SEC. 24. Each Road Master shall report to the Board of Su- Report to pervisors, quarterly, at the time of their regular meetings, the Supervisors amount of money received during said quarter, and from whom ; the amount of money paid out by him, and to whom, and for what paid; the amount of road labor performed, and by whom; the probable amount of money that will be required for repairs or improvements on the roads, and the nature of such repairs and improvements; the number of days service by him actually and necessarily performed in the discharge of his official dutyall of which particulars shall be verified by his oath, and he shall be allowed, in payment of such service, not to exceed four dollars per day, payable out of the County Road Fund. SEC. 25. On the first Monday of February in each year, Settlements each Road Master shall make a full and final settlement, with the Board of Supervisors, of all his transactions of the preceding year, and shall pay to his successor in office the amount of money remaining in his hands belonging to his District. SEC. 26. Each Road Master may, with the consent of the Deputies. Board of Supervisors, appoint one or more deputies, for whose acts he shall be responsible. SEC. 27. Road Viewers shall be allowed at the rate of three Pay of dollars per day, while engaged in viewing locations or vacations Viewers. of roads, or in estimating the damages sustained by applicants for damages by such location or vacation. to roads. SEC. 28. Any person or persons, who shall wilfully injure or Wilful destroy any bridge, or other portion of the public highway, or injury who shall cut down or injure any living tree, planted or preserved as a shade or ornamental tree, either in or upon the borders of any public road, shall be guilty of malicious mischief, and, upon conviction thereof, before any Justice of the Peace, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred Penalties. dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail for not more than thirty days, or by both fine and imprisonment; and it shall be the duty of the Road Master, in any District, to prosecute, in behalf of the county, any person so offending within his Road District. The fines collected under this section shall be expended by the Road Overseer in repairing the roads in his District. SEC. 29. This Act shall be applicable only in the County of Santa Cruz, and shall take effect from and after its passage; and all Acts, and parts of Acts, in conflict with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed. Tax. CHAP. CCXLI.—An Act to amend an Act, approved February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled an Act to authorize the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Los Angeles to borrow Money for Municipal Improvements. [Approved April 17, 1862.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section five of the said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: For the purpose of paying the interest on any debt or debts that may be contracted by the aforesaid corporation, under this Act, and to provide for the payment of the principal of the same, when due, said corporation shall levy and collect a tax of thirty-five cents on every one hundred dollars' worth of taxable property, real and personal, within said city, five sevenths of the fund derived from which said tax shall be set aside, and applied exclusively to the payment of the interest and the final redemption of the bonds, or other evidences of indebtedness, issued in pursuance of this Act, and shall be known by the name of the "Interest and Loan Fund of eighteen hundred and sixty-two." SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Franchise. Location of road. Tolls. CHAP. CCXLII.—An Act to authorize Robert G. Arthur, his associates, or assigns, to construct and keep in repair certain Roads upon the San Miguel Rancho and adjoining property, in the City and County of San Francisco, and to levy and collect Tolls thereon. [Approved April 17, 1862.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The right to open, build, and maintain, macadamized roads, upon the San Miguel Rancho and adjoining property, by and with the consent of the owners and claimants thereof, and to levy and collect tolls thereon, is hereby granted to Robert G. Arthur, his associates, or assigns, for the term of ten years from and after the passage of this Act. SEC. 2. Said road shall commence at the junction of Mission and Eagle streets, at Mission Dolores, as laid down upon the map of said city and county, running thence in a southwesterly direction, over the Mission Mountains to the Ocean House, and beach; thence in a southerly direction, until it intersects the county road of San Mateo County, with such branches as may be necessary for the public convenience; taking and receiving, for the use of said roads by the public, such tolls as are hereinafter specified: For horse, mule, and rider, ten cents; for each led or drove horse, or mule, five cents; for vehicle drawn by horse or mule, ten cents; for vehicle drawn by two horses or mules, twenty cents; for vehicle drawn by four or more horses or mules, one dollar; for drove of cattle, each, five cents; for sheep, hogs, or other animals, each, two cents; provided, that no tolls shall be collected upon any branch, or branches, of said road, nor for the use of the same as a public highway. pur San Francisco may purchase. SEC. 3. The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of City and San Francisco shall have the right (whenever they may deem County of it necessary for the public good to make said roads free,) to chase the same from the owners thereof, at a value to be ascertained by two persons, one to be chosen by said Board of Supervisors, and the other by the owners of said roads; and, in case they cannot agree, they shall have power to appoint a third party, and the appraisement of any two of said parties shall be considered the value of said roads; and, at any time after the completion of the same, should said Board of Supervisors pay to the owner of said roads the amount of the value so ascertained, it shall operate as a complete extinguishment of the franchise hereby granted. SEC. 4. The party named in section first, his associates, or Conditions. assigns, shall, within one year from and after the passage of this Act, open, grade, and macadamize said roads, to the width of at least thirty feet, and shall at all times keep and maintain the same in thorough repair; and shall have a right to erect suitable toll gates, to collect the rate of tolls above named, as soon as said road is completed to the Ocean House and beach. SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCXLIII.—An Act in relation to the Indigent Sick of the [Approved April 17, 1862.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors Duties of of Placer County to make provisions for the indigent sick of Supervisors the county, as follows: First-For all indigent sick whose diseases are natural, or the result of unavoidable accidents, and who, when in health, had some lawful and visible means of support. Second-For all indigent sick whose diseases are not venereal, or the result of intemperance; provided, the Board of Supervisors shall not provide for the indigent sick of the second class, unless there is an unexpended balance in the Hospital Fund, after providing for all the indigent sick of the first class. not to draw SEC. 2. The Board of Supervisors shall not, for any purpose, Supervisors audit any account, or permit the issuance of any order, payable order except out of the Hospital Fund, unless, at the time of auditing such against account and the issuance of such order, there is an unexpended the fund. money in County Treasurer to report. Duty of balance in the Hospital Fund to meet the payment of said order on presentation. SEC. 3. The County Treasurer shall report to the Board of Supervisors, on the first day of each meeting of said Board, the amount of money remaining in the Hospital Fund at the date. of said report, subject to their order, and in no case shall the Board of Supervisors, at any such meeting, allow or direct the Supervisors issuance of orders which will, singly, or in the aggregate, exceed the sum reported by the Treasurer to be subject to their order at said meetings; and in no case shall any order be issued payable out of any other than the Hospital Fund, for any service rendered for or in behalf of the indigent sick of the county; and any member of the Board of Supervisors, or County Auditor, consenting to the issuance of any orders in violation of the provisions of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined in a sum double the amount of such order, and in default of payment shall be imprisoned in the county jail for any time not exceeding sixty days; provided, that nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to prevent the Board of Supervisors from auditing and directing the issuance of orders on the General Fund of the county, (in case there is a deficiency in the Hospital Fund,) for the discharge of any and all indebtedness which may have been incurred for the care and maintenance of the indigent sick prior to the passage of this Act. Proviso. Powers of Applications SEC. 4. The Board of Supervisors shall have the power to contract for the care, maintenance, and medical treatment, of the indigent sick of the county; but all contracts shall particularly specify that the party or parties agreeing to keep said indigent sick shall accept, in full satisfaction for said contract, the money to be received into the Hospital Fund during the continuance of said contract; and said contract shall further specify the price per week at which each indigent sick patient shall be kept, which price shall not exceed twelve dollars per week. SEC. 5. All applications for the benefits of this Act shall be for benefits. made to the Board of Supervisors, or some member thereof, and no person shall be admitted as a charge upon the County Hospital Fund until he or she shall first subscribe to an oath, before some person qualified to administer the same, specifying that he or she is indigent sick, and has no means of sustenance here or elsewhere. SEC. 6. All Acts, and parts of Acts, in conflict with the provisions in this Act, are hereby repealed. SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCXLIV.—An Act to give further Powers to the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco. [Approved April 17, 1862.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: to compro SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the City and County Supervisors of San Francisco are hereby authorized and empowered, with the mise certain assent of the respective creditors of said city and county, here- claims. inafter mentioned and referred to, and in the manner hereinafter provided, to settle, compound, and compromise, and adjust, certain indebtedness of said city and county, existing by certain final judgments against the City of San Francisco, or against said city and county, in favor of the purchasers, or assignees of purchasers, of certain property, known as the "City Slip Property;" and also, any final judgment that may hereafter be rendered in favor of any other of such purchasers or assignees; and also, the claim in suit in Fourth District Court, in the name of Felix Argenti, against the said city; and also, the judgment in the Twelfth District Court, in the name of Lucas, Turner & Co., against said city; and also, the judgment of H. W. Seale, against the said city, in said Twelfth District Court; and also, a certain judgment, in favor of Nathaniel Holland, against the City of San Francisco, rendered in the Twelfth Judicial District Court, in and for the City and County of San Francisco, on the seventh day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, for four thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight dollars, and costs, with interest thereon, the same as if said judgment remained in full force and effect, and unreversed; and to close, adjust, and settle, all controversies respecting the title to said property, known as the "City Slip Property," upon such terms as the said Board may deem just and equitable; and the said Board is further hereby authorized and empowered to sell, on such terms and conditions as it may deem proper, the said property, called the City Slip Property," and, if deemed by it expedient, to apply the proceeds thereof to the payment of said judgments and indebtedness, or either or any of them, or any part thereof, in such sums and proportions as said Board shall deem best, and to issue, or cause to be issued, in such manner and form, and with such terms and conditions, redeemable in twenty years, as may be approved by said Board, bonds of said city and county, in payment of said indebtedness and judgments, or any or either of them, or of so much thereof as shall remain unpaid after the application and payment, as aforesaid, of said proceeds of sale, if said Board shall conclude to sell said city slip property, and appropriate the proceeds, as aforesaid; and said bonds, so issued, shall be good and valid securities against said city and county for the amounts for which the same shall be issued in pursuance of this Act; provided, the interest on said bonds shall not, in any Proviso. instance, exceed the sum of seven per cent. per annum; and the said Board are further authorized and empowered to levy and collect, from time to time, and in any settlement, as aforesaid, |