Duties a report, showing the number and denomination of stamped
papers or parchments receipted for by him, and the disposition of
the same; if by sale, the aggregate amount of authorizations
issued by him to the Treasurer of State, and the aggregate amount
of money acknowledged by the said Treasurer therefor; and if by
transmission to the County Treasurers, the aggregate amount
thereof, stating the fact of his having their receipts in his posses-

sion.

Upon the same day, the Secretary of State shall also report Report of Secreto the Commissioners of Stamp Duties, the number and denomina- tary of State. tion of papers and parchments stamped by the Stamp Contractor, and it shall be the duty of said Commissioners to receive said re- Duty of Comports, aud to consider as well the information therein contained, missioners. and that derived from such other sources as they may deem proper, in order that they may see that this Act is faithfully carried out and obeyed.

of Controller.

SEC. 15. The Stamp Contractor shall be responsible and charge- Responsibility of able on his official bond for all the papers and parchments stamped Contractor and by him, for which he cannot produce the Controller's receipt, and the Controller of State shall be responsible and chargeable upon his official bond, for all the stamped papers or parchments receipted for by him to the Stamp Contractor, for which he, the said Controller, cannot produce either the receipt of the County Treasurer, or the receipts of the money paid into the Treasury by purchasers, signed by the Treasurer of State.

SEC. 16. Any person who shall cut, engrave or make, or cause Persons guilty of to be cut, engraved or made, any seal to resemble a seal devised or felony. made in pursuance of this Act, or any person who shall have in his or her possession any seal resembling a seal devised or made as herein provided for, with the intent to defraud, or to aid in defrauding, the State of the duty herein imposed, shall be held guilty of a felony, and be subject to the pains and penalties provided in section ten of this Act.

SEC. 17. The sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby appropri- Appropriation.
ated out of any money in the Treasury, and belonging to the gen-
eral fund not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying
out the provisions of this Act, to be drawn under the supervision

of the Commissioners of Stamp Duties, on the warrant of the Con-
troller. The said commissioners shall only audit the accounts of Accounts of
the Stamp Contractor upon an examination of the record made Contractor, how
under the supervision of the Secretary of State, and of the receipts
of the Controller, and upon such other evidence as to them may be

satisfactory.

audited.

SEC. 18. If from any cause a sufficient number of stamps for Circumstances general use can not be distributed in the various counties by the und'r which this Act is suspended time designated in the first section of this Act, upon the said Commissioners publishing a certificate of that fact, and filing the same in the office of the Secretary of State, this Act shall be suspended until the first day of August next; and if at any time the Stamp Contractor shall, from any cause whatever, fail to discharge the conditions of his contract so that the public interest thereby may be exposed to material injury, the said Commissioners, upon the determination of that fact by them, are authorized to suspend his contract until further action by the succeeding Legislature, and to provide ways and means otherwise for the proper carrying into effect of this Act.

Trustees power

CHAPTER CCXLVI.

AN ACT

To supply the City of Nevada with Water, and to protect the
City against Fires.

[Approved April 29, 1857.]

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

SECTION 1. The Board of Trustees of the city of Nevada, shall to grant rights. have power to grant to any person or person, the sole and exclusive right for the term not exceeding twenty years, to lay pipes through the city, for the purpose of supplying the city with water, and for the protection of the city against fires, on the conditions hereinafter imposed. But this Act shall not be held to take away or impair any right of any company or individual, to supply said city or inhabitants thereof with water, acquired before any grant or contract shall be made, by virtue of this Act.

Specifications to be published.

Submitted to people.

SEC. 2. The Board of Trustees shall publish for three weeks, in a newspaper printed in the city of Nevada, specifications giving the character of the work to be done by the grantees, the size and material of the pipes, the depth at which they shall be laid, the point at which the work shall commence, the number, size, and construction of hydrants, and the points where the same shall be placed, the time when the work shall be commenced and finished, and all other specifications that may be necessary to a full understanding of the nature and probable expense of the work to be done, and to furnish the city with an abundant supply of water, at all times.

SEC. 3. Said specifications shall be submitted to the people at a city election, to be approved or rejected. If approved by a majority of the people, the Trustees of the city may proceed to make the grant specified in section first of this Act. If rejected by a majority of the people, other specifications may be made out, and Special election. published as before provided, and a special election may be called for the purpose of determining the will of the people upon the

Rates established.

same.

SEC. 4. The grantees shall have the right to collect such rates, and no other, as shall be annually established by the Board of Trustees for the use of water; but the Board of Trustees shall not, at any time, establish such rates as may reduce the rate of interest on the capital invested, below two per cent. per month.

CHAPTER CCXLVII.

AN ACT

Explanatory of and supplementary to an Act entitled an Act amendatory of and supplementary to An Act to repeal the several Charters of the City of San Francisco, to establish the Boundaries of the City and County of San Francisco, and to Consolidate the Government thereof, approved April 19th, 1856, passed April 18th, 1857.

[Approved April 29, 1857.]

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

SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the city and county Claims allowed. of San Francisco are hereby authorized to audit, allow and pay all claims which are or may be found due to J. Horace Kent, Coroner of said county, for services rendered by said Kent, as such Coroner, from the 26th day of March, A. D. 1856, to the 18th day of April, A. D. 1857, according to the rate and manner in which his accounts for such services were allowed by the Board of Supervisors last preceding the present Board of Supervisors of the county of San Francisco. Provided, There shall not be allowed to said Proviso. Kent a greater sum than six thousand dollars. And the said Board is also authorized to audit and allow the claims of Messrs. Carvallo and Lussey, for services as Interpreters in the County (Courts) of said city and county, from the first day of July, 1856, to the 18th day of April, 1857, at the rate of not exceeding one hundred dollars per month for each interpreter, all of which claims, after having been duly audited and allowed, shall be paid out of the General Fund in the same manner as other lawful demands against said city and county. Provided, further, That all payments made said Coroner during said period, shall be deducted from the amount allowed under this Act.

Moneys set apart.

Advertise for proposals.

CHAPTER CCXLVIII.

AN ACT

To amend an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the County of
Sacramento to fund the outstanding Warrants drawn against
the Court House and Jail Fund of the County," approved
March 5th, 1855.

[Approved April 29, 1857.]

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

SECTION 1. Section eleven of said Act is amended as follows: Section eleven. It shall be the duty of the County Treasurer, on the first day of May and November of each year, to set apart all the moneys in his hands arising from the tax authorized by this Act as a Sinking Fund for the redemption of said bonds. He shall, also, on the second Monday of June and December of each year, advertise in a public newspaper published in each of the cities of Sacramento and New York, for the space of ten days, for proposals for the redemption of said bonds; the advertisement to set forth the amount in the County Treasury for that purpose, and the day, time and place, when the proposals will be considered; and on the first Monday of September and March thereafter, the County Treasurer shall receive and consider said bids, and such bids shall be accepted as shall cancel the greatest amount of said bonds. Provided, That no bid for more than par value shall be accepted.

Unpaid taxes, how collected.

CHAPTER CCXLIX.

AN ACT

To amend an Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the City of Nevada," approved April 19, 1856.

[Approved April 29, 1857.]

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

SECTION 1. The thirteenth section is amended so as to read as follows:

If any person fail to pay any tax levied upon his real or personal property, the Collector of City Taxes may recover the same by suit,

in the name of the city, before any court of competent jurisdiction, together with all costs of suit, or may enforce the collection of such tax by seizing and selling the property of the party delinquent, in the mode prescribed by law for the collection of State and County taxes, and any property so sold, shall be sold subject to all the provisions, and the officer so selling shall have all the rights, and and be subject to all the duties prescribed by law for the collection of State and County taxes.

To separate the office of Collector of Taxes from the office of
Sheriff, in the County of El Dorado.

[Approved April 29, 1857.]

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

SECTION 1. From and after the first day of March next, the offices office of Collector of Taxes, in the County of El Dorado, shall be separated separated from the office of Sheriff..

SEC. 2. At the next general election there shall be elected in Election of Tax said county a Collector of Taxes, who shall enter upon the duties Collector. of his office on the first Monday of March next, and shall hold such office for two years and until his successor shall have been

elected and qualified.

SEC. 3. All duties and liabilities heretofore imposed upon the Duties and Sheriff of said county, as Collector of Taxes, shall attach to the liabilities. office hereby created, and the Collector of Taxes elected under the provisions of this Act, shall give bond in the sum of forty thousand dollars, to be approved in the same manner.

SEC. 4. The Collector of Taxes elected under the provisions of Duties specified this Act, shall collect all State and County taxes, all Foreign

Miners' License taxes, all kinds of public dues, which, under exist

ing laws, are now collected by the Sheriff and Treasurer, and shall Compensation. receive for his services the same compensation which is now allowed

to the Sheriff and Treasurer.

SEC. 5. All Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with the pro- Repeal. visions of this Act, so far as the same relates to the County of El Dorado, are hereby repealed.