found guilty of any of the misdemeanors herein mentioned shall be fined not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars, and shall be imprisoned in the County Jail until such fine be satisfied, not exceeding one day for every two dollars thereof. SEC. 7. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict herewith are repealed; provided, however, nothing herein contained shall be construed as repealing section five hundred and ninety-four of the Penal Code. SEC. 8. Section three of this Act shall not apply to the Counties of Los Angeles, San Diego, Sutter, San Benito, Del Norte, El Dorado, Colusa, Yuba, Humboldt, Amador, Tuolumne, San Luis Obispo, Plumas, Lassen, Siskiyou, Modoc, Shasta, Trinity, Sierra, Placer. SEC. 9. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. CCCXIX.-An Act to require the ex-Tax Collectors of the City and County of San Francisco to pay into the treasury of said city and county certain moneys retained by them. [Approved March 23, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The ex-Tax Collectors of the City and County Moneys to of San Francisco, and each of them, shall, within sixty days be paid over. after the passage of this Act, pay and deliver to the Treasurer of said city and county all moneys heretofore collected by them, or either of them, or paid to them, or either of them, as State or county taxes, or city and county taxes, or "outside land taxes," so-called, whether paid to them, or either of them, under protest or otherwise, and the said Treasurer is hereby directed to receipt for the same. Upon such payments, the said ex-Tax Collectors, and each of them, and their sureties upon their and each of their official bonds, are hereby released and discharged of and from any and all liability for the amounts so paid. SEC. 2. Any of said ex-Tax Collectors failing to comply Felony. with the provisions of section one of this Act, or to make the payments as therein provided, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the State Prison for a term of not less than one year, nor more than five years. Judgment, how paid. SEC. 3. If, in any of the actions now or hereafter pending mont against said ex-Tax Collectors, or either of them, for the recoyery of said moneys, judgment shall be finally rendered in favor of the plaintiffs therein, it shall be the duty of the Auditor of said city and county, upon presentation of a certified copy of such judgment, to draw his warrant in favor of such plaintiff upon the General Fund of said city and county, for the proportion due from said city and county of the amount of such judgment and costs; and the Treasurer of said city and county shall pay the same; and, upon a like presentation of a certified copy of such judgment, the Controller of State shall Controller draw his warrant in favor of such plaintiff upon the General Fund of the State, for the proportion due from the State of the amount of such judgment and costs, and the State Treas- State Treasurer shall pay the same; provided, that the amount of money urer to pay. collected by such ex-Tax Collectors shall have been paid and delivered to such Treasurer, as provided in section one of this Act. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect immediately. to draw warrant. |