contract. the use of said State and legislative officers as are entitled thereto, or any of them; and said Board shall specify in said advertisement the amount and kinds of each article desired, samples or minute descriptions of which shall accompany and be deposited, with the sealed proposals for furnishing the same, in the office of the Secretary of State; and all proposals received as aforesaid shall be opened and compared by said Board, any two of whom shall constitute a quorum, at the Governor's office, at twelve o'clock M. of the day specified in the said advertisement; and the said Board shall Awarding of then and there award the contract for furnishing said supplies, or any of them, to the lowest bidder, whose sealed bid shall be accompanied by a bond with two or more sureties, in the sum of $ the sum to be not less than twice the amount of the value of the articles to be supplied, payable to the people of the State of California, conditioned that if the bidder shall receive the award of said contract he will, in ten days thereafter, deliver the supplies or articles for which he has been awarded the contract; provided, that in their said advertisement said Board may classify said supplies and articles, and may receive bids and award contracts for such separate articles or class of supplies as they shall deem the lowest and best; provided further, that said Articles, how Board may require any class or articles of said supplies to be delivered. delivered in installments, and paid for on delivery; provided further, that any and all bids which shall be deemed too high by said Board, may be declined, in which case said Board shall again advertise for sealed proposals to furnish the classes or articles of supply so declined, and so on for the same cause, as often as it shall occur; and provided further, that in such case, said Board may purchase any articles or supplies for which bids have been rejected as aforesaid, in open market, and in amounts sufficient for immediate necessities, but at prices not exceeding the lowest prices in the bids rejected. stationery SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State, Secretary of immediately after the passage of this Act, to take a full and State to open complete inventory of all stationery, blank books, and other accounts. articles and supplies aforesaid, then on hand, and enter the same in a set of books to be kept for that purpose, making a separate account for each class of articles; and in like manner he shall enter in said books a detailed and classified account of all purchases of articles and supplies authorized by this Act, showing the amount and cost of each article and class of supplies purchased, the amount and cost of each class issued, amount and cost of each article and class issued to each State officer and member of the Legislature, and amount and cost of each article and class on hand. He shall Supplies, issue the supplies aforesaid only upon the requisition of the bow issued. proper officer, and shall take a receipt for the same upon delivery, which requisition and receipt shall be filed and preserved in his office. take inventory of SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of said Board, at the end of Board to each fiscal year, and at such other times as they shall deem necessary, to cause an inventory to be taken of all the articles supplies. Board to report to and classes of said supplies on hand and contracted for, and to make an examination of the amounts and vouchers appertaining to the same. SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of said Board, at least one Legislature, month previous to the assembling of each Legislature, to advertise, in accordance with section two of this Act, for a supply of stationery, fuel, and such other articles as shall be sufficient for the use of the State officers and members of the Legislature, or necessary for the public service, and at the commencement of each session said Board shall report to the Legislature a full account of their receipts and expenditures, and stock of supplies on hand. Expenses of SEC. 6. The actual expenses incurred by said Board in executing the powers and discharging the duties prescribed and imposed in this Act, when certified by them, shall be audited by the Controller, and paid by the Treasurer of said State out of any money which shall have been appropriated for that purpose; provided, nothing in this Act shall be construed as allowing salary or compensation to said Furnishing Board for any service performed as such Board. SEC. 7. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. Political applicable. CHAP. CCXLVI.-An Act in relation to highways in the [Approved March 16, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Articles one and two, Chapter Second, Title Code made VI., Part III., of the Political Code, as amended by an Act entitled an Act to amend the Political Code, in relation to highways, approved March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, is hereby made applicable to Solano County. SEC. 2. The Board of Supervisors of Solano County, by proper ordinances, must: Duties of 1. Cause to be surveyed, viewed, laid out, recorded, opened, and worked, such highways as are necessary for public convenience, as in this Act provided. 2. Cause to be recorded as highways such roads as have become such by usage or abandonment to the public. 3. Abolish or abandon such as are unnecessary. 4. Contract, agree for, purchase, or otherwise acquire the right of way over private property for the use of public highways; and for that purpose institute proceedings under Title VII., Part III., of the Code of Civil Procedure, and to pay therefor from the District Road Fund of the particular district. 5. Let out by contract the improvement and repair of highways, and the construction and repair of bridges, or other adjuncts to highways, when the amount of work to be done by contract exceeds one hundred dollars; also, let out by contract the maintenance and repair of highways and bridges. 6. Levy a property road tax. 7. Order and direct Roadmasters specially in regard to work to be done on particular roads in their districts. 8. Cause to be erected and maintained, on the highways they may designate, mile-stones or posts, and guide-posts properly inscribed. 9. Cause the road tax collected each year to be apportioned to the funds and road districts entitled thereto, and kept by the Treasurer in separate funds. 10. Audit and draw warrants on the funds of the respective road districts, or other funds herein mentioned, when required to pay for right of way, or work, or improvements thereon. defined. SEC. 3. For all purposes of this Act the townships, as Road now established in said county, shall be road districts; such districts road districts to bear the same name as the said townships, and shall be changed only as said townships are, so that the several road districts shall correspond to the several townships. At the next general State election, and at each gen- Elections of eral State election thereafter, the citizens of each road Roadmasters district shall elect some citizen, resident within said district, Roadmaster thereof, whose term of office shall be two years. from the first Monday in March next after his election; provided, however, that the Roadmasters in office when this Act shall go into effect shall continue in office until the next general State election, and be subject to all the provisions of this Act. The Roadmasters, before going into office, oath and shall take the usual oath, and file a bond, with two or more sureties, to be approved by the County Judge, in the penal sum of twenty-five hundred dollars. bond. Roadmasters SEC. 4. The Roadmasters, under the direction and super- Duties of vision and pursuant to the orders of the Board of Supervisors, must: 1. Take charge of the public highways within their respective districts. 2. Keep them clear from obstruction, and in good repair. 3. Cause banks to be graded, bridges and causeways to be made where necessary, keep the same in good repair, and renew them when destroyed. 4. Give two days' notice to the inhabitants of his road. district liable to do work on roads, when, where, with what implements, and under whose direction to work, and superintend the same. 5. Collect from each inhabitant notified to work, and who fails to work or prefers to pay it, the commutation fee. 6. Make quarterly reports, or as often as ordered by the Board of Supervisors, of all labor performed in his district, and how all road poll-tax and commutation money were expended, to said Board of Supervisors, under oath. 7. Receive and present petitions for new roads, recommend or disapprove the same, and assist in laying them out. 8. Collect all road poll-taxes in the mode provided for the collection of other poll-taxes, and faithfully account for and tion of pay over the same. For the purpose of executing this subdivison, the Roadmasters shall have the powers conferred on Assessors by sections thirty-eight hundred and forty-six and thirty-eight hundred and forty-eight, Chapter IX., Title IX., Part III., of the Political Code. 9. Pay over to his successor, or into the fund of his road district in the county treasury, all road moneys in his hands or unexpended. Compensa- 10. Receive for his services, from money coming into his Roadmaster, hands belonging to his road district, the sum of three dollars for each day's services performed by him, to be audited and ordered paid by the Board of Supervisors; provided, he shall not receive, in any one year, a sum exceeding three hundred dollars; provided further, he may retain for his own use ten per cent. of the amount collected for road poll-taxes. Taxes, how applied. Labor on roads. Roadmaster SEC. 5. The Roadmaster must attend each session of the Board of Supervisors when road matters of his district are under consideration, or as often as ordered by said Board, and consult and advise said Board of all matters pertaining to the roads of his district. SEC. 6. From the property road tax the Board of Supervisors must, annually, set aside thirty-three per cent. of the aggregate for general road and bridge purposes, from which they may respectively direct such amounts to be paid as may be found necessary for such general road and bridge purposes, in which the inhabitants of all the districts are more or less interested. The said Board shall, also, set aside thirty-three per cent. of said aggregate tax for the payment of the outstanding road indebtedness of said county, which said indebtedness must be paid in the order of its registration, and the balance of said road tax shall be distributed to the several road districts in proportion to its taxable property, and kept in separate funds by the County Treasurer, to be designated respectively by the name of the district. In case of any appropriation by the Board, its object must be specified in order therefor. The Board of Supervisors shall have no power to create debt against any road district or any of said funds; and all warrants drawn, and all appropriations made, when there shall be no money in said funds to pay the same, shall be void. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as repealing or interfering with an Act of the Legislature entitled "An Act amendatory of and supplemental to an Act to fund the debt of Solano County, and to provide for the payment thereof," approved January thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. SEC. 7. Every male inhabitant of a road district, over twenty-one and under fifty years of age, must perform two days' labor annually, to be known as road poll-tax, upon the roads and highways of the district, under the demand and direction of the Roadmaster thereof, or pay said Roadmaster a commutation fee of four dollars. SEC. 8. Each Roadmaster, on or before the first regular to file lists. meeting of the Board of Supervisors after the commencement of his term, must file with the Clerk thereof a list of the inhabitants of his district liable for the road poll-tax therein. The said Board may supervise, add to, and correct said list. property poll-tax. SEC. 9. The Board of Supervisors must each year, prior to Levy of the meeting at which they are required to levy the property road tax. tax for county purposes, estimate the probable amount of property tax for highway and other purposes mentioned in this Act, which may be necessary for the ensuing year, over and above the road poll-tax, and must regulate and fix the amount of property highway tax, and levy the same thereby. SEC. 10. At the time of levying the tax as provided in the Roadmaster preceding section, the Board of Supervisors must provide to collect proper blank road poll-tax receipts, to be signed by the Clerk, and must deliver to each Roadmaster a number equal to the number of inhabitants of his district liable for road poll-tax, take receipts therefor, and charge the Roadmaster receiving the same therewith. The Roadmaster shall be liable on his official bond for all poll-taxes not collected, unless he can show such non-collection was without his fault; in such case, credit must be given him for all unsold blank road poll-tax receipts returned to the Board of Supervisors. If, in the Penalty for opinion of the said Board, said Roadmaster has failed to col- neglect. lect said poll-taxes through his fault or neglect, said Board shall deliver said list to the District Attorney of said county, who shall immediately commence suit on said Roadmaster's bond therefor, against said Roadmaster and his sureties. added to. SEC. 11. The Roadmasters and Board of Supervisors must, Poll-tax lists from time to time, add to the lists of those liable for road maybe poll-tax the names of those who have been omitted, or who have become inhabitants of said district since the original lists were made, and the Roadmasters shall respectively require of each of the persons on the list of their respective districts, and all others liable to the performance of labor, or the payment of the commutation fee as herein before provided, and apply such labor and commutation money in the opening, maintenance, and repair of the highways and adjuncts in their respective road districts; provided, however, the Board of Supervisors may at any time require said money to be paid into the Road Fund of the proper district. SEC. 12. The annual property tax for road purposes must Property be levied by the Board of Supervisors at the session when road tax. the tax is by them levied for county purposes, and must not exceed twenty-five cents on each one hundred dollars in value of taxable property. This property tax, when levied, must be annually assessed and collected by the same officers and in the same manner as other State and county taxes are levied, assessed, and collected, and turned over to the County Treasurer, and distributed as provided in section six. SEC. 13. All public bridges must be constructed and main- Public tained by the road districts in which they are to be situated bridges. and the districts which they unite, and shall be under the management and control of the Roadmasters and Board of Supervisors, in the same manner as highways, and the expense of constructing, maintaining, and repairing the same shall be paid out of the Road Fund of the district or districts, or the road poll-taxes in the hands of Roadmasters or County |