CHAP. DCXXI.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] CHAP. DCXXII.-An Act to confer additional powers on the The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and street may SECTION 1. That portion of Elm Street or Avenue extend- Portion of ing from Polk Street towards Larkin Street, through only a be closed. portion of Block No. Six, Western Addition, in the City and County of San Francisco, which has not been used by the public as a thoroughfare, may be closed by the Board of Supervisors of said city and county, on petition of the majority of the owners of all the land fronting on said portion of Elm Street or Avenue. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. DCXXIII.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] CHAP. DCXXIV.-An Act amendatory of and supplementary to an Act entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act authorizing certain parties to improve a portion of King's River, and to erect booms thereon," approved March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, approved March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. [Approved April 1, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and sons to make ments. SECTION 1. Section one of said Act is hereby amended so Authorizing as to read as follows: Section (1). Jesse Morrow, B. F. certain perMoore, and John Sutherland, their associates and assigns, improve are hereby authorized and empowered, at their own expense, to improve that portion of King's River, in the County of Fresno, lying and being between the confluence of the middle fork of said river and a point in King's River where the township line between township thirteen and fourteen south crosses said river, by removing therefrom all obstructions to Construction of booms the use of said river for floating timber, lumber, saw-logs, and wood down the same. The improvements of said river must be commenced within one year, and completed within two years from the date of passage of this Act, and said parties shall, within said period, expend, in the work of improving and making said river available and practicable for the uses and purposes aforesaid, a sum not less than fifteen thousand dollars in gold coin. SEC. 2. Section two of said Act is hereby amended so as made lawful. to read as follows: Section (2). After the completion of the improvements of said river, mentioned in section one herein, it shall be lawful for the persons making such improvements to erect upon said river, at such points and in such manner as shall not prevent the use of the waters of said river for mechanical, irrigating, or milling purposes, or in any way interfere with or diminish the flow of water into the canals already constructed, or prevent the free use of the land lying on the margin thereof, and not lower down than that point in King's River where the township line between townships thirteen and fourteen crosses said river, in said county, a boom or booms, for the purposes of securing the wood, lumber, and timber being floated down said stream, and to maintain such boom or booms for the period of twenty years, and during such period to charge and collect, demand and receive, as toll and compensation for the use of said river, from each and every person and corporation using the same, at such rate per thousand feet of lumber, board measurement, and per cord of wood, as the Board of Supervisors of the County of Fresno shall fix and determine, from time to time, from and after the improvements have been made in King's River, as provided in the provisions of this Act. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Want of description, etc., shall not invali date assess ment. CHAP. DCXXV.—An Act supplemental to an Act entitled “An Act to legalize the assessment of taxes in the City and County of San Francisco, and to ratify and confirm a resolution of the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco," approved March 19th, 1878. [Approved April 1, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. It is hereby provided that all suits that may be brought under the provisions of the Act to which this Act is supplemental, whether for State, and city, and county taxes, or either, may be brought in the name of the City and County of San Francisco, and no want of description or indescription, or uncertainty, or ambiguity of description of the property assessed upon the assessment rolls of said years, in said Act mentioned, or either of them, if it can be ascer tained or proved by the testimony of the Assessor of the City and County of San Francisco, or otherwise, what property is intended, shall invalidate the assessment, but the same shall be sufficient and be considered valid, both in law and equity. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. DCXXVI.-An Act to authorize the managers of orphan asylums to give their consent to the adoption of certain children under their care. [Approved April 1, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and managers to consent children. SECTION 1. The managers of the several orphan asylums Authorizing in this State are hereby authorized and empowered to con- sent to sent to the adoption of any orphan child, or child aban- adoption of doned by its parents, in the same manner that parents are by law authorized to consent to the adoption of their children; provided, however, that such orphan child, or child abandoned by its parents, shall have been in the charge and under the management of the managers of such orphan asylum for the period of one year prior to such adoption, and during that period supported wholly at the expense of said asylum. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from the date of its passage. CHAP. DCXXVII.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] CHAP. DCXXVIII.-An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Amador County to declare that portion of the Amador and Nevada wagon road which lies in Amador County a toll-road. [Approved April 1, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of Amador County Toll-road are hereby authorized to declare that portion of the Ama- declared, dor and Nevada wagon road which lies in Amador County a toll-road, to keep the same in repair, to adopt and make rules governing the travel thereover, and to fix the rate of tolls thereon; provided, that the Supervisors of said county shall have the right to declare said road a "free road" at any time, and all improvements that may be or that have been made on said road shall revert for the benefit of the County of Amador, without cost to said county. SEC. 2. The tolls on said road shall not exceed the rates heretofore fixed by the Board of Supervisors of said county. SEC. 3. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Extension of certain streets authorized. Power of Board. Repeal. CHAP. DCXXIX.-An Act in relation to certain streets in the [Approved April 1, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Trustees of the Town of Alameda is hereby authorized, if it shall deem it necessary, to extend Santa Clara Avenue from its westerly termination to West End Avenue; to extend Railroad Avenue in a straight line and parallel with Pacific Avenue, of such width as said Board shall deem necessary, from Second Avenue to West End Avenue; to open, lay out, and extend Versailles Avenue, Pearl Street, and Broadway, or either of said streets, from the southerly termination thereof to the shore line of the Bay of San Francisco, or for any distance between said points; to open, lay out, and extend Clinton Avenue, Bay Avenue, and San José Avenue, from Park Street to High Street, or for any part of such distance; to widen Willow Street to a uniform width of sixty feet. SEC. 2. Said Board may, by ordinance, declare its intention to do one or more of the acts authorized in section one of this Act, and may adopt such means and pass such ordinances as may be necessary, in their judgment, to make compensation to owners of any property taken, and to assess and collect the entire cost and expense upon the property deemed and declared by said Board to be benefited; provided, that no assessment for benefits shall be made, excepting against the property fronting on the proposed street or extension of a street; and for these purposes may appoint Commissioners, and provide for carrying out the purposes of this Act without the intervention of judicial proceedings. SEC. 3. The Act entitled an Act to privide for opening streets in the Town of Alameda, approved March 23, 1876, is hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. DCXXX.-An Act to provide a Contingent Fund for the use of the Legislature. [Approved April 1, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and ized. SECTION 1. The sum of twenty-five hundred (2,500) dol- Approprialars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the State tion authortreasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray the contingent expenses of the Senate at the twenty-second session of the Legislature, and said amount shall be subject to its order; and the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray the contingent expenses of the Assembly at the twenty-second session of the Legislature, and said amount shall be subject to its order. SEC. 2. The moneys hereby appropriated shall be exempt Exemption. from the provisions of section six hundred and seventy-two of the Political Code. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAP. DCXXXI.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to enable the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco to increase the police force of said city and county, and provide for the appointment, regulation, and payment thereof," approved April 1st, 1878. [Approved April 1, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and included in SECTION 1. Section six of the Act entitled an Act to Additional enable the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of sum to be San Francisco to increase the police force of said city and tax levy. county, and provide for the appointment, regulation, and payment thereof, approved "April 1st, 1878," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section six. The Board of Supervisors of said city and county shall include in the tax levy for the fiscal year commencing on the first day of July, A. D. 1878, a sum and rate sufficient to pay all such registered demands on the treasury, with said interest, and also for the future payment of the salaries of said new police; and from the time money comes into the treasury sufficient to pay off all of said registered demands, then, and from such time forth, said new police shall be paid in cash in the same manner as the old police are paid. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. |
