services rendered under this Act one hundred and fifty dollars. The Board may also allow such compensation to appointees as may be reasonable. SEC. 14. An Act to provide for the construction of a Wagon Act repealed Road from a point on the Sacramento River, opposite the town of Red Bluff, to the eastern boundary line of this State, near Honey Lake, approved April fourteenth, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, is hereby repealed. SEC. 15. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. II.-An Act to provide for purchasing Postage Stamps and The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Controller of State is hereby authorized and Transfer. required to order the Treasurer of State to transfer the sum of thirty-one hundred and twenty-five dollars from the Swamp Land Fund to the General Fund, for the sole purpose of paying for postage stamps and express envelops during the fourteenth session of the Legislature, said amount to be returned to the Swamp Land Fund out of the first money paid into the General Fund after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixtyfour. SEC. 2. The said sum of money transferred to the General Fund by section one of this Act, is hereby appropriated for the purchase of postage stamps, envelops and wrappers, and express envelops, for the use of the Lieutenant-Governor, Senators, and members of the Assembly, Secretary of the Senate, and Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, Clerk of the Assembly, and Sergeant-at-Arms of the Assembly. SEC. 3. Each of the persons mentioned in section two of this Act, shall be entitled to receive, during the present session of the Legislature, such an amount of postage stamps, envelops and wrappers, and express envelops, as he may require, not exceeding twenty-five dollars. SEC. 4. The Controller of State is hereby authorized and Duty of required to draw his warrants, from time to time, in favor of the Controller. Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, and the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Assembly, for such sums as they may require, respectively, under the provisions of this Act, not exceeding in the aggregate the sum mentioned in the first section of this Act. Sergeant-at SEC. 5. The Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, and the Ser- Duties of geant-at-Arms of the Assembly, shall, respectively, open a Arms. postage and express account with each of the persons mentioned in section two of this Act, and shall furnish to each of said persons, during the present session of the Legislature, such postage stamps, envelops and wrappers, and express envelops, as he may require, not exceeding twenty-five dollars. Duties of Arms. SEC. 6. The Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, and the SerSergeant-at- geant-at-Arms of the Assembly, shall make to their respective Houses, at the close of the session, an exhibit of the postage and express account of each person entitled to the benefit of this Act, and pay any balance remaining in their hands over to the State Treasurer, and file said Treasurer's receipt in the office of the Controller of State. SEC. 7. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. This bill having remained with the Governor ten days, (Sundays excepted,) and the SEAL. President of the Senate. T. N. MACHIN, Speaker of the Assembly. Witness my hand, and the Great Seal of State, this twenty-eighth day of January, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-three, at office in Sacramento, California. Transfer. Duties of Re-transfer. CHAP. III.—An Act to transfer certain Funds. The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Controller of the State is hereby authorized and required to order the Treasurer of State to transfer one hundred and eighty thousand dollars of the money known as the Swamp Land Fund, into a special fund, which is hereby created, to be called the Legislative Fund for the Fourteenth Session of the Legislature, the same to be used by the said Treasurer of State for the payment of warrants drawn and to be drawn by the Controller of State, for the mileage and per diem of the members and attachés of the Senate and Assembly of the fourteenth session of the Legislature of the State, and for no other purpose whatever, except that the said Treasurer may pay out of said money so transferred, an amount not exceeding ten thousand dollars, to the State Printer, for legislative printing for the present session of the Legislature, and shall, also, out of the moneys so transferred, place the sum of three thousand dollars to the credit of the Contingent Fund of the Senate, and the sum of three thousand dollars to the credit of the Contingent Fund of the Assembly. SEC. 2. The Controller of State is hereby authorized and required to order the Treasurer of State to transfer to the Swamp Land Fund, from the General Fund of the State, the sum of one hundred and eighty thousand dollars, the amount drawn from the Swamp Land Fund by this Act, out of the first moneys received into the General Fund of the State, on and after the first Monday of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty four, or out of any moneys that may be in the said General Fund on said first Monday of January, not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 3. The Treasurer of State is hereby authorized and re- Duty of State quired to execute all orders of the Controller of State, issued Treasurer. under and by virtue of this Act. SEC. 4. If any surplus moneys remain in the special fund created by this Act, after the payment out of said fund of all the sums provided by this Act to be paid, the same shall be transferred by the Treasurer of State to the General Fund. SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and Surplus. after its passage, and all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act, are hereby repealed, so far as they are in conflict therewith. This bill having remained with the Governor ten days, (Sundays excepted,) and the Senate and Assembly being in session, it has become a law this thirty-first day of January, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-three. SEAL. Witness my hand, and the Great Seal of State, this thirty-first day of WM. H. WEEKS, Secretary of State. CHAP. 1V.-An Act to authorize the County of San Joaquin to issue [Approved February 5, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of San Joaquin County Issuance of are hereby authorized and empowered, if they deem it expedient, Bouds. to issue bonds of said county to an amount not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, said bonds to be styled, "San Joaquin County Bonds for Agricultural uses," to be issued in sums not less than fifty dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, and made pay- When payaable at the office of the County Treasurer of said county, on the ble. first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, bearing interest at the rate of seven per cent per annum, with coupons attached for said interest, duly numbered and expressed to the amount of interest due each year, and when and where payable; coupon number one, for the amount of interest from the date of bond till January first, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, payable on said last mentioned day, and the balance of the coupons for six months' interest each, being payable successively on the first day of July and the first day of January thereafter, until said bonds mature. Said bonds and coupons shall be signed by the Chairman of said Board of Supervisors, the Auditor, and Treasurer of said coun Manner of signing bonds. Committee, ty, and when so signed shall be presented by the Chairman of said Board of Supervisors to the Clerk of said county, who shall countersign the same, as such Clerk, in the presence of a quorum of said Board at a meeting thereof; and it shall be the duty of said Board of Supervisors to cause the fact of such countersigning of said bonds to be entered upon their journal, together with the number, date, and amount of each bond so countersigned by such Clerk; and upon the countersigning of said bonds, it shall be the duty of said Board of Supervisors to cause the seal of said county to be affixed to each bond. SEC. 2. The said Board of Supervisors shall appoint three and duties of discreet and disinterested men a committee to examine into the affairs of the San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Society, and make an estimate and inventory of all their property, and make report thereof to said Board of Supervisors. Said committee shall attend to this duty as soon as may be after the passage of this Act. Delivery of bonds and disposal thereof. Duty of Agricultural Society to pay money Treasury. SEC. 3. If the report of said committee shall be satisfactory to said Board of Supervisors, and the Board of Managers of said San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Society shall convey to them and their successors in said office, by good and sufficient deed or deeds, and other instruments of writing, if necessary, satisfactory to said Board, in trust to secure the said County of San Joaquin in the payment of said bonds, all the property of said society, real, personal, and mixed, then it shall be the duty of said Board of Supervisors, by an order for that purpose, and through a committee of their Board, to deliver such amount and number of said bonds as shall, in the opinion of said Board, be reasonably secured by said property, to the Board of Managers of said society, taking a receipt therefor from the Secretary of said society. The said bonds to be disposed of by said Board of Managers in such manner as they may see fit, and the proceeds applied to the payment of the debts of the society. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the County Treasurer to keep a record of the number, denomination, and amount of all bonds issued under this Act, showing the date of issuance, to whom issued, and the number of each bond. SEC. 5. The said Agricultural Society shall pay, or cause to be paid, into the County Treasury of said county, before the into County first days of December and June, respectively, of each year, until the bonds so delivered them shall mature, the accruing semi-annual interest, the first payment to be made before December first, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and shall also pay, or cause to be paid, into said Treasury, on or before the first day of January of each succeeding year, the sum of five hundred dollars annually; the first payment to be made on or before the first day of January in the year eighteen hundred and sixtyfour, as a sinking fund to secure the payment of said bonds when they mature. Said fund to be entitled "The Agricultural Sinking Fund," and with its increase to be invested in such productive property, or put out at interest at such rates, and upon such securities, as may be from time to time agreed upon by said Board of Supervisors and said Board of Managers, reference being always had to safety of investment. SEC. 6. The said Agricultural Society, so long as they pay, or cause to be paid, the accruing semi-annual interest as aforesaid, and the sum of five hundred dollars annually, towards a sinking fund as aforosaid, shall have the use and enjoyment of all their said property as fully and effectually as though no conveyance had been made. SEC. 7. In the event said Agricultural Society shall, at any Powers of time, fail to pay into the Treasury, as herein before provided, the Supervisors. accruing semi-annual interest, or the sum of five hundred dollars annually towards a sinking fund as aforesaid, on the days herein respectively provided, then the said Board of Supervisors, or their successors in said office, may enter upon and take immediate possession of the property so conveyed to them in trust as aforesaid, with all of its improvements and increase, and sell the same in the way and manner and upon the terms and conditions to be provided and set forth in said deed or deeds, and other instruments of writing, if any, and the proceeds arising from such sale, after paying the expenses of sale and the accruing interest, to invest, or cause to be invested, in some productive property, or put out at interest on good security, the same so invested, or put out at interest with the sums, if any, paid annually by said Society, with the increase or interest that may accrue thereon, to be called "The Agricultural Sinking Fund," and to be held by the County Treasurer, and by him applied to the payment of the principal and interest of said bonds so delivered to said Society as aforesaid, as said interest accrues, and when said bonds mature, and all costs, charges, and expenses, which may have been incurred, and may have been ordered paid by said Board of Supervisors out of said fund, and after such payments, the balance, if any, to pay over to said Agricultural Society." officers' and compen SEC. 8. The said County Treasurer, and all other officers County, herein specified, for the performance of their duties under the liabilities, provisions of this Act, shall, in all things herein required of penalties, them, be subject to all the liabilities and penalties to which they sation. are subjected in the performance of any other of the duties of their respective offices, and they shall, when the fees or salary is not fixed by law for the services herein required, be allowed by said Board of Supervisors a reasonable compensation therefor, to be paid by said County Treasurer, upon the order of said Board, out of the sinking fund aforesaid. of Bonds. SEC. 9. Whenever the bonds aforesaid, or any of them, shall Cancellation be paid and redeemed by the County Treasurer as above provided, he shall mark across their face the word "cancelled," and immediately deliver the same to the County Clerk, taking his receipt therefor, and the said Clerk, upon the receipt of such cancelled bonds, shall file the same in his office. SEC. 10. The said Board of Supervisors may do and transact any of the matters and things herein required of them at any special meeting to be by them called for the purpose. 2 |