Year: 1876







The people of the State of Califor-
mia represented in the Senate and AS
sembly do enact as follows:


SECTION l. The Board of Supervi.
sors of Los Angeles county are hereby
authorized and empowered to pur-
chase some suitable lot of land in the
city of Los Angeles, and erect thereon
Court House and Jail.


SEC. 2. The said Board of Supervi-
sors are authorized and empowered to
select said lot and purchase the same.


SEC. 8. After having select
ed and purchased said lot, the
said Board of Supervisors may
employ a competent architect to
draft plans and specifications of said
building or any of them. Said Board
Of Supervisors may erect separate
buildings for said Court House and
other necessary Court offices and Jail,
or may combine them, as they may
deem best for the interests of said
county, and they shall have full pow
er to do and perform all acts and
things which may be requisite or nec-
essary to carry out the provisions and
objects of this act, provided that con-
tracts for the erection of said buildings,
or any of them, shall be let to the low
est responsible bidder, in the manner
provided by law; provided the said
Board of Supervisors shall have pow.
er by an order to reject any and all
bids, and provided that the aggregate
cost anu expense of erecting said
building and the furnishing thereof
shall not exceed the sum of one hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars.


SEC. 4. Said Board of Supervisors
shall have power by an order duly
made by them to advertise for plans
and specifications for the said county
buildings, or either of them, and to
pay out of the current expense fund
OF said county sum not exceeding
five hundred dollars for the plans and
specifications and estimate adopted
by said Board for all of the said build
ings, and not to exceed two hundred
dollars for the plans and specifications
adopted for either of said buildings.


SEC. 5. The said Board of Supervi-
sors, after they shall have adopted
plans and specifications for said build
ings, or either of them, shall deposit
the same with the Clerk of said Board
for the inspection of builders, and
shall cause to be published for at least
thirty days in some daily newspaper,
published and printed in said county
of Los Angeles, an advertisement in
viting sealed proposals for the con-
struction of said buildings, or such of
them as they shall have decided to
build. Said sealed proposals shall be
addressed to the Clerk of the Board of
Supervisors of Los Angeles county,
and shall contain bid for the con-
structon of such building or buildings
advertised for, according to the plans
and specifications adopted by the
Board, aud shall state the names of
their proposed securities and be ac-
cOmpanied by their written consent
to become sureties in case of accep-
tance of the bid.


SEC. 6. Within one week after the
expiration of the time specified in the
advertisement for the presentation of
said proposals, the said Board of Su-
pervisOrs shall meet, and having de-
clared the time for receiving the said
bids closed in public, open all propo-
sails that may have been received for
the construction of said buildings, and
shall proceed to consider the said pro-
pOsals, and shall cause the same to be
published for at least twenty days in
some daily newspaper published in
the city of Los Angeles, and shall at
the expiration of said twenty days
of publication, and upon filling the
bond, hereinafter provided for, award
the contract for the construction of
said building or buildings to the low
est responsible bidder or bidders. Pro-
vided, always, that the Board shall
have the power to reject any and all
bids received, and provided that no
party to whom the contract may be
awarded shall have the right to sub
contract the work of building contract
ed for to any other person or persons,
under penalty of forfeiture of his
bonds.


SEC. Z. The person or persons TO
whom the contract for the construc-
tion of said building or buildings may
be awarded, shall file good and suf-
ficient bond, with two or more sure
ties in double the amount of their re-
spective bids to be approved by said
Board, and conditioned to the effect
that the obligors will well and truly
and in workmanlike manner cause
the said building or buildings to be
constructed and completed within
such time after the bid shall have
been accepted as the Board may fix in
accordance with the plans and specifi-
cations adopted by said Board. And
provided further that not more than
seventy-five (75) per cent. of the
amount agreed upon to be paid for
said work, shall be paid as the work
of construction progresses, and the re-
mainder shall be paid when the work
is completed and accepted by the
Board of Supervisors.


Sec. 8. For the purpose of provid-
ing means for the purchase-of said lot
and the construction of said building
or buildings, the said Board of Super
visors are hereby authorized to cause
to be prepared suitable bonds of said