board of supervisors of all meats, provisions, or other articles delivered to, or received by him, for said hospital, stating therein each separate article, the persons from whom received, and the date of its delivery, together with the price thereof, and when authorized to be purchased. It shall also be his duty to report to said board of supervisors quarterly, the amount of provisions, clothing and other articles supplied for said hospital that shall be on hand at the date of such report; also, the time of service rendered by any employee in and about said hospital.

assist.

3707. SEC. 15. It is hereby declared lawful, and the board of supervisors are hereby Patients, etc., to authorized, to require of the wife and family of the warden, and any of the indigent sick capable of doing manual labor, to aid and assist in doing the service and labor required to be done in taking care of, nursing, and feeding, said sick, improving the grounds of said hospital, or other necessary work required to be done in and about the management and conducting said hospital, and for that purpose the board of supervisors may direct the warden to make use of and require such service and see that the same is rendered, so as to administer the affairs of the hospital as economically as possible.

3708. SEC. 16. The board of supervisors shall pass upon all claims and charges Auditing claims. against the said hospital at least once a quarter, and audit all just claims, and order warrants to be drawn, payable in cash out of the hospital fund, for all claims and charges so audited and allowed.

demands funded.

3709. SEC. 17. The provisions of the foregoing sections of this act shall not be construed to in any manner impair any contract or contracts already made by the board of supervisors for the care and maintenance of the indigent sick of Yuba County. 3710. SEC. 18. It is hereby further enacted, in order to carry out the provisions May have legal hereinbefore provided, and to place the management of the hospital of Yuba County upon a cash basis, that the holders of any and all indebtedness, demands, or claims, against the hospital of said county that may have arisen or been incurred on account of said hospital, or the care and management of the indigent sick prior to the first day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty, whether in warrants, audited claims, or otherwise, shall be entitled to the privilege of having the same funded by the funding commissioners of said county, under the provisions of an act entitled "An Act to provide for funding the indebtedness of the County of Yuba," approved March twentysixth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven; provided, such funding shall be Proviso. done before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one; and, provided further, that all unaudited claims shall he first audited and allowed by the Proviso. board of supervisors.

3711. SEC. 19. The said funding commissioners shall compute the amount of inter- Interest. est and upon all warrants which may be presented to them for funding, from their date up to the time the same shall be funded, and shall issue to the holders of the same bonds in sums as provided in said act, for the principal of said warrants and all interest which may have accumulated upon the same up to the day of issue of such bonds.

3712. SEC. 20. Said bonds shall bear the date of the day of their issuance, and Bonds, when payable. shall bear interest at the rate of ten per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually on the first day of Jannary and July of each year from and after their date, until the same shall be paid and liquidated; said bonds and the interest to accrue thereon shall be made payable at the office of the county treasurer, or in the City of New York, at the option of the person to whom the same shall be issued.

form of

3713. SEC. 21. Said bonds shall be in manner and form and signed by the same offi- Manner and cers, as prescribed by the said act first above named; and the same provisions for the payment of the interest which may accrue thereon, and for the final payment of the bonds when due, shall be made by the proper authorities as by law are prescribed for the payment of the bonds heretofore issued under the provisions of said act. 3714. SEC. 22. The funding commissioners shall receive in payment of all services Compensation. required to be performed by this act the same compensation as is provided by the act first above named.

pay interest.

3715. SEC. 23. The county treasurer shall at all times hereafter retain in his hands To retain funds sufficient to pay the interest that may accrue on said bonds from January to July sufficient to of each year, and every year until the first day of April of each and every year; and the holder or owner of any of said bonds may, at any time between the first day of January and the first day of April of each and every year, present to the county treasurer of said county, at his office, the coupons for the interest to become due on the first day of July then following, and the county treasurer shall pay and cancel the

Proviso.

Repealing clause.

same, deducting therefrom three per cent. on the dollar for all coupons so paid, and the three per cent. so retained and deducted by the county treasurer shall by him be set over to the general fund of the county, to be used for county purposes as directed by law; provided, that all coupons not presented and canceled as herein provided, the treasurer shall provide for and pay as provided in "An Act to provide for funding the indebtedness of the County of Yuba," approved March twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.

3716. SEC. 24. It shall not be lawful for the board of supervisors of the County of Yuba, except as this act provides, to make any assessment or levy any tax to be used or applied in any way for the payment or liquidation of any of the indebtedness mentioned in section eighteen of this act, and it shall not be lawful to pay any such indebtedness otherwise than by funding the same, and paying such funding bonds and the coupons thereon; and every such assessment or tax laid, or provision made for the payment thereof, contrary to the provisions of this act, shall be absolutely null and void; provided, that any indebtedness now existing against the hospital fund of said County of Yuba, shall be entitled to be paid in its regular order, as heretofore, out of any moneys in said fund, up to and including October first, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty; after which time it shall not be lawful to pay any of the indebtedness mentioned in section eighteen of this act, except as directed by the provisions of this section.

SEC. 25. All laws or parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act, so far as the same are applicable to the County of Yuba, are hereby repealed.

INDIGENT SICK OF BUTTE COUNTY.

Additional tax.

How collected

and applied.

An Act to provide for the indigent sick in the County of Butte.
Approved March 10, 1857, 72.

3717. SECTION 1. The board of supervisors of the County of Butte are hereby authorized to levy and collect, in addition to the taxes provided by law, an annual tax of one-eighth of one per cent. on the valuation of all pro; erty, real and personal, in said county, for the support and maintenance of the indigent sick of said county.

3718. SEC. 2. Said tax shall be collected at the same time, and by the same officer or officers, now authorized by law to collect State and county revenue, and shall not be appropriated or used for any other purpose than for the support and maintenance of the indigent sick of said county.

Repeal.

Act, how construed.

INDIGENT SICK OF TUOLUMNE COUNTY.

[An Act to authorize the court of sessions of the County of Tuolumne to levy and collect a special tax for the support and maintenance of the indigent sick of said county, passed April 13, 1854, 83, was repealed by the following act.]

An Act relating to the hospital affairs of Tuolumne County.

Approved April 14, 1857, 198.

3719. SECTION 1. "An Act to authorize the court of sessions of the County of Tuolumne to levy and collect a special tax for the support and maintenance of the indigent sick of said county," passed April 13th, 1854, is hereby repealed.

3720. SEC. 2. Section eight of "An Act to provide for the indigent sick in the counties of this State," passed April 11th, 1855, shall be so construed as to mean, in the County of Tuolumne, that the moneys arising from the taxes collected under said section eight, or under any other section of said act, shall be appropriated to the payment of the now outstanding hospital warrants, issued by the order of the board of supervisors of said Tuolumne County, for the past indebtedness of the county hospital.

Duties of supervisors.

INDIGENT SICK OF PLACER COUNTY.

[An Act concerning the indigent sick in the County of Placer (and expressly repealing the act of April 11, 1855, 67), approved April 24, 1857, 243, amended May 2, 1861, 264, was superseded by the following act.]

An Act in relation to the indigent sick of the County of Placer.(*)

Approved April 17, 1862, 263.

3721. SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of Placer County to make provisions for the indigent sick of the county, as follows:

(") See also a preceding act of March 28, 1856, 60.

First. For all indigent sick whose diseases are natural, or the result of unavoidable accidents, and who, when in health, had some lawful and visible means of support. Second. For all indigent sick whose diseases are not venereal, or the result of intemperance; provided, the board of supervisors shall not provide for the indigent sick of the second class, unless there is an unexpected balance in the hospital fund, after providing for all the indigent sick of the first class.

3722. SEC. 2. The board of supervisors shall not for any purpose audit any account Supervisors not to draw order, or permit the issuance of any order, payable out of the hospital fund, unless, at the except against time of auditing such account and the issuance of such order, there is an unexpended money in the fund. balance in the hospital fund to meet the payment of said order on presentation. 3723. SEC. 3. The county treasurer shall report to the board of supervisors, on the County treasurer to report. first day of each meeting of said board, the amount of money remaining in the hospital fund at the date of said report, subject to their order, and in no case shall the board of supervisors, at any such meeting, allow or direct the issuance of orders which will, singly or in the aggregate, exceed the sum reported by the treasurer to be subject to their order at said meetings; and in no case shall any order be issued payable out of any other than the hospital fund, for any service rendered for or in behalf of the indigent sick of the county; and any member of the board of supervisors, or county auditor, consenting to the issuance of any orders in violation of the provisions of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined in a sum double the amount of such order, and in default of payment, shall be imprisoned in the county jail for any time not exceeding sixty days; provided, that Proviso. nothing in this act contained shall be construed to prevent the board of supervisors from auditing and directing the issuance of orders on the general fund of the county (in case there is a deficiency in the hospital fund), for the discharge of any and all indebtedness which may have been incurred for the care and maintenance of the indigent sick prior to the passage of this act.

3724. SEC. 4. The board of supervisors shall have the power to contract for the Powers of board of supervisors. care, maintenance, and medical treatment of the indigent sick of the county; but all contracts shall particularly specify that the party or parties agreeing to keep such indigent sick shall accept, in full satisfaction for said contract, the money to be received into the hospital fund during the continuance of said contract; and said contract shall further specify the price per week at which each indigent sick patient shall be kept, which price shall not exceed twelve dollars per week.

benefits.

3725. SEC. 5. All applications for the benefits of this act shall be made to the board Applications for of supervisors, or some member thereof; and no person shall be admitted as a charge upon the county hospital fund until he or she shall first subscribe to an oath, before some person qualified to administer the same, specifying that he or she is indigent, sick, and has no means of sustenance here or elsewhere.

SEC. 6. All acts, and parts of acts, in conflict with the provisions in this act, are hereby repealed.

SEC. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

INDIGENT SICK OF TRINITY COUNTY.

An Act to provide for the maintenance of the indigent sick of the County of Trinity,

Approved March 16, 1858, 66.

3726. SECTION 1. The board of supervisors in and for the County of Trinity are Special tax. hereby authorized and empowered to levy annually, and cause to be collected, such special per capita tax as they may deem necessary, not to exceed the sum of four dollars from each taxable inhabitant thereof, which shall be appropriated to the maintenance of the indigent sick of said county.

3727. SEO. 2. The taxes by this act authorized to be levied, shall be collected by Collection. the assessor of the county, in the same manner, and settle for in the same manner, and at the same times as poll-taxes are now, or may hereafter by law be directed to be collected and settled for. The county auditor shall provide blank receipts for Receipts. the tax herein provided to be collected, signed by himself and countersigned by the county treasurer, and by the auditor delivered to the assessor, in such number and at such times as may be necessary; for which said receipts, so delivered, said assessor shall receipt to the auditor, and be charged therewith in a book to be kept for that purpose. Immediately on the delivery to the assessor of any number of receipts under this act, the auditor shall certify such fact to the county treasurer. All

taxes collected under this act shall constitute the special hospital fund of Trinity County.

3728. SEC. 3. The special hospital fund created by this act shall be subject only to the order of the board of supervisors of the county; and may be disposed of by said board in such manner as they may provide for the maintenance of the indigent sick.

3729. SEC. 4. For the duties provided to be discharged by county officers uuder this act, said officers shall receive the same fees, to be paid out of the taxes collected, as they severally receive for similar services in collecting poll-taxes; provided, said assessor shall not receive more than fifteen per cent. for collecting at any time.

3730. SEC. 5. The assessor, before any receipts for the taxes provided to be collected by this act shall be placed in his hands, shall execute a bond to the County of Trinity, in the sum of five thousand dollars, with good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the supervisors, conditioned that he will faithfully account for and pay over to the county treasurer all moneys received under the provisions of this act; and if said assessor shall fail, neglect, or refuse to give such bond, or, having given such bond, shall have suit commenced against him thereon by order of the board of supervisors, then said assessor is hereby declared to have forfeited his right to the collection of taxes under this act; and the sheriff of the county, upon filing the bond herein provided for, shall be vested with all the powers and duties hereby conferred upon said assessor.

Tax.

Special hospital fund.

Duty of treasurer.

Orders on special hospital fund.

INDIGENT SICK OF CALAVERAS COUNTY.

An Act to provide for the better maintenance of the indigent sick of Calaveras County
Approved April 21, 1860, 228.

3731. SECTION 1. The board of supervisors of Calaveras County are hereby legally authorized to levy annually, and cause to be collected, a special per capita tax, not to exceed the sum of one dollar for each taxable inhabitant thereof, to be appropri ated to the maintenance of the indigent sick of Calaveras County.

3732. SEC. 2. The tax specified by this act shall be collected in the same manner and by the same officers who are now empowered to collect the poll-tax of said county. And the said tax, when collected, shall be paid into the county treasury; and the treasurer shall receipt therefor, and the money thus collected shall be set apart and shall constitute and be known as the "Special Hospital Fund" of said county, and shall be used for the care and protection of the indigent sick of said county, and shall be appropriated for no other purpose.

3733. SEC. 3. The treasurer of the County of Calaveras shall cause to be procured blank receipts for the tax herein provided, which receipts shall be signed by the treasurer, and countersigned by the county recorder, and by the treasurer delivered to the poll-tax collectors, taking their receipts for the same, and making a registry of the same with the number thereof in a book to be kept by him for that purpose.

3734. SEC. 4. No money set apart under the provisions of this act for the benefit of the indigent sick shall be drawn from the hands of the treasurer, except upon the presentation of an order from the board of supervisors drawn on the special hospital fund. SEC. 5. The provisions of this act shall take effect from and after its passage.

Tax.

Manner of collection.

INDIGENT SICK OF NEVADA COUNTY.

An Act to provide for the better maintenance of the indigent sick of the County of Nevada.
Approved March 4, 1861, 33.

3735. SECTION 1. The board of supervisors, in and for the County of Nevada, are hereby authorized and empowered to levy and cause to be collected annually, in addition to the amount allowed to be collected by the provision of the eighth section of an act entitled An Act to provide for the indigent sick in the counties of this State, approved April the eleventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, such taxes, not exceeding one-tenth of one per cent. on the value of all taxable property of said county as by them may be deemed necessary and sufficient for the support of the resident indigent sick of said county.

3736. SEC. 2. The taxes specified in this act shall be collected in the same manner, and at the same time, and by the same officers, who are, or may be, appointed to col

lect county revenue; and the said taxes, when collected, shall be paid into the county treasury, and the treasurer shall receipt therefor; and the money thus collected shall constitute and be known as a part of the "Special Hospital Fund" of the County of Nevada, and shall be used for the care and protection of the indigent sick, and shall be appropriated for no other object.

3737. SEC. 3. No money, set apart under the provisions of this act for the benefit How drawn. of the indigent sick, shall be drawn from the hands of the officer, or officers, having

the charge of the same, according to law, except upon the presentation of the order

of the board of supervisors drawn on the hospital fund.

SEC. 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.

INDIGENT SICK OF SISKIYOU COUNTY.

An Act to provide for the better maintenance of the indigent sick of Siskiyou County.
Approved April 22, 1861, 212.

3738. SECTION 1. That the board of supervisors in and for the County of Siskiyou, Tax.
are hereby empowered to levy annually, and cause to be collected in said county, such
special per capita tax as they may deem necessary, not to exceed the sum of two dol-
lars for each taxable inhabitant thereof, to be appropriated to the maintenance of the
indigent sick of said county.

3739. SEC. 2. The board of supervisors of said county are also empowered to levy and Additional tax. cause to be collected annually, in addition to the amount allowed to be collected by the provision of the eighth section of an act entitled An Act to provide for the indigent sick in the counties of this State, approved April the eleventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, such taxes, not exceeding one-fourth of one per cent. on the value of all taxable property of said county, as may by them be deemed necessary and sufficient for the support of the resident indigent sick of said county.

3740. SEC. 3. The said taxes, when collected, shall constitute and be known as a Hospital fund. part of the special hospital fund of the County of Siskiyou, and shall be appropriated, under the direction of the board of supervisors, to the care and protection of the indigant sick in the supervisors' districts, respectively, in which said taxes were assessed and collected.

3741. SEC. 4. The taxes specified by this act shall be collected in the same manner Manner of coland at the same time as other taxes, and by the same officers who are, or may be, lecting taxes. appointed to collect county revenue; and the said taxes, when collected, shall be paid into the county treasury, and the treasurer shall receipt therefor.

3742. SEC. 5. The treasurer of the county shall cause to be provided blank receipts Blank receipts. for the tax herein provided for, which receipt shall be signed by the treasurer, and countersigned by the county recorder, and by the treasurer delivered to the county assessor, taking his receipt for the same, and making a registry of the same, with the number thereof, in a book to be kept by him for that purpose.

drawn.

3743. SEC. 6. No money set apart, under the provisions of this act, for the benefit Moneys, how of the indigent sick, shall be drawn from the hands of the officer, or officers, having charge of the same, according to law, except upon the presentation of the order of the board of supervisors, drawn on the hospital fund.

SEC. 7. All acts, or parts of acts, conflicting with the provisions of this act, are Repealing clause hereby rendered inapplicable to the County of Siskiyou.

SAN FRANCISCO CITY AND COUNTY.

3744. [The laws in regard to the indigent sick in San Francisco are a part and portion of the complicated system, known as the consolidated government. Powers of making appropriations out of the general fund are given to the board of supervisors, particularly by the act of April 4, 1863, 168.]

SACRAMENTO COUNTY.

3745. [The laws in regard to the indigent sick in Sacramento County are a portion of the acts providing for the government of that county, the principal of which is the act of April 25, 1863, 503.]

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