Clerk to keep record of bonds. Sale of bonds. Proceeds, how used. "paid" on the duplicate register of bonds in his office the coupons so delivered to him by said Treasurer, and when any of said bonds shall be redeemed by said Treasurer they shall be delivered to said Auditor, who shall receipt to the Treasurer for the same, and the same shall be marked “paid" upon the copies of said register in the offices of said Auditor and said Treasurer, with a memorandum of the amount paid for the redemption thereof; and when any bonds or coupons shall be paid or redeemed, the said Auditor shall report the same to said Board of Supervisors at their next meeting thereafter. SEC. 3. The County Clerk of the County of Santa Clara shall keep a register, showing the date and number of every bond issued; the number of each coupon; when each bond and coupon is payable; the name of the person to whom said bond is issued, and when such bonds are sold, the amount realized from the sale thereof. It shall be the duty of said County Clerk to make and certify two copies of said register, one of which shall be delivered to the Auditor and one to the Treasurer of said county, and the same shall be kept by them in their respective offices for public inspection. SEC. 4. The bonds, or any part thereof hereby authorized to be issued, shall be sold under the direction of the Board of Supervisors of Santa Clara County, to the person or persons who will pay the highest price therefor; provided, that the said bonds, nor any part thereof, shall not be sold for less than par value. The Board of Supervisors shall give public notice of the sale of such bonds by advertisement of not less than twenty days, in which notice shall be stated the time and place of sale. The proposals to purchase shall be sealed, and shall be opened at the time and place named in said notice, by the President of said Board of Supervisors. The purchasers whose bids shall be accepted shall pay into the county treasury of said county the amount bid by them, at such time as said Board of Supervisors shall designate, and said Treasurer shall receipt for the same; and such purchaser shall, upon the delivery of such receipts to the County Clerk, be entitled to receive the bonds purchased by them. The bonds so issued shall bear interest from the date of the payment of the purchase money therefor. The said receipts shall be copied into the registers required to be kept by the last preceding section. SEC. 5. The Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Clara are hereby authorized and required to use and appropriate the money realized from the sale of the bonds issued by authority of this Act, to redeem, pay, and discharge all the outstanding bonds heretofore issued under and by authority of an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Clara to take and subscribe two hundred thousand dollars to the capital stock of the San Francisco and San José Railroad Company, and to provide for the payment of the same, and other matters relating thereto," approved April ninth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and no part of the money realized from the sale of bonds issued by authority of this Act shall be used for any other purpose than that herein specified. tax. SEC. 6. The Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Redemption Clara are hereby authorized and empowered to levy annually, at the time and in the manner prescribed for levying general State and county taxes, a tax not exceeding six cents on each one hundred dollars of the assessed valuation of the property in said county. The money arising from such tax shall be set apart by the Treasurer of said county for the purpose of paying the principal and interest of the bonds issued by authority of this Act. The said fund shall be known as the "Redemption Bond Fund of Santa Clara County," and the said Treasurer shall pay therefrom the interest on said bonds as the same becomes due. Any balance remaining in said fund on the first day of January of each and every year thereafter shall be used by said Treasurer for the redemption of said bonds. No less than five thousand nor more than ten thousand dollars of said bonds shall be redeemed per annum. give notice SEC. 7. The said County Treasurer, whenever there shall Treasurer to be any money in said fund for the redemption of such bonds, of redemp shall give notice, by advertisement, in some newspaper tion. printed and published in said County of Santa Clara, for at least two weeks, that he will redeem the said bonds. The said notice shall state the amount of bonds to be redeemed, and the time and place for receiving bids for the redemption thereof. All bids received for the redemption of such bonds shall be opened at the time and place mentioned in said notice, in the presence of the President of the Board of Supervisors of said county, who, in conjunction with said Treasurer, is hereby authorized to accept and award such bids. Said Treasurer and President of the Board of Supervisors shall accept only such bids as shall cancel the greatest amount of said bonds. No bonds shall be redeemed at greater rate than one hundred cents on the dollar. In the event that no offer shall be made to redeem said bonds between the date of the first publication of said notice and the time appointed for opening proposals therefor, it shall be the duty of said Treasurer to give notice, by advertisement, in some newspaper printed in said county, that he is prepared to redeem certain of said bonds, which shall be designated in said notice by number and date of the issuance thereof, which said notice shall be published not less than ten days. The interest on such bonds, so advertised, shall cease from and after the expiration of ten days from the first publication of said notice. All bonds paid by said Treasurer shall be marked "Canceled," and shall be surrendered to the Board of Supervisors of said county. tion of SEC. 8. The County Clerk of said county and the Presi- Compensa dent of the Board of Supervisors thereof, shall receive such officers. compensation for the services required of them by this Act as the Board of Supervisors of said county shall allow, and no other compensation shall be allowed or paid to any other officer named in this Act for the services herein required; provided, however, that said Board of Supervisors may allow to the County Treasurer a compensation for the services required of him by this Act, not exceeding in amount onefourth of one per cent. upon the amount realized by the sale of said bonds. SEC. 9. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Outstanding warrants. Special tax to pay same. Surplus moneys. CHAP. CCCLII.-An Act to provide for the payment of the debt due upon the Road Fund of Butte County. [Approved March 27, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. All the warrants heretofore drawn by the several Road Overseers upon the special funds of their several districts, and which are now outstanding, shall be consolidated into one general indebtedness against the County of Butte, and shall be known as "The Road Fund Debt." Said warrants shall not bear interest. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors of Butte County, at their regular meeting for levying the taxes upon the property returned upon the assessment list for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, to levy a special tax upon the assessed property of the county of twelve cents upon each one hundred dollars of assessed valuation; which said tax shall be collected, and which, when collected, shall be paid into the county treasury as a special fund for the redemption of the "Road Fund Debt;" and it shall be the duty of the County Treasurer, from the moneys collected from said special tax, to pay all outstanding warrants drawn. by the several Road Overseers prior to the passage of this Act upon the funds of the several districts, in the order in which they have been presented for payment and indorsed "not paid." SEC. 3. In case there should be any surplus remaining in said Road Fund after the payment of the whole of the Road Fund debt, such surplus shall be transferred by the Treasurer to the General Road Fund of the county. SEC. 4. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCCLIII.-An Act to repeal an Act entitled an Act regulating the fees of witnesses in criminal cases in Stanislaus and Merced Counties, approved March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. [Approved March 27, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. An Act entitled an Act regulating the fees of Act repealed. witnesses in criminal cases in Stanislaus and Merced Counties, approved March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. CCCLIV.-An Act to reorganize the Board of Supervisors of San Luis Obispo County, and to provide for the election of the same. [Approved March 27, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and five mem SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of San Luis Obispo Board to County shall consist of five (5) members, who shall be elected consist of from the county at large, and shall hold their terms of office bers. for three years, or until their successors have been elected and qualified. SEC. 2. At a special election to be held on the second Mon- Special day in May, in the year (1876) eighteen hundred and seventy-election for six, there shall be elected, from the electors of the said county at large, five (5) Supervisors, one of whom shall hold his term of office for one (1) year, two shall hold their terms of office for two (2) years, and two shall hold their terms of office for three (3) years, and they shall take their seats as members of the said Board within sixty (60) days from and after the day of the election aforesaid; provided, that each of the members of the said Board shall hold his term of office until his successor shall have been elected and qualified. SEC. 3. The members of the said Board shall, at their first Terms. meeting after the said election, determine by lot which of their number shall serve for one year; which of their number shall serve for two years; and the member so chosen for one year shall be Chairman of the said Board during his term of office. At the expiration of the term of office of the Chairman of said Board, the Supervisor holding the oldest commission shall be Chairman of the said Board; and when two commissions expire at the same time, the Board must elect a Chairman from those of its members holding the oldest commission. Same. Vacancies. SEC. 4. At the general election, immediately preceding the second Monday in May, in the year in which the term of any of the members of the said Board shall expire, there shall be elected, from the electors of the county at large, a Supervisor to each term of such members of said Board that shall expire on said second Monday in May. SEC. 5. Whenever a vacancy occurs in the Board of Supervisors, from failure to elect or otherwise, the remaining members of said Board shall, within sixty days from the time of such vacancy, appoint a day for the election, from the electors of the county at large, of a person to fill any such vacancy. SEC. 6. The members of the present Board of Supervisors shall hold their offices until the members elected in accordance with the provisions of this Act shall have been elected and qualified; provided, that if, at the special election provided for in section two of this Act, there shall be a failure to elect any one of the members of Supervisors provided for in the said section, a majority of the whole number, if so elected, may constitute a quorum, and transact the necessary business of the said Board, and they must provide for the election of persons to fill any vacancies, in accordance with section five of this Act. SEC. 7. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act, so far as they affect San Luis Obispo County, are hereby repealed. SEC. 8. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Special road district. Commissioners. Supervisors to levy special tax. CHAP. CCCLV.-An Act to create a special road district in the County of Santa Barbara and to provide a road fund for said district. [Approved March 27, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The First and Second Supervisor Districts of the County of Santa Barbara shall constitute a special road district of said county for the purposes of this Act, to be entitled "The Santa Barbara Road District," and the City of Santa Barbara shall be deemed a portion of said district. SEC. 2. The Supervisors of the First and Second Supervisors Districts of said county and the Mayor of the City of Santa Barbara shall ex officio constitute a Board of Commissioners for the purposes of this Act, to be entitled the "Board of Commissioners of the Santa Barbara Road District." SEC. 3. The Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Barbara are empowered and required, at the time of levying the county taxes for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-six-seven (1876-7), in addition to the general taxes, to levy a special tax on all of the taxable property within said |