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shall order paid the claim of Lake County for the sum of thirty-five hundred dollars, and the Auditor of said County of Napa shall draw a warrant for the same on the Treasurer of the said county, payable from the General Fund, and the Treasurer of Napa County shall pay the same.

SEC. 3. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage.

Stats. 1871-2, p. 484.

An Act to create the County of Ventura, to establish the boundaries thereof, and to provide for its organization.

[Approved March 22, 1872.]

[Enacting clause.]

SECTION 1. There shall be formed out of the eastern part of Santa Barbara County a new county, to be called Ventura.

SEC. 2. The boundaries of Ventura County shall be as follows: Commencing on the coast of the Pacific Ocean, at the mouth of the Rincon Creek; thence following up the center of said creek to its source; thence due north to the northern boundary line of Santa Barbara County; thence in an easterly direction along the said boundary line of Santa Barbara County to the northeast corner of the same; thence southerly along the line between the said Santa Barbara County and Los Angeles County to the Pacific Ocean and three miles therein; thence in a northwesterly direction to a point due south of and three miles distant from the center of the mouth of Rincon Creek; thence north to the point of beginning, and including the Islands of Anacapa and San Nicholas.

SEC. 3. The seat of justice shall be at the Town of San Buenaventura until otherwise provided by law.

SEC. 4. The Governor of this State shall, when this Act takes effect, appoint some suitable person, resident of Ventura County, to act as County Judge of said county, whose term of office shall continue until the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, and until his successor is elected and qualified, and who shall hold his office and reside at the county seat. There shall be chosen by the qualified electors thereof at the judicial election to be holden in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and every four years thereafter, a County Judge for Ventura County, whose term of office shall commence on the

first Monday of January succeeding his election, and continue for the term of four years. Said County Judge of Ventura County shall receive a salary of one thousand dollars per annum, to be paid quarterly. Said County Judge shall hold the Courts required by law to be held by County Judges. There shall be three regular terms of the County Court held in each year, said terms to commence on the first Monday in February, June, and October; provided, however, the County Judge may call and hold special terms of the Probate Court whenever public necessity may require. Said County Judge shall discharge all the duties required by law of County Judges in this State.

SEC. 5. There shall be an election held in the County of Ventura within sixty days from the time of the first meeting of the Commissioners. There shall be chosen at said election, by the qualified electors of said county, one District Attorney; one County Clerk, who shall be ex officio Auditor, Recorder, and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, and ex officio Clerk of the County, Probate, and District Courts; one County Superintendent of Public Schools; one Sheriff, who shall be ex officio County Tax Collector; one County Assessor; one County Treasurer; one County Surveyor; one County Coroner, who shall be ex officio Public Administrator. Said county officers shall hold their respective offices until the first Monday in March, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and until their successors are elected and qualified. There shall be chosen at said election, by the qualified electors thereof, one Supervisor for each Supervisor district in said county, who shall hold their offices as follows: District Number One, until the first day of January, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-three; District Number Two, until the first day of January, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-four; and District Number Three, until the first day of January, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-five; provided, that all Supervisors duly elected and qualified Supervisors of Santa Barbara County, residents of Ventura County, shall hold their office for the term provided by law, upon having duly qualified as township officers of Ventura County. There shall be chosen at said election, by the qualified electors thereof, two Constables and two Justices of the Peace for each township; provided, however, that all Constables and Justices elected at the general and judicial elections held in the year A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-one, residents of Ventura County, shall hold their offices for the time provided by law, upon having

duly qualified as township officers of Ventura County for the respective townships in which they reside, as said townships are organized by the action of the Board of Commissioners provided for by this Act. The term of office of the Justice of the Peace and Constables of Ventura County shall be the same as in other counties in this State.

SEC. 6. The Governor shall, when this Act takes effect, appoint five persons, residents of the proposed county, who shall be and constitute a Board of Commissioners to perfect the organization of the said County of Ventura, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum. Said Commissioners shall meet in the Town of San Buenaventura within twenty days after their appointment, and after being duly sworn to faithfully discharge their duties as prescribed by this Act, shall organize by electing from their number a President and Clerk. They shall then divide said county into three townships, define their boundaries, and designate the name of each. They shall also divide said county, by townships, into three Supervisor districts, and number the same. They shall also establish election precincts, and appoint one Inspector and two Judges of Election for each precinct in said county. They shall give thirty days notice, by proclamation in some newspaper published in the county, or if there be no newspaper published in Ventura County, then said publication to be made in some newspaper published in the County of Santa Barbara, of the officers to be elected, the precincts established; and the officers of election of each shall also designate the boundaries of each district, with their names or numbers; also, bounds and number of each Supervisor district. Said Commissioners shall, on the second Monday after said election, meet at the county seat as a Board of Canvassers, and proceed to canvass the election returns. Said Commissioners, their President and Clerk, are hereby authorized and required to discharge the same duties as are now required by law of Boards of Supervisors and County Clerks in the counties in this State, so far as the same applies to holding elections, canvassing election returns, and issuing certificates of election. They shall keep a full record of all their proceedings, and file the same with the original election returns in the County Clerk's office, as soon as he shall have been qualified, and thereupon the powers and duties of said Commissioners shall cease and terminate.

SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors of Ventura County, whose election is by this

Act provided for, to meet at the county seat on the first Monday of the month subsequent to their election and qualification, and elect the member from District Number One Chairman. They shall then allow such per diem and mileage to the Commissioners and officers of election as they may think proper and just; and such allowance shall be paid by a warrant drawn in favor of each by the proper officers. Said Board, or majority of them, shall then appoint two freeholders, residents of Ventura County, to act as a Board of Commissioners, whose duty it shall be to meet a like number of Commissioners, appointed by the Board of Supervisors of Santa Barbara County, at a time and place agreed upon. Such joint Commissioners shall then organize by appointing from their number a President and Secretary, and shall immediately proceed to determine the indebtedness of said county at the time when this Act takes effect. After ascertaining the total amount of indebtedness, they shall ascertain the total market value of the assets belonging to the county under consideration. They shall also ascertain the assessed value under the assessment of eighteen hundred and seventy-one of the property in the territory hereby set apart to form Ventura County. Then, after deducting the total value of assets from the total amount of indebtedness, so as to ascertain the actual indebtedness, the proportion due from the County of Ventura shall be ascertained as follows: As the total assessed value of property in the territory taken from Santa Barbara County to form Ventura County is to the total assessed value of said county, so shall be the proportion of the actual indebtedness of Ventura County to Santa Barbara County; and when so ascertained said Commissioners shall certify to their respective Boards of Supervisors such amount. The Board of Supervisors of Ventura County shall then cause to be issued the bonds of Ventura County, payable in five years from the organization of said county, to the County of Santa Barbara, for such sum as the Commissioners certify to be due, bearing the same rate of interest as the County of Santa Barbara is now paying on such debt. Said Board of Supervisors shall procure and provide a suitable place or places to be used as a Court House and Jail, and for the accommodation of the various county officers. They shall then, in accordance with the general laws governing Boards of Supervisores, levy State and county taxes; provided, that for the General Fund they shall have power to levy not exceeding eighty cents on each one hundred

dollars of taxable property in said county. They shall also levy a tax of ten cents upon each one hundred dollars of taxable property in said county, which shall be collected as other State and county taxes are collected; and when so collected the same shall be set apart pro rata as a Sinking Fund to liquidate the debt due from Ventura County to the County of Santa Barbara, affected by the creation of Ventura County; and when there shall be five hundred dollars or more placed to the credit of said County of Santa Barbara it shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors of Ventura County to draw upon their own order such sum and purchase the warrants of said County of Santa Barbara; and upon presentation to the Treasurer of the County of Santa Barbara he shall surrender a like amount of Ventura County bonds; said bonds shall then be canceled and on their face countersigned by the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors and filed in the Clerk's office. Said Board of Supervisors shall exercise such other powers and duties as are conferred by the general laws on Boards of Supervisors in the counties of this State. The levy of taxes for the first year shall be as effective as if levied at the time provided in the general law.

SEC. 8. All civil actions, or proceedings in the nature of actions, whether original or upon appeal, civil or criminal, which shall be pending in the District Court, County Court, or Probate Court, in the County of Santa Barbara, at the time of the organization of Ventura County, in which the defendants are residents of Ventura County, shall be removed for trial and final determination to the proper Courts of Ventura County on motion of any party interested; provided, that all actions commenced for the collection of taxes and licenses shall not be removed from the Courts of Santa Barbara County; provided, further, that in all criminal causes, where the offense was committed within the present limits of Ventura County, upon the application of the District Attorney of Ventura County, said causes shall be removed to Ventura County.

SEC. 9. All residents or property holders of the County of Ventura, upon application to the County Recorder of the County of Santa Barbara, and upon the payment of the fees required by law, shall be entitled to receive a transcript of the record, duly attested, of any property situated in the County of Ventura, and recorded in his office; and upon presentation of said transcript to the County Recorder of Ventura County, and upon the payment of the fees required by law,

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