Notice of ninety, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and eighteen hundred and ninety-three, sufficient to pay eight per cent. each year of the whole issue, and for the years eighteen hundred and ninety-four and eighteen hundred and ninety-five, sufficient to pay each year twenty-one per cent. of the whole issue. The amount of taxes thus collected shall be set apart as a special fund, to be known as Road Redemption Fund Number Three, authorized under this Act, and to be applied to the payment of the bonds issued under this Act, and to no other purpose. SEC. 5. On the first day of January, eighteen hundred redemption, and eighty-seven, and of each year thereafter until all of said bonds are redeemed or paid, the Board of Supervisors of Humboldt County shall, by advertisement in a newspaper published in said county, for three consecutive weeks, give notice of the amount of the said Special Road Redemption Fund Number Three in the county treasury, and invite from the holders of said bonds sealed proposals, directed to the Chairman of the Board, of the terms upon which they are willing to surrender their bonds; the said Board, at the first regular meeting thereafter to be held, shall open all proposals until then received, and order the payment of the bonds offered at the lowest price, to an amount equal to that in said Redemption Fund; provided, that no bonds shall be paid for at more than its par value and accrued interest. Sale of bonds. Proceeds, how applied. SEC. 6. The Board of Supervisors of said county, whenever it shall become necessary in order to carry out the provisions of this Act, are authorized and required to sell any or all of such bonds, after having published a notice for thirty days, in one newspaper published in said county and one published in the City of San Francisco, inviting sealed proposals, directed to the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, for the purchase of the same. Upon a day to be named in said notice, the Board shall meet to consider said proposals, and they shall deliver said bonds, with coupons attached, to the person or persons bidding the highest therefor, in United States gold coin; provided, that the Board shall have power to reject any and all bids. SEC. 7. All funds derived from the sale of said bonds shall be set apart as a special fund, and be known as Wagon Road Fund Number Three, and by the Board of Supervisors be appropriated, applied, and used in laying out and constructing, over the most practicable route, in such manner as they shall deem best, a wagon road on the south side of Eel River, over the most practicable route, from Grizzly Bluff to Camp Grant. For the purposes of this Act the said Board of Supervisors are hereby authorized to make all necessary provisions for the construction of said road at as early a day as practicable. SEC. 8. This Act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCCLXVII.-An Act for the relief of N. A. Covarrubias, [Approved March 28, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and to audit SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of Santa Barbara Supervisors County are hereby directed to audit the claim of N. A. Co- claim. varrubias, Sheriff of Santa Barbara County, in the sum of two hundred dollars in gold coin of the United States of America, for moneys paid by said Sheriff as a reward for the apprehension of Jack Cotton and Caroline Norton, murderers, afterwards convicted and sent to State Prison for life; the amount allowed to be paid out of the General Fund of said county, in the same manner that other claims against the county are paid. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAP. CCCLXVIII.-An Act to make applicable certain provisions of the Political Code to the County of Humboldt. [Approved March 28, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Sections thirty-eight hundred and ninety-four Code made and thirty-eight hundred and ninety-five of Volume Two, applicable. Chapter Eleven, Title Nine, Article Two, Miscellaneous Provisions of the Political Code, are hereby made applicable to the County of Humboldt. SEC. 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first Monday in March, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven. CHAP. CCCLXIX.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to incorporate the Town of Watsonville, Santa Cruz County, California, approved March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. [Approved March 28, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and duties of Trustees. SECTION 1. Section four of said Act is hereby amended so Powers and as to read as follows: Section 4. The Trustees of said town may adopt rules for its proceedings, shall judge of the qualifications of its own members, and shall have power to remove duties of Trustees. Powers and for good and sufficient cause, after a notice to the party accused, by a unanimous vote, any and all town officers, whether elected or appointed, and to fill any vacancy so caused; said Trustees shall also have power to make such by-laws and ordinances, not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States and of this State, as they may deem necessary; to prevent and remove nuisances; to prohibit disorderly conduct; to license, tax, and regulate all such business and employments as the public good may require and as may not be prevented by law, and fix the terms and price thereof; provided, that the proceeds of all licenses issued to persons doing business within the town limits of Watsonville shall be paid into the town treasury for the use of said town, and it shall be unlawful for any county officer to collect any such licenses within the said town; to grant permission for the laying of railroad tracks through the town and the running of cars drawn by horses or steam thereon, and to regulate the same; to provide for the care and regulation of prisoners; for the employment of vagrants and prisoners upon the public streets and works of the town; to construct works necessary for supplying said town with water; to provide such means as they may deem necessary to protect said town from injury by fire; to levy and collect annually a tax on all property in said town, not exceeding one per cent. on the assessment valuation thereof; to impose and collect a poll-tax of not exceeding one dollar per annum on every male inhabitant of the town twenty-one years of age and upwards; to impose and collect a tax of not exceeding six dollars per annum on the owner of every dog owned and kept within the limits of the town, and to pass such other by-laws and ordinances for the regulation and police of said town, and for carrying into effect the foregoing powers, as they may deem necessary; but shall not have power to contract any debt or debts which, singly or in the aggregate, shall exceed the sum of five hundred dollars, unless by the consent of a majority of the voters of said town voting at a special election ordered for that purpose by said Trustees, and of which election notice shall be given either by notices posted in at least five public places in said town, or published in a newspaper, if there be one in such town, for at least ten days prior thereto. Transcribed records SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCCLXX-An Act to legalize and make valid the transcribed records of San Benito County. [Approved March 28, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The transcribed records now in possession of made valid. the County Clerk and County Recorder of San Benito County, transcribed from the original records of Monterey County by W. M. R. Parker, under the order of the Board of Supervisors of San Benito County, heretofore made, are hereby declared to be valid, and the same shall be received in all the Courts of this State, and in all proceedings, as evidence, with the full effect, and subject to the same objections only, as may be made to said originals. Certified copies of said transcribed records shall also be received with the same force and effect as certified copies of said original records. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. CCCLXXI.-An Act to change the name of a town in [Approved March 28, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The name of the Town of Dorris Bridge, in Name CHAP. CCCLXXII.-An Act to repeal an Act entitled an Act to encourage the destruction of squirrels and gophers in certain counties of this State, and to provide a bounty for the same, approved March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, so far as the same relates to Stanislaus County. [Approved March 28, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. An Act entitled an Act to encourage the de- Act struction of squirrels and gophers in certain counties of this repealed. State, and to provide a bounty for the same, approved March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, so far as said Act relates to the County of Stanislaus, is hereby repealed. rights, SEC. 2. All rights and claims now accrued under said Act Accrued in said County of Stanislaus are hereby expressly preserved; ins but all such claims shall be presented to the Board of Supervisors of said county on or before the first day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-six; and if not so presented within said time, they shall be from thenceforth barred; and if there is not sufficient money in the Bounty Fund of said Transfer of moneys. county to pay said claims, they shall be paid out of the General Fund of said county. SEC. 3. All moneys remaining in the Bounty Fund of said county after the first day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, shall be transferred by the Treasurer of said county to the General Fund thereof. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect immediately. Board to consist of five Directors, election of. Board to organize. CHAP. CCCLXXIII.-An Act to establish and define the powers and duties of the Board of Education of the City of Santa Rosa, in the County of Sonoma, and State of California. [Approved March 28, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Education of the City of Santa Rosa, of Sonoma County, California, shall consist of five School Directors, who shall be elected as follows, namely: Two at the next ensuing charter election for city officers for the City of Santa Rosa, County of Sonoma, State of California, for the term of two years, and three at the next charter election thereafter for said city, for the term of two years, and at every subsequent charter election for city officers for said city there shall be alternately two and three School Directors elected to take the place of those whose terms shall have expired, said term of office in each and every case to be for two years, and until a successor is duly elected and qualified. The three present members of the Board of Trustees of Courthouse School District shall be members of the Board of Education of the City of Santa Rosa, and shall constitute the entire Board until the next regular charter election in the city aforesaid, and their term of office shall continue until the regular charter election for city officers for said city, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, and until their successors are duly elected and qualified; and said Board shall exercise, and are hereby authorized and empowered to exercise, all the powers and duties hereinafter provided as appertaining to the Board of Education created by this Act. Said Board of Education shall meet and qualify within ten days after their election is duly ascertained and declared, and after qualifying, as provided in the revised school law of the State of California, shall elect from their number a President and a Secretary, and shall hold meetings monthly thereafter, and at such other times as the Board may determine. A majority of all the members elect shall constitute a quorum to transact business, but a less number may adjourn from time to time. The Board may determine. the rules of its proceedings. Its sessions shall be public, and its records shall lie open to public inspection. The Board shall also have power to fill all vacancies occurring in the Board until the then next ensuing charter election. |