levied and collected at the same time and in the same manner as other property taxes are collected. SEC. 2. This Act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAPTER CCLII. An Act to fix the compensation of Grand and Trial Jurors in criminal cases, in the County of Tulare. [Approved March 24, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. In the Courts of record in the County of Tulare, Compensain criminal cases, grand and trial jurors shall receive two dol- tion. lars each per day for actual service, which shall be audited and paid from the General Fund of the county. SEC. 2. This Act shall be in force from its passage. CHAPTER CCLIII. An Act concerning the Sheriff's advertising of the City and County of [Approved March 24, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: cluded with SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the City and County To be inof San Francisco shall include the official advertising of the official Sheriff of the City and County of San Francisco in their adver- printing. tisement for proposals to do the city and county official printing, and shall award the same to the lowest responsible bidder publishing a newspaper of general circulation in said city and county; provided, said award shall be made to the lowest responsible bid in the aggregate for the whole of said city and county official printing and Sheriff's advertising; provided also, that if any contract now exists for doing said Sheriff's advertising which shall expire before the usual time fixed by the said Board of Supervisors for letting or awarding the city and county official printing, then said Sheriff shall advertise for proposals to do his official advertising from the expiration of such contract to such time as the same shall be awarded, under the provisions of this Act, by the said Board of Supervisors; and he shall award the same for said time to the lowest responsible bidder proposing to advertise the same in a newspaper of general circulation in said city and county. SEC. 2. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect immediately. May build a breakwater. CHAPTER CCLIV. An Act to confer certain powers upon the Sacramento Gas Company and others. [Approved March 24, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. It shall and may be lawful for the Sacramento Gas Company, and other owners of property fronting on the Sacramento River in what is known as Slater's addition to the City of Sacramento, to construct and maintain a breakwater, or any other work upon the said property, or in front of the same, any distance not exceeding fifty feet west of the west line of such property, according to the official survey thereof, for the purpose of protecting said property from damage by reason of the current of said river; and they may use said work when so constructed as a wharf, for the convenient use and enjoyment of their said property; provided, however, that said work shall not interfere with the navigation of the said Sacramento River, and that said parties shall have no right to collect any tolls or wharfage whatsoever for the use of any such wharf or break water. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Name changed. CHAPTER CCLV. An Act to change the name of the Howard Street Religious Society, [Approved March 24, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The name of the Howard Street Religious Society, San Francisco, a religious association duly incorporated on the twenty-third day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, under and in pursuance of an Act of the Legislature of California entitled an Act concerning corporations, approved April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty, is hereby changed to the Howard Presbyterian Society. SEC. 2. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. CHAPTER CCLVI. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act requiring the County Judge of Santa Clara County to keep chambers at the county seat of his county, approved April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-three. [Approved March 24, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section one of said above recited Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. The County Judge of Santa Clara County shall Amended. keep chambers at the county seat of his county. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAPTER CCLVII. An Act amendatory of an Act entitled an Act to define the boundaries and provide for the organization of Lake County, approved May twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and amended February twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. [Approved March 24, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section one of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. Lake County shall be bounded as follows, to wit: Boundary Beginning at the southeast corner of Mendocino County; thence defined. easterly, along the summit of the ridge dividing the waters flowing into Russian River and Knight's Valley on the west, and Clear Lake and Loconoma Valley on the east, to the highest peak of Mount St. Helena; thence easterly, along the line heretofore established, to the Buttes Cañon Road; thence easterly, in a right line, to the most northern point of the Los Putos Rancho (commonly known as the Berryessa Rancho); thence easterly, along the northern line of said rancho, to the northeast corner thereof; thence east, to the line between Yolo and Napa Counties; thence northerly, along the summit of the range of mountains dividing the waters of the Sacramento River from those flowing into or through Berryessa and Morgan Valleys on the west, to Cache Creek; thence east, to the summit of the spur of the Coast Range which divides the waters flowing east into Bear Creek and Stony Creek and those flowing west into the north fork of Cache Creek; thence northerly, along the said dividing ridge, following the divide of said waters to the summit of the Coast Range of mountains; thence northerly, along the said summit to the highest point of Hull's Mountain; thence westerly, in a right line, to the highest point of Mount St. Hedson; thence southerly, following the summit of the mountain which divides the waters flowing west into Russian River and those flowing east into Clear Lake, to the beginning. SEC. 2. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with this Act, so far as the same are in conflict, are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. Bonds to be issued. For what purpose. CHAPTER CCLVIII. An Act to provide for the erection of county buildings in the County of [Approved March 24, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The County Auditor of the County of Lake is hereby authorized and directed, upon the order of the Board of Supervisors thereof, to issue bonds of said county not exceeding twenty thousand dollars. Said bonds shall be signed by the County Auditor, and countersigned by the County Treasurer of said county, and shall be of the denomination of two hundred and fifty dollars each, payable in gold coin of the United States, and shall bear interest not exceeding twelve per cent. per annum, and shall be made payable, as nearly as may be, in equal instalments, in two, four and six years from the date of their issue, in gold or silver coin of the United States. SEC. 2. Said bonds when so issued shall only be used by the Board of Supervisors as a loan, to aid in the construction of a suitable Court-house, Jail, and necessary county offices in and for said county, and for furnishing the same; and may employ a competent architect to draught plans and specifications of said buildings, or any of them, to make estimates of the probable costs and expenses of the said buildings, or any of them. Board of Supervisors may erect separate buildings for said Courthouse and Jail, or any county offices, as may seem best, and shall have full power and authority to do and perform all acts and things which may be requisite or necessary to carry out the Contracts. provisions and object of this Act; provided, that the contracts Cost. Coupons. Said for the erection of said buildings, or any of them, shall be let to the lowest responsible bidders, in the manner prescribed by law; and provided, that the aggregate costs and expenses of erecting the said buildings and furnishing the same shall not exceed the amount of twenty thousand dollars. The Board of Supervisors may take and receive, in the name of the said county, by deed duly executed and acknowledged, any gift, grant or donation of any lot or lots, or parcel of land situated at the county seat of said county, for the purpose of erecting any county building or buildings thereon. SEC. 3. Said Board shall order said bonds to be issued with coupons attached thereto, and the interest made payable thereon annually, or semi-annually, in their discretion, at the office of the County Treasurer, or such other place as they may designate; which coupons shall be duly numbered, and there shall be expressed thereon the amount of interest due each year, when and where payable; and they shall be signed by the County Auditor, and countersigned by the County Treasurer, in the same manner as the bonds are required to be signed. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors to Record. keep a record of the number, denomination and amount of all bonds issued, showing the date of issue, to whom issued, and the number of each bond. SEC. 5. In addition to the taxes now authorized by law to be Tax to be levied in the County of Lake, the Board of Supervisors are levied. hereby authorized to levy, and have collected by the proper officers, such additional tax as they may deem necessary to create a fund to be called the Public Building Fund," which shall be set apart to meet the requirements of this Act, and for no other purpose. The manner of levying and collecting said tax shall be the same as that provided by law for levying and collecting State and county taxes; provided, that for the present year the same may be levied and assessed at a special meeting of the Board of Supervisors of said county, to be held for that purpose. bonds. SEC. 6. Whenever the County Treasurer shall pay any cou- Cancelling pons or bonds under the provisions of this Act, he shall cancel the same, and preserve the said cancelled coupons and bonds and keep a record thereof, giving the number, date and amount of each, and from whom received; and shall write across said coupons or bonds the words "Cancelled by me," and sign his name, as Treasurer, thereto. SEC. 7. All the moneys that may remain in the said Public Surplus. Building Fund after the payment of all the costs and expenses of erecting and furnishing the said public buildings shall be transferred to the General County Fund of the county. SEC 8. The said Board of Supervisors shall, within ninety Sale of days, or as soon thereafter as practicable, after the passage of bonds. this Act, convene at a regular or special meeting called for the purpose, levy the said special tax provided for in this Act, advertise for the sale of said county bonds, and as soon as two thousand dollars of said county bonds are taken cause plans and specifications to be made of said public buildings, and as soon thereafter as practicable let the contracts for the erection and completion of said public buildings. Said Board of Supervisors shall be and are hereby empowered and authorized, if they deem necessary, to employ a Commissioner to superintend the con- Commisstruction of the said building or buildings. Said Commissioner shall receive pay for his services not exceeding five dollars per day, to be paid out of the Public Building Fund, to be audited and allowed by the Board of Supervisors. SEC. 9. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. sioner. |