The Placer herald., 1863-01-17
THE RAILROAD BILL.
AN ACT
To authorize the County of Placer to loan
It's credit to ssThe sacramento, Placer
and Nevada Railroad Company" to the
amount of 100000.

amount of 100000.
The People of the State of California rep
resented in Senate and assembly, do enact as
fOiIO,cs:
SEC l. Whenever the Sacramento, Plat er and
Nevada Railroad Company by and through its
Board of Directors and President shall make writ
ten application to the Board of Supervisors OF the
county Of Placer at any regular or stated meet
ing of said Supervisors requesting said county
of Placer. throug Oh its properly constituted au-
thorties to issue to said Railroad Company the
bonds of said county in the total sum of co. 900,
it shall be lawful for said county to issue its bonds
and dispose of them in the manner following and
subject to the following conditions.
SEC. 2 Upon the receipt of said petition from
said 5 Sacramento, Placer and Nevada Railroad
Company the Board of Supervisors shall enter
tain the stme and in order TO ascertain whether
the people of said county are willing that its
credit shall be loaned as desired by said Company.
said Board of Supervisors shall. within sixty days
after the receipt of said petition, order spec al
election to be held in said county ut which shall
be submitted the proposition of said loan to said
| Railroad Company, to be voted upon by the
qualified voters OF said county.
| SEC 3. The lid election shall be fixed by said
Board Of Supervisors, for some day not less than
thirty nor more than sixty days. from the time OF
making said order. Said Board shall cause a
notice of said election to be published for the
period Of four weeks next before the day of said
election in two or more newspapers published in
said county which notice shall specify the time OF
said election. the object of the same, the PROPOSE
ton TO be voted upon. and the places where the
! polls will be opened on said day for said cleo
| ton, which shall be the same as the precincts
fixed for said purpose at the last preceding gene
raj election. They shall also appoint judges and
inspectors of said elec ton and cause notice there
of to be given rs in other elections authorized by
law No compensation shall nc allowed to any
Judge clerk, or Inspector acting at said election.
SEC. 4. Upon the day fixed by said order, the
said election shall be held. Each Of the electors
voting at said election, shall have written or
printed upon his ballot the words "Railroad Loan,
Yesn or the words "Railroad Loan, No. Said
election shall be conducted and the returns there
of shall be made out and transmitted to the
County Clerk within the time and in the manner
prescribed by law ut general elections. On the
! fifteenth dav after the day of holding said election
| the Board of Supervisors shall meet and canvass
said returns, and declare the result.
SEC. 5. II upon the canvassing of said returns
| it shall be found that OF the votes cast at said
election having written or printed upon them the
words "Ralroad Loan, Yes or the words "Rai-
road Loan. No. u majority have written or print
ed upon them ''R slroad Loan, No. then the duty
of the Board OF Superv lsors in the premises
shall cease and determine; but il majority of
the votes 50 cast shall have written or printed
upon them the words Railroad Loan, Yes :" then
the Board of Supervisors shall issue the bonds of
said county. in the manner hereinafter prescribed
| SEC. +. When it shall be asccrtaincd in the
manner prescribed in section five Of this Act that
the majority Of the votes cast ut said election,
having written or printed on them the words
| RAILROAD Loan Yes. or "Rlilroad Loan, No."
| have written or printed upon them the words
"Ralroad Loan. Yes" then it shall be the duty of
said Board of Supervisors whenever thereto re-
ouestcd by the President and Board of Directors
of said Railroad Company, to prepare and issue
| to said Railroad Company the bonds of said
county to the amount of one hundred thousand
dollars. Said bonds may be in sums OF two hun
dred and fifty, five hundred, one thousand dol.
lars each. az may be requested by said Railroad
Company; they shall express upon their face the
n ature of the same and object for which they are
issued; shall be payable in twenty years from
their date; shall bear interest at the rate of eight
per cent per annum. payable Semi-annualy on
the first days Of July and January Of each year.
and shall have interest coupons attached express
sing the rate and time of payment of interest a.
above specified. Both bonds aud coupons shall
be made payable at the Office of the Treasurer in
said county.
SEC 7. S nd bonds shall each be signed by the
President of the Board OF Supervisors and the
| Treasurer of the county. and shall have the coun.
ty seal affixed to each and every bond. The
coupons shall be 81 gned by the Treasurer of said
| county. Both bonds and coupons shall be made
payable to the sacramento. Placer and Nevada
| Railroad Company or bearer. and each bond Shall
! bear upon its back n certificate signed by the
President of the Board of Supervisors and the
President of said Railroad Company, setting forth
| that it is duly and formally issued as contempla-
ted by law. Said bonds shall be transferable by
delivery and whenever so executed and issued
shall be the bonds of the County of Placer and
shall bind said county to the payment OF the prin-
cipa and interest as therein expressed.
SEC. s. Whenever the bonds Of the county of
Placer shall be issued and delivered to the Rail
road Company as prescribed in the last section
the sacramento. Placer and Nevada Railroad
Company" shall at the same time deliver to the
President of the Board of Superv isors of said
county. for the benefit OF said county. the bonds
of said Railroad Company of equal number in
like amounts maturing at the same time, bear
ing the same rate of interest. and interest payable
at the same periods the bonds OF the county.
so executed and issued. Said Railroad bonds
shall be made payable to the county Of Placer, or
its order. and shall be signed by the President
and Secretary of the Company. and countersigned
by the Vice President of the Company, and each
shall bear the seal of said company, and interest
coupons shall be attached, corresponding in date,
amount. rate and time of payment, with the cou
pons attached to said county bonds, which cou-
pons shall be signed by the Treasurer of said
Company.
SEC 8. The said Railroad Company shall at
the time designated in the last section by and
through its proper officers, execute under the
seal of said Company, a second mortgage upon
all the property, real and personal and franchises
OF said Company, then owned and possessed and
thereafter to be acquired by said company, as
security for the payment of said railroad bonds
and coupons as prescribed in the last section;
which said mortgage shall be and express upon
its face that it is subject to the mortgage of said
Company, made and delivered to Lester l.. Rob- |
insOn and Francis l.. A. Phoebe bearing date first
of September, eighteen hundred and sxty-one
and of record in said county, but Shall not be sub
ect to any other mortgage ncumbrancc upon
said property. The bonds of Placer County shall
only be delivered to said Rail Road Company
upon the delivery by said Rail Road Company. to
the President Of the Board of Supervisors of the
bonds and mortgag of the Rail Road Company
as prescribed in this Act.
SEC. 10. The mortgage provided for in the
last section shall provide by it's terms for a sink
ing fund to be reserved from the revenues of said
Company, sufficient to secure the payment of the
nrincinal ard interest Of the bonds Of said Com.