Subordinate elected. SEC. 6. The Mayor and Common Council shall elect all officers, how subordinate officers of the city prescribed by the ordinances thereof, including Police Judge, and in their discretion a City Attorney. Biennial elections. Ordinances force. SEC. 7. For the purpose of choosing the officers mentioned. in section five of this Act, there shall be an election held on the third Monday in March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, and upon the same day every two years thereafter. SEC. 8. All valid ordinances of the City of Marysville in to remain in force at the date of the passage of this Act shall continue to be in force and effect as ordinances of the City of Marysville, as incorporated under this Act, until the same are repealed or modified by the Common Council. Salaries of Councilmen. SEC. 9. The Mayor and members of the Common Council Mayor and shall each receive an annual salary of five dollars, which shall be in full compensation for all official services rendered by them in such offices, and for all services that may be required of them by law. Salary of Bond. Salary of Assessor and Bond. Salary of Bond. Powers of Salary and bond. Funding Commis sioners, SEC. 10. The Marshal, for all services required of him by law, shall receive an annual salary of eight hundred dollars, and in addition thereto one and one-half of one per cent. upon all moneys collected by him and paid over to the City Treasurer, except upon the amount collected from city licenses, for which he shall receive for each license so collected twenty-five cents. He shall give a bond, with at least two sureties, to be approved by the Common Council, in the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, conditioned upon the faithful performance of his duties. SEC. 11. The Assessor shall be ex officio City Clerk and Clerk of the Police Court, and for all services required of him by law or ordinances of the City of Marysville, shall receive an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars. He shall give a bond in the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, with at least two sureties, to be approved by the Common Council, conditioned upon the faithful performance of his duties. SEC. 12. The Treasurer shall receive, for all services required of him by law or ordinances of said city, an annual salary of twenty-five dollars. He shall give a bond in the sum of fifty thousand dollars, with at least two sureties, to be approved by the Common Council, conditioned upon the faithful performance of his duties. SEC. 13. The Police Judge shall exercise all the powers granted him by the Political Code, except the provisions of section four thousand four hundred and twenty-five. All moneys collected by him as such Police Judge shall be paid unto [into] the General Fund of said city, on the first Monday of each month. He shall receive for such services an annual salary of five hundred dollars, and give a bond in the sum of one thousand dollars, to be approved by the Common Council, conditioned upon the faithful discharge of his duties. SEC. 14. The Mayor, Treasurer, and Assessor shall be ex officio Funding Commissioners of the City of Marysville, and as such shall have full control over the funded indebt edness of said city, in the matter of preparing and issuing bonds and coupons, and in the payment and cancellation of the same; and shall make a full report annually to the Common Council of all their proceedings as such Commis sioners. SEC. 15. The salaries of the city officers, elective and Payment of appointed, except Mayor, Councilmen, and Treasurer, shall salaries. be paid monthly, by warrants drawn on the General Fund. The salaries of the Mayor, Councilmen, and Treasurer shall be paid annually, in like manner. The Funding Commissioners, for the duties required to be performed by them, shall receive no further salary or compensation than as hereinbefore provided. Common SEC. 16. The Common Council of said city shall not con- Limitation tract any debts or liabilities, by borrowing money, loaning of powers of the credit of the city, or otherwise, which, singly or in the Council. aggregate, shall at any time exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars, exclusive of the levee debt; and neither the Mayor nor any member of the Common Council shall be interested in any contract to which the city is a party. SEC. 17. Any contract made in violation of the provisions Illegal of section sixteen of this Act shall be void. contracts tion. SEC. 18. The present Mayor of the City of Marysville Election shall issue his proclamation for the election to be held in proclamaMarch, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, as provided for in this Act, in accordance with the present charter of said city. SEC. 19. An Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the City Act of Marysville," approved March third, eighteen hundred repealed and fifty-seven, and the Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, are hereby repealed; provided, that this repeal shall not take effect until the first Monday in April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six. SEC. 20. This Act takes effect on the first Monday of Notice of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, but the election. present Mayor of the city must give the notice of the election required by the seventh section of this Act, and the present Mayor and Common Council shall meet on the first Wednesday after the election, and duly canvass the returns of said election, in the manner prescribed by the general laws of the State, declare the result, and direct the City Clerk to issue certificates of election to the persons elected. CHAP. CL.-An Act to separate the office of County Auditor from the office of County Recorder, and to regulate official salaries in the Counties of Fresno, Tulare, and Kern. [Approved March 8, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The office of County Auditor of the respective Offices of Recorder from the office of County Recorder in said counties; and at Auditor and the next general election, to be held in September, A. D. separated. eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, a County Auditor must be elected in each of said counties, who shall be ex Auditor to be officio County Superintendent of Public Schools, and shall tendent of perform all the duties pertaining to the office of Superintendent of Public Schools; provided, that in said counties the County Superintendent shall not be required to visit the public schools therein. Superin Schools. Salary of Recorder. How paid. Salary of Officers to pay over moneys. Fee-books. SEC. 2. The County Clerk of each of the Counties of Fresno and Kern shall be ex officio Recorder of his county, shall qualify and give bonds as required by law, and shall receive a salary of three thousand dollars per annum, which shall be in full compensation for all services rendered by him, his deputies or assistants, as County Clerk, Clerk of the Courts of record, and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, Board of Water Commissioners, and as ex officio Recorder. The County Clerk of Tulare County shall receive a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, which shall be in full compensation for all services rendered by him, his deputies or assistants, as County Clerk, Clerk of the Court of record, and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors and Water Commissioners. The County Recorder of Tulare County shall receive a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, which shall be in full compensation for all services rendered by him, his deputies or assistants. SEC. 3. The salaries mentioned in this Act shall be paid monthly by the County Treasurer upon the warrant of the County Auditor, who is hereby directed to audit the salaries herein provided for; and said salaries shall be paid out of the County General Fund. SEC. 4. The County Auditor shall receive a salary of one thousand six hundred dollars per annum, which shall be in full compensation for all services rendered by him, his deputies or assistants, as County Auditor and ex officio Superintendent of Public Schools. SEC. 5. The officers named in this Act, who are entitled. to charge, collect, or receive any fees, commissions, or percentage, of whatever kind or nature, heretofore allowed by law, or which may hereafter be allowed by law, for services rendered by them or their deputies in their several official capacities, or for the performance of duties appertaining to said officers, must collect and safely keep the same, and on the first Monday in each month pay the total amount by them received into the county treasury, to the credit of the County General Fund. SEC. 6. The officers named in this Act must each keep a book, in which shall be entered, by items, the amount received for all official services performed by them or their deputies, showing the date and nature of such services, and the amount received therefor, which book shall be the property of the county, and shall be open during office hours to public inspection; and each of said officers must, on the first Monday in each month, make out, and file with the County Auditor, a full and accurate transcript from his said book of all the entries for the preceding month, with and SEC. 7. All moneys paid into the county treasury under General the provisions of this Act must be placed in the County Fund. General Fund. SEC. 8. The fees receivable by the several officers named Fees to be in this Act must be paid in advance, and it is hereby made prepaid. the duty of the said officers to collect all fees in advance; and any officer named in this Act who shall credit any person for fees, percentage, or commissions, for any services. rendered in the discharge of his official duties, shall do so at his own risk, and the same shall be entered in the fee-book and paid over on the first Monday of each month, the same as if it had not been credited. SEC. 9. For any willful neglect or refusal to comply with Penalty for any of the provisions of this Act, by any officer or officers neglect. herein named, he or they shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisonment in the County Jail not exceeding one year, or both such fine and imprisonment, and shall be deprived of his office; provided, that nothing herein shall be held to release any officer named in this Act from giving any bond required by law, or from any civil responsibility arising from his official duties. SEC. 10. All Acts and parts of Acts, so far as the same are in conflict with this Act, are hereby repealed. SEC. 11. This Act shall take effect and be in force on and after the first Monday in March, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. CHAP. CLI.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] CHAP. CLII.-An Act to authorize the appointment of an additional Interpreter for the Criminal Courts of the City and County of San Francisco. [Approved March 8, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Police Judge and County Judge and Interpreter Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco shall have appointed. to be Salary. power to appoint an additional Interpreter for the Criminal Courts of said city and county, of the Portuguese, Italian, and Sclavonian languages. SEC. 2. The salary of such Interpreter shall be of the same amount, not exceeding one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month, and shall be paid in the same manner, and at the same time, as the other Interpreters of said Courts are now or shall hereafter be paid. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Trustees empowered to convey lands. CHAP. CLIII.-An Act to authorize the President and Trustees of the City of San Diego to convey certain real estate to the United States. [Approved March 8, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The President and Trustees of the City of San Diego are hereby authorized and empowered to convey to the United States such pueblo or city lands of said city as the United States, or the authorities thereof, may find necessary for the purpose of changing the present course of the River San Diego so that it will discharge its waters into False Bay. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Bonds of CHAP. CLIV. [See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] CHAP. CLV.-An Act to fix the amount of the bonds of the [Approved March 8, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The County Treasurer of Modoc County must execute an official bond in the sum of thirty thousand dollars, and the County Treasurer of Lassen County must execute an official bond in the sum of forty thousand dollars. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. |