Acquire property for the county. Provide 8. To purchase, receive by donation, or lease any real or personal property necessary for the use of the county, preserve, take care of, manage, and control the same; but no purchase of real property must be made unless the value of the same has been previously estimated by three disinterested citizens of the county, appointed by them for that purpose, and no more than the appraised value must be paid therefor. 9. To cause to be erected and furnished a Court buildings. House, Jail, Hospital, and such other public buildings as may be necessary. May sell county property. Audit accounts of officers. Allow accounts. Levy tax for current expenses. Board of tion. To direct legal pro 10. To sell at public auction at the Court House door, after thirty days previous notice given by publication in a newspaper of the county, or posted in five public places of the county, and convey to the highest bidder, for cash, any property, real or personal, belonging to the county, paying the proceeds into the County Treasury for the use of the county. 11. To examine and audit the accounts of all officers having the care, management, collection, or disbursement of moneys belonging to the county, or appropriated by law or otherwise for its use and benefit. 12. To examine, settle, and allow all accounts legally chargeable against the county, except salaries of officers, and order warrants to be drawn on the County Treasurer therefor, and provide for the issuing of the same. 13. To levy such tax annually on the taxable property of the county as may be necessary to defray the current expenses thereof, including salaries otherwise unprovided for, not exceeding one dollar on every one hundred dollars of value for any one year; and to levy such taxes as are required to be levied by special or local statutes. 14. To equalize the assessments. 15. To direct and control the prosecution and deceedings. fense of all suits to which the county is a party. property. 16. To insure the county buildings in the name of To insure and for the benefit of the county. franchises. 17. To grant licenses and franchises, as provided by To grant law, for constructing, keeping, and taking tolls on roads, bridges, ferries, wharves, chutes, and piers. pensation 18. To fix the compensation of all county officers Fix comnot otherwise in this Code or by general or special of officers. law fixed, and provide for the payment of the same. vacancies. 19. To fill by appointment all vacancies that may To fill occur in county or township offices, except those of County Judge and Supervisor. health reg 20. To adapt to the county the provisions in this To ordain Code, for the preservation of the health of San Fran- ulations. cisco or Sacramento, for such limited time as they may deem proper, and to provide for the expenses thereof. for 21. To contract for the county printing, and provide To contract books and stationery for county officers. printing. proceed 22. At the adjournment of each session of the Board To publish to cause to be published in a newspaper or otherwise ings. a fair statement of all their proceedings, and semiannually a statement of the financial condition of the county. certain reg 23. To make regulations for the destruction of May ordain gophers, squirrels, other wild animals, and noxious ulations. weeds, and to levy a special tax of not exceeding three cents on each one hundred dollars of taxable property, wherewith to pay rewards therefor. To make regulations for the protection of game, fish, and shellfish, and for the prevention of injuries to sheep by dogs, and to tax dogs, and direct the application of the tax. When such regulations are made as provided in this an section relating to game and fish, the laws of the State for the protection thereof are suspended in such May ordain Board. May pro- May do all 24. To make and enforce such rules and regulations for the government of their body, the preservation of order, and the transaction of business, as may be necessary. 25. To adopt a seal for their Board, a description and impression whereof must be filed by their Clerk in the offices of the County Clerk and Secretary of State. 26. To do and perform all other acts and things required by law not in this Title enumerated, or which may be necessary to the full discharge of the duties of the chief executive authority of the county gov ernment. 43 Cal 91 44 Cal 496 N.S. 4048. Enacted in 1880.3/3. 1587 a 1880 62 NOTE.-In People vs. El Dorado County, 8 Cal., p. Secs. 3672-3682, ante, and notes. Consolidate offices.- 4047. Contracts how made, 1840 712. must be made with lowest bidder Board has power to preserve Orcher, and decorum in their meet. ings. require Sheriff to attend &c. ARTICLE III. OTHER POWERS AND RESTRICTIONS. SECTION 4064. Provide appliances for holding elections. 4065. Certificates issued, as Board of Canvassers. 4066. Appointments must be made on petition. 4067. Power to require attendance of witnesses. 4068. Examination of witnesses. 4069. Officers and witnesses not to be prepaid. 4070. When Board must not allow claims or contract debts. 4073. Account must be filed prior to session. 4074. What claims to be rejected. Proceedings on part allowance. 4075. Claimant may sue, when, and when recover costs. paid. 4077. In what transactions Supervisors not to be interested. 4079. Notices, how given. 4080. Provide for cultivating shade and ornamental trees. 4081. Require Assessors to report statistics. 4082. Claims in favor of Supervisors. 4083. Annual statement, when made and what to contain. 4084. Receive and apply donations of land, etc., to specific purposes. 4085. Improve streams not navigable. 4086. What may be recovered on bond. 4087. Chapter does not apply to San Francisco. appliances for holding elections. 4064. The Board must provide all poll lists, poll Provide books, blank returns and certificates, proclamations of elections, and other appropriate and necessary appliances for holding all elections in the county, and allow reasonable charges therefor, and for the transmission and return of the same to the proper officers. NOTE.-Stats. 1865-6, p. 511, Sec. 7. For other duties see Title "Of Elections," Secs. 1055, 1056, 11271131, 1278, 1297, ante; Title "State Militia," Sec. 1899, et alia, ante; Title "Revenue," Secs. 3672-3682; Title "Highways," Articles I to VIII, Chap. IV; Articles I, II, III, “Toll Roads," Chap. V; "Public Ferries and Toll Bridges," Secs. 2842, et seq., Chap. VI; "Wharves, Chutes, and Piers," Sec. 2906, et seq.; Certificates Appointments must "Health," Secs. 3059, 3063, ante; Title VIII, "Public Lands," Chap. I, Secs. 3446-3487, et alia, and elsewhere in this Code, under appropriate heads. 4065. Whenever, as canvassers, the Board of Supervisors have declared the result of an election held in the county, certificates must be by their Clerk issued to all persons elected to a county office or to a township or district office therein, and such other certificates must be made out and transmitted as required by the Title relative to "Elections." NOTE.-Stats. 1861, p. 511, Sec. 2. See Secs. 1283, 1284, 1285, ante. 4066. No appointment to fill a vacancy in office be made on must be made by the Board except upon petition, petition. Power to require at witnesses signed by at least thirty qualified electors of the county, if for a county office, or by not less than fifteen of the qualified electors of the township or district, if for a township or district office. NOTE.-Stats. 1863, p. 26, Sec. 1. 4067. The Board may, by their Chairman or the tendance of Chairman of any committee, issue subpœnas to compel the attendance of any person and the production of any books or papers relating to the affairs of the county, for the purpose of examination upon any matter within their jurisdiction. Examination of witnesses. 4068. A witness is bound to attend, when served, and to answer all questions which he would be bound to answer in the same case before a Court of justice. Disobedience to the subpoena, or to an order to attend, or to testify, may be enforced by the Board, and for that purpose the Board has all the powers conferred by, and the witness is subject to all the provisions of, Chapter II, Title III, Part IV, of THE CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE. 4069. Neither the officers serving subpoenas nor the witnesses subpoenaed to testify in relation to mat |