CHAPTER DVII. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to authorize the County Treasurer of the County of Contra Costa to collect the State and county taxes in said county, approved April second, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. [Approved March 30, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section two of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: taxes on Section 2. All real and personal property and poll taxes due where pay on return of the assessment roll to the Tax Collector shall be able. payable at the office of the Treasurer and ex officio Tax Collector in and for the County of Contra Costa; provided, that nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect the existing provisions of law for the collection of licenses and poll taxes not delinquent; and provided further, that the County Treasurer Collection of shall be empowered and it shall be his duty to appoint a Dep- personal uty Collector, to accompany the Assessor at the time of his property. asssessment, for the purpose of collecting personal property taxes from those persons who have no taxable real estate; and it shall be lawful for him to appoint the Sheriff, or any one of his deputies, such Deputy Collector, who shall, when appointed, be empowered and authorized to collect, and demand and enforce collection of all taxes assessed upon personal property against those persons who have not real estate taxed, in the same manner as is required of Tax Collectors under the Revenue Laws of this State; and provided further, that the Sheriff of Contra Costa County shall not be required to execute any separate bond as Tax Collector, except such as he or his deputy, who may be appointed by the Treasurer, shall be required to execute to the Treasurer as Deputy Tax Collector under him, as provided by law; and such Deputy Tax Collector shall receive for collecting such taxes due on personal property assessed against persons owning no real estate, the same fees and percentage allowed by the Revenue Laws of this State; and provided further, that nothing in this section contained shall affect or alter any law now in force authorizing the Sheriff to collect licenses or any personal property or poll tax not delinquent. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. Districts. Board of CHAPTER DVIII. An Act to divide the County of Mono into Supervisor Districts, fixing compensation of the Board of Supervisors and providing payment for the same, and defining their power and duties. [Approved March 30, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of Mono County shall, at their first regular meeting after the passage of this Act, divide the county into three Supervisor Districts, and shall number said districts consecutively from one to three. Each district shall be entitled to one Supervisor. The present Supervisors shall be Supervisors of their respective districts and hold office for the terms for which they were elected, respectively. SEC. 2. The Board shall consist of three members, a majority Supervisors [to] constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. They shall elect one of their number as Chairman of the Board, and the County Clerk shall be Clerk thereof. The Supervisors shall be qualified electors of the respective districts they represent, and shall be elected by the qualified electors of said districts in the manner provided by law, and shall hold office for the term of three years from and after the first Monday of the month subsequent to their election and until their successors are elected and qualified. Whenever an election is ordered for Supervisors, notice shall be given of the number and boundaries of the district in which said election is to take place. Vacancies. Compensation. Tax to be levied. SEC. 3. Whenever it becomes necessary to elect a Supervisor to fill any vacancy occasioned by death, removal or resignation, or any other cause, the person elected shall hold office for the remainder of the unexpired term for which his predecessor was elected. SEC. 4. Each member of the Board of Supervisors shall be entitled to receive for his services per diem and mileage not exceeding four dollars for each day's necessary attendance on the business of the county, and twenty-five cents per mile for each mile necessarily travelled in going only to the county seat, and not to exceed in the aggregate during any one year the sum of three hundred dollars. SEC. 5. The Board of Supervisors of Mono County are hereby authorized and empowered annually to levy a special tax on all the taxable property of the county for the purpose of creating a Supervisor Fund. Said tax shall be levied and collected at the same time and in the same manner that other county taxes are levied and collected, in an amount sufficient to pay the per diem and mileage of Supervisors, as provided in section four of this Act; provided, that in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, said tax may be levied at any time prior to the first Monday of July. SEC. 6. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the provi sions of this Act, so far as the same is applicable to the County of Mono, are hereby repealed. SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER DIX. An Act to authorize the Justices of the Peace of the City and County The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Justices of the Peace of the City and County Authorized. of San Francisco are authorized and empowered to appoint a Janitor for their Court-rooms, at a salary not exceeding seventyfive dollars per month, and his salary shall be allowed by the Auditor of the City and County of San Francisco, and be paid in the same manner that the Justices are paid, out of the Special Fee Fund. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER DX. An Act to fix the rate of taxation for State purposes. [Approved March 30, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: twentieth fiscal year. SECTION 1. An ad valorem tax of one dollar upon each one Rate for hundred dollars value of taxable property of this State is hereby levied for the twentieth fiscal year, to be applied to the purposes following: To the Interest and Sinking Fund of eighteen hun- How to be dred and fifty-seven, thirty cents; to the Interest and Sinking applied. Fund of eighteen hundred and sixty, one and a quarter cents; to the Soldiers' Relief Interest and Sinking Fund, four cents; to the Soldiers' Bounty Interest and Sinking Fund, twelve cents; to the Capitol Fund, ten cents; to the School Fund, eight cents; to the Pacific Railroad Fund, eight cents; for a State Prison Building Fund, three cents; for a General Fund, twenty-two and a half cents; for the Military Fund, one and a quarter cents. SEC. 2. An ad valorem tax of ninety-seven cents upon each one hundred dollars value of taxable property of this State is hereby levied for the twenty-first fiscal year, to be applied to the purposes following: To the Interest and Sinking Fund of Rate for twenty-first fiscal year. applied. How to be eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, thirty cents; to the Interest and Sinking Fund of eighteen hundred and sixty, one and a quarter cents; to the Soldiers' Relief Interest and Sinking Fund, four cents; to the Soldiers' Bounty Interest and Sinking Fund, twelve cents; to the Capitol Fund, ten cents; to the School Fund, eight cents; to the Pacific Railroad Fund, eight cents; for a General Fund, twenty-two and a half cents; for the Military Fund, one and a quarter cents; and the said taxes so levied are hereby directed to be collected and paid for State purposes upon the assessed value of all property in the State subject to taxation. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect from its passage. Declared CHAPTER DXI. An Act declaring certain streams in the County of Alameda navigable. The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. So much of the creek known as "San Leandro navigable. Creek" as lies between its mouth in the Bay of San Francisco and what is now known as "Andrew's Landing," and so much of San Lorenzo Creek as lies between its mouth in the Bay of San Francisco and what is now known as "Roberts' Landing," and so much of the creek known as "Johnson Creek" as lies between its mouth in the Bay of San Francisco and what is now known as "Simpson's Landing," and so much of the north branch of Alameda Creek as lies between its mouth and what is now known as "Eden Landing," in the County of Alameda, are hereby declared navigable streams. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER DXII. An Act to amend section thirty-eight of an Act regulating elections, passed March twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred and fifty. [Approved March 30, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section thirty-eight of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 38. The Board of Supervisors of each county shall meet at their usual place of meeting on the first Monday after to examine returns and result. each election to canvass the election returns; and if the returns Supervisors from each precinct in the county or township where polls were opened at such election shall not have been received by the declare County Clerk at that time, then said Board shall adjourn from time to time until said returns shall be received, but not beyond the second Monday after such election; and the said Board shall then proceed in public to open the returns and estimate the vote of such county or township for each person voted for, and for and against each proposition voted upon at such election, and declare the result thereof. The Clerk of said Board shall at such meeting enter on the records of such Board a Record. statement of the result of such election, containing the names of the persons voted for and the propositions voted upon; the office to fill which each person was voted for; the number of votes given at each precinct to each of such persons, and for and against each of such propositions; the number of votes given in the county to each of such persons, and for and against each of such propositions, and the whole number of votes cast in said county; provided, that in the Counties of Humboldt, San Diego and Trinity the Board of Supervisors shall not be required to meet until the second Monday after such election; and provided further, that nothing in this Act shall affect the provisions of the Act to provide for choosing Electors of President and Vice President of the United States. SEC. 2. This Act shall go into effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER DXIII. An Act to amend section eight of an Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Santa Cruz County to issue and sell bonds of said county, and to provide for the payment of the same, and other matters relating to the revenue of said county, approved March tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. [Approved March 30, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section eight of the above entitled Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 8. Whenever, at any time in each year, there shall Redemption remain in said Interest Fund a sum of five hundred dollars or of bonds. more, after deducting from said sum a sufficient amount to pay the interest then due and to become due on or before the second day of July next following, the said Board of Supervisors shall advertise in a newspaper published in said county for the period of three weeks for sealed proposals for the redemption of said bonds; and one week from the expiration of the time of such publication the said Supervisors shall open the sealed proposals and shall pay the bonds offered at the lowest prices, as far as |