list. the same, specifying the number of front feet in each lot so charged, and the rate per front foot that each lot has been assessed, and shall carry out the full amount to be charged against each separate lot, or parcel of land, into a separate column, and the total shall be added up at the foot thereof. Said list shall be completed and delivered to the Board within twenty days, unless the Board shall, by order, grant Approval of further time. When the said list shall have been approved by the Board, they shall cause the same to be delivered to the Collector of the town. When the work so ordered shall have been completed and accepted by the Board of Trustees, they shall direct the Collector to proceed and collect the sevPublication eral amounts so assessed. The Collector shall thereupon assessment give notice to parties interested, by two weeks' publication in some newspaper printed in said town, stating that said. assessment is due, and requiring the same to be paid within thirty days from the first publication of said notice. Upon the completion of the thirty days he shall declare the assessCollection of ment unpaid to be delinquent. He shall then proceed, after dent having given notice as required by law in the collection of and costs. State and county taxes upon real property, to collect the due. delinquent assessments Election of various amounts so delinquent, including the percentage aforesaid, the costs of advertising, and such other costs as are allowed by law in the collection of State and county taxes, from the sale of the property, or so much thereof as may be necessary, which sales he is hereby authorized to make. In all things concerning such sales, the execution of certificates and deeds, the said Collector shall be governed by, and as nearly as practicable conform to, the same rules and directions as are contained in the laws now in force, or which may be, from time to time, in the County of Tehama, providing for the sale of real property for the collection of delinquent State and county taxes, the same powers being hereby conferred on said Collector as are or may be given to Tax Collector of said county in cases of sales of real property for the collection of delinquent State and county taxes. SEC. 23. Section four of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 4. The election of Trustees shall take place on the first Monday of June of each year. The Trustees shall be elected from and by the qualified electors of said town, and the term of office of each Trustee shall be three years, from and after the second Monday of June succeeding his election, and all persons so elected shall hold office until their successors are elected and qualified. The two Trustees whose terms of office would, under the Act of which this is amendatory, expire on the first Monday of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, are hereby continued in office until the second Monday of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and their successors shall be elected on the first Monday of June, eighteen hundred and seventyeight. The two Trustees of said town, whose terms of office would, under said Act, expire on the first Monday of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, are hereby continued in office until the second Monday of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and their successors shall be elected on the first Monday of June, eighteen hundred and seventynine. The Trustee of said town, whose term of office would, under said Act, expire on the first Monday of March, eighteen hundred and eighty, is hereby continued in office until the second Monday of June, eighteen hundred and eighty, and his successor shall be elected on the first Monday of June, eighteen hundred and eighty. In case any vacancy shall occur in said Board of Trustees, the same shall be filled by a vote of the majority of the remaining members of the Board until the next election for Trustees, when the office shall be filled for the unexpired term in the same manner as were elected the Trustees whose term of office is about to expire. All elections under this Act shall be conducted in accordance with the general election laws of this State. SEC. 24. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CVIII.-An Act to legalize the assessment and levy of taxes in the County of Santa Cruz. [Approved February 28, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: levy taxes legal SECTION 1. The assessment and levy of taxes upon all Assessment real and personal property in the County of Santa Cruz, any of for State, county, or other purposes, made for the fiscalized. year eighteen hundred and seventy-six-seven and eighteen hundred and seventy-seven-eight, and all proceedings had thereon, and the original assessment books, and the duplicate assessment books of such taxes for said fiscal years, and the publication of the notice of sale of property for delinquent taxes for the year eighteen hundred and seventyseven-eight, given by the Tax Collector of said county, are hereby legalized, confirmed, and rendered valid and binding both in law and equity; and in all actions to recover taxes for said years the said books and all proceedings in the assessment and levy of said taxes, or for the collection of the same, shall have the same force and effect as if originally made or had in full compliance with law, notwithstanding any defects there may be in such assessments, levies, books, notice, or proceedings had for the collection of said taxes. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. Time of going into CHAP. CIX.-An Act amending an Act entitled an Act to regulate fees of office and salaries of officers in the County of San Diego, approved March thirty-first, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-six, in relation to the County Assessor. [Approved March 1, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. It is hereby provided that section seventeen effect fixed. of an Act entitled an Act to regulate fees of office and salaries of officers in the County of San Diego, approved March thirty-first, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-six, shall not go into effect until noon of the first Monday in March, A. D. eighteen hundred and eighty, but from and after that day it shall be in full force and effect; provided, however, that the Assessor is hereby authorized and empowered to and compen- appoint as many deputies as the Board of Supervisors may deem necessary. Said deputies shall receive such compensation, not to exceed five dollars per day, as the Board of Supervisors may allow. Deputies appointed, sation. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CX.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act fixing the salaries and compensations of certain officers of San Luis Obispo County, approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. [Approved March 1, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section eight of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 8. This Act shall take effect, as to all officers mentioned herein except the County Judge, on the first Monday of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and as to the County Judge it shall take effect on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its pas sage. CHAP. CXI.-An Act to regulate fees of office and salaries of [Approved March 1, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SHERIFF. SECTION 1. In the County of Sonoma, the Sheriff shall be Fees of allowed to charge and receive in advance, in gold and silver Sheriff. coin of the United States, the fees hereinafter specified, seventy-five per cent. of which he shall keep for his own use and benefit, and twenty-five per cent. must be paid into the General Fund of the county treasury for county purposes, except commissions received by him on collection of taxes as Tax Collector, and the allowance to a deputy as Jailer; also, the commissions on collection of poll tax, and commissions and fees on sales of business licenses: For serving a summons and complaint, or any other process by which an action or proceeding is commenced, on each defendant, one dollar; for serving an attachment on property, or levying an execution, or executing an order of arrest, or order for the delivery of personal property, one dollar and twenty-five cents; for serving an attachment upon any ship, boat, or vessel, in proceedings to enforce any lien thereon created by law, one dollar and twenty-five cents; for his trouble and expense in taking and keeping possession of and preserving property under attachment or execution, or other process, as the Court shall order, provided, that no more than three dollars per diem shall be allowed to a keeper, three dollars; for taking bond or undertaking in any case in which he is authorized to take the same, forty cents; for copy of any writ, process, or other paper, when demanded or required by law, for each folio, fifteen cents; for serving every notice, rule, or order, forty cents; for advertising property for sale on execution, or under any judgment or order of sale, exclusive of the cost of publication, each notice, one dollar; for serving a writ of possession or restitution, putting a person in possession of premises and removing the occupant, three dollars; for holding each inquest, or trial of right of property, to include all services in the matter except mileage, three dollars; for serving a subpoena, for each witness summoned, forty cents; for traveling, to be computed in all cases from the Court-house, to serve any summons and complaint, or any other process by which an action or proceeding is commenced, notice, rule, order, subpœna, attachment on property, to levy an execution, to post notices of sale, to sell property under execution or other order of sale, to execute an order for the delivery of personal property, writ of possession or restitution, to hold inquest or trial of right of property, or in executing a writ of habeas corpus-provided, Fees of that if any two or more papers be required to be served in the same suit, at the same time, and in the same direction, one mileage only shall be charged to the most distant points to complete such service-for each mile necessarily traveled, in going only, thirty cents; for commissions for receiving and paying over money on execution or other process, when the lands or personal property has been levied on and sold, on the first one thousand dollars, two per cent.; on all sums above that amount, one per cent.; for commissions for receiving and paying over money on execution without levy, or when the lands or goods levied on shall not be sold, on the first one thousand dollars, one and one-half per cent., and one per cent. on all over that sum. The fees herein allowed for the levy of an execution, costs for advertising, and percentage for making or collecting the money on execution, shall be collected from the judgment debtor, by virtue of such execution, in the same manner as the same therein directed to be made. For drawing and executing a Sheriff's deed, to include the acknowledgment, to be paid by the grantee before delivery, three dollars and fifty cents; for executing a certificate of sale, exclusive of the filing and recording of the same, one dollar; for attending, when required, on any Court (except Justices' Courts), in person or by deputy, for each day, to be paid out of the county treasury three dollars; for making every arrest in a criminal proceeding, one dollar and fifty cents; for summoning a grand jury of twenty-four men, eight dollars; for summoning a trial jury of twelve men, or less, four dollars; for summoning each additional juror, twenty-five cents; for executing every sentence of death, twenty dollars; for all civil services arising in Justices' Courts, the same fees as are allowed in County and District Courts; for every mile necessarily traveled in executing any warrant of arrest, subpoena, or venire, bringing up a prisoner on habeas corpus, taking prisoners before a Magistrate or to prison, or for mileage in any criminal case or proceeding-provided, that in serving a subpoena or venire, when two or more jurors or witnesses live in the same direction but one mileage shall be charged-forty cents, in going only; for conveying a prisoner when under arrest, the necessary expense incurred in the transportation; for every business license sold, one dollar, one-half of which must be paid to the County Auditor. The Sheriff shall be allowed a deputy as Jailer, who must be paid the sum of fifty dollars per month out of the County General Fund. SEC. 2. From all claims and demands against the county for services rendered by said Sheriff for said county, which are made by law a county charge, presented to the Board of Supervisors for allowance, the Board after finding the same correct and fixing the amount thereof must, by order duly entered, deduct twenty-five per cent. from the gross amount thereof, and order a warrant for the residue only (except the allowance to the Jailer). |