interest shall be paid upon any of the bonds issued in pursuance of the provisions of this Act, the coupons due and paid shall be delivered to the County Treasurer, who shall write the word "Cancelled" across the face thereof and deliver the same to the County Auditor of said county, taking his receipt therefor; and the said Auditor shall then mark "Paid" on the duplicate register of bonds in his office and on the coupons so delivered to him by said Treasurer; and when any of said bonds shall be When bonds redeemed by said Treasurer they shall also be delivered to said Auditor, who shall receipt to the Treasurer for the same, and the same shall be marked "Paid " upon the copies of said register in the office of said Auditor and Treasurer, with a memorandum of the amount paid for the redemption thereof; and when any bonds or coupons shall be paid or redeemed, the said Auditor shall report the same to said Board of Supervisors at their next meeting thereafter. redeemed. as required. SEC. 4. The bonds hereby authorized shall be issued from To be issued time to time, as the same may be required to pay for the materials used in and work performed on the said Court-house; and neither the said bonds nor any moneys that may be realized from the sale thereof shall be applied to any other purpose. The Clerk of the Board of Supervisors shall keep a register Record. showing the date and number of every bond issued, the number of each coupon, when each bond and coupon is payable, and to whom issued, and, when any of such bonds shall be sold, the amount realized from the sale thereof, with the name of the purchaser. It shall be the duty of the Clerk to make and certify two copies of said register, one of which shall be delivered to the Auditor and one to the Treasurer of said county, and the same shall be kept by them in their respective offices. SEC. 5. The bonds, or any part thereof, hereby authorized Sale of bonds to be issued, may be sold, under the direction of the said Board of Supervisors, to the person or persons who will pay the highest price therefor; provided, that the same shall not be sold for less than par; and the purchasers whose bids shall be accepted shall pay into the County Treasury the amount bid by them, and the Treasurer shall receipt for the same; and such purchasers shall, upon the delivery of such receipt to the Clerk of said Supervisors, be entitled to receive the bonds purchased by them; the said receipts to be copied into the said register and the copies thereof hereby required to be made. SEC. 6. The said County Treasurer shall give public notice, Notice of by advertisement in some newspaper printed and published in redemption. said County of Santa Clara, for at least two weeks before the first day of January next succeeding the first day of January on which the last of the bonds shall be paid or redeemed which have been issued under the Act and the supplemental and amendatory Act herein referred to, and each and every year thereafter until all of said bonds shall be paid, that he will redeem ten thousand dollars of said bonds on the first day of January next ensuing, and shall invite proposals for the redemption of said amount of bonds. The Treasurer shall open the Proposals. sealed proposals, at the time and place specified in the notice required to be published as aforesaid, in the presence of the President of the Board of Supervisors, County Clerk or Auditor, When interest to cease. and such other persons as may choose to be present, and shall accept only such bids as shall cancel the greatest amount of said bonds; provided, that no bonds shall be redeemed at a greater rate than one hundred cents on the dollar. And in the event that no offer shall be made to redeem said bonds between the date of the first publication of said notice and the day appointed for opening proposals therefor, it shall be the duty of said Treasurer to give at least ten days notice, by advertisement in some newspaper printed in said county, that he is prepared to redeem certain of said bonds, which he shall designate in said notice by the number of the bonds and the date of their issuance, which said designation shall be of the bonds bearing the lowest numbers then remaining unredeemed; and the interest shall cease on such bonds so advertised from and after the expiration of the ten days from the first publication of said notice; and all bonds when paid by the said Treasurer shall be marked by him "Cancelled." SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Tax to be levied. Plans, etc. Proposals. CHAPTER CCLXXXVII. An Act to provide for the erection of a Jail and County Recorder's [Approved March 25, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of Alameda County shall and they are hereby authorized to levy, for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, eighteen hundred and sixtynine and eighteen hundred and seventy, a special tax not exceeding in each year fifteen (15) cents on each one hundred dollars of the assessable property of said county, for the purpose of erecting in the Town of San Leandro a secure and substantial stone or brick Jail and County Recorder's Office Building; and all money collected under this Act shall be set apart and held as a "Special Jail and Recorder's Office Building Fund," to be used only as herein provided. SEC. 2. Said Board of Supervisors shall advertise for and receive plans, specifications and estimates for constructing such Jail and Recorder's Office Building, and shall adopt such plans and specifications as may be deemed best for the county, reference being had to the probable expense thereof. SEC. 3. After adopting the plans and specifications, said Board shall give notice, by posting printed notices in at least three public places in the county and by advertising in some newspaper or newspapers of general circulation, for at least. thirty days, that sealed proposals will be received at the office of the County Clerk of said county for the erection of such Jail and Recorder's Office Building according with the plans and specifications adopted. SEC. 4. After thirty days notice, at the time and place speci- Contract. fied therein, said Board shall open all bids and proposals for the erection of said building according to the plans and specifications, and within such reasonable time as may be fixed by said Board, and the contract shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder who will give sufficient security for the prompt and faithful performance of the contract; provided, that the Board of Supervisors shall not accept any bid or proposal which, in their judgment, is higher than a fair and just compensation for the performance of the contract. SEC. 5. The work shall be done under the supervision of the Supervision. Board of Supervisors or of a committee of that body, who shall have the right, and whose duty it shall be, to inspect the work during its progress; and at the completion of the same the Board shall formally accept the work before the sureties on the contractor's bond are released. SEC. 6. All payments for notices and advertisements made Payment. necessary by this Act, and for constructing and furnishing said building, shall be made by warrants drawn on the Special Jail and Recorder's Office Building Fund, and said warrants shall be paid in the order of their presentation to the County Treasurer; but no payment shall be made out of said fund for salary, allowance or compensation to any officer, or to any person as agent or overseer, architect or superintendent, or for any purpose other than that specified in this Act. served. SEC. 7. Warrants for seventy per cent. of the estimated value Thirty per of the work done on said building may be drawn as the work cent. reprogresses, in such manner, in such sums and at such times as the Board may direct-at least thirty per cent. of the whole amount to be paid being reserved until the completion and acceptance of the work, as additional security for the performance of the contract. SEC. 8. This Act shall cease to be of effect when said Jail Surplus. and Recorder's Office Building shall be completed, accepted and paid for, and any surplus money then remaining in said Special Fund shall be turned over to the General Fund of the county. SEC. 9. The special tax authorized by this Act shall be collected and paid over at the same time and in the same manner as the State and county taxes, as provided for by law. SEC. 10. This Act shall be in force and effect from and after its approval. Corporation ble. CHAPTER CCLXXXVIII. An Act concerning the Independent Order of Bnai Brith (Sons of the Covenant). [Approved March 25, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. All the rights, privileges and immunities granted Act applica- by an Act entitled an Act to amend an Act relating to corporations, passed May eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, are hereby extended to and conferred upon the Society or Order known as the Independent Order of Bnai Brith (Sons of the Covenant), after said Society or Order shall have assumed corporate powers. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Allowance to fire com panies. CHAPTER CCLXXXIX. An Act to amend section seventy-four of an Act entitled an Act to incorporate the City of Sacramento, approved April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three. [Approved March 25, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section seventy-four of an Act the title of which is recited in the title of this Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 74. The Trustees shall allow each engine company fifty, and each hose company and each hook and ladder company thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents per month, to be used by the company, under the superintendence of the Chief Engineer, in keeping the apparatus and hose in order; and if any company shall fail, neglect or refuse to keep its apparatus or hose in order, the allowance in this section provided shall not be paid; and the Trustees shall also pay to each company the further sum of ten dollars per month for gas for lighting its house, and shall also pay for all necessary repairs upon the apparatus, hose and other property of each company performed under the direction. of the Chief Engineer; but no money shall be expended for the salary of any officer of the Department, or for any appropriation to the companies, or for other Fire Department matters, excepting only out of the Fire Department Fund provided in section twenty-six. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER CCXC. An Act to create a Jury Fund and fix the compensation of Grand and [Approved March 25, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and jurors. SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors in and for the County Tax to pay of Calaveras is hereby authorized, and it shall be their duty, to levy for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and annually thereafter, in addition to the taxes authorized by existing laws, a special tax, for jury purposes, as follows: an ad valorem tax, not to exceed twenty cents on each one hundred dollars value of taxable property in said county; and such tax shall be assessed and collected at the same time and in the same manner as other property tax is assessed and collected under the Revenue Laws of this State. All moneys collected under the provisions of this Act shall be paid into the County Treasury; and it shall be the duty of the County Treasurer to set apart the same in a separate fund, to be known as the "Jury Fund;" and said fund shall be used to pay the fees of grand and trial jurors in the District and County Courts of said county, and for no other purpose. SEC. 2. From and after the first day of January, eighteen Fees and hundred and sixty-nine, the fees of jurors in Calaveras County mileage. shall be one dollar and fifty cents per day, together with mileage, at the rate of twenty cents per mile for the distance necessarily travelled by each juror in going from his place of residence to the County Court-house; but no mileage shall be allowed to any juror who may live within two miles of the said Court-house. SEC. 3. From and after the first day of January, eighteen Certificates. hundred and sixty-nine, the County Clerk of said county shall issue to each grand and trial juror who has served in the District Court or County Court a certificate containing the number of days such juror has served during the term, the number of miles for which mileage is due as provided in section two of this Act, and the whole amount of such service and mileage, and the amount such juror may have received during the term for acting in any civil cases, which last shall be deducted from the whole amount of service; and the County Auditor, on the presentation of such certificate, shall draw his warrant in favor of the person warrants. who rendered the service, for the amount shown to be due in such certificate, and shall specify in the warrant, "For jury service;" and he shall indorse on the back of each certificate the number of the warrant drawn, and file the certificate in his office. On the first Monday of each month, or as soon thereafter as the Board of Supervisors shall meet, the County Auditor shall deliver all the jury certificates in his possession to the Board of Supervisors, who shall compare them with the warrants drawn, and if found correct shall destroy the same. If the Auditor shall draw any warrant on said fund without having the proper jury certificate, he shall be liable on his official bond. |