Appropria tion for surveys, maps, etc. CHAP. CCXXXIV.-An Act to confer additional powers upon the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, and upon the Auditor and Treasurer thereof, and to authorize certain appropriations of money by said Board. [Approved March 16, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco is hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate, allow, and order paid out of the General Fund, the sum of ten thousand dollars, for preparing a comprehensive and intelligent system of sewerage for that portion of the City and County of San Francisco where the grades have been established, and for making surveys, and preparing a map showing the size and materials of all sewers constructed and to be constructed by order of the Board of Supervisors, and for reporting upon the mode to be adopted to secure ventilation of sewers, with plans and rules as to the construction and connection of private sewers with the public sewers, etc. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCXXXV.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] Franchise extended. Tolls. CHAP. CCXXXVI.-An Act to extend the franchise granted to [Approved March 16, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The right of David Girky, his associates and assigns, to maintain a wharf at Santa Cruz, heretofore constructed under an Act entitled "An Act authorizing David Girky and others to build a wharf at Santa Cruz," approved April third, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, is hereby extended twenty years from the second day of April, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-six, to said party, his associates and assigns, and the use of the land on which said wharf is constructed is released to said parties and their assigns for that period. SEC. 2. The Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Cruz must fix the tolls to be collected on said wharf, in the same manner as provided for wharves constructed under the provisions of the Political Code. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. CCXXXVII.—An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to create the Eighteenth Judicial District, and for other purposes," approved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. [Approved March 16, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Court. SECTION 1. Section three of an Act entitled an Act to Terms of create the Eighteenth Judicial District, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 3. The terms of the District Court of the Eighteenth Judicial District, during each year, shall commence as follows: In the County of San Diego, on the third Monday of January, April, July, and October; in the County of San Bernardino, on the second Monday of March, June, September, and December. SEC. 2. This Act shall be in force from and after its pas sage. CHAP. CCXXXVIII.-An Act relative to the publication of amendments to the Codes. [Approved March 16, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Codes. SECTION 1. All statutes passed at the twenty-first session Amendof the Legislature, which are expressly amendatory of the ments to Codes, must be published in a volume uniform in size with the Codes, and separate from the other statutes. SEC. 2. The Secretary of State must arrange such amendments so that all statutes amendatory of the same Code will be together, and as near as possible in the order of the sections which they amend. SEC. 3. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCXXXIX.-An Act to authorize the County Treasurer The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. On the first Monday in April, eighteen hun- Treasurer to dred and seventy-six, and on the first Monday of April each transfer suryear thereafter, the County Treasurer shall, after the close of his official business of that day, estimate the amount of plus moneys. warrants, if any, then outstanding against the "Salary Fund," and the amount of warrants, if any, then outstanding against the "Current Expense Fund;" and should there be a surplus in either or both of said funds, more than sufficient to pay the warrants outstanding against said funds respectively, he shall transfer such surplus to the "Hospital Fund" of said county, and apply the same in like manner as other moneys in said fund. SEC. 2. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. Capacity of gas and CHAP. CCXL.-An Act to regulate the laying of gas and waterpipes in the City of Oakland. [Approved March 16, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. All gas and water-pipes hereafter laid upon water-pipes. any paved, macadamized, or graveled street in the City of Oakland, must be of sufficient capacity to afford a free supply of gas or water for the estimated necessities of said street for a period of not less than five years; and the said estimate of capacity shall be made by the City Engineer and approved by the City Council. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. CCXLI.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] Portion of county protected from trespass. CHAP. CCXLII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to restrict sheep from being herded or running at large in certain portions of Lake County, approved March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. [Approved March 16, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section one is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons owning or having charge of any sheep within that portion of Lake County lying north of a line commencing at a point on the county line between the Counties of Colusa and Lake where the Bartlett Spring and Bear Valley tollroad crosses the same, and running westerly along said road to Bartlett Springs; thence westerly along the Upper Lake and Bartlett Spring toll-road to the top of Pine or Mill Mountain, the same being the dividing ridge between the waters of Clear Lake and the north fork of Cache Creek; thence southwesterly on a direct line to Goodwin's Point on the western shore of Clear Lake; thence west to the county line between the Counties of Lake and Mendocino, to herd the same, or permit them to be herded, or to roam at large of their own accord on the lands or lawful possessory claims of other than the lands or lawful possessory claims of the owners of such sheep. violation. SEC. 2. The owner or owners, or agent for such owners, of Penalty for sheep violating the provisions of section one of this Act, on complaint of the party or parties injured, and on conviction thereof before any Justice of the Peace for the township where either of the parties reside, shall be liable to a fine not to exceed the sum of fifty dollars, which fine shall be paid into the School Fund of said county, and shall be liable Liability to to pay the party or parties injured in a further sum, in the nature of damages, for each day such violation of said section shall be permitted to continue, as the Court within its jurisdiction may award. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. owners of land. CHAP. CCXLIII.-An Act to authorize the School Trustees of Lower Lake School District, in Lake County, to raise funds for school purposes. [Approved March 16, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: levy tax to SECTION 1. The Trustees of Lower Lake School District, Trustees to Lake County, are hereby authorized to levy a tax on all the build schooltaxable property of said district, for the purpose of building house. a public school-house in said district, as follows: In the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, such number of cents on each one hundred dollars of all the taxable property in said district as will raise the sum of fourteen hundred and twenty-five dollars. In the year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, such number of cents on each one hundred dollars of all the taxable property in said district as will raise the sum of fifteen hundred and sixty-seven dollars. In the year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, such number of cents on each one hundred dollars of all the taxable property in said district as will raise the sum of seventeen hundred and ten dollars; and in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, such number of cents on each one hundred dollars of all the taxable property in said district as will raise the sum of eighteen hundred and seventy-nine dollars. SEC. 2. Within sixty days after the passage of this Act Election for the Trustees of said district must order an election for an Collector. Assessor and Taxes, how applied. Assessor and Collector, for the purposes of this Act, who must qualify according to law. SEC. 3. The Assessor and Collector, in assessing and collecting the tax herein provided for, must be governed by the law governing County Assessors and County Collectors. SEC. 4. The Collector must pay over all the money, to be collected under the provisions of this Act, to the Trustees of the district, who must appropriate and disburse the same in the erection of a public school-house for said district, and paying the expenses of assessing and collecting the tax herein provided for. If any money remain after paying for the said school-house, and the expenses of assessing and collecting the tax herein provided for, the Trustees must pay the balance into the District Fund of the district. SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect and be in force immediately. CHAP. CCXLIV.-An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to protect agriculture in the County of Butte," approved March tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. [Approved March 16, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section twelve of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 12. This Act shall apply to all that portion of Butte County bounded as follows: All that portion of the said County of Butte lying west of Feather River and the main north fork of same. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. Board of CHAP. CCXLV.—An Act to provide for the purchase of certain supplies for State officers and members of the Legislature. [Approved March 16, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The State Board of Examiners is hereby constituted ex officio a Furnishing Board, with the powers and duties hereinafter specified. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of said Board, as often as it to advertise shall become necessary, to advertise for twenty days in two daily newspapers published in the City of San Francisco, and one daily newspaper published in the City of Sacramento, for sealed proposals to furnish stationery, blank books, material for lights, fuel, and such other articles necessary for for bids to supply stationery, lights, and fuel. |