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within the city. The Police Judge shall have and exercise all the jurisdiction and powers of a Justice of the Peace, as to offenses committed within the city, and may administer all oaths known to the law. Said Court shall have such further powers and jurisdiction as is by statute conferred upon Recorders' Courts, and the proceedings therein shall be such as are provided by law for proceeding in Justices', Recorders', and Mayors' Courts. Whenever sentence of imprisonment is passed upon any offender, the Police Judge may include in such sentence that such offender shall be subject to labor, under the charge and in the custody of the Chief of Police. The Police Judge shall keep a record of his Duty of proceedings, receive and pay weekly into the treasury of the Police city all moneys collected by him, and render to the City Auditor weekly an exact and detailed account, under oath, of all fines imposed and moneys collected since his last account rendered. He shall not collect or receive for his own use any fee or perquisite for the discharge of the duties of his office, but all moneys collected by him shall be paid into the city treasury; and if he shall receive and appro- Misdepriate to his own use any fee or perquisite, as above referred meanor. to, or any funds belonging to the city, he shall be considered guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding twelve months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and shall be removed from office.

CHAP. CCCC.-An Act to set off the southwestern portion of Sutter Island, in Sacramento County, from Onisbo School District in said county, to Slough School District, in Solano County, for school purposes.

[Approved March 28, 1878.]

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

for school

SECTION 1. The southwestern portion of Sutter Island, Portion of in Sacramento County, is hereby set off from Onisbo School and set off District in said county, to Slough School District, in Solano purposes. County, for school purposes; which portion thus set off is described as follows: Commencing at a point on the east bank of Sutter Slough, where the north and south quarter section line of sections one, twelve, thirteen and twenty-four intersects said slough; thence south to Steamboat Slough; thence down the bank of Steamboat Slough to the mouth of Sutter Slough; thence up Sutter Slough to the place of beginning.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately.

Fees allowed to Consta

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CHAP. CCCCI.-An Act to regulate the fees of Constables in the
County of Calaveras.

[Approved March 28, 1878.]

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

SECTION 1. Such fees shall be allowed to the Constables of Calaveras County, for their services rendered in discharging the duties imposed on them by law, as herein provided.

SEC. 2. For serving an attachment on property, or levying an execution, an order of arrest, or order for the delivery of personal property, two dollars; for serving summons, or any other process by which an action is commenced, on each defendant, one dollar; for his trouble and expense in taking and keeping possession of and preserving property under an attachment, or execution, or other process, such sum as the Court shall order-provided, that no more than three dollars per diem shall be allowed to a keeper; for taking a bond or undertaking when authorized to take the same, one dollar; for copies of any writ, process, or other paper, when demanded or required by law, for each folio, twenty cents; for serving every notice, rule, or order, one dollar; for advertising property for sale, on execution, exclusive of the costs of publication, each notice, one dollar; for holding trial of right of property, to include all service except mileage, three dollars; for serving subpoena, for each witness summoned, fifty cents; for traveling to serve any summons or other process by which action is commenced, attachment on property, to levy an execution, to post notices of sale, to sell property under execution, to execute an order for the delivery of personal property, to hold an inquest or right of trial of property-provided, that if 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 point to complete such service-for each mile. necessarily traveled in going only, thirty cents per mile; for commissions for paying over money on execution after sale, five per cent.; for commissions for paying over money on execution, without levy and before sale, three per cent. The fees and commissions for levy of execution and percentage for making or collecting money on execution, shall be collected from the judgment debtor in the same manner as the judgment. For drawing and executing a deed for property sold under execution, to include the acknowledgment, three dollars, to be paid by the grantee; for making every arrest in a triminal proceeding, two dollars; for summoning a trial jury, two dollars; for every mile necessarily traveled in going only, in executing a warrant of arrest, subpoena, taking a prisoner before a Magistrate or to prison, and for mileage in all criminal cases, except in serving a venireprovided, that in serving subpoena, when two or more witnesses live in the same direction, but one mileage shall be charged-thirty cents per mile.

SEC. 3. For all other services the same fees as by law allowed to the Sheriff of Calaveras County.

SEC. 4. All Acts and parts of Acts, so far as they conflict with the provisions of the present Act, are hereby repealed. SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect and be in force on the first Monday of March, A. D. eighteen hundred and eighty.

CHAP. CCCCII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to re-incorporate the City of Marysville," approved March 7th, 1876.

[Approved March 28, 1878.].

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

shall not

SECTION 1. Section sixteen of an Act entitled "An Act to Council re-incorporate the City of Marysville," approved March 7th, contract 1876, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 16. debts. The Common Council of said city shall not contract any debts or liabilities by borrowing money, loaning the credit of the city, or otherwise, except for levee purposes, and which said indebtedness shall not at any time, either singly or in the aggregate, exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars, and neither the Mayor nor any member of the Common Council shall be interested in any contract to which the city is a party. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

CHAP. CCCCIII.-An Act to authorize the Board of Trustees of Scott's Valley School District, in the County of Siskiyou, to borrow money for the purpose of erecting a school house, furnishing the same, and improving the grounds upon which the same may be located.

[Approved March 28, 1878.]

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

to borrow

SECTION 1. For the purpose of erecting a school house, Trustees and furnishing the same with the necessary school furniture authorized and appliances, and improving the grounds upon which the money. same may be located, of Scott's Valley School District, in Siskiyou County, the Board of Trustees of said school district are hereby authorized to borrow money, not to exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars, in gold coin of the United States, at a rate of interest not to exceed eight per cent. per

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annum, payable annually on the first day of January of each year until paid, at the office of the Treasurer of Siskiyou County.

SEC. 2. Upon the payment into the county treasury of Siskiyou County of the amount of the loan, the Board of Trustees of Scott's Valley School District are hereby authorized to issue certificates of indebtedness, in the name of said district, for the amount so loaned, payable on or before the first day of January, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, at the rate of interest agreed upon, not to exceed eight per cent. per annum. Said certificates of indebtedness shall be signed by the Board of Trustees, or a majority of them, and be countersigned by the Superintendent of Common Schools of Siskiyou County, and shall be in sums not less than five hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars. Said certificates of indebtedness shall be a lien upon all property in said Scott's Valley School District until paid.

SEC. 3. For the purposes of paying the interest on the to be levied. debt contracted, as provided in this Act, and providing for payment of the principal, and the salary of the District Assessor and District Collector, as herinafter provided, the Board of Trustees of said Scott's Valley School District are hereby required, and it is made their duty, annually, in the month of May, to levy a special tax upon all the taxable property in said district to raise a sum sufficient to pay the interest on said certificates of indebtedness, and the principal of said certificates of indebtedness, and the salary of the District Assessor and District Collector, as hereinafter provided, as they respectively become due. Said special tax shall be assessed and collected as herein provided, and shall be paid into the county treasury, and by the County Treasurer set apart and constitute the "Scott's Valley School Certificates District Redemption and Interest Fund." The County ness; when Treasurer, out of this fund, shall, each and every year, on the first of January, pay the interest that has accrued, and pay the balance remaining due on each one of said certificates of indebtedness, as follows: The first one of said certificates of indebtedness shall be due and payable on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine; the second one of said certificates of indebtedness shall be due and payable on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty; the third one of said certificates of indebtedness shall be due and payable on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-one; the fourth one of said certificates of indebtedness shall be due and payable on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; the fifth one of said certificates of indebtedness shall be due and payable on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-three; the sixth one of said certificates of indebtedness shall be due and payable on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-four: the seventh one of said certificates of indebtedness shall be due and payable on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-five; the eighth one of said certificates of indebtedness shall be due and payable on the first day of January, eighteen hundred

and eighty-six; the ninth one of said certificates of indebtedness shall be due and payable on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven; the tenth one of said certificates of indebtedness shall be due and payable on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight; the eleventh one of said certificates of indebtedness shall be due and payable on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine; the twelfth one of said certificates of indebtedness shall be due and payable on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety; the thirteenth one of said certificates of indebtedness shall be due and payable on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninetyone; the fourteenth one of said certificates of indebtedness shall be due and payable on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-two; the fifteenth one of said certificate of indebtedness shall be due and payable on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-three; the sixteenth one of said certificates of indebtedness shall be due and payable on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-four; the seventeenth one of said certificates of indebtedness shall be due and payable on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-five; the eighteenth one of said certificates of indebtedness shall be due and payable on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-six; the nineteenth one of said certificates of indebtedness shall be due and payable on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven; the twentieth and last one of said certificates of indebtedness shall be due and payable on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.

officers.

SEC. 4. Within thirty days after the passage of this Act Election for the Board of Trustees of said Scott's Valley School District certain shall call a special election for the purpose of electing a District Assessor and a District Collector, which election shall be governed by the laws relating to elections. At least ten days' notice shall be given of such election, by posting notices in at least three public places in said district. The Term of officers elected at such special election shall hold their offices office. for the term of two years, when their successors shall be elected by the votes of said Scott's Valley School District. The Assessor shall give a bond for the faithful discharge of Bonds of his duties, in the sum of one thousand dollars, and shall officers. receive for his services such compensation as the Board of Trustees may allow, but not to exceed ten per cent. of the amount collected under the provisions of this Act, each year. The Collector shall give a bond for the faithful discharge of his duties in the sum of one thousand dollars. He shall receive for his services such compensation as the Board of Trustees may allow, but not to exceed ten per cent. of the amount collected under the provisions of this Act,. each year. Nothing in this Act shall prevent the same person acting both as Assessor and Collector. The officers shall be governed by the laws in force for the collection of State and county taxes. The Board of Trustees shall sit at least Board of five days as a Board of Equalization, after giving ten days' tion.

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