poll-taxes are or may be collected, and retaining ten per cent. of said per capita taxes in full compensation for the collection thereof. Said Tax Collector shall pay over the balance of said tax monthly to the County Treasurer, who shall place said tax in the Hospital Fund of said county.

and District

be Bond

on

redemption of bonds.

SEC. 3. The County Clerk, County Treasurer, and District Clerk, Attorney of said county, and their successors in office, shall Treasurer, constitute a Board of Commissioners, to be styled the Bond Attorney to Commissioners of said county. All moneys collected under Commis the tax designated in section one of this Act for the redemp- sioners. tion of bonded indebtedness shall be set apart and placed in a fund to be known as the "Bond Redemption Fund" of the County of El Dorado. Whenever at any time there shall be in said Bond Redemption Fund a sum of money amounting to two thousand dollars or upwards, the said Bond Commissioners shall advertise in the public newspaper Notice of published in said county in which the county advertising is done, for the space of four weeks, for sealed proposals for the redemption of any bonds of said county, and ten days from the expiration of the time for such publication said Commissioners shall open said proposals and shall pay and liquidate, as far as the Bond Redemption Fund then in hand shall extend, such bonds presented under said proposals as shall have the lowest value proposed at which they may be redeemed and liquidated; provided, that no bid or proposal shall be accepted for more than eighty cents upon the dollar of face value of said bonds. When the money in the fund is insufficient to pay such percentage as aforesaid of any bond, and of the interest coupons attached, the Commissioners, if they deem it proper, may apply the money to the payment of the interest coupons; all unaccepted bids, and the accompanying bonds, shall be returned to the owner. The Board of Commissioners shall cause to be written across the on bonds, face of each such bond and interest coupon as may be surrendered and redeemed, the rate at which the same was redeemed, and the amount to be paid, which shall be signed by each member of the Board. The Treasurer of said county shall pay the amount written and specified on the face of such bonds and interest coupons from the said "Bond Redemption Fund" of said county, and shall mark or stamp the same as paid, giving the date of payment. All moneys remaining in said Bond Redemption Fund unapplied on the first day of May of each year, shall, upon the order of said Commissioners, be paid into the Hospital Fund of said county, after the present year.

Payments

how made.

tion.

SEC. 4. The said Commissioners, and all other officers No extra herein mentioned, shall be liable on their official bonds for compensathe faithful performance of all the duties required of them under the provisions of this Act, and shall, in all things herein required of them, be subject to all the liabilities and penalties to which they are subjected in the performance of any other of the duties of their respective offices; and said Commissioners and other officers shall receive no compensation for the service required of them under the provisions

Transfer of

funds.

Civil actions, limitation of.

of this Act other than that allowed them by law for the performance of the duties of their respective offices.

SEC. 5. Immediately after the passage of this Act the Treasurer of said county shall transfer to said "Bond Redemption Fund," subject to the uses thereof as aforesaid, all moneys in the Railroad Redemption Fund of said county. SEC. 6. The provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure limiting the time of commencing civil actions shall not apply to the bonded indebtedness hereinbefore mentioned, from the passage of this Act until the commencement of the next session of the Legislature, nor to any action to be brought thereon; provided, that this section or this Act, or anything therein, shall not be construed to have any other or further effect upon the validity or invalidity of said bonded indebtedness than to arrest the running of the statute of limitations upon the bonds of said county, or the coupons thereof, until the meeting of the next Legislature.

SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

invest moneys.

CHAP. CCCCLXVI.-An Act to confer certain powers upon the
Directors of the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Asylum.

[Approved April 1, 1876.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The Directors of the Deaf and Dumb and Directors to Blind Asylum are hereby authorized and empowered to take, receive, manage, and invest all moneys and property heretofore or hereafter bequeathed or donated to the said asylum. in accordance with the wishes of the testator or donor, or if no conditions are attached to the bequests or donations, to invest such moneys or proceeds of property for the best interests of the asylum.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on and after its passage.

Superintendent of Schools to issue warrant to

B. E. Hunt.

CHAP. CCCCLXVII.-An Act to authorize the payment to B.
E. Hunt, or his assigns, for services as teacher in the Calistoga
School District, Napa County.

[Approved April 1, 1876.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The County Superintendent of Public Schools of Napa County is hereby authorized to draw his warrant or warrants against the County School Fund of Napa County, in favor of B. E. Hunt, or his assigns, for services rendered by said Hunt as teacher in Calistoga School District, Napa

County, during the school year of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, provided, that no warrant or warrants shall be drawn, as hereinbefore provided, until the said Hunt, or his assigns, shall have presented to the said Superintendent an unpaid order or orders upon the County Superintendent of Public Schools of said county, signed by the School Trustees of said Calistoga School District, and in favor of said Hunt, for services as teacher during said school year.

pay same.

SEC. 2. The County Treasurer of Napa County is hereby Treasurer to authorized to pay any warrant or warrants drawn in pursuance of the provisions of the foregoing section of this Act, out of any moneys belonging to the County School Fund of said county.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage.

CHAP. CCCCLXVIII.-An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco to pay the claim of John F. Swift.

[Approved April 1, 1876.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

to allow

SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the City and Supervisors County of San Francisco are hereby authorized and empow-im ered to allow and order paid, to John F. Swift, a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, for services rendered or to be rendered by said John F. Swift as special counsel for said city and county, in certain suits at law between said city and county and the "Spring Valley Water Company."

warrant.

SEC. 2. The Auditor of said city and county is hereby Treasurer authorized and directed to audit said claim, when so allowed to pay by said Board of Supervisors, and the Treasurer of the aforesaid city and county is hereby authorized and directed to pay the same out of the General Fund of said City and County of San Francisco, when so allowed and audited.

SEC. 3. The amount set forth in section one of this Act shall be full compensation for all services rendered or to be rendered by the aforesaid John F. Swift in the suit or suits set forth in section one of this Act.

CHAP. CCCCLXIX.-An Act granting relief to tax-payers whose lands have been sold to the State.

[Approved April 1, 1876.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. In all cases where real estate has been sold for delinquent taxes for the year eighteen hundred and

Sales to State Seventy-four, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and of of real estate which the State has become the purchaser, the person whose owners may real estate was thus sold, or his successor in interest, shall,

for taxes:

redeem

within one

year.

Costs and expenses.

within one year after the passage of this Act, have the right to redeem such real estate by paying to the County Treasurer of the county wherein the real estate is situated the amount of taxes due thereon, as also all taxes which were a lien on such real estate at the time such real property became delinquent, together with all costs and expenses which may have accrued by reason of such delinquency, as also the costs and expenses of such redemption; and upon such payment being made the County Treasurer shall, in the name of the people of the State of California, execute a conveyance, conveying to such delinquent, or his successor in interest, all the right, title, and interest of the State in and to such real estate which the State holds by reason of such sales for taxes; and in all such cases if separate parcels of lands belonging to different owners, or in case where the property belonged to persons deceased, his or their executors or administrators, have been assessed and sold together, said Treasurer shall, upon the request of any such owner, executor, or administrator, segregate the tax, costs, and expenses, and apportion its proportion thereof upon any separate parcel of such land, and upon payment by such owner, executor, or administrator of the amount so apportioned, such parcel shall be conveyed to him; provided, that nothing contained herein shall apply to lands formerly owned by the State and by it sold, but for which payment in full shall not have been made at the time of such delinquency.

SEC. 2. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage.

CHAP. CCCCLXX.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.]

Release from bond.

CHAP. CCCCLXXI.-An Act for the relief of George Green and James Smith, of the City and County of San Francisco.

[Approved April 1, 1876.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows :

SECTION 1. That George Green and James Smith, of the City and County of San Francisco, be and they are hereby released and relieved from all liability on a certain bail bond in the sum of five hundred dollars, payable to the people of the State of California, dated October twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and conditioned for the appearance of one J. W. Adams, in whatever Court the charge in

said bond mentioned should be prosecuted; provided, that the said George Green and James Smith shall pay all expenses, including fees of special counsel and cost of Court, which may have already been incurred in the proceedings for the collection of said bond.

CHAP. CCCCLXXII.-An Act to confer certain powers upon corporations organized for the purpose of discovering and preventing fires, and of saving property and human life from conflagration.

[Approved April 1, 1876.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows :

up and

employ men.

SECTION 1. Any corporation of underwriters heretofore Power to organized and now existing, or which may be hereafter organized under the laws of this State, for the purpose of discovering and preventing fires and of saving property and human life from conflagration, and doing business within any municipal corporation of this State, shall have power, at its own proper cost and expense, to maintain a corps of men, with proper officers, equipped with the necessary machinery and apparatus therefor, whose duty it shall be, so far as practicable, to discover and prevent fires and save property and human life from conflagration; and for the effective discharge of such duties, power and authority is hereby granted such corps to enter any building on fire, or in which May enter property is on fire, or which such corps or any officer thereof buildings. shall deem to be immediately exposed to any existing fire, or in danger of taking fire from a burning building, and to remove or otherwise save and protect from conflagration or damage by water any property, during and immediately after such fire; provided, however, that nothing in this Act shall be so construed as in any degree to lessen, impair, or interfere with the powers, privileges, duties, or authority of the regular fire department of such municipality; and provided further, that no act of such corps shall justify any owner of any building or property in abandoning such building or property.

fire patrol

SEC. 2. Such corporation, with its officers and corps, when Privileges running to a fire, shall, with its horses, vehicles, and salvage t apparatus, have the same right of way as is or may be corps. bestowed by any ordinance of the municipality or law of this State upon the regular fire department of the municipality wherein such corporation is acting; provided, that the rights of such fire department shall always be paramount to the rights of said corporation. All ordinances now existing or which may hereafter be passed by the municipal authorities of any city and county, or of any incorporated city or town wherein such a corporation may carry on business, and all