herein before authorized, until their payment and redemption, the boundaries of said Quincy School District, as now constituted, shall not be diminished. The moneys to be raised for the payment of principal and interest of the bonds provided for in this Act shall be raised exclusively by taxes, to be levied upon the property within the Quincy School District, as defined by the Board of Supervisors of said Plumas County. SEC. 20. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Treasurer to warrants. CHAP. DLV.-An Act to confer additional powers on the Treasurer of the City and County of San Francisco. [Approved April 3, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Treasurer of the City and County of San pay certain Francisco is hereby authorized and directed, upon presentation, to pay to William Kelly, in gold coin, the amount of certain warrants issued by the Controller of said city and county, numbered and amounting respectively: number six thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, fifty dollars; number six thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, fifty dollars; number six thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, fifty dollars; and number six thousand eight hundred and three, twenty-five dollars; in all one hundred and seventy-five dollars, together with four years' interest thereon from the date of the issuance of said warrants respectively. He shall take the receipt of said William Kelly for the amount paid under the provisions of this Act, and cancel said warrants upon their surrender. Supervisors to pay claims. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. DLVI-An Act to confer additional powers on the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, and upon the Auditor and Treasurer thereof. [Approved April 3, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco is hereby authorized and empowered to pay to A. G. Fitzpatrick, out of the General Fund of said city and county, the following sum of money, namely: the sum of eight thousand dollars, balance due him on contract for building an extension to the City and County Hospital. to pay. SEC. 2. The Auditor is hereby authorized and empowered Treasurer to audit, and the Treasurer to pay, the said sum of eight thousand dollars to the said A. G. Fitzgerald, in the same manner as they do other warrants drawn against the General Fund. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. DLVII.-An Act making an appropriation for deficiencies in the support of the Napa State Asylum for the Insane, for the twenty-seventh fiscal year, ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. [Approved April 3, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of forty-eight thousand dollars is Appropriahereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the General Fund tion. not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying outstanding liabilities, and cover deficiencies in the support of the Napa State Asylum for the Insane during the current fiscal year. And the Controller of State is hereby authorized to draw his warrant for said sum in favor of the Trustees of the Napa State Asylum for the Insane, and the Treasurer is directed to pay the same. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. DLVIII.-An Act to provide for the payment of the "funded" indebtedness of Mendocino County. [Approved April 3, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and continued. SECTION 1. The "interest tax" provided for in section Interest twelve of "An Act to provide for 'funding the indebtedness tax to be of the County of Mendocino,"" approved April nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, shall continue to be levied by the Board of Supervisors of said county until all the funded indebtedness of said county, provided for in said Act, is paid. SEC. 2. The statute of limitations shall not run against the bonds issued under said Act. SEC. 3. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. Supervisors to transfer funds. CHAP. DLIX.-An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco to transfer the sum. of five thousand dollars from the General Fund to the Building Fund of said city and county. [Approved April 3, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco is hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate, allow, and order paid, out of the General Fund of said city and county, the sum of five thousand dollars for the purpose of making repairs and alterations to the public buildings of said city and county. SEC. 2. The Auditor of said city and county is hereby empowered to audit, and the Treasurer to pay, out of the General Fund, all amounts which may be allowed and ordered paid by the Board of Supervisors under the provisions of this Act. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect immediately. Deputy Auditor. CHAP. DLX.-An Act to facilitate the transaction of business in the office of the Auditor of the City and County of San Francisco. [Approved April 3, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Clerk of the Auditor of the City and County of San Francisco shall be known and designated as, and exercise the powers of, Deputy Auditor of said city and county, in case of the illness or absence of the Auditor, in the auditing and signing of lawful demands upon the treasury of said city and county, when the same have been approved and allowed by the proper officers and Board of officers in accordance with law, and in administering oaths or affirmations in all matters in connection with demands upon the treasury, or reports required by law to be filed in the office of the Auditor of said city and county. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. DLXI.-An Act concerning the public records in the office of the County Recorder of San Bernardino County. [Approved April 3, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of San Bernardino Preservation County are hereby authorized to require the Recorder of said of records. county to transcribe into suitable well-bound books, to be furnished to him by said county, any of the records belonging to his said office of County Recorder which said Supervisors may, by order, determine to be necessary in order to properly preserve said records. SEC. 2. When so transcribed, any and all transcriptions of said records shall, for all purposes of evidence and constructive notice, be of equal force and effect as the original record. Recorder. SEC. 3. The County Recorder shall be allowed the sum of Fees of twenty-five cents per folio by the Board of Supervisors, payable out of the General Fund of said county, as compensation for making any transcription of such records, pursuant to the provisions of this Act. CHAP. DLXII.-An Act to regulate the recording of mining locations in Calaveras County. [Approved April 3, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and notice to be filed. SECTION 1. A copy of the notice of location of any mining Copy of claim hereafter located in the County of Calaveras shall be filed and recorded in the office of the County Recorder of said county within six days from the date of posting said notice of location, notwithstanding any rule, regulation, or by-law of any mining district in said county. SEC. 2. Whenever a notice of location is posted without Posting being recorded, as provided in section one of this Act, such insufficient. location shall not be considered notice to subsequent locations recording under this Act. Unexpended moneys. CHAP. DLXIII.-An Act to confer additional powers upon the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, and upon the Auditor and Treasurer thereof. [Approved April 3, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. If at the beginning of any month any money remains unexpended in any of the funds set apart for maintaining the municipal government of the City and County of San Francisco, and which might lawfully have been expended the preceding month, such unexpended sum or sums may be carried forward and expended by order of the Board of Supervisors in any succeeding month; provided, that said Board of Supervisors shall not hereafter make any contract for any purpose, binding said city for a longer period than two years. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Appropriation. CHAP. DLXIV.-An Act to pay the claim of E. O. F. Hastings. The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The following moneys are hereby appropriated out of the General Fund, of any moneys in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the object herein named To E. O. F. Hastings, for the deficiency for pay due him as State Land Agent, at Washington, in procuring the listing of lands to the State from the United States, thirteen hundred and forty-four and ninety-eight one-hundredths dollars. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. Name changed. CHAP. DLXV.-An Act to change the name of a certain town in the County of Los Angeles. [Approved April 3, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The name of the Town of "Lexington," in the |