CHAPTER CCLXXIX. An Act to fix the salary of the Superintendent of Common Schools in the Counties of Calaveras and Âmador, and to prescribe the manner of paying the same. [Approved March 25, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Superintendents of Common Schools of the Salary. Counties of Calaveras and Amador shall receive for services required of them by law a salary of fifty dollars per month each, to be paid monthly as herein provided. SEC. 2. The County Auditor of the respective counties named Payment. in section one of this Act shall, on the first Monday in each month, draw his warrant on the County Treasurer in favor of the Superintendent of Common Schools in his county, for the amount of salary due him for the preceding month, which warrant shall be paid by the County Treasurer, on presentation, out of the General Fund of the county. SEC. 3. All Acts and parts of Acts, so far as they conflict with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAPTER CCLXXX. An Act to authorize the Trustees of the City of Petaluma and their successors in office to execute a certain trust. [Approved March 25, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Trustees of the City of Petaluma, and their Authorized. successors in office, are hereby authorized and empowered to execute the trust declared, or intended to be declared, in an Act of Congress approved March first, eighteen hundred and sixtyseven, entitled an Act to quiet title to land in the Towns of Santa Clara and Petaluma, in the State of California, in so far as the said Act of Congress applies to the City of Petaluma, and according to the true intent and meaning of said Act. SEC. 2. The said Trustees and their successors in office are To give hereby further authorized and empowered, in the execution of deeds. said trust, to give and grant by deed, duly executed and delivered, to the party or person entitled thereto under the said Act of Congress, and according to the true intent and meaning thereof, and not otherwise; provided, however, that the President of the said Trustees, upon being so directed by an order In case of contest. duly entered in the minutes of the proceedings of such Trustees, may execute and deliver such deed; and provided further, that in all cases of dispute or contest, the parties or persons disputing or contesting shall settle and determine their respective rights in the Courts of this State; and the said Trustees shall, in no case of dispute or contest, make, execute or deliver a deed to either disputant or contestant until a final determination of the rights of the parties in the Courts as herein provided; the necessary expense of making the deeds and acknowledgment to be in all cases paid by the grantee therein. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Warrants belonging to School Fund. CHAPTER CCLXXXI. An Act for the relief of the Common School Fund of Butte County. The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of Butte County are Se hereby authorized to take from the County Treasury all the county warrants belonging to the Common School Fund of said county, and to compute the interest on said warrants, and to enter on their journal the amount of the interest and the amount of the principal, separately. How disposed of. Interest warrant. SEC. 2. The County Auditor is hereby directed to draw two warrants on the County Treasurer, the one for the principal aforesaid and the other for the interest aforesaid, the first to bear interest at ten per cent. per annum, and the second to bear no interest; and the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors shall present the warrant bearing interest to the Treasurer, who shall indorse on it as follows: "This warrant belongs to the Common School Fund of Butte County;" and shall date and sign said indorsement, and give to said Chairman duplicate receipts for said warrant, one of which shall be filed with the Board of Supervisors, and one with the Auditor; and said Treasurer and his successors in office shall be liable on their official bonds for the safe keeping of said warrant; and said Treasurer shall pay, out of any money in the General Fund not otherwise appropriated, on the first day of July and January of each year, the interest then due on said warrant to the Common School Fund of said county, to be apportioned as other moneys belonging to said fund; and said Treasurer is hereby directed to pay, out of the same funds and in the same manner and at the same time as above specified, the said interest warrant, in two equal payments, to the said Common School Fund, to be appor tioned as aforesaid. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors to retain possession of said interest warrant until the same is fully paid, and to see that this Act is faithfully exe cuted. The Board of Supervisors shall cancel and destroy the original warrants on which the two warrants herein provided for were issued. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER CCLXXXII. An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Tulare County to re-district the County of Tulare into Supervisor Districts. [Approved March 25, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of Tulare County are Authorized. hereby authorized to re-district the County of Tulare into Supervisors' Districts, and to alter the same from time to time, as the public convenience may require. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER CCLXXXIII. An Act amendatory of and supplemental to an Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles to take and subscribe the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to the capital stock of the Los Angeles and San Pedro Railroad Company, in the County of Los Angeles, and to provide for the payment of the same, and other matters relating thereto, approved February first, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. [Approved March 25, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section six of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: issued. Section 6. The said Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles Bonds to be County shall, from time to time, as the said railroad may be completed in sections of not less than one mile, issue to the said company bonds in the proportion which the whole amount subscribed shall bear to the total number of miles of the road from Los Angeles to the Bay of San Pedro; and the said Board shall by order direct the Chairman of said Board of Supervisors, the County Treasurer and County Auditor of said county-who for that purpose, and their successors in office, shall constitute a Board of Commissioners to be styled the Loan Commissioners of said county-as such Loan Commissioners, to issue bonds in When and able. sums of five hundred and one thousand dollars, in equal proportions, for such amount of said subscription to said capital stock as said Board of Supervisors may direct. Said bonds shall draw interest at the rate of ten per cent. per annum from the date of their issue, and the principal thereof shall be made where pay payable on a day specified, to be named in said bonds, which shall be fifteen years after the date of their issue, at the office of the Treasurer of said county, or in the City of San Francisco, at the option of such railroad company. The interest accruing on said bonds shall be due and payable semi-annually so long as such bonds are outstanding and unpaid, and shall be made payable on a specified day to be named, in coupons, at the said Treasurer's office, or in the City of San Francisco, as before Preparation provided for the payment of the principal of said bonds. Said of bonds. bonds shall be signed by the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, the Auditor and Treasurer of said county, as such officers and ex officio Loan Commissioners; and when so signed shall be presented by the Chairman of said Board of Supervisors to the Clerk of said county, who shall countersign the same as such Clerk, in the presence of a quorum of said Board, at a meeting thereof. And it shall be the duty of said Board of Supervisors to cause the fact of such countersigning of said bonds to be entered upon their journal, together with the number, date and amount of such bonds so countersigned by such Clerk. And upon the countersigning of said bonds, it shall be the duty of said Board of Supervisors to cause the seal of said county to be affixed to each bond, and appoint a committee of two of their number to deliver said bonds to said railroad company to whom the same shall be issued; and it shall be the duty of such committee to take a receipt from the Secretary of said railroad company for the bonds so delivered by them, setting forth the numbers, dates and amount of the bonds so delivered, and report the same to the Board of Supervisors; provided, that in no event shall any bonds be issued and delivered to said company, except as said road is constructed, and in the proportion which the number of miles thus completed bears to the whole number of miles from the City of Los Angeles to the Bay of San Pedro. Delivery. For city expendi. tures. CHAPTER CCLXXXIV. An Act to authorize the Board of Trustees of the City of Nevada to levy an additional tax for city expenditures. [Approved March 25, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Trustees of the City of Nevada are hereby authorized and empowered to levy, for the years ending in May, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine and eighteen hundred and seventy, fifty cents, in each year, on the one hundred dol lars of taxable property of said city, in addition to the tax now authorized by law to be levied and collected in said city, for city expenditures; and the income derived from the levy under the provisions of this Act shall be paid into the General Fund of said city, to be expended in the same manner as other moneys in said fund. SEC. 2. The tax authorized to be levied in section one of this Collection. Act shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as other taxes for city purposes are authorized by law to be collected. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAPTER CCLXXXV. An Act in relation to the funded indebtedness of Calaveras County, The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, the Fund Com- bonds. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors of To issue Calaveras County, and they are hereby authorized and required, to cause to be prepared bonds of said county of the denominations of one hundred dollars and five hundred dollars, equal in amount to the bonds of said county now due and unpaid, and that will become due prior to the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, added to the unfunded indebtedness that shall have accrued prior to the first day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, not to exceed in all one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. Each of said bonds shall express on its Description. face that the said County of Calaveras is indebted to the holder thereof in the sum of one hundred dollars, or five hundred dollars, as the case may be, and that the faith and credit of the county are pledged to the payment of the same. Said bonds shall draw interest at the rate of eight per cent. per annum from the date of their issue, and the principal thereof shall be made payable on a specified day to be named in the bonds, which shall be twenty-five years from the date of their issue, at the office of the Treasurer of said county. The interest on said Interest. bonds shall be due and payable annually at said Treasurer's office, on the first day of January of each year, so long as said bonds are outstanding and unpaid; both principal and interest of said bonds to be payable in United States gold coin, dollar for dollar. Said bonds shall be signed by the Chairman of the said Board of Supervisors, by the Auditor and Treasurer of said county, as such officers, and when so signed shall be presented |