of any hog or hogs, goat or goats, must be approved by the Justice of the Peace of the township in which such town site is situated, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to reduce any bill presented for his approval, if deemed too high. SEC. 6. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent any person from driving hogs or goats through or along any of the public thoroughfares of said town site. SEC. 7. This Act shall apply to and be in force in the Counties County of El Dorado, Placer, and San Joaquin, and shall affected. take effect on the first day of May, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six. CHAP. CCCCL.-An Act to provide for the issuance of bonds in the County of Kern, for the payment of the indebtedness of said county. [Approved March 31, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and bonds. SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the County of Supervisors Kern are hereby empowered and directed to issue, on behalf to issue of said county, bonds, not to exceed in the aggregate the sum of forty thousand dollars, and to sell the same from time to time, and cause the proceeds thereof to be applied toward liquidating the indebtedness of said county, as represented by warrants outstanding against the several funds thereof, and the amount due and required to be returned to the Swamp Land Fund of said county, at the date of the passage of this Act. SEC. 2. Said bonds shall be of the denomination of five When hundred dollars each, and shall be made payable on or payable. before the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninetysix, at the office of the Treasurer of said county. They shall bear interest at the rate of ten per cent. per annum, which interest shall be made payable semi-annually, on the first day of July and January of each year, by said Treasurer, at his said office, upon surrender of the respective coupons therefor. Each bond so issued shall be signed by the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors and by the County Clerk of said county, and shall be authenticated by the seal of said county, and shall purport that said county owes the holder thereof the sum stated on the face of the bond, in gold coin, payable and bearing interest as aforesaid, and the principal and interest shall be payable in gold coin of the United States. SEC. 3. There shall be attached to each of said bonds, Interest coupons for interest, which coupons shall be signed by the coupons. Chairman of the Board of Supervisors and the County Clerk, and when any interest shall be paid upon any of said bonds issued in pursuance of this Act, the coupons due and paid shall be delivered to the County Treasurer, who shall Bond and interest tax. When surplus or deficiency. Notice of redemption. write the word "Canceled" across the face thereof, and shall deliver the same to the County Auditor of said county on making the next settlement with that officer required by law, taking his receipt therefor; and whenever any of said bonds shall be redeemed by said Treasurer, he shall in like manner cancel and deliver the same to the said Auditor, taking therefor his receipt. SEC. 4. The Board of Supervisors of said County of Kern are hereby empowered and directed, from and after the passage of this Act, to levy annually, at the time and in the manner provided by the general revenue laws of this State, for county purposes, a tax on the assessed valuation of the property of said county, sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds; and on and after the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, a further sum sufficient to pay, in addition to said interest, one-tenth part of the principal amount of said bonds, until they shall have been fully redeemed; and the County Treasurer of said county is hereby required to set apart out of the funds so raised as aforesaid, an amount sufficient to pay the interest; and also, on and after the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and until said bonds shall have been fully paid, a sum sufficient to liquidate and pay each year one-tenth of the principal amount of said bonds; and the money so set apart shall be designated as the "Interest and Bond Redemption Fund," and shall not be used for any purpose other than hereinbefore mentioned. SEC. 5. If the tax levied and collected under authority of the preceding section shall at any time prove insufficient to pay the coupons due, the County Treasurer shall make up the deficiency out of the General Fund, and if the amount realized from said levy shall exceed the amount required to pay the coupons due, the said Board of Supervisors may cause such surplus to be transferred to the General Fund of said county. SEC. 6. Whenever there shall be one thousand dollars or more in said Interest and Bond Redemption Fund, exclusive of the amount required for payment of coupons due, the Treasurer shall cause a notice to be published, once a week for four successive weeks, in some newspaper published in said county, and also in some newspaper published in the City of San Francisco, which notice shall state that he is prepared to redeem, on a day to be stated therein, bonds to the amount of said surplus fund, and that until said day at twelve o'clock M., he will, at his office, receive sealed proposals for the surrender of bonds issued under this Act. Immediately after the hour specified, he shall, in the presence of the County Auditor, and such other persons as may choose to be present, open all such proposals, and shall redeem such bonds as may be offered at the lowest figure; provided, that no bid above par shall be accepted. If no bid shall be offered at par, or less, or if a sufficient amount of bonds be not offered to absorb such surplus fund, then such surplus fund shall be used for the redemption of said bonds according to the number of their issue, of which the County Treasurer shall give the same notice as required by law in the case of the redemption of county warrants, and from the date of said notice the bonds proposed to be redeemed shall cease to draw interest; and if any such bonds shall not be presented within three months from the date of such notice, the County Treasurer shall apply the money for the redemption of the bonds next in order of the number of issue. shall sell SEC. 7. Within sixty days after the passage of this Act, when the Board of Supervisors of said county shall issue said bonds Supervisors to an amount which may, in their judgment, be necessary to bonds. pay the outstanding warrants of the county at the time of such issue, together with such amount as may be needed in the Swamp Land Fund of said county, and shall sell said bonds to the highest bidder or bidders therefor. In like manner, on the first Monday in December, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, said Board shall issue and sell the remainder of said bonds, or such part thereof as may be necessary to pay such further amount as shall be, at said last date of issue, due said Swamp Land Fund from the General Fund of said county, by reason of transfers made in pursuance of law. sale. SEC. 8. The Board of Supervisors of said county shall Notice and cause a notice to be published, for not less than three weeks, in two newspapers in the City of San Francisco, and also in one newspaper in said County of Kern, stating the time and place of said sale of bonds, and inviting sealed proposals for the purchase thereof. On the day and hour named in said notice, the said Board shall open all sealed proposals received by them, and shall award the purchase of said bonds to the highest responsible bidder; provided, that the said Board may reject any and all bids; and provided further, that none of said bonds shall be sold at less than ninety-five cents on the dollar of their par value. If, from any cause, the whole of said bonds offered be not sold on said day of sale, then said Board may again advertise for proposals, and sell the remainder thereof in the manner above provided. receivable. SEC. 9. All warrants drawn upon any of the funds to Warrants which this Act may apply, shall be received at par in payment of bids for the purchase of said bonds. When said warrants are offered in payment for any of said bonds, and before the delivery of said bonds to the purchasers, the interest due on said warrants shall be computed and written upon the face of each warrant by the Auditor of said county, who, for that purpose, shall attend said sale, and take down the data necessary to make such calculations. SEC. 10. All moneys and warrants derived from the sale Receipts. of said bonds shall be immediately paid into the county treasury of said county, and the County Treasurer shall give therefor duplicate receipts, one of which he shall deliver to the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, and the other of which he shall file with the County Auditor, who shall charge the Treasurer with the amount thereof. SEC. 11. All warrants so received shall be canceled by Record of the Treasurer in the same manner as if he had redeemed bonds. them in cash, and shall be deposited by him with the Auditor on making his settlements with that officer, in the same man Bonded Debt applled. ner as other county warrants. The Treasurer and Auditor shall each keep an account of the bonds issued, and the moneys received and disbursed under the provisious of this Act. SEC. 12. All moneys derived from the sale of said bonds shall be set apart, and known as the "Bonded Debt Fund,” and shall be applied in the payment and redemption of warrants of said county outstanding against the several funds thereof at the date of passage of this Act, and the amount due the "Swamp Land Fund" from the General Fund of said county. The moneys remaining in said fund, after the payment and redemption of said warrants, if any there be, shall be transferred to the General Fund of said county; provided, that the Board of Supervisors of said county may, at any time, caused to be transferred from said Bonded Debt Fund to the General Fund of said county such amount as may be necessary to enable said General Fund to meet the requirements of the Swamp Land Fund of said county. SEC. 13. As soon as any moneys shall have been paid into the county treasury, under the provisions of section ten of this Act, the County Treasurer shall give notice, as required by law, of his readiness to pay the warrants mentioned in the preceding section, and which have not been surrendered, and from and after the first publication of said notice such warrants shall cease to bear interest. SEC. 14. This Act shall not be applicable to the "Interest and Building Fund" of said county, nor to the warrants drawn upon said fund. SEC. 15. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCCCLI.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] Special tax CHAP. CCCCLII.-An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Lake County to levy a special tax. [Approved March 31, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of Lake County for salaries. are hereby authorized and required to levy a special tax of one-tenth of one per cent. on all the taxable property in said county, in addition to other taxes authorized by law, for the purpose of creating a special fund, to be hereafter known as the County Judge's and District Attorney's Salary Fund of Lake County. etc SEC. 2. Said tax shall be levied at the annual meetings How levied, of the said Board of Supervisors at which State and county taxes are authorized to be levied, and shall be collected in the same manner as other county taxes, and the money arising therefrom shall be placed in the fund created by this Act, and shall be devoted exclusively to the payment of the salary of the County Judge and the salary of the District Attorney of said county; provided, that if at the end of each calendar year a surplus thereof shall remain in said special fund, after the payment of the salaries of the County Judge and District Attorney, such surplus shall be placed in the General Fund of said county. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAP. CCCCLIII.-An Act to provide for the semi-annual payment of interest and principal of the bonds issued by Modoc to Siskiyou County. [Approved March 31, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and payments. SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer of Modoc Treasurer to County, on the fourth Monday of June and December of each make certain year, to make payment to the Treasurer of Siskiyou County of the interest and principal on the bonds issued by the County of Modoc to the County of Siskiyou, under the provisions of an Act to create the County of Modoc and to establish the boundaries thereof, and to provide for its organization, approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. And said semi-annual payments shall be made in all particulars in accordance with the provisions of said Act. CHAP. CCCCLIV.-An Act to fix the terms of the County and [Approved March 31, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The regular terms of the County and Probate Terms of Courts of the County of Solano shall be held at the county Courts. seat of said county on the first Monday in April, August, and December in each year. SEC. 2. Each of the said terms of the County Court shall continue until the next regular terms, unless the business of the Court is sooner disposed of. |