attorneys who shall sign the necessary documents, and to provide for the collection of an annual tax, sufficient to pay the interest on such judgment as it falls due, and such a proportion of the principal thereof as is designated in such notice of election.

Sec. 2. No proceeding under section one hereof shall affect the rights of any non-consenting holder of any bond or bonds specified in the notice of election.

Sec. 3. In any action brought upon any of the bonds described in the notice of election, the judgment of any court of competent jurisdiction in such action, shall be conclusive as to the regularity of all proceedings taken under the provisions of section one of this act.

Sec. 4. Whenever any action is brought upon any of the bonds described in the notice of election, the plaintiff shall be required to deposit in the court in which such action is brought, the bonds upon which he sues and when the judgment of such court, rendered in accordance with the terms of the proposed compromise described in such notice of election, becomes final, the bonds sued upon shall be delivered to the treasurer of the city or town against which such judgment is rendered, to be held by him and his successors in office until such judgment shall have been satisfied in full. If for any reason such judgment should be reversed or set aside or any orders or writs thereunder should be disobeyed by the defendant or its officers, it shall be the duty of such treasurer to return such bonds to the plaintiff who thereupon may at his own option be relegated to all the rights which he held and enjoyed under such bonds, crediting, however, on such rights, all amounts already received on such judgment. The performance of the duty imposed herein upon such treasurer may be enforced by the court in which such judgment is rendered.

Sec. 5. All acts or parts of acts conflicting with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6. This act shall take effect immediately.

ACT 387.

An act in relation to municipal bonds.

[Approved February 28, 1903; Stats. 1903, 61.]

The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Whenever the owner of any coupon bond, or of any bond payable to bearer, already issued or here

after issued by any municipal corporation now or hereafter existing in this state, shall present any such bond to the treasurer or other officer of such corporation, who by law performs the duties of treasurer, with a request for the conversion of such bond into a registered bond, such treasurer, or such other officer, shall cut off and cancel the coupons of any such coupon bond so presented, and shall stamp, print, or write upon such coupon bond, or such other bond payable to bearer, so presented, either upon the back or upon the face thereof, as may be convenient, a statement to the effect that the said bond is registered in the name of the owner, and that thereafter the interest and principal of said bond are payable to the registered owner. Thereafter, and from time to time any such bond may be transferred by such registered owner in person, or by attorney duly authorized on presentation of such bond to such treasurer, or such other officer, and the bond be against registered as before, a similar statement being stamped, printed, or written thereon. Such statement stamped, printed, or written upon any such bond may be in substantially the following form:

(Date, giving month, year, and day.) This bond is registered pursuant to the statute in such cases made and provided in the name of (here insert name of owner) and the interest and principal thereof are hereafter payable to such owner.

Treasurer (or such other officer).

After any bond shall have been registered as aforesaid, the principal and interest of such bond shall be payable to the registered owner, Such treasurer, or such other officer, shall keep in his office a book or books which shall at all times show what bonds are registered and in whose names respectively.

Sec. 2. Whenever under any statute of this state or any charter of any municipal corporation in this state, any bonds are issued, whether the proceedings for the issuance of such bonds have been had in whole or in part prior to the enactment of this statute, or whether the same have been had in whole or in part after the enactment of this statute, such bonds may be issued either in the form of coupon bonds, or in the form of registered bonds, or some in the form of coupon bonds, and some in the form of registered bonds, as has been or hereafter may be provided in the proceedings for the issuance of such bonds, and notwithstanding any language or provision to the contrary

contained in any such statute or charter authorizing the issuance of the bonds, or in any other law of the state. The provisions of section one of this act shall apply to coupon bonds, so issued, as well as to other coupon bonds, or other bonds payable to bearer.

Sec. 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

Authorizing boards of supervisors to grant franchises for constructing booms. [Stats. 1881, p. 25.]

Superseded by subi. 35, sec. 25, County Government Act, 1897, 166. Repealed 1901, 365.

To provide for the correction and establishment of the eastern boundary of the state. [Stats. 1889, p. 38.]

year.

Perhaps obsolete, for it provided the work was to be done in one

ACT 398.

To define and establish a portion of the eastern boundary of the state of California. [Became a law under constitutional provision without governor's approval, March 1, 1901. Stats. 1901, p. 89.]

Fixing a bounty on coyote scalps. [Stats. 1891, p. 280.]

Repealed 1895, 1.

To settle land titles in the town of Branciforte, Santa Cruz County. [Stats. 1863-4, p. 443.]

АСТ 413.

TITLE 58.

BRAZOS DEL RIO.

Changing the name of the town of Brazos del Rio in Solano County to Rio Vista. [Stats. 1861, p. 12.]

АСТ 418.

TITLE 59.
BRIDGES.

Authorizing cities to maintain drawbridges across navigable streams flowing through or penetrating the boundaries of such cities. [Stats. 1883, p. 295.]

АСТ 419.

An act concerning bridges across navigable streams. [Approved February 25, 1897; Stats. 1897, 21.] Section 1. The board of supervisors of any county in this state now controlling or maintaining, by virtue of any statute, any bridge across any navigable stream wholly or in part within the boundary lines of any municipal corporation, is hereby authorized and empowered, whenever it may become necessary, in the interest of commerce or by reason of any such bridge being out of repair, to reconstruct and rebuild any part of such bridge, or replace said bridge by a new structure, or with the consent of the governing bodies of such municipalities change the location of such bridge to such place on such stream as may be better suited to its use, or to the use of such navigable stream; and the board of supervisors of any county is hereby authorized to abandon any such existing bridge and rebuild a new bridge at such changed location, and the board of supervisors of any such county so rebuilding and reconstructing said bridge may enter into an agreement with any person or corporation, now maintaining any bridge across any such navigable stream, for the building of a joint bridge for the purpose of preventing the impeding of commerce on such navigable streams, and of apportioning the expense between caid county and said person or any corporation, in such manner as may be agreed upon between said county and said person, or corporation.

Sec. 2. The expense of said reconstruction, or the building of a new bridge, to be payable out of the same fund

as is now provided by law for the maintenance and repair of any such bridge; provided, that in case said county should make such agreement with said person or corporation for the building of any joint bridge, that only the county's portion of said joint bridge, as may be settled by said agreement, shall be paid from the said funds; and, provided, that in no event shall the county pay more than one-half the cost of construction, repair or reconstruction of any such joint bridge.

Sec. 3. All acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

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

ACT 420.

An act to provide for bridges across navigable streams, and across estuaries, ponds, swamps, or arms of bay that may be outside of the line of navigable waters.

[Approved March 14, 1881; Stats. 1881, 76.]

Power of supervisors to erect bridges.

Section 1. The power to erect bridges on public highways across navigable streams in this state, or to grant franchises to individuals, or corporations for the same, is hereby granted to the boards of supervisors of the several counties of the state, under the restrictions of this act.

Regulation of tolls, by whom exercised.

Sec. 2. The power to grant franchises to individuals or corporations to construct bridges, and the regulation of tolls thereon, shall be exercised by the county on the left bank of all streams.

Supervisors may join between counties.

Sec. 3. Where a navigable stream is the boundary line betweer the counties, the boards of supervisors of such counties may join in the construction of a bridge, upon such terms as may be agreed upon; provided, however, that in case of a failure to agree, either county may build the bridge and maintain control thereof.

Notify state engineer.

Sec. 4. Whenever the supervisors of any county or counties desire to erect a bridge on any public highway, or