the proceeds and incomes thereof, to apply, with the moneys raised upon the bonds herein ordered to be issued, upon the payment of the principal of the funded or bonded indebtedness of said city. interest. be paid for SEC. 6. The said Commissioners, previous to making out the Levy yearly general assessment list of said city, in each and every year after tax to pay. the Mayor and Common Council of said city shall order, by ordinance as aforesaid, the bonds herein provided for to be issued, shall certify and deliver to the City Assessor the amount which shall be necessary to be raised for the payment of the interest of said bonds for the current year; and the said Assessor in completing said assessment list shall add to the amount which may be authorized by law to be raised for other purposes the amount so certified for the payment of such interest, and of the Sinking Fund, when due, as hereinafter specified; and the first money's First moneys collected on the whole of such general assessment list which received to shall remain in the hands of the City Treasurer shall be paid by interest. said Treasurer into the hands of said Commissioners as fast as the same be collected; and no payment other than that shall be, directly or indirectly, made out of the money assessed or collected in said assessment list for any other purposes until the amounts authorized by this section to be assessed and collected shall have been actually paid over to said Commissioners. The Common Council of said city shall not have power to enact any provision which shall prevent or hinder the collection, in gold coin of the United States, of the amounts authorized to be raised by this section; and if any such provisions are attempted to be enacted, it shall be the duty of the City Collector to disregard City Colthe same and to collect and pay over the coin as authorized by collect tax. this section. The said Commissioners shall have the right at all times to inspect the books of the Collector and Assessor of said city. lector shall disbursed. SEC. 7. The said Commissioners shall receive into their Tax, how custody all the money which shall be levied and collected for the purposes of this Act. Out of the same they shall pay the interest of the bonds issued hereunder when the same falls due, and the residue thereof they shall place in the Sinking Fund hereinafter provided. They shall keep regular books of accounts [and] minutes of their proceedings, which shall be open at all times to the inspection of the Common Council of the city; and shall, within one month before the expiration of the fiscal Annual year of said city, transmit to the Common Council thereof a statement, verified by oath of one or more of said Commissioners, showing the amount of moneys received and paid out by them, the expenditures by them made, the amount of bonds outstanding and the amount redeemed within the current year, with the condition of the moneys and securities in their hands, which statement the Common Council shall forthwith cause to be published in a newspaper published in said city. statement. Bonds to be after adver SEC. 8. Five years after the date of the issue of the bonds provided to be issued by this Act, there shall commence to be redeemed assessed and collected annually, and paid over by the City Col- tising. lectors to the Commissioners, in addition to, and in the same manner as the interest is specified to be assessed and paid over, ten per cent. upon the aggregate amount of the whole debt Coupons cancelled. Official oath and bonds. Funding ers. herein created, as a Sinking Fund for the payment of the principal of said bonds at maturity; whenever at any time there shall be in said Sinking Fund a sum of money equal to ten per cent. of the whole amount of said bonds, the said Commissioners shall advertise in a public newspaper published in each of the Cities of Marysville and San Francisco, for the space of at least thirty days, for sealed proposals for the redemption of said bonds, and ten days from the expiration of the time for such publication the said Commissioners shall open the sealed proposals, and shall pay and liquidate, as far as the Sinking Fund then on hand shall extend, such bonds presented under such proposals as shall have the lowest value proposed at which they may be paid; provided, the same shall not be for more than the par value thereof; and provided, should there be no proposals made for less than par value, then the payment of said Sinking Fund on hand shall be made on said bonds according to the number of their issue, of which the Commissioners shall give two weeks notice of the number of the bonds to be so paid, after which time such bonds shall cease to draw interest; and provided, that when there shall be sufficient money in said Sinking Fund for the extinguishment of the said bonds, it shall be the duty of the said Commissioners to advertise in like manner, for the space of four weeks, for the redemption of all the outstanding bonds issued under this Act, after which time such bonds shall cease to draw any interest. Any money remaining in said Sinking Fund after the redemption of said bonds shall be paid over by said Commissioners to the City Treasurer, to be by him placed in the General Fund of said city. Whenever any of the coupons upon said bonds are paid, or any of said bonds are redeemed, as herein provided, they shall be effectually canceled and filed away in the office of the Commissioners. SEC. 9. The said Commissioners, before entering upon the discharge of their duties, shall take and subscribe an oath for the faithful performance of their duties, and shall each give good and sufficient bonds, to be approved by the Common Council of said city, in the penal sum of fifteen thousand dollars each, except the Treasurer, whose official bonds shall provide for the faithful performance of his duties as Commissioner in addition to the covenants now therein contained. SEC. 10. The term "The Funding Commissioners of the City Commission of Marysville," as used in this Act, is intended to mean the Mayor, the President of the Council and the Treasurer of said City, as now provided by law, and the duties hereby required to be performed by said Commissioners shall be deemed a part of their official duties as such Mayor, President of the Council and Treasurer, respectively, and shall be performed without compensation; provided, the said Commissioners may employ a clerk for such time as they may deem necessary, not to exceed three months, at a rate of compensation not to exceed one hundred dollars per month. SEC. 11. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 12. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAPTER XL. An Act to authorize the Assessor of the City and County of San [Approved February 8, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and and Field SECTION 1. The Assessor of the City and County of San Office Francisco shall be allowed, to assist him in making his assess- Deputies. ments, in lieu of the deputies now provided by law, as follows: for the office, one Chief Deputy, five Office Deputies and one Draughtsman; for the field, one Chief Deputy and fourteen Under Deputies. Four of the Office Deputies shall be paid at the rate of one hundred and fifty dollars per month each, and shall be employed and paid only from the first day of February until the assessment roll is finally completed and handed over to the Auditor, and only for such time as they shall be actually employed in the discharge of their duties. The fourteen Under CompensaField Deputies shall be paid at the rate of one hundred and fifty dollars per month each; the term for which such Field Deputies shall be paid shall not exceed an average of three months each. The Chief Office Deputy, Chief Field Deputy, Under Office Deputy and Draughtsman may be employed the entire year, and shall be paid, the Chief Deputies two hundred dollars per month each, the Under Office Deputy and Draughtsman one hundred and fifty dollars per month each. SEC. 2. The Auditor of the said city and county is hereby directed to audit, and the Treasurer of said city and county to pay, out of the General Fund, the salaries herein provided for. 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. tion. CHAPTER XLI. An Act to amend section twenty-four of an Act entitled an Act concerning Jurors in certain counties, approved April fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. [Approved February 10, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section twenty-four of an Act entitled an Act concerning jurors in certain counties, approved April fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: In force in counties named. Section 24. This Act shall only be in force in the Counties of Plumas, Humboldt, Klamath, Del Norte, Butte, Siskiyou, Nevada, El Dorado, Tehama, Colusa, Tulare, Sutter, Trinity, Sierra, Lassen and Kern; and all laws and parts of laws being in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed, so far as the same may apply to the Counties of Plumas, Sierra, Humboldt, Klamath, Del Norte, Butte, Trinity, Siskiyou, Nevada, El Dorado, Tehama, Colusa, Tulare, Sutter, Lassen and Kern. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Appropriation. CHAPTER XLII. An Act for the relief of Henry N. Morse, Sheriff of Alameda County. The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Controller of State is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant for the sum of five hundred dollars in favor of Henry N. Morse, Sheriff of the County of Alameda, to be paid out of any moneys in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated; and the State Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to pay the same. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Boundarie of Kern County. CHAPTER XLIII. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to create the County of Kern, to define its boundaries, and to provide for its organization, approved April second, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. [Approved February 10, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section two of an Act entitled an Act to create the County of Kern, to define its boundaries, and to provide for its organization, approved April second, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 2. The boundaries of Kern County shall be as follows: commencing at a point on the western boundary line of Tulare County one half mile due north of the sixth standard south, of the Mount Diablo base line; thence running due east to the western boundary line of Inyo County; thence southerly and easterly, following the western boundary of Inyo County and northern boundary of Los Angeles County, to the northeast corner of Los Angeles County; thence south along the eastern boundary of Los Angeles County to the line between Townships Eight and Nine north, of the San Bernardino base, line; thence due west to the Tulare County line; thence southerly along the said Tulare County line to the southwest corner of Tulare County; thence northerly, following along the western boundary of Tulare County, to the place of beginning. SEC. 2. Section ten of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: officers. Section 10. The County Judge shall receive for his services Salaries of the sum of twelve hundred dollars per annum, to be paid monthly; the District Attorney shall receive for his services the sum of one thousand dollars per annum, to be paid in the same manner; the other county officers whose salaries are not fixed by law shall receive for their services such fees as are allowed the same officers for like services in the County of Tulare. SEC. 3. All Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, so far as applicable to the County of Kern, are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER XLIV. An Act to give to Grand and Trial Jurors mileage in the Counties of [Approved February 10, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: receive SECTION 1. In Marin and Santa Cruz Counties any grand or Jurors to trial juror shall receive mileage at the rate of twenty-five cents mileage. per mile for the distance necessarily traveled by him in going from his place of residence to the County Court-house. SEC. 2. The County Clerk shall issue to any juror who may be entitled to mileage, a certificate of the number of miles traveled, with the amount of mileage due him, and such mileage shall be allowed and paid out of the County Treasury as other Allowed and dues; provided, that no mileage shall be allowed to trial jurors for attendance before Justices' Courts. SEC. 3. All Acts or parts of Acts, so far as in conflict with this Act, are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. paid. 6 |