The Placer herald., 1862-04-26

be set apart to said sinking fund.- to ensure the
payment of said bonds and coupons thereto attach
ed, at their maturity. The board of supervisors OF
said County, or the President thereof, at any time
during the regular sessions of said Board, and at
all other proper and reasonable times, shall have
power to examine into the affairs of said Rail
Road Company, and for that purpose may exam
inc the books. papers, accounts and documents
belonging to the Company; and it is hereby made
the duty of the officer Of said Rail Road Company,
having the custody Of any such books. papers and
accounts to exhibit the same for the examination
of said Board.
Sec. IL. The Board of Supervisors of said
County shall for each year, at the same time at
which other taxes are levied for County purposes
levy special tax upon oil the real and personal
property within said county subject to taxation
for the purpose of meeting the whole amount of
interest to become due within said year upon said
County bonds. In making said levy said board
shall designate the number of cents on each one
hundred dollars of said taxable property which
shall be so taxed for said purpose, and the tax so
levied shall be known and designated as the Rail
Road Tax.
Sec. IL. The tax so levied shall be assessed
and collected at the same time, by the the same
officers, and in the same manner as other county
taxes are levied and collected, for which said Of
icers and the County Treasurer, for disburse
ments. shall receive the same rate of compensa-
tion as is allowed by law for the collection and
disbursement of other county taxes. The tax
collector upon the collection of said tax shall
give to each tax payer separate receipt which
shall show upon its face the amount of rail road
tax SO paid by him. These receipts shall be
printed and all similar in form; differing only in
name, date and amount
Sec 13. The County Treasurer shall separate
the amount collected on rail road tax from other
moneys in the Treasury and shall keep the same
in a separate fund to be called the Rail Road
Fund, of which fund.he shall keep q separate ac-
count.
SEC. IA. The Board of Supervisors shall pro-
vide for the prompt payment of the interest on
said county bonds, as the same falls due. and for
this purpose they shall, as nearly as possible at
the time of making the annual levy, estimate the
per centage of tax necessary to be levied to meet
said interest for the next succeeding year, and
shall fix the levy at said amount. Should there
for any reason be a deficiency in the Rail Fund,
derived from said tax for the payment Of any in
terest it falls due, it shall be the duty of said
Board to provide for the payment of said inter
est out of the General Fund of said County and
in such case they shall in their next levy provide
a sufficient fund to pay the accruing annual in
terest, and also, to reimburse the General Fund
with the amount SO taken from the same to pay
said interest.
Sec. Is. In addition to the moneys arising
from the Rail Road Tax aforesaid, the County
Treasurer shall also place in said Fund all moneys
paid into the Treasury of said county by said
Rail Road Company, for interest or principal
upon the bonds of said company held by said
county; and said money shall be used by the said
Board Of Supervisors for the payment Of interest
on said County Bonds in like manner the mo-
ney raised by said Rail Road Tax Whenever
the amount paid into said Fund by the said Rail
Road Company shall eqal the amount of interest
to fall due upon the said County Bonds for the
ensuing year. no Rail Road Tax shall be levied
by said Board
SEC. l6. At the expiration of five years from the
time Of issuing said county bonds, the said board
of Supervisors shall provide Sinking Fund for
the purpose of securing the payment of the
principal of said bonds at their maturity; and for
this purpose they shall impose such special tax
they may deem necessary, and the moneys arising
thereform together with all the moneys received
from said Rail Road Company not applied to
payment of interest shall be applied toward the
redemption of said bonds in such manner as said
Board may deem most expedient for the interests
of said county.
Sec II. The interest accruing upon the Railroad
Bonds given by the Company to the County dur
ing the period Of three years from the date Of
said bonds, shall not until the expiration of said
three years be required to be paid in money to
the county, shall any proceedings for it's folc-
ed collection be taken within said period by the
county.
Sec. 49, At the time within the said period of
three years when the interest upon the bonds
given by the Rail Road Company to the County
shall fall due. the Rail Road Company shall issue
a number of shares of full paid stock of said
company equal in value at par to the amount Of
said interest, and shall deposit said stock with
the Treasurer of said county for his disbursement
rs hereinafter provided.
SEC. 10. Upon the presentation and delivery to
said County Treasurer of one or any number of
the Rail Road Tax Receipts mentioned in Section
eleven, by any holder Of the same, showing the
payment by the holder Of said receipts. or his
assignors, of one hundred dollars of the Rail
Road Tax herein provided for, the said Treasurer
shall deliver to such person one share of the full
paid stock deposited with him by said COMPANY,
and said person shall be the owner thereof The
said tax receipts shall be transferable by ndorse-
ment and may be presented for exchange by any
indorsce, or if indOrsed in blank, by the bearer
OF the same. The Treasurer shall exchange full
paid stock for said tax receipts at the rate OF one
share OF stock for each one hundred dollars OF tax
receipts so long as said tax receipts shall be pre-
sented for exchange. If any holder shall present
to the Treasurer receipts amounting to more than
one hundred dollars but not amounting in the ag-
gregate to an even number of hundreds of dollars,
the Treasurer shall issue shares of stock for the
even hundreds, and receipt signed by him for the
fractional sum. Such receipts shall be transfera-
BILE and exchangeable for stock in the same manner
0s the Rail Road Tax Receipts.
Sec. 20. So soon as the Tax Collector shall
have made his returns in each year, the County
Treasurer shall estimate whether the amount of
Rail Road Tax collected for which Rail Road tax
receipts have been given exceeds the par value of
the full paid stock which has been deposited with
him by the Rail Read Company; and in the event
that there be such excess, he shall notify said
Rail Road Company of the fact and of the
amount of said excess and said Rail Road Com
pany shall Immediately issue and deposit with
said Treasurer sufficient additional full paid stock
to meet said excess
SEC. Fl. The County Treasurer shall receipt to
the Rail Road Company for all the stock received
by him from said Rail Road Company, and shall
preserve all receipts received by him in exchange
for stock, as his vouchers for said exchange, and
shall at the same time of receiving such receipts
write Cancelled" on the face of each, and shall
in q book kept for that purpose keep an account
of the stock received and the tax receipts ex-
cbonU Uad for stock