duties of SEC. 9. When the District Tax Collector shall receive the Powers and district assessment roll from the Directors, he shall at once collector. give notice of the fact and that the taxes are due and payable at his office, and if not paid on or before the first Monday of January next succeeding the same, will become delinquent and will be collected under the same laws, rules, and regulations as apply to the collection of delinquent State and county taxes; the said District Tax Collector being hereby invested with all and the same power to make collection of taxes by sale and conveyance of real estate as is or may be hereafter conferred on Collectors of State and county taxes. The taxes levied and collected by virtue of this Act shall be called the "Levee District Number Two Tax," and shall be paid into the county treasury and placed to the credit of the district, and the moneys so paid into the treasury shall thereafter be known as the "Levee District Number Two Fund," and shall be paid only in the manner hereinafter provided. The Tax Collector shall make his settlement with the Clerk of the Board of Directors in the same manner as provided in the Political Code for the settlement of County Tax Collector with the County Auditor. moneys. SEC. 10. Upon receipt of money from the District Tax Treasurer to Collector, the County Treasurer of Sutter County shall first set apart set apart a sum sufficient to pay the interest, or interest and principal, that may become due, and pay the same as provided for in an Act entitled an Act to provide for funding the indebtedness of Levee District Number Two of Sutter County. He shall next pay out of said fund, in the order of their issuance, the warrants drawn thereon under the provisions of section three of this Act. SEC. 11. If, through resignation, death, or otherwise, there Directors, should be no quorum of said Board of Directors, or if from no quorum. any cause said Board should refuse or neglect to meet or to exercise the authority and perform the duties of said Board, then the power and authority of said Directors shall devolve upon and must be exercised by the members of the Board of Supervisors of said county. SEC. 12. The District Attorney of Sutter County is hereby District required to give the Directors the same legal advice and Attorney. assistance, in the same manner and on the same terms, as he gives to the Board of Supervisors; and he is also required to give to the District Assessor and Tax Collector the same assistance and legal advice that he may be required to give the County Assessor and Tax Collector. officers. SEC. 13. The Directors shall not be paid more than two Compensadollars each for each day employed in attending to the duties of herein required of him. The District Assessor shall not be paid more than two dollars per day, and his annual pay shall not exceed twelve dollars. The District Tax Collector shall receive such a sum, not exceeding three-fourths of one per cent. of all moneys collected by him and paid over to the County Treasurer, which the Directors may think just and proper; and the County Treasurer shall receive one-half of one per cent. on the moneys disbursed by him for the dis trict; and the election officers named in this Act shall serve without fee and reward. SEC. 14. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 15. passage. This Act shall take effect from and after its Election of CHAP. CCC.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to provide for the payment of certain bonds of the County of Lake, approved March twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventyfour. [Approved March 23, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section two of said Act is amended so as to Road District read as follows: Section 2. At the Presidential election in Assessor. Salary. Bonds. November, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and until the bonds hereinafter mentioned shall be fully paid, there shall be elected an Assessor for said wagon road district, who shall be ex officio Collector for said wagon road district, and who shall hold office until the general State election following said Presidential election, and shall be elected every two years thereafter. At such elections only those persons shall vote for said officer who shall be qualified electors of the County of Lake, and shall have resided in said district at least thirty days before such election. Such elections shall be conducted in all respects as elections of county officers, and the return shall be made and canvassed and the result declared at the same time and in the same manner as elections of county officers are required to be by law. The present Assessor, who is made hereby ex officio Collector, shall continue in office until the qualification of his successor to be elected in November, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. Any vacancy in the office of Assessor and ex officio Tax Collector of said wagon road district shall be filed by the Board of Supervisors of Lake County, in the same manner as vacancies in county and township offices. SEC. 2. The Assessor and ex officio Tax Collector shall receive, for all services as such Assessor and ex officio Tax Collector, the sum of six hundred dollars per annum. SEC. 3. The Assessor shall give a bond, with at least two sureties, to be approved by the County Judge of said county, for the faithful performance of the duties pertaining to the office of Assessor of such wagon road district, in the sum of two thousand dollars. The said Assessor and ex officio Tax Collector shall give a bond as such Tax Collector, with at least two sureties, to be approved by the County Judge of said county, for the faithful discharge of the duties pertaining to the office of Tax Collector of said wagon road district, in the sum of ten thousand dollars. SEC. 4. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with the foregoing are hereby repealed. SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCCI.-An Act to establish the county line between the [Approved March 23, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The boundary line between the Counties of Boundary Fresno and Tulare shall be as follows: Commencing at a line defined point on the eastern boundary line of Monterey County, as described in section three thousand nine hundred and fortyeight of Political Code, being on the summit of coast range, which point is south forty-five degrees west from the point on Kings River where the northern line of township sixteen south crosses the same; thence north forty-five degrees east to said point on Kings River; thence east along northern line of township sixteen south and continuing on said line to the northwest corner of township sixteen south, range twenty-five (25) east; thence north to the northwest corner of township fifteen (15) south, range twenty-five (25) east; thence east to the northeast corner of township fifteen south, range twenty-seven (27) east; thence north to the northeast corner of township fourteen south of range twenty-seven east; thence east on the line between township thirteen and fourteen south to the summit of Sierra Nevada, being the western line of Inyo County. SEC. 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCCII.-An Act amendatory of and supplementary to an [Approved March 23, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Coroner. SECTION 1. Amend section three of said Act so as to read Duties of as follows: Section 3. Whenever any Coroner shall receive notice that any person has been slain, or has committed suicide, or has died suddenly, or has been found dead under circumstances such as to require an inquisition, it shall be Deputies, salaries of. his duty to go to the place where such person shall be, or if the body shall have been interred, shall cause it to be disinterred, and shall forthwith summon not less than nine or more than fifteen persons to serve as jurors, to appear before him forthwith, at such place as he shall appoint, and make inquisition concerning such death. He shall summon none but persons duly qualified by law to serve as jurors, and no such person shall be exempt, except at the discretion of the Coroner. No person shall be summoned who is related to the deceased, or to any person who may be suspected or charged with the killing; nor shall any one be summoned who is known to be prejudiced for or against him, but the jurors who are selected and appear shall not be challenged by any party. SEC. 2. Amend section twenty-eight of said Act so as to read as follows: Section 28. The Coroner of said city and county shall be authorized to appoint two Clerks, who shall be sworn to act as First and Second Deputy Coroners in all matters, except those duties on inquests which have been forbidden to be delegated by this Act. The salary of the Clerk sworn to act as First Deputy Coroner shall not exceed one hundred and fifty dollars per month, and the salary of the Clerk sworn to act as Second Deputy Coroner, one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month, which shall be paid from the Special Fee Fund of the said city and county. The Coroner of said city and county shall be authorized to appoint a Messenger, whose duty it shall be to have charge of the dead wagon, keep in order the morgue, and perform such other duties as are required by the Coroner or his deputies in connection with the duties of his office. He shall receive a salary not to exceed seventy-five dollars per month, to be paid in like manner as that of the Coroner's Clerks. SEC. 3. This Act shall be in force and take effect from and after its passage. Common Council to CHAP. CCCIII.-An Act to authorize the corporation of the City of Los Angeles to issue bonds for building a main public sewer in said city, and to provide for their payment. [Approved March 23, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Common Council of the City of Los issue bonds. Angeles is hereby authorized and empowered, for and in behalf, and in the name of the said corporation known as the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Los Angeles, to issue bonds of said city to such amount as the Common Council shall see fit, not exceeding the sum of thirty thousand dollars, to sell the same and appropriate the money received therefor to the acquisition, by purchase or otherwise, of the needed right of way, and to the construction in said city of a main public sewer of such dimensions and materials and in such manner as the Common Council shall determine to be best. SEC. 2. Each of the said bonds shall be regularly num- Form of bered in numerical order, and shall be issued in such sum, bond. not exceeding one thousand dollars, as the Common Council shall direct; shall be signed by the Mayor and City Treasurer of said city respectively, and countersigned by the Clerk of the Common Council, and have the corporate seal of said city affixed thereto; shall be payable to bearer in gold coin of the United States at the office of the City Treasurer of said city, in said city, twenty-five years from and after the first when day of July, (A. D. 1876) eighteen hundred and seventy-six, payable, and shall bear interest at the rate of seven (7) per cent. per annum from date until paid; and to provide therefor, shall have attached thereto, in the usual form, coupons signed by the City Treasurer of said city; the interest to be payable Interest semi-annually, on the first day of January and the first day of July of each year, at the office of said Treasurer; both principal and interest to be paid out of the fund hereinafter established. coupons. Fund. SEC. 3. There is hereby created a fund in said city to be Main Sewer known and called "The Main Sewer Fund," and the City Treasurer of said city is hereby required and directed to keep a regular account upon his books with said fund. For the purpose of providing for the payment of the semi-annual interest on said bonds, and their final redemption and discharge, the authorities of said city are hereby authorized and required, annually each year, at the same time and in the same manner as other municipal taxes in said city are assessed, levied, and collected, to assess, levy, and collect, so long as required, upon all taxable property in said city, a tax of not exceeding one-fourth of one per cent. upon each one hundred dollars of such property, all of which taxes shall be paid to said City Treasurer and be by him placed to the credit of said "Main Sewer Fund," and applied to the payment of the principal and interest of said bonds. SEC. 4. Whenever at any time there shall be to the credit Notice of of said fund any sum in excess of the aggregate of the sum redemption. of five thousand dollars and the amount that will be required to pay the semi-annual interest next thereafter to be paid on said bonds, the Common Council of said city is hereby authorized to direct and require the City Treasurer of said city to advertise for the redemption of bonds issued under this Act. sales. SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the Mayor of said city, the Record of City Treasurer, and the Clerk of the Common Council, to make out and return to the Common Council of said city, within thirty days after the issuance of such bonds, a list thereof, showing the number and amount of each and to whom sold and delivered, which report shall be entered in full upon the minutes of the Council, and the original preserved in the office of said Clerk; and it shall be the further duty of the City Treasurer to enter such list in a suitable book, which shall be preserved in his office. |
