same. the encroachment is not denied, but is not removed Removal of for five days after the notice is complete, the Road Overseer may remove the same at the expense of the owner, occupant, or person controlling the same, and recover his costs and expenses, as, also, for each day the same remained after notice was complete, the sum of ten dollars, in an action for that purpose. SEC. 36. Section twenty-seven hundred and fiftyfour of said Code is amended to read as follows: etc., on Section Twenty-seven Hundred and Fifty-four. Road Notices, Overseers may put up on bridges under their charge bridges. notices that there is "Five dollars fine for riding or driving on this bridge faster than a walk." Whoever thereafter rides or drives faster than a walk on such bridge is liable to pay five dollars for each offense. SEC. 37. Section twenty-seven hundred and fiftyfive of said Code is amended to read as follows: trees. Section Twenty-seven Hundred and Fifty-five. Who- Destroying ever digs up, cuts down, or otherwise injures or destroys, any shade or ornamental tree, unless the same may be deemed an obstruction by the Road Overseer and removed under his direction, planted or standing on any highway, forfeits twenty-five dollars for each such tree. to apply. SEC. 38. This Act shall apply only to the following Where Act named counties: Calaveras, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Ventura, Fresno, Kern, Tehama, Contra Costa, Marin, Lake, Sierra, Plumas, Sacramento, Sutter, Mendocino, Mariposa, Alameda, and Lassen; provided, that this Act shall not be in force and effect in Solano, Los Angeles, San Joaquin, and Yuba Counties, until the first Monday of March, eighteen hundred and seventysix (1876). [Chap. 617.] When county may bridge. AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION TWO THOUSAND SEVEN [Approved March 30th, 1874.] The People of the State of California, represented in SECTION 1. Section two thousand seven hundred 'and twenty-five of Political Code is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section Two Thousand Seven Hundred and Twentyhelp build five. Whenever it appears to the Board of Supervisors that any road district is or would be unreasonably burdened by the expense of constructing or maintenance and repair of any bridge, they may, in their discretion, cause a portion of the aggregate cost or expense to be paid out of the General Road Fund of the county, or out of the General County Fund, or both, or they may levy a special bridge tax therefor, not exceeding one fourth of one per cent on the taxable property of the county, annually, till the amount appropriated in aid is raised and paid. In the County of Tehama the amount raised for any one bridge shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars for any one year, unless the proposition to raise the amount is first submitted to a vote of the people of the county in the manner and at the time and under such rules as the Board may prescribe, and a majority of the votes are in favor of the proposition. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. [Chap. 664.] AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED AN ACT TO ES- The People of the State of California, represented in SECTION 1. The Act entitled an Act to establish a Political Code, approved March twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, is hereby amended by the addition of a new section, to be known as section two thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, to read as follows: etc. Section Two Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty- Pack trails, two. The Boards of Supervisors of the several counties of this State are hereby authorized to permit the toll road companies heretofore or which may hereafter be organized under the provisions of this Code, for the purpose of constructing toll roads within the mountain districts of this State, to first construct on the line of their proposed toll road a pack trail for the accommodation of pack trains and horsemen and to collect tolls thereon. The Board of Supervisors shall fix the amount of license to be paid and tolls to be collected on such pack trail, and that no such permit or franchise shall be granted for a longer period than two years. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. [Chap. 589.] Commutation moneys. AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION TWO THOUSAND NINE [Approved March 7th, 1874.] The People of the State of California, represented in SECTION 1. Section two thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section Two Thousand Nine Hundred and Fiftyeight. All moneys received in commutation of bonds, and paid into the State Treasury, must be placed to the credit of the General Fund. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. Appointees of Board of Health. AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS THREE THOUSAND AND [Approved March 23d, 1874.] The People of the State of California, represented in SECTION 1. Section three thousand and nine of the Political Code is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section Three Thousand and Nine. The Board of Health must appoint a Deputy Health Officer, who shall be a physician in good standing, a Secretary, two Health Inspectors, one Market Inspector, and one Messenger, whose duties must be fixed by the Health Officer. They must also appoint one Resident Physician, one Assistant Resident Physician, one Steward, one Matron, one First Apothecary, one Second Apothecary, two Visiting Physicians, two Visiting Surgeons, as officers of the City and County Hospital in and for the City and County of San Francisco; one each of Same. said Visiting Physicians and Surgeons to be nominated by the Faculty of the Medical Department of the University of California, and one each of said Visiting Physicians and Surgeons to be nominated by the Medical College of the Pacific. The said Board shall also have the power to appoint one Superintendent, one Resident Physician, one Matron, and such other employés as are now authorized by law to be employed in and for the Almshouse in said city and county. The appointing power aforesaid is vested solely in said Board of Health, and said Board shall have power to prescribe the duties of said appointees, and to remove the same at pleasure. SEC. 2. Section three thousand and ten is hereby amended so as to read as follows: appointees. Section Three Thousand and Ten. The following Salaries of annual salaries are hereby allowed to the officers of the Health Department, and such other officers as are mentioned in section one of this Act, viz: Health Officer, twenty-four hundred dollars; Deputy Health Officer, eighteen hundred dollars; Secretary, two thousand one hundred dollars; Health Inspectors, one thousand and two hundred dollars each; Market Inspector, one thousand and two hundred dollars; Messenger, nine hundred dollars. All of said salaries must be paid in equal monthly installments out of the General Fund of the City and County of San Francisco, in the same manner as the salaries of the other officers of the said city and county are paid. There shall be paid to the officers and employés of the City and County Hospital and Almshouse the following annual salaries, viz: Resident Physician, two thousand and four hundred dollars; Assistant Resident Physician, fifteen hundred dollars; Steward, fifteen hundred dollars; Matron, seven hundred and twenty |