Time fixed. Repealing clause. CHAP. CCLV.—An Act to fix the Time of holding the Court of Sessions, County Courts, and Probate Court, in the County of Solano. [Approved April 15, 1859.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Court of Sessions, the County Court, and Probate Court, in the County of Solano, shall, from and after the first day of May, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fiftynine, be held as follows: the Court of Sessions of said County shall be held on the third Mondays of April, August, and December, of each year, and shall continue until all the business is disposed of; the County Court of said County shall be held on the third Mondays of February, June, and October, of each year, and shall continue until all the business is disposed of; the Probate Court of said County shall be held on the first Monday of each month, and may adjourn from day to day, or continue until all the business be disposed of. SEc. 2. All Acts, or parts of Acts, inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed. Authorized a bridge. CHAP. CCLVI.-An Act to grant the right to construct a Bridge across the Colorado River, at or near Fort Yuma, to certain parties therein named. [Approved April 16, 1859.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. George A. Johnson, George F. Hooper L. J. F. to construct Jaeger, together with such associates as they may admit, shall take, have, possess, and enjoy, all the rights, privileges, rights of way, franchises, and immunities, hereinafter mentioned, upon condition that they and their associates shall incorporate themselves under the general laws of the State regulating corporations, and providing for the incorporations of bridge companies, and shall adopt the name of the Colorado Bridge Company, and shall abide by and fulfill the further conditions hereinafter mentioned. SEC. 2. Said Company, when incorporated, as aforesaid, shall have full power to build, erect, construct, and maintain a public toll-bridge across the River Colorado, at or near Fort Yuma, near the junction of the Colorado and the Gila River, in the County of San Diego, and have and enjoy all the rights, privileges, and immunities, thereunto appertaining, and shall have the right of way across said river, and the privilege of using the same for that purpose, which is hereby granted and ceded to said Company for the term of twenty years; Provided, within one year from the date of the passage of this Act, the said Company shall commence the construction of said bridge, and within two years shall build and fully complete the same; otherwise, the right to construct the same shall be forfeited, and this Act become null and void; said Company shall, at all times, after its completion, keep said bridge in passable order and condition, and shall be responsible for any damage arising to persons or property crossing said bridge, caused by neglect to keep said bridge in proper repair and condition, After the expiration of ten years from the completion of said bridge, the County of San Diege shall have the right to purchase the same, at an appraised value, to be determined by five appraisers, two to be selected by the Bridge Company, two by the County aforesaid, and one to be selected by the four appraisers herein before provided for; and such value shall be estimated to be the value of the bridge, not including the franchise or right of way, but the franchise and right of way shall pass to the purchaser with the bridge; And provided, further, that if the said bridge be purchased by the County aforesaid, then the right to levy and collect tolls shall not continue longer than necessary to reimburse the County for the amount expended in the purchase and repairs of said bridge. SEC. 3. The said bridge shall be constructed on the best and Plin. most approved plan, in a substantial manner, and of the most durable materials; and said bridge shall be constructed at a sufficient elevation above the surface of the water, so as at all times to permit steamboats, and all other vessels, to pass and repass under the same, without let or hindrance, and so as not to prevent or interrupt the use of said river for rafts, and for running timber. SEC. 4. The said Company, upon the erection and completion Rates of toll. of said bridge, shall be authorized and empowered to charge and collect such rates of toll as the Board of Supervisors of San Diego County may fix, annually; Provided, that the Legislature may at all times modify or change the rates so fixed by said Board of Supervisors, and may authorize the erection of other bridges across said river, at any point where public convenience may require. SEC. 5. Said Company may regulate and determine the speed Regulations. of travel, riding, or driving, upon said bridge, and may require the speed not to be faster than a walk, and for each violation may recover judgment before any competent Court, for any damages by said Company, sustained by such travel, riding, or driving, exceeding the speed authorized by said Company. SEC. 6. Said Company shall keep, in some conspicuous place, at each end of the bridge, a bulletin-board, which shall contain Bulletin. the scale of prices, and notice of speed allowed on said bridge; Provided, that nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to in any way prevent the Board of Supervisors of San Diego County from granting license to the present Ferry Company, or establishing and licensing any other ferry that the said Board may deem necessary for the convenience of the public. $500. CHAP. CCLVII-An Act to appropriate Money to pay F. Castro. [Approved April 16, 1859.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay F. Castro, for arresting a murderer, named Pio Lencares, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-eight. Sign all blanks. Deputy. Compensat❜n $2400. CHAP. CCLVIII.-An Act requiring the Controller of State to sign [Approved April 16, 1859.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Controller of State is hereby authorized and required to sign, or cause to be signed, all blank poli-tax and military receipts, all foreign miners' and State and County licenses, required to be issued from his office, in accordance to law. SEC 2. The Controller of State is hereby authorized to appoint a Deputy, whose duty it shall be to sign the name of the Controller of State to all poll-tax and military receipts, all foreign miners' and State and County licenses. SEC. 3. Said Deputy shall receive, as compensation for his services, the sum of two hundred dollars per month. SEC. 4. The sum of twenty-four hundred dollars is hereby set apart, out of any money in the General Fund not otherwise appropriated, to carry out the provisions of this Act. CHAP. CCLIX.-An Act relating to the care and treatment of the [Approved April 16, 1859.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the County of Yuba shall have power to take care of, and provide for, the indigent sick of said County, but if the care and treatment of said indigent sick in said County shall be let out by contract, the County shall not be bound in any such contract, in a greater sum than one dollar per day, for the treatment and care of each indigent $1 per day. sick person; Provided, this Act shall not affect any contract now existing. SEC. 2. All laws, and parts of laws, inconsistent with the Repealing foregoing, are hereby repealed. clause. CHAP. CCLX.-An Act to change the Name of John Henry Kounse to that of John Lee Cambridge. [Approved April 16, 1859.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for the person heretofore known Change of as John Henry Kounse, to change his name to John Lee Cam- name. bridge. CHAP. CCLXI.-An Act to change the Name of Julien Neuschwau der. [Approved April 16, 1859.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Change of SECTION 1. The change, by Julien Neuschwauder, of his name to Neuschwauder Julien, is hereby declared to be lawful, and all name. contracts entered into by him shall be valid, in favor of or against him, in the name of Neuschwauder Julien. CHAP. CCLXII.—An Act to authorize the Counties of the State of [Approved April 16, 1859.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and for stock. SECTION 1. Any of the Counties of this State are hereby au- Authorized thorized to subscribe for stock, or purchase stock, and become to subscribe stockholders in any railroad company now organized, or now being organized, or which may hereafter organize, for the construction of a railroad, extending in whole or in part through such County, not exceeding in amount five per cent. on the taxa Petition. Submitted to vote. By ballot. In case of approval. To issue bonds. ble property of any such County, as shown by the last preceding assessment-roll, in the manner following: SEC. 2. Whenever a petition, signed by fifty of the qualified electors of the County, owning real estate in the County, to subscribe for stock, or purchase stock, in any designated railroad, extending in whole or in part through such County, and specify. ing the amount of stock it is desired the County shall take, shall be presented to the Board of Supervisors of any County of this State, said Board of Supervisors shall cause to be entered in the journal of their proceedings a copy of said petition, and shall submit to the qualified electors of said County, at the next general election thereafter, or at a special election called therefor, the proposition, whether or not said stock shall be subscribed for, or purchased, as petitioned for If two or more petitions shall be presented to said Board, with different sums therein named, the said Board of Supervisors shall, by an order entered in the minutes of their proceedings, determine the amount to be voted on by the people. SEC. 3. The proposition to be submitted to the people, as provided for in the last section, shall be in the following form: Shall the County of subscribe for (or purchase) dollars of stock in the Railroad Company? And a notice of said election, and the object thereof, and of said proposition, shall be published in some newspaper in the County, if any there be, and if no newspaper be published in said County, then by posting notices thereof in three of the most public places in each of the Townships of the County, for one month next prior thereto. SEC. 4. The voting at such election shall be by ballot, and those voting in favor of the County taking stock shall have written, or printed, on their ballots, the words, "Railroad StockYes;" and those voting in opposition to the stock being taken, shall have written, or printed, on their ballots, the words, "Railroad Stock-No." SEC. 5. The said ballots shall be returned, counted, and canvassed, in the same manner as the ballots at the general election for State and County officers are returned, counted, and canvassed; and if two-thirds of all the votes cast on said proposition should be in favor of the County subscribing for or purchasing stock, it shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors, within five days after the result shall be ascertained, or as soon thereafter as may be practicable, to subscribe for the amount of stock so petitioned for, or purchase the same, according as the propotion may have been submitted to the people; and they shall enter upon the journals of their proceedings the result of the vote, as soon as it is ascertained, with an order that said County subscribe for, or purchase, said stock. Said entry, and said order, shall be signed by the President of the Board of Supervisors. SEC. 6. If there should be no funds in the County treasury with which to pay the subscriptions provided for in this Act, the Treasurer of such County shall issue the bonds of the County, signed by him, as Treasurer, and which shall be countersigned by the President of the Board of Supervisors. Said bonds shall be issued whenever, and as often, as a call shall be made upon the |
