Amador ledger., 1908-10-16
SENATE BILL NO. 4eI.

Passed the senate February %, A d. 1907.
Lewis HilbOrn Secretary of the Senate.
Passed 1.-THE Assembly March g. A D. 1907.
Clio Lloyd, Chief Clerk OF the Assembly.
This Bill was received by the Governor, this
9th day OF March, A. D. 1907. at ii2 O'Clock m
e. @. Cooper. Private Secretary Of the Cover
nor.
CHAPTER 42l. An Act TO provide for the issu-
apce and sale OF state bonds to create a fund
for the construction by the board Of state
harbor commissioners OF wharves, piers, sea
wall, state railroad, spurs and appurtenances
in the city and county OF San Francisco; to
create q sinking fund for the payment Of said
bonds and providing for the submission OF
this act to vote Of the peopleI
The people OF the State of California. repre-
sented In senate and assembly, do enact rs
follows:
SECTION |. For the purpose OF providing
fund for the payment Of the Indebtedness here
by authorized to be incurred by the board OF
state harbor commissioners for the erection OF
wharves, piers. seawall, state railroad, spurs
and appurtenanoes in the city and county OF
San Francisco, at a cost not to exceed two
million dollars (Which said wharves piers, sea
wall, state railroad, spurs and appurtenances
the board Of state harbor commissioners are
hereby empowered to construct in the manner
authorized by law, and at a cost not to exceed
said two million dollars), the state treasurer
shall Immediately after the issuance of the
proclamation of the governor provided for IN
section 10 hereof, prepare two thousand suit
able bonds OF the State OF California, in the de-
nomination OF one thousand dollars each. The
whole issue OF said bonds shall not exceed the
sum of two million dollars, and said bonds
shall bear interest at the rate of four per
centum per annum. from the timeof said sale
thereof, and both principal and interest shall
be payable in gold coin of the present standard
value, and they shall be payable at the office
OF the state treasurer, at the expiration OF
nineteen years from their date, subject, how
ever, to redemption by lot as in this act herein
after provided. Said bonds shall bear date the
second day Of January, A. d nineteen hundred
and nine, and shall be made payable on the
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and twenty-eight. The interest accruing on
such of said bonds as are sold, shall be due and
payable at the office Of the state treasurer on
the second day of January, and on the second
day of July. of each year after the sale of the
same; provided that the first payment of in
tereSt shall be made on the second day OF jan
uary, A. ID. nineteen hundred and ten on so
many OF said bonds as may have been thereto
fore sold. At the expiration of nineteen years
from the date of said bonds, all bonds sold shall
cease to bear interest and likewise all bonds
redeemed by lot shall cease to bear interest as
in this act provided, and the said state treas
urer shall call In, forthwith pay and cancel the
same, out of the moneys in the second San
Francisco seawall sinking fund provided for in
this act, and he SHALL on the first Monday OF
January, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight,
also cancel and destroy all bonds not thereto
fore sold. All bonds issued shall be signed by
the governor. and counterstgned by the control
Ter, and shall be endorsed by the state treas
urer. and eacn shall have the seal of the state
stamped thereon. Each bond shall contain
clause that 1T is subject to redemption by lot
after the year nineteen hundred and eighteen.
SEC. Interest coupons shall be attached to
each of said bonds so that such coupons may
be removed without injury to or mutilation of
the bond. Said coupons shall be consecutively
numbered, and shall be signed by the state
treasurer, But no interest on any of said bonds
shall be paid for any time which NAV intervene
between the date of any of said bonds and the
issue and sale thereof 10 purchaser.
SEC. 3, The sum of one thousand dollars is
hereby appropriated to pay the expense that
incurred treasurer hay
ing said bonds prepared. Said amount shall be
paid out of the San Francisco harbor improve
ment fund on controllers warrants, duly drawn
for that purpose.
SEC. 4. When the bonds authorized to be is
sued under this act shall be duly executed
they shall be by the state treasurer sold at
public auction to the highest bidder for cash,
in such parcels and numbers as said treasurer
shall be directed by the governor of the state,
under the seal thereof. after resolution re-
queSting such sale shall have been adopted by
the board of state harbor commissioners; but
said treasurer must reject any and all bids for
said bonds, or for any of them, which shall be
below the par valueEof said bonds so offered {;
and he may, by public announcement at the
time fixed for the sale. continue such sale, as
to the whole of the bonds offered or any part
thereof offered, to such time and place as he
may select. Due notice OF the time and place
of sale of all bonds must be given by said treas
urer by publication in two newspapers pub
lished in the city and county of San Francisco
and also by publication in one Newspaper pub
liShed in the city of Oakland. and by publica
tion in one newspaper published in the city of
Los Angeles. and by publication in one news
paper published in the city OF Sacramento, once
a week during four weeks prior to such sale
The costs of such publication shall be paid out
of the San Francisco harbor improvement fund.-
on controllers warrants duly drawn for that
purpose The proceeds of the sale of such bonds
shall be forthwith paid over by said treasurer
into the treasury, and must be by him kept in
separate fund, to be known and designated as
the 'Second San Francisco Seawall Fund" and
must be used exclusively for the construction
of wharves, piers, seawall state railroad. spurs
and appurtenanceS thereto on the water front
of the city and county of San Francisco Drafts
and warrants upon said fund shall be drawn
upon and shall be paid out Of said fund in the
same manner as drafts and warrants are drawn
upon and paid out of the San Francisco harbor
improvement fund.
SEC. g. For the payment of the principal and
interest Of said bonds "a sinking fund, to be
known and designated as the Second San
Francisco Seawall Sinking Fund shall be, and
the same is hereby created, as follows TO wit
The state treasurer shall, on the first day OF
each and every month after the sale of said
bonds, take from the San Francisco harbor i'm
proVement fund such sum as, multiplied by the
time the bonds then sold and outstanding have
to run, will equal the principal of the bonds
sold and outstanding at the time said treasurer
shall so take said sum from said San Fra aciscO
harbor improvement fund, .less the amount
heretofore taken therefrOm for said purpose
and he shall place the sum in the second San
Francisco seawall sinking fund created by this
act said state treasurer shall, on controllers
warrants duly drawn for that purpose, employ
the moneys in said sinking fund in the purchase
of bonds of the United State or of the State of
California, or Of the several counties or munich
palities of the State OF California, which said
bonds shall be kept in a proper recepticle, ap-
propriately labeled but he must keep always
on hand a sufficient amount of money in said
sinking fund with which to pay the interest on
such of the state bonds herein provided to be
issued as may have heretofore been sold And
TO provide means for the payment OF interest
on the bonds that may be sold and outstanding
said treasurer shall monthly take from the San
Francisco harbor improvement fund and pay
equal to the monthly interest then due on All
bonds then sold, delivered and outstanding
The board of state harbor commissioners are
hereby authorized and directed by the collec
tion of dockage tolls, rents, wharfage and
cranage to collect sum Of money sufficient for
the purposes OF this act, over and above the
amount limited by section two thousand five
hundred and twenty.Six OF the Political Code of