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Fund of said city and county, upon the order of the Board of
Supervisors, for the work contemplated by this Act.

SEC. 4. This Act shall be in force from and after its pas

sage.

CHAP. L.-An Act to ratify and confirm an ordinance of the City of Oakland entitled "An Ordinance abandoning certain streets in East Oakland," approved May twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six.

[Approved February 6, 1878.]

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

SECTION 1. An ordinance of the City of Oakland, in the ordinance
County of Alameda, entitled "An Ordinance abandoning ratified.
certain streets in East Oakland," approved May twentieth,
eighteen hundred and seventy-six, is hereby, in all things,
ratified and confirmed, and all claims for any right of way,
or other interest which the public may have in or to the
streets designated in said ordinance, are hereby abandoned
and relinquished.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately.

CHAP. LI.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.]

CHAP. LII.—An Act to empower the Board of Supervisors of Mendocino County to sell certain road and bridge bonds, and to apply the proceeds thereof.

[Approved February 8, 1878.]

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

sell certain

SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of Mendocino Board emCounty are hereby empowered to sell the remainder of the powered to Mendocino County special road and bridge bonds, authorized bonds. to be issued by an Act of the Legislature entitled an Act to provide for the purchase and erection of certain bridges, and for the building and improvement of certain roads in the County of Mendocino, approved March twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, under and in accordance with the provisions of said Act, and to apply the proceeds thereof, Proceeds of together with the unappropriated proceeds of such bonds sale.

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heretofore sold, to the purchase of the toll bridge spanning Big River, on the route of the public highway leading along and near the coast of the Pacific Ocean, in said Mendocino County, and to its repairs and improvement.

SEC. 2. The sum to be paid for said bridge shall be determined by disinterested persons, to be selected as follows: At the first regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors of Mendocino County, after the passage of this Act, said Board of Supervisors shall select one, and within thirty days thereafter the Big River Bridge Company shall select another person, to appraise and value said bridge, and all the interest and property of the Big River Bridge Company appurtenant thereto, and if the persons so selected fail and cannot agree, the two shall select a third, and the three shall proceed to value said property and report the same to the Board of Supervisors of Mendocino County. If said Big River Bridge Company does not name a person to act as one of such appraisers within thirty days after the Board of Supervisors shall have appointed one, then said Board shall appoint three suitable and disinterested persons to appraise and report the value of said property to said Board.

SEC. 3. The Board of Supervisors of Mendocino County are authorized to pay to said Big River Bridge Company the value of said bridge and property, as found by said appraisers, and if said Big River Bridge Company refuses to Erection of accept such sum then said Board of Supervisors may erect a new bridge across said Big River, adjacent to or near the site of said bridge, at a cost not to exceed four thousand dollars, and pay therefor out of the proceeds of the sale of said bonds as aforesaid; provided, no more bonds shall be issued or disposed of than was provided for in the Act heretofore referred to.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage.

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CHAP. LIII.-An Act declaring Sonoma River, in Sonoma
County, navigable.

[Approved February 11, 1878.]

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

SECTION 1. Sonoma River, in Sonoma County, State of navigable. California, is hereby declared only navigable from its mouth to a point three hundred yards along the bank of the said river south of the residence of Captain John Stofen.

SEC. 2. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

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

CHAP. LIV.-An Act concerning special elections.,
[Approved February 9, 1878.]

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

to be

SECTION 1. At any special election to be held in any Ward regiscounty, except in the City and County of San Francisco, test copies of the Great Register of such county, and in the City and County of San Francisco copies of the ward registers of said city and county, which were printed before and used at the next preceding general election, shall be used.

Supervisors

SEC. 2. Before the day on which said special election is Board of appointed to be held, the Board of Supervisors of the county, to furnish except the City and County of San Francisco, must furnish registers. the Board of Election of each precinct in the county at least one copy of the aforesaid printed Great Register; and the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco must furnish the Board of Election of each precinct in the county at least one copy of the ward register of the ward in which the precinct is located. If the Board cannot otherwise obtain a sufficient number of copies of the register for the purpose, it must take the copies filed in the office of the County Clerk, in pursuance of section twelve hundred and sixty-eight of the Political Code.

to be used.

SEC. 3. If the copy of the register which shall be fur- Letter “V" nished to any precinct shall have been used at a previous election, the letter "V" may be used instead of the word "Voted," as required by section twelve hundred and twentyeight of the Political Code.

SEC. 4. It shall not be the duty of the Board of Election to post copies of the Great Register, as required by section eleven hundred and forty-nine of the Political Code.

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SEC. 5. The voter, when he offers his ballot at a polling Voter not place, shall not be required to announce his number on the required to Great Register, as provided for in section twelve hundred ber. and twenty-five of the Political Code.

SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect immediately.

CHAP. LV.-An Act to confer additional powers upon the Board
of Levee Commissioners of the City of Sacramento.
[Approved February 12, 1878.]

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

ment of

SECTION 1. The sole and exclusive charge, care, custody, Manage control, and management of the Sacramento Drainage Canal, levees, to in Sacramento County, and of the levees along the east bank whom given.

Power of
Board.

of the Sacramento River, in Sacramento County, extending from Sacramento City to Freeport, in Sacramento County, is hereby given to J. D. Lord, H. C. Kirk, John McNeill, George H. Swinerton, John Q. Brown, Christopher Green, William F. Knox, and James McCleery, and their successors in office; and said Lord, Kirk, McNeill, Swinerton, Brown, Green, Knox, and McCleery are hereby declared to be the Board of Levee Commissioners of the City of Sacramento, with full power and authority to clear out, clean, enlarge, repair, or construct the same, or each or any or every part thereof, at such place or places as to said Board may seem best or advisable, and with full power to take dirt for the repair, enlargement, or construction of said levees from the most convenient or proper place, and with full power to construct, maintain, and repair any and all cross levees at such place or places as to the said Board may seem advisable, either in Sacramento City or from the Sacramento River to the high land lying east therefrom, and to take dirt therefor from the most convenient or proper place, and with full power to enter upon any or all land or lands, premises, or inclosures for the purposes aforesaid.

SEC. 2. Said Board is hereby empowered to expend yearly upon the work, or any of it, mentioned in section one of this Act, such sum or sums as to the said Board may seem best, and the same shall be a legal and proper charge against the City of Sacramento, and shall be included in the annual estimate for levee purposes required to be made by said Board, and shall be paid in like manner as other expenditures by said Board are paid.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage, and all Acts or parts of Acts, so far as they conflict with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed.

CHAP. LVI.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.]

Certain acts

ings ratified.

CHAP. LVII.-An Act to ratify certain acts and proceedings of the Council of the City of Los Angeles.

[Approved February 12, 1878.]

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

SECTION 1. All acts and proceedings of the Council of the and proceed- City of Los Angeles, done since the third day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, in reference to the construction, repairs, or maintenance of zangas, dams, bridges, streets, sewers, alleys, gas or gas-works, water or water-works,

public parks or buildings, or other public works, or in refer-
ence to the control of the city officers, or in reference to the
expenditure of money for any of the purposes aforesaid, or
in issuing bonds under existing laws for the purpose of rais-
ing money for any of the purposes aforesaid, and, generally,
all acts and proceedings of the Council of said city in refer-
ence to matters coming within the purview of an Act entitled
"An Act to create a Board of Public Works in and for the
City of Los Angeles," approved April third, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-six, are hereby ratified and confirmed; and
all acts of said Council since said third day of April,
eighteen hundred and seventy-six, shall have the same force
and validity as though said Act had not been passed.
SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately.

CHAP. LVIII.-An Act to levy taxes for county purposes and to provide for the redemption of the bonded indebtedness of El Dorado County.

[Approved February 13, 1878.]

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

SECTION 1. There is hereby levied upon each one hundred Taxes to be dollars value of the taxable property in the County of El levied. Dorado, for the thirtieth and thirty-first fiscal years, each, taxes as follows: For the County Current Expense Fund, seventy-five cents on the one hundred dollars; for the Hospital Fund, twenty cents; for the School Fund, ten cents; for the redemption of bonded indebtedness, fifty cents on the hundred dollars.

pital Fund.

SEC. 2. There is hereby levied for hospital purposes a cap- Capitation itation tax of one dollar and a half on each male inhabitant tax for Hosof El Dorado County, over the age of twenty-one years, which said capitation tax shall be collected by the Tax Collector of said county at the same time, and payment thereof enforced in the same manner, as State poll taxes are or may be collected, and he shall retain ten per cent. of said capitation tax as his full compensation for the collection thereof. Said Tax Collector shall pay over all of such collections, less said ten per cent., monthly to the County Treasurer, who shall immediately place the same in the Hospital Fund of said county.

SEC. 3. The County Clerk, County Treasurer, and District Bond ComAttorney of said county, and their successors in office, shall missioners. constitute a Board of Bond Commissioners of said county. All moneys collected as the tax designated in section one of this Act," for the Redemption of Bonded Indebtedness," Bond Reshall be set apart and placed in a fund to be known as the demption "Bond Redemption Fund" of the County of El Dorado. Whenever there shall be in said "Bond Redemption Fund" two thousand dollars, or more, the said Bond Commissioners

Fund.

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