May sell bonds. Road Bond Plans, specj fications and building bridges. urer shall give notice in the manner provided above, that certain bonds, describing them, are due and payable, and the interest thereon shall cease from the date of the notice. SEC. 9. The Board of Supervisors of the said County of Colusa may sell any of the bonds authorized by this Act, after having published a notice for thirty days in one paper published at Colusa, one at Sacramento and one at San Francisco, inviting proposals for the purchase of the same upon a day to be named in said notices. The Board shall meet to consider said proposals, and they shall deliver the said bonds, with the coupons attached to the person or persons bidding the highest therefor in gold coin; provided, that the Board shall have the power to reject any and all bids. SEC 10 All moneys derived from the sale of said bonds shall be paid into the County Treasury, and shall be set apart as a special fund, to be known as the Road Bond Fund, and shall be drawn therefrom, by order of the Board of Supervisors, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned. SEC. 11. The said Board of Supervisors shall cause to have contracts for made, by some competent person, plans, specifications and estimates for bridges and such other work as they may order over and along the principal highways of the county, and they shall then advertise in at least three newspapers in the State, inviting sealed proposals for the construction of said works, in whole and in part; and on a day to be named in the advertisements the Board shall meet and consider the said proposals, and shall award the contracts to the lowest responsible bidder; provided, that the said Board shall award the work in parcels, or the whole in one contract, as shall appear to them for the best interest of the county; and provided further, that the said Board shall have power to reject any and all bids, and to advertise for other proposals. Subscribe for certain bridge. SEC. 12. The said Board shall have power to subscribe any sum not to exceed four thousand dollars, to be paid out of said Road Bond Fund, whenever said subscription will procure to be built a good and substantial bridge across the tule at Monson's Ferry, in Sutter County, on the Colusa and Marysville Road. SEC. 13. The Auditor and Treasurer shall each keep an account of all moneys received and disbursed under the provisions of this Act. SEC. 14. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. Terms of CHAPTER CXXVI. An Act to provide for the time of holding the County Court and Probate Court in the County of Solano. [Approved March 7, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. There shall be held in the County of Solano terms of the County Court and Probate Court as follows, to wit: On the third Monday in April, the third Monday in August and the third Monday in December of each year; which shall continue until the business thereof is disposed of. SEC. 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, and this Act shall take effect from and after passage. CHAPTER CXXVII. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to provide for the division of Solano County into assessment districts, for the election of District Assessors, and to define their duties, liabilities and compensation, approved March twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty six. [Approved March 7, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section first of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: County into Section 1. It shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors of Divide the County of Solano, at the first regular meeting in the year districts. A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, to divide the county into three districts, to be known as Assessment Districts Numbers One, Two and Three; and the boundaries of said districts shall conform to the boundaries of the Supervisor Districts Numbers One, Two and Three of said County of Solano. SEC. 2. Section two of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: be elected. Section 2. At the next general election held for county District officers, and at every general election thereafter, there shall be Assessors to elected in Solano County an Assessor for each of the districts defined by section one of this Act, who shall be a qualified elector of the district in which he shall be a candidate, and shall only be voted for and elected by the legal electors of said district. The election for said District Assessors, the returns, the canvass, and other particulars relating thereto, shall conform to the requirements of law concerning other county or township officers, and be subject to the same rules. The District Assessors shall take possession of their respective offices and occupy them for the same term as is now provided by law for the County Assessors. SEC. 3. Section three of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 3. Before entering upon the duties of their respective Assessors to offices, the District Assessors aforesaid shall each execute a bond give bonds and qualify. in favor of The People of the State of California, in the penal sum to be approved by the County Judge of said county, for such sum as may be required by the Board of Supervisors of said county, conditioned for the faithful performance of all the duties which then or thereafter may be required of them by law, and shall take the constitutional oath of office, which shall be indorsed Vacancy, how filled. Clerk and District Attorney to prepare blank assessment lists and rolls. Assessors' duties. Duty of County Clerk. on his certificate of election or appointment; and in case of a vacancy in the office of District Assessor, a failure of any District Assessor to qualify as required in this Act, the Board of Supervisors of said Solano County, either at a regular or special meeting of said Board, shall appoint some suitable persons possessing the qualifications of an elector, residing within the district where such vacancy exists, to fill the vacancy; the person thus appointed shall give bond, take the like oath that is required of Assessors elected by the people, and shall hold his office until the next general election, and until his successor is chosen and qualified. It shall be the duty of the County Clerk of said county, with the advice and assistance of the District Attorney, to prepare blank assessment lists for the use of said District Assessors and to furnish said Assessors with a sufficient number for the assessment of all property in their respective districts. Said Clerk shall also, with the advice and assistance of the District Attorney aforesaid, prepare a blank assessment roll, alphabetically arranged, to be known as the assessment roll of Solano County. SEC. 4. Section four of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 4. The Assessors elected or appointed under the provisions of this Act shall meet at the Court-house of said county on or before the second Monday in March in each year, and classify the several descriptions of property to be assessed, for the purpose of determining upon the mode and manner of valuing the several classes and descriptions of property required to be assessed throughout the county, and shall then and there agree upon a uniform rule of valuation, so far as the same may be compatible with a proper assessment of property throughout the county. Where distinct tracts or parcels of land owned by one person, or several persons jointly, are situated in adjoining districts, such distinct tracts or parcels of land shall be assessed in that district in which the owner or owners thereof reside; but if the owner or owners of said tracts or parcels of land do not reside in either district where they are in part situated, then said distinct tracts or parcels of land shall be assessed in the district where the greater part of each distinct tract or parcel of land is situated. Said Assessor shall complete the assessment on the lists provided for by section three of this Act, of the real, personal and mixed property within their districts, in the same manner, except as herein otherwise provided, and within the same time as is now required by law concerning County Assessors; and from time to time, and as soon as assessments are made, return the same to the County Clerk of said county, taking his receipt therefor. And it shall be the duty of said Clerk to list in the assessment roll provided for in section three of this Act, all the real estate, improvements on real estate, and personal property, together with the value of each class of property; also all poll taxes, as the same are returned to him by the District Assessors on their original lists; and complete, certify and file said assessment roll, together with said original lists, in the office of the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of Solano County, on or before the first Monday in August, in each year. Said Clerk shall be allowed the same compensation for copying, under the provisions of this Act, as is now allowed by law to Compensathe Clerk of the District Court of said county; and it shall be tion. lawful for the Assessors aforesaid, at any time subsequent to the first Monday in August, and prior to the last Saturday in October in each year, and it is hereby made the duty of said Assessors, to assess any property which shall not be on the assessment roll herein before in this Act provided for. Such assessments shall be made, and lists returned to the County Clerk, in the same manner as assessments made prior to the first Monday in August, in each year. The County Clerk, upon the receipt of said lists, shall enter such assessments in a separate portion of the assessment roll filed as aforesaid, under the head of "Subsequent assessments," and shall deliver a true copy of such subsequent entries to the County Auditor, to be by him compared with the entries on the assessment roll. Should the County Clerk, in making up the assessment roll, discover any error in computations, or imperfect descriptions of property, in the lists returned to him as aforesaid, he shall inform the Assessor from whom said list was received of the fact, and it shall be the duty of such Assessor to immediately correct the same. SEC. 5. Section five of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Assessors to Section 5. In addition to the duties heretofore required to District be performed by the County Assessor, it shall be the duty of collect State the District Assessors to collect and account for the State poll poll tax. tax of all persons in their respective districts who are required by law to pay the same; and shall be subject to the same rules, be possessed of the same power, receive the same compensation, settle in the same manner and at the same times, and be liable to the same penalties for neglect or malfeasance, as is now provided by law concerning the Sheriff of the County of Solano as Collector of said poll tax. The Assessor shall have, and it is hereby made his duty, to examine, under oath or affirmation, any employé or his agent, touching the name or names, residence or property of any person or persons in the employ or service of said agent or employer who is liable to pay poll tax. SEC. 6. Section six of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: etc. Section 6. It shall be the duty of each of the Assessors Affidavit of elected or appointed under the provisions of this Act to file diligence, with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, on or before the first Monday in August of each year, an affidavit that he has used due diligence in the performance of all the duties required of him by law; that he has not omitted, nor neglected to assess any property owned or held within his district; that the valuation on the lists returned to the County Clerk represent the true cash value of all property returned, or, if there be exceptions, specifying the same, and that he has used due diligence and made every effort which he lawfully might do to collect the poll taxes of each person liable to pay the same in his district; and shall also state in said affidavit the number of days actually and necessarily employed in the discharge of his official duties. The Board of Equalization may also scrutinize the Board of acts of said Assessors, ask any questions that they may deem Equalization pertinent, and hear and examine any charges of dereliction or neglect which may be preferred by any citizen or property holder of either of said districts against either of said officers; and after such examination, and satisfying themselves of the time necessarily and properly employed, shall recommend the Compensa allowance of each of said Assessors compensation for each day so employed, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per day; provided, that the aggregate sum so allowed to all of said Assessors shall not exceed the sum of twenty-one hundred dollars ($2,100), exclusive of fees allowed by law for the collection of poll taxes; and it shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors to allow said claims. tion. Office abolished. SEC. 7. Section seven of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 7. The office of County Assessor of Solano County, as at present constituted, shall be abolished from and af.er the expiration of the term for which the present incumbent was elected. SEC. 8. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed; and this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Furniture, fuel, stationery, etc., officers. CHAPTER CXXVIII. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to define and limit the compensation of officers and reduce public expenses and taxation in the County of San Mateo, approved February sixth, eighteen hundred · and sixty-four. [Approved March 6, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section sixteen of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 16. Furniture, fuel, lights, blank books and stationery, such as the Board of Supervisors shall deem necessary and for county specify by an order to be entered in their minutes, may be supplied for the use of the District, County and Probate Courts, and for the offices of the County Clerk and Recorder, County Treasurer, Assessor, Auditor, District Attorney, Sheriff and Board of Supervisors; provided, that no greater sum than forty dollars for any one year shall be appropriated for the purpose of furnishing fuel, lights, blank books and stationery to each one of the following named officers of said county, to wit: County Treasurer, Assessor, Auditor, District Attorney and Sheriff; but no furniture, fuel or lights shall be furnished for any rooms or offices out of the County Court-house. Amount limited. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. |