Duties of Powers and duties of Assessors and Collectors. Treasurer. Oath. Bond. Report of Section 9. The Township Clerk shall be the Clerk of the Board of Trustees; he shall keep a record of all estrays taken up in his township, with a full description of the same; he shall file all certificates of election, with the oaths indorsed thereon; shall receive, file, and safely keep, all official bonds of the township, except the official bond of the Township Clerk, and keep a record of all marriages, births, and deaths, and shall receive and place on file in his office chattel mortgages and bills of sale of mining claims and personal property, and make certified copies of the same, when required; and such filing shall have, to all intents and purposes, the full force and effect of a record at the County Recorder's office under the laws of this State; he may administer and certify oaths of officers of the township. SEC. 4. Section ten is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 10. The power and duties of Township Assessor and Township Tax Collector shall be the same, within the limits of the township, as are now conferred upon County Assessors and County Tax Collectors by the revenue laws of this State; and the said revenue laws which are now in force in any county, are hereby declared to be in force in the several townships therein, except such part of said revenue laws as regulate the compensation for services; provided, the Township Tax Collector shall pay all taxes collected for township purposes into the Township Treasury; he shall, on the last Saturday of each month, pay all county and State taxes into the County Treasury, and return all delinquent lists to the County Auditor. SEC. 5. Section twelve is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 12. The Township Treasurer shall receive all local taxes, and give his official receipt therefor; he shall pay out all township moneys, in the manner prescribed by the Board of Trustees, and shall annually, on the last Monday in April, report in detail to the Board of Trustees all moneys received and paid out by him for the year next preceding, and the balance remaining on hand; he shall also file in his office the official bond of the Township Clerk. SEC. 6. Section thirteen is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 13. Each township officer, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take the oath of office prescribed by law, and shall give bond, with sureties, payable to The Township in such sum of money as may be determined by the Township Trustees, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of his office; said bond to be of no effect till approved by the said Trustees. In case such bond shall become insufficient in the opinion of said Board, the said Board may require of any officer such additional bond as they may deem necessary; provided, that the Justices of the Peace shall fix the amount of the bond required to be given by the Township Trustees, and shall approve of the sureties on said bond. SEC. 7. Section fifteen is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 15. The Board of Trustees shall annually, on the second Tuesday in April, make out a full and complete state ment of all moneys received and expended, from whom, and for what purpose received, to whom, and for what purpose expended, during the year next preceding, and shall cause such statement to be filed in the office of the Township Clerk. SEC. 8. Section seventeen is hereby amended so as to read as follows: election. Section 17. Each Justice of the Peace of the various town- Notice of ships of this State shall, at least five days before the township election, to be held on the first Monday in May, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, post three written notices in the most public places in his township; said notices to state the time and place for the election of township officers provided for in this Act; provided, that after the first township election, the Trustees shall appoint the time and place of holding elections. CHAP. CCCXX.-An Act to provide for the Pauper Sick of Tehama [Approved April 25, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Each male inhabitant of Tehama County over Poll tax. twenty-one and under sixty years of age, and not by law exempt, shall pay an annual poll tax, for the use of said county, of two dollars, if paid between the first Monday of March and the first Monday of August, but if not paid prior to said first Monday of August, then three dollars. SEC. 2. To enforce the collection of poll tax as provided in Collection. this Act, the Collector of Poll Taxes in and for said county may seize so much of any and every species of personal property claimed by any person liable to and refusing or neglecting to pay his poll tax, or property in the possession of or due from any other person, and belonging to such person so refusing to pay such poll tax, as will be sufficient to pay such poll tax and costs, and shall and may sell the same at any time or place, upon giving verbal notice one hour or more previous to such sale. And any person indebted to another liable to pay poll tax, but who has refused or neglected to pay the same, shall be liable to pay said poll tax for such person after service upon him, by the Collector of Poll Taxes, of a notice in writing, identifying by name or otherwise the person or persons so liable and owing poll tax. And the Collector of Poll Taxes may resort to the same summary process in enforcing the collection thereof as is above provided, against the party primarily liable to pay the same. Such debtor may deduct the amount of such poll tax, with one dollar, (the fee of the Collector for serving the notice,) from the amount of indebtedness due such party. The Collector of Poll Taxes, after having deducted the poll tax for which Disposition such property was sold, and fees and costs on same as are allowed Constables for similar services, shall return the surplus proceeds, if any, to the owner of the property. A delivery of the possession of any property by said Collector to any purchaser at any such sale, shall be a sufficient title to the same, without execution of a certificate of purchase by said Collector. SEC. 3. The poll tax specified in this Act shall be collected of moneys. and paid into the County Treasury at the same time, in the same manner, and by the same officer, as poll taxes are now or may hereafter be authorized by law to be collected and paid. The money arising under the provisions of this Act, together with those arising under any and all Acts whatever applicable to the indigent sick, pauper sick, resident indigent sick, or other Hospital purposes, shall be set apart and constitute a County Pauper Sick Fund, and be applied to the payment in the order of their registry of warrants heretofore lawfully drawn on the Indigent Sick Fund of the county, and warrants that may hereafter be lawfully drawn upon the Pauper Sick Fund of said county. Receipts. Duties of officers. Powers of SEC. 4. The Auditor shall provide blank receipts for the poll tax herein provided, which shall be signed by the President of the Board of Supervisors, and delivered by the Clerk of said Board to the County Treasurer, taking his receipt therefor. The Treasurer shall then countersign such receipts, and from time to time deliver to the Collector of Poll Taxes a sufficient number, taking his receipt therefor. The Collector shall settle monthly, on the first Monday of each month, accounting for all receipts, and pay over all funds into the County Treasury, after deducting fifteen per cent collection fees. The Treasurer shall settle with the Auditor monthly, and account for all receipts received under the Act, in the same manner as required in other cases of collection and disbursement of revenue. SEC. 5. The Board of Supervisors shall provide for the care Supervisors of the pauper sick of said county, and they are authorized to make such contracts as they may deem advisable concerning the same, but no contract for a longer time than one year shall have any validity. No accounts, demands, or claims, whatsoever, against the "Pauper Sick Fund," shall be allowed unless the consideration upon which the same is based shall have been, previously to the time of rendering such consideration, duly authorized by order, and entered in the journal of the proceedings, or under a valid written contract so previously made, and filed with the Clerk of the Board. The Board shall not contract in any manner a greater liability for any one year than twenty-five hundred dollars, nor allow any demands, accounts, or claims, whatsoever, against said county, growing out of the care of the sick of said county, which, with other amounts previously allowed within the twelve months then last past, shall singly or in the aggregate amount to more than twenty-five hundred dollars. Acts repealed. SEC. 6. An Act to provide for the care of the indigent sick of Tehama County, and to levy a tax therefor, passed April tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and sections three and six of an Act to provide for the indigent sick of the counties of this State, passed March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and fifty. five, and all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed. SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. CCCXXI.-An Act to authorize and empower the Board of [Approved April 25, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of Alameda County Powers of shall have power to cause such improvements to be made, by Supervisors cribbing, dredging, and other necessary means, to the channel across the bar at the mouth of the San Antonio Creek, in the Bay of San Francisco, as they may deem necessary in order to render said channel navigable at all tides by vessels drawing four feet of water. per SEC. 2. The Board shall have power to authorize the imposition and collection of a charge, for any and all vessels passing through said channel, not exceeding one cent and a half ton, according to the register, and for a period not exceeding eight years. Said charge shall be applied as compensation for such improvements as may be made to the channel. for im SEC. 3. The Board shall advertise for sealed proposals for Proposals making such improvements, at least thirty days, in one weekly provements. newspaper published in the county, and also one week in a daily paper published in San Francisco; but no bids shall be entertained by the Board except such as are within the limits of compensation set forth in section two of this Act. SEC. 4. The Board may enter into a contract with the lowest Contracts. responsible bidder or bidders to make such improvements to said channel as are set forth in their advertisement, and may authorize such bidder or bidders, his or their assigns, to charge and collect, for all vessels passing through said channel, such sum as is prescribed in the contract; provided, however, that the free Proviso. navigation of San Antonio Creek, otherwise than through said channel, shall remain open as heretofore; provided, also, that the party or parties contracting to make such improvement shall not impose or collect any charges until their work has been formally accepted by the Board, and shall continue to keep the channel in as good condition as when so accepted during the time specified in the contract for collection of charges. SEC. 5. The party or parties making the successful bid shall Bonds of give such bonds as shall be satisfactory to the Board, for the contractors. faithful performance of the work within the time specified in the contract. SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Tax for roads, etc. Powers of Payment ments. CHAP. CCCXXII.-An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of [Approved April 25, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the County of Plumas are hereby authorized and empowered to levy a special tax, not to exceed the sum of thirty cents on each one hundred dollars of the taxable property in said county, for the purpose of constructing, maintaining roads and highways, or purchasing of toll roads and bridges in said county. Said tax shall be levied and collected in the same manner as other taxes are levied and collected in said county. SEC. 2. Said tax, when collected, shall be known as the "Special Franchise Fund." SEC. 3. Said Board of Supervisors are hereby authorized to contract with the lowest responsible bidder for the construction of any road or bridge by them deemed necessary, but they shall first give one month's notice, in some newspaper of general circulation in said county, setting forth the proposed improvement, and shall also post a like notice, at least one month prior to making said contracts, in three conspicuous places in said county. SEC. 4. Said Board of Supervisors are also hereby authorized to purchase and take for the use of said county any franchise now existing and outstanding in said county for any turnpike, toll road, or bridge, upon which toll is charged or received; and in case the said Board of Supervisors and the persons owning any such franchise cannot agree upon the price to be paid for such franchise, then the manner of arriving at the price so to be paid shall be the same as is now provided by law for the condemnation of land for railroad purposes. SEC. 5. Upon the completion of any improvements, or the for improve purchase of any franchise, as herein provided, the Board of Supervisors shall audit the account and claim arising thereupon, and the County Auditor shall draw his warrant for the amount upon the County Treasurer, payable out of said "Special Franchise Fund;" but no warrant shall be drawn for a greater sum than there shall be in said Fund, and should there not be sufficient money in said Fund to pay the full amount due, then the balance shall be paid out of said Fund, from time to time, as there shall be in the Treasury any money belonging to said Fund; provided, nothing in this section shall be so construed that shall prevent the Board of Supervisors from issuing bonds, drawing not to exceed ten per cent interest per annum, for the payment of any toll road franchise or bridge that may be purchased in accordance with the provisions of this Act. Proviso. Tells. SEC. 6. The Board of Supervisors shall have power, if they deem it necessary, to put toll gates on any road constructed or purchased, and collect tolls thereon; provided, that the rates of toll so charged shall not exceed a sufficient sum necessary to keep in repair such road. |