Franchise. Proviso. Tolls. Rights of Duties. CHAP. XLI.-An Act to grant to Larkin Lamb and his Associates the right to construct and maintain a Toll Bridge across the Cosumnes River, in the Counties of Amador and El Dorado. [Approved March 6, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Larkin Lamb, and those he may associate with him, their heirs and assigns, shall have full power to build, erect, construct, and maintain a public toll bridge across the Cosumnes River, at a point about eighty (80) rods below Dutch Hill; and the said Larkin Lamb and his associates shall have the right of way across the said river, and the privilege of using the same for the purposes before mentioned, and at the point and location before described, and this right is hereby granted and ceded to the parties before mentioned for the term of twenty (20) years; provided, that the parties to whom this franchise is granted shall, within twelve months from the passing of this Act, build, erect, and construct a good, substantial, and safe bridge across the said river, and of such width and capacity as will accommodate the travelling public; and if said bridge be not erected and built. within the time specified, then the parties to whom this franchise is granted shall be deemed to have forfeited all rights, franchises, and privileges, herein granted; and said parties to whom this franchise is granted shall, at all times after the completion of this bridge, keep the same in good order and condition, and shall be responsible for all damages arising to persons or property crossing the same, caused by neglect to keep the same in proper repair. SEC. 2. And the said parties to whom this franchise is granted, after the completion of the bridge, are authorized to charge and collect such rates of toll as the Board of Supervisors of the County of Amador shall fix; provided, that the rates of toll shall not be placed at less than sufficient to yield ten per cent per annum upon the value of the bridge, cost of keeping the same in repair, and expenses of collecting toll; provided, that nothing contained in this Act shall be construed so as to exempt the grantees herein from paying license, as required by the laws of this State in relation to toll bridges. SEC. 3. And the said parties to whom this franchise is granted, shall have the right to regulate and determine the speed of travel, either riding or driving, on said bridge, and may require the speed not to be faster than a walk; notice of such regulations, together with the rates of toll, shall be kept posted upon some conspicuous place on said bridge, and for each violation of said regulations, the parties offending, if prosecuted in any Court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars, and in addition, shall be liable to the owners of said bridge for all damages actually sustained by reason of such violation. SEC. 4. The owners of this bridge and franchise shall have the right to regulate and determine the number of stock-cattle that may pass over the said bridge at any one time, which regu lation shall be affixed to the rates of toll, in some conspicuous place, as before mentioned; and the said owners of this bridge shall not be responsible for any injury or damages to persons or property resulting from violation of this regulation. SEC. 5. No ferry or bridge shall be established, within one mile of this bridge franchise, across the Cosumnes River. SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. XLII.-An Act to provide for the Funding of the Indebtedness of the County of San Luis Obispo, outstanding on the first day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. [Approved March 6, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the County of San Issuance Luis Obispo is hereby authorized to fund all outstanding in- of bonds. debtedness of the County of San Luis Obispo which shall have accrued prior to the first day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and standing in the shape of warrants legally drawn by the Auditor of said county on the Treasurer thereof, and then remaining unpaid, whether payable out of what are known as the "County General Fund," the "Court House and Jail Fund," the "Hospital Fund," or the "Road Fund," by issuing bonds in payment thereof, payable in ten years from said first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, bearing interest at the rate of ten per cent per annum, payable annually, to be issued in accordance with this Act. SEC. 2. On or before the first day of July, Anno Domini Bonds. eighteen hundred and sixty-three, the Board of Supervisors of said county shall cause bonds for said indebtedness to be prepared, in sums not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars. Every holder of county warrants, legally issued or drawn in due form of law on indebtedness of the county, which shall have accrued prior to the first day of July, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-three, may present the same to said Board of Supervisors, within six months from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, in order that the same may be cancelled, and bonds to the amount of such warrants, with interest due thereon, issued in lieu thereof to the holder. It shall be the duty of said Board of Super Duties of visors to issue bonds for said warrants, said bonds to be styled "Bonds of San Luis Obispo County," and shall be signed by the Chairman and Clerk of said Board of Supervisors, and countersigned by the Treasurer of said county, and shall have the seal of the Auditor of said county stamped thereon, and shall also have coupons attached, for the interest, in such man Supervisors ner as to be removed without mutilating the bonds. The first coupon shall be for the interest accrued up to the first day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixtyfour, and the others for one year's interest, each, thereafter, consecutively numbered, which coupons shall also be signed in like Warrants to manner as the bonds. The warrants for which bonds shall be be cancelled issued shall be cancelled immediately after issuing bonds therefor. Special interest tax. Payment of interest. Duties of officers. Redemption SEC. 3. For the purpose of paying the interest on the bonds issued pursuant to the provisions of this Act, and also to constitute a Sinking Fund for the redemption of the same, it shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors of said county to cause to be annually levied and collected a special tax, on all real and personal property within said county, of fifty cents on each one hundred dollars valuation of such real and personal property, such tax to be assessed and collected, in the legal gold and silver coin of the United States, at the same time and in like manner as are assessed and collected State and county taxes for other purposes, and the amount of taxes so collected shall be applied solely to the purpose of paying the interest and principal of the bonds authorized to be issued by this Act, until the same shall be fully paid. For the present year, said Board of Supervisors may levy said tax at any time after the first Monday of March, and such tax, so levied, shall have the same force and effect as if levied on that day. SEC. 4. The interest on said bonds shall be paid at the Treasurer's office of said county, on the first Monday of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and thereafter on the first Monday of January of each year. SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the County Treasurer and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, each, to keep a correct record of all bonds issued under the provisions of this Act, showing the number, date, the amount of each, and to whom issued. SEC. 6. On the first day of January of each year, when there shall be as much as five hundred dollars collected under the provisions of this Act, over and above the interest due on all bonds issued, it shall be the duty of the County Treasurer to advertise in some public newspaper in said county, if there be one, and if not, by posting notices at three public places in said county, one of which shall be the Court House of said county, and by publication in some newspaper in the City and County of San Francisco for thirty days, stating the amount of such surplus in the Sinking Fund, and inviting bids at his office, on a given day, specifying the hour, for proposals to redeem bonds by this Act authorized to be issued. On the day and at the hour named in such notice, the bidding shall take place, and shall be public, and it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to accept such bids, and in such amounts, the terms of which will be most advantageous to the county, and which will redeem the greatest amount of bonds with such surplus; which surplus shall be applied to the redemption of such bonds for which bids are accepted, and the bonds taken up and cancelled. No bid shall be received at a higher rate than principal and interest. SEC. 7. Each member of the Board of Supervisors, the Clerk of said Board, and the County Treasurer, as an extra compen sation to them, respectively, shall be entitled to have allowed Pay of and audited to him the sum of three dollars for every day that officers. he may be actually and necessarily engaged in funding such indebtedness, and in recording said bonds, to be paid by warrants drawn on the "Fund for Current Expenses of the County," and not on the Sinking Fund. All necessary expenses attending the printing and preparation of said bonds, shall also be paid out of the Fund for Current Expenses." SEC. 8. The moneys paid to San Luis Obispo County, or to Current Exits Treasurer, for the use and benefit of the county, except the pense Fund. School Fund, on and after the first day of July, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty three, shall be and the same is hereby appropriated to the payment of the current expenses and disbursements of the county accruing on and after that date, and shall not in any event be applied to any other purpose whatever. There shall be but one Fund in said county for the payment of such current expenses, which shall be the "Fund for Current Expenses," into which shall be placed and out of which shall be paid all moneys coming into the Treasury thereof for county purposes, from whatever source, other than the School Fund, and excepting such as may be collected under this Act. SEC. 9. In addition to the sixty cents on each one hundred Special tax. dollars of taxable property, authorized to be levied by section first of an Act to provide revenue for the support of the government of this State, passed May seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and such additional and special taxes as the laws of the State may authorize or require them to levy and collect, the Board of Supervisors of said County of San Luis Obispo are hereby authorized and empowered to levy an annual tax on the taxable property of said county, not exceeding sixty cents on each one hundred dollars thereof, for the use of said "Fund for Current Expenses," the same to be paid into and disbursed from said Fund as hereinbefore provided. visors. SEC. 10. The Board of Supervisors of San Luis Obispo Restrictions County shall not, for any purpose, contract debts or liabilities, von Superexcept those fixed by or in pursuance of law, and no account or bill for indebtedness against said county shall be approved, nor shall any warrant, order, or scrip whatever, for any purpose, be drawn on said "Fund for Current Expenses," except against money actually in said Fund at the time for the payment of the same. SEC. 11. An Act entitled an Act to provide for the payment Acts reof the debts of the Counties of San Luis Obispo and Santa Bar- pealed. bara, passed March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and fiftyseven, and an Act entitled an Act amendatory of an Act entitled an Act to provide for the payment of the debts of the Counties of San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara, approved March thirtyfirst, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, approved April twenty-first, eighteen hundred [and] fifty-eight, so far as the same apply to the County of San Luis Obispo, and an Act entitled an Act to provide for the erection of a Court House and Jail in the County of San Luis Obispo, passed April twentyfourth, eighteen hundred [and] fifty-seven, are hereby repealed; provided, that all moneys now in the County Treasury for county Proviso. purposes, or which may hereafter be collected from assessments already made previous to the present year, and which may be so collected prior to the first day of July, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, shall be disbursed in accordance with the Acts under which the same were levied; but all such moneys collected after the date aforesaid, shall go into the "Fund for Current Expenses." SEC. 12. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after it passage. Duties of officers. Fees of CHAP. XLIII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act creating the • Office of Township Collector and Assessor in the Counties of El Dorado and Amador, approved April twenty-fifth, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-two. [Approved March 6, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section six of the above entitled Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 6. Each Township Collector shall, on the first Monday of each month, make a full settlement with the County Auditor. The Collector shall first pay over all moneys collected by him for property taxes, foreign miners' licenses, poll taxes, and State and county licenses, less his fees for collections, to the County Treasurer, and take from said Treasurer his receipt for the same. Said receipt shall show: First-The amount paid to said Treasurer for money collected for property taxes. Second-The amount paid to said Treasurer for money collected for foreign miners' licenses. Third-The amount paid to said Treasurer for money collected for State and county licenses. Fourth-The amount paid to said Treasurer for money collected for poll taxes. Fifth-The total receipts. SEC. 2. Section seven of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 7. In the County of Amador, each Collector shall be allowed, at each monthly settlement, five per cent upon all moneys collected for property tax; twenty per cent upon all moneys collected for foreign miners' licenses; fifteen per cent upon all moneys collected for poll taxes; and ten per cent upon all moneys collected for State and county licenses, in the preceding month, and the fees now allowed by law for enforcing the collection of the same. The one dollar required to be paid by the person to whom the State and county license is sold, as provided in the General Revenue Law, approved May seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, shall be collected by the Township Collector, and paid by him into the County Treasury at the same time that other moneys are collected and |