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Sureties released.

CHAP. CXXII.-An Act relating to the Sureties upon the Official
Bond of Henry Bates, late State Treasurer.

[Became a Law by operation of the Constitution, March 21, 1859.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The sureties upon the official bond of Henry Bates, late State Treasurer, are hereby released and discharged from all demands on the part of the State of California, for or on account of said bond, or on account of any judgment recovered against them, or any of them, upon said official bond.

[This bill having remained with the Governor ten days, (Sundays excepted,) and the Senate and Assembly being in session, it has become a law this twenty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

FERRIS FORMAN, Secretary of State.]

Court of

County Court.

CHAP. CXXIII.—An Act fixing the time of holding the Courts of Sessions, and County Courts, in the County of Shasta, and to change the manner of Summoning Juries for the County Court of said County.

[Approved March 18, 1859.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The Court of Sessions, and the County Court, in Sessions and and for the County of Shasta, shall hold a term on the first Monday of March, July, and November, of each year, and shall continue in session until the commencement of the next term, unless all the business of the County be sooner disposed of.

Order of business.

SEC. 2. At said terms, the business pertaining to the Court of Sessions shall be first disposed of, and after that, the business of the County Court, in the order in which said Courts are named; but this order shall be observed as a rule of precedence only, and after the business of one Court is disposed of, the business of the

other may be taken up, on the same day, in such order as the Court may determine.

SEC. 3. The County Judge may call and hold special terms Special of said Courts, whenever, in his opinion, the public interests re-terms. quire the same.

SEC. 4. The records of each of the said Courts shall be kept Records. separately, as required by law.

SEC. 5. The trial-jury summoned for the Court of Sessions in Trial-jury. said County shall be the trial-jury for the County Courts therein.

clause.

SEC. 6. All Acts, and parts of Acts, in conflict with the provi- Repealing sions of this Act, so far as they relate to the County of Shasta, are hereby repealed.

CHAP. CXXIV.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to create the office of State-Printer, to define the duties and compensation thereof, and provide for the time and manner of election," approved May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four.

[Approved March 21, 1859.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section nine of the Act of which this is amendatory is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Journals.

Section nine-There shall be printed, of the laws, resolutions, Laws and and memorials, of each session of the Legislature, one thousand five hundred copies in English, and of such laws and resolutions as may be designated [by] the Legislature for publication, three hundred copies in Spanish. Of the Journals of the Senate and Assembly there shall be printed five hundred copies, in one volume, or in two, as may be required by the size thereof; Provided, that all printing ordered under this Act shall be executed within the State of California.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on the first day of January Take effect. A. D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

CHAP. CXXV. An Act to enable parties therein named to partition

or sell Real Estate.

[Approved March 21, 1859.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

authorized

SECTION 1. Nicholas Pacheco, Ines Pacheco, and Lorenzo Minor heirs Pacheco, children of Lorenzo Pacheco, deceased, and of Rafaela to partition Soto de Pacheco, his wife, being minors, between the ages of fif- or sell real

estate.

Approval of

District
Judge.

Guardian to

teen and twenty-one years, are hereby severally authorized and empowered to join in deeds of partition of any real estate belonging to them, or in which they may be interested, in joint-tenancy, or tenants-in-common, with other person or persons, and to sell and convey such real estate, and execute, acknowledge, and deliver their deed therefor, with the same force and effect in all respects whatsoever, as if they had arrived at the full age of majority, their disability from nonage being hereby removed; but no deed of partition, or conveyance of any such interest, or estate, so executed by them, shall be effectual to convey the estate of said minors, or either of them, until the same shall have been submitted to, and approved by, the District Judge of the District in which the lands so partitioned, or conveyed, are situated.

SEC. 2. Such approval shall be in writing, and subscribed by said District Judge; and it shall be the duty of the County Recorder, in recording said deed, also to record the approval by the said District Judge as parcel thereof; and such record shall impart notice to all persons as fully as is or may be prescribed by law in any other cases.

SEC. 3. Prior to the approval of any sale made under the be appointed provisions of this Act, the Probate Judge of the County in which said property lies, shall appoint a special guardian to the minor heirs herein named, who shall cause the real estate aforesaid to be appraised by three disinterested householders of the County, which appraisement shall be filed with the Clerk of the Probate Court, and a duplicate thereof with the Clerk of the District Court of said County, and said District Judge shall not approve any sale made under the provisions of this Act for a less sum than the said appraised value. The said guardian shall give bond to said. minors for the faithful execution of his trust under this Act, and also for the careful management and due application to the maintenance and education of said minors, so far as necessary, of any moneys that may come to his possession as such guardian, and for the final accounting and paying over to said persons of all moneys remaining in his hands, and to which they may be entitled.

Authorized to sell.

CHAP. CXXVI.—An Act to authorize the Executor of the Estate of Joshua W. Redman, deceased, to sell the Real Estate of said deceased at public or private sale.

[Approved March 21, 1859.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The executor of the estate of Joshua W. Redman, deceased, is hereby authorized to sell the real estate of said deceased, or any part or portion thereof, or any right, title, or interest in real property, belonging to or claimed by said deceased in his lifetime, on such terms and in such manner, at public or private sale, as may be most advantageous to said estate.

Such sales shall be made under the order of the Probate Court of Santa Clara County, and shall not be definitive until reported to and approved by said Court; Provided, that ten days notice. of the application for approval of such sales shall be given, by posting in three public places in the County aforesaid.

SEC. 2. After the approval of the sale by the Probate Court, Conveyance. said executor shall make to the purchasers a conveyance of the lands, rights, titles, or interest sold, which conveyance shall be valid and binding.

SEC. 3. If the Judge be satisfied that the price is dispropor- In case of tionate to the value of the property sold, and that a price can disapproval. be obtained at least ten per cent. higher, he shall not approve or confirm the sale, but shall order a new sale of the property.

CHAP. CXXVII.-An Act to confirm and legalize certain Assessment-Rolls of the City and County of San Francisco, and to provide for the collection of the Delinquent Taxes thereon.

[Approved March 22, 1859.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

legalized.

SECTION 1. The assessment-roll or tax-list of the City and Tax-list County of San Francisco, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of 1857 day of June, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, is hereby ratified, legalized, and confirmed, and the same is declared to be legal and binding as a good and valid tax-list or assessment-roll of said City and County, and the said tax-list or assessment-roll (or the duplicate thereof,) is hereby made. and declared to be a sufficient warrant, in the hands of the present Tax-Collector, or his successors in office, to authorize him or them to collect and enforce the collection of such taxes therein assessed as remain unpaid at the passage of this Act, so long as any of said taxes shall remain unpaid.

legalized.

SEC. 2. The tax-list or assessment-roll, as completed by the Tax-list Acting Assessor of the City and County of San Francisco, for of 1858 the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, and delivered to the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, and corrected by the Board of Equalization, and delivered to the County Auditor, and by him delivered as corrected to the Tax-Collector of said City and County, and afterwards corrected according to the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to confirm and legalize the tax-list or assessment-roll of the City and County of San Francisco, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, and to provide for the collection of delinquent taxes thereon," approved January thirtieth, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, is hereby confirmed, and declared to be legal and binding as a good and valid tax-list or assessment-roll, and in all respects sufficient in law, as the duplicate assessment-list of said

Tax-list of 1859 legalized.

Board of

Equalization

Meetings.

City and County for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, and the same is, and shall be, a full and sufficient warrant, in the hands of the Tax-Collector to authorize and empower him to collect the taxes therein assessed, so long as any of said taxes shall remain unpaid.

SEC. 3. The tax-list or assessment-roll, as completed by the Acting Assessor of the City and County of San Francisco, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, and delivered to the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, and corrected by the Board of Equalization, and delivered to the County Auditor-a duplicate of which, as corrected, was delivered to the Tax-Collector of said City and County is hereby confirmed, together with the said duplicate in the hands of said Tax-Collector, and declared to be legal and binding as a good and valid tax-list or assessment-roll, and the said duplicate shall be sufficient in law as the duplicate assessment-list of said City and County of San Francisco for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, and the same is, and shall be, a full and sufficient warrant, in the hands of said Tax-Collector, and his successors in office, to authorize and empower him and them to collect the taxes therein assessed, so long as any of said taxes shall remain unpaid.

SEC. 4. The Board of Supervisors of said City and County of San Francisco shall meet as a Board of Equalization at the City-Hall, in said City and County, the last Monday of March, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, and shall hold sessions from day to day, twelve days, Sundays excepted.

The Tax-Collector shall, at all their said sessions, have before them the assessment-rolls, or the duplicate assessment-rolls, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and June thirtieth, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, and June thirtieth, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. And the said Board of Equalization shall, during said sessions, have power to correct or remit any assessment in either or any of the said assessment-rolls. At the close of the session on the last day herein named for the meeting of said Board of Equalization, the Clerk of said Board shall furnish the Auditor of said City and County with a list of corrections and remissions made by said Board, and the said Auditor shall take note of all such corrections or remissions of any and all assessments in said assessment-rolls, or said duplicate assessment-rolls, and shall correct his books accordingly. Said assessment-rolls, or duplicate assesment-rolls, shall be immediately re-delivered to the said Tax-Collector.

SEC. 5. The President of the Board of Supervisors shall give notice of the time when, the place where, and the number of days, the said Board of Supervisors will continue their sitting as a Board of Equalization to correct the said assessments. Said notice shall be published in at least three daily newspapers published in said City and County, and shall be published for the first time at least four days before the first session of said Board of Equalization as herein before provided for, and shall continue to be published from day to day until the last sitting of said Board of Equalization.

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