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Redemption Fund, stating the amount, and that until such day, at twelve o'clock meridian, he will, at his office, receive sealed proposals for the surrender of bonds issued under this Act. Immediately after the hour specified he shall, in the presence of the County Clerk, open all such proposals, and shall redeem such bonds as may be offered at the lowest figure, but no bid above par shall be accepted. If bids are equal, the oldest bond shall have preference. If no bids be put in at par or less, or if a sufficient amount of bonds be not offered to absorb all the moneys in the Redemption Fund, then bonds to the amount of the moneys in such fund not absorbed shall become due and payable out of said fund in the order in which they were numbered, and the Treasurer shall give notice in like manner, as is herein provided for, that such bonds have become due, and all interest thereon shall cease from and after thirty days from the first publication of such notice.

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SEC. 8. Whenever any bond shall have been paid, the CancellaCounty Treasurer shall mark the same canceled over his signature, and return the same to the County Auditor in the same manner as redeemed county warrants with interest coupons not then due attached.

SEC. 9. Before the sale of any bonds, the said Board of Sale of Supervisors shall cause to be entered on the minutes of said bonds. Board an order directing the sale of a specified amount of said bonds, and the day and hour of such sale, which shall not be less than thirty days after the entry of said order, and shall cause a copy of such order to be inserted in a newspaper published in said county, for at least three successive weeks, and also in one newspaper in the City of San Francisco; and also, that sealed proposals will be received by the said Board for the purchase of said bonds, in United States gold coin; on the day and hour named in said order, the said Board shall open all sealed proposals received by them, and shall award the purchase of said bonds to the highest responsible bidder; provided, that said bonds shall not be sold for a less price than par, and that said Board may reject all bids.

sale; where

SEC. 10. All the moneys derived from the sale of the Proceeds of bonds shall be paid into the county treasury of Napa County, , paid. and the County Treasurer shall give duplicate receipts therefor, one of which receipts he shall deliver to the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, and the other of which he shall file with the County Auditor, who shall charge said Treasurer with the amount thereof.

SEC. 11. The County Auditor and Treasurer shall each keep an account of the bonds issued and the moneys received and disbursed under this Act.

of sale.

SEC. 12. All moneys derived from the sale of the bonds Disposal of shall be set apart as a "Court-house Building Fund," and proceeds shall be audited, paid out, and expended in the building and constructing a Court-house and Jail, on block number sixteen, in the City of Napa, in Napa County, and the necessary county offices, and furnishing the same and improving the Court-house grounds; any surplus of said fund that shall

Board to adopt plans, etc.

Board to proceed with

of works upon approval of plans, etc.

remain after these objects are accomplished shall be transferred to the General County Fund.

SEC. 13. The Board of Supervisors shall, as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, at a special or a regular meeting, adopt the necessary plans and specifications, and shall not be governed by an Act of the Legislature of this State, entitled "An Act to regulate the erection of public buildings and structures," approved April first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two.

SEC. 14. As soon as practicable, after a plan and specificonstruction cations have been adopted, the Board of Supervisors shall proceed with the erection and construction of the buildings authorized by this Act, in accordance with the plans and specifications so adopted; and for that purpose shall have full power and authority to do and perform all acts and things which may be requisite and necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act; but the contract or contracts for the erection of the buildings, furnishing thereof, and improving the Court-house grounds, shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder or bidders, after due public notice, once a week for four successive weeks, in one or more newspapers printed in said Napa County, and in one newspaper printed in the City of San Francisco; but no contract or contracts for constructing said Court-house, and offices, and Jail, and furnishing the same, and improving the Court-house grounds, shall, in the aggregate, exceed the said sum of eighty thousand dollars; and all contracts entered into, or liabilities created or incurred in excess of said sum, shall be absolutely null and void, and said Board shall so specify in all contracts; said Board shall take security for the faithful performance of such contracts, which shall be approved by the Chairman of said Board.

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ment of Commis

sioner, and duties of.

SEC. 15. The Board of Supervisors shall appoint a Commissioner, who shall be a skillful architect or master builder, to aid said Board in selecting suitable plans and specifications for the erection and construction of said buildings, and said Commissioner shall, from time to time, critically inspect and examine all the materials used and to be used in the erection and construction of said public buildings, and the sufficiency of the workmanship thereon, and report the result of his examination to said Board, or any member thereof; and if it shall appear from such report or otherwise, that the material or any part thereof so used in said buildings shall not be of a good and substantial quality, and the same shall not be built in a skillful and workmanlike manner, and in strict conformity with the contract made and entered into by said contractor or contractors and the said Board of Supervisors, said public buildings shall not be accepted by said Board nor their duly appointed Commissioner for said purposes. After the adoption of such plans and specifications, no change or alteration shall be made therein whereby the cost of the building shall either be increased or diminished, except upon the unanimous concurrence of the Board of Supervisors and the Commissioner, and if any change or alteration therein shall be made the

same shall be specified in writing and in detail, and attached to and made a part of the plans and specifications. After entering into any contract, the same shall not be altered or changed in any manner, unless the alteration or change shall be indorsed thereon or attached thereto, and signed by the parties thereto; and such indorsement shall specify in detail wherein the alteration or change consists, and the cost thereof or deduction therefor. No allowance shall be made for any extra work under such contracts.

SEC. 16. The Commissioner mentioned in the last preceding section shall be paid a reasonable compensation for his services.

for expenses;

SEC. 17. All payments for costs and expenses of carrying Payments this Act into effect, including the cost of plans and specifica- how made. tions, Commissioner's compensation, and for the construction and furnishing the Court-house, offices, and Jail, and improving the Court-house grounds, shall be paid by warrants drawn on the Court-house Building Fund; provided, that the said Board may stipulate that a part or all said contracts may be paid in said bonds, at their par value.

not subject

SEC. 18. The buildings constructed under the provisions Buildings of this Act shall not be subject to the lien of any contractor, to lien. sub-contractor, mechanic, lumberman, laborer, or other person whatsoever, for any labor, material, or other things furnished in the erection or construction of said buildings.

SEC. 19. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 20. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage.

CHAP. CCCXC.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to provide for the grading of public alleys and the construction of sewers therein in the City of Sacramento, approved March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.

[Approved March 27, 1878.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

of sewers.

SECTION 1. Section two of the above entitled Act is hereby Construction amended to read as follows: Section 2. If the owners, or their duly authorized agents, of more than one-half in extent of the lands and lots in any block of land visected by any such alley shall petition said Board of Trustees, in writing, to cause a sewer to be constructed through the same, the said Board of Trustees shall order the same to be done, or whenever the Board of Health of the City of Sacramento shall, by an order duly made and entered on their records, declare that it is necessary for the public health or cleanliness that a sewer should be constructed in any public alley in said city, and shall have delivered a certified copy of said order to the Board of Trustees, the said Board of Trustees

Costs; by

whom paid.

shall order such sewer or sewers constructed, and proceed in the same manner as if said work had been petitioned for by the requisite number of property owners, as above. The cost of constructing that portion of all sewers that extend across streets, or that extends from the line of the block to the main sewer, shall be paid by the city, out of the Special Street Fund.

Salaries of

county officers.

Consolidation of offices.

Percentage allowed to Assessor.

CHAP. CCCXCI.-An Act to regulate fees and salaries in the
County of Los Angeles.

[Approved March 27, 1878.]

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

SECTION 1. The County Clerk of the County of Los Angeles, for his services as such, and as Clerk of the Courts of record of the county, and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, and for services in all other capacities, shall receive an annual salary of three thousand dollars ($3,000).

SEC. 2. The County Recorder shall receive an annual salary of two thousand four hundred dollars ($2,400).

SEC. 3. The County Auditor shall receive an annual salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars ($1,800).

SEC. 4. The County Treasurer shall receive an annual salary of one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500), and the mileage paid by the State.

SEC. 5. The Tax Collector shall receive an annual salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars ($1,800).

SEC. 6. The Board of Supervisors may, by an order made. at least six months before any general election, provide that either the Recorder or County Clerk shall be ex officio Auditor and the Treasurer ex officio Tax Collector; and in that event the salary of the consolidated office of Recorder, or County Clerk and Auditor, and that of the consolidated office of Treasurer and Tax Collector shall be two thousand four hundred dollars.

SEC. 7. The Assessor shall receive an annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), and he or his deputies shall also receive for services in collecting the taxes on personal property, and the road and other poll taxes, for the portion belonging to the county, five per cent., and for the portion belonging to the State, such percentage as is now allowed to the county or provided by law.

SEC. 8. The Superintendent of Public Schools shall receive an annual salary of one thousand dollars ($1,000).

SEC. 9. The District Attorney shall receive an annual salary of three thousand dollars ($3,000).

SEC. 10. The County Judge shall receive an annual salary of three thousand dollars ($3,000).

SEC. 11. The Supervisors, for each day's necessary attendance at meetings of the Board, shall receive each the sum of

mileage of

five dollars, and the Chairman, in addition, the sum of one Compensa dollar. Each Supervisor shall also be allowed mileage, at tion and the rate of twenty cents per mile, traveling from his resi- Supervisors. dence to the county seat to attend meetings of the Board; but mileage shall be allowed only once for each term. Each Supervisor acting as ex officio Roadmaster of his district. shall receive therefor an annual salary of one hundred dollars ($100).

SEC. 12. The Sheriff shall receive the fees and compensa- Fees of tion specified in the twelfth section of the Act entitled "An Sheriff. Act to regulate fees of office, and salaries of certain officers, and to repeal certain other Acts in relation thereto," approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy, except that he shall not receive the mileage and the compensation as Tax Collector therein prescribed. He shall also receive the fees and compensation specified in the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the fees of the Sheriff of Los Angeles County," approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. He shall also receive mileage for the necessary traveling done by him in serving any summons, or other process, notice, rule, order, subpoena, venire, attachment, execution, or other writ, or to hold inquest, or in bringing up a prisoner on habeas corpus, for each mile necessarily traveled, to be computed in all cases from the Court-house, twenty cents a mile for going only. If any two or more papers be required to be served in the same suit or proceeding, at the same time and in the same direction, one mileage only shall be charged, and in serving a subpoena or venire, when two or more witnesses or jurors live in the same direction, mileage shall be charged only for the most distant.

Coroner

SEC. 13. The Coroner shall receive the fees specified in Fees of the twenty-fourth section of the said Act of March fifth, ther eighteen hundred and seventy, cited in section twelve (12), officers. and for services as Sheriff the fees allowed for like services to the Sheriff.

SEC. 14. The Surveyor shall receive the fees specified in section twenty-five (25) of said Act.

SEC. 15. Justices of the Peace shall receive the fees specified in section twenty-six (26) of said Act.

SEC. 16. Constables shall receive the fees specified in section twenty-three (23) of said Act.

SEC. 17. Court Commissioners shall receive the fees specified in section twenty-nine (29) of said Act.

SEC. 18. Interpreters and translators shall receive compensation as specified in section thirty-three (33) of said Act. SEC. 19. Notaries Public shall receive the fees specified in section eight (8) of said Act.

SEC. 20. The Public Administrator, for each estate administered by him, shall receive the compensation and allowances prescribed by law for executors and administrators.

deputies.

SEC. 21. The County Clerk, Recorder, Assessor, Auditor, AppointTreasurer, Tax Collector, District Attorney, Sheriff, Surveyor, ment of and Constables may appoint deputies, but such deputies shall not receive any compensation, unless from their principals, except in the cases next hereinafter provided. The Board

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