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tions authorized.

CHAP. CCCLXX.-An Act to confer additional powers upon and to authorize certain appropriation of money by the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco.

[Approved March 26, 1878.]

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

SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco are hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate, allow, and order paid the several sums of money hereinafter mentioned, and to exercise the following powers, to wit:

First-To allow and order paid out of the General Fund to William Culligan the sum of eight hundred and fifty dollars for extra services rendered by him as Gardener of Alta, Hamilton, and Jefferson Squares, in making plans for and supervising the improvement of said squares.

Second-To allow and order paid out of the General Fund such amounts as may be necessary, not to exceed the sum of fifteen thousand ($15,000) dollars, to pay for the services of special police officers who have been employed for the protection of life, person, and property, on demands approved by the Board of Police Commissioners.

Third-To allow and order paid out of the General Fund the sum of thirty-five hundred dollars for a three-dial automatic repeater for the fire alarm and police telegraph, heretofore contracted for.

Fourth-To allow and order paid out of the Special Fee Fund to the Collector of Licenses a salary not to exceed three thousand ($3,000) dollars per annum.

Fifth-To allow and order paid out of the Special Fee Fund to the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors a salary not to exceed three thousand six hundred ($3,600) dollars per

annum.

Sixth-To appropriate a sum not to exceed eighty thousand ($80,000) dollars, annually, for running expenses, horse feed, repairs to apparatus, and for the construction and erection of cisterns and hydrants, and for the erection and repair of buildings, and other expenses of the Fire Department, in lieu of the amount now allowed.

Seventh-To appropriate, annually, a sum not to exceed thirty thousand ($30,000) dollars for the purchase of horses and apparatus for the Fire Department, in lieu of the amount now allowed.

Eighth-To appropriate annually a sum not to exceed ten thousand ($10,000) dollars for extending and repairing the fire alarm and police telegraph, in lieu of the amount now allowed.

Ninth-To grant to street railroad companies the right to use steam to propel cars over such roads, or parts of roads, in the suburbs of the city and county, as in the discretion of the Board may be proper and for the public convenience, under such restrictions as contained in those portions of the

ized.

Civil Code applicable to street railroads; provided, that such Appropriaprivileges shall only be granted to roads operated west of the tins authoreast line of Larkin Street and west of the east line of Ninth Street.

Tenth-To provide for placing all moneys received and paid into the treasury for articles manufactured at, or produce sold from the Industrial School, House of Correction, Hospital, and Alms-house, to the credit of their respective funds, to be used solely for the purposes of those institutions.

Eleventh-To allow and order paid out of the General Fund Dr. Charles Black, City Physician, the sum of fifty dollars per month for extra services rendered in attending and prescribing for prisoners and indigent persons from August, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, as heretofore allowed. The salary of the Superintendent of said fire alarm and police telegraph shall be fixed and determined by the Board of Supervisors of said City and County of San Francisco.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

CHAP. CCCLXXI.-An Act to repeal an Act entitled an Act to protect agriculture in the County of El Dorado, approved March 20, 1876.

[Approved March 26, 1878.]

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

SECTION 1. An Act to protect agriculture in the County Repeal. of El Dorado, approved March (20) twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, is hereby repealed.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage.

CHAP. CCCLXXII.-An Act to provide compensation for the
Township Assessor of the Township of Oakland, County of
Alameda.

[Approved March 26, 1878.]

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

SECTION 1. The Township Assessor of the Township of Salary of Oakland, in addition to the percentage allowed by law for Assessor. collecting poll and personal property taxes, shall receive a salary of eighteen hundred ($1,800) dollars per annum, payable out of the County Salary Fund of said county, in the mode provided for paying the salary of the Sheriff of said county. He shall also be allowed such temporary assistants Assistants as is provided by law; provided, said Assessor shall keep his allowed.

office open during all office hours of the year, and keeps promptly and properly entered [in] his books all transfers of real estate in the Township of Oakland.

SEC. 2. Sections five of an Act entitled an Act to abolish the office of County Assessor in the County of Alameda, and to create Township Assessors therein, approved February 10th, 1874, in so far as it conflicts with provisions of this Act, is hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Appropria

tion authorized.

CHAP. CCCLXXIII.-An Act for the relief of John Q. Hendrichs, Charles Carroll, and R. D. Hubbard.

[Approved March 26, 1878.]

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

SECTION 1. The sum of three hundred dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the General Fund of the State treasury, to pay the claims of John Q. Hendrichs, Charles Carroll, and R. D. Hubbard, for services rendered in the arrest and capture of Joseph Blanchard, who was concerned with William Barber in highway robbery, in the County of Siskiyou. The said Barber having been convicted of the crime, but Blanchard dying before conviction, the reward for the capture of Blanchard could not be audited by the Board of Examiners; provided, that the Board of Examiners are expressly prohibited from allowing said claim until satisfactory evidence shall be filed with them that the said Blanchard committed the crime mentioned in this section.

SEC. 2. The Controller of State is hereby directed to draw his warrant for said sum, and the State Treasurer to pay the

same.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect immediately.

Board of
Health.

CHAP. CCCLXXIV.-An Act to establish a Board of Health for the County of Tulare.

[Approved March 26, 1878.]

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

SECTION 1. There shall be a Board of Health in and for the County of Tulare, consisting of three practising physicians who are graduates of some medical college in good standing, two of whom, at least, shall be residents of the

City of Visalia; and said Board shall serve without compensation.

to appoint

SEC. 2. The Board of Supervisors of the County of Tulare, Supervisors at their next regular meeting in May, 1878, shall appoint a Board of Board of Health for said county, one of whom shall hold Health. office for the term of one year thereafter, and one for two years, and the other for three years, to be designated by said Board of Supervisors; and annually thereafter, at their regular meeting in May, said Board of Supervisors shall appoint a member of said Board of Health, who shall hold office for the term of three years; and all vacancies shall be filled by said Board of Supervisors by appointment.

SEC. 3. The Board of Health shall have general super- Supervision vision of all matters appertaining to the sanitary condition of Board. of said county, and full powers are hereby given to said Board to adopt such measures and make such orders and regulations as at any time, in their opinion, the public safety may require, and not in contravention of any law. They shall have power to declare any place where they shall have reason to believe a pestilential, contagious, or infectious disease is probably prevailing to an alarming extent to be an infected place, and to fix the period for so considering such place, notice of which shall be given by posting notices or by publication, as said Board shall deem proper.

expenses;

SEC. 4. All the necessary expenses incurred by said Board Printing of Health for printing, stationery, etc., shall be allowed by how paid. the Board of Supervisors and ordered paid out of the General Fund of said county.

SEC. 5. The Board of Health may appoint a Clerk, who Clerk shall receive a reasonable compensation for his services, not appointed. exceeding two hundred dollars per annum, to be fixed and allowed by the Board of Supervisors and payable out of the General Fund of said county.

SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect immediately.

CHAP. CCCLXXV.-An Act to regulate the traveling fees of the Sheriffs of the Counties of Kern and Tulare, and to repeal certain Acts therein mentioned.

[Approved March 26, 1878.]

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

lawful.

SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for the Sheriffs of the Coun- Sheriff's fees ties of Kern and Tulare to charge the traveling fees provided declared for in section nine of "An Act to regulate fees of office and salaries of certain officers, and to repeal certain other Acts in relation thereto," approved March the fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy.

SEC. 2. "An Act to regulate the traveling fees of the Sher- Repeal. iff of the County of Kern, approved February 21st, 1872,"

and "An Act to make applicable to the County of Tulare" an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the traveling fees of the Sheriff of the County of Kern," approved February twentyfirst, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, approved January 30th, 1874, and "An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the traveling fees of the Sheriff of the County of Kern," approved February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, approved February 10th, 1876, and all other Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions. of this Act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect immediately.

Bridge tax.

How collected.

Powers conferred on Board.

CHAP. CCCLXXVI.-An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Amador County to levy a special tax for bridge purposes in Township No. One.

[Approved March 26, 1878.]

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

SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the County of Amador must, at the time of levying taxes for State and county purposes in the year 1878, levy a special tax in Township Number One, in said county, not to exceed fifteen (15) cents on each one hundred dollars ($100) of taxable property for the purpose of building a bridge across the middle fork of Jackson Creek, in the Town of Jackson.

SEC. 2. Said tax shall be collected in the same manner and by the same officer as other county taxes, and when collected shall be paid into the Road Fund of Road District Number One in said township.

SEC. 3. The Board of Supervisors are hereby authorized to contract for the building of said bridge, and to pay for the same out of any moneys that may be in said Road Fund. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect immediately.

Appropriation authorized.

CHAP. CCCLXXVII.-An Act to pay the claim of Hiram Clock.
[Became a law by virtue of Section 17, Article IV. of the Constitution, March 27,1878.]
The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The sum of one hundred and twenty dollars is hereby appropriated out of the General Fund in the State treasury, of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, to pay the claim of Hiram Clock for services rendered the State as Messenger and Porter in the office of the Reclamation Fund. Commissioners, in the year 1873 and 1874, at the monthly rate of twelve dollars per month.

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