The weekly Butte record., 1862-04-19
0QNeeklp &utte Retor0
An Act in Relation to the Board Of Su-
pervisors in and for Butte County, and
Concerning their Powers.

pervisors in and for Butte County, and
Concerning their Powers.
The People Of the State Of California, rsprsssn-
ted IN Senate and assembly, 80 slaa as
follotrs:
SEC. l. The Board Of Supervisors in and
;or Butte county, shall hereafter be composed
Of four members, not less than three of whom
shall be quorum for the discharge of any do
ty by law imposed upon said Board. No order
or resolution shall be made. carried or adopted
by said Board, without the concurrence of
three members thereof entered Of record by
name. Said Board shall have DO right or
power to depute or appoint any one or more
of It's own members, to do any business where
by any compensation shall be allowed, or ex-
peuse incurred, payable by said county.
SEC. ?. Said county shall be divided into
four Supervisor Districts, and numbered ac-
cordingly, and District No. Three 5 hereby
divided so as to constitute out of Chico and
Hamilton townships. District No. -Four; Dis
trict Three to be the remainder of ,ht portion
of said county lying on the north ives erly side
OF Feather River and the North Fork thereof
and Districts Nos One and Two to remain as
at present constituted.
SEC 3. \ Supervisor Of said county for
District No. -Four. shall be elected within thir
ty days after the passage of this ac-, and, to
this end, the County Clerk of said county is
hereby empowered and ordered to call special
election for one Supervisor in said district
within thirty days after the passage Of thi.
act, and to give public notice thereof, by post
ing printed notices at least ten days prior to
the day Of election, in each precinc.. in said
district at which polls were allowed to be
opened at the last general election said clerk
shall also designate, in said notices, the names
ol the precincts, the day of election and the
judges and inspectors of said election, 20 far as
practical. In all other respects than Is herein
provided said election shall be governed BY
the general laws of this State, including the
returns to be made, the manner of the canvass
and declaring of the result
CEN- e hC IJCi lSuI tiSCtCQ III DiSlIlCl
No. 4, as above provided, shall enter upon the
discharge of his official duties as soon as eec-
ted, and shall remain in Office until the first
Monday in January, A. D. 1868. At the gen.
eral election in \. d. 1862, one Supervisor
shall be elected in District No. Four, in said
county, and one Supervisor shall be elected
therein at the general election, every third year
thereafter, and each Supervisor elected in sad
county, at any general election, shall hold his
Office three years from and after the first Mon
day in January succeeding his election, ard
until his successor is elected and qualified.
SEC. ). The compensation to be paid 10
each member of said Board shall be eight del
lars per day for each day of actual services in
session, and fifty cents per mile for going ony
from his place of residence to the county seat
of said county, once only for each regular ard
called session; provided the compensation
per diem. of each member shall not exceed five
hundred dollars per annum, and the payment
Of oil per diem and mileage provided for in this
Act shall be paid out of the Salary Fund Of
said county as other salaries are paid. but TO
warrant shall be issued in favor of any member
OF said Board, except upon certificate of the
OF the County Clerk, as to the number of days'
service rendered and the number of miles traf-
eled for which payment is due.
SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect immedi-
ateiy and all Acts, and parts of Acts heretofore
passed so far only as they conflict herewith are
hereby repealed.