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townships of said county: For all services rendered in any action or proceeding where no trial is had, two dollars; for all services rendered in any action or proceeding in which a trial is had, occupying one day, or part thereof, five dollars; and for each day so occupied after the first day he shall receive the additional sum of two dollars; for each day occupied in taking testimony in writing on an examination of a charge of felony, three dollars; for taking bail after commitment by another Magistrate, fifty cents; for copies of papers on file, or copies of docket entries, fifteen cents per folio; for issuing search warrant, to be paid for by party demanding the same, fifty cents; for celebrating a marriage, and returning certificate, three dollars; for certifying an acknowledgment of any instrument, for the first name fifty cents, for each additional name, twenty-five cents; for taking depositions in civil cases, per folio, fifteen cents; for certifying affidavit (except in cases before him), twenty-five cents; in any case in which an order changing the place of trial is made, the Justice of the Peace making the order shall receive, for all services rendered by him, including the making up and transmission of the transcript and papers to the Court to which the case is transferred for further proceedings, the sum of two dollars; and the Justice before whom the trial shall take place shall receive the same fees as if the action had been commenced before him, less two dollars.

SEC. 6. The fees hereinafter provided, and none other, Fees of shall be charged and received by Constables of the several Constables. townships of said county: Any Constable, in any of the townships of said county, lawfully performing any official service shall be entitled to charge and receive therefor twothirds of the fee, mileage, or percentage, as the case may be, which is allowed by law to be charged and received by the Sheriff of said county for similar service performed by him as such Sheriff.

SEC. 7. All Acts or parts of Acts, in so far as the same may conflict with this Act, are hereby repealed.

SEC. 8. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage.

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

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Duty of

managers of orphan asylums.

Publication of notice.

CHAP. LXVII.--An Act to amend "An Act in relation to the care of orphan and abandoned children," approved March seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.

[Approved February 15, 1878.]

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

SECTION 1. Section one of the above entitled Act is hereby amended as follows: Section 1. It shall be the duty of the officers or managers of each and every orphan asylum in this State to publish in January, April, July, and October, in each year, in some newspaper of general circulation published in the county where such asylum is situated, a notice giving:

1. The name, if known;

2. The age, as near as may be;

3. The sex; and

4. Such other descriptions as would lead to identification of each child received into such asylum, either as an orphan or an abandoned child, since the last quarterly publication of a like notice.

Such notice must be published at least four times, if in a weekly, and at least ten times consecutively if published in a daily newspaper.

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

Advertisement for proposals.

Rejection of proposals.

CHAP. LXVIII.-An Act supplementary to an Act entitled an Act to provide for the completion of the building in the City and County of San Francisco known as the "New City Hall, approved March twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy

six.

[Approved February 15, 1878.]

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

SECTION 1. Whenever the Board of Commissioners provided for and established by virtue of the Act to which this is supplementary shall have rejected all the bids for doing any specified work or furnishing material pursuant to section fourteen (14) of said Act, said Board may re-advertise, for ten days, for sealed proposals for doing said work or furnishing said material, as often as may be necessary, but without changing the specifications therefor; provided, that all other requirements of said Act shall be complied with, and thereupon a legal award may be made and contract entered into for the doing of said work and furnishing of said material. SEC. 2. The said Board may reject and not further consider the proposal or bid of any person or persons who have

failed or may hereafter fail to enter into any contract awarded to them by said Board, or to carry out or perform the same, and to make award of and enter into contracts as though such delinquent person or persons were not bidding.

ized.

SEC. 3. The Board of Commissioners mentioned in section Appropriaone of this Act are hereby authorized and empowered to tions authorappropriate and pay out of the said City Hall building Fund the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, for the purpose of fitting up and providing furniture for the Hall of Records; also, for offices and Courts in east wing of said New City Hall building, now being completed.

SEC. 4. The said Board of New City Hall Commissioners Payment of are hereby authorized to settle the claim of "The Pacific claim. Submarine and Earthquake-proof Company" for the sum of five thousand two hundred and ninety-five dollars, against Joseph G. Eastland, P. H. Canavan, and Charles E. McLane, and pay said sum or so much thereof as they, the Commissioners, shall find to be just and equitable out of the Building Fund of said New City Hall.

SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect immediately.

CHAP. LXIX.-An Act to extend the time in which John Blair,
Thomas Alderson, Truman Wilcox, L. A. Garnett, Thomas
Price, and F. A. Bishop, their associates and assigns, shall
complete the construction of a race-way through the City of
Placerville.

[Approved February 15, 1878.]

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

granted.

SECTION 1. The time in which John Blair, Thomas Extension Alderson, Truman Wilcox, L. A. Garnett, Thomas Price, of time and F. A. Bishop, their associates and assigns, are required to complete the construction of a certain race-way in accordance with an Act entitled "An Act granting to certain persons herein named the right to construct and maintain a race-way through the City of Placerville," approved April first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, is hereby extended eighteen (18) months.

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

Affairs, to whom in

trusted.

Board of

divided.

CHAP. LXX.-An Act entitled an Act to amend "An Act concerning agricultural societies," approved March twelfth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine.

[Approved February 15, 1878.]

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

SECTION 1. Section three of the Act to which this Act is amendatory is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 3. The general prudential and financial affairs of such society shall be entrusted to a Board of Managers, consisting of a President and six Directors, four of whom shall constitute a quorum to do business, to be elected at the annual meeting of such society. The Board of Managers how did shall, at its first meeting after their election, be divided by lot into three equal portions, omitting the President; one portion to continue in office one year, one portion two years, and one portion three years; one-third of the number, together with the President, to be elected at each annual meeting thereafter; the Directors to hold office for three years after the expiration of the term of office for which their predecessors were by lot so appointed to serve. The Board of Managers may, in the absence of the President, choose one of its other members as temporary Chairman. They shall elect a Secretary and Treasurer, not members of the Board, prescribe their duties, and fix their pay.

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

Power of

Board of
Trustees.

CHAP. LXXI.-An Act to amend section six of an Act entitled "An Act to re-incorporate the Town of Woodland,” approved March twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.

[Approved February 15, 1878.]

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

SECTION 1. Section six of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 6. The Board of Trustees shall have power to pass ordinances not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States and this State; to determine what are nuisances, and control the same; to prevent any or all domestic animals from running at large within the corporation; to control and regulate slaughter-houses, and provide for their exclusion from the town limits; to prohibit disorderly conduct; to provide for licensing shows, public exhibitions, and lawful games; to license every kind of business, authorized by law, carried on within the town limits; to regulate and restrain theatrical and other amusements; provided, that school or college exhi

bitions, and the exhibitions of the various and charitable Exhibitions orders, shall not be taxed; to regulate and establish mar- exempted. kets; to construct and keep in repair pumps, aqueducts, reservoirs, or other works necessary for protection against fire; to purchase, sell, hold, and maintain fire engines and all implements or apparatus for the prevention and extinguishment of fires; to organize and maintain a fire department or fire company, and establish fire limits; to lay out, alter, keep open, and repair all streets, alleys, and public squares; to purchase or lease such real estate or personal property as may be necessary or proper for the interest of the town or the transaction of the business of the Board of Trustees or other town officers; to make all necessary arrangements for the safe keeping of prisoners; to grant the right of way to railroad companies within the corporate limits, with such prohibitions and restrictions as the interests of the inhabitants may demand; to levy and collect annually a poll tax of not exceeding two dollars on each inhabitant over the age of twenty-one years; also, a dog tax of not exceeding five dollars on each dog owned in the town; and a property tax, not exceeding one-quarter of one per cent. upon the assessed value of the real and personal property, for general purposes.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately.

CHAP. LXXII.—An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to prevent hogs and goats running at large on certain lands in this State," approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six.

[Approved February 15, 1878.]

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

goats to run

SECTION 1. Section one of said Act is hereby amended so Unlawful for as to read as follows: Section 1. It shall be unlawful for hogs and hogs or goats to run at large upon lands included in any at large. town site in this State which has received, or that may receive hereafter, a patent thereto under any of the several Acts of Congress of the United States of America granting town sites to incorporated and to unincorporated towns upon

the public lands. The provisions of this section shall apply Where to to the Precinct of Rocklin, in Placer County.

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

apply.

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

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