purchase. shall cause an order to be entered, directing the sale of a specified amount of bonds, and shall cause to be inserted in a newspaper published in Santa Barbara County, and also, in one published in the City and County of San Francisco, a notice that sealed proposals will be received by the Board of Supervisors of Santa Barbara County for the purchase of said bonds, said notice to be published once a week for four Proposals for successive weeks, and shall state the time and place for the opening of said proposals; at the time and place named in said notice, the Board of Supervisors shall publicly open said proposals, and award the purchase of said bonds to the highest responsible bidder; provided, the Board may reject any and all bids; and provided, that nothing but gold coin shall be received for said bonds. A full and complete record shall be kept by the Board of Supervisors of the number, date, and amount of each bond, and of all proceedings thereto. But none of said bonds shall be sold for a less sum than ninety-five per cent. of their par value. Proceeds of bonds, how applied. Supervisors to defray issuing bonds. SEC. 9. The proceeds of the sale of said bonds shall be paid into the county treasury, and be by the Treasurer set apart as a separate fund to be known as the "Jail and Hospital Fund," and shall be expended under the direction of the Board of Supervisors for the exclusive purpose of building a jail and hospital for the use of said county. SEC. 10. The Board of Supervisors are hereby authorized expense of to appropriate a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, out of the General Fund of Santa Barbara County, for the payment of the necessary expenses attending the preparing of the aforesaid bonds and publishing the notices required by the provisions of this Act. In the event of the County of Santa Barbara being divided into two or more counties after the passage of this Act and before the maturity of said bonds, the county in which said jail and hospital are situate, after said division, shall assume and pay all bonds, with the interest on the same, that remain unpaid at the time of the division of said county as above referred to. Compensation of Treasurer SEC. 11. The County Treasurer and County Auditor shall be entitled to receive, out of the General Fund of said county, and Auditor, such compensation for the services required to be by them performed under this Act, as the Board of Supervisors shall deem just and proper. SEC. 12. This Act shall take effect immediately. Salary of CHAP. CCXII.—An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act in relation to the government of the County of Sacramento, approved March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. [Approved March 13, 1876.] 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 Assessor of Sacra mento County, elected under the provisions of this Act, shall receive an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars, and the same commissions for the collection of poll-taxes as is now allowed to other Assessors under the provisions of thirtyeight hundred and sixty-two of the Political Code, as amended and approved March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAP. CCXIII.-An Act concerning certain reclamation districts in San Joaquin County. [Approved March 14, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Reclamation District Number Two Hundred Action of and Nine, as formed by the Board of Supervisors of San Joa- Supervisors quin County, is hereby legalized, ratified, and confirmed. confirmed. petition for. petition. SEC. 2. Reclamation District Number Two Hundred and same. Twenty-three, as formed by the Board of Supervisors of San Joaquin County, is hereby legalized, ratified, and confirmed. SEC. 3. The Board of Supervisors of San. Joaquin County, Division of on the presentation to them of a petition signed by the land district, owners representing two-thirds of the acreage in Reclamation District Number Two Hundred and Twenty-three, asking the division of the said district into two parts and describing the proposed division line, are hereby authorized and directed to insert in a newspaper published in Stockton, a notice stating the object of the petition, the proposed division line, and the time and place of hearing. Thereupon, the said Board Hearing of shall hear the petition and all the land owners who desire to be heard, and shall determine the matter. The Board may either approve the division line as proposed in the petition, or may modify or refuse the same; and in case of the approval of the petition with such proposed or modified line, shall enter an order on their minutes stating such approval and describing the lands assigned to the two several districts. The order shall be recorded in the office of the County Order of Recorder of San Joaquin County, and a certified copy be Board, where sent to the Register of the State Land Office, who shall assign a number to each of said districts and return the numbers to the said Recorder, and thereafter the said districts shall be known by such numbers. Each of said districts shall then Election of elect Trustees, make by-laws, and proceed with the reclama- Trustees, etc. tion of the lands within their respective limits in the manner provided in Article II., Chapter I., Title VIII., Part III., of the Political Code. Assessments may be levied in each of said districts for the work which has heretofore been done on their respective sides of the division line so established. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. recorded. Ordinance, provisions of. CHAP. CCXIV.-An Act to ratify and confirm Ordinance Number Forty-seven, passed by the Common Council of the City of Santa Barbara, and approved by the Mayor of said city, on the twentieth day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-six; and Ordinance Number Forty-eight, passed by the Common Council of the City of Santa Barbara, and approved by the Mayor of said city, on the twenty-seventh day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. [Approved March 14, 1876.] SECTION 1. Whereas, the Common Council of the City of Santa Barbara passed an ordinance, which was approved by the Mayor of said city on the twentieth day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, which ordinance is in the words and figures following: Ordinance number forty-seven. In relation to city blocks numbers eighty-eight and eightynine, and the Plaza Alameda. The Common Council of the City of Santa Barbara do ordain as follows: Section one. Whereas, city blocks numbers eighty-eight and eighty-nine were set aside as part of the Plaza Alameda by a city ordinance, approved April twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and by a city ordinance, approved August fifth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and by a city ordinance, approved August ninth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six; and whereas, it was provided by an ordinance of the Town of Santa Barbara, approved March fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, that blocks numbers seventy-three and seventy-four should compose the Plaza Alameda; and whereas, block number eighty-eight was, on the twentyfifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixtyeight, conveyed by the Town of Santa Barbara to Antonio Arellanes for a valuable consideration, and block number eighty-nine was, on the thirteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, conveyed by said town to Emanuel R. Den for a valuable consideration; and whereas, said Arellanes and Den, and their successors, have been in the quiet and peaceable possession of said blocks for more than five years, and have held the same under said conveyances; and whereas, said blocks numbers eighty-eight and eightynine are not required for said Plaza Alameda, or for the public uses; and whereas, the parties claiming said blocks, under the conveyances aforesaid, purchased in good faith and for valuable considerations: Be it therefore ordained, that city blocks numbers eighty-eight and eighty-nine shall not be included within the Plaza Alameda; and the dedication of said blocks numbers eighty-eight and eighty-nine for the purposes of a plaza, or for any public purposes or uses whatever, is hereby revoked; and the aforesaid conveyance made by the Town of Santa Barbara, or the officers thereof, to Antonio Arellanes, on the twenty-fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, of block number eighty-eight, and the aforesaid conveyance made by the Town of Santa Barbara, or the officers thereof, to Emanuel ordinance. R. Den, on the thirteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, of block number eighty-nine, are hereby confirmed. Section two. The provisions of all ordinances, so far as they conflict with this ordinance, are hereby repealed. Passed and approved this twentieth day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. Jarrett T. Richards, Mayor; F. N. Gutierrez, City Clerk. (Seal.) It is therefore confirmaenacted, that said ordinance is hereby ratified and con- tion of firmed, and the dedication of blocks numbers eighty-eight and eighty-nine, in the City of Santa Barbara, to the public uses, is hereby revoked; and the conveyance made by the Town of Santa Barbara to Antonio Arellanes on the twentyfifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixtyeight, of said block number eighty-eight, and the conveyance made by the Town of Santa Barbara to Emanuel R. Den on the thirteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, of said block number eighty-nine,' are hereby confirmed. Whereas, the Common Council of the City of Same. Santa Barbara passed an ordinance, which was approved by the Mayor of said city on the twenty-seventh day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, which ordinance is in the words and figures following: Ordinance number forty-eight. In relation to city blocks numbers thirty-six, fifty, fiftyeight, fifty-nine, one hundred and ten, one hundred and twenty-seven, one hundred and ninety-seven, two hundred and fifteen, and two hundred and eighty-six, and Plaza Granada, Alameda, Colon, Mesa, or Washington and Playa. The Common Council of the City of Santa Barbara do ordain as follows: Section one. Whereas, city blocks numbers thirty-six, fifty, fifty-eight, fifty-nine, one hundred and ten, one hundred and twenty-seven, one hundred and ninetyseven, two hundred and fifteen, and two hundred and eightysix, were by three city ordinances, approved as follows: April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-three; August fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five; August ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, set aside as follows, to wit: Blocks numbers thirty-six and fifty, with the name of Plaza de la Granada; blocks numbers fifty-eight and fifty-nine, to be called the Alameda; blocks numbers one hundred and ten, and one hundred and twenty-seven, to be called the Plaza de Colon; blocks numbers one hundred and ninetyseven and two hundred and fifteen, with the name of the Plaza de la Mesa, in one of said ordinances, and as Plaza de Washington, in the two other of said ordinances; and block number two hundred and eighty-six, with the name of Plaza de la Playa; and whereas, the Common Council of the City of Santa Barbara and the Trustees of the Town of Santa Barbara did afterwards revoke the dedication made by said ordinances, and conveyed all of said blocks, for valuable considerations, to the following-named persons, to wit: Blocks numbers thirty-six and fifty, to Juan Dornalechi, on the twenty-third day of March, eighteen hundred and sixtyeight; blocks numbers fifty-eight and fifty-nine, to Pedro P. Massini, on the twenty-third day of March, eighteen hun Confirmation of ordinance. dred and sixty-eight; blocks numbers one hundred and ten and one hundred and twenty-seven, to Antonio Camargo, on the seventh day of September, eighteen hundred and sixtyseven; blocks numbers one hundred and ninety-seven and two hundred and fifteen, to Pablo de la Guerra, on the twentythird day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight; and block number two hundred and eighty-six, to Valentine W. Hearne, on the nineteenth day of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six; and whereas, said Juan Dornalechi, Pedro P. Massini, Antonio Camargo, Pablo de la Guerra, and Valentine W. Hearne, and their successors, have been in the actual possession of said blocks from the dates of the conveyances aforesaid, and have made valuable improvements thereon, and have held quiet and peaceable possession under said conveyances for more than five years; and whereas, said blocks, nor any of them, have ever been used as plazas, or are needed or required for the same, or for any public use whatever; and whereas, the parties now claiming said blocks, or any parts thereof, purchased in good faith and for valuable consideration, and claim ownership under and by virtue of the aforesaid conveyances made by the said city and town as aforesaid; be it therefore ordained, that the said dedication of said blocks, or any part thereof, made by the said ordinances, or either of them, is hereby revoked, and the aforesaid conveyances made to said Juan Dornalechi, Pedro P. Massini, Antonio Camargo, Pablo de la Guerra, and Valentine W. Hearne, of said blocks numbers thirty-six, fifty, fifty-eight, fifty-nine, one hundred and ten, one hundred aud twenty-seven, one hundred and ninety-seven, two hundred and fifteen, and two hundred and eighty-six, are hereby confirmed. Section two. The provisions of all ordinances, so far as they conflict with this ordinance, are hereby repealed. Passed and approved this twenty-seventh day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. Jarret T. Richards, Mayor; F. N. Gutierrez, City Clerk. (Seal.) It is therefore enacted that said ordinance is hereby ratified and confirmed, and the dedication of blocks numbers thirty-six, fifty, fifty-eight, fifty-nine, one hundred and ten, one hundred and twenty-seven, one hundred and ninety-seven, two hundred and fifteen, and two hundred and eighty-six, in the City of Santa Barbara, to the public use, is hereby revoked, and the conveyance from the Town of Santa Barbara to Juan Dornalechi, made on the twenty-third day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, for blocks numbers thirty-six and fifty, and the conveyances from the Town of Santa Barbara to Pedro P. Massini, made on the twenty-third day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, for blocks numbers fiftyeight and fifty-nine, and the conveyance from the Town of Santa Barbara to Antonio Camargo, made on the seventh day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, for blocks numbers one hundred and ten and one hundred and twenty-seven, and the conveyance from the Town of Santa Barbara to Pablo de la Guerra, made on the twenty-third day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, for blocks numbers one hundred and ninety-seven and two hundred and |