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SEC. 5. When any bids are accepted, the County Auditor and Duty of County Treasurer shall each take a description of the number County and amount of warrants to be redeemed, specifying the amount to be paid for each warrant, and make a several record thereof in their respective offices; and thereupon the Board of Supervisors shall make an order directing the County Treasurer to purchase the warrants designated in the accepted bids, and pay for the same out of the "Redemption Fund," and the warrants so redeemed shall be cancelled as other redeemed county warrants, except that the County Treasurer shall write on the face of said warrants "purchased," and the amount paid for the same, and shall sign his name thereto. The order of the Board of Supervisors directing the County Treasurer to purchase said warrants, together with the record made by the County Auditor, shall be sufficient vouchers for the County Treasurer in the settlement of his accounts. The bids being equal, the preference shall be given to the smallest amount of warrants; the bids and amount of warrants being equal, each shall be accepted pro rata, or as nearly so as possible. The County Treasurer shall return all of County unaccepted bids, together with the warrants therein contained, to the owners, on demand.

Treasurer.

SEC. 6. After all disbursements shall have been made from Redemption the Redemption Fund, as herein before provided, and there shall of Warrante. remain in said Redemption Fund, at the close of business on the first Monday in each and every month, an amount of money sufficient to pay the principal and interest of the county warrant standing first in the order of registration, the County Treasurer shall, on the following day, set apart such money so remaining for the redemption of the aforesaid warrant, and shall give no- Advertisetice for two weeks, in some newspaper printed at the county seat, that said warrant will be redeemed in cash upon presentation; and the County Treasurer shall continue to appropriate and apply all moneys so remaining in the Redemption Fund at the close of business on the first Monday in each month to the redemption of county warrants, as provided in this section, so long as there is sufficient money to pay the principal and interest of the warrant standing next in order of registration.

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rant to cease

SEC. 7. At the expiration of thirty days from the notice of When warredemption, as provided in section six of this Act, the county to draw warrant or warrants so advertised shall cease to bear interest, interest. and the County Treasurer is hereby required to make an entry to that effect in his account of registered warrants, and make a certified statement of the same to the Board of Supervisors at their next monthly meeting; and said Board shall make an order in accordance with the intent and meaning of this section of this Act.

Supervisors

revenue.

SEC. 8. The Board of Supervisors of Tuolumne County are Board of hereby authorized and required to appropriate and set apart, as to set apart a separate Fund, to pay the current expenses of said Tuolumne certain County, all revenue collected from the following sources within said county, to wit: from foreign miners' license, merchandise and liquor license, peddlers' license, billiard license, brokers' license, theatre license, circus license, and auctioneers' license, all fines and forfeitures, all receipts from toll bridges and ferries,

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expense fund

Deficiency in
Salary Fund.

Surplus.

Poll tax.

Moneys

together with all sums due from Stanislaus County, and all poll tax collected for county purposes, and all moneys remaining in the County Officers' Salary Fund on the first Monday in each and every month, after the salary of each of the county officers and all their deputies have been paid, or their salaries shall have been set apart from said Salary Fund, and when so set apart as a separate and distinct Fund, shall be known as the "Current Expense Fund," and out of which the current expenses of said Tuolumne County shall be paid in cash.

SEC. 9. If, on the first Monday in any month, there shall be a deficiency of funds in the County Officer's Salary Fund to pay all the salaries of the county officers and their lawful deputies, the Board of Supervisors shall order the County Treasurer to make up and pay such deficiency from the Current Expense Fund; and if, after so doing, there shall be a deficiency of funds in the Current Expense Fund to pay the current expenses of the county, the Board of Supervisors shall order the County Treasurer to make up and pay such deficiency from the Redemption Fund.

SEC. 10. If any money shall remain in the Current Expense Fund after paying all the current expenses of said county, at the expiration of each regular or quarterly meeting of the Board of Supervisors, then such surplus shall be placed by the Treasurer in the Redemption Fund.

SEC. 11. All moneys collected from property tax shall be paid into the County Treasury, and shall be appropriated as heretofore provided by law.

SEC. 12. The moneys set apart pursuant to the foregoing exempted. provisions of this Act, known as the Redemption Fund and the Current Expense Fund, shall not be subject to any execution or writ issued for or on account of any debt which may be due, or which may hereafter become due, from said county.

Redeemed warrants.

Act repealed

SEC. 13. The warrants redeemed under the provisions of this Act shall be deposited, after cancellation, in the office of the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, who shall keep a book in which he shall register each warrant redeemed, giving its date, amount, from whom redeemed, and the amount paid for the same.

SEC. 14. The Act entitled an Act to provide a Fund for the redemption of and prescribing the manner of redeeming the outstanding County Warrants drawn upon the Treasury of Tuolumne County, and further to provide for the payment of all the current expenses of said Tuolumne County in cash, approved February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixtyone, is hereby repealed.

SEC. 15. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after the date of its passage.

CHAP. XII.-An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of the
County of Merced to levy an additional Tax for County purposes.

[Approved February 21, 1863.]

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

SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of Merced County are hereby authorized, and it shall be lawful for said Board of Supervisors, if they deem it expedient, to levy a tax, for county purposes, of any sum not exceeding forty cents additional upon each one hundred dollars worth of taxable property in said county.

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

CHAP. XIII.-An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of San
Bernardino County to levy a special Tax.

[Approved February 21, 1863.]

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

SECTION 1. In addition to other taxes provided for by law in Special tax. said county, the Board of Supervisors thereof shall have power, and it is hereby made their duty, to levy a special tax annually upon the taxable property in the said county, of not less than twenty-five nor more than fifty cents upon each one hundred dollars of the assessed value of the real and personal property of said county, and said tax shall be collected at the same time and in like manner as other taxes are collected in said county. SEC. 2. The special tax provided for in section first of this Redemption Act shall be set aside and kept as a special Fund, to be called a "Redemption Fund," and to be used for the purpose of redeeming the outstanding warrants of said county of San Bernardino, and shall be held and disbursed as hereinafter provided.

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warrants.

SEC. 3. Whenever there is an amount exceeding two hun- Redemption dred dollars in said Redemption Fund, then it shall be the duty of county of the County Treasurer to advertise for four weeks in any newspaper published in said County of San Bernardino, or if there should be no newspaper, by posting advertisements, in writing, in three or more public places in the county, that sealed proposals, directed to him, for the surrender of such county warrants, will be received by him up to the last day of the then next ensuing session of said Board of Supervisors.

SEC. 4. Whenever any advertisement shall have been made same. under and according to the terms of the last preceding section, before any regular meeting of said Board of Supervisors, they, together with the County Auditor and Treasurer, shall attend at the office of the latter, and then and there open all pro

of county warrants.

posals, and accept the lowest bids for the surrender of county warrants; provided, that no bid for more than the par value of said warrants, or any bid, unless accompanied by the warrants proposed to be surrendered, shall be accepted.

Redemption SEC. 5. When any bids are accepted, the County Auditor and Treasurer shall each take a description of the number and amount of warrants to be redeemed, specifying the amount to be paid for each warrant, and make a several record thereof in their respective offices, and thereupon the Board of Supervisors shall make an order directing the County Treasurer to purchase the warrants designated in the accepted bids, and pay for the same out of the Redemption Fund, and the warrants so redeemed shall be cancelled as other redeemed county warrants, except that the County Treasurer shall write on the face of said warrants, "purchased," and the amount paid for the same, and shall sign his name thereto. The order of the Board of Supervisors directing the County Treasurer to purchase said warrants, together with the record made by the County Auditor, shall be sufficient vouchers for the County Treasurer in the settlement of his accounts. The bids being equal, the preference shall be given to the smallest amount of warrants; the bids and amounts of warrants being equal, each shall be accepted, pro rata, or as nearly so as possible. The County Treasurer shall return all unaccepted bids, together with the warrants therein contained, to the owners, on demand.

Duties of
County
Treasurer.

Same.

SEC. 6. The County Treasurer shall keep a separate account, under the head of Redemption Fund, of all moneys received from the sources specified in the first and second sections of this Act, and the said money shall never be used or mixed with other funds.

SEC. 7. It shall be unlawful for the said Treasurer of San Bernardino County to pay any warrants or claims whatever against the said county, issued or accrued prior to the passage of this Act, otherwise than under and according to the terms and provisions thereof; provided, that nothing in this Act contained shall prevent any payment or payments out of the County Jail Fund of said county, or the interest upon the previously funded debt thereof, or in any manner affect the same.

CHAP. XIV. An Act to legalize the Purchase of the Building and
Lot, by the Board of Supervisors of San Bernardino County, of
Charles Glaser, for a County Prison, and to set the same aside for
a Court House.

[Approved February 21, 1863.]

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

SECTION 1. The purchase made by the Board of Supervisors of San Bernardino County, in the year A. D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, of Lot No. Three in Block No.

Twenty, with building thereon, in the City of San Bernardino, for the purpose of a County Prison, be and the same is hereby fully legalized and confirmed.

SEC. 2. It shall be lawful for the said Board of Supervisors to set apart, appropriate, and use said lot and building for all the purposes of a County Court House for said county.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect from its passage.

CHAP. XV.-An Act fixing the Salaries and Fees of certain Officers of San Bernardino County.

[Approved February 21, 1863.]

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

SECTION 1. The County Judge of San Bernardino County Fees of shall receive a salary of five hundred dollars per annum, to be County paid out of the County Treasury.

Judge.

SEC. 2. The Sheriff of said county shall receive a salary of Sheriff. eight hundred dollars per annum, to be paid out of the County Treasury, for all services and duties to be by him rendered and performed for the said county, and he shall receive no other fees or compensation of said county, from the County Treasury, for any service or duties by him rendered or performed in any capacity to or for said county by virtue of his office.

SEC. 3. The District Attorney of said county shall receive a District salary of three hundred and fifty dollars per annum. Also, he Attorney. shall receive on cach conviction for felony, when the punishment is death, twenty-five dollars; for each conviction for other felony, fifteen dollars; on each conviction for misdemeanor, the sum of five dollars; which said sums shall be assessed against the one convicted, and if the same cannot be collected from the defendant, then the amounts shall be paid out of the County Treasury, and he shall receive no other fees or compensation from the said County Treasury for all services in any capacity by him rendered to or for said county by virtue of his office.

SEC. 4. The County Clerk of said county shall receive a County salary of three hundred dollars per annum, to be paid out of Clerk. the County Treasury, for all services by him to be rendered and performed to and for said county, and he shall receive no other fees from the County Treasury for such services.

Assessor.

SEC. 5. The County Assessor of said county shall receive a County salary of two hundred and fifty dollars per annum, to be paid out of the County Treasury, for all services by him to be rendered and performed for said county; provided, that for any service rendered the State, he may retain the amount paid by the State for such service for his own proper use in full compensation for such service.

SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of the Auditor of said county to Duty of draw his warrants on the County Treasurer, quarterly, in favor County of the incumbents of said offices, respectively, as their quarterly

Auditor.

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