correct any valuation of said property, either by adding thereto or deducting therefrom, if they deem the sum fixed in the assessment roll too small or too great, whether said sum was fixed by the owner or Assessor. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately after its passage. CHAPTER CXXI. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to incorporate the City of [Approved March 5, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section two of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Councilmen. elected. Section 2. The number of Councilmen shall be ten, and the Number of Mayor, Councilmen and all other municipal officers of said city shall hold their office for two years from the time they shall commence the discharge of the duties of such office, except, as hereinafter provided, that five of said Councilmen shall hold office for one year only; the said Mayor, Common Councilmen and other municipal officers shall be elected by the qualified electors of said city on the first Monday of April, A. D. eighteen hundred When and sixty-eight, and every two years thereafter; provided, that immediately after the election and organization of the Common Council under the provision of this Act, they shall be divided by the Clerk of said Common Council into two classes, to be known Two classes. as the first and second class; and the Common Councilmen elected shall determine said classes by lot in such a manner as shall be agreed upon by them for that purpose; the first class to be composed of five members, who shall hold office for two years, and until their successors shall be elected and qualified; and the five composing the second class shall hold their offices for the term of one year and until their successors shall be elected and qualified. On the first Monday in April of each year after A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, an election Election shall be held for the purpose of electing five members of the Common Council to fill the vacancy caused by the expiration of the term of office of the five Councilmen holding the short term, except upon the first Monday in April of every second year after eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, when a general election shall be held for the election of all the municipal officers of said city. Terms of office. when held. officers to are elected. SEC. 2. The Mayor, members of the Common Council and all Present other municipal officers now holding office in the City of Los continue till Angeles shall continue in their respective offices until their suc- successors cessors shall be elected and qualified. Upon the first day of May, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, or within ten days thereafter, the Mayor, Marshal, Treasurer, and other municipal Bonds of officers. officers who are required by law to give bonds, shall file bonds in the amounts required by the ordinances of said City of Los Angeles, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of their respective offices from that time until their successors shall be elected and qualified. SEC. 3. All Acts or parts of Acts conflicting with this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Supervisors to review action. CHAPTER CXXII. An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Solano County to audit and settle certain claims. [Approved March 6, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of Solano County are. hereby authorized and required to review their actions upon the claims of Ellen P. Gulick and Singleton Vaughn, for damages sustained by reason of the location of a certain road through Sulphur Spring Valley, in said county, and to allow the actual damages sustained by them by such location; provided, that said parties shall regularly appear in said proceeding and waive all defects in the original notices and the service thereof. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. When to complete road. May collect tolls. CHAPTER CXXIII. An Act to amend an Act 'entitled an Act to authorize certain parties to build a turnpike road from Sonora, Tuolumne County, to Copperopolis, Calaveras County. [Became a law by operation of the Constitution, March 4, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section four of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 4. The said company shall complete the said road within four years from and after the first day of January, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. SEC. 2. Section five of this Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 5. The said company may collect tolls on completion of any section of said road of the length of four miles finished, equal in amount to the ratio the said four miles may bear to the whole length of road when completed. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. This bill having remained with the Governor ten days (Sundays excepted), and the Senate and Assembly being in session, it has become a law this fourth day of March, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. H. L. NICHOLS, Secretary of State. CHAPTER CXXIV. An Act to confer additional powers upon the Board of Trustees of the City of Sacramento, and to authorize the levying of a special tax by said Board for the purposes herein named. [Approved March 7, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and for grading SECTION 1. The Board of Trustees of the City of Sacramento Special tax are hereby authorized, empowered and required to levy a special Tenth street. tax of five cents upon the one hundred dollars of taxable property within the limits of the said City of Sacramento, for the purpose of grading and gravelling Tenth street from P street to the City Cemetery, in said city, and for building and constructing a sidewalk and street crossings, planked or gravelled, on said Tenth street from P street to the said City Cemetery. SEC. 2. The said Board of Trustees shall, on or before the Board to first day of June, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, adver- advertise. tise for the period of twenty days in a daily newspaper published in the City of Sacramento for proposals to do the said work according to plans and specifications made out and duly advertised and exhibited by said Board. SEC. 3. The grading or filling in, gravelling or paving said. street, and laying down sidewalks and street crossings, shall be done in a good and substantial manner, and as said Board of Trustees may direct. SEC. 4. The said Board of Trustees shall have power to contract to have said Tenth street, from P street to the said City Cemetery, properly sprinkled during the Summer months, and to keep the same, together with the sidewalks and street crossings, in proper repair; the cost of which shall be paid out of the General Fund of said city. SEC. 5. The qualified electors of the City of Sacramento are To be voted hereby authorized to vote upon the question of levying the upon. special tax hereinbefore provided for at the next municipal election for City Trustees. On the ballot shall be written or printed the words,Special tax for improving Tenth street-Yes;" or, "Special tax for improving Tenth street-No." And this Act shall be of no force or effect unless a majority of the voters at said election shall vote in favor of levying said tax. SEC. 6. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. Issue bonds. Interest. CHAPTER CXXV. An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Colusa County to issue bonds for road purposes. [Approved March 6, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of Colusa County are hereby authorized and empowered to issue, at once, bonds of the county to such amount as to them may seem proper, not to exceed the sum of fifty thousand dollars, bearing interest at the rate of ten per cent per annum; the said bonds to be for sums Amount of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, and shall be signed by the President of the Board of Supervisors and countersigned by the Auditor. When and able. SEC. 2. Said bonds shall be made due and payable in gold where pay- coin, at the office of the Treasurer of said county, on the first day of January, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-nine; provided, that the Board of Supervisors shall have the power to redeem said bonds in the manner and at such times as shall be hereinafter provided. The interest on said bonds shall be due and payable in like gold coin on the first day of January and July of each year, and shall be payable at the office of the County Treasurer of said county or at the Bank of California, in the City of San Francisco, as shall be designated by the purchaser at the time the bond shall issue. Coupons. Date of bonds Special tax to pay interest. SEC. 3. Coupons for the interest shall be attached to each bond, so that they may be removed without mutilation to the bond, and shall be signed in the same manner as the bonds are required to be signed. Said coupons shall each express the amount of interest due and where and when payable. When any interest shall be paid upon a bond issued under the provisions of this Act, the coupon for the interest then due and paid shall be detached and delivered to the County Treasurer; or if the said coupons shall be paid at the Bank of California, then it shall be delivered to the officers of the Bank for the Treasurer; and whenever the Treasurer shall receive any of said coupons he shall deliver the same to the Auditor, taking his receipt therefor, and the Auditor shall file the same in his office. SEC. 4. Said bonds shall bear the date of their issuance, and the first coupons shall be for the interest from such date up to the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. SEC. 5. For the purpose of paying the interest on said bonds, the Board of Supervisors of said county shall, at the time of levying the county taxes for each year, levy a special tax on all real and personal property in said county, which shall, taking the assessment of the preceding year as a basis and deducting fifteen per cent for delinquencies, be sufficient to pay the interest on all the bonds then outstanding; provided, that if the tax for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-eight shall have been levied before the said bonds are issued, the said Board may, at the time of issuing said bonds, levy a tax to meet the interest bursed. due on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixtynine. The said tax shall be assessed and collected the same as other county taxes, and shall be paid into the County Treasury, How disand shall be by the Treasurer set apart as a special fund, to be known as the Road Bond Interest Fund, and it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to forward to the Bank of California, by express or other certain mode of conveyance which the Board of Supervisors may designate, at least ten days before the same shall become due, a sufficient amount of money out of said Road Bond Interest Fund to pay all the coupons due at said Bank, and he shall pay out of said fund all the coupons payable at his office as the same shall fall due. insufficient SEC. 6. If the special tax authorized by section five shall not If special tax produce a sufficient amount to pay all the interest due in any or more than one year on said bonds, the County Treasurer shall pay the sufficient. same out of the Common Fund of the county, and it is hereby made the duty of said Treasurer to see that there shali be enough to pay said interest before he shall pay all the money's out of the said Common Fund. If more than enough to pay said interest shall be produced by said special tax, then the Treasurer shall transfer the balance to the credit of the Common Fund of the county, or to any other fund, if ordered by the Board of Supervisors. Road Fund. SEC. 7. In and for the year eighteen hundred and seventy- Levy taxes three, and each year thereafter up to and including the year for eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, the Board of Supervisors Redemption of said county shall levy and cause to be collected a tax sufficient to pay five per cent. of the whole issue of bonds; and in and for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and annually thereafter until said bonds shall all be paid, the Board of Supervisors shall levy and cause to be collected a tax sufficient to pay ten per cent. per annum upon the whole amount of bonds then remaining unpaid; provided, that after said bonds shall have been issued for ten years, the Board of Supervisors, if they shall deem it expedient, may make provision for the more speedy redemption of said bonds. All taxes levied and collected under the provisions of this section shall be collected as other county taxes, and shall be paid into the County Treasury, and shall be by the Treasurer set apart into a fund to be known as the Road Bond Redemption Fund. redemption. SEC. 8. Whenever there shall be one thousand dollars or over Receive proin the said Redemption Fund, the Treasurer shall cause a notice posals for to be published once a week for four weeks in some paper printed in the county, and the same notice for the same time published in some paper printed at San Francisco, that he is prepared to redeem bonds to a certain amount, specifying said amount. And on the day specified in the notice the Treasurer shall, in the presence of at least one member of the Board of Supervisors, open all the proposals for the surrender of bonds, and he shall proceed to redeem such bonds as may be offered at the lowest figure; provided, that no bid above the par value shall be accepted. If no bids shall be put in at par, or less, or if a sufficient amount shall not be offered to absorb all the money in said Redemption Fund, then the bonds shall become due and payable in the order in which they were issued; and the Treas |