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to construct a bridge.

CHAP. CCXLVIII.-An Act to authorize the San Francisco and

Marysville Railroad Company to construct and maintain a Railroad Bridge across Feather River, and for other purposes.

[Approved April 15, 1859.) The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The said incorporated Company, “ The San Fran- Authorized cisco and Marysville Railroad Company,” are hereby authorized tridxtruct and granted the privilege of constructing and keeping, across Feather River, above the mouth of Yuba River, on the line of their road, as now, or as may be hereafter, located and established by said Company, a railroad bridge, for the use and benefit of said road.

SEC. 2. That for the purpose aforesaid, and for the like con- Net navigastruction and maintenance of any other bridge or bridges, by any other person or persons, or corporation, now authorized and empowered so to do, other than said Railroad Company, the said Feather River, at and for the distance of one-half mile above the location of the line of said railroad across said river, and to a point fifty feet below the location of the bridge now in use, between the City of Marysville and Yuba City, be, and the same is hereby, declared not navigable, except for such vessels, or water-crafts, as shall not, in any manner, injure or interfere with the maintenance of said bridge or bridges, as aforesaid.

ble.

CHAP. CCXLIX.--An Act amendatory of an Act to amend an Act

entitled “An Act to establish an Asylum for the Insune of the State of California," passed May seventeenth, eighteen hundred and fiftythree, amended April sixteenth, cighteen hundred and fifty-eight.

[Approved April 15, 1859.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section four of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section four—The Trustees shall have power to make by-laws Board of for their own government, and the government of the Asylum, not repugnant to the laws of the United States or of this State. They shall cause to be kept a record of their proceedings, which shall, at all times, be open to the inspection of any citizen interested therein. On or before the fifteenth day of December, of each year, an annual report shall be forwarded to the Governor, for his inspection, and by him submitted to the Legislature, showing the annual receipts and expenditures, the condition of the Asylum, the number of patients admitted during the year, the

Powers of
Trustees.

number remaining in the Asylum at the date of the report, and such other matters touching the general affairs of the Asylum as they may deem advisable. They shall make a thorough visitation of the Asylum, monthly. At the end of each year, a full and detailed statement shall be drawn up by the Trustees, and submitted to the Governor on or before the fifteenth day of December of each year, to be transmitted to the Legislature on the meeting thereof. They shall have stated meetings at least once a month, and a majority shall constitute a quorum to transact business. The Trustees shall not be directly or indirectly interested in any contract or supplies furnished said Asylum ; but said Trustees shall receive, for their services, the sum of ten dollars per day for their expenses in attending monthly (or called) meetings of said Board, payable out of the Fund for the support of the Insane Asylum, as other accounts against the Asylum are paid ; Provided, that the amount so received shall not exceed the sum of one hundred and thirty dollars, each, for one year.

CHAP. CCL.–An Act to legalize and confirm the Election of County

Surveyor of Butte County.

[Approved April 15, 1859. The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. The election of County Surveyor, in the County of Butte, at the general election on the first day of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, is hereby made legal and valid, until the first day of January, of the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty, and all acts done by him, or his Deputies, in relation thereto, shall bave full force and effect.

Election legalized.

CHAP. CCLI.-An Act supplementary to an Act "Fixing the time of

Holding the Court of Sessions and County Court, in the County of Tuolumne," approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine.

[Approved April 15, 1859.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows : SECTION 1. Section one of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section one—The Courts of Sessions and County Courts, in and for the County of Tuolumne, shall be holden on the first Monday of January, May, and September, of each year, and may continue

Term fixed.

in session until the commencement of the next term, unless all the business of the Courts be sooner disposed of.

CHAP. CCLII.-An Act to amend the seventy-first section of an Act

entitled an Act to repeal the several Charters of the City of San Francisco, to establish the Boundaries of the City and County of San Francisco, and to consolidate the Government thereof, approved April nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

[Approved April 16, 1859.) The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section seventy-one of an Act entitled an Act to repeal the several charters of the City of San Francisco, and to consolidate the Government thereof, approved April nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, is amended so as to read as follows:

Section seventy-one--The Board of Supervisors shall have Taxation. power to levy, and collect, in the mode prescribed by law for the assessment and collection of taxes, by tax, each year, upon all property in said City and County, not exempt from taxation, such amount as they may deem sufficient to provide for the payment of all demands upon the treasury thereof, authorized by law to be paid out of the same; Provided, that such taxation, exclusive of the State tax, and exclusive of any special tax, shall not, in the aggregate, for all the purposes of said City and County tax, exceed the rate of two dollars and twenty-five cents upon each one hundred dollars valuation; And provided, further, that the said Board of Supervisors shall, in making the levy of said taxes, apportion and divide the taxes so levied, to be levied, collected, and applied to specific purposes, as hereinafter provided.

First—For the Corporation Debt Fund, not to exceed one dol-Corporation lar upon each one hundred dollars' valuation, as aforesaid, which Debt Fund. shall be applied to the payment of demands authorized under the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and tenth subdivisions of section ninety-five of this Act, as amended April eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, and of section seven of an Act entitled an Act to provide for the funding and payment of the outstanding unfunded claims against the City of San Francisco, and against the County of San Francisco, as they existed prior to the first day of July, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, approved April twentieth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.

Second-For the School Fund, not to exceed thirty-five cents School Fund. upon each one hundred dollars, as aforesaid, which shall be applied to the payment of demands authorized under the second and ninth subdivisions of section ninety-five of this Act, as amended April eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.

General
Fund.

Third-For the General Fund, not to exceed seventy-five cents upon each one hundred dollars valuation, as aforesaid, which shall be applied: first, to the payment of demands authorized under the first, third, eloventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth subdivisions of section ninety-five of this Act, as amended April eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, and for the payment of any sum authorized by any special Act; and for the payment of demands not exceeding eight thousand dollars, in any fiscal year, for the purchase and erection of hydrants, ununder the first section of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the purchase and erection of hydrants in the City and County of San Francisco, approved March seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine; Provided, that from the first day of January to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, the amount so allowed shall not exceed seven thousand dollars; and, after all the foregoing demands are provided for and satisfied, for the payment of demands authorized under the fifteenth subdivision of section ninety-five of this Act, as amended April eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty

seven.

Street-light
Fund.

Fourth-For the Street light Fund, fifteen cents upon each one hundred dollars which shall be paid for lighting the streets of said City with gas, and for the repair of lamps and posts, in pursuance of the provisions of the present contract of said City and County with the San Francisco Gas Company, upon demands to be audited and allowed. And no money shall be transferred from cither of the said Funds to another, nor used in paying any demand upon such other Fund until all the indebtedness arising in any fiscal

year and payable out of said Fund, so raised for said fiscal year, shall have been paid and discharged.

The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco is hereby authorized to repeal any order heretofore passed by them for the purpose of levying a tax for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

The time for levying taxes for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty, for State, City, and County purposes, and taxes authorized by any special law in and for the City and County of San Francisco, is hereby extended until the first Monday of May, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, and the Board of Supervisors of said City and County is hereby authorized and directed to levy such taxes on or before the first Monday of May, as aforesaid.

Time extended.

CHAP. CCLIII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled “ An Act to amend

an Act entitled an Act to change the time of holding the Court of Sessions, and County Court, in the County of Napa, approved April twentieth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.

[Approved April 15, 1859.]

Sessions.

Court.

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

Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section second of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

The Court of Sessions, in and for Napa County, shall be held Court of at the County-seat of said County, on the first Monday of April, September, and December, of each year; also, a term of the County Court, in and for said County, shall be held at the County County-seat of said County, on the second Monday of March, and July, and the first Monday of November, of each year; and a term of the Probate Court, in and for said County, on the third Probate Monday of March, and July, and second Monday of November, of each year; and the terms of each of said Courts shall continue till all the business thereof is disposed of, but the Judge, or Judges thereof, may adjourn each, or any one of said Courts, from day to day, or from time, to time, so that the sessions shall not interfere with each other.

SEC. 2. All Acts, or parts of Acts, contrary to, or inconsist- Pepealing ent with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed.

Court.

clauso.

CHAP. CCLIV.-An Act to legalize certain Acts of the Board of

Supervisors. of San Bernardino County, as a Board of Equalization.

[Approved April 15, 1859.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The acts of the Board of Supervisors of San Ber- Proceedings nardino County, sitting as a Board of Equalization, subsequent

legalized. to September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in relation to the amount of taxes assessed on the Williams' estate, so called, and other property, whereby said assessment was reduced to the amount of eleven hundred and thirty dollars ($1,130) is hereby declared lawful.