Proceeds. Interest. Record. Redemption of bonds. Compensation. Coupons. Board of Supervisors of said county to levy, and they are hereby authorized to levy and cause to be collected, a special tax on all property, real, personal and mixed, within the county, which shall not exceed twenty-five cents on each one hundred dollars valuation of such real, personal and mixed property; such tax to be assessed and collected in like manner as are assessed and collected other taxes for county purposes; provided, that for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight said tax may be levied at any regular or special meeting of said Board of Supervisors. SEC. 5. All taxes collected under the provisions of this Act shall be applied only to the purpose of paying the interest and principal of the bonds authorized to be issued by this Act, until the same shall be fully paid. SEC. 6. The interest on said bonds shall be paid at the Treasurer's office of said county on the first Monday of January, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, and thereafter semi-annually on the first Monday of July and the first Monday of January of each year. SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors and the County Treasurer, each, to keep a correct record of all bonds issued under the provisions of this Act, showing the number, date, amount of each, to whom issued, and for what warrants or scrip said bonds have been issued. SEC. 8. On the first Monday of January of each year, when there shall be as much as five hundred dollars in the County Treasury, collected under the provisions of this Act, over and above the interest due on such first Monday of January and July next thereafter, it shall be the duty of the County Treasurer to advertise in some public newspaper published in said county, once a week for two weeks, stating the amount of surplus in the Sinking Fund and inviting bids at such Treasurer's office on a given day, specifying the hour, for proposals to redeem bonds by this Act authorized to be issued. Such bidding shall be in public, and it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to accept such bids and in such amounts as will be most advantageous to the county and redeem the largest amount of bonds; and said surplus shall be applied to the redemption of such bonds for which bids were accepted, and the same taken up and cancelled; but no bid shall be received at a higher rate than the par value and interest of said bonds. SEC. 9. The County Treasurer and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors shall, for all services performed by them under the provisions of this Act, receive such sum as the Board of Supervisors may deem just and proper, which shall be paid out of the General Fund of the county. SEC. 10. The bonds authorized to be issued by this Act may have attached coupons, or not, in the discretion of the Board of Supervisors. SEC. 11. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. An Act to re-fund the funded debt of the County of San Bernardino. [Approved March 26, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and to issue. SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the County of San New bonds Bernardino are hereby authorized and required to fund all outstanding bonds of the county issued under an Act of the Legislature, approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, and entitled an Act to fund the debt of the County of San Bernardino, that are or may be unpaid on the first day of May, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, together with the interest accrued thereon, by issuing bonds in payment thereof, bearing interest at the rate of seven per cent. per annum, and having coupons for the payment of such interest attached. Said bonds shall be made payable in not less than ten years nor more than twenty years from the date thereof, in the legal currency of the State of California. The coupons of interest on said bonds shall be presented for payment on the first Monday in April, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and every year thereafter until said debt and interest are fully liqui dated. SEC. 2. The Board of Supervisors of said county are hereby Description. authorized, on or before the first day of May, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, to cause to be issued bonds for the amount of said funded debt and interest, in amount not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars each. Said bonds shall be signed by the President of the Board and also by the Clerk, and countersigned by the County Treas urer. The Treasurer and the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors shall each keep a correct record of all bonds issued under the provisions of this Act, showing the date, number, amount, and the name of the person to whom the same were issued, and also the respective number of the bonds in lieu of which said bonds were issued. levied. SEC. 3. For the purpose of paying the interest on the bonds Tax to be so issued, and also to constitute a Sinking Fund for the redemption of the same, it shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors to cause to be levied and collected, each year, a special tax on all taxable real and personal property within the county, which tax shall not be less than twenty cents nor more than forty cents on each one hundred dollars valuation of such real and personal property; such tax to be assessed and collected in the legal currency of this State, at the same time and in like manner as are assessed State and county taxes for other purposes; and the amount of taxes so collected shall be applied only to the purpose of paying the interest and principal of the bonds authorized to be issued by this Act, until the same shall be fully paid. Redemption of bonds. Acts re pealed. SEC. 4. On the first day of May in each year, when there shall be as much as five hundred dollars in the Sinking Fund of said county over and above the amount required to pay the interest on said bonds due and payable on that day, it shall be the duty of the County Treasurer to advertise in some newspaper published in the County of San Bernardino, and also to post notices in three conspicuous places in said county, that he will receive proposals for the surrender of bonds to the amount of said surplus. Such proposals shall be made in writing and shall be accompanied by the bonds so proposed to be surrendered, and it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to accept such bid or bids as will redeem the greatest amount of bonds, and said surplus shall be applied to the payment thereof. Said bonds shall then be cancelled; but no bids shall be received at a higher rate than the original par value of said bond. SEC. 5. All parts of an Act entitled an Act to fund the debt of San Bernardino County, approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, and the several Acts amendatory thereof, so far as the same conflict with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed. SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect immediately. Tax for Re demption Fund. To redeem warrants. CHAPTER CCCXIV. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to provide a fund for the redemption of and prescribing the manner of redeeming the outstanding county warrants drawn upon the Treasurer of Tuolumne County, and further to provide for the payment of all the current expenses of said Tuolumne County in cash, approved February twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three. [Approved March 26, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section one of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. The Board of Supervisors of said County of Tuolumne shall have power, and it is made their duty, to levy a special tax annually, in addition to other taxes provided for by law, upon the taxable property of said county, 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, to be called a Redemption Fund, and shall be held and disbursed as hereinafter provided. SEC. 2. Section two of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 2. The fund provided for by the first section of this Act shall be held and used for the redemption of any county warrants drawn upon the Treasury of Tuolumne County and payable out of the General Fund of said county. SEC. 3. Section nine of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: cers. Section 9. If on the first Monday of any month there shall Salaries of be a deficiency of funds in the County Officers' Salary Fund to county offpay all the salaries of the county officers and their lawful deputies, the Board of Supervisors shall order the County Treasurer to make up and pay such deficiency from the Current Expense Fund, but not from the said Redemption Fund provided for in this Act. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAPTER CCCXV. An Act to provide for an open canal through Channel street, in the [Approved March 26, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. That portion of Channel street, in the City and Land dedicaCounty of San Francisco, as delineated on the official map of ted for canal the city and county, approved by the Board of Supervisors thereof January thirtieth, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixtysix, and lying east of and between the easterly line of Harrison street and the water front of the Bay of San Francisco, is hereby dedicated and declared to be and remain forever an open canal for purposes of drainage and navigation. The width of said canal, from Harrison street to the northeasterly line of Seventh street, shall be of an uniform width of sixty (60) feet, and located in the middle of said Channel street; and from the northeasterly line of Seventh street to the city front, as the same now is or may be hereafter established, one hundred and forty (140) feet, and located in the middle of said Channel street; provided, that nothing in this Act shall be construed as conferring any right or power on any person whatever to demand or collect tolls or wharfage. SEC. 2. The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of Bridges. San Francisco shall have the right to extend any streets across said canal by arched bridges or drawbridges. SEC. 3. Any person wilfully obstructing the navigation, or Obstructions in any manner damaging the said canal, or the channel thereof, or any portion thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days. SEC. 4. No person shall fill or grade, or attempt to fill or Grading adgrade, any lot adjacent to the line of Channel street, as estab- jacent lots. lished by the official map of the City and County of San Francisco, approved by the Board of Supervisors thereof January thirtieth, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-six, without first erecting a bulkhead which shall protect the canal from any encroachment caused by said filling or grading. Any person who shall violate the provisions of this section shall be punished, on conviction thereof, as provided in the third section of this Act. SEC. 5. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. When and CHAPTER CCCXVI. An Act to fix the terms of the District Court of the First Judicial [Approved March 26, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The regular terms of the District Court of the where held. First Judicial District of the State of California shall be held as follows: At the county seat of the County of San Luis Obispo, on the first Monday of December, April and August in each year; and at the county seat of the County of Santa Barbara, on the first Monday [of] January, May and September. SEC. 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with any of the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. Declared navigable. Obstructions CHAPTER CCCXVII. An Act declaring Islais Creek, in the City and County of San Francisco, a navigable stream. [Approved March 26, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. From and after the passage of this Act, the creek known as "Islais Creek," from Franconia Landing, on or near the Bay View Turnpike, to its outlet into the Bay of San Francisco, and thence easterly, along the southerly line of Tulare street to the city water front, on Massachusetts street, shall be declared a navigable stream-the width of the channel of said creek to be hereafter established by the Board of State Harbor Commissioners. SEC. 2. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to build any dam or bridge across said creek or channel, or any wharf that will interfere with the navigation of the same. |