out of the General Fund of said city and county the sum of two thousand five hundred and fifty-seven dollars and sixtyseven cents, which amount remains due on assessments for constructing a brick sewer in Ritch Street, from Brannan to Townsend Streets; also, in the crossing of Ritch and Townsend Streets. SEC. 2. The Auditor of said City and County of San Fran- Payment. cisco is hereby authorized and directed to audit, and the Treasurer of said City and County of San Francisco is hereby authorized and directed to pay, to the said J. J. Conlin, the aforesaid sum of two thousand five hundred and fifty-seven dollars and sixty-seven cents, out of the General Fund of said city and county, upon the order of said Board of Supervisors authorizing the same. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. DXX.-An Act to confer additional powers upon the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco. [Approved April 3, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and to have SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the City and supervisors County of San Francisco are hereby authorized and empow-streets ered to have the streets in said city and county kept clean, in cleaned. the following manner: From the first of October to the first of April, in each year, they may employ not to exceed twenty horses and carts, with drivers, and twenty-five additional men, as scrapers and sweepers; and from the first of April to the first of October, in each year, fifteen horses and carts, with drivers, and twenty additional men, as scrapers and sweepers. salaries of. SEC. 2. The Board of Supervisors shall appoint two com- Superinpetent persons to superintend said work, at a salary not to tendents, exceed one hundred dollars per month per man. Said Superintendents shall each day report, at the office of Superintendent of Public Streets, the names of all men, and men and teams employed the previous day, and where employed. The report shall also contain the license number on said carts employed. SEC. 3. The Board of Supervisors are hereby authorized Sewers. and empowered to employ not to exceed ten men and three horses, carts, and men, to clean out and remove all sand and dirt that may accumulate in the public sewers. tendent of SEC. 4. The said Board are hereby authorized and empow- Salary of ered to appoint a suitable person to take charge of the work Superin named in section three of this Act, who shall receive a salary work. not to exceed one hundred dollars per month; said person shall report each day to the Superintendent of Public Streets, as required in section two of this Act. SEC. 5. All the work specified in this Act shall be done under the supervision of the Street Committee of the Board of Supervisors and of the Superintendent of Public Streets of the City and County of San Francisco. SEC. 6. The Board of Supervisors are hereby invested with full power and authority to cause the persons sentenced or committed to the House of Correction to be employed in cleaning the public streets, highways, and sewers of said City and County of San Francisco. SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect immediately. Appropriation. CHAP. DXXI.—An Act to provide for the payment of the claim of John Bruener [Breuner]. [Approved April 3, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of six hundred and fifty dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the General Fund of the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the claim of John Bruener [Breuner] for a balance due him on account for making drawings for and constructing mineral cabinet cases for the State Cabinet; provided, that the acceptance by the said John Bruener of the sum herein appropriated shall be an express waiver by him of all claims and demands he has against the State for work and labor done, materials furnished, or damages and injuries sustained by reason of change of plans, making drawings for, and constructing the mineral cabinet cases in this Act specified. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Granting sue Sacramento County. CHAP. DXXII.-An Act to authorize James McClatchy to sue the County of Sacramento. [Approved April 1, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. James McClatchy, late Sheriff and ex officio authority to Tax Collector of Sacramento County, is authorized and empowered to bring and maintain a suit at law against said county, to recover such sums as he may have paid into the treasury thereof as ten per cent. of his fees as such ex officio Tax Collector. The statute of limitations shall not apply to said suit. The amount of judgment, if any, in his behalf, shall be paid by the Treasurer of said county out of any moneys in the General Fund not otherwise appropriated; provided, that the Court in which the suit is brought shall determine that the money so paid, if any, into the county treasury was not required by law to be so paid. SEC. 2. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. DXXIII.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] CHAP. DXXIV.-An Act supplementary to an Act entitled an Act to regulate the assessment of migratory herds or bands of live stock, and to provide for an equitable distribution of the taxes derived therefrom, approved March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. [Approved April 1, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and ment of assessments. SECTION 1. County Treasurers to whom a list is sent from Apportionthe County of Calaveras, under the provisions of the abovementioned Act, shall make out à demand against the Treasurer of the County of Calaveras, for such a portion of one-half of the tax assessed and collected for county purposes as would have been assessed and collected at the rate of taxation in the county making the demand, had the property been assessed therein. SEC. 2. This Act shall be in full force from and after its passage. CHAP. DXXV.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] CHAP. DXXVI.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to extend the Act of April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and fiftysix, approved April first, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. [Approved April 1, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section one of an Act entitled an Act to extend the Act of April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, cable to certain counties. Former Act is amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. The Act made appli- concerning hogs running at large in the Counties of Marin, Sacramento, San Francisco, Alameda, Stanislaus, Yuba, and Santa Clara, approved April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, and amended March fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, to extend to the Counties of Yolo, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, San Joaquin, San Bernardino, Sutter, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Los Angeles, and Tuolumne, is hereby extended to and made applicable to the Counties of Placer, Plumas, and Lassen; provided, that nothing in said Acts or this Act shall be construed to prohibit owners of hogs from allowing the same to run at large in the Town of Milford, County of Lassen, or anywhere in said county, within six miles of said town, between the tenth day of September and the first day of March following. Governor to appoint Commis sioners. Commissioners to CHAP. DXXVII.-An Act to provide for an examination into the sale and disposal of State lands. [Approved April 1, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Within sixty days after the passage of this Act the Governor shall appoint three suitable persons, who shall constitute a Commission for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, and shall be known as the State Land Commission, and shall hold office for the period of one year from and after their appointment by the Governor. SEC. 2. The Commissioners appointed under the provisions qualify and of section one of this Act shall, within thirty days after their organize. appointment, meet at some convenient place in the City of Sacramento or the City of San Francisco, and shall take an oath in writing before a Notary Public, or other officer duly authorized to administer oaths, to faithfully perform the duties enjoined by the provisions of this Act, and shall thereupon organize by the election of a Chairman and Secretary from the members of the Commission, and shall forthwith Duty of Com- proceed to the investigations provided for by this Act. It missioners. shall be the duty of said Commission: First-To ascertain all grants made by the United States to this State. Second-To examine all titles issued by this State, together with the manner in which such titles have been issued. Third-To ascertain the names of all parties to whom the State has issued titles for more than three hundred and twenty acres, together with the number of acres in excess of this amount sold to any one person, and to ascertain whether such sales have been made for parties directly or through attorneys. Fourth-To ascertain the amount of Controller's warrants outstanding against the several reclamation districts, together with their mode of issue and the consideration received therefor by the district upon which they were made a lien. Fifth-To investigate the affairs of the Surveyor-General's office from the time of the organization thereof. Sixth-To make such examinations into any and all matters connected with the disposal and sale of State lands as shall be deemed to promote the best interests of the State. aid Commis SEC. 3. It is hereby made the duty of the Attorney-General Attorneyto render such professional assistance, not incompatible with his other official duties, as the Commission may require. The sioners. Commission may employ an attorney-at-law versed in the land laws of this State, to assist in the investigations provided for in this Act, at an expense not to exceed two hundred and fifty dollars per month while so employed. sioners. SEC. 4. The Commissioners shall have power to admin- Powers of ister oaths, to send for books and papers, and to compel the Commisattendance of witnesses, and for the necessary purposes of their investigations shall have access to the files and records of all State offices. same. SEC. 5. The Commission shall report to the Governor Reports of from time to time, as the public interests may require, and shall make a full and complete report of all their proceedings to the Legislature at its next regular session. Commission. SEC. 6. The Commission shall provide proper offices and Expenses of furniture for its own use, at an expense not exceeding nine hundred dollars per annum, and for contingent expenses not to exceed twenty-five dollars per month. SEC. 7. An itemized account of the expenses of the Com- Same, report mission, including office rent, light, fuel, salaries, and other Examiners. necessary expenses, together with the amounts expended in procuring witnesses, and other testimony touching the investigation herein provided for, shall be made monthly to the Board of Examiners, verified by the oath of the Chairman of the Commission. SEC. 8. The members of said Commission shall be paid a salaries. salary of two hundred dollars per month each. to audit SEC. 9. The Board of Examiners shall audit the accounts Board of of the Commission, and when found correct shall order the Examiners Controller of State to draw his warrants for the several accounts. accounts found due, in favor of the persons to whom the same are due respectively. to draw warrants. SEC. 10. The Controller of State is hereby directed to Controller draw his warrant upon the State treasury for the several amounts audited by the Board of Examiners, in favor of the persons to whom the same are due respectively, and the . State Treasurer is hereby required to pay the same out of the General Fund in the State treasury. SEC. 11. This Act shall take effect immediately. |