Powers of Trustees. Board of Equalization. Indebted SEC. 10. The Board of Trustees shall have power to pass such ordinances, not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States and of this State, as they may deem necessary; to determine what are nuisances, and prevent and remove the same; to prevent any or all domestic animals from running at large within the corporation limits; to control and regulate slaughter-houses, or to provide for their exclusion from within the town limits; to prohibit disorderly conduct; to provide for licensing shows and lawful games; to license every kind of business carried on within the town limits; to regulate and restrain theatrical and other amusements, and to fix the rate of license tax upon all such business, which shall not exceed the amount fixed by law for State and county purposes; to regulate and establish markets; to construct and keep in repair pumps, aqueducts, reservoirs, or other works necessary to protect the town from injury by fire; to lay out, alter, keep open, and repair the streets, alleys, and public squares, and other public grounds of the town; to purchase or lease such real estate and personal property as may be necessary for the interest of said town, or the transactions of the business of the Board of Trustees or other officers of said town, or the safe keeping of prisoners; to sell and convey the said real and personal property when deemed necessary for the above specified purposes; to grant the right of way to railroad companies within the corporate limits, making such prohibitions and restrictions as the safety of the inhabitants may demand; to levy and collect annually a poll-tax, not exceeding one dollar and a half on each male inhabitant over the age of twenty-one years, and property tax not exceeding one-half per cent. upon the assessed value of the real and personal property owned within the limits of said town. SEC. 11. That said Board of Trustees shall sit as a Board of Equalization, and shall be governed by the general laws of the State regulating the powers and duties of the County Board of Supervisors in similar proceedings. The tax levied under the provisions of this Act is hereby made a lien against the property assessed, which lien shall attach on the day of the levy, and shall not be satisfied or removed until such taxes are paid or the property has absolutely vested in a purchaser under sale for such taxes. SEC. 12. The Board of Trustees shall have no power to ness limited create any indebtedness exceeding fifteen hundred dollars in the aggregate, upon a credit of the town, or make any expenditures for improvements except as provided for in this Act; nor shall any warrants be drawn upon the Town Treasurer, unless there be sufficient moneys to meet the same after paying the current expenses of the town, and all other demands legally due. The Board of Trustees shall have the further power, whenever they may deem essential the expenditure of a larger sum of money than is specified in this Act as the limit of their power to expend, to make suggestions as to the sums of money needed, and the purposes of its use, and may appoint a time and place of holding an election in conformity with the provisions of this Act governing other elections, at which the qualified electors of the town may vote for or against a special tax for the purpose designated. SEC. 13. The Board of Trustees shall meet on the first Monthly Monday of every month, and at such other times as the Pres- meetings. ident may deem necessary. The place of the regular meeting shall be fixed by ordinance. SEC. 14. The Board of Trustees shall by ordinance fix the Taxes. time and manner of collecting the tax herein provided for, and the time and manner of selling property for unpaid taxes. All properties sold for unpaid taxes shall be subject to redemption upon the same conditions as the property sold for State and county taxes. SEC. 15. All ordinances passed by the Board of Trustees Ordinances. shall be signed by the President and Secretary, and published in the newspapers printed in the Town of Red Bluff. SEC. 16. The Board of Trustees shall have power to exam- Removal ine into the official conduct of any of the officers of the cor- from office. poration; and if, in the judgment of said Board, an officer has been guilty of misfeasance or malfeasance in office, the Board may remove them from office and fill any vacancy occasioned thereby, or any vacancy occurring by death, resignation, or otherwise. The persons so appointed to fill such vacancy shall hold office until the next annual election. SEC. 17. The Board of Trustees may appoint an Attorney, Attorney. and allow him for his services what they may reasonably be worth; provided, that his compensation shall not exceed the fees allowed the District Attorney of the county for like service. have juris diction. SEC. 18. The several Justices of the Peace within said Justices to town shall have jurisdiction: first, of an action for a fine, penalty, or forfeiture, imposed for a breach of any ordinance of said town; second, of proceedings respecting vagrants or disorderly persons. Said several Justices of the Peace shall also have like jurisdiction in all other actions, whether civil or criminal, arising in said town, and to which said town shall be a party, as now is, or may hereafter be, conferred upon Justices of the Peace by the general law of this State. They may issue such warrants of arrest as may be necessary to enforce such jurisdiction. SEC. 19. All proceedings and actions under this Act, or Actions. any ordinances passed in pursuance hereof, shall be commenced by complaint, setting forth the cause of complaint, so as to enable the defendant to understand the nature of the offense charged, and to answer the complaint. All such complaints shall be verified by the party making them. The answer to the complaint may be oral or in writing, and immediately thereafter the matter shall be tried, unless for good cause shown an adjournment shall be ordered. In all cases the defendant shall, on demand, be entitled to trial by jury composed of not exceeding six or less than three electors of said town. SEC. 20. No fine imposed under this Act shall exceed five Fines. hundred dollars. SEC. 21. Every Justice of the Peace who shall collect any Trustees to be disinterested. Keeping of prisoners. Poll and tally lists. Road poll-tax. Judge to appoint Trustees. fines for breach of ordinance, shall pay over the same to the Treasurer, taking his receipt for the same, and such Justice of the Peace shall be liable on his official bond for all sums so collected by him. SEC. 22. No member of the Board of Trustees shall be directly or indirectly interested in any contract or sale of anything belonging to said town, or any work or business ordered to be executed by authority of said Board. For violation of this section the members so offending shall be expelled from the Board. SEC. 23. The Board of Trustees shall have power to fix a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and a term of imprisonment not exceeding three months, as the penalty for violation of any town ordinance. Until the Board of Trustees provide a place to keep prisoners, the Sheriff of Tehama. County shall receive and safely keep until the expiration of the term of imprisonment, or until discharged by due process of law, any person delivered to him by the Marshal under commitment from a Justice of the Peace of said town, the town paying the expenses of the same; provided further, that whenever sentence of imprisonment is passed upon such an offender, the Justice of the Peace shall include in such sentence that such offender shall be subject to labor under the charge of the Marshal, provided any provision shall have been made by ordinance for carrying such sentence into effect. They may also in any suit tax a cost thereof against the person so convicted, and the same may be collected by execution as in civil cases. The Inspector and Judges of Elections shall, within one week after the election of Trustees, issue certificates to the Trustees who shall have received the highest number of votes, and shall, immediately after the organization of the Board of Trustees, transmit to the Secretary of the Board the poll list and tally list of said elections. At all elections subsequent to the first election, the Inspectors and Judges shall make their returns and forward the same, within three days after such election, to the Secretary of the Board of Trustees, together with the poll list and tally list. SEC. 25. The Assessor of Tehama County shall pay to the Treasurer of the Town of Red Bluff one-half of all the road poll-tax collected from citizens residing within the limits of said Town of Red Bluff; said moneys to be used by the Trustees to keep in repair the streets of said town. SEC. 26. The County Judge of Tehama County shall immediately appoint five Trustees, who shall qualify and act until their successors are elected and qualified. SEC. 27. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. CCCCXLVII.-An Act to amend an Act to protect agriculture and to prevent the trespassing of animals in Tehama County, approved March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. [Approved March 31, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and affected. SECTION 1. Section twenty-five of the Act to protect agri- Territory culture and to prevent the trespassing of animals in Tehama County, approved March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 25. This Act shall apply only to that portion of Tehama County lying west of the Sacramento River and south of "Red Bank Creek;" and all portions of the said County of Tehama lying north of "Red Bank Creek" and east of the Sacramento River are exempted from the provisions of the Act of which this is amendatory; and all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, except that this repeal does not include or affect any Act or parts of Acts requiring railroads to be fenced, and all such Acts shall remain in force. SEC. 2. This Act shall not be in. force until the first day of September, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-six. CHAP. CCCCXLVIII.-An Act appropriating money for building workshops and prison buildings at the California State Prison, at San Quentin. [Approved March 31, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of two hundred thousand dollars is Appropriahereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the tion for shop. State treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to the Board of Prison Directors of the California State Prison, and to be expended for the objects hereinafter specified: for the construction of one large fire-proof workshop four hundred feet by sixty feet, four stories high, with three division firewalls, and for the purchase of State machinery, shafting, water-pipes, and hose. SEC. 2. No contract for lumber, iron, or other material to Contracts for be used in the construction of the prison buildings shall be material. entered into by the Directors, until publication shall be made in two daily newspapers, published in the City of San Francisco, for at least ten days previous thereto, inviting bids for the supply of such material; such bids, made in the form of sealed proposals, shall be opened in the presence of all the Directors, and the contract shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. SEC. 3. Any balance of money not expended after the completion of the building mentioned in section one of this Act, may be used by the Board of Prison Directors for the erection or repair of such other buildings as in their opinion is best for the successful management of the State Prison. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on and after its passage. Goats and hogs. Constables to take up. Sales of same. Misde meanor. Fees. CHAP. CCCCXLIX.-An Act to prevent hogs and goats running at large on certain lands in this State. [Approved March 31, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for hogs or goats to run at large upon lands included in any town site in this State, which has received or may hereafter receive patents under "An Act of Congress of the United States" granting town sites to incorporated towns upon the public lands. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the Constables of the townships within which any of the town sites named in the first section of this Act are situated, to take up all hogs and goats found running at large upon any of the lands included in said town sites. SEC. 3. The Constables shall proceed to sell all hogs and goats taken up, under the provisions of this Act, at public auction to the highest bidder, by giving at least five days' notice of such sale, by posting notices in at least three public places within the limits of said town site in which such hogs or goats were found, stating time and place of sale. All moneys arising from such sale, after paying the expenses of taking up, keeping, and selling are paid, shall be paid to the owner or owners of such hogs or goats, upon demand and proof of ownership, if such demand and proof are made within thirty days from the date of the sale, otherwise it shall be paid into the county treasury, to the credit of the school district in which such town site is situated. SEC. 4. Any Constable purposely neglecting or refusing to take up any hog or hogs, goat or goats, running at large as aforesaid, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction may be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars, and the costs of prosecution. All fines collected under the provisions of this Act shall be paid into the county treasury, and be placed to the credit of the School Fund of the district in which said town site is situated. SEC. 5. The same fees as are allowed to Constables for selling property under execution may be charged and collected for services under this Act. All charges for keeping |