San Andreas independent., 1857-03-28
AN ACT

AN ACT
To authorize the Board Of Supervisors of Casveras County
to levy special tax to redeem County Warrants.
The People Of the State Of California, represented
IN Senate and Assembly, do enact as tottoscs:
SECTION L. The Board of Supervisors for the
county of Calaveras shall have power and it is
/ hereby made their duty, to leavy special tax
annually. in addition to the other taxes provi-
ded for by law, upon the taxable property in the
county. of not more than one per cent, and said
tax shall be collected at the same time, and in
like manner as other taxes are collected in said
county.
/ SEC. g. The tax provided tor in the first sec
| ton of this Act together with third of all
moneys received into the County Treasury from
the sale of Foreign Miners Licenses for county
purposes, shall be set aside and kept as a spe-
cial fund, to be called the q Redemption Fund. y
and shall be held and disbursed as is herein
after provided.
Sec 3. 1t shall be the duty of the County
Treasurer to give thirty days notice, by publi-
cation in some newspaper published in the said
county, that scaled proposals directed to him
for the surrender of County Warrants will be
received by him up to the last dav of the ses
sion of each quarterly meeting Of the Board of
Supervisors.
Sec. T. On the last day of each quarterly
meeting of the Board of Supervisors, they, to-
gether with the County Auditor and Treasurer
shall attend at the office of the latter and then
and there open all proposals. and accept the
lowest bids for the surrender Of county war
rants. 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
Sec. 5. When any bids are accepted the
County Auditor and County Treasurer shall
each take q description of the number and
amount of warrants to be redeemed, specifying
the amount to be paid for each warrant, and
make several record thereof in their respec-
tive offlceS, and thereupon the Board of Super
vlsors 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 re-
deemed warrants, except that the County Treas
urer 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
SEC. 6. The County Treasurer shall keep
separate account under the head of " Redemp-
ton Fund of all moneys received from the
sources specified in the first and second sections
of this Act, and the said moneys shall never be
used or mixed with other funds
Sec. I. The County Treasurer of said county
shall not redeem any ofthe warrants ofsaid coun-
ty drawn prior to the passage Of this Act, except
as herein provided for. For any violation of
the provisions of this Act he shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished for the
same in such manner is prescribed by law,
for the punishment of such crimes
Approved March 18th, 1857.