CHAPTER CCXXIII. An Act conferring further powers upon the Board of State Harbor [Approved March 20, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of State Harbor Commissioners are Appoint hereby authorized and empowered to appoint a competent civil engineer. engineer to superintend the construction of the seawall now being erected along the water front of the City of San Francisco, at a salary to be agreed upon by said Commissioners and not to exceed four thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly in the same manner as is now provided by law for the payment of the salaries of the Commissioners and Secretary, and whose appointment shall continue during the pleasure of said Board. SEC. 2. The said Board are further authorized and empowered Pay of presto pay to William J. Lewis, civil engineer, heretofore appointed and now in the employment of said Board, the amount which may be due him from the date of his appointment (May third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven) until the passage of this Act, at the same rate per annum as is provided for in section one of this Act; the amount so due to be paid by draft on the Harbor Protection Fund in favor of said William J. Lewis; and the State Controller and State Treasurer are hereby authorized to allow and pay the same. ent engineer Assistant SEC. 3. The said Board are further authorized and empowered, Appoint from and after the passage of this Act, to employ an Assistant Secretary. Secretary, who shall give a bond in the sum of five thousand dollars, with two or more sureties, to be approved by the Board, and whose salary shall not exceed one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month, payable monthly in the same manner as is provided by law for the payment of the Secretary. SEC. 4. The said Board are further authorized and empowered Office rooms. to procure and lease, on behalf of the State, suitable office rooms for the use of said Board, ogether with a good and substantial fire-proof vault for the preservation of the archives of said office, at a rent not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars per month; and the said Board are hereby allowed the sum of five hundred dollars to furnish the same; and until such office rooms are procured as in this section provided, the said Board are hereby allowed the sum of twenty-five dollars per month as office rent over and above the amount now allowed by law, the said amount of twenty-five dollars per month to be allowed and paid from January third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. SEC. 5. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provions of this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Board of Education to declare coll ge incorpo. rated. Powers of CHAPTER CCXXIV. An Act to amend sections three and seven of an Act entitled an Act to provide for the incorporation of colleges, passed April twentieth, eighteen hundred and fifty, and amended April thirteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five. [Approved March 20, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section three of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 3. In case the Board of Education or a majority thereof shall be satisfied that the proposed college has property to the amount of twenty thousand dollars, and that the proposed Trustees are capable persons, then the said Board of Education or a majority thereof shall, by an instrument under their hands, declare the college incorporated under the provisions of this Act, by the name specified in the application; and the application, together with the declaration of the Board or a majority thereof, shall be recorded in the office of the Secretary of State. SEC. 2. Section seven of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 7. The Trustees shall have power: First-To elect by ballot, annually, one of their number as President of the Board. Second-Upon the death, removal out of the State or other vacancy in the office of any Trustee, to elect another in his or her place. Third-To elect additional Trustees; provided, the whole number elected shall never exceed twenty-four at any one time. Fourth-To declare vacant the seat of any Trustee who shall absent himself or herself from eight succeeding meetings of the Board. Fifth-To receive and hold, by purchase, gift or grant, any real or personal property; provided, that the yearly income of the college shall not exceed its necessary yearly expenses ten thousand dollars. Sixth-To sell, mortgage, lease and otherwise use and dispose of such property in such manner as they shall deem most conducive to the prosperity of the college. Seventh-To direct and prescribe the course of study and discipline to be observed in the college. Eighth-To appoint a President of the college, who shall hold his or her office during good behavior. Ninth-To appoint such professors, tutors and other officers as they shall deem necessary, who, unless employed under a special contract, shall hold their offices during the pleasure of the Trustees. Tenth-To remove from office the President and every professor, tutor or other officer employed, upon a complaint in writing by any member of the Board of Trustees, stating the misbehavior in office, incapacity, immoral conduct of the person or persons sought to be removed, and upon due examination and Powers of proof of such complaint. Eleventh-To grant such literary honors as are usually granted by any university, college or seminary of learning in the United States, and in testimony thereof to give suitable diplomas, under their seal and the signatures of such officers of the college as they shall deem expedient. Twelfth-To fix the salaries of the President, professors and other officers of the college. Thirteenth-To make all by-laws and ordinances necessary and proper to carry into effect the preceding powers and necessary to advance the interest of the college; provided, that no bylaws or ordinances shall conflict with the Constitution or laws of the United States or of this State. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Trustees. CHAPTER CCXXV. An Act to amend section twenty of an Act concerning the assessing and collecting of revenue in the County of Yuba, approved April second, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. [Approved March 20, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section twenty of said Act is amended so as to read as follows: District Section 20. The District Assessor in and for the First Reve- Salaries of nue District shall, for all services required of him by law as Assessors. such Assessor, receive the sum of one thousand dollars per annum, and no more. The District Assessor in and for the Second Revenue District shall, for all services required of him by law as such Assessor, receive the sum of eight hundred dollars per annum, and no more. The District Assessor in and for the Third Revenue District shall, for all services required of him by law as such Assessor, receive the sum of seven hundred dollars per annum, and no more. Such salaries to be audited and allowed by the Board of Supervisors, upon the certificate of the County Auditor that said Assessors have discharged all the duties required of them by law and have made their final settlements in accordance therewith. Such salaries payable semi-annually, out of the General Fund. SEC. 2. All Acts or parts of Acts, so far as they conflict with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Deputies. Porters. Treasurer to CHAPTER CCXXVI. An Act in relation to the office of Sheriff in the City and County of San Francisco. [Approved March 20, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. In addition to the deputies now allowed by law, the Sheriff of the City and County of San Francisco may appoint one deputy, and an assistant bookkeeper, to act as Deputy Sheriff. Said deputy shall receive a salary of one hundred and fifty dollars per month, and the assistant bookkeeper shall receive a salary of one hundred dollars per month. SEC. 2. The Sheriff of said city and county shall have power and authority to appoint and remove two of the porters allowed by law, and now appointed by the Supervisors, to take charge and perform duties about the Court and other rooms of the City Hall of said city and county. SEC. 3. The salaries and moneys provided to be paid by this pay salaries, Act shall be paid by the Treasurer of the City and County of San Francisco, out of the Special Fee Fund of said city and county, upon the audit of the City and County Auditor, who is hereby directed to audit the salaries and moneys hereby provided. Counsel fees. SEC. 4. The Sheriff of the City and County of San Francisco shall be allowed the sum of twelve hundred dollars per annum to defray his expenses for counsel and attorney's fees. SEC. 5. All Acts and parts of Acts, so far as they may be in conflict herewith, are hereby repealed. SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Claim to be paid. CHAPTER CCXXVII. An Act for the relief of William O'Shea. [Approved March 23, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco having on the twenty-seventh January, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, allowed William O'Shea the sum of one thousand dollars for balance due in settlement of claim for cleaning streets in eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and ordered the same paid, the Auditor of said City and County is hereby directed to audit, and the Treasurer thereof to pay said sum to William O'Shea or his assigns. SEC. 2. This Act to take effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER CCXXVIII. An Act making additional appropriations for stationery, lights and fuel for Legislature and State officers. [Approved March 21, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and tion. SECTION 1. The sum of fifteen hundred dollars is hereby Appropriaappropriated, out of any moneys in the General Fund not otherwise appropriated, for stationery, lights and fuel for the Legislature and State officers for the nineteenth fiscal year, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER CCXXIX. An Act to provide for the grading of the public alleys and the construction of sewers therein in the City of Sacramento. [Approved March 21, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Public SECTION 1. Whenever the Board of Trustees of the City of Sacramento shall deem it expedient to construct a sewer in notice. any public alley, they may order such sewer to be constructed, after having published a notice of such intention in some daily newspaper printed in said city, for the period of ten days, unless the the owners of more than one half in extent of the land and lots bisected by such alley shall have made written objections thereto and delivered the same to the Clerk of said Board of Trustees within the said period of ten days. SEC. 2. If the owners, or their duly authorized agents, of If owners more than one half in extent of the lands and lots in any block petition for. of land bisected by any such alley shall petition said Board of Trustees, in writing, to cause a sewer to be constructed through the same, the said Board of Trustees shall order the same to be done; but in such case they may receive and consider remonstrances, for the purpose only of ascertaining whether the petitioners truly comprehend more than one half of said owners, as in this section required. All sewers provided by this Act to be constructed shall be extended in a direct line through such alley and to the centre of the cross street. SEC. 3. The total amount of the expenses of constructing Assess cost. any sewer under the provisions of this Act shall be assessed upon and borne with absolute equality by all the lands and lots in each lot bisected by such alley, the expense to be calculated upon the assessed value of each lot, exclusive of improvements, and |