Board of Education; to attend the sessions of the Board, and inform them at each session of the condition of the Public Schools, school houses, School Funds, and other matters connected therewith, and to recommend such measures as he may deem necessary for the advancement of education in the city and county. He shall acquaint himself with all the laws, rules, and regulations governing the Public Schools in the said city and county, and the judicial decisions thereon, and give advice on subjects connected with the Public Schools gratuitously, to officers, Teachers, pupils, and their parents and Guardians.

SEC. 13. Any vacancy in the office of School Director shall be filled by appointment by the Superintendent, by and with the consent of a majority of the School Directors then in office; and such appointees shall hold office, respectively, until the municipal election next ensuing, and the election and qualification of their successors in office. But no such appoinment shall be valid, unless the appointee be at the time of his appointment an elector of the district wherein the vacancy occurred.

SEC. 14. In case of a vacancy in the office of Superintendent, the Board of Education may appoint a person to fill the vacancy until the regular election then next following, when the office shall be filled by election of the people.

OF THE SCHOOL FUnd.

SEC. 15. The School Fund of the City and County of San School Fund. Francisco shall consist of all moneys received from the State School Fund; of all moneys arising from taxes which shall be levied annually by the Board of Supervisors of said city and county for school purposes; of all moneys arising from the sale, rent, or exchange of any school property; and of such other moneys as may, from any source whatever, be paid into said School Fund; which Fund shall be kept separate and distinct from all other moneys, and shall only be used for school purposes under the provisions of this Act, and for the payment of the interest and redemption of the principal of the school bonds, according to law. No fees or commissions shall be allowed or paid for assessing, collecting, keeping, or disbursing any school moneys; and if, at the end of any fiscal year, any surplus remains in the School Fund, such surplus money shall be carried forward to the School Fund of the next fiscal year, and shall not be, for any purpose whatever, diverted or withdrawn from said Fund, except under the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 16. The said School Fund shall be used and applied by Application said Board of Education for the following purposes, to wit:

First-For the payment of the salaries or wages of Teachers, Janitors, School Census Marshals, and other persons who may be employed by the said Board.

Second-For the erection, alteration, repair, rent, and furnishing of school houses.

Third-For the expenses of Model and Normal Schools.
Fourth-For the purchase money or rent of any real or per-
sonal property purchased or leased by said Board.
Fifth-For the insurance of all school property.

and use of.

Claims.

Audited bills receivable for School taxes.

Claims.

Proviso.

Teachers

exempt.

Sixth-For the payment of interest due on school bonds, and for the redemption of the same.

Seventh-For the discharge of all legal incumbrances now existing on any school property.

Eighth-For lighting school rooms and the office and rooms of the Superintendent and the Board of Education.

Ninth-For supplying the schools with fuel, water, apparatus, blanks, blank books, and necessary school appliances, together with books for indigent children.

Tenth-For supplying books, printing, and stationery for the use of the Superintendent and Board of Education, and for the incidental expenses of the Board and Department.

Eleventh-For the payment of the salary of the Secretary of the Board of Education.

Twelfth-For grading, fencing, and improving school lots, and for grading, sewering, planking, or paving, and repairing streets, and constructing and repairing sidewalks in front thereof.

SEC. 17. All claims payable out of the School Fund (excepting the coupons for interest and the School Bonds) shall be filed with the Secretary of the Board, and after they shall have been approved by a majority of all the members elect of the Board, upon a call of yeas and nays (which shall be recorded) they shall be signed by the President of the Board and the Superintendent of Public Schools, and be sent to the City and County Auditor. Every demand shall have indorsed upon it a certificate of its approval by the Board, showing the date thereof and the law authorizing the same by title, date and section. All demands for Teachers' salaries shall be payable monthly.

SEC. 18. Demands on the School Fund may be audited and approved in the usual manner, although there shall not at the time be money in the Treasury for the payment of the same. provided, that no demand on said Fund shall be paid out of or become a charge against the School Fund of any subsequent fiscal year; and, further, provided, that the entire expenditures of the said School Department for all purposes shall not in any fiscal year exceed the revenues thereof for the same year.

SEC. 19. The City and County Auditor shall state, by indorsement upon every claim or demand audited on the School Fund, the particular money or Fund out of which the same is payable, and that it is payable from no other source.

or

SEC. 20. Audited bills of the current fiscal year for wages salaries of the Teachers in the Public Schools shall be receivable for school taxes due upon real estate.

SEC. 21. All demands authorized by this Act shall be audited and approved in the usual manner, and the Auditor and Treasurer of said city and county are respectively authorized and required to audit and pay the same when so ordered paid and approved by the said Board; provided, that the said Board shall not have power to contract any debt or liability in any form whatsoever against the said city and county in contravention of this Act.

SEC. 22. The Teachers in the Industrial School in said city and county, shall be exempt from the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 23. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and all laws and parts of laws, so far as they

are inconsistent with or a repetition of the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed.

CHAP. CCCXCIX.-An Act providing for the Time of holding the several Courts of Record in this State.

[Approved April 27, 1863.]

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

TERMS OF THE DISTRICT COURTS.

SECTION 1. There shall be held, in the counties composing First. the First Judicial District, terms of the District Court as follows:

In the County of San Diego, on the third Monday of January, May, and September.

In the County of San Bernardino, on the first Monday of Jahuary, May, and September.

In the County of Los Angeles, on the first Monday of April, July, and October.

In the County of Santa Barbara, on the first Monday of March, February, and second Monday of June.

In the County of San Luis Obispo, on the second Monday of February, March, and third Monday of June.

SEC. 2. There shall be held, in the counties composing the Third.

Third Judicial District, terms of said Court as follows:

In the County of Monterey, on the second Monday of April, August, and December.

In the county of Santa Cruz, on the fourth Monday of April, August, and December.

In the County of Santa Clara, on the second Monday of January, May, and September.

In the County of Alameda, on the second Monday of Febru ary, June, and October.

In the County of Contra Costa, on the second Monday of March, June, and November.

SEC. 3. There shall be held, in the Twelfth Judicial District, Twelfth. terms of said Court as follows:

In the City and County of San Francisco, on the first Monday

of January, March, May, July, September, and November.

In the County of San Mateo, on the third Monday of April,

August, and December.

SEC. 4. There shall be held, in the Fourth Judicial District, Fourth. terms of said Court as follows:

On the first Monday of February, April, June, August, Octo

ber, and December.

SEC. 5. There shall be held, in the Thirteenth Judicial Dis- Thirteenth. trict, terms of said Court as follows:

In the County of Tulare, on the fourth Monday of February, June, and October.

Fifth.

Seventh.

Eleventh.

Sixth.

Fourteenth.

Tenth.

In the County of Fresno, on the third Monday of February, June, and October.

In the County of Mariposa, on the second Monday of March, July, and November.

In the County of Merced, on the third Monday of January, May, and September.

In the County of Stanislaus, on the first Monday of February, June, and October.

SEC. 6. There shall be held, in the Fifth Judicial District, terms of said Court as follows:

In the County of San Joaquin, on the first Monday of April, August, and December.

In the County of Tuolumne, on the first Monday of March, July, and November.

In the County of Mono, on the first Monday of May and September.

SEC. 7. There shall be held, in the Seventh Judicial District, terms of said Court as follows:

In the County of Marin, on the first Monday of March, July, and November.

In the County of Sonoma, on the third Monday of February, June, and October.

In the County of Mendocino, on the third Monday of March, July, and November.

In the County of Napa, on the first Monday of February, June, and October.

In the County of Solano, on the third Monday of January, May, and September.

In the County of Lake, on the fourth Monday of November and March.

SEC. 8. There shall be held, in the Eleventh Judicial District, terms of said Court as follows:

In the County of Calaveras, on the second Monday of January, April, July, and October.

In the County of Amador, on the second Monday of March, June, September, and December.

In the County of El Dorado, on the second Monday of Febru ary and May, and third Monday of August and November. SEC. 9. There shall be held, in the Sixth Judicial District, terms of said Court as follows:

In the County of Sacramento, on the first Monday of February, April, June, August, October, and December.

In the County of Yolo, on the third Monday of March, July

and November.

SEC. 10. There shall be held, in the Fourteenth Judicial District, terms of said Court as follows:

In the County of Placer, on the third Monday of January, April, July, and October.

In the County of Nevada, on the third Monday of February, May, August, and November.

SEC. 11. There shall be held, in the Tenth Judicial District, terms of said Court as follows:

In the County of Yuba, on the third Monday of January, April, July, and October.

In the County of Sutter, on the second Monday of February, June, and October.

In the County of Colusa, on the second Monday of January, and first Monday of April, and September.

In the County of Sierra, on the second Monday of March, May, August, and November.

SEC. 12. There shall be held, in the Second Judicial District, Second. terms of said Court as follows:

In the County of Tehama, on the second Monday of February, May, August, and November.

In the County of Butte, on the second Monday of March, June, September, and December.

In the County of Plumas, on the second Monday of April, July,

and October.

Sc. 13. There shall be held, in the Ninth Judicial District, Ninth. terms of said Court as follows:

In the County of Shasta, on the second Monday of March, June, and November.

In the County of Trinity, on the second Monday of April, August, and December.

In the County of Siskiyou, on the third Monday of January, May, and September.

SEC. 14. There shall be held, in the Eighth Judicial District, Eighth. terms of said Court as follows:

In the County of Humboldt, on the second Monday of March, June, September, and December.

In the County of Klamath, on the second Monday of April, July, and October.

In the County of Del Norte, on the second Monday of May, August, and November.

TERMS OF THE COUNTY COURTS AND PROBATE COURTS.

SEC. 15. There shall be held, in the several counties of this Terms of State, terms of the County Courts, commencing on the first Mon- Courts. County day of January, March, May, July, September, and November, in each year; provided, that in the County of Tuolumne the terms of the County Court shall be held as now provided by law; provided, further, that in the County of Placer the terms of the County Court shall be commenced on the first Monday of March, June, September, and December, of each year.

SEC. 16. The terms of the Probate Courts shall be held at Probate the same time as the terms of the County Courts; provided, that Courts. (except in the City and County of San Francisco,) the County Court shall take precedence; but when the business of said Court is disposed of for the day, business in the Probate Court. may be taken up.

SEC. 17. This Act shall take effect on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

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