ernment of the county then in existence until the first Monday after the first day of January next succeeding, except that the Board of Supervisors shall provide for the election of officers and such other matters as shall be necessary to put the county government in operation on the said first Monday after the first day of January, in accordance with the new classification. SEC. 11. The county seats of the respective counties of County seats. this State as now fixed by law, are hereby recognized as and declared to be the county seats of the respective counties. No county seat shall be removed unless two thirds of the qualified electors of the county, voting on the proposition at a general election, shall vote in favor of such removal. SEC. 12. Whenever there shall be presented to the Board County seat, of Supervisors of any county a petition signed by the quali- removed. fied electors of such county, in number equal to a majority of the votes cast at the preceding general election, praying for the submission of the question of the removal of the county seat of such county, it shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors, by due proclamation, to submit the question of such removal of the county seat at the next general election to the qualified electors of such county. The election shall be conducted and the returns canvassed in all respects as provided by law for the conducting general elections and canvassing the returns thereof; but a proposition of removal of a county seat shall not be submitted in the same county more than once in four years. BOARDS OF SUPERVISORS. SEC. 13. Each county must have a Board of Supervisors, Number. consisting of five members. tions. SEC. 14. Each member of the Board of Supervisors must Qualifica be an elector of the district which he represents, and must have been such for at least one year immediately preceding his election, and shall be elected by such district, and not at large. classifica SEC. 15. At the general election to be held in the year Election and eighteen hundred and eighty-four, a full Board of Super- tion. visors must be chosen in each county. They shall so classify themselves by lot that three of them shall hold office for four years, and two of them for two years. The Supervisors elected at the general election in eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and every two years thereafter, shall hold office for four years. They shall take their office on the first Monday after the first day of January after their election. SEC. 16. The Board of Supervisors of each county shall, on or before the first Monday of September, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, district their respective counties into five Supervisor Districts, as nearly equal in population as may be. SEC. 17. Whenever a vacancy occurs in the Board of Supervisors, the Governor shall fill the vacancy by appointment, the appointee to hold the office for the unexpired term. SEC. 18. The Supervisors shall elect a Chairman, who Vacancy, how filled. Chairman. Oaths. Quorum. County Clerk and Duty of Duty of must preside at all meetings of the Board, and in case of his absence or inability to act, the members present must, by an order entered on their records, select one of their number to act as Chairman temporarily. Any member of the Board may administer oaths to any person when necessary in the performance of their official duties. Not less than three members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but no act of the Board shall be valid or binding unless three members concur therein. SEC. 19. The County Clerk is ex officio Clerk of the Board of Supervisors. The records and minutes of the Board must be signed by the Chairman and the Clerk. CLERK OF BOARD. SEC. 20. The Clerk of the Board must: 1. Record all the proceedings of the Board. 2. Make full entries of all their resolutions and decisions on all questions concerning the raising of money for and the allowance of accounts against the county. 3. Record the vote of each member on any question upon which there is a division, or at the request of any member present. 4. Immediately after the adjournment of each meeting of the Board, prepare and certify duplicate lists of all claims. allowed and orders made for the payment of money, giving the name of the claimant or payee named in the claim or order, the amount and date of each claim or order, and the date of the allowance thereof, which said lists shall be countersigned by the Chairman of the Board, and thereafter said Clerk shall deliver to and leave with the Auditor one of said lists and shall deliver to and leave with the Treasurer the other list. 5. File and preserve the reports of the County Treasurer of the receipts and disbursements of the county. 6. Preserve and file all accounts acted upon by the Board. 7. Preserve and file all petitions and applications for franchises, and record the action of the Board thereon. 8. Authenticate with his signature and seal of the Board the proceedings of the Board whenever the same shall be ordered published. 9. Authenticate with his signature and the seal of the Board all ordinances or laws passed by the Board, and to record the same at length in the "Ordinance Book." 10. Record all orders levying taxes; and, 11. Perform all other duties required by law, or any rule or order of the Board. SEC. 21. The Board must cause to be kept: 1. A "Minute Book," in which must be recorded all orders and decisions made by them, and the daily proceedings had at all regular and special meetings. 2. An "Allowance Book," in which must be recorded all orders for the allowance of money from the county treasury, to whom made, and on what account, dating, numbering and indexing the same through each year. 3. A "Road Book," containing all proceedings and adjudications relating to the establishment, maintenance, change, and discontinuance of roads and road districts. 4. A "Franchise Book," containing all franchises granted by them, for what purpose, the length of time, and to whom granted, the amount of bond and license tax required. 5. A "Warrant Book," to be kept by the County Auditor, in which must be entered, in the order of drawing, all warrants drawn on the treasury, with their number and reference to the order on the Minute Book, with the date, amount, on what account, and name of payee. 6. An "Ordinance Book," in which must be entered all ordinances or laws duly passed by the Board. SEC. 22. The Board of Supervisors must by ordinance pro- Regular vide for the holding of regular meetings of the Board at their meetings. respective county seats. SEC. 23. If at any time the business of the county requires Special a meeting of the Board, a special meeting may be ordered by meetings a majority of the Board. The order must be signed by the members calling such meeting, and must be entered in the minutes of the Board. Five days' notice of such meeting must be given by the Clerk to the members not joining in the order. The order must specify the business to be transacted at such special meeting, and none other than that specified must be transacted at such special meeting. must be SEC. 24. All meetings of the Board must be public, and All meetings the books, records, and accounts must be kept at the office public. of the Clerk, open at all times for public inspection, free of charge. GENERAL PERMANENT POWERS OF BOARD. SEC. 25. The Boards of Supervisors in their respective Powers. counties have jurisdiction and power, under such limitations and restrictions as are prescribed by law: conduct of 1. To supervise the official conduct of all county officers Supervise and officers of all districts and other subdivisions of the officers. county charged with the assessing, collecting, safe keeping, management, or disbursement of the public revenues; see that they faithfully perform their duties, direct prosecutions for delinquencies, and, when necessary, require them to renew their official bonds, to make reports, and to present their books and accounts for inspection. county. 2. To divide the counties into townships, school, road, and Divide other districts required by law, change the same, and create others, as convenience requires. precincts, 3. To establish, abolish, and change election precincts, and Election to appoint Inspectors and Judges of Election, canvass all etc. election returns, declare the result, and order the County Clerk to issue certificates thereof; but no election precinct shall be established or abolished, or the boundaries of any precinct changed within thirty days prior to any election. 4. To lay out, maintain, control, and manage public roads, Public roads, turnpikes, ferries, and bridges within the county. 5. To provide for the care and maintenance of the indigent sick, or the otherwise dependent poor of the county; erect, Indigent sick and poor. officer, and maintain hospitals and poorhouses, in their discretion, therefor, or otherwise provide for the same; and for such purposes to levy the necessary property or poll tax, or Poorhouses. both, therefor; provided, the Board of Supervisors shall appoint (not let to the lowest bidder) some suitable person or persons to take care of and maintain such hospitals and poorhouses; and the Board shall also appoint (not let to the lowest bidder) some suitable graduate in medicine to attend such indigent sick, or otherwise dependent poor. Farm. County offices. Purchase and control 6. To provide a farm in connection with the county hospital or poorhouse, and make regulations for working the same. 7. When there are no necessary county buildings, to provide suitable rooms for county purposes. 8. To purchase, receive by donation, or lease, any real or real estate. personal property necessary for the use of the county, preserve, take care of, manage, and control the same; but no purchase of real property must be made unless a notice of the intention of the Board to make such purchase, describing the property to be purchased, the price to be paid therefor, from whom it is proposed to be purchased, and fixing the time when the Board will meet to consummate such purchase, shall be published for at least three weeks in some newspaper of general circulation published in the county, or if none be published in the county, then by posting such notice at least three weeks prior to the time when the Board will meet to consummate such purchase, in at least three public places in each Supervisor District. Court House, jail, and hospital. Sell certain property of county. Examine and audit accounts. Same. Levy taxes. 9. To cause to be erected or rebuilt and furnished a Court House, jail, hospital, and such other public buildings as may be necessary; provided, that none of the aforesaid buildings shall be erected or constructed until plans and specifications shall have been made therefor and adopted by the Board. All such buildings must be erected by contract, let to the lowest responsible bidder, after notice. 10. To sell at public auction, at the Court House door, after thirty days' previous notice, given either by publication in a newspaper published in the county or by posting in five public places in the county, and convey to the highest bidder for cash, any property belonging to the county no longer required for public use, paying the proceeds into the county treasury for the use of the county. 11. To examine and audit at least every six months the accounts of all.officers having the care, management, collection, or disbursement of moneys belonging to the county, or appropriated by law or otherwise for its use and benefit. 12. To examine, settle, and allow all accounts legally chargeable against the county, except salaries of officers, and order warrants to be drawn on the County Treasurer therefor. 13. To levy taxes upon the taxable property of their respective counties for all county purposes, and also upon the taxable property of any district for the construction and repair of roads and highways and other district purposes; provided, that no tax shall be levied upon any district until the proposition to levy the same has been submitted to the qualified electors of such district and received a majority of all the legal votes cast upon such proposition. edness. 14. (a) The Board of Supervisors of any county having an Fund indebtoutstanding indebtedness on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty, evidenced by bonds or warrants thereof, by a vote of two thirds of all the members thereof, are empowered, if they deem it for the public interest, to fund and re-fund the same, and issue bonds of the county therefor, in sums not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars each, having not more than twenty years to run, and bearing a rate of interest not exceeding seven per cent per annum, payable semi-annually; which bonds shall be substantially in the following form: -per bond. No.-. The County of, in the State of California, for Form of value received, promises to pay or order, at the office of the Treasurer of said county, in -, on the first day of eighteen hundred and, or at any time before that date, at the pleasure of the county, the sum of dollars, gold coin of the United States, with interest at the rate of cent per annum, payable at the office of said Treasurer semiannually, on the first day of — and in each year, on presentation and surrender of the interest coupons hereto attached. This bond is issued by the Board of Supervisors in conformity with a resolution of said Board, dated theday of, eighteen hundred and -, and under authority conferred upon said Board by the provisions of an Act of the Legislature of California entitled "An Act to establish a uniform system of county governments," approved (insert date of the approval of this Act). In testimony whereof, the said county, by its Board of Supervisors, has caused this bond to be signed by the Chairman of the Board, and attested by the Auditor, with the county seal attached, this day of, eighteen hundred and Chairman of the Board of Supervisors. Attest: -, Auditor. The Treasurer of And the interest coupon shall be in the following form: County, California, will pay to the eighteen hundred and dollars, gold coin, for interest holder hereof, on the at his office in on County Bond No. day of -, County Auditor. sell and (b) Whenever bonds issued under this chapter shall be Treasurer to duly executed, numbered consecutively, and sealed, they deliver shall be delivered to the County Treasurer, and his receipt bonds. taken therefor, and he shall stand charged on his official bond with all bonds delivered to him and the proceeds thereof, and he shall sell the same, or exchange them under the direction of the Board of Supervisors, on the best available terms, for any legal indebtedness of the county outstanding on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty, but in neither case for a less sum than the face value of the bonds and all interest accrued on them at the date of such sale or exchange. And if any portion of such bonds are sold for money, the proceeds thereof shall be applied |