Proviso. the money in the Interest Fund will extend; provided, that no bids shall be considered for more than the par value of said bonds. Should there be no proposals made for par value or less, then the money in said Interest Fund shall be used for the redemption of the said bonds, according to the number of their issue, of which the County Treasurer shall give the same notice as is required by law in the case of redemption of county warrants; and from the date of said notice last mentioned the bonds proposed to be redeemed shall cease to draw interest; and if any of such bonds shall not be presented for redemption within three months from the date of such notice, the County Treasurer shall apply the money for the redemption of bonds next in order of the number of their issue without giving further notice thereof. SEC. 2. All laws and parts of laws, so far as they conflict with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed. Powers granted tee. CHAPTER DXIV. An Act to authorize an investigation of the management of the Industrial School of the City and County of San Francisco. [Approved March 30, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. A. B. Forbes, Albert Dibblee, Thomas H. Selby, to Commit. J. B. Roberts, George W. Beaver, Frank McCoppin and S. R. Throckmorton, who have been heretofore duly appointed a Committee to investigate certain grave charges against the management of the Industrial School of the City and County of San Francisco, by resolution adopted by the Board of Managers of the Industrial School Department, at a meeting of said Board held on the fifth day of March, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, are hereby authorized and empowered, for the purposes of such investigation, to administer oaths to all persons who may appear and testify before them touching said charges, to issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses and to exercise all the functions of a Committee of the Legislature of this State, having power to send for persons and papers. Penalties for false SEC. 2. Any person or persons who shall wilfully and corswearing. ruptly swear falsely to any matter or thing material to the matters or things to be examined into by said Committee of investigation, shall be deemed guilty of the crime of perjury, and shall be subject to all the pains and penalties for such crime according to the statutes of the State of California. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER DXV. An Act to provide for the inmates of the State Reform School. [Approved March 30, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Act creating a State Reform School in and Acts re for the State of California, and all amendments and supplemen- pealed. tal Acts thereto, are hereby repealed. sioners. SEC. 2. J. M. Sharkey and Lorenzo Hubbard are hereby Duties of appointed and created Commissioners, empowered and directed Commis to contract with the authorities of the Industrial School of San Francisco, or with the United States authorities having in charge the United States Apprentice Ship at that harbor or at Mare Island, for the care, maintenance and instruction of the said boys or inmates legitimately of the State Reform School, on such terms and conditions as they may be able to effect; provided, that no contract with the Managers of the Industrial School shall be for a term exceeding two years from April first, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and in no event at a cost exceeding fifteen dollars per month for each and every such boy. The said contract shall include maintenance of a good and sufficient quality and quantity, medical attendance, medicines and instruction; and further provided, that said boys shall be treated in all respects as are others, inmates of the same school or ship, all of which shall be approved by the Board of State Medical Visitors, who shall visit the said Industrial School or ship as often as once in every six months. SEC. 3. Immediately after such contract has been made, the Commissioners named in section two (2) of this Act shall cause the removal of the boys or inmates before specified to the Industrial School at San Francisco, or ship, as the case may be, or to such other proper place as may be agreed upon by the contracting parties. SEC. 4. The Commissioners shall receive ten dollars per day, Compensaeach, for every day actually spent in the performance of their tion. duties, which, together with the expense of the removal of the boys, shall be paid from out the General Fund of the State Treasury; and upon presentation of the proper vouchers, the Controller of State is authorized and directed to draw his warrants for the amount upon the Treasurer of the State, who is hereby authorized to pay the same out of the General Fund. SEC. 4 [5]. All children so received into and by said Industrial Regulations, School of San Francisco, or the United States Apprentice Ship, shall thereafter be subject to the laws, by-laws and regulations governing said school or ship, and shall be cared for, maintained, apprenticed and governed under and by virtue of the regulations thereof. SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Removal of CHAPTER DXVI. An Act to provide for the improvement of the navigation of the Stanislaus River. [Approved March 30, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. James Burney and Archibald Leetch, and their obstructions associates and assigns, are hereby authorized and empowered to remove snags, sunken or overhanging trees, rafts or drifts, within or over the banks of that portion of the Stanislaus River lying between the confluence of said river and the San Joaquin River, and Burney's Ferry, on said Stanislaus River, a distance of about twenty-five miles, more or less. Rights given Damages. Tolls. Obstructions Completion of work. SEC. 2. Said company shall have the right to enter upon any lands upon the banks of said river with their trains, while removing said obstacles, and to build locks, or wingdams or bulkheads wherever the same may be deemed necessary to facilitate the navigation of said river, [and] to dig channels or cut-offs across points or bends of the river, when the navigation of the same may be improved by so doing; provided, that they shall be liable to the owners of the lands so entered upon for damages they may sustain to growing crops or to their property by reason of building said locks or wingdams, said damages to be estimated by persons mutually chosen for that purpose or by suit in any Court having jurisdiction. SEC. 3. Upon the completion of said work, said company shall have the right to charge and collect such tolls for the navigation of said rivers as the Board of Supervisors of the County of Stanislaus shall fix and determine, and no more, for the term of twenty years. SEC. 4. If any person shall wilfully prevent the free navigation of said river, by felling trees or otherwise, he or they shall be liable to the party or parties injured thereby for all damages which [the] party or parties may sustain by reason of such obstructions, which damages may be recovered in any Court of competent jurisdiction, with costs of suit, as in other cases. SEC. 5. The said company shall not collect tolls for the navigation of said river until they shall have proven to the satisfaction of the Board of Supervisors of Stanislaus County that they have by their work rendered said river navigable, and said Board shall have made an order fixing the rates of toll. CHAPTER DXVII. Proposed amendment to the Constitution of the State of California. [Approved March 30, 1868.] The Legislature of the State of California, at its seventeenth Relative to session, commencing on the second day of December, A. D. one appropri thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, adopt and agree to the money. following additional section to Article One of the Constitution, which said additional section was proposed as an amendment to the Constitution and adopted by the Legislature of said State at its sixteenth session: Section 22. The Legislature shall have no power to make an appropriation of money for any purpose whatever for a longer period than two years. CHAPTER DXVIII. An Act to re-district the County of Monterey and to provide for the election of Supervisors. [Approved March 30, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The County of Monterey shall be divided into Districts. four districts for the purposes hereinafter named, which districts shall be known and designated (and known) as follows: District Number One-The Township of Monterey. District Number Two-The Township of Alisal and San Anto nio. District Number Three-The Township of Pajaro. District Number Four-The Township of San Juan. 1868. SEC. 2. At the Presidential election in the year eighteen Election of hundred and sixty-eight there shall be elected, by the electors Supervisors of the respective districts, one Supervisor for Supervisor District Number Two and one Supervisor for Supervisor District Number Four, and one Supervisor for the county at large, to be elected by the electors of the county. Said Supervisors shall enter upon the duties of their office on the first Monday of December succeeding their election, and shall hold their office for the term of three years, except the Supervisor for the county at large, who shall hold his office for the term of four years. Said Supervisors shall, together with the Supervisors heretofore elected and qualified from Monterey Supervisor District and Pajaro Supervisor District, constitute the Board of Supervisors of said county, and shall receive the same compensation for their services, and shall succeed to all the powers and duties of the next preceding Board of Supervisors. SEC. 3. At the general election for county officers for the year 1869, etc. Election in A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and at each succeeding year, there shall be elected Supervisors as successors to those whose terms will next thereafter expire in said district wherein such election may be held, and shall be elected by the qualified electors of the respective district; provided, that the Supervisor for the county at large, and the Supervisors for their respective districts, who are to be elected hereafter, and in the manner as provided in this section, shall hold their office for the term of three years. Said Supervisors shall be elected at the time and place of holding the general election for county officers; and in the years in which there is no general election of county officers, they shall be elected at the Presidential election; and in the years in which neither of the aforesaid elections are held, such Supervisors shall be elected at a special election, to be held as prescribed by law. President of of Board. SEC. 4. The Supervisor elected for the county at large, and his successor in office, shall, after the expiration of the Supervisoral term of the present President of the Board of Supervisors, be ex officio President of said Board. SEC. 5. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. Right to re CHAPTER DXIX. An Act to facilitate the City of Sacramento in procuring material to raise its streets and levees. [Approved March 30, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. All the right and interest of the State of California move earth in and to so much of the old bed of the American River as lies from bed of American river. Trustees may con denn lands. west of what would be Thirty-first street if said s.reet was extended, is hereby granted to the City of Sacramento; provided, that no legal or equitable rights which may have heretofore accrued to any portion of said river bed shall be impaired by the passage of this Act; and provided, that no earth shall be taken from within one hundred and fifty feet of the base of the city levee; and provided further, that no earth, sand, sediment or deposit shall be taken or removed from such portion of said river bed as lies within the distance of two hundred yards east of the east bank of the Sacramento River. SEC. 2. The Board of Trustees of the City of Sacramento are hereby authorized to condemn for public use, in the same manner as the Board of City Levee Commissioners were authorized to condemn property for the construction of the levees, so much of the old bed of the American River, and of lands adjacent thereto, as they may deem necessary or proper for the purpose of furnishing sand, earth and gravel to fill or raise the streets, alleys and levees. SEC. 3. All lands granted or procured under the provisions. |