Fees for licenses. Licenses. Billiards. Theaters. Section Three Thousand Three Hundred and Sixtyfour. For each license issued, the Collector must collect a fee of one dollar, which must be paid into the Salary Fund of the county, unless the Auditor and Collector are paid by fees instead of salaries, in which case the dollar must be equally divided between them. The license issued must be for a term designated by the person taking it, not to exceed twelve months, and not less than the shortest term fixed in this Chapter. SEC. 81. Section three thousand three hundred and eighty of said Code is amended to read as follows: Section Three Thousand Three Hundred and Eighty. Licenses must be obtained for the purposes hereinafter named, for which the Tax Collector must require payment as follows: First-From each proprietor of a billiard table not kept exclusively for family use, for each table five (5) dollars per quarter; and for a bowling alley, five (5) dollars per quarter for each alley; but no license must be granted for a term less than three months. Two-Theaters are divided into two classes; those seating nine hundred and seventy-five or more, are of the first class; those seating less than nine hundred and seventy-five are of the second class; one seat is twenty-two inches. Licenses shall be granted to theaters and other places of amusement according to the following schedule: Third-For each exhibition, for pay, for a caravan Circus, etc. or menagerie, or any collection of animals, circus or other acrobatic performance, ten dollars; and for each show, for pay, of any figures, jugglers, necromancers, magicians, wire or rope dancing, or sleight of hand exhibition, five (5) dollars each day. broker. Four-From each pawnbroker, thirty (30) dollars Pawnper quarter. Five-From each keeper of all intelligence offices, Intellififteen (15) dollars per quarter. SEC. 82. Section thirty-four hundred and forty-six of said Code is amended to read as follows: gence offices. of reclama tion districts. Section Thirty-four Hundred and Forty-six. When- Formation ever the holders of title or evidence of title representing one half or more of any body of swamp and overflowed, salt marsh, or tide lands, susceptible of one mode of reclamation, desire to reclaim the same, they may present to the Board of Supervisors of the county in which the lands or the greater part thereof are situated, at a regular meeting of the Board, a petition, setting forth that they propose to form a district for the reclamation of the same, a description of the lands by legal subdivisions or other boundaries, the county in which they are situated, the number of acres in the proposed district, and in each tract, with the names (if known), of the owners thereof, and designating as unsold any lands not reduced to private ownership. SEC. 83. Section thirty-four hundred and forty-nine of said Code is amended to read as follows: of petition, Section Thirty-four Hundred and Forty-nine. If Approval the Board of Supervisors find, on the hearing of the etc. petition, that its statements are correct, they must make an order approving the same. If it be shown that any land has been improperly included in or excepted from the proposed district, they must re-form Register's duties. By-laws and Trustees. Commissioners and duties. the district in such respects in their order. The order of approval must be indorsed on or attached to the petition, and be signed by the President and attested by the Clerk of the Board. SEC. 84. Section thirty-four hundred and fifty-one of said Code is amended to read as follows: Section Thirty-four Hundred and Fifty-one. The Register must thereupon forward to the County Treasurer a statement showing the names of purchasers of land in the district, who have paid in full therefor. SEC. 85. Section thirty-four hundred and fifty-two of said Code is amended to read as follows: Section Thirty-four Hundred and Fifty-two. After the approval of the petition, the petitioners, or a majority of them, may make by-laws for the management of the district, and must elect three persons owning land in the district, to act as a Board of Trustees thereof, who shall keep their office in the district, or as near as practicable for the transaction of all business pertaining to the reclamation of the district, and their books and papers shall be open to inspection by any one person interested, at all times. SEC. 86. Section thirty-four hundred and fifty-six of said Code is amended to read as follows: Section Thirty-four Hundred and Fifty-six. The Board by which the district was formed must appoint three Commissioners, disinterested persons, residents of the county in which the district, or some part thereof, is situated, who must view and assess upon the lands situated within the district a charge proportionate to the whole expense and to the benefits of which will result from such works, and estimate it in gold and silver coin of the United States. The same must be collected and paid into the County Treasury as hereinafter provided, and be placed by the Treasurer to the credit of the district, and paid out for the works of reclamation upon the warrants of the Trustees, approved by the Board of Supervisors of the county. presenta SEC. 87. Section thirty-four hundred and fiftyseven of said Code is amended to read as follows: Section Thirty-four Hundred and Fifty-seven. The Warrants. warrants drawn by the Trustees must, after they are tion, etc. approved by the Board of Supervisors, be presented to the Treasurer of the county, and if they are not paid on presentation, such indorsement must be made thereon, and they must be registered and bear interest from date of presentation; provided, warrants heretofore issued shall bear no interest. SEC. 88. Section thirty-four hundred and fifty-nine of said Code is amended to read as follows: assess Section Thirty-four Hundred and Fifty-nine. If the Additional original assessment is insufficient to provide for the ments. complete reclamation of the lands of the district, or if further assessments are from time to time required to provide for the protection, maintenance, and repair of the reclamation works, the Trustees must present to the Board of Supervisors by which the district was formed, a statement of the work done, or to be done, and its estimated cost, and the Board must make an order directing the Commissioners who made the original assessment, or other Commissioners, to be named in such order, to assess the amount of such estimated cost as a charge upon the lands within the district, which assessment must be made and collected in the same manner as the original assessment. SEC. 89. Section thirty-four hundred and sixty-two of said Code is amended to read as follows: Section Thirty-four Hundred and Sixty-two. The list Filing lists. so made, must be filed with the Treasurer of the county, or if the district is situated in different counties, then the original list must be filed in the county where the petition was filed, and copies thereof, certified by the Commissioners, must be filed with the Treasurer of each of the other counties. Credits on lists. Delinquent assess collected. SEC. 90. Section thirty-four hundred and sixty-four of said Code is amended to read as follows: Section Thirty-four Hundred and Sixty-four. When the list, or a certified copy thereof, is filed, the Treasurer must credit thereon, to each purchaser who has paid in full for his land, eighty cents per acre, less any amount chargeable against him, and must transfer the amount to the credit of the district. SEC. 91. Section thirty-four hundred and sixty-six of said Code is amended to read as follows: Section Thirty-four Hundred and Sixty-six. If, at ments, how the end of thirty days, or of the longer time fixed by the Trustees, all of the assessments have not been paid, the Treasurer must return the list to the District Attorney, who must commence actions for the collection of such delinquent assessments, with interest thereon from the time the list was returned to him, and costs, and for the enforcement of the lien on the land assessed, in the District Court of the county in which the same is situated, against the person to whom the same is assessed; and if assessed to "unknown" owners, then against the real owners, and all persons having or claiming any interest therein, by fictitious names. Service of complaint and summons in such actions may be made either in the manner prescribed by the Code of Civil Procedure or by posting a copy of the summons at the Court House door, and publishing the same once a week for four successive weeks in a newspaper published in the county; and such posting and publication is equivalent to personal |