SEC. 2. The said Board of Education shall have sole power: Powers and First-To establish and maintain public schools, and to duties of establish school districts, and to fix and alter the boundaries thereof.

Second-To employ and dismiss teachers, janitors, and school census marshals, and to fix, alter, allow, and order paid their salaries and compensation, and to employ and pay such mechanics and laborers as may be necessary to carry into effect the powers and duties of the Board, and to withhold, for good and sufficient cause, the whole or any part of the salary or wages of any person or persons employed as aforesaid.

Third-To make, establish, and enforce all necessary and proper rules and regulations, not inconsistent with law, for the government and progress of public schools within the said school district, the teachers thereof and the pupils therein, and for carrying into effect the laws relating to education; also, to establish and regulate the grade of schools.

Fourth-To provide for the school department of said school district, fuel and lights, water, blanks and blank books, printing and stationery, and to incur such other incidental expenses as may be deemed necessary by said Board.

Fifth-To build, alter, repair, rent, and provide schoolhouses, and furnish them with proper school furniture, apparatus and proper school appliances, and to insure any and all such school property.

Sixth-To receive, purchase, lease, and hold in fee, in trust for said school district, any and all real estate, and to hold in trust any personal property that may have been acquired, or may hereafter be acquired for the use and benefit of the public schools of said district; provided, that no real estate shall be bought, sold, or exchanged, or expenditures incurred for the construction of new school-houses, without the unanimous consent of the Board of Education and three members of the Common Council of the City of Santa Rosa aforesaid; and provided further, that the proceeds of any such sale or exchange of real estate shall be exclusively applied to the purchase of other lots, or the erection of school-houses.

Seventh-To grade, fence, and improve all school lots, and in front thereof to grade, sewer, and plank or pave and repair streets, and to construct and repair sidewalks.

Eighth-To sue for any and all lots, lands, and property belonging to or claimed by the said school district, and to prosecute and defend all actions at law or in equity necessary to recover and maintain the full enjoyment and possession of said lots, lands, and property, and to employ and pay counsel in such cases, and further, to do any and all acts necessary thereto.

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Ninth-To determine annually the amount of money School tax. required for the support of the public schools for a period of ten months, and for carrying into effect all the provisions of law relative thereto; and in pursuance of this provision, the Board shall, at the proper time, submit in writing, to the Common Council of the City of Santa Rosa aforesaid, a careful estimate of the whole amount of money to be

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received from the State and county, and the amount required from the said school district, for the foregoing purposes; and the amount so found to be required from the said school district shall, by the Common Council of the said city, be added to the amounts to be assessed, levied, and collected for city purposes; provided, that the amount to be thus assessed, levied, and collected for school purposes shall not exceed twenty-five cents on each one hundred dollars' valuation upon the assessment roll of said school district, and that, when collected, it shall be immediately paid into the School Fund, to be drawn out only upon the order of the Board of Education. The special tax to be assessed, levied, and collected for the payment of interest and principal of school bonds of said school district, now outstanding, shall be assessed, levied, and collected at the same time and in the same manner as the aforesaid tax for current school purposes; and the Board of Education are hereby authorized and empowered to include the amount of said tax in their written statement to the Common Council aforesaid.

Tenth-It shall be the duty of the Board of Education to provide such blanks, blank books as shall be necessary for the assessment and collection of the school taxes herein provided for, and to fix the extra compensation to be allowed the Assessor and Collector of taxes for the said City of Santa Rosa, for time and labor expended in the assessment and collection of such school taxes.

Eleventh-To establish regulations for the just and equal disbursement of all moneys belonging to the Public School Fund.

Twelfth-To examine and allow, in whole or in part, every demand payable out of the School Fund, or to reject any such demand for good cause.

Thirteenth-To discharge all legal incumbrances now existing, or which may hereafter exist, upon any school property. Fourteenth-To prohibit any child under six years of age from attending the public schools.

Fifteenth-And generally to do and perform such other acts as may be necessary and proper to carry into force and effect the powers conferred on said Board of Education.

SEC. 3. The corporate name by which said school district shall sue or be sued shall be, The Board of Education of the City of Santa Rosa, and the territory over which the said Board shall have supervision, and to which the provisions of this Act are applicable, shall include the corporate limits of the said City of Santa Rosa, as now fixed and determined, and which shall be hereafter fixed and determined.

SEC. 4. All qualified voters of the school district aforesaid shall be entitled to vote for School Directors, Assessor, and Collector, at the regular charter elections for city officers for the City of Santa Rosa aforesaid.

SEC. 5. The President of the Board of Education shall have power to administer oaths and affirmations concerning any demand upon the treasury, payable out of the School Fund, or other matters relative to his official duties.

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SEC. 6. No School Director shall be interested in any Misdecontract pertaining in any manner to the school department. All contracts in violation of this section are declared void, and any Director, in violating or aiding in violating the provisions of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars.

SEC 7. The Secretary of the Board of Education shall be secretary, subject to removal at the pleasure of the Board. He shall duties of report to the Board annually, and at such other times as they may require, all matters pertaining to the expense, income, condition, and progress of the public schools of said district during the preceding year, with such recommendations as he may deem proper. He shall observe and cause to be observed such general rules and regulations for the government and instruction of the schools, not inconsistent with the law of the State, as may be established by the Board of Education. He shall attend the sessions of the Board, and inform them, at each session, of the condition of the public schools, school-houses, school funds, and other matters connected therewith, and recommend such measures as he may deem necessary for the advancement of education in the district, and shall perform such other duties as may be required of him by the Board. He shall receive as compen- Compensasation for his services, payable out of the School Fund, such sum as the Board of Education may, from time to time,

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SEC. 8. The School Fund of the said school district shall School Fund. consist of all moneys received from the State and County School Fund, of all moneys arising from taxes which shall be levied as provided in this Act, of all moneys arising from the sale, rent, or exchange of any school property, and of such other money as may, from any source whatever, be paid into said School Fund; which fund shall be kept separate and distinct from all other moneys, and shall be used for school purposes alone, under the provisions of this Act; and if, at the end of any fiscal year, any surplus remains in the School Fund, such surplus shall be carried forward to the School Fund of the next fiscal year, and shall not be, for any purpose whatever, withdrawn from said fund, except as provided in this Act.

SEC. 9. The School Fund shall be used and applied by Same, how said Board of Education for the following purposes:

First-For the payment of the salaries or wages of teachers, janitors, school census marshals, and other persons who may be employed by said Board; provided, that the school moneys received from the State be applied solely to the payment of teachers' salaries.

Second-For the erection, alteration, repair, and furnishing of school-houses.

Third-For the purchase money or rent of any real or personal property purchased or leased by said Board.

Fourth-For the insurance of all school property.

Fifth-For lighting school-rooms, supplying the schools with fuel, water, apparatus, blank books, and necessary school

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apparatus and appliances, together with books for children of indigent parents.

Sixth-For supplying books, printing, and stationery for the use of the Board of Education, and for the incidental expenses of the Board and department.

Seventh-For grading, fencing, and improving all school lots, and for grading, paving, and repairing streets and sidewalks in front thereof.

Eighth-And generally, for all purposes necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 10. All claims payable out of the School Fund shall be filed with the Secretary of the Board, and after they shall have been approved by a majority of all the members of the Board, they shall be signed by the President and Secretary, and sent to the Treasurer of the City of Santa Rosa aforesaid. Every demand shall have indorsed upon it a certificate of its approval. All demands for teachers' salaries shall be payable monthly.

SEC. 11. All demands authorized by this Act shall be paid by the City Treasurer of the said city from the School Fund of the said district, when the same shall be presented to him so ordered paid and approved by the Board; provided, that the said Board shall not have power to contract any debt or liabilities, in any form whatever, against the said school district, in contravention of this Act.

SEC. 12. If any member of the Board of Education shall remove from the school district, or absent himself therefrom for more than thirty days, except by permission of the Board, or shall fail to qualify within ten days from the time his election is duly ascertained and declared, his office shall be thereby absolutely vacated, and the Board shall thereupon proceed to fill the vacancy until the time of the next charter election for city officers of the city aforesaid.

SEC. 13. It is hereby made the duty of the Superintendent of Public Schools for the County of Sonoma, when any money shall have been apportioned to the school district of the City of Santa Rosa from the county or State funds, to notify the Secretary of the Board of Education of the City of Santa Rosa thereof. The County Superintendent shall, when an apportionment has been made of any funds in the county treasury, issue his order on the Treasurer of said Sonoma County, in favor of the Treasurer of the said City of Santa Rosa. Upon presentation of such order, the County Treas urer shall pay the sum designated in said order to the City Treasurer of said city.

SEC. 14. The Treasurer of the City of Santa Rosa aforesaid is hereby authorized and required to keep all the school moneys from State, county, and school district, in a separate fund, called the "School Fund," and shall pay it out only on the order of the Board of Education aforesaid, except his commission of one per cent., which he may reserve.

School taxes. SEC. 15. The Common Council of the City of Santa Rosa aforesaid are hereby authorized and empowered to assess, levy, and have collected within the said school district, the entire tax for school purposes, as herein provided.

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SEC. 16. The County School Superintendent of Sonoma Powers of County is hereby authorized and empowered to transfer to County the credit of the School District of the City of Santa Rosa all tendent. moneys that may be in the county treasury to the credit of Court-house School District at the date of the approval of this Act. The said Board of Education shall have power to admit non-resident children into the schools of said district upon such terms of tuition as they may prescribe.

SEC. 17. This Act shall be in force and effect from the date of its approval.

CHAP. CCCLXXIV.-An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles County to erect a jail, and to issue bonds for the payment of the same.

[Approved March 28, 1876.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

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SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles Authority to County are hereby authorized and empowered to erect a County Jail in the City and County of Los Angeles.

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SEC. 2. The said Board of Supervisors may employ a Board to competent architect to draft plans and specifications of int said County Jail, and they shall have full power to do and etc. perform all acts and things which may be requisite or necessary to carry out the provisions and objects of this Act; provided, that contracts for the erection of said jail shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder, in the manner provided by law; provided, the said Board of Supervisors shall have power to reject any and all bids; and provided, that the aggregate cost and expense of erecting the said jail, and the furnishing thereof, shall not exceed the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars.

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SEC. 3. Said Board of Supervisors shall have power, by Plans and an order duly made by them, to advertise for plans and tons. specifications for said County Jail, and to pay out of the Current Expense Fund of said county a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars for the plans and specifications and estimates adopted by said Board.

SEC. 4. The said Board of Supervisors, after they shall Notice to have adopted plans and specifications for said County Jail, contractors. shall deposit the same with the Clerk of said Board, for the inspection of builders, and shall cause to be published, for at least thirty days, in some daily newspaper published and printed in said County of Los Angeles, an advertisement, inviting sealed proposals for the construction of said County Jail. Said sealed proposals shall be addressed to the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles County, and shall contain a bid for the construction of such County Jail advertised for, according to the plans and specifications adopted by the Board, and shall state the names of their