law, a tax of not exceeding fifty cents on each one hundred dollars in value, on all taxable property in the said city, for the purposes mentioned in section six; said tax to be levied at the same time that other city taxes are levied, except in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-eight it may be levied at any time previous to the second Monday of July. The levying of said tax shall cease as soon as the said land and buildings are paid for, or as soon as sufficient bonds have been sold to pay for the same. SEC. 8. After any of said bonds are sold, and until all bonds Levy tax for sold are redeemed, the said Council are hereby authorized, Building and and Interest it shall be their duty, in addition to the amount authorized in Fund. section seven, to levy annually, at the same time that other city taxes are levied, a tax on all the taxable property in the city, sufficient to pay the interest on all bonds not paid. Said tax, when collected, shall constitute a fund for the payment of the interest on said bonds, and shall be called the "Building Interest Fund;" and if any interest shall be due on said bonds, and there is no money in said fund to pay the same, the City Council shall order the Treasurer to transfer to said Building Interest Fund, from any or all other funds of said city except the School Fund, a sufficient sum to pay said interest. All moneys remaining in the Treasury belonging to the Building Interest Fund, after all interest has been paid, shall be applied to the redemption of bonds, as is provided hereafter; provided, that in the year Levy tax for eighteen hundred and sixty-eight they may, at any time before interest. the second Monday of July, levy a tax, as before provided for in this section, sufficient to pay the interest falling due upon said bonds on the second day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. Building Re SEC. 9. The City Council may, at their discretion, in each Levy tax for year until the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, levy a tax, demption as provided for in section seven, not to exceed in each year ten Fund. cents on each one hundred dollars in value, on all taxable property in said city. The said tax, when collected, shall constitute a fund, and shall be called the "Building Redemption Fund; and whenever there shall stand to the credit of that fund, upon the Treasurer's books, the sum of one thousand dollars or more, the City Council shall advertise in a newspaper published in the city, for the space of three weeks, for sealed proposals for the redemption of said bonds; and in one week from the expiration of the time of such publication the said Council shall open the sealed proposals, and shall pay the bonds offered at the lowest Redemption price, as far as the money in the said Building Redemption Fund of bonds. will extend; provided, that no bids shall be considered for more than par value of said bonds. Should there be no proposals made for par value or less, then the money in said fund shall be used for the redemption of said bonds, according to the number of their issue, of which the City Treasurer shall give notice in the manner mentioned heretofore in this section; and after four weeks from the date of said notice the bonds proposed to be redeemed shall cease to draw interest; and if any such bonds shall not be presented for redemption within three months from the date of such notice, the City Treasurer shall apply the money for the redemption of the bonds next in order of the Bonds cancelled. number of their issue, as heretofore directed; provided, that in the year eighteen hundred and eighty, the City Council are authorized and it shall be their duty to levy a tax, as provided in section seven, sufficient to pay one half of the bonds then outstanding and not paid. And in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two they shall also provide in the same manner for the payment of all bonds issued under this Act and at that time unpaid. SEC. 10. Whenever any bond shall have been paid, the City Treasurer shall mark the same 66 Cancelled," over his signature, and return the same to the Mayor, with the interest coupons which are not then due attached. SEC. 11. This Act shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage. First Judi divided. CHAPTER CCIV. An Act to create the Seventeenth Judicial District. [Approved March 19, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The First Judicial District of this State is hereby cial District divided and the Seventeenth Judicial District created. The Counties of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo shall remain and hereafter constitute the First Judicial District, of which the Judge thereof shall remain and be the Judge. The County of Los Angeles, San Bernardino and San Diego shall constitute the Seventeenth Judicial District, for which a District Judge shall be appointed and elected as hereinafter provided. Suits now Terms of Election of SEC. 2. Suits brought and matters pending in the District Court in the Counties of Los Angeles, San Bernardino and San Diego shall be heard and determined in the Seventeenth Judicial District, as if matters had been commenced in said district; and the process of the District Court of the Seventeenth Judicial District shall be as effectual for all such purposes as if the same were issued from the First Judicial District. SEC. 3. The terms of the District Court of the Seventeenth Judicial District, during each year, shall be commenced as follows: In the County of San Bernardino, on the first Tuesday of January and the third Tuesday of June and September of each year. In the County of Los Angeles, on the first Monday of February, May, August and November of each year. In the County of San Diego, on the first Monday of April and the second Monday of July and October of each year. SEC. 4. The terms of the District Court provided for in this Act shall continue until the time fixed for holding a term in another or the same county in the district, if the business of the Court shall require it. SEC. 5. At the special judicial election of the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, and every six years there after, a District Judge shall be elected for the Seventeenth Judicial District; and the Judge so elected shall enter upon the discharge of his duties on the first Monday of January after his election. pointed. SEC. 6. The Governor shall appoint, immediately after the Judge appassage of this Act, some suitable person as District Judge of the said Seventeenth Judicial District, who shall hold his office until the election and qualification of his successor, as provided in this Act. SEC. 7. The District Judge of the Seventeenth Judicial Dis- Salary. trict shall receive the sum of four thousand dollars per annum, payable in the same manner as the salaries of other District Judges of the State. CHAPTER CCV. An Act to authorize Cyrus Cheeny and assigns to build and maintain a wharf on the San Joaquin River, at Antioch. [Became a law by operation of the Constitution, March 20, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The privilege is hereby granted to Cyrus Cheeny Franchise. and his assigns to build and maintain a wharf on the San Joaquin River, at the Town of Antioch, for and during the period of fifteen years, from and after the date of the passage of this bill. SEC. 2. Said wharf shall be built at a point commencing Location. distant two hundred feet easterly of Galloway and Company's wharf, running thence easterly along the bank of the San Joaquin River six hundred feet; provided, that privileges in this Act granted shall not in any manner prejudice or interfere with rights of other persons which may have become vested before the passage of this Act. SEC. 3. The building of said wharf shall be commenced within Time of four months from and after the passage of this bill, and shall be building. completed within two years from that date. Said wharf shall not be less than sixty, nor more than one hundred feet in width, and shall be so constructed as not to interfere with the free navigation of the San Joaquin River. SEC. 4. The rates of wharfage and tolls to be collected on Tolls. said wharf shall be under the direction and control of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa. SEC. 5. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. 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 twentieth day of March, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. H. L. NICHOLS, Location. CHAPTER CCVI. An Act to authorize Antonio Giorgiani and Paul Torre, their associates and assigns, to maintain a wharf on lands in Alameda County. [Approved March 20, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Antonio Giorgiani and Paul Torre, their associates and assigns, are authorized to maintain and use that certain wharf heretofore constructed and now used by them, beginning at or near the mouth of the creek or slough in Alameda County, being located partly on Swamp Land Survey number sixty-eight, in Township Three south, Range Three west, of Mount Diablo meridian, and partly on Marsh and Tide Land Survey number eighty-two, in the same township and range; and the grantees Use of lands. are authorized to occupy and use, for the purpose of this franchise, a strip of any land belonging to the State, not exceeding three hundred feet in width, for the length of said wharf; provided, that nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect the vested rights of any other person in any of the lands upon which such wharf is constructed, or in the strip of land three hundred feet in width granted; to have and to hold the same for the term of twenty years; provided, that nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the free ingress or egress into and from said creek or slough. Toll. SEC. 2. The said grantees, their associates and assigns, shall have the right to charge and collect such rates of toll and wharfage on goods and merchandise, and for storage, as shall be allowed by the Board of Supervisors of Alameda County. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect immediately. Bonds. Redemption. CHAPTER CCVII. An Act to correct a clerical error in section two of an Act entitled an Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Colusa County to issue bonds for road purposes, approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. [Approved March 20, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section two of said Act shall read as follows: Section 2. Said bonds shall be made due and payable in gold coin, at the office of the Treasurer of said county, on the first day of January, A. D. eighteen hundred and eighty-nine; provided, that the Board of Supervisors shall have the power to redeem said bonds in the manner and at such time as shall be hereinafter provided. The interest on said bonds shall be due and payable in like gold coin, on the first day of January and Interest. July of each year, and shall be payable at the office of the County Treasurer of said county, or at the Bank of California, in the City of San Francisco, as shall be designated by the purchaser at the time the bonds shall issue. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER CCVIII. An Act concerning the Ancient Jewish Order of Kesher shel Barsel. The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Act applies. SECTION 1. All the rights, privileges and immunities granted Corporation by an Act entitled an Act to amend an Act relating to corporations, passed May eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, are hereby extended to and conferred upon the Ancient Jewish Order of Kesher shel Barsel, after said Order shall have assumed corporate powers. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER CCIX. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act concerning the assessing and collecting of revenue in the County of Yuba, approved April second, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. [Approved March 21, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section twenty-two of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 22. The County Treasurer shall be allowed and re- County ceive, for his services required by law as such County Treasurer, Treasurer. a salary of ten hundred dollars per annum, payable quarterly, out of the County Treasury, and shall also be allowed to retain, for his own use and benefit, from all State and county taxes collected by him, one and one half per cent. thereon, and no compensamore; and for all State and county licenses, including bridge tion." and ferry license, sold by him, the sum of fifty cents each, to be paid by the party procuring the license, in all cases; and no other or greater compensation or fees shall be allowed, charged, or received, or retained by him, for all or any services required |