Appeals. Fees. Prison. Clerk. Seal. Bonds. Report. Salary. Transcripts evidence. SEC. 12. Appeals from the Police Court shall be to the County Court of Alameda County, (in such cases as are appealable as provided in this Act,) such appeals to be taken as in cases of appeal from a Justice's Court. SEC. 13. The Police Judge shall receive for all services rendered by him the same fees as are allowed by law to Justices of the Peace for similar services. The Marshal or Constable performing any service in said Court shall receive the same fees as are allowed by law to the Sheriff of the County of Alameda for similar services. The City Attorney shall receive the same fees as are allowed by law to the District Attorney of Alameda County for similar services, and such as are allowed by the ordinances of the city. In all suits for the collection of delinquent taxes, where the sum due is less than ten dollars the City Attorney shall be allowed one dollar and fifty cents, if paid before judgment, and two dollars and fifty cents if paid after judgment. SEC. 14. In all cases of imprisonment of persons convicted of any offence committed in the City of Oakland, of which offence the Police Court has jurisdiction to try and determine, the person so to be imprisoned, or by ordinance required to labor, shall be imprisoned in the City Jail of the City of Oakland, or if required to labor shall labor in said city. SEC. 15. Whenever the necessities of the case may require, the City Council may appoint a Clerk for said Court, at a salary to be fixed by the City Council. SEC. 16. The Court shall have a seal, to be furnished by the city. SEC. 17. The person elected to the office of Police Judge shall, within ten days after he has received his certificate of election, qualify and file his official bond, payable to the City of Oakland, with two or more sufficient sureties, in a sum of not less than three thousand dollars, to be fixed by the City Council, for the faithful discharge of his official duties; and the Clerk shall also qualify and file an official bond, payable to the City of Oakland, in such sum as the City Council may require. SEC. 18. The Police Judge shall, on the first Tuesday of each month, make to the City Council a full and complete report of all the cases, civil and criminal, tried in his Court in which the city has an interest, and which are required to be entered in the city civil docket, and in the city criminal docket; said report to be made upon blanks furnished by the City Council, and in such form as may be required by said Council. SEC. 19. The City Council may in their discretion, in addition to the fees allowed by this Act to the Police Judge, allow said Judge a yearly salary in such sum as to them may appear reasonable. SEC. 20. Certified transcripts of the Police Judge's docket, shall be under the seal of said Court, shall be evidence in any Court of this State of the contents of said docket; and all warrants and other processes issued out of said Court, and all acts done by said Police Judge under its seal, shall have the same force and validity in any part of this State as though issued or done by any Court of record of this State. SEC. 21. All laws and parts of laws in conflict or inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 22. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and Provisional after its passage; provided, the Mayor and Justices of the Peace repeal. in said city shall not be divested of their jurisdiction as prescribed in this Act until the Police Judge is elected and qualified; and, provided, further, that said Mayor and Justices shall have power to fully try and determine all matters and causes pending in their Courts at the time of the qualification of said Police Judge, and may carry their judgments into execution as fully as if this Act was not in force. CHAP. CCIII-An Act making appropriations for deficiencies in the appropriations made for the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth fiscal years, ending on the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. [Approved March 10, 1866.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and tions. SECTION 1. The following sums of money are hereby appro- Appropria priated, out of any moneys in the General Fund not otherwise appropriated, for the objects herein named, to wit: For expenditures at the State Insane Asylum, thirteen thousand three hundred and fifty-nine dollars. For expenditures at the State Prison, thirty-five thousand dollars. For balance due for the construction of additional cells at the State Prison, ten thousand four hundred and thirty-two dollars. For expenditures at the State Reform School, seven thousand dollars. For stationery, lights, and fuel for Legislature and State offices, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, ten thousand dollars. For posting and cancelling coupons, to be expended by the State Treasurer, three hundred dollars. For pay of clerks in office of Adjutant-General, twenty-eight hundred and fifty dollars. For translating into Spanish the Governor's biennial message, the reports of State officers, the laws, and other documents ordered by the present Legislature, five thousand five hundred dollars. For postage, expressage, and telegraphing in the Governor's office. and for telegraphing to Washington resolutions of the Legislature, to be expended by the Governor, five hundred dol lars. For deficiency in the office of State Stamp Inspectors, for salaries, percentages, and contingent expenses for the fifteenth fiscal year, sixteen hundred and ninety-three dollars and fourteen cents, ($1,693 14.) For deficiencies in said office for sixteenth fiscal year, one thousand one hundred dollars and sixty-four cents, ($1,100 64.) Terms of Court. For deficiency in said office for seventeenth fiscal year, one thousand two hundred dollars, ($1,200.) For deficiencies in the office of State Printer, twenty-three thousand dollars. For extra services of W. L. Hawkins in State Library for the present session of the Legislature, two hundred dollars. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCIV.-An Act to fix the terms of the County Court and [Approved March 10, 1866.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The regular terms of the County Court in and for the County of Sonoma shall be held at the county seat of said county on the first Monday of January, April, July, and October in each year. The regular terms of the Probate Court in and for the County of Sonoma shall be held at the county seat of said county on the first Monday of every month in each year. SEC. 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Jailor's salary. Allowance of claim. CHAP. CCV.-An Act fixing the compensation of the Sheriff of the County of Stanislaus, and to provide for the payment of the same. [Approved March 10, 1866.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. In addition to the fees now provided for by law, the compensation of the Sheriff of the County of Stanislaus for services as Jailor is hereby fixed at fifty dollars per month; provided, that this Act shall not be so construed as to include the board of prisoners who may be confined in the Jail of said county. SEC. 2. The Board of Supervisors of said county are hereby authorized and required to audit and allow the claim of said Sheriff for such services from the first day of January, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-four, at the rate of fifty dollars per month, deducting any allowance which shall have been heretofore made therefor, such compensation to be audited and paid out of the General Fund of said county, as other evidences of county indebtedness. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAP. CCVI.-An Act to create an Interest and Sinking Fund for [Approved March 10, 1866.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of Klamath County Levy of tax. shall, in addition to other taxes provided for by law, levy a special tax annually upon the taxable property in said county of one half of one per cent, and said tax shall be collected at the same time and in like manner as other taxes are collected in said county. SEC. 2. The tax provided for in the first section of this Act, How applied, together with forty per cent of all moneys received into the County Treasury for county purposes from the sale of foreign miners' licenses, shall be set aside and kept as a special fund, to be called the Interest and Sinking Fund, and shall be held and disbursed as is hereinafter provided. of funds. SEC. 3. The County Treasurer of Klamath County shall, Transfer immediately after the passage of this Act, transfer all moneys remaining in the Interest Fund of said county to the Interest and Sinking Fund created by the provisions of this Act, and the moneys so transferred shall be applied to the same purposes and expended in the same manner as other moneys paid into said fund under the provisions of the second section of this Act. on bonds. SEC. 4. The Treasurer of said county shall, during the first Payment week in October, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and annually of interest thereafter, give notice that he will, on the first day of November following such notice, pay the interest for the preceding year on the bonds issued in pursuance of an Act to provide for the funding of the indebtedness of the County of Klamath, approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven; and it shall be the duty of said Treasurer to pay the interest on said bonds for the year next preceding such notice, upon the pre-, sentation of said bonds at his office, within sixty days after the first day of November following such notice. of bonds. SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer of said county Surrender during the first week of January, eighteen hundred and sixtyseven, and annually thereafter, to give notice by publication in some newspaper published at or nearest to the county seat of said county, that sealed proposals directed to him for the surrender of the bonds of said county will be received by him up to the last day of the session of the Board of Supervisors of said county for the February term following such notice. SEC. 6. On the last day of the session of the Board of Super- Proposals. visors for the February term following said notice, they, together with the Auditor and Treasurer, shall open all proposals received for the surrender of the bonds of said county, and accept the lowest bids offered until they shall have accepted an amount sufficient to exhaust all the money then in said Interest and Sinking Fund. The bids being equal, the preference shall be given to the smallest amount of bonds offered; provided, that no bid for more than par value shall be received, nor any bid, unless of bids. accompanied by the bonds proposed to be surrendered, shall be accepted. Acceptance SEC. 7. When any bids are accepted, the County Auditor and County Treasurer shall each take a description of the number and amount of bonds to be redeemed, specifying the amount to be paid for each bond, and make a several record thereof in their respective offices; and thereupon the Board of Supervisors shall make an order directing the County Treasurer to purchase the bonds designated in the accepted bids, and pay for the same out of the Interest and Sinking Fund, and the bonds so redeemed Cancellation shall be cancelled; and the County Treasurer shall write on the face of said bonds "purchased," and the amount paid for the same, and shall sign his name thereto. The order of the Board of Supervisors directing the Treasurer to purchase said bonds, together with the record made by the Auditor, shall be sufficient vouchers for the Treasurer in the settlements of his accounts. The Treasurer shall return all unaccepted bids, together with the bonds therein contained, to the owners, on demand. Redemption Transfer of funds. SEC. 8. Whenever there shall be a sufficient sum of money in said Interest and Sinking Fund to pay all outstanding bonds of said county, together with the interest due thereon, it shall be the duty of the Treasurer of said county to give notice by publication in some newspaper published at or nearest to the county seat that he will pay said bonds, together with the interest due thereon; and it shall be the duty of said Treasurer to pay said bonds, together with the interest due thereon, upon the presentation of said bonds at his office within ninety days from the date of said notice. SEC. 9. At the expiration of ninety days from and after the publication of the notice specified in preceding section, the Treasurer of said county shall transfer all moneys then remaining in the Interest and Sinking Fund to the General Fund of said county, to be used as are now other moneys in said General County Fund. SEC. 10. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage, and continue in force until ninety days from and after the publication of the notice provided for in the eighth section of this Act. Salary. CHAP. CCVII.-An Act making the office of County Assessor of Merced County a salaried office. [Approved March 10, 1866.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. From and after the first Monday in March, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, the Assessor of Merced County shall receive for his services, annually, the sum of five hundred dollars, the same to be paid in the manner that other county dues are paid in said county. |